My fear is that, in the event that we get a fair 2028 election, Gavin Newsom will be pioneered as the golden child, as Joe Biden was in 2020 – drowning out the actual Leftist voices. Then those progressives are pressured to drop out because this election is sooo important. Cue a Newsom presidency where we get 4 years of macro-economic recovery while the common folk suffer, and then the cycle repeats.
I agree with you. He’s 100% rallying up a presidential bid, and what worries me most is I see other liberals idolizing him, reposting his tweets at Trump, praising him as able to destroy Trump… Who knows if we’ll even have an election, but Newsom’s sure poising himself to waltz right in.
People need to stop posting Newsom tweets, and instead post content like this that frames Newsom as the corporate shill he is. Newsom is crushing homeless encampments, Newsom created the “CARE” courts that stripped autonomy from the mentally ill, Newsom is attacking transgender youth; and Newsom is going to continue doing all of this, harder, to poise himself as a “middle ground” between rational people and fascists – instead of upholding his responsibility to protect California residents.
I recall that happening, but I would note that the division in the Republican Party was between MAGA and the “Tea Party” fiscal conservatives, the latter of which have all been branded “Republican In Name Only” and cast out. This division was also why the MAGA plan to refuse to certify the Electoral Vote on Jan 6th, 2021 failed. I’m not talking about the insurrection – there was a genuine argument being made to try to overturn the electoral votes of several key states that voted for Biden, with passionate arguments made for and against completely rigging the election in Trump’s favor.
That speaker debacle was during Biden’s term, after the ousting of Kevin McCarthy specifically because Kevin McCarthy was one of those fiscal conservatives. The Republicans did eventually elect Mike Johnson, and I don’t see him getting kicked out any time soon.
We can not cling to this vision that the Republican Party will collapse in on itself. It’s a nice thought, but us waiting around is exactly what our rulers want. There are US Military soldiers and secret police agents on our streets right now – Today – trafficking people right now. Every day that we continue to play this routine, participating in the corporations and institutions that engineered and empowered this crisis, the USA and the corporations and the Christian Nationalists all get what they want.
A General Strike could put some strain between the corporations and the politicians, but that’s a movement that each of us must partake in. Right now, big business including Silicon Valley, as well as the Christian Nationalists, are quite content with the status-quo.
I really doubt Congress is going to start forming factions. Republicans are all in it for the grift, except for a handful of looneys that really believe what they say (and, to their credit, are working on the Epstein files). Most Republican Congressmen do not care about their representees, definitely not enough to stick their own necks out. Two Republicans dissented on the “Big Beautiful Bill” purely based on spending concerns, which is the entire Tea Party Republican viewpoint. Two.
Your scenario also assumes that support of Congress is needed. The White House already has their Gestapo, ICE, as well as the actual US Military. They’ve broken Supreme Court orders, some of them unanimous 9-0 decisions.
I do believe the White House will continue to play along with Congress for as long as Congress obeys, them – just to preserve the veil of normalcy. Should Congress actually attempt to impede the regime, they’ll be ignored, or if deemed preferable, taken out.
We’ve seen the military attack citizens, seen ICE arrest members of Congress, and we’ve seen MAGA hold state legislators hostage. The same country that tormented innocent civilians in nations like Iraq, has turned its guns on its own. To assume that any legal action can stop the regime is to utterly ignore reality. There was nothing legal about George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq or Afghanistan. The US Military does not follow the law, it follows orders. The Constitution has been shredded in every sense but literal. The only way one can believe we have any protection is to presume that “it would never happen here”… in the face of “it” happening here.
I totally agree with all of this about Trump’s voters, and at this point I’m 100% sure that if you beamed us back into the 2024 Election, Kamala Harris would win by a landslide.
BUT I think the White House itself is rather unified. Sure, the Republicans may never have the support of the majority of the USA, but they don’t need to win another election. All the Republicans need is control of the military, which they can stuff full of young, hateful men who have been groomed into rage and thoughtlessly following orders… which is already underway.
JD Vance, Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, Kash Patel, Peter Thiel – they’re all united in their Christo-fascist beliefs. Hell, if Trump had mental capacity to do more than sign the documents placed in front of him, he would probably be the biggest wrench with their plans. In his first term, Donald Trump openly countered Mike Pence’s statements on key Republican issues like gun rights. In this administration, Elon Musk was the most “out there” from the rest in being a libertarian 4chan incel manchild, but he’s now entirely out of the scene.
The MAGA voter base may never be as supportive of the regime as they were in 2024, but that’s not going to matter unless that fractured voting base pulls off an effective insurrection.
Just looked it up. I now see the guards were told to abuse the prisoners. Thank you for informing me. I was unaware.
It’s the same people throughout. The post is about the USA.
I was a shut-in before the 2024 Election. I figured social spaces there were somewhat immature because the mature people would have jobs and real life involvement. Then I started going outside, and I lost all hope. I’m too stupid for people to be this dumb. (Though I’ll admit, social media, algorithmic content, and the AI products probably made people dumber.)
Stanford Prison Experiment. Slavery. Lynch mobs. Segregationists. Anti-Feminists. Prison-Industrial Complex. The majority of the country voting for the leader passing out signs that said “MASS DEPORTATIONS”. Maybe there’s some inherent cruelty to the mainland USA. Maybe there’s still too much lead particles in the air. As someone who has never left the mainland, I’ve seen overwhelming evidence to the “non-empathetic” side. Or, perhaps, the majority of people are passive, and cruelty is most capable of spurring people to action.
what’s that? Nintendo’s supporting the Department of Homeland Security? I’m enraged. These woke devs putting politics in our games! I’m never buying another Nintendo product again! (If enough of us say it, maybe we can pressure Nintendo to sue?)
I’m genuinely unsure whether having Vance or Trump as president would be worse. I’m not sure whether Trump’s incompetency is saving or dooming us more.
Benny Johnson is a serious prolific MAGA influencer that has been invited out by the administration to cover Alligator Auschwitz in Florida. Benny’s podcast was also why Jimmy Kimmel’s show got suspended - a member of this Republican administration made a veiled threat about Kimmel on Benny’s podcast and that is why Disney took the show down.