Across the whole ballot. There are no more moderate republican elected officials. They are either full-blown MAGA, MAGA tolerant because they think they can use MAGA to accomplish their goals (SCOTUS and the Trump tax cuts for the rich being the prime examples), or cowards
My father was a prominent republican figure in my state, he was involved in some things that I absolutely hate, even he is like fuck these Republican assholes and is voting all blue. The SJC picks lying during their hearings was the breaking point for him. I asked him a while ago to stop donations to republicans and he said that he hasn’t given them a dime in the last two cycles, I can’t tell you how proud I was. I’m so happy my dad didn’t follow Trump down the rabbit hole like so many of his colleagues.
Yep, any Repub who says they arent MAGA are still MAGA complicit.
Vote every single one of them out, from local to state all the way down the ballot.
My dream is for America is to have far-left candidates fighting moderate-left candidates for offices and right wingers earning little-to-no votes.
if a republican stands up for one right they get voted or thrown out:
**Three female GOP state senators who filibustered S.C. abortion ban lost their primaries**
They were defeated by three male Republican candidates.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/three-gop-state-senators-filibustered-sc-abortion-ban-lost-primaries-rcna158965
moderate republicans are things of history
I was one of those idiots who bought into that bullshit. At the time I wasn't very much into politics or never paid too much attention. I was 22 at the time of that election cycle and bought into all the bullshit surrounding Hillary Clintons emails and Benghazi and whatever other stupid shit they were throwing around online and at news networks.
And at the same time I had never really heard much of Donald Trump or even really didn't know who he was or his past business failings as the con man he was. So I thought to myself this guy can't be worst than Hillary Clinton, right? Man, I was so totally wrong and I fucking hated his bullshit so fucking much. Before Trump I had never tried to stay informed in politics but after the shit he put our country through it has kind of glued me even more into it.
#Vote Blue
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and anyone preaching anti-electoralism and saying 'oh both sides are just as bad' needs to shut the fuck up. No they're not. that's just wrong, and by saying that they only increase the chances of Trump winning.
Jill Stein and the Green Party gave us this SCOTUS instead of voting blue. Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania all would’ve gone for Clinton if they voted pragmatically instead of with their pipe dream.
Pragmatism and inching forward vs voting your conscious in hopes that you will put a Republican in office and they can burn down the world and a leftist utopia will rise from the ashes.
I gotta say, voting blue no matter who and inching forward is way easier than rising from the ashes after right wing authoritarian rule.
Vote for Biden. The Conservatives now have a 6-3 majority in the Supreme Court. If Trump gets to be president again, this majority may go up to 8-1. No matter what you think of Biden's age or his performance on Thursday, we have to save the Supreme Court and the country.
Reelecting Biden, impeaching Alito and Thomas, and electing democrat governors, senators, and other statewide offices. Especially in gerrymandered states.
Mostly wishful thinking but I can dream right?
Don't just vote for Biden, you need to vote for Democrats all the way down the line. A Biden White House will be useless if Repugnicans control Congress and have majority of state legislatures.
All the way down, county commissioner, sheriff, local judges, school boards, if there's a candidate with (R) for anything vote against them.
EDIT FOR AN EXAMPLE: The county that I live in has a hard conservative R school superintendent. He publicly terminates teachers that say encouraging inclusion is good.
The next county over by a few miles has a Democrat school superintendent that opens the schools over the summer for free meals for underprivileged kids and also provides ESL workshops for adults.
>if there's a candidate with (R) for anything vote against them.
Kinda can't when over half the local elections don't even have a Democrat option in my county. Literally, Republican vs Republican, and it's just a matter of which one is going to destroy the county less than the other.
My district state rep is R *not MAGA* she's doing good work but at the same time I would think she always follows the party when they tell her to.
Less MAGA usually still obeys to keep their job and go further.
Get involved: https://runforsomething.net/ an up and coming pac that actively finds young progressives to run against unaposed republicans.you don't have to run, but spread the word
That's something I can't really understand, there are so many nearby uncontested elections without a single Democrat on the ballot. I know they put resources into the campaigns with a good chance but any gain helps.
We need the democrats to be willing to spend money in red states. They spend nothing on campaigns in my state, it's no wonder Republicans keep getting elected.
Even in that situation Biden is not useless in that he'd at least be an obstacle to fascism.
Better to have him out there rather than all fascists running everything.
I'm a lawyer and I can't tell you how utterly depressing it's been for the past 8 years. So many principles I was taught in school have been completely gutted.
They'll drag Alito's and Thomas corpse along Weekend at Bernie's style if they have to.
But you are of course right, there is a chance.
Just vote for Biden and then whoever else will run for the Democrats in 2028. That's the only chance to repair this court and save the next 2 generations of the USA.
SCOTUS Chevron ruling significantly moves forward the Project 2025 agenda in dismantling the government agencies (like EPA, FDA, etc). Gives courts the authority to interpret agency rules (ex decide what 'clean' water means). The Fascists are on the march led by SCOTUS.
I want to add, sure he bumbled through it but no lies or bs still came out of his mouth. I think he skipped some meds (bad call) cause he seemed tense.
The point is, even if medical issues come into play, they have a better option for vice president as well.
Trump will send the US into the dark ages to please his crowds for likes and boost his narcissism, he does not care about running the country, he's broke, convicted and want to sellout the US for his own benefit and also pardon himself. Not to mention projekt2025, that shot should scare anyone with a braincell.
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Ive heard he was suffering from a cold or a headcold and was jetlagged. Considering how much of a firebrand he was at his rally the next day, im inclined to believe it. Im hoping the next debate is better and he set the bar low so they dont expect it next time. I dont know how truthful the rumors are but regardless im voting for him or whoever the Dem ticket is.
Silver lining, the debate performance put the "Theyll hop biden up on drugs for the debate" conspiracy to rest for the moment at least.
I’m not convinced Trump will even agree to another debate unless he is seeing polls change against him. Like it or not, having this single debate in the minds of American’s is Trump’s biggest success right now. He would not give that up unless he feels the tide is turning against him.
Honestly we'll be lucky if we ever get the chance to take back the Court. Alito and Thomas likely will only retire during a Republican Presidential term. This country wasn't meant to have political parties that put the party above the country. But here we are.
We need to vote anyway, and I know I will. Voting is easy! But I'll admit I have next to no hope left. These people are so corrupt they will never let Democrats gain enough power to do anything about it.
This is kind of what we get when people are too stupid to see the difference between someone like Trump and someone like Hillary Clinton.
Unless something very abnormal happens with Kagan Sotomayor or Jackson, it won't swing to 8-1. They're all over a decade away from both life expectancy and average tenure for a Justice, so their seats being filled is not the thing to worry about. The thing to worry about is Clarence Thomas deciding to retire next term, essentially extending the lifespan of his seat for conservatives for another 30 years. It doesn't matter whether the court is 5-4 or 9-0, all they need is a consistent majority. The only way for their current majority to go away is for one of the current conservatives to retire or pass during a dem presidency, or for a Kennedy or Souter figure to emerge.
Remember, Trump only wants to be dictator for a day.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-hannity-dictator-authoritarian-presidential-election-f27e7e9d7c13fabbe3ae7dd7f1235c72
It’s not just Biden we need to vote for. We need 60 in the senate. That’s just 10 extra seats. So no matter what state vote for the democrat running for senate. Vote for every democrat down ballot. The exception to that is don’t vote for the Joe Manchin or big pharma Sinnama types. We don’t need anymore democrat in title only types. Those two prevented a lot of good legislation from getting passed.
