usernamesAreTricky

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

After you vote, you can also volunteer to phone bank for last minute get out the vote calls!

https://go.kamalaharris.com/calls/

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago

Find your polling location. Go vote!

Your ballot will be deciding much more than just the president. Even if you did theoretically think both presidential canidates were equal in all regards (they aren't), then vote for the down ballot races!

Keep your local school boards from having insane people on it that will ban books and harm your kids or your neighbors's.

Vote for the constitutional ammendment questions and ballot initiatives. For instance, many states have either pro and anti abortion questions on their ballot.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago

They already killed it for Supreme Court nominees when it suited them. If they really wanted something they'd kill it for that

By 2017, roles had reversed — Republicans held the majority in the Senate, and President Donald Trump sat in the Oval Office.

After Senate Democrats, now in the minority, filibustered the confirmation of Judge Neil Gorsuch — Trump's first nominee to the Supreme Court — McConnell engineered his own "nuclear option."

The Republican-controlled Senate voted 52-48 to reduce the vote threshold for confirming nominees to the Supreme Court from 60 to 51, per The New York Times.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/10/01/fact-check-gop-ended-senate-filibuster-supreme-court-nominees/3573369001/

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 days ago (10 children)

Note that Harris has called for eliminating the Filibuster should dems get a trifecta

Harris says she would support ending the filibuster to bring back Roe v. Wade

https://www.npr.org/2024/09/23/nx-s1-5123955/kamala-harris-abortion-roe-v-wade-filibuster

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/22170124

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago

We can do a bit better than just hope, there is still time to volunteer to help get out the vote today and tomorrow on election day!

https://go.kamalaharris.com/

[–] [email protected] 47 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Easily pushed around by dictators and billionaires, not so easily pushed by average citizens

Harris is more able to be influenced by public pressure which is what John Oliver is trying to get at

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

Huh, turns out the Republican earlier BS claims of stolen valor for Tim Walz were just talking about the wrong Tim all along

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago

There are also still opportunities to volunteer in person and online - including on election day!

https://go.kamalaharris.com/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Unfortunately they put tougher requirements on the types of accepted IDs, yes. This especially impact Native American voters in North Dakota

Native Americans continue to fight discriminatory voter ID laws in North Dakota

 

(Note that NC and NY have concluded their early voting already)

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 days ago

I mean Biden has already started the process for rescheduling weed to schedule 3 for medical legalization. Process is long but it's at the tail end with the final hearing in December. It's not too hard to see Harris just using the same process but asking for full descheduling rather than asking them for schedule 3. Or if Dems get a trifecta, she could also try to get congress to legalize directly in law (faster than the executive branch only action)

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

They don't agree on it. Biden only supported legalized medical marijuana, and to his credit, he did actually start the process to do that. He order rescheduling to schedule 3 which basically legalizes medical marijuana. It should go into effect around December as the DEA has dragged out the process. It's not instant executive order to reschedule. The law lays out a rather long process, but we're nearly at the end of it at this point

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Sorry it's hard to tell over text sometimes. Have had plenty of fully genuine conversations with people saying things like this who are not being sarcastic

 

Biden only supported legalized medical marijuana, and to his credit, he did actually start the process to do that. He order rescheduling to schedule 3 which basically legalizes medical marijuana. It should go into effect around December as the DEA has dragged out the process

 

https://www.threads.net/@kamalahq/post/DB4TgXBO3bk


Vote, get active, volunteer

Also another small thing that can also help is reminding and encourage any dem leaning friends, family, etc. to go out and vote. Helps more than you'd think

 

America PAC door knockers were flown to Michigan, driven in the back of a U-Haul, and told they’d have to pay hotel bills unless they met unrealistic quotas. One was surprised they were working to elect Donald Trump.


Vote, get active, volunteer against this

view more: next ›