Trump has said that the United States shouldn’t have midterm elections this year because midterm voters often vote against the president’s party. Democratic congressional leaders have said they expect Trump to disrupt and dispute the midterms.
“It’s some deep psychological thing, but when you win the presidency, you don’t win the midterms,” Trump told Reuters in a recent interview. He then boasted that his presidency had accomplished so much that “when you think about it, we shouldn’t even have an election.”
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) told the Associated Press that Democrats are concerned that Trump will try to prevent open and fair midterm elections.
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Trump says a lot of stupid shit.
Trump says a lot of stupid shit.
You misspelled “is”.
Do it Trump … that would make Trump an active threat to the Consitution.
He has been for 5 years I don’t think he’s going to stop and nobody seems to be wanting to actually stop them One guy came close by 2 cm if you want to believe it wasn’t staged
And still nothing will happen. If the shit he’s already doing isn’t considered an active threat I’m not sure what else could. Maybe this would garner more attention from the general public, who knows. If it did that would be good but we are quickly approaching too little tol late.
Some people escaped dictatorships… only to end up here… 🫠
Do it pussy
I’m sure trump is going to call for the mid-terms elections to be cancelled. We’ll still have them, but it will give cover for gerrymandered red-states to reduce their efforts to make voting available and visible to their citizen.
If the elections go south for Republicans, I fully expect Mike Johnson to play games with allowing Democrats to be sworn in and seated in Congress. We really need to be preparing for both of these scenarios.
He will declare that Dems cheated everywhere they win, and if the House tries anything, he will declare they are traitors and declare state of emergency claiming absolute power (or whatever other made up shit).
Time to count who sides with whom in the military…
it will give cover for gerrymandered red-states to reduce their efforts to make voting available and visible to their citizen.
I think you’re absolutely right, as it draws near we will get a steadily increasing narrative how elections are rigged, there’s massive corruption in voting systems (the paper is chinese!) and many other distracting nonsense claims.
But what they have overreached on over and over again is they are broadly very stupid people, and they can’t grasp the scale of this country and the people. I’m sure there will be election shenanigans but I doubt it will be enough to turn the tide. If they try to cancel any elections outright, while people are this tense and ready to riot, there will be widescale violence. Which the administration may want, but no town mayors or state governors want. The states still hold the cards here.
“Trump has said that the United States shouldn’t have midterm elections this year because midterm voters often vote against the president’s party.”
Yeah, that’s why it’s called VOTING.
but 90 million didn’t vote at all.
Trump says anything he thinks will keep him on top.
Wow it’s almost as though midterms represent some kind of check and balance. Trump and the republicans stand a good chance of being wiped out.
Hey “we just gotta vote harder” Americans, what you gonna do when they take voting away?
Americans, what you gonna do when they take voting away?
nothing. Fox will tell them elections are not needed.
I am probably part of the 0.001% of people who actually had interest in and read exit polling from 2024, because it contains data that makes a lot of people very uncomfortable, particularly on the left who have blamed repeated losses on voter turnout.
The problem is not turnout, the problem in American democracy is the subversion of the broadest swath of people, the tuned-out, overworked, misinformed liberal majority in America.
The last several federal elections have had the highest voter turnout in American history.
What they didn’t have though was people who had any involvement in the issues or understanding how the political system works, and apparently no attention spans at all. Many millions of the people who voted for Trump were people who voted for Obama or supported Bernie Sanders, and that should spark a massive conversation about leftist/democrat messaging, but is largely glossed over. And a massive swath of the voting was literally hinged on the price of eggs at the time, and the well-known effect of voters making their decisions based on current economics and the party currently in power.
A lot of this came from forces foreign and domestic doing everything they can to salt the discourse, poison all the wells and boost all the weirdest, worst nonsense on both sides so that average people who only get their news and information from two hours of facebook or twitter scrolling every week had no idea what was going on.
So yes, “just vote harder” didn’t and won’t work going forward. Our chance at turning this around though is that people right now are a LOT more unhappy with our politics than they were in 2024, everyone in 2024 were far more comfortable and didn’t actually believe the stories about Trump being a fascist dictator, and tuned out his previous administration because attention spans broadly are melted. Right now if elections were held, or canceled, Trump will get wiped out one way or another.
