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  • TipRing@lemmy.worldEnglish
    52·
    27 days ago

    When they say ‘martial law’ what they mean is a coup. That’s what it would entail. They are demanding that our republic be dissolved and a fascist dictatorship be put in its place. Don’t let conservatives slide on this. They are enemies of democracy and need to be called out for it.

  • im_fine_sandy@nord.pubEnglish
    476·
    28 days ago
    1. ICE at polling places
    2. Lost ballot boxes
    3. Elon
    4. Postal shenanigans
    5. Republicans lose house and senate convincingly
    6. Lots of legal challenges
    7. House and Senate just don’t acknowledge newly elected reps, delay, et cetera
    8. Lots of legal challenges that proceed very slowly
    9. Impeachment
    10. Martial law
    11. Lots more legal challenges
    12. Nothing changes.

    I wish you luck Americans but as a nation you’ve demonstrated that you’re unable to respond to this challenge.

    • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      28 days ago

      We know.

      The only good news is that a lot of us have thought this was happening before now. Su they might not pull it off this time either.

      And some progressive candidates are making progress.

      It’s very bleak. But it has been bleak for longer than much of the world noticed. So far we’ve survived albeit not without many losses and setbacks.

      • bedwyr@piefed.caEnglish
        52·
        28 days ago

        Their lack of ability and understanding are their only redeeming qualities.

        But this is all just to set up for 2028, and a dry run. Not for the president of course he doesn’t care about anything outside himself, but for the party, it is.

        If they control one house of congress, they can refuse to recognize results and fillibuster it until it gets thrown to the States, where every state gets one vote, and they control over 30 of them.

        That is one of many cheats they are planning, last resort kind of one. I suspect they are going to try and electronically cheat at vote totals, given that they got the inner workings of all the voting machines in swing states from pillow infomercial douche’s group he set up, getting hard drives from states like michigan, arizona, colorodo, and everywhere else. It all varies by state, but I suspect they’ve been cheating as such since 2016 when the poll numbers were so offset from the actual results.

        I’d like to see some exit polling to confirm because that is traditionally the most accurate.

        • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          5·
          27 days ago

          I’m still worried that the space Nazi fucked with numbers in 2024 and that nobody in charge wants to face the truth of what that means for our elections.

          • bedwyr@piefed.caEnglish
            1·
            27 days ago

            That is the way of these moderate democrats, accused of cheating first, now they would rather the country fall than call out the projection of cheating from the republicans. It sounds too stupid to be true when you say it out loud, that’s how you know it’s true.

    • dreamkeeper@lemmy.world
      133·
      28 days ago

      Lol, the house and Senate don’t get to refuse anything. The states send their representatives to Congress and they became the new Congress in January. This isn’t a special election.

      They’re going to win control of at least the house, and from then on Trump will be a lame duck president. Any play at martial law won’t work and will just make Trump look like even more of a pathetic joke, they would need many millions of people in the army to actually enforce it and they don’t have anywhere near that.

      So tired of the uneducated doomer shit on this site.

    • BauerBender@lemmy.world
      3·
      26 days ago

      For some reason deranged pessimistic views are so celebrated on this website. If it’s not fascism, it’s climate change and we’re all going to die in the next year.

      What’s the point of continuing living to you people who’ve already given up?

  • anon_8675309@lemmy.world
    34·
    27 days ago

    You know _something _ is going to happen. They’re not going to accept political defeat.

    Don’t forget:

    We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be." 

    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      27 days ago

      We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be."

      Which translates to “Don’t you fucking dare get in our way, or we’ll make the streets run red in a river of blood”

      • HasturInYellow@lemmy.world
        5·
        27 days ago

        I think they will be quite surprised should they attempt it. I don’t think they have understood how easily DIY drones could take out top brass targets in this day and age. They are very much not safe.

        • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
          9·
          27 days ago

          or how many liberal, left wing gun owners there are.

          There are a lot. We just go below notice because we’re not psychopath ammosexuals trying to sexually assault our firearms (incidently, the sig p320 is probably an incest baby from their gun fucking)

        • Upgrayedd1776@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          3·
          26 days ago

          i just watched a dude make thermite out of aluminum cans on youtube, just dropping that shit on the roof of a few data centers would fuck this up, doesnt that stuff burn through anything?

