They know without a doubt this won’t make any traction and will just get booed out of the public space right now, this whole performance is hurting trans rights and equality broadly.

But I’m quite sure they know that and are doing this on purpose.

The damage done to this country by the right is incalculable and likely irreversible.

When the internet started empowering the dumbest idiots who don’t understand the world to find and support each other, we lost.

The human brain is not naturally a problem-solving tool of logic and reasoning, it has to be trained to use logic and reason, and in a world of comfort and ease like in the USA broadly, people had no incentive to learn more and be smarter other than social pressure, and that also dissolved as people found each other online and removed the pressure to step up their intellect to be accepted in broader society.

This has made a deep, slippery well of pseudo-science and naturalism and healing oils and magic water and crystals, which because of placebo effects and social influence, feel like they do more for people in their daily lives than mysterious terms like “mRNA” that defy all understanding or capability for people of limited intelligence to discuss with their coworkers around the lunch table and relate their own personal experiences so they seem special and interesting.

“And the members of Congress that have been pushing this were not wrong," she added. "So that’s really my only reaction.

This her bold tactic for addressing this matter.

I like the part where she says “Now that my eyes have been opened to how severely we’ve all been deceived I am starting a campaign with my fellow GOP senators to see this through and prosecute every last person involved in these barbaric and evil crimes.”

Wait no… I’m being told she said none of that.

Her actual final words on the subject were "And the members of Congress that have been pushing this were not wrong, so that’s really my only reaction."

I hate these people with my whole being.

This is fantastic news. I don’t even care if they get investigated or not (most are guilty of something) I just want to sweep the mid-terms with entirely new people so we can bury this entire branch of legislative liches and fake opposition.

What will we really lose?

Further, why would he dissolve an organization that’s been doing his will for the entirety of his presidencies?

Ah, I see we’re back to “Irish people aren’t white.”

We’re really going way back for the greatest hits nowadays.

ethnic groups

That’s a really weird fucking way to spell “corporations” but I guess since we consider them “people” in the eyes of the law we might as well start applying ethnicity to them as well.

The same one. Over and over and over.

I feel strongly we would have fewer social problems if people broadly decided to hold onto memories more than 30 minutes at a time.

It’s still important to push the message to not be lazy about going out and doing the thing, especially in mid-terms which get far less turnout.

But that 89mil who did not vote in 2024 is very close to the average percentage that stays home every election anyway. My point is, the sampling of those who did vote, didn’t necessarily make me think that if uninterested people did show up, that it would have gone much different.

Of the people who were actually registered and voted in 2024, a vast number of the people who voted for Trump identified as Obama voters and Bernie supporters. People had basically discarded whatever political alignment more informed voters adhere to and just looked at the price of eggs at the time and associated that with Biden/Harris, and that was the most informed opinion shaping voting habits.

People did not watch debates. They did not pay attention to large news stories. They got most of their political news from social media; tweets and facebook memes in the small amount of time they spend scrolling content that isn’t entertainment. They did not know what either candidate was advocating and largely didn’t care, most thought it didn’t effect them either way.

This is all by design, and if we want to talk to about vote manipulation, this is the biggest issue, which is there are too many fake shills and sock-puppets all over social media, even here on Lemmy, who will adopt the stupidest or most radical takes on both sides of every issue until bystanders and browsers roll their eyes at the whole thing and tune out.

There are literally millions of people in India and other countries who farm Twitter for a few dollars every month by pushing rage-bait, arguing with people, pretending to be Americans and pretending to care about our future, while sharing propaganda and memes designed to make people hate political involvement.

Our biggest problem is not turnout but engagement and information.

There are a lot of really miserable, insufferable kids on Lemmy right now seething about this because it flies in the face of the “voting is useless, everything will be rigged” narrative that they push to validate not wanting to be involved.

Showing up at the polls is not our problem in the US, it’s getting people involved enough to actually learn about and read what candidates represent. We had the largest voter turnout in US history over the last couple elections, but people basically voted at random because they tuned out of the political chaos.

It’s far more clear this time around who is doing what to disrupt the status-quo in the US and I expect we’re going to see a massive swing in the opposite direction between this November and 2028.

If you fucks don’t do everything you can to overwhelm the midterms to primary every incumbent democrat, you better not complain when President Newsom rolls back 20% of Trump’s policies and decides that some trans people can be released from some of the camps.

I mean, yeah everyone is saying it but there’s no consequences so that makes it pretty apparent that nobody actually cares.

The US has broadly held up the so-called fight against racism as a purely performative, liberal status-quo exercise, but has barely actually cared about equality in any regard in their personal lives as a population, or we wouldn’t have had all the contention we’ve had, with almost nothing being done on a legal level to combat it. There are public figures who have said and done things that would have landed them in PRISON in other countries that we just finger-wag in the US and forget a day later.

