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Please. Nothing will happen because the Supreme Court will back Trump. Trump will pardon them.
The only possible path to accountability is if Democrats take control of Presidency/House/Senate in 3.5 years. And even then I doubt anything will be done in the name of "healing the nation".
We don't have 3.5 years, the midterms are all we have left.
In less than a year, the GOP has normalized complete fealty and disregard of the rule of law to Trump. Complete victory for fascism in the US right now is a matter of "when" and not "if."
Which makes the midterms (ugh, once again, I'm getting so tired of this) the most important election of our lifetimes. Assuming we can still get free and fair elections in 2026 before total fascist takeover, re-elevating Congress to an equal branch of the government is literally the only legal move we have left.
That is if these Nazis haven't already fully rigged the coming mid-terms, through all the various/nefarious means.
Well if an analyst says it, it must be true!
This is copium.
Why would the Trump admin flee? The Biden admin already proved Democrats are toothless.
They're total cowards, that's why. Hegseth is convinced he's the next target to get shot at, and is redirecting enormous resources to have a personal guard at all times.
I have zero faith in the American public to do the right thing. We can blame Trump and the leaders all we want but I don't know a single person who voted for Trump 2.0 and regrets it even though I live in an 80+% Trump district that is getting completely fucked by tariffs. As a country we are just too fucking stupid to get out of this shit.
I'm sorry, but Doomerism has to die.
The only call-to-action I get from this kind of comment inspires is "give up & go home evryone; your fate is to suffer"
My intention with my own comment is to ask people to please keep the defeatist comments to yourself.
If you aren't saying anything informative or supportive in Public discourse, what are you actually putting into the Public's mind?
You probably need to spend sometime outside the bubble you're living in. Most other places are fighting back.
Charge them, all the project 2025 people and all the dark enlightenment oligarchs for treason
To Argentina?
Hey now some Confederates fled to Brazil, it ain't just Argentina where they may go
The republicans have a clear path to win, the election is a toss up between the two parties at this point.
If the Democrats just assume public anger will mean they are going to win the midterm then they're doomed. Despite everything Republican support is holding in the polls. Things are so polarised that Republican voters will seemingly accept anything of their party rather than accept a Democrat.
1/3 support dems, 1/3 support republicans. The key is the 1/3 of voters who are not engaged in politics or hate both parties. The only way the dems can win the midterms is getting off their arses and speaking to those voters. But rightly, those voters are fed up with the shit fest that is US politics.
The midterms are going to be down to the wire, and sadly I wouldn't be surprised if the republicans win.
Don’t forget the huge gerrymandering push to steal dozens of seats and try to force a Republican majority
Vote yes on prop 50
This is bullshit scare tactics to rally their base. They said they would flee if Biden won, they didn't. They aren't gonna do shit.
What the hell would they have to flee from? Under Biden, all they got was richer.
Pretty funny theory.
What are all these white liberals going to do when the elections are blatantly stolen and republicans galvanize their stranglehold on America next year?
Repugs are going to lie and say they won fairly, and the corporate news media will 100% back them up on that lie. Seriously libs, what are you going to do then? Gonna just try to get em next time in ‘28?..
All "normal" routes were already lost as of Jan. 20th when they took power and threw away the Constitution. With one party and the SCOTUS on their side it'll be almost impossible to dislodge them using peaceful means. There may still be a chance to save what scraps of democracy remain at the state and local levels and try to rebuild from there but to succeed that way will take a generation or more.
It's irritating to see all these pundits talk about, "well, when the Dems are back in power ..." They're the ones who are supposed to know what's going on. If they really believe it's going to work that way, they're in total denial.
All that means is that they're going to do everything they can to rig the midterms.
They did, they will, they already are. Every single living person who is still a registered Republican, every single person who has voted for a Republican in the last 20 years is a traitor to both humanity and the American people.
They sent ice into nyc ahead of the mayoral elections specifically targeting areas that are latino, indian and Asian. I think this is them testing the tampering.
As the 2026 midterm elections fast approach, ...
"Fast" approach? It already feels like an eternity since Jan. 20th and there's still over a year to go. 😩
They've done so much damage so fast
It's amazing how fast government can be when they ignore laws, due process, and the rights of citizens
Yesterday I heard the news talking about how Trump's probably gonna interfere in the election next week. They're not even pretending like the law matters anymore
Why would they care? Look, setting aside concerns about dem chances in 2026, or concerns about if the election is even certified if dems win, what would dems do? Oooh, subpoena, so scary. When have republicans ever given a shit? Furthermore when have dems ever actually held these criminals to actual criminal account?
