President Donald Trump threatened to veto every piece of legislation put forward during the second half of his administration if Democrats flip control of the House or Senate during next month’s midterm elections.
“Well, I think the Republicans are going to win. But if there was, you call it gridlock, what happens is I veto everything,” Trump told reporters Friday morning while speaking on the South Lawn. “And then the Democrats come and they want to make a deal. So we’ll work it out.”
Historical precedent and polling data suggest Democrats are on the cusp of flipping at least the House next month and possibly the Senate, due to public frustration over the Iran war and high costs of living.
So, they will override his veto
And idiotic low-info voters (many of them are self-styled “independents”, LOL) will then blame the Democrats for not doing enough and send in Republicans again.
I feel like most voters with low civic knowledge assume the president does everything. You know, the “Biden made inflation happen” types.
They’re not low info voters. They’re generally just closeted far right whingers.
Who will wholeheartedly accept progressive policies… unless you tell them that this is what leftists want…
That Venn diagram is almost a circle
That’s definitely a high likelihood, but there’s also a high likelihood that republicans outright refuse to seat Dems elected, Trump refuses to leave and claims he won a third term (deserves one), and the courts will let it all happen, resulting in arrests of Dems and the loss of the democratic system as we know it. That means a power vacuum will emerge inevitably, whatever the end result of this coup, and power vacuums almost always end up with a more authoritarian leader in place and less democracy.
If this or anything close to it happens, the only recourse is violence.
Maybe it’s time for some of them to leave the US.
“Once it’s too late, our only recourse is the thing we could have done all along to stop it from getting to this point.”
Yeah, it’s wild how unwilling people are to go die for a cause, huh?
Especially when they spent the last century dining out on a national myth of “give me liberty or give me death” and being belligerent fucking assholes about “freedom,” crowing about how they’re the BEST IN THE WORLD at defending it, insisted it was necessary to let children die in school shootings all the fucking time in order to be able to handle exactly this scenario- and also everyone else is a bunch of weaklings who only exist because Americans put their lives on the line to defend democracy, and fuck everyone else for even questioning it.
Yeah. That’s wild.
Just because our grandparents held onto a mantra doesn’t mean we do. Expecting us to be enthusiastic about dying for an ideology that we never agreed with in the first place is just as wild a take. I don’t personally know anyone who believed any of that garbage they fed us in elementary school beyond… well, elementary school. It pretty quickly became clear that it’s all propaganda. The folks who didn’t recognize that are the same ones who’re okay with the current status quo.
YOU are okay with the current status quo or you’d be doing something about it.
It’s fine, get defensive if you want, but the truth is you are way too comfortable and refuse to risk that comfort to fix the problems you pay lip service to opposing.
I think you’re equating “doing something about it” with violence, and if that’s the case, then no, I’m not ‘doing something about it’, but I’m not doing nothing, either. However, I don’t feel the need to justify my activism to a stranger on the internet, so I’m going to leave it at that.
That’s the power vacuum part. The emerging authoritarian is whoever manages to put down the violence typically
There’s no real economic incentive for opposition.
It’s not the promise of profits that usually takes it there, it’s typically hunger, desperation, and giving up on waiting for the system to step in and do something to change what’s obviously led to the stagnant and corrosive economic system that’s leading many to that hunger and desperation.
That’s just unrealistic. In what world would the courts strike down Trump’s attempts to end birthright citizenship, but give him an unconstitutional 3rd term?
It makes no sense looking at the court’s record. They do pretty often disagree with Trump and it pisses him off