New parties are useless at the federal level so long as elections are First-Past-The-Post. Even the Ross Perot's Reform Party in 1992 and 1996 only served as a spoiler for the Republican party, and his was an immensely strong attempt at forming a new party, featuring a reasoned platform which Perot showcased with charts every night on television.

This is why Musk's America party is laughable, even if he really, really meant it, and offered a platform of sound governance.

While Sanders caucuses with the Democratic party, and they make him sit at the kids' table with AOC and the other Socialist Democrats, he has been able to get a lot of legislation in or blocked with skilled use of Senate procedure.

But the current situation is well beyond even his powers of procedural mischief. We can't rely on officials or left-wing news media to save the US from oligarchy and eventually monarchy.

Violent or non-violent, we'll have to do it ourselves, and it's almost certain that if we pressure them nonviolently (say with massive demonstrations or with a general strike), then Trump will try to do January 6th once again, probably with more guns and explosives. He'll certainly bring out his ICE Stormtroopers (now in fancy armor) and try to invoke the military.

So we need to expect a fight, and preferably do what the lords did with John of England, make it super clear that he is out-manned and out-armed and will be given no quarter, if it comes down to violence. (Even the Magna Carta took a few tries)

27+ dead little girls at Camp Mystic has shown us it's ugly already, but non-violence makes it more difficult for bystanders to dismiss the resistance as terrorists. (FOX News, etc. will paint us as terrorists anyway.)

I don't know how we get to an organized general strike at speed (usually it takes years, and we don't have years), and there are groups like indivisible that are trying. I don't know if it's enough, especially once ICE gets its massive infusion of equipment, manpower and fancy trenchcoats.

I like this comment even though I can’t actually confirm it’s sarcasm. I think it’s be great if we all spent 0,0087% of our wealth on engagement rings.

The Big Beautiful Bill isn’t really a tax cut. It is mostly comprised of deferred taxes. They only slashed a trillion from the budget. The rest is financed through increased debt.

The BBB will add over 3 trillion to the deficit which the public will pay one way or another.

Either higher taxes down the road, increased inflation or through higher interest rates… Most likely a combination of all three. But it will be paid.