But Obama’s tan suit.
As an foreigner and outsider. Does USA not have a system of designated opposition? Isn’t it their duty to keep the government in check? Am I missing something? I don’t even know who is the opposition leader no more. I assume the president nominee who didn’t win is the opposition leader? Haven’t seen or heard anything major since the election.
There is no specific appointment for the losing presidential nominee. They just lose and move on.
The idea with the US government is checks and balances between government branches. Congress and SCOTUS have some degree of power over the president and each branch can keep the other two in check. Historically it has worked well, but things have been changing quickly in the last 10-20 years, but especially with the two Trump admins.
The current situation with Trump is particularly different for a few reasons:
- Trump is incredibly popular with primary right-wing voter base. There is evidence this may be changing, but it’s been the case for 10+ years now.
- Trump’s popularity has allowed him to put intense pressure on members on congress. He can threaten to primary any sitting senator or representative that doesn’t support everything he does. These threats are not empty and he has absolutely gotten people voted out of office due to his clout with republican voters. Most Republican members of congress are terrified of opposing him. Since republicans currently hold majority, congress is more or less toothless and completely deferential to Trump right now.
- Two supreme court justice positions became open when Republicans had control of the government, so they have shifted SCOTUS leanings strongly to the right.
Trump has a perfect storm of control over the systems normally in-place to hold him accountable.
Once we have an administration ran by adults in power again, we’re going to need to seriously re-evaluate and update our system of checks and balances, or future administrations will continue to exploit these problems until the country rots and dies.
The problem is, it’s the thing that happens with the current government doing things so their place in power is secured. And the other thing about boiling the frog slowly with very short temperature rises, so it doesn’t notice it’s being boiled until it’s too late.
At some point it will be too late to change as change prevention will be written in the system, if it already isn’t. People like to throw in the word ‘status-quo’ but I don’t understand that term at all.
What would you expect the opposition to do?
I am not an expert on the political system. But my knee jerk answer is idk, Oppose? But there is probably a lot I don’t understand of “this is how it’s done and this is how it is” -ism that goes on.
Chuck Schumer
Stares sternly and considers penning a letter in opposition.
The opposition party has very little to no power in the American system.
Their cute little system they attempted at checks and balances are no longer balanced.
I saw the piece about 'shadow docket" by Last week tonight this morning on youtube. It is quite timely, very infuriating, and scary.
What the fuck is going on here? It can’t get much more blatantly fascist. I implore anyone who can leave the Untied States to do so
Don’t leave, stay and fight. The US is taking problems that will follow you if you leave.
I am middle aged with a bad back and gout. My ability to fight is pretty limited.
Leaving would just let them consolidate power
I doubt anyone here is doing anything to prevent that now though
Oh dang you’re right no one is doing anything let’s all just give up
That’s the spirit!
Arresting BLACK PEOPLE who want to Vote is how you KNOW Republicans are NOT Racist!
-Log Cabin Republicans!
Yes and according to the conservative super majority of the Supreme Court, racism in election polls doesn’t exist anymore apparently.
I’ll never forgive rbg for not stepping down when Obama first got elected
It’s a good lesson. People who reach positions of power are only able to do so because they are motivated purely by their own self-interest. Keeping her position was in her self-interest. Even the people who appear on “your side” are only in that position for themselves. The higher they get the less incentive they have to make performative sacrificies. Which they all are. Always and forever.
It’s only true in this system that rewards the self-serving individual. I don’t believe this is implicit to human nature, but we have to be willing to collectively punish bad actors severely, rather than shrug and look the other way as these people misbehave.
The violent struggle is inevitable at this point, its really now just about how may times you’ll let yourself be punched in the face until you punch back.
That is the system though. The world would be a better place if we had leaders not motivated by their self-interest. But those leaders don’t get into positions of power. So, they don’t functionally exist other than to pat themselves on the back for suffering for their principles in their own minds that effect zero change or progress. I don’t say it to be cynical, either. It’s just reality. There are only a handful of people throughout history who reached high enough levels of power to actual change things for the better that were actually willing to sacrifice themselves for their principles. And most of them suffered for it and the only reward they got was a legacy.
You are not punching anyone in the face. And telling other people they are lazy or bad for not pretending otherwise doesn’t make it anymore true that you are. You’re just someone shouting a lie at a person who is sick of being shouted at and wondering why no one is doing what you want them to do.
