#election2024

hankg@friendica.myportal.social

When people say both parties are the same...call their bullshit. One party keeps removing these protections at state and local levels: the GOP. One party keeps making them happen again: The Democratic Party. If the repeal of Roe v. Wade and viciousness of how GOP is using it to go after women's health isn't a wake up call I don't know what will. Remember to get out and vote and vote remember that. #uspoli #Election2024 https://news.yahoo.com/biden-administration-protect-gay-transgender-130028711.html

janet_logan@diasp.org

SOLIDARITY NOW — Victory Starts With the Left Working Together

“Joe Biden is the hope we have against becoming a fascist dictatorship. Everything will be used against him by the Russians. No need to give them more leverage by engaging in Biden bashing. A little strategy please from the left to defeat the very real fascist threat would be good.”

#BidenHarris2024 #DefeatFascism #election2024 #DemocraticParty #infighting

hankg@friendica.myportal.social

I've been a single issue voter since 2004 on the courts. The undoing of a GOP gerrymander so bad they even had supermajority in one house of the legislature even though the Democrats won the majority of the votes shows the power of that. If more people voted like that for POTUS in recent years we would still have Roe. We would still be able to enact gun control laws like we had until the early-2000s. We would not have resurgence of systemic disenfranchisement of minority voters throughout the country. We would not have had the Wisconsin gerrymander or comparable ones in states like North Carolina long ago. My entire life SCOTUS has been right of center and trending further right with each year. It took a sharp turn right in 2017 thanks to Trump winning the presidency. Until SCOTUS and the federal judiciary are balanced and that balanced state exists long enough for the results to percolate down into real effects I will never be able to vote for the Republican candidate for POTUS or Senate even if there was some magic wand resurgence of moderate Republicanism of mid-20th century. Voting does matter. Elections have consequences for you whether you vote in it or not. Get out and vote. Vote Democratic Party to get these courts fixed and to help us continue moving in the right direction again. #uspoli #scotus #Election2024
Wisconsin governor signs new state legislative maps into law, ending a GOP gerrymander

mlansbury@despora.de

The Greatest Threat Posed by Trump

In the upside-down world of #MAGA morality, vice is virtue and virtue is vice. My colleague Jane Coaston even coined a term, “vice signaling,” to describe how Trump’s core supporters convey their tribal allegiance. They’re often deliberately rude, transgressive or otherwise unpleasant, just to demonstrate how little they care about conventional moral norms.

Absent public virtue, a republic can fall. And a Trump win in 2024 would absolutely convince countless Americans that virtue is for suckers, and vice is the key to victory.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/12/opinion/donald-trump-culture-decline.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Qk0.RRW3.7A62oybsG1pN

#America #Trump #immoral #dictatorship #vice #Election2024

mlansbury@despora.de

Donald Trump has a big problem ahead

Donald Trump has a problem no matter what happens in New Hampshire on Tuesday night: There’s a whole swath of the Republican electorate and a good chunk of independents who appear firmly committed to not voting for him in November if he becomes the nominee.

https://news.yahoo.com/trump-bleeding-moderate-support-could-100000261.html

#Fascism #Trump #America #Election2024 #elections #Biden #NewHampshire #primaries

johnehummel@diasp.org

Nobody is coming to save us

FTA: It has been 2,575 days since the United States of America cracked in two, and an ill-mannered, racist, narcissistic goon was elected to its highest office.

...Today, the fire rages out of control, and is once again being eagerly fanned by the odious thug who brags of manhandling women, attempted a coup after losing an election by more than 7 millions votes, calls our military "suckers and losers," and is facing 91 felony counts for all manner of crimes.

... Turns out too many white people in America still have an appetite for hate that’s served up plenty cold, and have set their clocks back 160 years to get a seat at the table.

... Yes, it has been 2,575 days since the United States of America cracked in two, but worry as we might, we know for sure that nobody is coming to save us, or our country.

We must do that ourselves, and there is great strength in the crystal-clear clarity that comes with knowing this.

#USA #Fascism #Election2024

https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/2024-election/

johnehummel@diasp.org

This would be… fitting. Of course Democracy would end in the US the moment Trump took power. More horrifying is that roughly 45% of USA voters like that prospect.

Trump allies proposing deploying military to the streets if he wins in 2024: report

FTA: With an eye on a possible win in the 2024 presidential election, allies of former Donald Trump are pitching plans to quell public unrest over his return to the Oval Office by using the military to put down potential protests the moment he takes power.

According to a report from the Washington Post, Trump insiders are floating the possibility of invoking the Insurrection Act immediately after being sworn in.

And of course, this would only be the beginning:

The report also notes that there have been discussions with Trump on how to use the Justice Department to go after former officials who served under him during his single term including former Attorney General Bill Barr, ex-White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Gen. Mark A. Milley and even one of his former lawyers, Ty Cobb.

#Trump #Fascism #Election2024

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-insurrection-2666154128/