jhymesba

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"I'm trying to figure out what leverage we actually have," House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., said at a press briefing this month. "What leverage do we have? Republicans have repeatedly lectured America — they control the House, the Senate and the presidency. It's their government."

I'm going to go a bit out on a limb here and say that you should be out there, constantly emphasising that 'it's their government', day in, and day out, on every news channel that will have you, including left-wing stalwarts like TYT and more centrist rags like MSNBC, and pair that with "this is what you voted for when you voted third party or stayed home, to say nothing of directly voting for this mess," and "Vote Democrat between now and 2026 and we'll hold this administration accountable, " and "We will use every tool in our toolbox to slow this down, including every parliamentary trick we can find to gum up the works in both the House and Senate, as well as the simplest act of voting NO on everything that comes out of this administration. The GQP has enough votes to do this on their own, so we're not helping them, one bit. We don't help people that think of us as baby-eating, baby-fucking Satan worshippers, and we especially don't help the dismantling of the US system of government!"

But that's just me. And yes, I'd totally be calling them the 'GQP' and calling out their bullshit opinions of people on my side of the political aisle. Enough going high. It's time to call them out for what they are. Idiots with a hefty dose of asshattery on the side.

[–] jhymesba@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

You might be right, but my question here is: Has it really had time to sink in yet? They got their student aid in January when Biden was still in office. Some of them may have lost jobs, but for the most part, there hasn't been enough time yet for the leopards to come around for their faces. And Newsweek HAS posted overly optimistic articles saying the Dems have this in the bag. Granted, we won't know the actual outcome until 2 years from now, but I am thinking the shitheads will just blame Dems, DEI, or whatever other BS to avoid realising that it's their own leopard eating their face.

[–] jhymesba@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Honestly, I think the author did the most important task of all -- exposing this to daylight. Let's face it. For at least the next 2 years, and probably for the next 4, and maybe even beyond, this is what the government is going to do. Unless and until we can replace Republicans with Democrats and take back control of the country, this is what we're getting. This is what 77mln people voted for. This is what 90+mln people voted for by not voting. And 2mln people voted third party, which was also a vote for this indirectly. And Trump does have the right to implement the agenda he was elected on, of course, within the guidelines of the laws.

I suspect there's illegality here. But it has to be proven. This is a good way to prove it -- leak all orders, especially the ones that smell of illegality. Then trust Democratic AGs to bring court cases and hope that the worst of it gets tied up in legal limbo until we can finally flush the Republicans. By reporting this bullshit, this worker has enabled that to happen. We'll see what comes from it.

[–] jhymesba@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago (11 children)

The problem is you get the NDP/Liberal vs. Conservative effect when you do this. If you have 30% of the population vote for your Leftie, and 30% vote for the other Leftie, in a given congressional district, the Republican can win with 31%, despite 60% voting against the Republican. We need RCV before we can do this, and people need to understand that they MUST put the other party as choice 2 or we are back to ending up with a Republican.

[–] jhymesba@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You want to bury the image of Trump being a Nazi shithead? Why for would you ever wanna do that? Your above stated answer rings hollow because you can just RTFA.

[–] jhymesba@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Let me put it to you this way.

If we really cared about people in the country illegally, we'd aim for having people who hire these people under the table, also illegally, sanctioned. If you were honestly wanting to see less illegal immigration, you'd be deterring them from ever coming in by drying up the supply of under-the-table, low-paying jobs that attract them here. Maybe by advocating for a 10 x median annual salary for every undocumented worker found on your staff, enforced strongly?

If you can't find it in your soul to do that, then all you're here for is smashing disadvantaged people in the face.

[–] jhymesba@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Fair point. I did misread 'one on one' to mean Democrat vs Republican with 'stepping back' to mean viewing Third Parties.

I totally agree with your reasoning, as it was my reasoning. The guy is old, not a debate. He's a gaffe machine, too. Some people pushed the meme he was losing a step, but while I saw him as old, I didn't see him as washed up or senile. The guy just doesn't know how to NOT put his foot in his mouth (I share a lot in common with him on that regard!!!), and there were an awful lot of bad-faith actors saying that he wasn't just old, but senile as well. They're still around, saying he's too old and senile to run the show now, and he should resign.

I think how Harris is being treated by various people on and offline should be a key indicator that Biden's resignation wasn't the end of the bullshit factories. They each have their own desires for their choice of President, and they can't even agree with each other who that choice is. Some will scream for Sanders. Others will scream for Stein. Some particularly pigeon-holed ones will argue for Fruit, despite her being mathematically eliminated from 270 before the first vote is cast. And lets get real. There are all to many of them who will tell you "IMMA FOR JILL" or some other tiny Third Party candidate while actually wanting Trump. Some think that a Trump presidency will lead them to the Progressive Promised Land. Others...are here to ensure we're so busy infighting that we can't put a unified resistance up, so they can get the Handmaiden's Tale they desparately want.