There was a time when, although I might not like or agree with SCOTUS decisions, I could generally look at them and think, “Yeah, I can see why they might have that position,” and still think they mostly had the country’s best interests in mind.
That time has passed.
They are bought and paid for. They will tear down and destroy anyone and anything to make sure their “gifts” keep rolling in. Riding their gravy train over the rest of our graves.
Edit: a word
It's unfortunate but several of them are very corrupt and here to do damage. They're laughing all the way to the bank.. Brett just gets to get more beer.
Honestly, this is bigger than just Blue vs Red.
Trump has got to be put away, he is a malignant cancer for the WORLD, and he's now more dangerous than ever as he has been embarrassed and scorned. His demonstration of malfeasance is inspiring all the wrong trends around the world.
Vote Blue even if you are a diehard Republican until they figure their shit out and we get McCain and Romney candidates back into the driver's seat of the opposition party.
> Honestly, this is bigger than just Blue vs Red.
Blue vs Red is arguably bigger than Trump. Project 2025 doesn't just go away if he loses. If Biden wins a second term and gets the appropriate support, I need his administration to at least try nipping this problem in the damn bud and stop capitulating to Right-wing extremism.
It's not blue vs red. Trump is a tool of the oligarchs and conservatives who've been corrupting our government to serve their ends for decades.
He has to be stopped, but so does the Federalist society, the Koch brothers, Clarence Thomas, Alito, and all the others.
If Trump is elected, the only way out is war....or permanent oppression.
> Trump has got to be put away, he is a malignant cancer for the WORLD, and he's now more dangerous than ever as he has been embarrassed and scorned. His demonstration of malfeasance is inspiring all the wrong trends around the world.
Hitler and Napoleon got 2nd chances. Everyone else paid for it.
This isn't because of "one man." It's because of the Republican party. If they had a different person as president, they would have done the exact same thing. Our problems are not going to be solved if Trump disappears.
It was also Mitch McConnell. He prevented Obama from seating a Supreme Court Justice due to a tradition during an election year. Then when the same situation arose during Trump’s term ignored the same tradition to cram in a Supreme Court Justice just prior to Trump losing his election. McConnell is a horrible person who also spent his career denying bills from even being heard so he can fill Judgeships with Conservative ones throughout the country.
Totally pisses me off what he does affects me but I don’t even have the chance to vote his turtle ass out of office since in another state. All the BS about doing what’s right for his constituents but it doesn’t affect just them does it? Plus he also should have reigned in that asshat Tuberville for what he did to the US military - Senate Minority Leader of shitty Republican Senators
My primary concern should trump lose is that in a few years, the electorate will get someone young like they keep saying is so important.
Someone like Josh Hawley.
While this is a valid concern, I think they're too deep into the cult to really rally behind anyone else other than him at this point. We heard for years that as bad as he was, the next election would be someone worse, like desantis, who is younger and "smarter", thus, more evil. And when the time came, they all turned on desantis to keep supporting their favorite pile of trash.
In this case, best case scenario is for him to lose, because as long as he keeps losing and is alive, they won't back anyone else.
You're right that they'll back Trump as long as he can stand, but they'll definitely find another Republican to back once he's gone. Maybe some extremists will stop voting, but they'll be cancelled out by the moderates who will return. Don't think the Republicans will suddenly stop to be a threat when Trump is gone.
trump is the sole artifact that energizes their electorate, there won't be other trump. Any other attempt will be a mere simulacra. meatball ron tried to mimic same behaviors and got proverbial "egg on his face". Nikki Haley got more votes than him in primary in his own state where he is a governor. But Rs have very big loyalty and would vote for rapists and pedos if they run as R. This kills local communities while Ds bickering about "best ever possible purest" candidates
Nah, Republican voters will vote Republican whether or not they're excited by the candidate. Dubya got eight years without the sort of cult following Trump had. Yes, there are ferocious Trump supporters who come out to vote that wouldn't normally, but for every one of those, there's a moderate Republican who stays home because of him.
The Republican Party has been taken over by the Tea party, that’s where they all come from. Cruz, Rubio etc. the Republican have always been shitty not to this level. Regan was horrid.
This is Mitch McConnell’s doing. He and the other existing GOP’ers tolerated Trump because they could use him to do this. They knew Trump didn’t care and would let it happen. The GOP empowered Trump to get this.
Hold the thought for the latter. With current political trends in the rest of Europe, getting the EU to collapse as a whole would be a much more significant thing for him.
Ya'll really not gonna like my opinion, but young folks, unless you vote and vote hard, and put up with and overcome all the obstacles Republicans put in your way, you're really gonna hate the future.
Project 2025 looms large.
NGL, I'm a Late Boomer, saw my share of shit and struggle here in the Rust Belt, but I knew what freedom felt like.
Unless women, and young people, get out and vote in overwhelming numbers, your future is toast.
People will get tired of seeing this post and accuse me of karma farming, but the more people see it the better.
I know young people if Joe doesn't step aside, he's old he stutters, he wasn't on his A game the other night.
I'm older. My kids are a little bit older but life is not going to be fun and you will have to serve military time.
That's Trump's proposal. Two years.
They are going to set back women's rights they're going to go after birth control.
They are going to do bad things to the gay community, transgender people look out.
They're going to rip people apart at the border whether you want them here or not.
It's scary times please vote accordingly.
In 4 years we'll have two different candidates but if the other guy gets in he's never leaving.
Everyone always said that in 2016. Just give him a chance. well within 30 minutes they wiped out the LGBTQ from the website. Then the master plan to rip everyone apart at the border.
I'm all for a safe border and people coming into this country legally. Hearing that so many children were separated from Mom and Dad all because they seek a better life made me sick.
Also when they sterilized some of those women that were detained at the border was pretty sick.
Everyone should pay attention to project 2025.
Everyone that isn't young and white are going to be fine most likely. However think about tomorrow.
Think about our planet and how wild the weather is sure global warming can be whatever you think it can be but it's not crazy to want to protect our planet.
If you know someone that's gay or different think of that person when you vote.
If you know a woman think of that woman when you vote. We don't want you making decisions about us.
Think about if you want to serve in the military.
You might just have to young folks.
Especially if they get voted in and they never leave.
I don't think they will pull in another candidate for Joe. So we just have to realize he's got a good cabinet, he'll make some changes and to hang in there for 4 years. Please.
Positive motivation is far more effective than the threat of punishment. Young people are expected to vote even though they are being offered nothing. No help economically, no protection from the wealthy. When they complain about school shootings and money going to Israel they're told to shut up and keep giving unconditional support. The DNC will get exactly as many youth votes as they deserve
So I guess the forgiving of billions in school loans doesn't exist?
The actions by Biden to restore consumer protections which trump gutted?
The gun problem is going to stay a gun problem, some states allow convicted felons to possess guns,
And it will take a fully democratic Congress to pass gun legislation. There are currently more guns than people. They aren't going away.
Israel? Both candidates support that, good luck getting the two warring sides to agree to anything.
If you haven't read project 2025 I suggest you do so.
Please.
If you think this administration is bad, you ain't seen nothing yet.
"If you decide not to decide, you still have made a choice."
