What if? That's absolutely what they're trying and they've said as much.
It's pretty obvious there's a shitload of Republican leadership fully invested in overthrowing democracy. They can't win any other way.
Question is... Do we let them? If we want meaningful reform we need the House/Senate, we need to vote like it's the last meaningful vote to ever be held in this once great nation, and hopefully prove ourselves wrong in doing so.
They don’t care what gets destroyed, as long as they win
Littlefinger embodied as a political party.
I wouldn't even say it's slo-mi. They're literally explaining that it has always been, if it's not extra clear from his own recent comments.
Been saying it since he said he didn’t need more votes: votes are his plan b.
Stand back, stand by, stand trial.
It's not even a coup. He's very close to winning the electoral college as it is because Americans are fucking idiots. It's just going to be a procedural matter not a coup per se.
Kamala should be meeting with the military to prepare a response. This is not a time to be polite.
Maybe that should be Biden. Kamala doing it would be a bad look.
The Guardian is just figuring this out now?
A cover? Yeah like the kings new clothes maybe.
The people need to put a stop to this!
And how?
You'll hear responses like general strikes or large scale protests. I'm cynical, but I have a hard time believing anything can be done aside from voting and hoping it works.
The US is too spread out, patches of humanity too separated to make a general strike work. (what are people in rural Montana going to think when their one grocery store clerk doesn't show up for work?)
Almost half of Americans actually want a coup so that the "right" people will be punished in a righteous fury - they don't give a shit about reality or democracy (or even the hope of democracy).
I'm so fed up and broken down by it all.
By voting, staying informed, participating in protests, pushing stv ranked choice, boycotting unethical businesses.
It obviously is
It’s already cover for a slow motion grift.
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