Okay admittedly "The democrats win the mid-terms because the fash are too stupid to keep the piggy bank out of the hands of a well known thief" is not something I had on my bingo card.
Fascists crumbling due to stupid people is a pretty common theme in history.
Turns out being a raging blind lunatic with a thirst for blood is not a stable leadership method
Not is a system that promotes said people to fight for leadership in order to “Reed out the weak”
Looks like currently Dems are expected to maintain control of the senate and maybe pick up a senate seat or two. Might be an incredible fumble by Republicans given economic conditions and the fact that it's a midterm.
Gas prices are falling again, as they always do, so that canard is going away as well
Yeah. I think it's Dems will still lose the house, because the president's party holding steady during midterms is practically unheard of. But let's hope they do well enough that maybe the Republicans walk back some of their culture war BS.
Roe is just a basis for undercutting the incorporation of the bill of rights and granting late 19th century powers back to the confederate and copperhead states. Losing women will mean nothing if that upcoming Supreme Court case ends with us returning to state legislatures rigging stuff.
They know how to play the long game. If they’re actually dedicated to their goals slightly losing one midterm election that you could’ve won is absolutely worth it for the overturn of abortion rights
Quite a few states that have or are expected to have abortion bans via the legislature also have ways of passing amendments via ballot initiative (i.e. direct voting by the people) that would supersede the legislature. You're gonna start seeing the GOP pivot hard over to "direct democracy is bad because reasons" as I bet if you put abortion on the ballot, maybe Mississippi and Alabama ban it but that's gonna be about it.
After the vote in Kansas happened I feasted on the :cope: from evangelicals who are convinced the overwhelming majority of Americans want abortion banned.
It's called the silent majority because it doesn't exist so it can't speak
They probably don’t care because they’ve got more billionaire backers than the other team.
There must be balance! A bird cannot fly with only its left wing, and I don’t know if I can support the radical far left policies of Democrats these days
maybe that's why the DNC has been running so many ads for Republicans! what incredible sportsmanship 🥰
That or this is just another fundraising propaganda bit.
DONATE NOW. RICK SCOTT STOLE ALL OUR MONEY LIKE THE DEMOCRATS STEAL ELECTIONS!
As a boomer I can vouch for this, just threw an Obama one in the trash today. And I only gave to Bernie and Black Americans for Peace.
That fucker Bernie gave my email to NGPVan and I've had to set up new fucking filter rules in Thunderbird weekly to trash it all. Prolly a better way but I already spent too much time just complaining about it already.
I made the mistake of opening. Not filling out, but opening, one fundraising e-mail from the DNC and now I get six or seven a day. Cheeky fuckers. They're never there when you need literally anything done, but they sure will brazenly beg for money.
We put all the campaign funds you donated into apes and now we've lost all our apes. Please send us more money to buy new apes.
I just assumed the Republicans are floating on an infinite pool of dark money. Didn't actually consider one man could swindle it all.
I really do wonder how it works on the back end. I assume that in addition to all the official money they report they have effectively unlimited money to do whatever they want in the background. I mean Hilary only spent a billion dollars on her campaign and it was supposedly the most expensive campaign ever. What's a billion dollars split between all the oil companies and arms companies and what have you?
Would it surprise you if I said that ol' Donny Trump ran the leanest campaign since 2000? He only spent about $350,000,000 of the money he raised himself. Mostly by hosting events on properties he owned, using his own jets, cars, and buses, and basking in the hundreds of millions of free advertising the 24 hour news cycle gave him.
The Obama campaign in 2008 spent almost a billion by itself, and the DNC chipped in another third of a billion.
The right: "We are corrupt and we are proud of it!"
Normies: "You are such a genius, everything conservatives and fascists touch is flawlessly run!"
Why do people keep falling for this shit? Do they just not care? If they lied about trickle down working, why do they still trust them when they promise to fight for "white people's interests".
I think a lot of it is just reactionary contrarianism. Fox News and company tell them who their culture war enemies are and as long as they perceive their leadership to be harming and humiliating their enemies they literally don't care about the details.
Can they really be called contrarians if they are the popular opinion by far?
We are the contrarians.
They are not the popular opinion. They haven't won a popular national election since 2004, which is why they have to pack the courts and rely on gerrymandering, massive policing and poll manipulation to stay in power.
Polling shows the majority of Americans are incoherent liberals or left-libertarians with no understanding of history or how politics really works. They are majorly not capitalists or right wing demagogues. Democratic opinion is not represented by the works of Congress, the Judiciary or the White House.
It's always been a cover for keeping "their" money out of the hands of the "undeserving", just as it was during Reagan's campaign.
i had to explain to someone in my family that "fiscally conservative" doesn't really mean "frugality" or "being careful with your money" or "budgeting according to your needs." It just means defending the capitalist status quo at all costs and bankrupting the public in the name of corporate handouts.
That's why it's called fiscally conservative instead of fiscally responsible :grillman:
For a couple years we had a quartet of Republican governors named Rick: Scott (FL), Snyder (MI), Perry (TX), and Santorum (PA). 20% of Americans lived in a state with a governor named Rick who was a complete fiasco. In a way it was kind of spectacular.
He turned himself into an embezzler after everyone already knew he was an embezzler…funniest shit I’ve ever seen.
Minor correction: Santorum was a senator from PA, not the governor. PA's shitty republican governor claim to fame is furnishing Tom Ridge as the founding secretary for DHS.
I remember reading that Republicans were donating to Trump directly instead of the party and he wasn't sharing
The "reptillian" conspiracy theory is a transparent re-packaging of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. Lizard people simply stand in for Jews to give the "theory" more credibility with the normies. Which is unfortunate because I used to love making jokes about Nancy Pelosi unhinging her jaw to swallow a toddler whole.
As long as you're careful not to drift in to blood-libel territory. Coming up with suitably rude and cruel insults for the ruling class is fraught because anti-Semites have already taken up so much space.
I get that, Rick Scott just really looks like he's wearing a human suit.
Oh yeah he's definitely a robot from the future sent to destroy us, no question there.
I always assumed it was an intuitive but mangled assessment of the psychopathic servile addiction to appetites, reptiles as a metaphor. TIL.
Apparently there is one specific conspiracy book that the reptilians are from and the author basically took the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and did a Find and Replace with "reptilian" in place of "Jew".
Fucking reactionaries ruining a perfectly good metaphor again. Lizard brains => narcissistic psychopathy. It's a shame.
I’ve always said he looks like if you took a skeleton and just stretched skin over it, without remembering the muscles, tendons, and fat deposits.
It's what the Necrons in Warhammer looked like before they shed their organic forms.
He should have stuck with his skeleton power instead of the more popular hamburgler power.