You are not punching anyone in the face. And telling other people they are lazy or bad for not pretending otherwise doesn’t make it anymore true that you are. You’re just someone shouting a lie at a person who is sick of being shouted at and wondering why no one is doing what you want them to do.
That’s quite the story you’ve invented for me. I didn’t call anyone lazy or bad, and I’m wholly confused at what lie I’m supposedly shouting here.
I can imagine that you’re frustrated by your own inability to effect the change you would like to see. Totally understandable.
I am no more frustrated with it than I am frustrated with my inability to take flight.
What people aren’t realizing is that MAGA may well have screwed themselves worse, especially in such a hostile political environment as this one.
Before all this redistricting, it was going to be a bloodbath, not just because EVERY Dems is going to vote against MAGA, but a lot of Republicans are as well. Even more aren’t going to vote at all.
None of that has changed. In fact, the dishonest gerrymandering is going to make many people even angrier and more determined. They can gerrymander all they want, but the votes don’t go away.
Take Tennessee, for example, in which they eliminated the single Democratic district - but they didn’t get rid of the votes. They just spread them across 3 other strong Republican districts, weakening them badly. In a normal year, it might not be anything to worry about, but in a year in which the waters are flowing hard AGAINST the Traitors, it could easily lead to 3 districts going Blue, instead of just one.
Always remember this one important axiom of MAGA: they are profoundly ignorant, and virtuosically incompetent. They fuck up literally everything they contact, and they will fuck this up, too. The real problem is that we have to have leaders that will pounce on those inevitable mistakes, and exploit the shit out of them. We can’t be polite, and say “Oh, MAGA stumbled, let’s help them back up,” we have to kick them when they are down, then drop a giant rock on their head.
They can gerrymander all they want, but the votes don’t go away.
Are you sure you know how gerrymandering works?
Are you sure you know? Gerrymandering backfires when taken too far.
Gerrymandering dilutes both sides’ votes by making smaller majorities and larger minorities to favor one side.
well, no. “well done” gerrymandering dilutes only one side’s votes, that is why republicans love it.
notice the disproportionate results in top right corner. the votes literally went away…
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d3/DifferingApportionment.svg
But it doesn’t weaken only one side. They may have gotten rid of ONE Democratic district, but they severely WEAKENED THREE Republican districts. That’s the kind of thing that can backfire badly in a bloodbath election.
I know red politicians in Texas are sweating because of their gerrymander. They used 2024 voting data including the insane upswing of Latinos who voted for him for whatever reason… Now new polling shows those aren’t guaranteed votes anymore, they might even vote blue.
Always remember this axiom about MAGA: They are profoundly ignorant, virtuosically incompetent, and fuck up EVERYTHING they touch. This will be no exception.
Never thought of that, lets hope you are right.
How is only one side diluted here? Out of five districts, there are two districts with a single yellow vote (diluted to half as much as proportional), and three with four blue votes (also diluted to 2/3 as much as proportional).
The assumption is that some purple voters will turn blue.
That’s irrelevant to the context here.
I really hope you are right.
Because the alternative seems not just dark but pitch black
MAGAs are frequently wrong, but NEVER in doubt. They are BLUFFING. They are ALWAYS bluffing.
You are under no obligation to believe anything they say. In fact, if you are a patriotic American citizen, you have an obligation to ignore everything they say, for many reasons:
- They lie about everything
- They are mind-bogglingly stupid
- They NEVER know what they are talking about.
- They get ALL their information from their own Conservative Propaganda Machine, i.e: they sniff their own farts.
- They don’t know anything about anything, and they get their advice and strategies from the same people. All they care about, and know about, is money, literally nothing else.
- They have all the confidence of a guy declaring their perfect health, as a piano is literally dropping out of the sky above them.
- They are always bluffing, count on it.
Why would you believe anything that these proven morons say? They’re MORONS, do you really think they can do anything right? Their best strategy is to try to scare you into surrendering, and all you have to do is ignore them.
They may enjoy sniffing their own farts, but we don’t have to.
I mean
I am with you, absolutly
But are the majority of the american people?
The Citizens have been conditioned to react in certain ways. We have to alter that conditioning, level up our Critical Thinking Skills, and start demanding that the government and the money supply serve the people, and not the wealthy.