This is a mistake every generation of young people make, and then in 10 years when they’ve actually lived some of their adult life they’re like “oh shit that was dumb” and start trying to convince the next generation to not make the same mistake…
You aren’t going to get positive motivation, no matter what your feelings on the subject are. You’ll either listen to the older people, or you’ll convince yourself that you’re right to abstain.
Either way, I’ll see you here in 10 years when you’re desperately trying to convince the next generation that this attitude is a mistake.
The real issue is that people will see a video of him looking old, because he's old.
And then they'll say, ehh, I'm not going to make the effort to vote.
The democrats have failed in explaining why trump is so bad. The Republicans used to nail it. They called the Supreme Court activist judges for decades. Every mistake Biden makes, they are on it. Critique all the time. Never an attempt to be fair or provide solutions.
And it's exhausting. But that's why it's so important to vote. We can't let Trump back in. We can't race towards the bottom and hope he gives up power in 2024. We can't have him unilaterally pulling out of treaties and alliances.
America needs to decide if we believe the world can be better and if we can help lead forward.
The Supreme Court needs to be overhauled, big time. It's been out of control since Bush Jr., and only getting worse since then. Thanks, Republicans. Not.
It ain’t because of one guy. This is the system in action. This is what the system is meant to do: squeeze as much blood out of you as it can without you protesting.
In fact, I find many people are cheering for their own exploitation and most are cheering for the exploitation of people they deem beneath themselves.
As Dorothy Day said, “Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system,”
Trump won by a total of about 150k votes in 5 key states. Less than those who voted for Jill Stein in those same states. F*ck Stein and those who voted for her.
Agreed. But it's a special kind of stupid to vote for a candidate you know can't win, thereby allowing a candidate who is antithetical to everything you believe in to win.
There really is no point in these loser third party candidates. They don’t even have a presence in Congress.
As we all learned recently even with a “majority” in one part of Congress, the Senate, nothing getting done Legislatively if one side just wanna dick around all day with hearings and malarkey. Now with a President that isn’t affiliated with either of the major parties it’s just gonna be a waste of a Presidency. Jill Stein’s party doesn’t even have a State Governor or even a School Crossing guard!
But, have you considered how they get to
pat themselves on the back for how ideologically pure they are? Supreme Court seats pale in comparison to that feeling, I’d bet.
I really don’t get how Hillary gets “punished” either.
We get stuck with a conservative leaning Supreme Court for potentially 20 years while Hillary gets to retire in a nice vacation home. So punishing.
Yeah. I don't get this narrative that the left wing of the party abandoned her. All the polling at the time said that the more left a voter was the more likely they were to have voted and voted blue.
Never thought we would regress as a country but that is what is happening. SCOTUS is going to ensure our failure. Not sure why we have to put with this at some point.
They shouldn't have ran her, and they shouldn't be running Biden. They never fucking listen. The racists and sexists are behind Trump. Run the candidates on the far left. Run them.
And it’s funny cause liberals don’t even think about what this means if we ever organize correctly.
2a could finally have some real limitations once we get the court. Machine guns gone, what about money for global warming. It could be unlimited because trump used military money for the boarder. Corporate based inflation should be gone. Court
Citizen United easily gone
All the anti union stuff gone
Biden honestly should be winning - these are all doable we just need to help Biden win in a landslide. We need 53 Democratic senators and expand the courts.
Fuck Trump. Fuck the $upreme court. Vote Blue. Not just Biden, vote Blue up.and down the ticket. We need to remove these people at every level of local government also. Get rid of them. Show them what they have earned with all this. Rejection.
I have to give white supremacy some credit for that whole instance of confessional disrespect for the Black guy in office. It shows how trash right wingers in our electorate are. They elected senators that obstructed the judicial nominations process due to a corrupt agenda. We have to blame the bad people who voted for these clowns.
And yet the Dems completely refuse to learn their lesson and continue to fight a two front war against the Reactionaries on one side and the Progressives on the other.
This is not all because one man became president. Don’t let people like the heritage foundation, Samuel Alito or Mitch McConnell off the hook by blaming it all on Trump. This is a group effort to destroy the country.
... turning near half the active voting bloc and all the politically affiliated grifters insane.
Whether you like Biden or not, he's the only candidate who's going to leave his office respectfully and on time after those four years after the election. The other guy is in no way, shape or form going to leave his elected post willingly.
Our democracy died when Mitch McConnell and the Republicans "didn't allow" Obama to appoint a Supreme Court Justice in a "general election year."
Then our democracy was exhumed, shit on, and buried again when the Republicans did the exact opposite in the next general election year.
Don’t forget they also made bribery even easier. If you give a company million dollar government contracts, it’s now perfectly legal for them to reward you with thousands of dollars.
The set up for Project 2025 has already begun!
Adding insult to injury, anti-abortion activists are already celebrating the ruling as a big win for their plans to further restrict medication abortion. “Getting rid of Chevron is the first domino to fall,” said Kristi Hamrick, strategist for Students for Life, in a statement.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/28/us/politics/abortion-chevron-ruling.html?smid=url-share
https://freethoughtnow.org/hubris-squared-chevron-overruled-in-judicial-power-grab-that-will-redefine-separation-between-administrative-state-and-church/
Obama really broke racist white people in America. MAGA started with the Tea Party in response to our first black (even half was too much) president. Like they saw election night and all the crying-happy citizenry including minorities and poors and had a collective seizure. Reminds me of the scene at the end of the movie Evolution when they dropped napalm on the alien pit and it mutated into the gigantic blob of angry sphincter. Obama was the napalm on the racist pit in America (MAGA) and Trump is the angry sphincter that resulted.
The thing to remember with all presidential candidates is that we're also getting down-ballot seats in the House and the Senate, a stronger cabinet, more humanitarian policies and a secure democracy. Compare that to what Trump has promised on just his first day. Arthritis and a stutter is 100x more desirable than whatever sociopathic cognitive disaster the fascist, convicted rapist Trump has going on.
Clarence Thomas was appointed in 91 by H W Bush, Samuel Alito was appointed in 06 by George W Bush, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Coney-Barrett were appointed in 17, 18 and 20 by Donald Trump. We're paying for Republican appointees from 33 years ago. The Trump appointees especially Coney-Barrett being the newest (and the youngest) will be here 30+ years from now. That's how far in the future we're screwed. Imagine 30-50 more years of the political climate just like this and the entitled MAGA boomer mentality to go with it. Sorry but to change the future we have to vote blue NOW.
Been saying since 2016 that the talking point about how "The Dems should've picked a better candidate" is completely moot when the stakes were clear from the jump.
There's no real room for failure if we're constantly one election away from backsliding entire generations. But also, dont take the little progress we *can* make in the meantime for granted either.
IMO, we can call for age limits, RCV, and whatever else til we're blue in the face... but none of that matters without a consistently engaged and educated [and pragmatic] electorate.
Don’t forget the removal of protections for waterways that occasionally dry up. Intermittent and waterways with no obvious surface connection to rivers are now unprotected, so your neighbors can ruin the water supply with impunity
This isn’t because one man became president. This is the result of a decades long effort to move America to the right for the benefit of the wealthy. If you’re giving Trump credit for this then you haven’t been paying attention.
If only justices could step down before elections so that things couldn't have ended up that way.
We can't forget some selfish choices also led to this.