I really dislike Nancy Pelosi, but she actually did a lot to intervene when Dems took the House back during Trump's first administration.
Democrats to use House majority to launch Trump investigations
It doesn't get talked about enough, but Trump had plans to profit greatly from COVID and vaccine privatization. He likely would have been successful if he'd been able to roll out the vaccine without democratic oversight.
He had a lot of evil plans actually, and I'm pretty sure that most of his backlash against the vaccine and COVID mandates was mainly due to him being angry he wasn't allowed to profit from the pandemic in as many ways as he hoped.
Before the pandemic, top contractor received billions from government
Vaccine Maker Earned Record Profits but Delivered Disappointment in Return
Emergent BioSolutions was awarded a $628 million federal contract with no competitive bidding. Top executives received big bonuses while factories mostly sat idle and tens of millions of Covid-19 doses were thrown away.
Covid-19: Trump sought to buy vaccine developer exclusively for US, say German officials
Trump officials actively lobbied to deny states money for vaccine rollout last fall
And if a subpoena isn't scary why are Republicans in the House and Senate refusing to subpoena JP Morgan to force the CEO to release bank records of transactions between Jeffery Epstein and Peter Thiel?
And that's why they rigged the elections, so Democrats can't win.
I mean shit, that would be the wise thing to do. I probably would too if I was worried about investigations into all the war crimes I committed, all the rights I violated, all the documented abuse and negligence, and all the humans that have died or gone missing in their fucking detention centers. Not to mention all the money they've clearly stolen, and contracts they've violated.
I was actually thinking that's probably the real reason Stephen Miller sold his house rather than he was threatened bc "radical leftists" wrote mean messages in chalk on his sidewalk.
Poor deluded souls thinking that there are going to be midterms (or at least fair ones).
Trump is desperately trying to incite something to declare martial law. And if he doesn't manage to do it, closer to the midterms he'll just drop all pretense and do it anyway. That's...what....he....fucking....does.
Flee to where? Russia? What safe harbour exists for fascists that they might flee to?
Interpol is going to nab them. They have no where to run. No one is their friend.
Like rats fleeing a sinking ship. You folks better vote your asses off!
This seems baselessly optimistic - they're achieving all of their goals right now, which include capturing the judicial and electoral systems. Why would they ever feel the need to flee a system they control outright, and are at no reasonable risk of losing?
We can only hope.
I'm pretty doubtful, a month or two ago there was a poll saying faith in the DNC was at an all time low. People aren't just going to wake up en mass because things are bad: this whole admin is just a replay of 2016-2020 but with a little extra shark jumping, and they STILL reelected Trump's ass and put GOP in a 53 senate majority.
Then, even if a blue wave sweeps the midterms? So what? Only 20 GOP senators are up for reelection, the DNC currently have 45 seats and 2 Independents, they can't remove trump without replacing every single GOP an that is beyond improbable.
Remember even in his first term the GOP lost the midterms.
His first term was bad, but not nearly as bad. We didn't have military occupation of our own cities. We didn't have masked men abducting people off the streets into unmarked vans. We didn't have a trade war with practically every other country. We didn't have massive inflation after a prior year of massive inflation. We didn't have suspension of food security. We didn't have farmers being undermined by all this while a huge bailout is done to a foreign country. We weren't mobilizing our military for an apparent invasion.
So the Democrats might have a chance. Removal from office may not be on the table, but at least some check on executive power might be exercised. We may be stuck with a PJ2025 executive branch for at least the next couple of years after that, but at least maybe there can be some mitigation. It's at least worth a try.
Depressingly I wouldn't characterize the last decade of elections as being as much a Republican or Democratic loss as much as pretty much every single election being a loss for whomever the perceived incumbent of the time.
So they know they're crooks.
“a number of top Trump administration officials may resign in an effort to avoid being “slapped with subpoenas” from a Democrat-controlled Congress”
Scared of getting subpoenad? How about DON’T COMMIT THE CRIME! That’s why we have these things called LAWS. Don’t commit the crime if you can’t do the time!
The worst of it won’t even be them getting arrested, but will be the years if not decades, if ever, trying to clean up the infrastructural, economic, reputation and political damage they’ve done to this country in their wake. Ugh.