Pitch white?
The biggest issue America faces right now is the sheer number of people who still think rules, laws, and logic apply (they barely did in the first place but it’s fully gone now). This administration, Israel, all the pedos, and all the oligarchs will not stop just because people vote against them. You cannot beat authoritarians with the system, you cannot beat them with laws, you cannot beat them with the truth, literally the only thing that can work against authoritarians is extreme violence against them.
We may get to that point, but we still have to work our way through all of our legal, Constitutional steps first. If we get to the point that they have thwarted every legal means, then it will be time to move to violence.
“Those who make peaceful change impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.” -JFK
Has there been any case in history where a fascist dictatorship ended by voting them out? People need to accept the reality that a fascist takeover is happening
It just happened in Hungary after 16 years of Orban. The Soviet Union countries all fell with a minimum of violence. There weren’t official votes, but the people made their choices very clear, and most countries accepted it, even Russia. Those that didn’t, like Ceaucescu in Romania, met a bad end.
Sometimes a dictator realizes that he doesn’t have a choice, and makes the smart decision. Other times their ego does the thinking, and it doesn’t go so well. Guess which one Trump and the rest of his psycho henchmen will choose?Hint: they aren’t known for SMART decisions.
Whoa, be careful, with quotes like that you might be considered a domestic terrorist /s
The violence comes when it is needed most.
In retrospect it will have been tardy.
If any of their gerrymandering schemes fail because of what you describe, the Republicans will claim that Dems must have cheated, and refuse to accept it. Like this time, I think actually refuse to honor the results.
They know that they simply cannot lose power, and I believe we are going to see as-yet unseen levels of fuckery to that end.
Oh, absolutely, “They Cheated” is their standard response to any loss. The problem is that Dems then take that claim seriously, and want to have a discussion and investigation about it, giving it credibility, instead of just saying “Go fuck yourselves.”
Let them scream, who cares? If we win the House, then we control it whether they like it or not. Any MAGA politician who refuses to allow new Dem Reps enter the Capitol should be immediately arrested, and if they resist, treat them the way they like to treat prisoners.
If they won’t turn it over, we will take it. Violence is entirely up to them.
Nah, the “both sides” crowd will blow it again
If they do, it’s YOUR fault. They are politicians, so they are inherently lazy and greedy, and if you give send them the message that you expect them to do nothing, and you will accept it, that’s exactly what they will do, and go back to their insider trading.
Instead, we should all be sending the constant message that we expect them to finally do their fucking jobs, or else. Or else we will primary them, and if they still won’t work for us, we will investigate them, and throw them in the dungeon with the MAGA traitors. If you aren’t with us, you’re against us, and that goes for voters and politicians.
So knock it off with letting them off the hook. We should be threatening them with their jobs, and making the Dems fear us as much as the MAGAs.
Yeah, keep telling yourself that. The fact of the matter is that when the polls open these people will walk in and vote like they always have.
That statement is proven wrong by the dozens of special elections that have shown a serious downturn in MAGA voter participation.
Stop declaring the race over, and stop discouraging Democrats from voting, unless you’re a MAGA Traitor.
I legitimately don’t give a shit anymore. After watching over 10 years of Trump taking a shit on top of the country and all the working class people cheering for him, across all forms of media I have finally given up. I’ll still bitch about how moronic and self-serving this MAGA cult is, I’ll still vote in every election against them, but I cannot in good conscience try and continue with the platitudes and positive outlook on the future. In fact a part of me hopes the Democrats lose again and give the GOP even greater control - it seems that’s where everything’s going anyways. Besides, I think many of us know what happens the moment Democrats take majority control of the House and Senate.
Actual oversight comes into play, real investigations begin, and this house of cards filled with fraud and scams propping up what’s left of the economy collapses entirely. Who gets the blame? It’s not the Republicans and conservatives, they will never accept the tiniest shred of responsibility for any of this. No they’ll do the same shit they did to Obama after the 2008 election when he inherited the last generation’s conservative scam economy. Blame democrats and progressives and leftists for all their problems. It’ll work, because the idiot demographic in this country with the collective attention span of a betta fish enjoys an undefeatable majority and grows all the time, and they’ll win even more strongly in the following election. So I’m done.
