#presidential politics

[deadpresidents]

The town hall, moderated by South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R), began with questions from preselected attendees for the former President. Donald Trump offered meandering answers on how he would address housing affordability and help small businesses. But it took a sudden turn after two attendees required medical attention. And so Trump, after jokingly asking the crowd whether "anybody else would like to faint," took a different approach. "Let's not do any more questions. Let's just listen to music. Let's make it into a music. Who the hell wants to hear questions, right?" he said. For 39 minutes, Trump swayed, bopped -- sometimes stopping to speak -- as he turned the event into almost a living-room session of his favorite songs from his self-curated rally playlist. He played nine tracks. He danced. He shook hands with people onstage. He pointed to the crowd. Noem stood beside him, nodding with her hands clasped. Trump stayed in place onstage, slowly moving back and forth. He was done answering questions for the night.

Just want to point out that this is a real thing that actually happened at Donald Trump's "town hall" in Pennsylvania on Thursday. And, as I always feel the need to remind everybody: in less than a month, tens of millions of Americans will vote for this person to once again be President of the United States. Do your part in making sure that it does not happen again because this is not normal. This is the type of shit that bizarre dictators like Turkmenistan's Turkmenbashi would do because nobody was able or willing to say, "No, that's not a good idea." Vote on November 5th because ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES.

[thashining]

Way to go Joe

[loubella77]

First on my hear me out list, I have teddy Roosevelt.

Walk softly and carry a big stick… do I need to say more?

(18+ mdni)

[foxy-kitsune-fox]

Baron Tremayne Caple A.K.A. Foxy Kitsune Fox: Donald Trump, Madison Square Garden, Manhattan, New York City

~ Baron Tremayne Caple A.K.A. Foxy Fox/Foxy Kitsune Fox/Fox Man/Fox King/King Fox/Gemini Man/Autism Man/Rainbow Man Is A Metrosexual/God Of Autism/King Of Autism/God Of Asperger/King Of Asperger 🦊

[shrinkrants]

I feel compelled to remind people, at this moment, that fascism is not a single-party issue, however more pronounced and rabid it may be among the Republicans. What Ruth Wilson Gilmore has referred to as the “domestication” of fascism by Democrats is also a threat to our lives and freedom. We can see that domestication in the criminalization of homelessness, the enhanced criminalization of dissidents, and the further militarization of police in Democratic cities. The path to corporate fascism is bipartisan. The road is simply longer on the Democratic side. I would prefer a longer road, just as I would prefer an adversary who would swing his fists at me to one who would simply shoot me in the head, but I wouldn’t mistake either opponent for an ally. I am in a life-and-death struggle either way.  We must remember that fascism is already here, in the very fabric of our political lives. While Trump is promising relocation camps for unhoused people and migrants, we must recognize that the machinery of social disposal already exists in this country and that we are already trained to ignore its work. Premature death is manufactured daily in prisons, detention centers, and sacrifice zones, and people in the US barely discuss it. COVID deaths have been normalized, and I am hearing little conversation about people perishing as a result of extreme heat – a problem that will grow exponentially in the coming years. This does not mean that the expansion of systems of social disposal is not a threat. It means that people who cannot bring themselves to acknowledge, understand, or fight what already exists are not well-positioned to fight that expansion. I am not asking you to pick a fight with every liberal who praises Harris as Trump’s prosecutor. I am asking you to undermine the basic assumptions that prop up that thinking. Our collective understanding of the crises we face is much more important than this shoddy rhetoric, which is merely a morbid symptom. Our work is to cultivate thoughtful, active communities that are determined to change the conditions that shape our lives. Do not allow the spectacle of the presidential race and its many sideshows to devour your energy or weaken your political will. We must not be transformed by the electoral circus, but rather, we must create space for transformation in spite of it. -- Kelly Hayes

[multifandomhallucinations]

As a system that is in the body of a person of colour with an atheist, immigrant family

We are scared

We're great at pretending, but the hosts long lost their belief in Christianity/Catholicism. So have the co-hosts. We're VERY neurodivergent, and the majority of us are queer in some way. Before, the hosts feared being put in a system. Now, they fear their motherland. Mexico isn't safe for LGBTQIA+ people, it's not safe even for normal people. That isn't the fault of Claudia Sheinbaum. However, having to move and fearing our hosts killing the body because of our bodily identity is the fault of Donald Trump. He is scum by any decent human being's standards.

Sincerely, the alters of the Multifandom Hallucinations system

[jarviskingston]

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[pluralsword]

our read of the majority. opinion regarding presidential immunity (which you can easily replicate by control + f searching the word "prosecutor" in the court opinion and also reading the concluding pages): 1) for an act to be official, it MUST be proven to be the responsibility of the President. a coup attempt for example doesn't count

2) no original provision for immunity in constitution, only implication

3) anything unofficial in an official act still prosecutable

As such the issue we think here that gives good reason for the dissenting opinion to be concerned is not so much 'unlimited official presidential immunity' which is not case in text in a way that would allow for a dictatorship, but that people will try to interpret it that way. already happened w/ discriminatory unconstitutional laws eg anti-trans stuff. since gender discrimination is still sex discrimination, that's be why such laws are flagrantly illegal & not the rule of (constitutional) law but the law of elected despots. stuff like this leaves wanting a constitutional convention or trans stuff spelled out in the constitution. sex discrimination for those who don't know there was a constitutional amendment in the USA that banned that. In other words, no direct dictatorial powers, but the Republicans don't really care about what the constitution says in it anyway if they did they would know the 2nd amendment supports establishment of militias and not the right to own a gun if going for an actual originalist interpretation lmao.

