I agree with you in principle, but the tea party was an astroturf movement so a very different situation. A progressive takeover of the Democratic party could get much more ugly. That majority the Dems now enjoy, includes DINOs like Fetterman, and centrist/establishment types like Schumer and Pelosi. They are facing an existential threat to their kind of politics (the kind where you sell your soul to corporate donors and AIPAC). If push comes to shove, I wouldn’t be surprised if they side with the GOP, choosing to scupper the Democratic party rather than work with a progressive agenda.

I want it to happen, just don’t expect it will happen without a hard and dirty fight. The powers behind the political establishment do NOT want this.

You don’t need legislation, you can just do things. You can’t say they haven’t done much, it just didn’t go through the house or senate.

Your dick looks like that? Dude I am so sorry. Jerking off must be near impossible. Maybe you could slap it about a bit?

They already are doing, funnelling more money through UDP these days. That’s why we need sites like trackaipac.com to keep tabs on it. If they had splintered years ago, it would have worked better. I think people can generally see what’s up nowadays.

Not all of them. There were centrists like Haley Stevens telling people to get out and vote Republican.

We shouldn’t have been trusting the USA so much in the first place. Trump did us a favour, he showed us what we were trusting,

2016 wasn’t that long ago

Absolutely. It’s not an either/or situation and I’m very wary of the senators who are framing it as such. They need to walk and chew gum at the same time, which was never a problem for the Republicans.

Original plans were for a tower but it never got past the ground floor

and a video of experimental historians replicating my favorite version of this

Interesting how they keep it docile by blindfolding it. You don’t want one of those things to get spooked and run around stomping on people.

One goose held by the neck makes an excellent melee weapon

I think the particular characteristic of evangelicals is that being divorced from reality and isolated from dissenting voices is exactly what they aspire to. The more obviously wrong a position is, the more giddily you hold to it. It’s all a test of faith. Reality is the devil’s domain.

Good to hear. This is the kind of news that actually fights antisemitism.

Antisemitism is the lifeblood of Israel, it’s absolutely necessary to justify their continued existence as an unaccountable genocidal apartheid state, freely ratfucking your media and political institutions and paid for by your tax dollars.

oh well. I guess the fascists need somewhere to retreat to. May as well be somewhere that’s going to be underwater in the near future.

If the midterms had gone badly, I doubt that there would have been another chance for democracy in the USA. Looking on from Europe, I’d just like to say thank you and well done to everyone who voted. This isn’t the end of the struggle, but it’s such an important victory.

Removing the president isn’t the point, and it’s something the GOP needs to do sooner or later (and today’s results suggest sooner). Still, any opportunity to haul Trump over the coals should be taken IMO. Accountability is as much about the process as the result, and it’s not just Trump who needs to be held accountable, but everyone he has appointed and everyone who is backing him. Trump himself is a good place to start, even recognizing that Trump is the symptom, not the disease.

I think it’s more like Putin (& Netanyahu) got the receipts (Epstein was selling to whoever was buying), Trump is just one of many puppets. I guess “we’ll cosy up to Trump” is supposed to sound better than “we’ll bend over for Putin”. But it’s the same thing

How is americas democracy real when it’s all marketed and bought and sold to people?

The fuck kind of dumbass non sequitur is that? Potatoes are marketed and bought and sold to people. How can potatoes be real?

It’s nice to have some reward for looking in the nooks and crannies, without feeling like you have to search in every nook and cranny. What is the best way to achieve this? One way could be if you had interesting items each of which could be found in several places, and when you’ve found it in one place you won’t find it in another.

He’s shown himself to be a paragon of Republican values, I don’t know what all the fuss is about. Supporting and spreading the lies of pedo rapists is what this administration is all about.