Let the fucking moron self-righteous MAGAt assholes control everything and burn it all down, let them die because their local hospitals closed due to lack of Medicaid funding, their children to Measles and their infants to Vitamin K deficiencies because they’re all so willfully ignorant they think basic medicine is the devil. Let their communities become filled with the products of a dysfunctional criminal justice and rehabilitation system. Let them go homeless and destitute because AI took their jobs, and all the welfare programs that could’ve helped keep them on their feet were destroyed to enable Elon Musk to become the world’s first trillionaire. I say all of that in the hopes that with the right wing in clear, uncontestable control of the entire country, maybe they’ll finally be unable to weasel out of some form of responsibility for their many crimes against humanity and against the working class people of this country and the world. However the truth is, I think that even if every progressive politician in America disappeared tomorrow, in 10 years’ time they’d still be blamed for 100% of issues in society.
I was kinda thinking about the point you made about the gerrymandering might bite them in the ass. Texas announced they were doing it and I thought the districts were already somewhat gerrymandered. How far can you min/max that setup before your repub+ districts are so razor thin that you lose more than you gain in a high turnout vote? I’m sure someone smart did math but if it’s maga math then I expect it to be wrong.
There is another nuance to midterm redistricting that doesn’t get considered: Time.
Districts are normally redrawn following the Census, which is done every 10 years, based on those current demographics. As the decade goes on, those demographics change, as new neighborhoods are built, populations shift, etc. Also, the people themselves change. A person who answers the census at 20, is a very different person than who answers the Census at 30.
So when they redraw the districts deep into the decade, they are doing it based on old, inaccurate data, and they are not going to get the precise response they are expecting. Add to that, the variable that special election results show that Trump is underwater far worse than polls are showing, badly losing elections in districts that had been strong MAGA and Trump supporters in the past.
These districts are being redrawn based on old data, and while it definitely skews things in their favor, it isn’t the slam dunk they think it is, for multiple reasons. Mostly, MAGA’s confidence that this situation saves the House and Senate for them is all show. Don’t let them get you down. All it means is that they are going to cry and scream even louder when they lose.
And in 2031, when they redraw the districts following the 2030 census, Blue states should do everything they can do eliminate as many Red districts as possible. Fuck those pedophile traitors.
I understand how black representation, and safe districts, makes incumbents in those districts angry when taken away. Broader power though comes from majority, and past GOP gerrymandering has indeed focused on making 99% dem/black districts so as to make more 55% GOP districts. This is actually the path to both corrupt fascist power monopoly, and increased divisiveness with low voter turnout. Generally, black representation is a distraction for serving other agenda. Obama won due to zionist supremacist establishment approval. Tim Scott is GOP insider with GOP/Zionist first agenda that ignores black issues.
The point is that black representation doesn’t change anything. Like Chuck Schumer, their job is to gaslight the blacks into supporting Israel.
Mixed districts does promise less divisiveness. GOP candidates can’t be all in on KKK/Palantir genocide of all undesirables, or ICE siege of Memphis, when they need Memphis voters too.
Memphis voter turnout can now make a huge difference in Tenessee congressional representation, and Israel/DNC first cooption less important than Tenessee/Memphis relevant issues/harmony.
and all im hearing is *crickets" offline…
Mainstream media is owned and controlled by the ruling class, so yeah, only independent media will report such things
In looking into this, what I am able to find indicates that this is a lawmaker (Rep Justin Pearson) and his brother (KeShaun Pearson) who is not a lawmaker and was there protesting GOP lawmakers splitting the city of Memphis where they both live into three districts, diluting the Black vote after a Supreme Court ruling badly gutting what was left of the Voting Rights Act. It appears that KeShaun was detained. Rep Pearson was not, and I am unclear from the video and article whether state troopers forcibly removed Rep Pearson or if he chose (understandably) to leave in order to watch out for his brother who was being detained.
This is the article on it i was able to find. https://www.actionnews5.com/2026/05/08/video-shows-tense-moment-between-rep-pearson-state-troopers-brother-detained-tenn-capitol/
Just so we’re clear, this is still a bad thing that happened and is happening. Jim Crow is returning before our eyes. I just believe, based on what I’ve been able to find, that this screenshot contains inaccurate specifics of the details.
this is still a bad thing that happened and is happening
Yeah, but being accurate matters
Muddying the waters always helps fascists more than anyone.
Facts still matter.