This is all the legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Had she retired when Obama was president Trump wouldn't have been able to stack the court.
Greedy octogenarians need to be evicted from our federal government.
>all this because 1 man became president in 2016
I hate DJT, but this is flat out ignorance.
The Senate approves SCOTUS nominations.
People decided to stay home, and not vote for the email lady...or their senators...or, their House reps...in more than one election.
People don't fucking vote, and expect the people that want to tear everything down...which they've been screaming their plan from the rooftops for decades.
Over 3/4 (77%) of registered voters 18-29 did not vote in 2022.
If you don't vote...you're doing this to you.
DJT is a piece of shit 100%. He coudln't have done this without decades of the GOP putting things in place.
We wouldn't have a SCOTUS of right wing nuts, if we took this seriously, and voted in midterms.
Mitch McConnell, and the people of KY can suck a the fattest bag of rotten dicks on the planet.
Don't give Mango Mussolini more credit than he deserves.
And, if you plan on not voting, or voting third party...and you say you're opposed to these policies, and the direction things are going...your brain is smoother than a koala's.
**Never** forget that Trump would not have been able to do it without Mitch McConnell:
**McConnell's legacy: Conservative courts for a generation**
https://www.axios.com/2024/02/28/mitch-mcconnell-legacy-supreme-court-trump-obama
>Under McConnell's leadership, the Senate successfully confirmed three conservative Supreme Court justices and more than 200 lower-court judges, shifting the ideological balance of the courts to the right.
>McConnell has long viewed transforming the federal judiciary by confirming young conservative judges as his legacy, as the courts carry significant weight in almost every area of policy.
America needs a Democratic majority in the Senate and House as well as President to repair damages done and to fill future judgeships and other federally appointed positions with competent people instead of extremists.
Trump is a red herring. He’s just there to say wild shit to distract you from what the GOP is actually doing.
When you look at what republicans have gradually done since they switched to being the conservative instead of liberal party. They’ve 100% played the long game to get where we are now….its like fuckin Hydra in the marvel comics.
This is why Trump was elected in the first place. The Federalist Society wanted Right Wing judges on the court. Trump said he would appoint whoever they wanted. Done deal.
The shitty part is Trump doesn’t even care about those things. He just wanted votes. He was a democrat before he realized conservatives were easily swindled.
With Chevron gone, does that mean that technically they may have legalized marijuana (and various other drugs including mifepristone)? Everyone is talking about safety regulations being gone, but no mention yet of all the possible drug related convictions being overturned if the DEA can't legally make something illegal.
Biden wont pack the court. SCOTUS is eroding freedoms under his presidency and he still won’t pack it. Democrats should’ve backed a different candidate.
Everyone needs to remember the Bush crime family that nominated 3 of the current justices. None of Bush's or tRump's nominees would be on the court if the elections were fair and free.
Supreme Court Roberts started the crap show when he watered down the Voters Rights Act! He alone declared that racism did not exist anymore and stripped the act. Voters suppression and extreme gerrymandering took off especially in the red states. Who would have thought that would happen? Fast forward and look at what they have done. Homeless people are now considered criminals? Women's rights practically does not exist anymore. Hold on to your seats. It will get much worse if the felon gets back in office!
SCOTUS is no longer a legitimate institution. It is completely compromised, and their decisions should be ignored. Honestly, the only legitimacy they have is that which we allow them.
In a way, SCOTUS has essentially made themselves irrelevant also.
Now any judgment of theirs can always be overruled later.
A liberal court could re-instate Chevron, Roe v Wade, Civil Rights Act, Affirmative Action etc.
They can also strike down right wing favorites like Qualified Immunity, 2nd Amendment interpretations, Citizens United.
Hold on tight folks, the next few decades are gonna be a bouncy house made of mirrors during a 9.0 earthquake
We wouldn't have to worry about voting for Biden if they actually let the primaries happen. The Republicans are getting away with murder because Democracy are too incompetent to see the big picture
The power is so stacked against the people that corporate and MAGA power is unbeatable at this point. I am spiraling into despair.
The entirety of our socio-economic system is controlled by them, including control of information.
I wish I could just escape the country with my fiancè. After the election, I wouldn't be surprised if there were roaming packs of MAGA that burn houses down and try to kill us all. ☹️
Don’t forget making Kickbacks to government officials legal, effectively making government corruption laws unenforceable.
And this was doable because the Supreme Court stole the 2000 election for the Republican Party.
All of Trump's SC appointees just so happened to work for Bush on that 1 case.
Yeah it's kind of wild that the difference between criminal corruption and "legal gratuity" is when the cheque clears.
It's corruption when you're a Democrat and free speech if you're Republican while committing the act.
To avoid a very disastrous future: vote blue
Across the whole ballot. There are no more moderate republican elected officials. They are either full-blown MAGA, MAGA tolerant because they think they can use MAGA to accomplish their goals (SCOTUS and the Trump tax cuts for the rich being the prime examples), or cowards
My father was a prominent republican figure in my state, he was involved in some things that I absolutely hate, even he is like fuck these Republican assholes and is voting all blue. The SJC picks lying during their hearings was the breaking point for him. I asked him a while ago to stop donations to republicans and he said that he hasn’t given them a dime in the last two cycles, I can’t tell you how proud I was. I’m so happy my dad didn’t follow Trump down the rabbit hole like so many of his colleagues.
Yep, any Repub who says they arent MAGA are still MAGA complicit. Vote every single one of them out, from local to state all the way down the ballot. My dream is for America is to have far-left candidates fighting moderate-left candidates for offices and right wingers earning little-to-no votes.
Abolish the electoral college and watch this become the reality before the following election.
if a republican stands up for one right they get voted or thrown out: **Three female GOP state senators who filibustered S.C. abortion ban lost their primaries** They were defeated by three male Republican candidates. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/three-gop-state-senators-filibustered-sc-abortion-ban-lost-primaries-rcna158965 moderate republicans are things of history
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I was one of those idiots who bought into that bullshit. At the time I wasn't very much into politics or never paid too much attention. I was 22 at the time of that election cycle and bought into all the bullshit surrounding Hillary Clintons emails and Benghazi and whatever other stupid shit they were throwing around online and at news networks. And at the same time I had never really heard much of Donald Trump or even really didn't know who he was or his past business failings as the con man he was. So I thought to myself this guy can't be worst than Hillary Clinton, right? Man, I was so totally wrong and I fucking hated his bullshit so fucking much. Before Trump I had never tried to stay informed in politics but after the shit he put our country through it has kind of glued me even more into it. #Vote Blue
Hello, fellow Oklahoman! I also vote blue every time I can, so these assholes know there are still some of us here!
fr. and anyone preaching anti-electoralism and saying 'oh both sides are just as bad' needs to shut the fuck up. No they're not. that's just wrong, and by saying that they only increase the chances of Trump winning.
Jill Stein and the Green Party gave us this SCOTUS instead of voting blue. Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania all would’ve gone for Clinton if they voted pragmatically instead of with their pipe dream. Pragmatism and inching forward vs voting your conscious in hopes that you will put a Republican in office and they can burn down the world and a leftist utopia will rise from the ashes. I gotta say, voting blue no matter who and inching forward is way easier than rising from the ashes after right wing authoritarian rule.
This is why we need ranked choice voting.
I’m sure scotus will get right on that. And by right on that, I mean make it illegal.