The GOP’s only hope of retaining power is literally a fascist takeover, they know it, they’re just too dumb broadly to pull it off so I have a good feeling midterms are going to be a violent spank in the ass, and Trump will likely not finish his term. This country has actually survived many similar periods. If enough people can get their brains disengaged from the slop then we have a chance.
Protest peacefully and grumble while more rights are stripped. I have zero faith in Americans anymore. They wont do what needs to be done.
No, they wont. And the rest of the world suffers for it. The American way.
how long does it take you to get to your country’s capitol city? I can’t find an exact number for the US but I estimate less than 25% of Americans live within a one day drive to our capitol. meaning it is a significant investment for most of the country, one that the median household can’t afford.
And DC is designed to quell demonstrations, protests, and absolutely riots. It’s one of the few planned cities in America, and they’ve thought every avenue through in terms of barriers and crowd control. The National Guard has plans upon plans.
The most serious threat to power in this country would be the types of activities that GOT us this country, and they’ve long known that.
I don’t want to discourage anyone but they’d have little problem turning machine guns on us all, and what would happen? The rest of America would see it on the news and social media, and go “oh God,” and then cook dinner and go to work the next day, in shock no doubt, but… well we have had national shocks before and life kept going.
I don’t see a way through unless the military itself were to reject the authority at the top and turn on them.
Yeah, American citizens storming and taking control of government buildings is impossible!
Oh wait, no it fucking isn’t, and we absolutely know this because MAGA fucking did it. The number of people who are ANTI Trump, if the polls are to be believed, are TWICE AS MANY as pro Trump. So why do you people keep claiming that doing nothing is the only fucking option? Are you a psy op? Are you secretly pro Trump and trying to crush dissent? What is your game here exactly? Because I simply refuse to believe that someone can be this obtuse.
Huh it’s almost like the President and therefore the military he’s in charge of were supporting that instead of trying to shut it down.
Not everyone who has a different opinion is trying to run a psychological endgame, or is obtuse.
Any excuse to absolve yourselves from inaction.
Walk me through your plan to depose the American government in less than a year. Don’t forget that if you fail or are caught planning they don’t just kill you, they kill you by injecting you with poison that feels like being set on fire from the inside while you suffocate, take everything you or your family possess leaving your survivors homeless and destitute, shoot your dog and probably a couple of family members too.
Like, if you’ve lost all faith we’ll “do what needs to be done”… What needs to be done?
You don’t need to storm the capitol, just sit on your asses for a week. Nation wide strike will get gears moving pretty fast as production, transport, maintenance and everything shuts down. Get your community together, share food, have strong social bond with strikers so that those in need get help and so on.
One saturday afternoon doesn’t cut it, but it doesn’t take that long either until it starts to really affect everything in society, mainly company profits which seems to be the driving force for anything political around there. It’s not going to be easy, it’d been far easier to go an vote against for current situation, but that train is long gone and it’s not going to get any easier in the future.
This.
Join or form mutual aid networks in your local community, share what resources are required to keep on sustainable living while striking, be it food, transport, medicine, housing. Start with your neighbours, or if not viable (due to different opinions on direct action etc.) seek up groups of your peers.
Grind the country to a halt. To you who claim there are no options available: this is an action most people can take if you are willing to give up on luxuries for an uknown period of time - and share what resources you have to help those that are unable to otherwise.
The alternative? An increasing fascist dictatorship state that your kids will have to grow up in, not “the land of the free” you so proudly keep on repeating.
Stay free.
Revolution. You people dicked around so long that it’s now more dangerous. But it’s probably your only way out. You don’t get sympathy points from me for waiting too long. Do something or face criticism from the rest of the world. Simple as that.
Write a strongly worded letter.
Did America vote against the president in the last midterms? I seem to remember MAGA wanted a red wave and got sweet fuck all.
Republicans WON the house. That is not a victory for democrats, losing by less, in the house at that, majority rule.
Democrats never win the house or senate, the republicans lose it as people mostly vote against them not for democrats. Until you fix that, all energy in politics is ultimately futile. New Deal or republican rule.
And it might be too late already, because you all trusted the establishment to know what they are doing. Still believing their reason for being is winning elections, when it is preventing popular reform.
Yesterday he joked about it. Today he says it. Tomorrow he does it.