If Biden gave up because America is dumb, I don't blame him. In 2016, I tried hard to get out and get to Canada or New Zealand. But now Canada and New Zealand are overrun or about to be overrun by dumb people too. :|

[–] jhymesba@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

This poster thinks I didn't know. But how can it know that. I just pointed out that there were literally hundreds of articles, then correctly cited the date. It's not making the point it thinks it's making. The media covered both idiots that took the pot shots at the Trumpster Fire. To the tune of hundreds of articles.

[–] jhymesba@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

Folks, win or lose, the aftermath of election day will be a shitshow. I've written up a guide for how to survive Election Day 2024. The TL;DR: form is prepare for a hurricane or blizzard, with a nod to crazy people by preparing for self-defence, then be ready to hunker down. Election 2024 promises to be crazy, given how 2020 went down. Please look after yourselves!

[–] jhymesba@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago (5 children)

You think you have a big gotcha here, but it was covered extensively when it happened. The google (or Bing in this case)(you don't want us to do returns over 10 pages of results, including articles from:

  • NBC News (top result)
  • US News
  • AP News
  • Wikipedia
  • CNN
  • NY Times
  • LA Times (literally, coast to coast here)
  • NPR
  • Reuters
  • Fox News (of course...)
  • Politico

Some of these sources wrote more than one article, with at least three by CNN and two by NPR.

You might think none of us know that Trump came close to assassination on 2024-09-15, but did you know that Trump didn't tell his secret service detail he was going to the golf course, so they didn't do a perimeter sweep before he got out there? They only found the shooter because Trump was finishing up one hole and they rushed to the next and spotted the would-be assassin.

[–] jhymesba@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Well, Trump has already killed millions of people with his stupidity. What's a few more?

 

The “Uncommitted” movement seeking a change in the Democratic Party’s approach to the war in Gaza on Thursday announced it is not ready to support Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris — while urging voters not to back Republican nominee Donald Trump or third-party candidates who could help Trump win the November election.

The “Uncommitted” group “opposes a Donald Trump presidency, whose agenda includes plans to accelerate the killing in Gaza while intensifying the suppression of anti-war organizing,” the statement continues. Additionally, the group is “not recommending a third-party vote in the Presidential election, especially as third party votes in key swing states could help inadvertently deliver a Trump presidency given our country’s broken electoral college system.”

 

This time around, the US has seized a network of Russian-run internet domains, and sanctioned ten people including Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of RT (formerly Russia Today), for “activities that aim to deteriorate public trust in our institutions”. Sanctions include freezing any property or assets in the US, and potentially restrictions on any US citizen or company that works with them.

Here are five key features of Russian information manipulation we identified, and which can help understand the latest election-meddling scandal.

  1. Using local influencers
  1. Fake news outlets
  1. Adding fuel to the fire
  1. Flipping the script
  1. Humour
 

Americans are deeply frustrated with politics. They see the country heading in the wrong direction. They are regularly forced to choose between two candidates they don’t particularly like. Between 40 and 50 percent of the country identifies not as Democrat or Republican but as independent.

Here is what it takes to get on the ballot in Pennsylvania. Read through that, noting the difference between candidates for “political parties” and “minor political parties.” Imagine you are thinking about putting forth a challenge to an incumbent state officeholder but don’t want to run as a Democrat or a Republican. What are the odds that you get tripped up by the rules?

The problem, of course, is that Americans have strong views about specific things on which they are often not going to be willing to compromise. The Forward essay criticizes the far left for wanting to get rid of guns and the far right for wanting to get rid of gun laws. But that’s not where the parties are, because the parties are responsive to the coalitions they’ve built. If you simply take some independents and sit them down — much less partisans! — you’re going to very quickly find a lot of important issues on which there is not a reachable consensus. Then what?

 

While rebutting another post here on Lemmy, I ran into this. This says exactly what I want to say.

I am not a friend of Biden's Administration. I think they drug their feet over a variety of things ranging from holding Trump and his goons accountable for January 6th through rulemaking on issues like OTC Birth Control and abortion rights, and yes, I think he's too quick to please big business. But then I remember what the alternative is, and ... well, disappointed in Biden or not, I'm voting for him. Because my wife is a Black bisexual goth woman, four strikes under Team Pepe's tent. And I have my own strikes for marrying her as a White dude, and respecting her right to not have kids since she doesn't want them is another strike against me. And I care about my Non-Christian, Gay, Transgender, and Minority friends, and will never willingly subject them to Team Pepe.

 

Saw this today, and ... well, I'm not going to be so forgiving to people suggesting to vote Third Party rather than vote for Biden. If Trump wants me to do something, and you want me to do that same something, that tells me you're aligned with Trump.

 

So, my thought here is that I really feel like this should be leading the effort to get Joe Biden returned to office in 2025. This shit really does scare me -- how efficiently the GOP has planned to do this shit, and how abjectly bad the Democrats are at bringing this up. Maybe it's because I'm not a political campaign runner and there's something I'm missing, but man, it feels like this would be IMPORTANT to get in front of the voters? What are your guyses' thoughts on this topic?

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