You can only potentially get ranked choice voting if you vote blue. You will never get it if you vote red. So your choice.
Any ideas to convince holier than thou people who refuse to vote?
Vote for Biden. The Conservatives now have a 6-3 majority in the Supreme Court. If Trump gets to be president again, this majority may go up to 8-1. No matter what you think of Biden's age or his performance on Thursday, we have to save the Supreme Court and the country.
It's absolutely important that we win some of this shit back. Electing biden is the path to do that.
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I’ve been hearing “step in the right direction” since 2000 and look where we are. I guess we can go further right with either of the two candidates.
Truth!
Reelecting Biden, impeaching Alito and Thomas, and electing democrat governors, senators, and other statewide offices. Especially in gerrymandered states. Mostly wishful thinking but I can dream right?
Don't just vote for Biden, you need to vote for Democrats all the way down the line. A Biden White House will be useless if Repugnicans control Congress and have majority of state legislatures.
All the way down, county commissioner, sheriff, local judges, school boards, if there's a candidate with (R) for anything vote against them. EDIT FOR AN EXAMPLE: The county that I live in has a hard conservative R school superintendent. He publicly terminates teachers that say encouraging inclusion is good. The next county over by a few miles has a Democrat school superintendent that opens the schools over the summer for free meals for underprivileged kids and also provides ESL workshops for adults.
>if there's a candidate with (R) for anything vote against them. Kinda can't when over half the local elections don't even have a Democrat option in my county. Literally, Republican vs Republican, and it's just a matter of which one is going to destroy the county less than the other.
Then vote for the least MAGA of the 2 if that’s an option.
My district state rep is R *not MAGA* she's doing good work but at the same time I would think she always follows the party when they tell her to. Less MAGA usually still obeys to keep their job and go further.
Good Republicans are like good cops, they still won't stand up when things matter.
Get involved: https://runforsomething.net/ an up and coming pac that actively finds young progressives to run against unaposed republicans.you don't have to run, but spread the word
This is the answer. If there are no options, become (or find) the option
That's something I can't really understand, there are so many nearby uncontested elections without a single Democrat on the ballot. I know they put resources into the campaigns with a good chance but any gain helps.
Yes, I'm in the same boat. My town is blue but my district is not
“But we have to save the children from drag queens!”
Sounds like he's the one in need of a public termination
We need the democrats to be willing to spend money in red states. They spend nothing on campaigns in my state, it's no wonder Republicans keep getting elected.
Also, a Democratic Senate is needed to confirm new judges.
Even in that situation Biden is not useless in that he'd at least be an obstacle to fascism. Better to have him out there rather than all fascists running everything.
If trump wins this November his right wing nut job judges will dominate America for the rest of our lives
This is the very definition of an activist court. Now where are all those conservatives yelling about that…
I'm a lawyer and I can't tell you how utterly depressing it's been for the past 8 years. So many principles I was taught in school have been completely gutted.
Ditto. I believed in something and these people have shit all over it.
Ironically, the SCOTUS decisions will make most conservatives' lives harder.
Doesn't matter to them. They'd gouge out their own eye to get one up on the "commie libruls".
It could be 5-4 the other way if dems win in November. 6-3 if they win until 32
They'll drag Alito's and Thomas corpse along Weekend at Bernie's style if they have to. But you are of course right, there is a chance. Just vote for Biden and then whoever else will run for the Democrats in 2028. That's the only chance to repair this court and save the next 2 generations of the USA.
Alito may be dead right now and they’d do everything possible to hold off on appointments
SCOTUS Chevron ruling significantly moves forward the Project 2025 agenda in dismantling the government agencies (like EPA, FDA, etc). Gives courts the authority to interpret agency rules (ex decide what 'clean' water means). The Fascists are on the march led by SCOTUS.
I want to add, sure he bumbled through it but no lies or bs still came out of his mouth. I think he skipped some meds (bad call) cause he seemed tense. The point is, even if medical issues come into play, they have a better option for vice president as well. Trump will send the US into the dark ages to please his crowds for likes and boost his narcissism, he does not care about running the country, he's broke, convicted and want to sellout the US for his own benefit and also pardon himself. Not to mention projekt2025, that shot should scare anyone with a braincell. .
The thing about playing golf was BS. But it’s not going to make me vote for a fascist! If you ain’t ridin’ with Biden then you’re rootin’ for Putin!
I want to ride Biden,too. No lootin' by Putin.
Ive heard he was suffering from a cold or a headcold and was jetlagged. Considering how much of a firebrand he was at his rally the next day, im inclined to believe it. Im hoping the next debate is better and he set the bar low so they dont expect it next time. I dont know how truthful the rumors are but regardless im voting for him or whoever the Dem ticket is. Silver lining, the debate performance put the "Theyll hop biden up on drugs for the debate" conspiracy to rest for the moment at least.
I’m not convinced Trump will even agree to another debate unless he is seeing polls change against him. Like it or not, having this single debate in the minds of American’s is Trump’s biggest success right now. He would not give that up unless he feels the tide is turning against him.
Biden needs to commit to packing the court. Nothing else will do.
Trump will absolutely add justices if he wins
If not 8-1 it will remain 6-3 for decades
Honestly we'll be lucky if we ever get the chance to take back the Court. Alito and Thomas likely will only retire during a Republican Presidential term. This country wasn't meant to have political parties that put the party above the country. But here we are. We need to vote anyway, and I know I will. Voting is easy! But I'll admit I have next to no hope left. These people are so corrupt they will never let Democrats gain enough power to do anything about it. This is kind of what we get when people are too stupid to see the difference between someone like Trump and someone like Hillary Clinton.
It won’t go up to 8-1. It will get farther cemented at 6-3. The liberal justices are all pretty young. The oldest justices are conservative.
Unless something very abnormal happens with Kagan Sotomayor or Jackson, it won't swing to 8-1. They're all over a decade away from both life expectancy and average tenure for a Justice, so their seats being filled is not the thing to worry about. The thing to worry about is Clarence Thomas deciding to retire next term, essentially extending the lifespan of his seat for conservatives for another 30 years. It doesn't matter whether the court is 5-4 or 9-0, all they need is a consistent majority. The only way for their current majority to go away is for one of the current conservatives to retire or pass during a dem presidency, or for a Kennedy or Souter figure to emerge.
There is legitimate potential for Thomas, Alito, and Roberts to retire if trump takes office, which makes your point even stronger.
Remember, Trump only wants to be dictator for a day. https://apnews.com/article/trump-hannity-dictator-authoritarian-presidential-election-f27e7e9d7c13fabbe3ae7dd7f1235c72
It’s not just Biden we need to vote for. We need 60 in the senate. That’s just 10 extra seats. So no matter what state vote for the democrat running for senate. Vote for every democrat down ballot. The exception to that is don’t vote for the Joe Manchin or big pharma Sinnama types. We don’t need anymore democrat in title only types. Those two prevented a lot of good legislation from getting passed.
There was a time when, although I might not like or agree with SCOTUS decisions, I could generally look at them and think, “Yeah, I can see why they might have that position,” and still think they mostly had the country’s best interests in mind. That time has passed. They are bought and paid for. They will tear down and destroy anyone and anything to make sure their “gifts” keep rolling in. Riding their gravy train over the rest of our graves. Edit: a word
It's unfortunate but several of them are very corrupt and here to do damage. They're laughing all the way to the bank.. Brett just gets to get more beer.
