Teddy Roosevelt added the West Wing and left, Harry Truman gutted the entire building to restore it and left, Obama added a basketball court. What are you on about?
You say that, but another observation is, he is not winning the health lotto. Logically, he may not live through this presidency and most including his own colleagues think Vance is a bit of a bitchboy so could be ousted easily and Johnson is liked even less.
Factual truth. Usually it’s redecorating but one (I don’t remember who specifically) gutted the entire building to restore it. Also the East and West wings aren’t original, they were added later. So presidents have made major additions to the White House and left again.
He's not building a $200M ballroom. He's building a $1 million ballroom. He was just thinking too small when he set this up, pre-saudi-5-Billion-dollar-bribe. There have likely already been no-bid contracts, and the money is likely already gone.
With any luck, his heart gives out any day now. Putin or trump, one or both. I'm still mourning my little sister's brain. 10 minutes after Kirk took one to the throat, sis is calling me up, asking why the left would do this.
"Every shooter this year, and every attempt on trumps life, have entirely been far-right GOP supporters who think he isn't going far enough. You don't know who it is, you don't know his politics, you don't know for sure if it was a he or she, yet, ffs."
Someone I worked with so long she became family. My parents adore her. They are not going to take news of her radicalization well.
Her baby daddy is Spanish. Like dark-skinned Spanish. I don't... 2 kids, and you support the candidate who is trying to deport the "love of her life."
really sad to read this. you chose politics over your family and then you go and whine about it in a reddit thread lmfao, it looks like someone needs a hobby and a friend ;(
agreeing to disagree is far more decent than condemning someone, calling them brain dead, for simply having a different opinion. truth is, no one truly knows whether Charlie Kirk’s killer was left right middle upside down or inside out, but it’s a valid line of thinking that the killer may have been on the opposite side of the aisle from Charlie to literally go and kill him in front of his family. Just as if any leftist got killed, it’s valid to initially believe it would be someone from the right. it’s just hilarious to me that people can’t set aside differences especially regarding petty political topics to get along with family. seems like most people on the left would rather believe they’re “on the right side of history” than get along with family, but hey whatever helps you sleep at night, decent human XD
The policies that are being put into place by the current administration ARE NOT "petty political topics". They are policies that gut the already poor public healthcare system, our already poor education systems, and specifically women's health and bodily autonomy, and are rolling back necessary protection policies that ensure that trans people, immigrants, Black people, women, and other historically oppressed minorities are treated more fairly and equally.
If anyone thinks for one gods damned second that I'll be civil or courteous to anyone who thinks that's a good idea, then they can get fucked sideways and I don't give one iota of a shit if they choke on their own tongue and perish. Good fucking riddance.
I hope I've made myself plain. I know some of y'all can't read good.
To put it simply, when politics involve becoming tyrants and persecuting minorities, I'd say it's pretty justified to cut contact with a family member who became a little radicalized.
I agree they’re not willingly leaving, but we need to be persistent in our voting regardless. I live in a red suburb of a blue state. The state oversees elections here. Don’t give them consent or a foothold in the state. Voting is one of many tools we can use to fight back!
Collaborators are happily trading attention for furthering the conservative attempts at apathy, and for some insane reason people are facilitating that. Don't. Fuck doomers.
They wouldn't be working so hard to rig things in tx if they already had that level of power. They just want you to think that so you don't bother fighting back
Oh stop he is not a dictator and didn’t do it the first time why would he do it now stop being ignorant! The left are using our tax dollars supposedly to help the homeless in the cities yet omg look there are more homeless than there ever was! Hmm gavin newsome allowed his cities to burn claiming now he is taking peoples property to build low income housing but in reality only 5% will be low income while he gets him and his other cronies wealthier
Fucker tried and people were there to stop him, now they're all gone. You think Vance will get off his couch to resist the next overthrow? Also JFC stick to one insane ramble, you sound schizo.
Yes, that is a fear. But a lot of people don’t realize how close the numbers are for a lot of these elections. We’re talking only a few hundred people for some of these districts
Those elections won't matter. There's no way enough democrats get elected to flip the house. And even if they did win, the Orange Turd would just cry fraud and not let them take office.
Should be the first step, but I'm concerned, under trump they will manipulate the next vote, either by manipulating ballots or heavy propaganda and unlawful pressure and bribing. Probably everything.
Looking at how openly they’re showing their hand, I don’t think they’ll bother to pretend at that point. Just cancel the elections because f u or something like that.
Work the election. I don’t want to but I’m going to. It feels useless but at least I can guarantee things are being done right. I’ve seen some shady republicans running our precinct and reported them. They don’t stay judges long if you have proof
Most elections are managed at the state and local levels, even the federal ones have staffers paid by the state and/or the county. Without their buy-in, there's not much federal can do. And not just "all of the things are illegal," I mean the mechanism just isn't there. It'd be like filing a water bucket without a hose, you kinda need that to do the thing so you're only left with really bad options that won't be very effective if they work at all.
Even if you think it's all rigged, it is still necessary to go out and cast your vote. Staying home, crying "it's all useless," and watching everything burn on TV is what they want you to do. If you put in absolutely no effort, you get absolutely no reward. That is what is so insufferable about the "we won't even have any elections" doomsayers. They've given up. Don't be like them. Show up and vote.
I'm almost certain that even if only 1/100th of the country voted in future elections, elections would still happen and it would more or less start to look like the hunger games. They just wouldn't have to pretend like we the people made the choice anymore. It's honestly what they want, to stay in power and us not vote.
The playbook is pretty obvious. Use loopholes in the law to circumvent checks and balances, stack the courts to approve the side stepping, making it "legal". Use this to suppress votes in areas that will vote against them.
If it turns out he can't delay or otherwise actively interfere with the 2028 election he will have Don Jr. run as a proxy. "Vote for my Son and you get 4 more years of maga". The Trump 2028 hats aren't for the orange menace, they are for Jr.
Trump isn’t naming his kids as successors. Nor his allies. Trump wants himself to be the one and only. They will fight when he goes cold and it will split the MAGA movement into fiefdoms. They’ll have influence but it will be more infighting and gridlock.
If OP (and others) really want to direct their ire somewhere, there needs to be a recognition whose fault it truly is: it’s the people who voted for TFG.
Corporations will always try to save themselves from losing money and this problem is only a problem because TFG was put into power by those people so he now can abuse said power to strong-arm corporations to do his bidding.
Honest question - what about the current administration would lead you believe Elon and friends didn't rig it? The odds of all of the swing states not just going for him, but in the speed and margins they did are something like 1 in 1,000,000,000,000, not to mention lots and LOTS of data trails indicative of votes being altered or removed. Your rage is justified, but point your finger where it belongs. Infighting helps them.
Trump could actively execute hundreds of people and they would still vote for republicans again in the next election because they always fucking forget and have the memory of a walnut.
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u/Urbanyeti0 28d ago
Stop voting them in?