Comment on Americans have 400 days to save their democracy

Adderbox76@lemmy.ca ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If midterms happen it will have to have people in the streets prior. We really need the various military/police to step up by standing down.

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• Runaway@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  There will be midterms, there just won’t be fair or accurate results.

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  • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    …If Republicans are overseeing them.

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• CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  There’s no benefit in ceding ground preemptively. I don’t suspect he’ll actually cancel the election so much as make it even less fair that usual to avoid the risk of losing, but either way, convincing everyone that this is what he will do, before he does it, just means that when it happens people won’t get as mad about it because it’ll be “old news” in their heads anyway.

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  • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There's no benefit in ceding ground preemptively.

    There is: If you know there will be no fair elections, you know you need to find another way of resisting fascism. It seems many are banking on a blue wave to come and save the day in the midterms, so the knowledge that this won't and can't happen is important.

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    • Triasha@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Blue wave in the midterms is just one sandbag in the wall that would need to be built to stop the flood of fascism.

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      • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Blue wave is a possible (and frankly, terrible) day-after plan. There will be no midterms in any real sense of the word unless fascism is stopped.

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    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      And giving up is way easier, too. Don’t forget that. I know I’m exhausted just watching from afar.

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    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      it will probablay a blue wave, but it will be so weakened by all the cuts, tariffs, that the dems will just take the blame for trumps damage , and then it will be right back where we started. plus the BBB will soon be in effect.

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• Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  he already installed a election denier to head the elections infrastructure nationwide.

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  • lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Hold the fuck up. Am I getting this right?

    You have to register to be able to vote. If you register, you might have to work in court, losing out on pay. You don’t get any compensation for that. The lost pay can ruin you financially.

    What the fuck?

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    • Triasha@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You get paid about 3.50 and hour in my state.

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      • lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        As in, 28 per day of work missed? Or even less than that

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  • the_crotch@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Depends on the state. In CT you can get called for jury duty of you have a driver’s license, no voter registration required

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• NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Trump has done this much in only 9 months, and he still has another 9 to find a way to never have elections again.

  Small correction: He still has 14 months before the elections themselves, and another two and a half months before those elected take office, to figure it out. In other words, he's still got ~65% of his pre-Midterms term to destroy democracy.

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• Horsecook@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  There’s really no reason to not have midterms. Even if there is a blue tsunami, and Congress impeaches Trump, that just empowers him further. It would finally precipitate the Constitutional crisis that solidifies his dictatorship. The Executive is the enforcement arm of the government, and it’s already been purged and filled with cultists. They will not remove him, they will not stop following his orders.

  Cancelling the midterms would surely cause a Constitutional crisis, earlier, and there’s no reason to be hasty. The longer that event can be put off, the less likely people will resist violently.

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• Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  He implied this’ll be his last term at the state visit to the UK

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• Montagge@lemmy.zip ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The Americans did not get their heads out of their asses

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