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They fucking better or we’re perma-fucked, not just fucked for the next decade like now.
Fuck.
And that's all he cares about.
Can’t wait until the day he, Paxton, and Abbott are gone for good from Texas. We need more like Jasmine Crockett to fill the void once those fuckers are ate.
I don't know why they are so worried, Trump has toppled all the heads of government agencies with loyalists. They will be well prepared to finish their transition towards authoritarianism in the midterms, although they will have a lot more to worry about before they even get there.
Eat shit, Rafael, you stupid turd.
...except for the gerrymandering.
All that is balanced around a certain amount of voter apathy. My distric is one of the most unbalanced in a state that has had its district map declared unconstitutional multiple times. The last election had less than 25% of registered voters participate.
Those maps can backfire badly, but it will take a lot of motivation.
It's more than likely true because this shit always blows up in their faces, but it won't matter if all we do is elect more milquetoast Zionist corporate Dems. If that happens, we will end up right back in this same spot in a few years.
Like there will ever be another actual untampered with election.
Again, Republicans are worried about their own jobs and power, not about any of the problems of the working American family, the average white fucking American family that voted for this btw.
Please let a literal bloodbath consume the Republicans
I'm imagining Trump's tariffs as them taking the lid off the ark of the covenant, let's hope it does to all the other Republican Nazis today what it did to the Nazis then.
If we give Cancun Ted the benefit of the doubt (something I am loathe to do for any MAGA Nazi), then perhaps he is truly warning HitlerPig of the electoral consequences of this economic folly.
In reality, I am 100% positive that HitlerPig will hear it as a call to suspend the mid-term elections.
Donvict Dementia is concerned with pleasing Daddy Vladdy and golfing. He cares not for Texas or Americans, Raphael.
Wouldn't that be nice if it were true.
Please let this blubbering shitbag be included in that bloodbath.
It dont matter to this mf, t*xas will still elect republicans, republicans can kill their dogs, send their kids to the mines and rob them for all they have and they would STILL vote for them to own the libs.
The people of Uvalde reelected the sheriff that let all those elementary students be murdered and tortured.
🤞
Elections... ha! Obviously Trump is keeping him outside the loop on future plans.
His big worry is re-election, not the people this will hurt.
I'm glad to see that people here aren't reveling in looming economic disaster just because it might mean that their team gets to be in power.
In a properly designed and functioning system, reelection and caring about the people should go hand in hand. Stop caring, treat them like crap, someone gets to replace you.
We are not in a well designed, well functioning system.
And the people are still cheering him on, swinging their fat fists, because they don't want to lose to the blue team.
How?
Nobody on the left is really working to spread any messages. A few comments per person isn't doing shit. Seems like the most that can be mustered is a little property damage. Any voice that stands up to help spread ideology gets targeted by the right and knee capped. The mind blowing thing is the right actively hide online among the left convincing them to knee cap these people. I just saw a post a few weeks ago shitting on Jon Stewart here.
How exactly are they going to lose against a neutered and apathetic opposition
The people complaining are literally the only people with the power to actually do something about it.
All of this could end tomorrow.
I will guarantee you can get all Democrats on board with a bill that reclaims the power of levying tariffs as outlined in Article 1 of the Constitution. Reclaim the powers and nullify all tariffs that have been imposed by Trump since his inauguration. Even half of Republicans and all Democrats would be enough to cover the 2/3 in the Senate needed to override a Trump veto.
That's it. That's all it would take and this whole thing would be over. But anyone in the GOP that is complaining about these tariffs while holding the power to actually do something about it isn't actually complaining. It's performance art. Don't listen to what they say, look at how they vote. If they're saying they're against it while voting in favor of it, they're lying to you.
And these people are all lying to you. They will vote in lockstep when push comes to shove.
Republicans, and authoritarians more generally, value group solidarity more than anything else. They are in a very real and very important sense stupid, bad, people.
There's a bipartisan bill in the Senate right now to force the tariffs to expire after 60 days if not approved by Congress. So they're at least putting on a show of doing something. It mentioned it on the blurb up top
These republicans twice literally just had to say one word, "yes," when the impeachment votes happened in the Senate, and Trump would never have had power over them (and us) again, like magic.
Unfortunately the damage has been done. Even if it's reverses, most foreign investors aren't coming back to the US market
Dems actually did introduce a bill to do essentially that in the Senate for tarrifs on Canada. It passed 51-48 with only 4 republicans breaking rank. Notably in this case, Ted Cruz voted against that bill
I should note it's unlikely Mike Johnson will ever put it up for a vote in the house. If he did and it passed, it will likely get vetoed. Without more republicans breaking rank it's not going to be able to get to the 2/3 of congress needed to veto override
Need to see more republicans with spines for this bill to get through
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1191/vote_119_1_00160.htm
Reclaim the powers and nullify all tariffs that have been imposed by Trump since his inauguration.
Why stop with trump's tariffs?
His real name is Rafael. He doesn't believe in preferred names.
Also, only a literal bloodbath of republicans will suffice.
Of course Ted fucking Cruz is concerned with getting reelected, not, you know; the whole horrific collapse of the stock market, wiping out the 401ks and retirement savings of any of his constituents who even had them.
Or the financial harm that absolutely will translate into direct harm as people can’t afford to fucking eat.
No no. It’s that the party that caused this fucking disaster won’t stay in power. That’s the real reason they need to act.
Raphael, Raphael doesn't like people using preferred names, or pronouns.
Holy shit, is that the Zodiac Killer?
Imagine being the poor asshole that has to listen to his podcast and then make a headline out of it
No thanks lol
doesnt matter if you're a reptilian that migrates to cancun to shed your skin.
First. Fuck Ted Cruz. Second. It’s not just tariffs you fucking dumb cunt. It’s the whole toxic and traitorous Republican Party.
It seems we are going back to 1933 again, now all that is missing is a president like FDR and having three or four terms.
I’m going to go devils advocate here… first Rand Paul, now Ted Cruz. When things break they’ll break quick, and as distasteful as both of these guys are, they’re not the dumb ones like Grassley, Bobert, or MTG. They smell something in the wind or they wouldn’t have the courage to speak out. Could we be witnessing the beginning of a schism?
Yup. I phoned my friend just to say I called it too
Musk spent 10s of millions on a state supreme Court election, like 10x the campaign spending of the other side, and lost
If musk and Trump can't influence elections, their threats of primarying anyone who steps out of line is empty. Their support won't save their seats either
People are so angry they can't even appear in public without being screamed at... And what happens the next day? Trump destroyed the global economy single handedly and went golfing
There's some true believers... But mostly, Republicans are going to do what keeps them in power. And the Trump-Elon power couple isn't it... Even the media has started to back away from propogandizing their actions
Midterms? Not at this rate. I'm sure some fabricated emergency will spring up delaying such democratic luxuries.
Stop it Rafael, I can only get so erect.
100% HUMAN CANDIDATE Ted Cruz
One can only pray they do ted, you miserable cunt.
Nuuu, you can't sabotage the midterms yet, Cruz isn't running for election again until 2030. It's the only way us Texas lefties are ever getting rid of him.
Fled Cruz can go pound dirt with his hips. There will be a bloodbath on a few fronts.