• rumba@lemmy.zip
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    4 hours ago

    Let there be no mistake: he’s testing the water not to see if he’s going to do some authoritarian shit to stop midterms, but to see how bad it’s going to be.

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    The media will downplay this as a joke, then they will normalize it as “what if…” and then it will actually happen.

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      All House seats and about 1/3 of the Senate seats are up for election each midterm cycle. Even if the midterms were delayed, all those seats expire at the end of their term regardless.

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        Until Trump commands otherwise and his followers and the media go along with it and ICE kidnaps anyone who shows up to take their seat. Then what?

        Do not put all your hopes on midterms saving you. Action needs to be taken now or there won’t be anything left.

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      And then the media will carry endless pieces debating “both sides” of the elections vs dictatorship issue. Although they won’t call it dictatorship: they’ll call it whatever Stephen Miller decides it should be called.

  • DylanMc6 [any, any]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Dear Trump, we should have an election - in fact, the midterm elections are for this year. Enjoy what little time you have left in your second nonconsecutive terms, you orange tan-ridden lump of cluelessness. Sincerely, Dilly.

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    9 hours ago

    Too bad you orange shit-stain. You’ll lose more than your majority this year. Get absolutely fucked!

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    In the same speech, he warned: “You gotta win the midterms. Because if we don’t win the midterms, they’ll find a reason to impeach me. I’ll get impeached.”

    Is he campaigning for the Democrats now?

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      23 hours ago

      You think president Vance would suddenly turn things around? The same puppetmasters are still pulling the strings.

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        Maga doesn’t dance for Vance. He’s a useless piece of crap for the MAGA movement.

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          MAGA dances for whatever the hell they tell them to dance for. It’s a cult and it’s way far too gone for any one thing to snap them out of

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          Every MAGA comment I’ve seen about him sounds like they wish his dick was in their mouth at that very moment. (So it kind of is)

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          I don’t believe they wouldn’t really behind him or anybody else who steps in immediately to keep the fascism and white nationalism going

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        Trump is a piece of shit but he’s got charm, he’s got presence and people listen to him. He can straight up say shit that is factually untrue and his base will go “he’s right you know”.

        JD Vance however is about as charming as a reddit mod. When he speaks people wish there was a mute button. The couch he fucks is more charming than him. Unless he goes through some transformation that makes him at the very least presentable Trumps base is going to turn on him. They’re not going to listen to that ventriloquist puppet.

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        He’s such a cowardly weenie, he’d almost certainly be completely useless. And while he may be a giant piece of shit, at least he’s not completely bonkers like Trump.

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      Supposedly, that’s from an injection. The culprits are his swollen ankles, or at least a good indicator of the culprit.

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    The guy doing unpopular things thinks we should not have anymore popularity contests. Hmmm…

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    With dems busy repeatedly shooting themselves in the foot, he’ll probably make it to 2028.

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      He could be out by the end of this weekend if the working class got organized and just forced him out. Fuck the dems, we can’t wait for them, and we don’t need them. They voted to expand the military industrial complex, they protected the billionaire class and did their bidding for decades. Republicans are nazis and democrats are nazi enablers. We need to remove the whole bunch from power.

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    Whats he worried about? Have his minions manufacture another distraction and half of the dem voters will sit it out again. Maybe he.could collaborate as a guest on the kardashians or something.