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.
Voted for Bernie
DNC: “best I can do is HRC”
Keep at it, or people like Bernie won’t even try.
Down ballot is even more important, because those are races you can affect. There’s only 15-20,000 people voting in most US House primaries.
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.
67
god damnit
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.
As someone else said here, vote in the primaries!
https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/2026-state-primary-election-dates
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.
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
Budapest, Mozambique, take your pick.
EDIT : I didn’t realise it was Tv’s Frank when I first saw the text of the post
Paula Poundstone is doing her part, above and beyond the call of duty for any patriot. Go post-trump USA!
Didn’t they just end up electing another conservative?
There’s more nuances to it than just conservative. He’s pro eu, Orbán was a russian shill
He’s still a conservative, being pro EU only means he wants to push far right policies on the EU as well.
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.
You’re right. One thing important thing I would add is that he’s also anti-Putin. He will also put Hungary back into the ICC.
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.
Excuse me, it’s two issues. The rest is business as usual at best.
I would personally consider Ukraine and the EU to be the same issue since he’s only supporting Ukraine to get in line with the EU policy (he doesn’t support Ukrainian entry into the EU and opposes sending military aid)
Revolution is inevitable
How many times do i have to say electorilism is not an answer and Magyar is also a far right ethnonationalist.
So, just get crushed?
Or did you have a pamphlet or something
Organize outside of government so many ways to do so from labor to support for various orgs to agtiting for political conscious on and on. Literally millions of ways.
I present to you the magic of doing two things at once.
Do both! DO BOTH!
