Democrats won't do a thing. They are in on it. They have been ratcheting towards oligarchy little by little.
They need to be replaced.
Most of them, but there are ones like him who still have integrity. Don't toss them aside.
Oh no didn't you get the memo? Democrats are worse and more to blame for what's currently happening than Republicans and you're a dirty liberal if you disagree.
No nuance allowed.
AOC and Bernie are on tour. Walz might be ok, but he’s still on probation until he shows true spine, not just very good rhetoric.
I would very much like to know of other Federal office holders we can count on. I am serious, not baitin’. Looking to find some hope and figure out who to boost or help.
He's touring now as well https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/20/politics/tim-walz-democratic-party-future-town-hall-tour/index.html
All I've seen him do so far is talk and be part of a losing Presidential ticket. What is he doing?
Following Bernie's lead and doing town hall meetings in Republican districts, which is where all of these sound bites are coming from. And he's not gaslighting us or sanewashing the actions of the GOP right now which is refreshing.
I'm not sure what else he could be doing right now tbh, he's governor of Minnesota and we're pretty gridlocked politically at the moment - nationally the only thing he's got is being on that losing presidential ticket, his main motivation seems to be the Democrats winning elections to make people's lives better even if he isn't the presidential nominee in a few years.
We've all been understanding this even while Walz et al were talking about how they might run in a few years.
Only argument is I see no way trump trusts don jr with even being a figurehead.
They're gonna put in Barron because he knows how to turn on a computer. That's a step of competency above his other sons. Also, they'll want the youngest one in for the longest-lived dictatorship.
Further, Barron has made inroads in the right wing podcast ecosystem. The other Trump boys are still living in the 90's, they'll want someone who understands the modern era and can influence it.
Barron is really good with cyber
Long term maybe, but short term Barron is too young and the Constitution isn't ambiguous about the age limits - and even if it's worth little more than toilet paper it serves the Republicans to keep it around as a zombie so they can keep pretending this is a democracy.
Dude, they already stopped giving a fuck about the Constitution. We're literally in the middle of a Constitutional crisis. They're ignoring the courts.
I'm so tired of hearing this "blah blah blah Consitution doesn't allow" they will make it allow it. Just like how Bannon was quoted that they're working on Trump's third term, which means they're just going to re-interpret everything into their favor.
Just like how they just argued that they needed to deport Venezuelans with no criminal history because somehow that means they're more dangerous to the US than those with a criminal history.
Just stop this checks and balances nonsense, that shit's over. In four years it will be dead and in it's grave.
He prefers to groom Ivanka anyway.
The only solace is that the fuckers who are feeding us to the machine are the ones who are going to get minced first.
Spineless fucks.
It's really crazy that they think capitulation will save them and we already have tons of examples of groups complying with this batshit administration and then immediately getting punished anyway.
This is what happens when people refuse to learn about history. We are doomed to repeat the same mistakes, and instead of facing it head-on, people would rather ignore it or change it entirely.
And it's exactly why conservatives have made it a priority to dismantle education.
Yeah I gotta say, avenues and windows of action are closing. We're running out of choices if we dont want to live under a dictatorship for the next twenty or more years.
I wonder from time to timecwhat method the Trumpists are going to adopt for killing their opponents.
Defenestration is self-evidently effective, but it's already Putin's schtick. And while it might appeal to Trump to essentially pay tribute to his idol, I think it's more likely that he'd want his own brand.
The US being what it is, some sort of handgun "suicide" would be on-brand, and courts have already shown that they're willing to let things like "suicide" by gunshot to the back of the head or "suicide" by multiple gunshot slide.
I almost expect them to use concentration camps and gas chambers, counting on the media to refuse to cover it at all for fear that somebody might make a Nazi comparison.
We'll see...
Prison neglect, violence by police, stochastic terror, criminalizing healthcare
Those are some of the bits of structural violence with which they intend to kill people broadly.
I'm wondering more about the specific techniques they're going to use for targeted killings - like, for instance, what they're going to do when Trump decides he wants Tim Walz killed.
Stochastic probably.
Or kidnap and disappear.
There's really nothing preventing them from doing in broad daylight the worst, most blatant shit either of us can imagine.
This is the same Tim Walz that champions civil disarmament? Now he's warning us about the very thing that the right to bear arms is supposed to protect the people against. Glad Tim and his party didn't succeed in making us all impotent in the face of this fascist regime.
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