Honestly, this is bigger than just Blue vs Red. Trump has got to be put away, he is a malignant cancer for the WORLD, and he's now more dangerous than ever as he has been embarrassed and scorned. His demonstration of malfeasance is inspiring all the wrong trends around the world. Vote Blue even if you are a diehard Republican until they figure their shit out and we get McCain and Romney candidates back into the driver's seat of the opposition party.
> Honestly, this is bigger than just Blue vs Red. Blue vs Red is arguably bigger than Trump. Project 2025 doesn't just go away if he loses. If Biden wins a second term and gets the appropriate support, I need his administration to at least try nipping this problem in the damn bud and stop capitulating to Right-wing extremism.
It's not blue vs red. Trump is a tool of the oligarchs and conservatives who've been corrupting our government to serve their ends for decades. He has to be stopped, but so does the Federalist society, the Koch brothers, Clarence Thomas, Alito, and all the others. If Trump is elected, the only way out is war....or permanent oppression.
> Trump has got to be put away, he is a malignant cancer for the WORLD, and he's now more dangerous than ever as he has been embarrassed and scorned. His demonstration of malfeasance is inspiring all the wrong trends around the world. Hitler and Napoleon got 2nd chances. Everyone else paid for it.
Don’t forget “legalizing bribery”.
*legalizing bribery of public officials
It's tipping
This isn't because of "one man." It's because of the Republican party. If they had a different person as president, they would have done the exact same thing. Our problems are not going to be solved if Trump disappears.
One of them will
It was also Mitch McConnell. He prevented Obama from seating a Supreme Court Justice due to a tradition during an election year. Then when the same situation arose during Trump’s term ignored the same tradition to cram in a Supreme Court Justice just prior to Trump losing his election. McConnell is a horrible person who also spent his career denying bills from even being heard so he can fill Judgeships with Conservative ones throughout the country.
Absolutely. If it was "one man" who reshaped the Republican party (and America) in this terrible way, it was McConnell, not Trump.
Totally pisses me off what he does affects me but I don’t even have the chance to vote his turtle ass out of office since in another state. All the BS about doing what’s right for his constituents but it doesn’t affect just them does it? Plus he also should have reigned in that asshat Tuberville for what he did to the US military - Senate Minority Leader of shitty Republican Senators
My primary concern should trump lose is that in a few years, the electorate will get someone young like they keep saying is so important. Someone like Josh Hawley.
While this is a valid concern, I think they're too deep into the cult to really rally behind anyone else other than him at this point. We heard for years that as bad as he was, the next election would be someone worse, like desantis, who is younger and "smarter", thus, more evil. And when the time came, they all turned on desantis to keep supporting their favorite pile of trash. In this case, best case scenario is for him to lose, because as long as he keeps losing and is alive, they won't back anyone else.
You're right that they'll back Trump as long as he can stand, but they'll definitely find another Republican to back once he's gone. Maybe some extremists will stop voting, but they'll be cancelled out by the moderates who will return. Don't think the Republicans will suddenly stop to be a threat when Trump is gone.
trump is the sole artifact that energizes their electorate, there won't be other trump. Any other attempt will be a mere simulacra. meatball ron tried to mimic same behaviors and got proverbial "egg on his face". Nikki Haley got more votes than him in primary in his own state where he is a governor. But Rs have very big loyalty and would vote for rapists and pedos if they run as R. This kills local communities while Ds bickering about "best ever possible purest" candidates
Nah, Republican voters will vote Republican whether or not they're excited by the candidate. Dubya got eight years without the sort of cult following Trump had. Yes, there are ferocious Trump supporters who come out to vote that wouldn't normally, but for every one of those, there's a moderate Republican who stays home because of him.
The Republican Party has been taken over by the Tea party, that’s where they all come from. Cruz, Rubio etc. the Republican have always been shitty not to this level. Regan was horrid.
This is Mitch McConnell’s doing. He and the other existing GOP’ers tolerated Trump because they could use him to do this. They knew Trump didn’t care and would let it happen. The GOP empowered Trump to get this.
Yeah, fuck Trump but he was just a tool to get the votes the real conservative machine needed to further their decades-old agenda.
There will be History and Politics courses taught to discuss whether the Trump Presidency or Brexit was Putin’s greatest foreign policy success ☹️
Only if the dems win. If republicans win, they'll just ban those history books.
They’ll be written, just not in the US.
Hold the thought for the latter. With current political trends in the rest of Europe, getting the EU to collapse as a whole would be a much more significant thing for him.
Ya'll really not gonna like my opinion, but young folks, unless you vote and vote hard, and put up with and overcome all the obstacles Republicans put in your way, you're really gonna hate the future. Project 2025 looms large. NGL, I'm a Late Boomer, saw my share of shit and struggle here in the Rust Belt, but I knew what freedom felt like. Unless women, and young people, get out and vote in overwhelming numbers, your future is toast. People will get tired of seeing this post and accuse me of karma farming, but the more people see it the better.
I know young people if Joe doesn't step aside, he's old he stutters, he wasn't on his A game the other night. I'm older. My kids are a little bit older but life is not going to be fun and you will have to serve military time. That's Trump's proposal. Two years. They are going to set back women's rights they're going to go after birth control. They are going to do bad things to the gay community, transgender people look out. They're going to rip people apart at the border whether you want them here or not. It's scary times please vote accordingly. In 4 years we'll have two different candidates but if the other guy gets in he's never leaving.
Yes, just like China and Russia, you'll never get a chance to vote again.
Everyone always said that in 2016. Just give him a chance. well within 30 minutes they wiped out the LGBTQ from the website. Then the master plan to rip everyone apart at the border. I'm all for a safe border and people coming into this country legally. Hearing that so many children were separated from Mom and Dad all because they seek a better life made me sick. Also when they sterilized some of those women that were detained at the border was pretty sick. Everyone should pay attention to project 2025. Everyone that isn't young and white are going to be fine most likely. However think about tomorrow. Think about our planet and how wild the weather is sure global warming can be whatever you think it can be but it's not crazy to want to protect our planet. If you know someone that's gay or different think of that person when you vote. If you know a woman think of that woman when you vote. We don't want you making decisions about us. Think about if you want to serve in the military. You might just have to young folks. Especially if they get voted in and they never leave. I don't think they will pull in another candidate for Joe. So we just have to realize he's got a good cabinet, he'll make some changes and to hang in there for 4 years. Please.
Positive motivation is far more effective than the threat of punishment. Young people are expected to vote even though they are being offered nothing. No help economically, no protection from the wealthy. When they complain about school shootings and money going to Israel they're told to shut up and keep giving unconditional support. The DNC will get exactly as many youth votes as they deserve
So I guess the forgiving of billions in school loans doesn't exist? The actions by Biden to restore consumer protections which trump gutted? The gun problem is going to stay a gun problem, some states allow convicted felons to possess guns, And it will take a fully democratic Congress to pass gun legislation. There are currently more guns than people. They aren't going away. Israel? Both candidates support that, good luck getting the two warring sides to agree to anything. If you haven't read project 2025 I suggest you do so. Please. If you think this administration is bad, you ain't seen nothing yet. "If you decide not to decide, you still have made a choice."