I kind of wish I never saw whatever DC TV show he was “hawk boy”…
It wasn’t his fault, his writing was super cringey.
But now everytime I see his face, I just think “fucking hawk boy”
Smallville?
Apparently it was Titans.
In Smallville, he was Aquaman.
Oh, shit. I remember now.
I mean adding an S to words still indicates a plural state, right? Because this definitely says Lawmakers, with an S. As in more than one. Multiple. Am I losing my fucking mind? Do I need to go back to first grade and learn basic grammar, again? Because I’m just gonna disengage if everyone’s gonna lie to me every time I turn around.
I’m a little confused by this comment, sorry. By “this,” do you mean the image? It does say lawmakers, plural, and also specifies two. The image seems to be incorrect. I’m not assuming malice, and I believe they were probably posting with bad or incomplete information. Details of situations like this can be unclear as you’re trying to follow them at home. But they said lawmakers, plural, and it is in fact a lawmaker, singular, who was not actually arrested, and his non-lawmaker brother, who was.
If you’re talking about something in the article I shared, could you quote the passage that has you confused?
this screenshot contains inaccurate specifics of the details.
Why would someone do that? On Lemmy. Why?
Just give it up. The USA is done for. Complete shit hole. Flee now, cause it’s only going to get worse.
What is this cowardly shit? Stand up for what is right and good or be silent.
And leave those who can’t flee alone with the nazis? let the country be seized, in control of the most funded army in the world?
There is no way forward with that thinking. There is only one way to a bright future, it is to fight the nazis, to fight relentlessly, to win, then to educate, and finally to disarm. Remember 1945
Or, 2A
if america isn’t there right now, i struggle to see a situation when you’re going to be there
also
bringing guns to a drone fight
Whos gonna fly it? ChatGPT?
I’m sure he’ll be happy to volunteer.
Don’t worry white Americans. You did nothing because this did not affect you yet. Everything is fine, and there is a new show on Apple TV.
Omfg can we talk about how news feeds jam “news” about new shows. I’ve never cared about a tv show on netcock in my life but google thinks it needs to be front page news for me.
Google is an ad and surveillance platform
Billionaire owned media has an imperative to keep everyone distracted with the circuses.
thats why all the sports, met-gala, and copaganda.
oh yea and remember that “citadel” movie, it was designed to lower the searches for the citadel investigation into securties. the MET-GALA was another obvious distraction as well, as was last years.
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Uhhh I don’t think more racism helps stop racism.
As it becomes more difficult to merely live, it becomes easier to risk it all. We are witnessing the origin story of the next great revolutionary.
That’s the kind of thing I hear from protest non-voters all the time.
Worked out REALLY well for Hong Kong, let me tell you.
The difference is the Hong Kong citizens weren’t installed in all levels of local, state, and federal position within the government.
The amount of buildings getting destroyed and groups popping up all over America from California to New York will be way too big of a theatre for a federal government as deeply incompetent and corrupt as this one is, from stopping them in any meaningful way.
Hong Kong resisted an outside military with the forces and wealth of an invading army.
Yours is a false dichotomy.
I think you meant false equivalence.
A false dichotomy presents two options as if they are the only choices available when in reality there are other options.
A false equivalence draws a comparison between two things that are actually disparate.
I’m neither agreeing nor disagreeing with you or the person you replied to. Just letting you know the correct term for what you described.
THAT DINT seem like the case for HK, they were most definitely taken over pretty quick, and without much resistance. thier govt was mostly appointed by ccp approved in the first place.
“so here’s the non sequiturs I feel like talking about…”
another nail in the coffin of democracy and freedom
they all coordinated this right after voting rights act was practically eliminated, they knew beforehand and conspired with the scotus to do this, why MSM is pretending to act surprised is funny.
the DEMs wont save you this time especially if the gop a re doing this, since most dinos are complicit, especially if they refused to even show the actual election tampering in '24, let alone 2020, or 2016. plus NEWSOME isnt an ally of the “left” if hes being the only one pushed as the nominee for '28. law of diminishing returns for dems, probably going to see more votes for independants, or not vote all the next few elections.
Welcome ro 1956…again.
This should t surprise anyone. We only Got rid of racism 60 years ago. And just barely.
I assume you mean overtly legal racism 60 years ago.
Districts they represent
We live in a dystopian hellscape.
