Texas has runoffs? How the fuck did that ever get passed there.
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A blue Texas would put our long national nightmare to an end.
A blue Texas would put our long national nightmare to an end
Not on its own, but it certainly would be a huge step in the right direction.
A reminder that you can and should celebrate the win but for fucks sake remember that Doug Jones is the norm and treat this situation as such.
Trump by 17% to a Democrat by 14.4%, a 31.4% swing. The party of ICE and the child rapist is in big trouble if we have a free and fair election in 9 months.
IF we have a FAIR AND FREE election!!
should be a given in this day and age. but yet I'm questioning it...
These guys are doing absolutely everything they can to ensure it's not free and fair.
It's a question of how un-free and how un-fair.
Even if the nazis fail to rig the midterms, the Epstein class have already pre-positioned corrupt neoliberals who will not imprison/execute the tens of thousands of nazis necessary to prevent the total collapse of the United States.
If most nazis do not face real justice, they'll just continue to rot the country from the inside until the nazi-owned mainstream media erodes public sanity enough for the fascist coup to succeed in 5-10 years.
I'm talking a scorched earth, extrajudicial response, if necessary; every ICE agent currently employed, everyone in the military who committed war crimes bombing Venezuelan fishing boats and engaging in piracy, all of the architects behind project 2025 — including the entire heritage foundation and everyone even remotely associated, who should be classified as domestic terrorism orgs on day 1 — hundreds of CEO's, oligarchs, and lobbyists who have bribed and corrupted politicians in broad daylight for all to see... Basically every Republican appointed by, or whom has supported, Trump in the judiciary, legislative, and especially his entire executive regime, at ANY point since 2015. All pardons immediately rescinded. Fuck precedent! Every Jan 6th attendee should spend a decade in federal prison (I'm sure half of them would already be imprisoned for life or executed due to terrorism under Trumps paramilitary ICE). Fox News, Oann, Newsmax should also be classified as domestic terrorist orgs, completely dissolved, with most senior leadership spending the rest of their lives in federal prison.
I have no faith whatsoever that the Democrats have the virtue, honor, or conviction to do what's necessary to eliminate fascism with the extreme prejudice it requires.
If the above concerns you, then you wouldn't have supported what was necessary to neutralize nazi Germany before they murdered 60-80 million people, either.
I'd say the fascist coup is well,underway. Also, a meaningful opposition response (let alone scorched earth) requires an organized opposition. We're pretty far from that existing, and you're right, it absolutely won't come from within the ranks of Democrats.
The formation of an opposition will be dramatically more challenging too because of the pervasiveness of the surveillance-capitalism apparatus that's fueling ICE's campaign. A key step toward a meaningful resistance would be punishing the companies that comprise the surveilance capitalism regime, but most of the people who would like this regime to go away don't have the will to stop using TikTok, Feacebook, X, and Insta.
The sad truth is that not prosecuting/imprisoning/executing tens of thousands of Nazis is what got the USA into this very evident and stunning collapse. Compromise with evil begets evil.
I agree that the Dems don't have what it would take.
They're your best chance at a not-Trump administration, but they're not going to wind back the encroachment of fascism.
With this outlook Trump will (have to) do everything in his power that they won't be.
There will be no midterms.
Who do you think this comment helps?
Possibly you.
I can assure you that you are mistaken.
Despair asserts omniscience, and I've had enough of both despair and assertion of omniscience.
The seat opened up after Republican state Sen. Kelly Hancock was tapped as acting state comptroller.
So, the Republicans felt comfortable enough in this district to intentionally trigger this election. They could have appointed someone from another district or someone who wasn't holding a seat at all, but they thought they were safe. I think that shows just how badly they are underestimating the level of outrage right now.
Gerrymandering backfires when taken too far.
This is also basically why the dems lost in 2016 and 2024. Complacency and bystander effect. Nobody could be dumb enough to vote trump and certainly not twice. Only they did.
Dems lost in 2016 because they chose to run Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders.
Dems lost in 2024 because they chose to run a black female over someone who actually cared about the working class.
The democrat constituency isn't as stupid as the democrat party would like to believe. We recognize how the people in power think we'll vote for someone just because their a minority, regardless of what their economic policy actually is.
Democrats would run the country if there wasn't a sizeable amount of voters only prioritizing candidates that won't raise their taxes or the taxes of people richer than them.
You're circling the point without really identifying it. Dems lost in '16 and '24 because they did not hold primaries and just hoped that there were enough people opposed to Trump that they'd vote for whoever they chose.
On the other hand, in what might be the only credit you can give him, Trump faced three primaries in the Republican party and won them not by the party leaders pre-selecting him, but by actually being more popular with voters than the other guys.
Dems lost in '16 and '24 because they did not hold primaries and just hoped that there were enough people opposed to Trump
2020, yes, but 2016 wasn't about Trump. The Dem establishment had already decided "it's her turn" well before Trump even won being taken seriously, and before his first primary win in NH. The Democratic Party eliminated the democratic process from its primaries and is baffled why people are mad at that.
With current ICE invasions they may even flip florida blue again
Well that was unexpected.
But certainly a refreshing change.