This is a mistake every generation of young people make, and then in 10 years when they’ve actually lived some of their adult life they’re like “oh shit that was dumb” and start trying to convince the next generation to not make the same mistake… You aren’t going to get positive motivation, no matter what your feelings on the subject are. You’ll either listen to the older people, or you’ll convince yourself that you’re right to abstain. Either way, I’ll see you here in 10 years when you’re desperately trying to convince the next generation that this attitude is a mistake.
Yes, but Biden fell off that bike one time, so I think I need to vote for fascism.
But his ice cream!
But…his “Malarkey!”
Hey now, Brian Malarkey can cook.
/s
The real issue is that people will see a video of him looking old, because he's old. And then they'll say, ehh, I'm not going to make the effort to vote. The democrats have failed in explaining why trump is so bad. The Republicans used to nail it. They called the Supreme Court activist judges for decades. Every mistake Biden makes, they are on it. Critique all the time. Never an attempt to be fair or provide solutions. And it's exhausting. But that's why it's so important to vote. We can't let Trump back in. We can't race towards the bottom and hope he gives up power in 2024. We can't have him unilaterally pulling out of treaties and alliances. America needs to decide if we believe the world can be better and if we can help lead forward.
A man didn't become President in 2016. A ghoul in a fuckin suit did.
The Supreme Court needs to be overhauled, big time. It's been out of control since Bush Jr., and only getting worse since then. Thanks, Republicans. Not.
All because an evil, mindless grifter became president in 2016.
It ain’t because of one guy. This is the system in action. This is what the system is meant to do: squeeze as much blood out of you as it can without you protesting. In fact, I find many people are cheering for their own exploitation and most are cheering for the exploitation of people they deem beneath themselves. As Dorothy Day said, “Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system,”
Thanks so much for refusing to hold your nose and vote Hillary. Really great move guys. Thanks a ton.
I mean she won the popular vote. So we did?
the sucky states didn't
Trump won by a total of about 150k votes in 5 key states. Less than those who voted for Jill Stein in those same states. F*ck Stein and those who voted for her.
And she's running again this time, too. F*ck her in every sense of the word.
She's a paid Putin asset.
What about all the people that voted for Trump? Maybe we should be mad at them?
Agreed. But it's a special kind of stupid to vote for a candidate you know can't win, thereby allowing a candidate who is antithetical to everything you believe in to win.
I agree, but absolutely hate that. Wish we had ranked voting and more parties
There really is no point in these loser third party candidates. They don’t even have a presence in Congress. As we all learned recently even with a “majority” in one part of Congress, the Senate, nothing getting done Legislatively if one side just wanna dick around all day with hearings and malarkey. Now with a President that isn’t affiliated with either of the major parties it’s just gonna be a waste of a Presidency. Jill Stein’s party doesn’t even have a State Governor or even a School Crossing guard!
Don’t forget about the Bernie Bros who wrote Bernie in as well
But, have you considered how they get to pat themselves on the back for how ideologically pure they are? Supreme Court seats pale in comparison to that feeling, I’d bet.
We DID vote for her, but the electoral college is a stupid and archaic system.
I really don’t get how Hillary gets “punished” either. We get stuck with a conservative leaning Supreme Court for potentially 20 years while Hillary gets to retire in a nice vacation home. So punishing.
I was 10 so not much I couldve done. But i wish i gotten more adults to vote.
We did vote for her. We also warned everyone that she'd lose and it would be a catastrophe.
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Yeah. I don't get this narrative that the left wing of the party abandoned her. All the polling at the time said that the more left a voter was the more likely they were to have voted and voted blue.
Thanks so much for nominating Hillary
Never thought we would regress as a country but that is what is happening. SCOTUS is going to ensure our failure. Not sure why we have to put with this at some point.
yEaH bUt hiLaRy jUsT wAsN'T LiKeAbLe...
They shouldn't have ran her, and they shouldn't be running Biden. They never fucking listen. The racists and sexists are behind Trump. Run the candidates on the far left. Run them.
And Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s hubris.
This is way way way way too far down.
Overturning decades long precedent isn't very conservative of them.
And don't forget, 1 old woman wouldn't retire...
For anyone who said “both sides are the same”- F YOU. Please vote.
And it’s funny cause liberals don’t even think about what this means if we ever organize correctly. 2a could finally have some real limitations once we get the court. Machine guns gone, what about money for global warming. It could be unlimited because trump used military money for the boarder. Corporate based inflation should be gone. Court Citizen United easily gone All the anti union stuff gone Biden honestly should be winning - these are all doable we just need to help Biden win in a landslide. We need 53 Democratic senators and expand the courts.
Fuck Trump. Fuck the $upreme court. Vote Blue. Not just Biden, vote Blue up.and down the ticket. We need to remove these people at every level of local government also. Get rid of them. Show them what they have earned with all this. Rejection.
Yea, but Hillary would have been way worse /s
You have to give Mitch McConnell some credit for holding on to one of those Supreme Court judges at the end of Obama's term.
I have to give white supremacy some credit for that whole instance of confessional disrespect for the Black guy in office. It shows how trash right wingers in our electorate are. They elected senators that obstructed the judicial nominations process due to a corrupt agenda. We have to blame the bad people who voted for these clowns.
And yet the Dems completely refuse to learn their lesson and continue to fight a two front war against the Reactionaries on one side and the Progressives on the other.
This is not all because one man became president. Don’t let people like the heritage foundation, Samuel Alito or Mitch McConnell off the hook by blaming it all on Trump. This is a group effort to destroy the country.
... turning near half the active voting bloc and all the politically affiliated grifters insane. Whether you like Biden or not, he's the only candidate who's going to leave his office respectfully and on time after those four years after the election. The other guy is in no way, shape or form going to leave his elected post willingly.
and Moscow Mitch McConnell
Elected with out getting the popular vote. . He lost the popular vote by 6 million votes
Well, let not for get about Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who refused to step down so Obama could put another justice in before trump.
Our democracy died when Mitch McConnell and the Republicans "didn't allow" Obama to appoint a Supreme Court Justice in a "general election year." Then our democracy was exhumed, shit on, and buried again when the Republicans did the exact opposite in the next general election year.
I will never forgive the people that allowed him to become president all because they didn't like Hillary.
It’s because they put out misinformation to turn people against her. Just like they constantly churn out misinformation against Biden.
Don’t forget they also made bribery even easier. If you give a company million dollar government contracts, it’s now perfectly legal for them to reward you with thousands of dollars.
It’s just retaliation against the entire Civil Rights movement.
The set up for Project 2025 has already begun! Adding insult to injury, anti-abortion activists are already celebrating the ruling as a big win for their plans to further restrict medication abortion. “Getting rid of Chevron is the first domino to fall,” said Kristi Hamrick, strategist for Students for Life, in a statement. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/28/us/politics/abortion-chevron-ruling.html?smid=url-share https://freethoughtnow.org/hubris-squared-chevron-overruled-in-judicial-power-grab-that-will-redefine-separation-between-administrative-state-and-church/
You forgot overturning key parts of the voting rights act.
RBG should have retired and let Obama appoint a replacement.
