The democratic process hasn’t been the same since 2020 — and if a rising, anti-democratic movement in America gets its way, we may never go back. But in the wake of unprecedented attacks on those who administer our elections, state lawmakers have scrambled to put in place new laws ahead of the midterms that would provide them with more protection.
Being in PA, I would have like to see that they were among the states…Sadly NO.
The midterms need to be an absolute beatdown.
TFG’s legacy continues. We will be unwinding and defusing his shitbombs for decades.
Can’t expect too much from our state legislature, I’m afraid. Maybe the governor can do something.
To get out this mess the US needs to have Dem majorities in both houses and a Dem President for several generations.
Agreed… It was just a dream…
The bummer is even if we get Shapiro, Fetterman, and in my case Wild, we will still have those toxic PA Republicans holding PA hostage.
I fully expect Masterbateriano and The OZHOLE to use every dirty trick in the Roger Stone playbook to overturn the election and with lots of Federalist Society stooges on the Federal benches allowing them to try any trick to keep Shapiro and Fetterman from taking office.
Well, I was in a strongly gerrymandered congressional district and now I’m not, so maybe someday we can get the state legislature to reflect the state it’s in.
Welcome to Cheeto Mussolini’s Amerika.
Sadly, my district (7) was gerrymandered to make it MORE Republican… but Wild still has a small lead in the polls I’ve seen.
There have been pivotal times in this country…everyone knows this. I would put Roevember 2022 in the top tier.
Now here is the rub…how can we convince those who are not Republican just how important this is? Would it be some narrative? Would it be a slogan? Would it be Outreach? Increased Registration to vote? Scare tactics?
What works for me is imagining
If we do not vote in as large amounts of people as possible in Roevember
This is what fascism looks like: the threat of violence against bureaucrats and the people who work in the adminstration of democratic institutions. As much as we may hate to admit it, we now have to just come out and say that the Republican Party is not becoming fascist party, it now is a fascist party. Its leader is fascist and most of the top leadership of the GOP establishment espouses fascist views. Strangely enough, the one GOP leader who doesn’t seem to be fascist is Mitch McConnell. He wants to work at the boundaries of the system to push retroactive policies without destroying the democratic infrastructure of the U.S.
The major GOP pols who are not aggressive fascists, such as Susan Collins and Mitt Romney, seem to be in witness protection programs. They could block or even reverse many of the GOP’s anti-democratic actions, but they remain silent. They may not like the fascist stances, but will probably gratefully accept chairmanships if the GOP takes power. In some ways, that makes them worse than Mr. Trump.
I like President Biden’s focus on ‘anti-democratic behavior’. As the MSM loves to point out, openly labeling MAGA supporters as ‘fascist’, ‘racist’, etc. probably doesn’t do any good. It is also a fact that a sizeable proportion of these proto-fascists did vote for BO, and perhaps President Biden as well. However, we have to remain clear about what we are dealing with. Make the stakes clear, as President Biden has done, focus on rallying the Dem base, and try to pull away that tiny sliver of persuadable MAGA supporters.
For your amusement…
She reported that when Charles visited the British embassy in Spain in 2004, he burst in with gift-wrapped products, announcing, "I’m a self-made millionaire, you know!"
Just as with Brexit and Boris Johnson’s Leave Strategy, Team MAGA has pushed to activate the super-low-information voter. After the June 2016 Brexit vote, British people were googling “What is the EU?” It is unclear who benefitted from Brexit as it has put the UK economy in the dumps and degraded the economy (to be solved by Trussonomics. Similarly, with abortion off the table as a motivator for low-information voters, all that’s left is the “We’re being invaded, and they’re gonna take your job, rape your daughter and mooch off the welfare system,” i.e. basic primate sense of unfairness. I’m pretty sure why this has become the top issue pushed by the GOP in this cycle. Most Americans have immigrant roots, and each group has turned on the next group coming in behind them. So with the low-low-information voter (usually a non-voter) the issue has to be super simple, super scary, and all nuance on the subject is the Voice of the Devil. Michele Obama was wrong, it’s not “when they go low,” because today they always go low as that’s the last pool of voters, the marginal. Dems also need to get down there with these people and accept their information-seeking disabilities. These poor people get stuck in chum boxes, go down conspiracy rabbit holes, and can quickly lose any sense of proportionality. Bernie Sanders, for example, liked to point out that private insurers can spend up to 20% of their costs on administration, when Medicare administration is just over 2%, yet a wide swath of the population remains convinced that cutting administration costs will save vast sums (and it’s an argument that works anywhere, not just the US). Simple words, clear message, self-interest.
Undoubtedly there will be challenges to all elections in my life time. And the Big Lie from the 2020 election will
continue for many more years.
Guns for everybody!
Mattinpa for state legislature!
They tried to flip PA’s and a few other states’ 2020 results in the courts, and lost 60 of 61 cases, the sole victory being a ruling that an election observer was permitted to approach up to six feet from someone counting ballots.
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$3Million retainer? Knowing the grifter in chiefs usual MO, wouldn’t anyone with half a brain take money upfront?
Amid chaos on his legal team, Donald Trump hired an attorney with a solid reputation—but he had to pay through the nose for it. The New York Times reports that Christopher M. Kise, the former solicitor general of Florida, got an “unusually high” retainer of $3 million to defend the ex-president. That came after other former federal prosecutors rejected offers from Trump to come aboard. Two of Trump’s other lawyers, Evan Corcoran and Christina Bobb, could end up being targets of a criminal inquiry over their declaration that Trump had turned over all sensitive documents—before the FBI found dozens of them at Mar-a-Lago, the Times reported.