I was surprised and pleased to learn today that we had two key democrats.
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Yawn. Wake me when it’s JD Vance and Mike Johnson. Not a single republican in the USA gives a shit about what 2 key democrats think.
No Democrat is a key Democrat if they don't have the balls to do what is necessary
Like what, exactly?
Doing things in a democracy requires votes, and they didn't have them.
The American people decided they wanted Trump with a Republican Supreme Court, Republican House, and Republican Senate.
Let's blame the Dems for everything they do.
That makes sense if you forget about the last thirty years and also common sense. Nothing happening today is entirely surprising; you can pretend we didn't see this coming and tell the Dems to step up, but we remember the truth.
Politicians vote, and they also ... do other things. Or they don't. Their actions show their values.
We're past getting votes. This is fascism in America, sweaty. Kindly step to the side if you want to play by the rules. Make sure to campaign super hard against the machine of fascism!!! You're so cute.
Huffpo: saying shit with no bearing for years and years now.
At least they didn't "slam" Trump, he couldn't withstand that kind of onslaught this week.
Yawn. Wake me when it’s JD Vance and Mike Johnson.
Oh, if they (along with Vought and Miller behind the scenes) can get to where they don't need him any more, they'd absolutely love to invoke the 25th. The problem for them is, so far they're still dependent on his cult of personality. They just need to finish consolidating their power. They're working on that with the military right now and the goal is to have everything cemented before the midterms that would normally take place next November, or before the time trump kicks the bucket, whichever comes first.
Why is it easier for dems to say that trump has dementia than to say the administration is unconstitutionally abusing its power violating their oaths?
They want to place all the blame for the problems in America on the shoulders of this one hapless clown because it spares them from reckoning with the deep systemic problems that led to us having this syphilis petri dish in the highest seat of power of the nation with the most powerful military in human history.
Fucking poetic.
Fact. But do the voters understand it enough to vote for an alternative to mainstream Democrats (that actually know how to fix stuff)? Like, the foundational issues are lack of term / age limits, how campaigns / candidates are funded, and lobbying. You canot fix healthcare, for example, without fixing the system that allowed our current state. Having any discussion before the foundations are fixed is an act of futility.
They say that shit all the time, omfg the public is so completely uninformed or misinformed rn it pains me. You want to know what they're saying? They all have social medias ffs.
Thank you. Just when I had started to lose hope in Lemmy. (Maybe that's the point of the constant railing against Dems here.)
Leaders need to do more than just say things. They need to follow with actions.
I agree so let's give the DNC at least 4 more senate seats with caucus in the midterms and make an honest effort to remove all 20 GOP up for reelection not matter the cost.
Best I can do is a 1-seat majority where 2 are Republicans in disguise.
Are you saying they’re not saying that? Because i’m pretty sure they are.
We won’t hear about it of course, but that should be expected. I guess we'd have to define what you mean by “dems”, but I’m pretty sure we can find more than a couple.
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He’s 80. His dad died of Alzheimer’s. Odds are in favor of it. While syphilis is on the rise lately, it’s also cured with antibiotics. I think there’s lower odds of the syphilis, granted, until the last year or two, it wasn’t a common test run on anyone, so, maybe.
What’s interesting is China just came out with new nanotech which has effectively reduces the causes of Alzheimer’s in animal models. Meanwhile, Trump has both alienated China and chased many scientists from our country to theirs.
His dad, his grandad, and his sister all died of it. Of COURSE he has it, we’ve been screaming it since the first time this demented rapist was illegally placed in power.
I wonder if Merrick Garland has regrets, for dragging his feet. Not that it matters.
His father lived to 93 and mother to 88 according to a quick search.
Read this. His nephew details his later years. They were not good.
This came out last year as a part of warning everyone not to vote this demented rapist into office for god's sake. For all the good that did.
Fred recalls his grandfather's decline beginning in the 1980s, "with some of the similar stories you've heard time and time again, that when his limousine would stop, he would just get out of the car and start walking away."
. . . "He would scream, and I witnessed this, scream at my grandmother for spending too much money," says Fred, reminding that money was not a concern for his grandfather. The behavior "kept escalating and escalating, to the point where doctors would say to my grandmother, 'You really shouldn't be staying in the same bedroom with him at night.' "
Fred, the son of Donald's late brother Fred Trump Jr., clarifies that he never saw or heard his grandfather ever become physically violent with his grandmother, but instead, "agitated in his language, and vicious."
The classic “metal fatigue” level of brain degradation is Biden. A little woo-hoo, spacey now and again, slower, but totally with it other times.
Alzheimer’s, however, is only decline. Spiraling down., with varied momentum, marked by anger, erratic mood swings, and sometimes aggressive outbursts towards loved ones.
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Because if they said he's unconstitutionally abusing his power, you'd be asking why they're not talking about his dementia.
Because they don't want fingers pointed at them, just in case they want to do it too.
The US desperately needs a grass-roots movement that lies low and makes do with harm reduction so the ones in power do not see it coming, and then suddenly switches their vote together all at once when they know they have enough numbers for a third party to surpass the other two, and be able to pass constitutional amendments, fix the electoral system, and other changes to start undoing the damage of McCarthyism.
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JFC, Science says 50% of people over 65 have some form of cognitive decline. The average age of government is 65.
His dad who was in much better shape was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s at the age Trump is now
His dad didn't get as much syphilis and tear through mountains of cocaine either. He also wasn't on camera 24/7 for half a decade.
And does it matter? People blamed Biden for every time he said Umm, but yet Trump did much worse and nobody in the media has even hinted at his dementia.
You know who owns the media, right?
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No, he's just dumb. He's always been this way. His whole nepo baby life just revolved around people telling him "yes"
He has always been this way but he's more this way now. I was always skeptical about the "Trump's losing it" stories because Trump has always been an idiot and a narcissist who can't distinguish between his fantasies and reality. But now it's undeniable that he seems more confused, out of touch and unpredictable.
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No. Just look at an interview from, say, 2010. He’s coherent. An idiot, a rapist, sure, but he’s not the babbling demented mess he is now. He’s not just dumb, his neurons are peacing out.
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