US Politics, July 2024 - "Will you just drop out, man?"

Yeah. Especially good to have in place in the platform if the Democrats do win back the House. Even if Biden loses, they can pass a boatload of bills and make the Republicans block them.

Bernie working to move the Overton window is a great idea, so long as we have 2026 and 2028 elections.

There's a precedent, lol: Wilson in '16: after some pretty good capital-p-progressive legislation the administration stalled, then, when the race looked pretty close, Wilson pivoted to the left again months before the election, including the bullshit "he kept us out of war!" Biden's a hack who swings to wherever the party goes, so I'm relieved he's discovered his hackness.

(I'm a nerd)

Four days after that debate, the Supreme Court ruled that Trump was immune from prosecution for official acts during his first term in office. Less than an hour later, Biden called Laurence Tribe, a constitutional law professor at Harvard Law School, to discuss the ruling and the arguments for and against remaking the court.

“This decision today has continued the court’s attack in recent years on a wide range of long-established legal principles in our nation, from gutting voting rights and civil rights to taking away a woman’s right to choose, to today’s decision that undermines the rule of law of this nation,” Biden said in public remarks later that day.

The next week, Biden called Tribe again, and the two discussed a Guardian opinion piece he wrote endorsing reforms to the Supreme Court. Among the options they discussed: term limits, an enforceable ethics code and the constitutional amendment to address presidential immunity.

Tribe confirmed that he spoke with Biden but declined to comment on their discussion.

Just looked this up: In a Politico poll this spring, 70 percent of Americans surveyed rejected the idea of presidential immunity, and only 11 percent thought presidents should have immunity from criminal charges. Good policy, good politics, should hammer the heck out of it.

kind of tempted tbh

🇺🇸 First they jail him, now they try to end him
🇺🇸 Trump Assassination Attempt Trading Card
✅ Stand Strong & Show Your Support!

— Proud Patriots (@ProudPatriots1) July 14, 2024

"Hey Timmy! I'll trade you two Assassination Attempt cards for a First Impeachment."

"Not unless you throw in that mint condition Felony Conviction."

Don't know if this is true or not but there's a rumor circulating that dozens of bars in Milwaukee are hosting drag events every night this week, specifically so Republicans will have nowhere to drink at night after the convention.

Hoo boy I don't think they know Republicans very well.

Grab 'em by the 1/1 Access Hollywood Chromium chase card.

XP BTW, how's Milwaukee's Grindr 'convention spike' going?

There are way too many bars in Milwaukee for that to work

Like the rumor alone is ignorant of the political power of the Tavern League in this state, GTFO

also are these drag troupes thrown together for three days, kind of doubt there are surplus troupes riding the bench waiting for a big event or the starting crew to collectively pull a hammy

lol yeah you have no idea how many bars there are especially in that area

definitely a lot of chud-friendly spots for these folks to go though idk if they'll find them

Love the card graded by a company undoubtedly created just for this - card and comic grading is already a scam, creating the official MAGA option adds a beautiful layer.

all Steve Ditko comics sent in get a perfect 10

Justice: We become totally unhinged if Donald Trump is not elected in November. pic.twitter.com/7dTBhAkW0i

— Acyn (@Acyn) July 16, 2024

Wait for when the camera zooms out.

Tucker Carlson purportedly told Trump last month that if he picked Rubio and not Vance as VP he might get assassinated by the deep state, @jonathanvswan & @maggieNYT report pic.twitter.com/A1T72e4pFl

— Andrew Prokop (@awprokop) July 16, 2024

lol xyzzzz

"A great candidate... for me to poop on."

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Not gonna lie, I'm finding myself growing more and more anxious about this election and what will follow. Like obviously terrified of the implications of another Trump presidency, but increasingly terrified about the immediate aftermath of Biden winning. I sincerely think we're going to see multiple mass shootings in the first half of November, it's going to be a terrifying time to be an American, even more than usual.

We're as likely to see mass GOP lawsuits should Biden win.