He wasn’t joking.
I really don’t give a fuck what this asshole wants.
His very existence in that office is illegal and immoral.
The US shouldn’t have a convicted felon in the oval, but here we are.
Well, more than half of america voted for this, or allowed it to happen, so…
You are wrong. ~23% of Americans voted for Trump. The problem is that a shit ton of people sat out.
You just repeated what they said.
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If they didn’t want it they would have voted.
Correct. Did i misspell ‘or allowed it to happen’?
Those people can either be classified as “don’t exist” because they actively wiped out their own influence, or “as bad as the Republicans”, because they were comfortable allowing it to happen, but they certainly CAN’T be classified as “magic absolution of the American public as a whole for this series of events.”
You knew they would not vote for only I am not the other guy, yet you jamned a status quo politician and platform down their throats. Not being popular, trying not to be popular. NOT offering any real reform, not calling out interests cheating us and promising to fix things.
You knew that was not enough, and or america did not know what republicans are, yet you shouted down calls for a new deal, deferred to ivy league party leaders.
So the fault lies with you, first and foremost, I bring it up because those same tools of donors still control the opposition, for perhaps our last chance to take the country back, in 2028, in the succession fight, before elections are fixed beyond recovery. And it already will be fixed your establishment types cannot take it back, and if they did would do nothing and hand it right back.
True, true… But you also can’t classify them as voting for trump.
Maybe it the comment should say said, “more than half of America didn’t vote against this”.
I don’t understand. Do you people not understand the words “or” and “allow”? Like, what the fuck.
I hate defending non-voters, but a large number of people are unable to vote or aren’t well informed enough to know what’s going on. In the former camp, there are lots of people who can’t get to the polls because voting day isn’t a holiday or because there aren’t enough polling locations in their area, or because they are sick, etc. etc. Most of the time politicians actively work to make it harder to vote.
Of course you can feel however you’d like about the latter camp, but being uninformed is also being encouraged. People are often undereducated. Some people just don’t consume news. I’d be willing to bet there are some people who didn’t know an election was going on and some who couldn’t name the president.
Fuck off. That’s not a fucking excuse at this point. A third of the population allowed this to happen. The end.
This is the exact sort of response I expected.
My point here is that there is a lot of class struggle that actively works to prevent individuals from voting. Putting the blame just on those people misses the mark and will not fix things.
Take one example. Some people get to make a choice. Take time off of work, stand in line for literal hours, and try to vote or feed their family today. Is the solution to blame the individual or to address how fucked up the system is that prevents them from voting?
Yes, there are idiots who could have voted, but didn’t. They deserve derision. But, if we don’t identify that voter suppression is real, if we place the responsibility on people entirely, we play directly into the hands of those who don’t want people voting.
No American voted to have their elections dismantled
YES THEY DID. THAT IS WHAT THE GODDAMN WORD “VOTE” MEANS. JESUS FUCKING CHRIST.
He even said he would do this during the campaign. They absolutely voted for this and they deserve what they get.
Everyone single fuckhead looser that voted red voted for this. For fucks sake Trump even said at a rally for “Christian” votes if they would vote for him this time it would be the last time they had to vote.
BS. Anyone that voted for Trump in 2024 voted to have our elections dismantled. He was open about his intentions.
“Get out and vote! Just this time. You won’t have to do it anymore! Four more years, you know what? It’ll be fixed, it’ll be fine, you won’t have to vote anymore.” - Donald Trump, July 26th, 2024
Tbf, his opponent happened to have a weird laugh!
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And lacked a penis how could she run the country. Their vwey emotional.
And she reservedly supported some bad policies that Trump supported whole-heartedly! They had to let Trump win to send a message!
No one who let this happen can say they didn’t have the choice to at least know about it and dismiss it
Well, its in the history books now: more than half of them thought otherwise. I suppose you’re right in that apparently the other group dont love their country enough to get off their privileged asses to exercise their right to vote and therefore can’t be considered ‘american’ enuff for you. Oh well.
Yes, but voting for the other candidate wouldn’t have instantly solved all problems now and forever, so you might as well just let the blatant fascist win.
Shouldn’t have a felonious, rapist, racist, seditious, stochastic terrorist pedophile as president either, but here we are.
