• Garbagio@lemmy.zip
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    10 minutes ago

    Honestly? Fuck it. Corporate Dems are pushing Newsom hard; I’d love to see Kamala wrestle with being abandoned by everyone she gave up any morals for.

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    4 hours ago

    I love how everybody is assuming that there will be a “next election”. I’m not sure that’s guaranteed. Except, maybe, in the way that Russia still has elections.

    I mean, I know you can be too alarmist about things, but there’s a very clear and obvious direction of travel in the US right now.

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      3 hours ago

      I don’t disagree with you, but I feel like people jump to that scenario without describing the steps to get there. How do you see unfolding? How do different opposition groups respond such as the DNC? What about blue states? How does the administration handle it without losing popular consensus? Does it even matter? If they use the military, how do they get the military stay the path when the populous begins to reject their intervention?

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        How do you see unfolding?

        Martial law to respond to ice agents being killed or police turning against them.

        They’re already trying to instigate this.

        How do different opposition groups respond such as the DNC?

        “The Supreme Court says it’s ok, so our hands are tied, but we’re very upset.”

        They already have the Supreme Court on their team.

        What about blue states?

        Governors will either roll over or start a hot civil war.

        Which do you think they’ll choose?

        How does the administration handle it without losing popular consensus?

        By arresting and murdering protesters.

        They’ve already identified vague groups like antifa as domestic terrorists.

        If they use the military, how do they get the military stay the path when the populous begins to reject their intervention?

        If you give ICE a large enough budget, they can act as a new military. And by firing non-loyal brass for not being able to do enough pushups and replacing them with loyalists, you can keep the military from intervening under the guise of neutrality.

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    7 hours ago

    The comments here have killed my hope for ever seeing the GOP pushed back under the rock from whence they came.

  • 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca
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    6 hours ago

    lol the US is no longer going to be a democracy. one step closer to moving out of north america.

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      11 hours ago

      nah, let her.

      it’s time they had a proper third party down there anyways, the democrats are fucking useless

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        I agree the Democrats are useless, but the only time in modern history a third party has gotten any measurable percentage of the popular vote is when Ross Perot ran as an independent and got 19%.

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          Teddy Roosevelt got 27% in 1912 with the Bull Moose party. Not sure if that counts as modern history.

          It’s true that a third party candidate would be a major long shot but fuck it, what do we have to lose?

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    13 hours ago

    Kamala, with all due respect, please get mental health treatment for your apparent psychopathy.