“I sincerely think we're going to see multiple mass shootings in the first half of November”

wtf

dont we have multiple mass shootings every month

I mean, this is America, I think you could safely pick any month on the calendar and say that. It's not really a bold prediction in this gun obsessed country?

But, yes, if Biden wins, I think there will be a marked increased in political violence. I don't think this is a controversial take.

and if Trump wins?

Then just our "normal" amount of mass shootings during our slide into full-on fascism, which will see a different stripe of political violence. But it won't be the pure chaos of "totally unhinged" armed Trump supporters.

rolling "biden's gonna win in november" containment thread

Trump and his folks are absolutely convinced they're winning this election. For good reason. If it turns out they don't they will never accept it.

I mean, the MAGA crowd has been openly dog-whistling calls for violence for years now, should they lose, I don't know why it's controversial in the least to mention my anxiety around that.

I don't think people are saying it is controversial. They are saying shit is going to pop off/not pop off almost regardless.

lol ivy

The possibilities of political violence that worry me most aren't so much at the national level — always possible, but logistically harder to pull off — as at local levels across the country and especially in red states. Under either a Biden or Trump presidency, I can imagine ongoing targeted harassment of disfavored local politicians and groups (like, Pride centers in Southern cities, media outlets, mosques, immigrant rights groups), from broken windows all the way up to shootings and bombs. The successful anti-abortion terrorism campaign — which had already limited access many places even before Dobbs — is one recent template, but of course you can also look back to the KKK and others.

The number of right-wing gun nuts and "tactical" bros out there itching for a chance to hurt people is considerable. Even if they never get their "Day of the Rope," I'll be surprised if they don't make themselves more of a presence.

And as with the KKK in its heyday, those kinds of militia violence let the official realms of conservative power maintain plausible deniability — tut-tutting and probably even arresting and charging specific actors — while enforcing a broad social compliance via fear. Old tactic, obviously.

I mean, what exactly are they waiting for? why aren’t they starting shit now?

xp ah ok your last post does elucidate!

Yeah, I thought there would have been more already, post-Jan. 6. Maybe they need some kind of "permission" granted, either by Trump's election (enforcing the new order) or his defeat (the corrupt system must be torn down).

And maybe it'll never reach a boil, who knows. I just feel like you don't stockpile that many guns and engage in that much violent fever-dreaming without something popping off.

kinda lost to the sands of time but there used to be a lot more political violence in america not that long ago, saw some thing where in one year in chicago in the 70s like 12 cops were ambushed and shot there were highjackings all sorts of weird little bombings and so forth, i can understand why people think that were gonna be looking at a rise in political violence specifically from the right due to the very fash stuff going on, but worth noting it hasnt really happened yet despite all the saber rattling for the better part of a decade, kinda easy considering what a bad place this country is in politically to be like violence in the streets of course but not sure thats actually where were at for any number of reasons, robust police state people mostly being internet gangsters etc, the police themselves are more worth worrying about than civilians imo, and worth noting that even in situations where you do see a lot of political street violence the more pervasive harm is being done in various government buildings

^^^

We used to see more congressmen dying in duels or almost bludgeoned to death. Fun times!

when you put it that way it sounds p good

Sometimes Senators still get beat up by their neighbors

most Republican voters are cowards, the ones willing to get rowdy all gathered on 1/6 and it worked out poorly for all of them, I really don't think another thing like that is in the cards. maybe I'm wrong. 4 years is a lot of time I suppose.

Biden, unable to read the teleprompter, stops, squints, leans in, and mangles his own major policy he's rolling out - telling the crowd he's capping rent raises at no more than $55. It's actually 5%.pic.twitter.com/CdFzGN1oWb

— Branko Marcetic (@BMarchetich) July 17, 2024

bernie really has biden in a vise

*AOC pantomiming throat-slitting, holding up 5 fingers twice in succession*

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We used to see more congressmen dying in duels or almost bludgeoned to death

in the streets