More evidence for 'just fucking do something'

This guy shot a CEO in broad daylight and is pretty univerally applauded as a hero.

If the Dems had this sort of energy I think they'd be doing a lot better

Amnesty International has declared what's happening in Gaza to be a genocide. By providing unconditional support, we are participating in that genocide.

Lil's poem is spot on

The Democrats ran on their draconian border policy, I do not think they will help very much. Court cases will work their way to the Supreme Court who has already been told their opinion.

I'm not sure how the national guard move would play out

I feel like that is why their appointments now are about being maximally subservient, over other priorities like basic competence.

If you think that there's a lot of Rep voters that wanted a coup, I'm not sure why you think its so hard to find one that's willing to get appointed.

I don't think Trump has godlike powers! But he has the pretty complete backing of the courts and a new interpretation of Executive Privilege, and control of who is assigned leadership of every part of federal government.

I don't see the Republicans as the party of small government,

just the party of removing welfare for the wrong people.

It takes a lot of government to do the deportation programs theyre wanting

Gonna be real, I take some delight in the event

Or New York City, USA.

I don't see why anywhere should be an ethnostate, it leads to stuff like this.

Election workers and top brass are appointed by Republicans.

I have some faith in the rank and file soliders though

I agree with you on all counts, I guess I just don't see why that precludes them putting the thumb on elections heavily, or calling for the military to do deportations and break up protests etc.

I also think that when it's predictably unpopular, they'll need to be more undemocratic to stay in power

Also, to be clear- I don't think there's good odds of Trump, personality, being a dictator. He's ancient anyways.

I think there's pretty good odds of the Republicans doing anything they want, regardless of legality.

I'm expecting, if it happens, it will be used to send the military to hassle people in states that are doing things Trump doesn't like.

I do not think that the supreme court cares in the slightest about state's rights, and I'm not very hopeful that some governors will be meaningfully able to do anything

Biggest thing is that it seems like a big hassle and doesn't always work.

They tried on Trump, what, 2 1/2 times now?

Or I guess, more to the point,

who in power right now are you expecting to be on the side of the constitution. South Korea has an opposition party in congress and, apparently, a healthier democracy

I think if Trump's use of martial law is less dramatic than a takeover of the government, then it will work, easily. The close to half of Congress on board with Jan 6 is cool with basically anything at this point.

I expect at some point Trump will want to do something, gets blocked, and calls for the military to 'just do it anyways' and gets away with it

I mean, Korea's 'emergency' was that they didn't pass a budget bill. I don't see why trump needs any pretense more than that.

Found it! Its not on her main issues page, instead its buried as point three here: https://kamalaharris.com/agenda/

Read that and tell me they're making the media's job easy.

Kamala also has the opposite problem of Trump. We -know- Trump's going to do things so we can assume he'll do our favorite subset but be blocked on the things we think are awful. Like, surely he's not ~really~ going to . . . etc etc

Whereas Kamala can say whatever but we all know she's going to not care about our favorite thing. Maybe she'll do a tiny bit of it? Which tiny bit?

I mean sure she could say she will but she's said a lot of things. I don't think anyone believed she would legalize weed. I certainly didn't.

Never heard that part of her campaign before the election fwiw, but someone online showed me where it was hidden: on a four paragraph part of her site where she said what she'd do for black men mainly talking about how much she knows how much they like bitcoin.

I hate NYT as much as the next guy but if her messaging was awful you can only blame the media so much.

Edit: its nowhere to be found here: https://kamalaharris.com/issues/

Nor is anything remotely comprehensible. Its ten thousand words long and carefully written to say nothing. I dare you to find anything interesting there to talk about.

Other problem is, unless you're willing to let the president be a tyrant, one person with integrity in government is barely going to help at all. You'd need to kick out all the existing corporate dems first before anything could get accomplished.

Yeah totally, its just hard to be surprised when voters resent voting for people who promise to do nothing that they want.

For that matter, what have the dems accomplished in my lifetime?

I guess Obamacare which despite being half assed garbage ripping off the Republicans plan entirely is still better than what was there.

Not sure I can come up with a second example.

They let the Voter Rights Act die with them at the helm though. And did nothing for BLM. And shot the Occupy protestors. And voted on the nonprofit killing bill.

I guess - I mean it works but govt subsidies for big industry is not like the exciting sort of thing that makes the press, and is such a small patch on the big issues.

Their weed policy was to pardon like a thousand people and otherwise change nothing , their healthcare policy is same old same old , they did very little to tax billionaires or fight inequality , everything they said they wanted to do was conveniently blocked , the people calling for a green new deal get iced out. The student loans was blocked by the courts so they shrugged. Roe v Wade ended while Dems had the presidency and they shrugged. Trans people are being attacked while Dems had the presidency and they shrugged.

Legit, the only things they did was CHIPS ($$ to billionaires) IRA ($$ to billionaires + some actually good climate stuff), $$ for more highway lanes and billionaires, and as much funding to Israel as they could possibility manage. Not sure what's really there to brag about.

I love that idea so much,

I've been saying it to everyone I meet since you posted it here, gotta be almost a decade ago.

Its overwhelmingly cute and would help so much and is so doable and Nobody seems to be talking about it

Yeah totally. Everything feels hopeless

I think before investing on getting a message out, they should have one to begin with. I actively sought out what their platform is and as far as I can tell they don't have one

I genuinely don't know what the Dems want to do.

Kamala's climate change policy was some of the most baffling word salad I've ever had to read. It seemed like every week they shifted positions or compromised on something I figured was a core Dem value.

Doesn't matter either way cuz they lost in a landslide lol

Galaxy Quest was so wonderful