These kinds of posts are deliberate, they’re not even dog-whistles to racists because again, nobody actually cares about racism in the US. They’re signals about “following the rules.”

Trump/Miller posting this and all the other ones we’ve already forgotten about was about demonstrating to their base that they don’t care about the rules, that they will break the country before they submit to the constitution and individual rights.

They are the kid screaming the N-word in the playground not because he knows what the word means, but because he knows how much attention he gets for it.

I grew up in a conservative area, in a conservative household, survival preppers even.

I was raised my whole youth with the narrative that we were collecting guns and supplies for the day that the federal government starts taking away our rights and interfering with democracy.

For my entire younger life, growing up in the cold war, it was the back-country, blue-blooded American way to push back against Russia, against threats to our vote, against government overreach and intereferring in both people’s personal lives as well as the business of other countries.

I changed ideology as soon as I escaped and got a taste of reality, but I still do believe we need to protect our democracy with force, and now that’s the opposite of the conservative stance and it’s like living in the Upsidedown. I understand how we got here, but I am constantly astonished how fucking stupid everyone is. Everyone.

I know this will get some reactions, but IMO conservatives change much easier than progressives, particularly leftists.

Conservatives have no consistent values, no coherent mental value system, they are reactionary and will shift gears like the wind changes. A good, charismatic leader can easily set a new tone for a whole nation that calms down a large percentage of them, as I’ve seen a few times in my decades. They don’t have to even agree with the new leadership, they just have to feel like it’s their time to sit in the time-out box and they will remain quiet and grumble to themselves about imagined slights. They are children and have the attention spans of children.

I’m more concerned about the many, many progressives and leftists who are thirsty for retribution, because everything is remembered, a score has been kept and it drives a need for validation, for even a shred of recognition of the harm that the conservative movement has done over the years. These aren’t un-relatable feelings, but it’s going to start pushing the pendulum again, add to that the large number of sabotaging forces who work tirelessly to amplify the worst takes on both sides, fanning flames, trying to stoke contention.

Anything in media has to make it past his cabinet of Wormtongues.

It’s well known in the administration that Miller and Rubio and others actively filter his media so he doesn’t see what people are saying about him and the administration.

It was reported that when he was traveling he turned on the evening news by himself and saw the footage of Alex Pretti being murdered and that’s what led to a sudden shift in course.

Not because he gives a shit about people like Pretti or anyone really, but because of the outrage and hate directed at him. He’s a very simple monster, he wants adoration, he has no morals past that.

Nah, we’re done trying to placate and please demons. They don’t honor deals, they don’t want better outcomes, there are forces at work here literally using this “ICE” thing as a way to divide Americans, because as long as we’re divided, we won’t unite against the authority.

Fuck negotiation. We demand not just an abolishment of ICE but the people who enable it, in the DNC and GOP alike. Flush them all.

Not enough people are calling him a grown, bald reincarnation of Elliot Rogers, he’s like a scarecrow built from the dead remains of the world’s weirdest incels.

Listen to a clip of Rogers talking in his car or some shit and then a clip of Miller screaming about migrants. It’s uncanny.

The last several federal elections have had the highest voter turnout in US history. Our problem isn’t laziness or lack of voters, our problem is the people who voted fucking hate democrats. They largely weren’t all MAGA turds, in fact if you actually read the exit polling many of the people who voted for Trump in 2024 were Obama voters or Bernie supporters.

They didn’t vote for Trump because they’re racist monsters, most of them voted for Trump because they’re dumb and they don’t watch the news and when they do they see Democrats acting like pathetic losers while corporations drive our prices up. Millions of people voted for Trump because bird flu had driven egg prices up, and they associated that with Biden and Harris.

Dems don’t want “more voter turnout” they want more of their own idiots and boomers to vote for the status-quo.

If we want to fix this situation with our only actual funded “opposition” party and have a chance of taking the country back for citizens we have to flush ALL incumbent representatives out of the legislative branch. We start this in the States. Each state is a nation, those states have great power. DNC is a container, we pour out the contents, replace it with something new and use that to reform the federal government.

They can’t sabotage every election, they can’t put fucking ICE agents around your local school board voting in new management, they can’t be in every town electing a mayor. This is why Mamdani and other progressives won powerful state positions recently. Don’t be apathetic, don’t burn out because the dems are weak and awful and fake, make new politics. Get involved in your community, go to progressive victory and volunteer to help actual progressive candidates and ignore the paid DNC shills.

It’s fine, no looking back, lets just cross our fingers, toes and everything else for a special election in his district.

We will never repair even a fraction of the damage done to our country by him and his ilk, but I will still be happy to see him go and have a chance for someone, anyone new having a chance of seizing representation.

We can’t just wallow in misery, we have to celebrate good things and even just potential good things or there’s no point to life at all.