Again and again, they prove their projection is all about intent, and the hypocrisy doesn’t matter. They SAID someone did something they intended to do, and even though it’s bullshit, they go and do it.
In this case, bitching about 60 Minutes “helping” the Harris campaign by editing for time, when they intended to force journalists to capitulate to them editing for actual content.
Totally not alarming. A good solid blue vote in the midterms in just 12 short months away will fix that (once Johnson figures out how to also swear in the non GOP congress people)
A blue wave is not coming. Go look at projections for 2026.
The trends show that the levels of favor ability we see now predict an insane blue wave.
The problem is whether or not the Republicans would let it happen. Johnson refusing to swear in the Arizona congresswoman is very blatantly a test run to just ignore the Democrats and carry on with a Republican supermajority and many open seats.
No taxation without representation.
If the speaker is preventing my elected official from representing me, then I shouldn’t have to pay a fucking cent until they are seated.
Good luck withholding taxes.
It’s worked in the past.
It’s more that for most people paying taxes is automatic and they have zero control. My job pays the taxes out of my paycheck before I get any of the money, I cannot withhold taxes without quitting my job.
Not sure how it works in USA but can’t you elect to not have your employer withhold your taxes for you and then have to pay your annual tax in a lump sum at the end of the fiscal year? That’s part of standard HR taxation forms here in Australia and some people do it in order to invest what they would otherwise be paying in taxes then divest at tax time, pay their tax, and hold onto the capital gains from their investment that they’d otherwise not have had access to. Sure they pay capital gains tax on that but it’s still a net windfall if their investments accrue.
you can. they will get add penalties and interest to your tax bill if you owe too much at the end of the year, though, even if you did pay-in every check or every quarter but just not enough.
Yup. The admin knows that a blue wave is an existential threat to corruption. They have no interest in allowing a free and fair election. Every fight to protect democracy is now critical, from here until Nov 2026.
Every month, they’ve committed further abominations against law and process. 12 more to go.
Okay, tap the breaks. Democrats are a lot of things. But they’ve never been a barrier to corruption. You just have to be willing to cut them in.
My bad on the phrasing. I meant individual acts and actors, and spoke too broadly.
We lost the fight in 2024. Try to remember to turn off the lights if you’re the last one out.
What trend? What data are you looking at?
I mean, I’ve seen pollsters all over the map. But I also saw “Blue Wave in 2024/2016” and “Red Wave in 2020/2018”. Who are you looking at and why do you trust them more than that lady who said Harris would win Iowa by 5 points?
Historically, newly elected Presidents eat shit in the midterm. Bush Jr was a singular exception, riding a huge reactionary wave through 2002. And he had 90% approval ratings at his peak. I’d be curious to know what you think Trump is working with that cements his very narrow House and Senate margins against a bunch of angry “Throw The Bums Out” voters (many within his own party).
2026 midterms will be the test run for the fixed elections in 2028.
Will fix what? At best it’s a patch until some other state actor rips it off.
And here we have it folks, the reason we are where we are right now
Because I recognize that presidential power has only ever expanded in the last 75 years and nothing has curtailed it? I didn’t say no temp fix will happen, but it’ll likely be similar to the effect Obama or Biden has had: still expanding presidential power, just at a slowed pace.
We are here because Democrats keep trying to be centrists instead of a left movement and that keeps power squarely in Republicans hands, not because I recognize what Democrats haven’t done.
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One of the top 5 anyway
Yep can’t have perfect so let’s have ninth circle of hell instead
ffs