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Crazy thing is people will vote for this again. Some against their best interest. Others because they appreciate the divide that comes from this type of admin.

sailfast 8mo ago
I don’t believe they will. They will be thrown out soon enough and hard - but the incumbents will fight like hell to make sure people’s voices are silenced, diluted, or not counted.
- hparadiz 8mo ago
  Through the magic of serendipity it just so happens that the states that decide for us happen to be MI, WI, and PA and so this concept of backlashes is quite amusing. Tech workers live in a bubble away from these states minus Philly.
rs_rs_rs_rs_rs 8mo ago
Vote? Hopefully that's still possible! My paranoia conspiracy theory is that somehow US will declare war on Iran at some point and elections will be postoned.
- neogodless 8mo ago
  Your "conspiracy theory" is that the US will declare war on Iran...?
  - rs_rs_rs_rs_rs 8mo ago
    Yes, US did not declare war against Iran yet. The president has to request a declaration of war from congress which will vote to authorize it or not. The conspiracy part is that after war is declared Trump will use this power to postpone elections and basically give himself a 3rd term.
    - neogodless 8mo ago
      > president has to request ... anything. Just does what he wishes without regards to legal limitations. Calling bombing dozens of cities of a country anything but a war is being duplicitous.
csomar 8mo ago
No. At this rate, they’ll lose both house and senate and they’ll be unable to govern until they lose the presidency in 2 years. Polymarket is showing 56/44 today down from a top of 75/25 a half year ago. The democrats lost the elections because of the economy. Gas prices were too high during Biden term.
- drivebyhooting 8mo ago
  And because they lied about Biden’s mental faculties - only forced by a horrible debate to put Kamala on the presidential ticket. It was a disgusting self own. I wish the Democratic Party would accept responsibility for that duplicity.
  - cindyllm 8mo ago
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tstrimple 8mo ago
It's the same mentality behind support for guns. Another school shooting? More guns in schools would have stopped it! The tax cut isn't delivering the economic returns promised? We just didn't cut them enough! Just keep doing these things that prove to not be working enough and everything will turn out exactly like we've been promising the last 50 years.
jimt1234 8mo ago
Expect to hear a lot about trans people in the upcoming months. Republicans won't wanna talk about tariffs, war, gas prices, inflation, unemployment, health care, or anything else that matters. But yeah, trans kids are playing in youth sports! ... And, unfortunately, it'll work. I'm not optimistic about the upcoming mid-term elections.

sailfast 8mo ago

I don’t believe they will. They will be thrown out soon enough and hard - but the incumbents will fight like hell to make sure people’s voices are silenced, diluted, or not counted.

hparadiz 8mo ago
Through the magic of serendipity it just so happens that the states that decide for us happen to be MI, WI, and PA and so this concept of backlashes is quite amusing. Tech workers live in a bubble away from these states minus Philly.

rs_rs_rs_rs_rs 8mo ago

Vote? Hopefully that's still possible! My paranoia conspiracy theory is that somehow US will declare war on Iran at some point and elections will be postoned.

neogodless 8mo ago
Your "conspiracy theory" is that the US will declare war on Iran...?
- rs_rs_rs_rs_rs 8mo ago
  Yes, US did not declare war against Iran yet. The president has to request a declaration of war from congress which will vote to authorize it or not. The conspiracy part is that after war is declared Trump will use this power to postpone elections and basically give himself a 3rd term.
  - neogodless 8mo ago
    > president has to request ... anything. Just does what he wishes without regards to legal limitations. Calling bombing dozens of cities of a country anything but a war is being duplicitous.

csomar 8mo ago

No. At this rate, they’ll lose both house and senate and they’ll be unable to govern until they lose the presidency in 2 years. Polymarket is showing 56/44 today down from a top of 75/25 a half year ago. The democrats lost the elections because of the economy. Gas prices were too high during Biden term.

drivebyhooting 8mo ago
And because they lied about Biden’s mental faculties - only forced by a horrible debate to put Kamala on the presidential ticket. It was a disgusting self own. I wish the Democratic Party would accept responsibility for that duplicity.
- cindyllm 8mo ago
  [dead]

tstrimple 8mo ago

It's the same mentality behind support for guns. Another school shooting? More guns in schools would have stopped it! The tax cut isn't delivering the economic returns promised? We just didn't cut them enough! Just keep doing these things that prove to not be working enough and everything will turn out exactly like we've been promising the last 50 years.

jimt1234 8mo ago

Expect to hear a lot about trans people in the upcoming months. Republicans won't wanna talk about tariffs, war, gas prices, inflation, unemployment, health care, or anything else that matters. But yeah, trans kids are playing in youth sports! ... And, unfortunately, it'll work. I'm not optimistic about the upcoming mid-term elections.