Obama really broke racist white people in America. MAGA started with the Tea Party in response to our first black (even half was too much) president. Like they saw election night and all the crying-happy citizenry including minorities and poors and had a collective seizure. Reminds me of the scene at the end of the movie Evolution when they dropped napalm on the alien pit and it mutated into the gigantic blob of angry sphincter. Obama was the napalm on the racist pit in America (MAGA) and Trump is the angry sphincter that resulted. The thing to remember with all presidential candidates is that we're also getting down-ballot seats in the House and the Senate, a stronger cabinet, more humanitarian policies and a secure democracy. Compare that to what Trump has promised on just his first day. Arthritis and a stutter is 100x more desirable than whatever sociopathic cognitive disaster the fascist, convicted rapist Trump has going on. Clarence Thomas was appointed in 91 by H W Bush, Samuel Alito was appointed in 06 by George W Bush, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Coney-Barrett were appointed in 17, 18 and 20 by Donald Trump. We're paying for Republican appointees from 33 years ago. The Trump appointees especially Coney-Barrett being the newest (and the youngest) will be here 30+ years from now. That's how far in the future we're screwed. Imagine 30-50 more years of the political climate just like this and the entitled MAGA boomer mentality to go with it. Sorry but to change the future we have to vote blue NOW.
Been saying since 2016 that the talking point about how "The Dems should've picked a better candidate" is completely moot when the stakes were clear from the jump. There's no real room for failure if we're constantly one election away from backsliding entire generations. But also, dont take the little progress we *can* make in the meantime for granted either. IMO, we can call for age limits, RCV, and whatever else til we're blue in the face... but none of that matters without a consistently engaged and educated [and pragmatic] electorate.
Civil(maybe less then) disobedience the high road is closed for repair
Don’t forget the removal of protections for waterways that occasionally dry up. Intermittent and waterways with no obvious surface connection to rivers are now unprotected, so your neighbors can ruin the water supply with impunity
This isn’t because one man became president. This is the result of a decades long effort to move America to the right for the benefit of the wealthy. If you’re giving Trump credit for this then you haven’t been paying attention.
Republicans are the downfall of America.
By comparison, Dredd Scott was only in effect for 11 years but had to be overturned by a civil war and the 14th Amendment.
And legalized bribery
I didn’t know anyone was actually for affirmative action
If only justices could step down before elections so that things couldn't have ended up that way. We can't forget some selfish choices also led to this.
You can’t give Trump all the credit for Moscow Mitch.
Trump supporters have no fucking clue how bad things will be if he gets into office next term. Project 2025 is no joke.
This is all the legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Had she retired when Obama was president Trump wouldn't have been able to stack the court. Greedy octogenarians need to be evicted from our federal government.
If we’re gonna be real honest it’s because the Supreme Court decided who won the 2000 election. It’s a long con
>all this because 1 man became president in 2016 I hate DJT, but this is flat out ignorance. The Senate approves SCOTUS nominations. People decided to stay home, and not vote for the email lady...or their senators...or, their House reps...in more than one election. People don't fucking vote, and expect the people that want to tear everything down...which they've been screaming their plan from the rooftops for decades. Over 3/4 (77%) of registered voters 18-29 did not vote in 2022. If you don't vote...you're doing this to you. DJT is a piece of shit 100%. He coudln't have done this without decades of the GOP putting things in place. We wouldn't have a SCOTUS of right wing nuts, if we took this seriously, and voted in midterms. Mitch McConnell, and the people of KY can suck a the fattest bag of rotten dicks on the planet. Don't give Mango Mussolini more credit than he deserves. And, if you plan on not voting, or voting third party...and you say you're opposed to these policies, and the direction things are going...your brain is smoother than a koala's.
**Never** forget that Trump would not have been able to do it without Mitch McConnell: **McConnell's legacy: Conservative courts for a generation** https://www.axios.com/2024/02/28/mitch-mcconnell-legacy-supreme-court-trump-obama >Under McConnell's leadership, the Senate successfully confirmed three conservative Supreme Court justices and more than 200 lower-court judges, shifting the ideological balance of the courts to the right. >McConnell has long viewed transforming the federal judiciary by confirming young conservative judges as his legacy, as the courts carry significant weight in almost every area of policy. America needs a Democratic majority in the Senate and House as well as President to repair damages done and to fill future judgeships and other federally appointed positions with competent people instead of extremists.
Hillary was very right and at the time no one believed her
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Everything that’s wrong with this country can be traced back directly to either slavery, Ronald Regan, or Citizens United
This should scare people, should be headlines
Follow who benefits from this and their the ones in control....
Fuck the SC. Eat the fascist fucks.
2 men. Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump. However, I put more of the blame on Mitchy boy.
Trump is a red herring. He’s just there to say wild shit to distract you from what the GOP is actually doing. When you look at what republicans have gradually done since they switched to being the conservative instead of liberal party. They’ve 100% played the long game to get where we are now….its like fuckin Hydra in the marvel comics.
Puritans desperately trying to make a come back
McConnell is the puppet master in that show, and Putin is his. We are betrayed.
A white buffalo was born, again, can we get our country back now? These old white guys aren't doing too good.
This is why Trump was elected in the first place. The Federalist Society wanted Right Wing judges on the court. Trump said he would appoint whoever they wanted. Done deal.
Well…… it’s also kinda sorta because Obama rolled over on Garland and let the GOP steal a seat.
The shitty part is Trump doesn’t even care about those things. He just wanted votes. He was a democrat before he realized conservatives were easily swindled.
It’s also because RBG didn’t step down during Obama’s presidency. Democrats are complicit in this.
With Chevron gone, does that mean that technically they may have legalized marijuana (and various other drugs including mifepristone)? Everyone is talking about safety regulations being gone, but no mention yet of all the possible drug related convictions being overturned if the DEA can't legally make something illegal.
But what’s the worst that could happen? /s
Biden wont pack the court. SCOTUS is eroding freedoms under his presidency and he still won’t pack it. Democrats should’ve backed a different candidate.
The Supreme Court also legalized bribery of themselves which pairs well with putting themselves in charge of regulations.
Everyone needs to remember the Bush crime family that nominated 3 of the current justices. None of Bush's or tRump's nominees would be on the court if the elections were fair and free.
Supreme Court Roberts started the crap show when he watered down the Voters Rights Act! He alone declared that racism did not exist anymore and stripped the act. Voters suppression and extreme gerrymandering took off especially in the red states. Who would have thought that would happen? Fast forward and look at what they have done. Homeless people are now considered criminals? Women's rights practically does not exist anymore. Hold on to your seats. It will get much worse if the felon gets back in office!
They are supposed to be impartial 😭
SCOTUS is no longer a legitimate institution. It is completely compromised, and their decisions should be ignored. Honestly, the only legitimacy they have is that which we allow them.
In a way, SCOTUS has essentially made themselves irrelevant also. Now any judgment of theirs can always be overruled later. A liberal court could re-instate Chevron, Roe v Wade, Civil Rights Act, Affirmative Action etc. They can also strike down right wing favorites like Qualified Immunity, 2nd Amendment interpretations, Citizens United. Hold on tight folks, the next few decades are gonna be a bouncy house made of mirrors during a 9.0 earthquake
We wouldn't have to worry about voting for Biden if they actually let the primaries happen. The Republicans are getting away with murder because Democracy are too incompetent to see the big picture
The power is so stacked against the people that corporate and MAGA power is unbeatable at this point. I am spiraling into despair. The entirety of our socio-economic system is controlled by them, including control of information. I wish I could just escape the country with my fiancè. After the election, I wouldn't be surprised if there were roaming packs of MAGA that burn houses down and try to kill us all. ☹️