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The US really hates its children doesn’t it?
This should be enough for everyone to say ‘fuck this’ and stop doing anything and everything to shut the country down and force the wealthy to make the houses act.
Until they do, they are a nation that lets their children be abducted and imprisoned, willingly. Among other awful things.
The US hates anyone who isn’t an old, white, straight, rich male. That just happens to include kids.
Did you happen to see what happened in the 2025 and 2026 elections?
What Democrats picking up a couple of vacated seats this early in his second term?
Nice, but it isn’t stopping anything is it? That’s no gauge on the midterms being fair either, just quietly.
Hey, I hope you’re right but it’s more hope I think. They need to act, now, as a unit.
What Democrats picking up a couple of vacated seats this early in his second term?
No. The Democrats aren't going to do much themselves. The bigger point is the cultural statement being made, because nearly all of the districts that got flipped went to Donald by double digits in 2024, and that tells you that not only do people oppose what's happening, but that he's broken his electoral coalition. This is also why the very public gerrymandering campaign stopped, because they've pissed off so many of their own voters they can no longer be certain it serves their interests.
Nice, but it isn’t stopping anything is it?
That would be where you're wrong. This is being stopped all over the place, and not just in Minneapolis. My city just passed a 5-year moratorium on zoning and permits for ICE. The problem here is that the gears of justice turn slowly, so it doesn't happen instantaneously (Look at the Garcia abduction for an example of that.), but Chicago and Minneapolis have done a great job of helping their neighbors in waves that aren't flashy.
That’s no gauge on the midterms being fair either, just quietly.
Probably not, but when both red and blue districts have turned on Donald, it's much harder to win by cheating. You have to be able to identify where you can win, and clearly, they can't. Hell, they just lost a race in Texas where they outspent the Democrats 10-to-1. Voters are pissed nationwide, and that's not a matter of hope, but of empirical evidence.
Hey, I hope you’re right but it’s more hope I think. They need to act, now, as a unit.
Respectfully, I think there's too much good info and action of late to simply ignore.
he’s broken his electoral coalition
He did that a while ago. None of that really matters though, because there’s now an iron grip on the judiciary and policing and probably on the military.
Unless they get another fair election, then it has licence, but things don’t look that good on that front.
pissed off so many of their own voters
They’re worried about physical backlash to that, not electoral. They’ll vote R anyway, but again, it’s going to be likely voting is pretty much redundant.
That would be where you’re wrong.
I hope you’re right and I’ll admit on the levels you’ve pointed out, the wheels are turning. Overall, it’s not making much difference though; the administration is still willingly carrying out its pogroms and disregarding the rule of law. So I don’t know if I’m wrong. We’ll see.
Respectfully, I think there’s too much good info…
Certainly there’s a bit, but there’s also a lot of hope based on a couple of good things occurring like there was before the election. Those of us who called they’d allow Trump to run, then elect Trump, the institutions would collapse where all pretty well ridiculed for calling it.
One way or another the next election won’t be fair, if it’s held at all, and the Democrats won’t win the midterms. I hope I’m wrong, I truly do. It doesn’t matter what the swing on these ones tell you, the one that matters won’t be fair.
I see the same here in a big way, but I hope you’re right. I think too much is pinned on hope. I don’t think you’ll vote your way out of this, I’m sorry. The sooner that shutdown is undertaken the better. Hopefully next time they learn that voting is the easy way to stop it.
We’re in hell.
Democrats: ICE encourages cardio! Double the funding!
Republicans: yes e will continue terrorizing and murdering brown people (and white peoples we don’t like too!)!
"Anyone that doesn't look like us, vote like us, have the same opinions as us, go to the same church as us, have the same hatred for ourselves and others..." (and so on over time)
Why is there a dolphin in the air?
Looks like a wind chime above the doorbell camera to me.
Not that it makes it right, but:
Ahh kids running from cops, a time honored tradition. Good to see the youth of today still going strong with the old ways. Sucks they didn't even have the fun of committing a horrible crime like skateboarding or cutting school or smoking weed like we did but man I won't lie it was pretty exhilarating getting away from some fat stupid state employee in my time.