    • mycodesucks@lemmy.world
      6·
      27 days ago

      It is EXTREMELY wishful thinking to think that even if the midterms result in a MASSIVE loss for the president that it will result in any change whatsoever. He’s already ignoring and executive ordering to cancel out acts of Congress. Replace EVERY single member of congress with a democrat and it STILL doesn’t matter because Congress has no teeth whatsoever. The ONLY outcome of a massive loss will be a momentary loss of face that he will just spin his own reality around anyway, and everything will continue on business as usual.

    • RumRunningDevil@lemmy.zip
      22·
      27 days ago

      God please let it be bloody. Dear lord in heaven let this be bloody.

      If we don’t make it bloody, they win. Historically the best way to get what you want is violence. Like it or not, balls in our court

  • JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world
    336·
    28 days ago

    ‘well, I didn’t vote for him’

    ‘both sides are the same’

    ‘why do you support genocide?’

    ‘no wars president’

    ‘he knows how to run it like a business’

    ‘im a fucking moron’

    ^^^all the above groups are the same

      • DjangoFett@lemmy.zip
        101·
        27 days ago

        So because the choices are evil or useless, you say nothing is preferable which ultimately gives evil the victory.

        Dems suck. They have my whole life.

        Republicans vary from stupid to straight up evil.

        In a choice between “sucks” and “evil,” I know which I choose every time. In case it isn’t clear to you, I am of the firm stance that something that sucks can be tolerated or even turned into something beneficial in the long run. Evil is just evil and has no place in society.

        “Don’t support the dems” hands Republicans everything they want.

        I wish the blues had a spine or even a real platform from which to launch anything sensible. At least with Obama he made healthcare his platform, and he was so adamant about it that even the Republicans had to deal with it. Was it a stunning success? No, because it was shot full of holes in congress and crippled before it ever got off the ground by the original McConnell group. Obama was not at all representative of my beliefs in most of the rest of his actions, but the man did his best to effect positive change. Nobody else has done that or anything close since, and prior to that we have to go all the way back to the Depression and public works programs to find anything similarly beneficial to the public. Oh, and Social Security. Which has been gutted by - wait for it - Republicans.

        Dems are responsible for allowing the overton window to shift so far right and they are rightfully vilified by actual lefties for it.

        They’re still better than the alternative.

          • DjangoFett@lemmy.zip
            6·
            27 days ago

            And the DSA movement is taking that illusion and attempting to effect the change we seek, an inch at a time.

            And that’s the only way progress happens right now unless you’re willing to flip the table society rests upon.

              • DjangoFett@lemmy.zip
                3·
                27 days ago

                And DSA is the first incremental step back towards that. You form a third party and see how far you get without Citizens United money.

                It is a horseshit sandwich, but it’s what we’ve got right now. Perfect can’t be the enemy of good, especially right now.

                Enemy of my enemy and all, nahmean?

                Edit: more accurately, the more we can do to frustrate the actual evil, the more time we ultimately have to find the real solution. Again, it isn’t perfect, but its the solution we currently have.

      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        41·
        27 days ago

        What self reflection do you do when you realize that the opposition party that you shill for

        I saw zero shilling in their comment.

          • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
            43·
            27 days ago

            Nah dude, I just really have a thing for calling out bullshit arguments

            Here, let’s make it easy for everyone. Point out where the shilling occurs:

            ‘well, I didn’t vote for him’

            ‘both sides are the same’

            ‘why do you support genocide?’

            ‘no wars president’

            ‘he knows how to run it like a business’

            ‘im a fucking moron’

            ^^^all the above groups are the same

            Maybe you don’t actually know what the word means and were just using it wrong? Or is that too charitable?

      • JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world
        1·
        27 days ago

        At least they can vote. Many people don’t have that luxury. Yet they threw it away first chance. What’s next? ‘oh no one votes, so we should cancel elections next time?’ They have no idea how good they have it.

      • DjangoFett@lemmy.zip
        112·
        28 days ago

        They’re not here, pal. All flavors of lefites are from vaguely center-left to “it goes that far???”

        But none of the right that I’ve seen.

        • Psythik@lemmy.world
          82·
          28 days ago

          Yeah IMO the closest we have to conservatives here are the Tankies, which can come across as MAGA at first glance because they both like licking boots.