“If Obama wins, I’m leaving the US!”
“Ok but really this time, if Obama wins again, I’m leaving the US!”
“If Biden wins, I’m leaving the US!”
“If Mamdani wins, I’m leaving New York!”
“If AOC wins, I’m leaving the US!”
Same story we’ve heard a dozen times before. Yawn, I’m bored.
Sure, because that worked out so well last time.
That’s almost literally what the rest of the sentence says.
Ban on pregnant women: Twisted, disgusting, and sadly probably doable for a fascist hellstate like MAGA is trying for.
Forced sterilization of all foreign visitors: So ludicrously stupid as to be laughable. This person (derogatory) has a truly unhinged seven-point plan which is not only completely impossible, it’s in a bonkers order:
Nullification (red states stop issuing birth certificates to Undesirables)
Pack the court (hilariously showing that the right has no new ideas)
Ban on pregnant women entering the US
Ban on women entering the US
Forced sterilization of tourists (the women you’re not allowing in? You want to sterilize no one?)
The union is dissolved (why would you sterilize random people before you just went full Confederacy? Surely you could be even more cruel if you divested yourself of the pesky Constitution and its annoying Bill of Rights first!)
This is where it gets really unhinged: then he wants to amend the constitution. For a country that no longer exists, to stop women who are incapable of reproduction from illegally entering the US in case they’re illegally pregnant because the packed court you hand-picked can’t be trusted not to validate the birth certificates that states aren’t issuing.
Even if you take this as a list of options instead of an ordered plan, the fact that a constitutional amendment is considered the last option just boggles the mind. These are an unserious people; toddlers making pouty-faced pronouncements and whining about people touching them.
He’s six months in and like ⅔ of the way through his campaign promises. And that’s with standing against ICE and dealing with both an extreme winter and and extreme summer. He defeated multiple establishment-backed candidates. And he’s managed to do this all without any major scandal.
Plus, if this is a psyop by the right, it’s absolutely backfiring. Mamdani is showing the electorate how a government can work for its people. That’s good for people, but terrible for the establishment.
I realize where the cynicism comes from, but “they just don’t change” is always true right up until it isn’t.
I still remember people telling me the country needed Trump because it needed to be run like one of his businesses. “You mean used as a half-assed vehicle for his own vanity that gets stripped for parts and then driven into bankruptcy the moment he loses interest?”
Seriously, the man failed to sell alcohol, meat, and gambling. Those have been three of the four easiest things to turn a profit on for most of human history (and he doesn’t have the body for the fourth). If you gave me a distillery, a beef farm, and a casino, I would be a millionaire inside a couple of years—and I’m the worst salesman I know. And somehow he also became a millionaire after starting all three of those businesses, which is decidedly less of a flex for someone who started out as a billionaire.
Cute. Obviously he can fool his base, but I’m up for anything that makes them turn on him.
Yeeesss. Eat each other. Dooooo it.
I haven’t been on Reddit in at least two years, maybe longer. I can’t remember and honestly don’t care enough to check. But that sort of statement sounds exactly what I would tell my staff to have the bots write when accused of being bots, if I worked at an agency aiming to stir up dissent on social media.
So how about this: if you want to prove that you’re not a bot, try being kind and thoughtful about what you say, be introspective about your edgelord views, and actually write something that has respect for the dignity of human life.
I think she’d be great because she would hire very smart people to advise her on her weak areas. “If you’re dumb, surround yourself with smart people. And if you’re smart, surround yourself with smart people who disagree with you.” She’s smart, and she knows a lot of smart people.
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Yeah, I’m dismissing this as rambling, but of a bot account funded by a right-wing organization.
Yep. And we’re seeing some movement on the outside making inroads into the party itself, which is great. There are more people trying to primary their establishment dems, and a lot of them are winning. But even if every Democrat in office right now were to lose their next primary, it would still take the better part of a decade to turn the entire party over.
If we survive this thing, the democratic party that comes out of it will be stronger for having been infused with younger, more progressive voices; but the road to that future is long.
No argument there. But we can’t even get the man out of office right now; how likely is it that we’re going to change the whole system in light of that?
But again, a general strike is something out of reach of most Americans, who live paycheck-to-paycheck and could be fired (and thus denied healthcare) at any moment.
nobody in America seems to care enough to meaningfully change it
People keep saying this as if we’ve all got a lever we could pull to get him out of office and just…aren’t doing it. No, there’s no direct way to make it happen. There’s no meaningful opposition party, and no way to remove a president from office without one. The indirect ways to do it–namely, protest and primary challenges–well, a lot of us are doing that. And those who are and aren’t protesting are held back by needing to work in an economic system that ties our healthcare to our employment.
The problem can’t be solved in just a few months. This is a coordinated assault against liberty that began decades ago; it’d take a few years to sort out even if the entire middle and lower class was in agreement, and a sizable undereducated, propagandized population in the lower class is going to take some time to get on board.
“Wake up” and do what? Take up arms? That’s a pipe dream sold by the NRA to keep conservatives buying guns. So what are we supposed to do that we’re not already doing?
I moved to New Zealand at the first of the year, so for me it’s right on time.
Y’all, he backtracked. That’s big.
Let’s stop enabling him with headlines. He didn’t “sign an executive order limiting mail-in voting,” because executive orders can’t legally do that. He attempted to limit mail-in voting with an executive order. Stop granting the premise. If it works, it won’t be because of an EO, it’ll be because the USPS broke the law. Trump’s power requires others to treat it as absolute. We’ve got to stop agreeing to do so.
Michelle Obama is smart, thoughtful, and clever. But is she in any way political? Has she shown any desire to be?
I legitimately don’t know. But people keep tossing her name in, and I don’t quite get it.