While I agree with the sentiment, I'm not sure if the current democrats have enough of a spine to oust the sitting president, even if they get enough of a majority...
Vote in the fucking primaries so you can get better democrats.
I agree with that sentiment, shame I'm not actually from the US. My in-laws are but they're (allegedly) too disconnected from politics to care. I still feel like they might be closeted Trumpers that don't want to openly say so but who knows.
You think if the most unbelievable thing happened and a Democrat won every election to somehow hold both a majority in the House and 60 votes in the Senate, they wouldn’t toss him out?
Conviction in an impeachment trial needs 67 votes. They currently hold 45 seats. In order to get to 67, they'd need a clean sweep of all Senate races.
Even then, what's the over under on a convent count of turncoats that vote against because we "just need to come together and heal the nation."
Ah yes, the Schumer classic.
Yeah it’s possible
Damn. Well that’s some quality cynicism.
Tbf at this point it's well earned. The Republicans are still not switching positions about Epstein, the 25th and other things and their voters sure as hell did, so one can only conclude the more cynical position, that is, there is so much corruption it takes more than an elite sex abuse ring for the Republicans to finally do something.
True enough
I assure you it isn’t offered willingly, I wish I could say otherwise.
If Democrats think we’re mad now wait till they see how mad we get if we give them a supermajority and they don’t do anything.
even if they get enough of a majority...
And there's the rub.
The House is one thing, the Senate another. Only 1/3 of the current Senate seats go up for election, and the majority of seats up for vote that are currently held by Republicans are from very safe Republican stronghold states. I don't think there's a chance that the Dems get control of the Senate, even if they gain a couple seats.
As for the "problem" Dems, Fetterman isn't up for reelection. Schumer isn't up for reelection. Kaine isn't up for reelection. Shaheen and Durbin are at least retiring, but none of the other sellouts are on the ballot until 2028 at the earliest.
Best we can hope for is that the House flips to a Democratic majority (a supermajority is still beyond question) and that turns the next two years into an ineffectual lame duck Congress. But it's not like that'd be all that different from the situation right now anyways, because Trump has demonstrated he doesn't give a shit about Congress and will just issue illegal executive orders for everything he wants to do, while the courts twiddle their thumbs and maybe question the legality of his actions 10 years from now.
Oh gee, i guess it's better to vote Trump then...
Didn't they literally just file a bill to get him removed...?
Well, there's a pattern with this kind of thing. File a bill on a popular issue when they're in the minority, but just flat out ignore the issue when they've taken the majority.
Not feeling arsed enough to dig up examples, probably because I've given in to cynicism on the matter. But I doubt it would take much digging for anybody curious...
Edit: from my feed today-
Oh, wait, that doesn't happen, so I'm the one imaging things. 🙄
We are all Hungary, and it's time to eat.
Can't we go Full Nepal?
Our situation is way worse than Hungary. We need to go ”full France”.
I'd love to go full Nepal.
Rile up your local gen Z today.
In the words of a teacher:
I don't know. Can you?
Is that TV's Frank?
Holy shit I think it is
Maybe get JD Vance to endorse Republicans? That should finish them off
Hungary elects their Prime Minister in parliamentary elections. US elects majority leader and speaker of the house in midterms (kind of). It looks like some people don't understand the difference.
Budapest, Mozambique, take your pick.
So fill congress with people who are better on one specific issue but practically the same on every other issue? Congratulations, we could be guaranteed a Republican victory in 2028 as Dems will become widely known as the party that does nothing but get in the way.
Didn't they just end up electing another conservative?
Conservative by European standards. Some of his policies would be called radical socialism in the US.
Most of policies actually lol. Here hes a conservative right winger but in the usa he would count as a radical liberal communist at this point.
Peter Magyar was even in Victor Orban's Party "Fidesz", and formerly the husband of Orban's Justice Minister Judit Varga. Then two years ago there was a schism over a pardon of someone who covered up child abuse.
His new party "Tisza" is conservative, centre-right, but also pro-European and anti-corruption. I hope it wasn't a mask that drops soon, but I don't know enough about their politics, to say much.
How many times do i have to say electorilism is not an answer and Magyar is also a far right ethnonationalist.
Does endorsement by their socialist and green parties mean nothing?
If they had elected Orban again, would that make positive change more likely?
If Magyar was lying and goes further right, is revolution somehow less possible than it has been? Especially if Orban loyalists are gone/not-on-his-side and Orban policies are actually undone in such a way that future elections are more fair? (though that actually assumes their left parties can actually gain traction)
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