#KnowNothing#CardiB is too stupid to realize that NOT voting for #Biden is a vote FOR #Trump, and that her boycott of #Election2024 could be her last — She might not get another opportunity to vote EVER.
Martin Kettle (Guardian) suggests 'A change of government for Britain will be a big & fascinating process. It will affect – well, almost everything in some way'!
He thinks big/historic change(s) will come with the accession of Labour to power, but many here (on Mastodon) are not so sure.
Indeed, this is perhaps the biggest Q. in UK (domestic) politics right now... what will be the balance between continuity & change in 2025?
Many Americans believe Congress could be fixed with a simple solution: Throw the bums out with term limits.
But that creates more problems than it solves, says political scientists.
For one, members in their legally mandated final term in office enjoy a kind of "senioritis" -- and experience apathy toward being productive in their final year, because they don't have to face the voters again at the ballot box.
🔻'Trump would be worse' is a bad argument & misses several key points.
🔻Biden is pitting vulnerable groups here against genocide victims in Palestine.
🔻If Biden loses, it will be HIS fault.
🔻Protest the DNC in August
It's astonishing that anyone could post such horrifically offensive garbage as this, and still hope to be taken seriously.
You're attempting to elect Republicans, whose position is "there are very few innocent Palestinian citizens...we should kill them all...gotta finish the problem...like Hiroshima and Nagasaki." You're trying to cause terrible harm to some of the world's most vulnerable people.
Maryland's turn! Go VOTE! And if you are wondering what to do for Baltimore city, here's some handy stats to help you decide. Let's not disrupt progress!
Third-party campaigns can inject new ideas and force major parties to incorporate a wider array of interests.
The minor-party campaigns of Ross Perot in 1992 and Ralph Nader and Pat Buchanan in 2000 are remarkable examples where their campaign increased overall voter turnout.
But lawmakers from the Democratic and Republican parties make the rules – and those rules make it very hard for third parties.
". . .there’s just no such thing as a smart fascist. Not emotionally, not intellectually, not strategically or philosophically or practically. The ideology itself is about as clever and complex as a rock to the face: me best + them bad + you do what me say or else you them." -- Catherynne M. Valente @Catvalente
This piece from Catherynne, to me, is the most articulate, poignant description of this election we face. I have returned to this piece from her many times.
Something to remember as we all prepare for #Election2024:
In the United States today, it can feel like conservatives and liberals are living in different realities. To build bridges, make the case about how issues affect us personally, not just how they play into our political arguments.
As we’ve seen from MSM coverage & their grotesque embrace of horse race polling, today’s media is incapable of performing to the journalistic standard these times require. It may cost us our Democracy. They should be ashamed. Not the time to be terrible at your jobs.
Plus the flood of disinformation from Putin/Kremlin/FSB & republicans who parrot the poison putin propaganda designed to inflame, divide Americans.
Meg Conley:
When I ask people about Gaza+Israel they mostly say: Palestinians are oppressed. Israel should exist. Hamas is bad. Oct 7 was terrorism. Hostages must be returned. Israel is committing war crimes. They're pro-student protests even if they are not pro-divestment. They're holding many things at once. Why is the media failing to depict those Americans? It's a large block!
The list of things they're holding at once, that's not a bad place to start! Why isn't the reporting telling that story.
The operations related to Putin's propaganda are expected to escalate as we approach #Election2024.
Local elections in the UK - don’t forget to vote! It matters so much that we all use our voice, and that we aren’t complacent about our ability to do so.
The Blue Machine UK paperback is published today. It’s got another beautiful cover 🎉 #ocean#books#election2024
I just signed up to write #postcards to voters for the first time! Registration just opened up to write postcards for elections in 11 states, which is good timing because my chest feels tight with election dread today.
They send you the postcards for FREE and ask you to mail them to voters in October (so plenty of time to write them). If this is something you’d be interested in, here’s a link with more information:
@HeavenlyPossum I think it's worth riffing on this a bit more too...
Single payer healthcare is supported by the majority of Americans. Which party do I vote for to get that?
A sizable minority wants UBI. Which party can I vote for to get that?
The vast majority of Americans want to see banks be held accountable rather than bailed out, who can I vote for to see that? Can I vote for a party that won't send troops to break up protests against banks straight up robbing Americans twice?
The majority of Americans have wanted to see the drug war end for like... Decades. Which party would one vote for to see that happen?
Which party, exactly, would one vote for that would not force people back to work during a pandemic? Which one is that again?
Speaking of forcing people back to work, is there a party that would make return to office mandates unenforceable? I bet that has a fuck load of popular support, but where are those politicians looking to leverage that support? Which party do I vote for again?
Oh hey, which party do I vote for to bar senators from holding stock in the companies they write legislation for? This is super popular. If this is a democracy, then any issue with even a basic level of popular support would definitely have someone willing express the idea. Which party do I vote for?
Which party do I vote for to, at the absolute minimum, bar members of Congress from owning stock in companies that benefit from war?
Which party do I vote for to bar politicians from becoming lobbyists and vice versa? Which party is it again?
Which party do I vote for to not send troops to support oil companies suppress people protesting to keep their water safe to drink?
This is why I worry. From Threads, a convo w/ @lolgop:
jerbrad28:
But: “New polls this week served up a surprise: They showed Robert F. Kennedy’s presidential run pulling more support from Donald #Trump than from President #Biden. And even some Republicans are publicly insisting that they fear the same.”
LOLGOP:
… It's part of the ruse. Trump can't win if Biden gets over 50% and Bobby makes sure he can't. #RFKjr
Dworkin suggests we should stop calling him RFKjr & start calling him just “Bob”.
As his own positions as well as the Kennedy clan have made perfectly clear, “Bob” no more deserves the mystique of the Kennedy mantle than donald trump jr does‼️
#Trump losing 17% of the vote in a closed swing-state primary to a candidate who dropped out months ago should lead to a lotta commentary about his weakness. It won’t, because the press is obsessed with Trumpers sticking with Trump regardless, but it should.
Imagine how they’d cover Dean Phillips pulling those numbers against #Biden.
Trypillia Thermal Power Plant in Kyiv was completely destroyed by a Russian strike because Ukraine has run out of missiles to defend it, Zelenskyy says.
Although the first seven missiles were downed, the next four hit the plant.