One of the major constitutional crises of the United States of America is not itself this court case, but the fact that at multiple levels of government across multiple states and near entirely on the national level Republican elected officials do not care for constitutional law despite their claims, and only care for the law of despots for reactionary causes.

There is a big difference between someone without means breaking the law to survive (not condoning this, just saying) and a bunch of well off politicians violating the constitution repeatedly with the laws they pass to terrorize and hurt people until they're overturned and they just try again. its abusive behavior.

who the bigger problem is and who is responsible for legalizing the carceral slave labor regime that in our opinion is not only unethical but also happens to violate 8th Amendment of the Bill of Rights (bit ironic, given who wrote the Bill of Rights, but that's law for you) due to being cruel and unusual punishment is obvious. (to be clear, our position is abolition and in favor of instead having a system of reconciliation, reparations, restitution, and restoration)

if you want to read it the court case yourselves we found it here https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/read-the-full-supreme-court-decision-on-trump-and-presidential-immunity

We're not a lawyer (or at least, as a system we do not have a law degree) but we studied politics formally for a while and informally for longer. This whole presidential immunity issue was something we hadn't had to think about for years but had learned about in undergrad, so when the news hit about the opinion it was a shock until gears started turning in the brain(s) to think 'hey wait a second this sounds familiar...' life just got in the way of reading this because we like primary sources and now that we've read it we can say we aren't really satisfied by any of the coverage of it we've read. please reblog this or share the info we'd like people to be more informed

[geminisee]

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[deadpresidents]

I just hope these next 4 years go by fast

This election isn't just about the next four years. With Trump in the White House and a Republican Senate at his side, the MAGA movement can pick up where they left off when it comes to packing the federal judiciary with right-wing judges who will control the Supreme Court and appellate courts throughout the country potentially for the rest of the lives of everyone reading this right now. It's the perfect recipe for them to continue stripping reproductive rights away from women nationwide and gives them the opportunity to turn their attention to the other issues that they have been dying to attack, from voting rights to gay marriage and every other extension of personal freedom that has been won by minorities and marginalized people in hard-fought battles over the past 60 years. This is the nightmare scenario that people have been warning folks about for the past few elections. It's here. And there isn't going to be a way to put the toothpaste back in the tube.

The consequences of this election will have a direct, negative impact on your life -- possibly on the entire remainder of your life. This country just re-elected a President with authoritarian tendencies who is the willing puppet of a dangerous Christian nationalist movement that figured out exactly how to manipulate him (through flattery) for their aims. They have created the perfect vehicle for a genuine cult of personality that they can use to achieve the goals they have been very clear about striving for over the past few years. And you can't blame anybody other than the American voters because they not only elected Trump, but they gave him a fucking mandate, with a Republican Senate and potentially a Republican House. They already have a right-wing dominated Supreme Court for the next few decades, and now they are going to ensure that the entire federal judiciary is in their control for years to come. And don't forget the fact that a few months ago, the Supreme Court handed down a decision that gave Presidents sweeping immunity for a broad (and conveniently undefined) range of "official" acts, so Trump is going to go into this second term knowing that not only does he not have to deal with the "guardrails" of responsible adults he had around him in his first term (Mattis, Tillerson, Kelly, General Milley, etc), but he knows he can get away with virtually anything and everything that he wants to do this time around. If you thought that Trump's first term was bad, just understand that they are prepared this time and now he's surrounded himself with people who will do his bidding -- people who are perfectly willing to let Trump be Donald Trump.

I wish there was a reason to cry foul, lodge protests, and challenge the election's results. But this wasn't a rigged election. There isn't any confusion about what the voters really wanted. The American people did this. People you know and care about and who say they care about you are the people who did this. We need to recognize that these elections aren't outliers anymore. Trump's supporters aren't simply chaos agents who got lucky on a bad day for the Democrats. That's the country we live in now and we have to find a way to resist it that actually makes a difference because now they have the keys to all the doors and all of the alarm codes. This country has normalized the conspiracy theories and nativism and racism that has powered the MAGA movement since the moment Trump came down the elevator at Trump Tower in 2015. He's given those people permission to be open with their hatred towards people who aren't like them, and it's actually become surprising to see how many Americans have been eager to take advantage of that. I didn't think I had any misconceptions about this country before Donald Trump because I recognized this nation's history, but I clearly had some misconceptions about people I thought I knew until I saw them wearing a red MAGA hat or noticed they had a gigantic flag with Trump's name hanging where their U.S. flag used to hang. Once that happened, it was like a switch went off with them and they started saying things in ways that I'd never heard them speak. I feel like that's happened to the entire country. It breaks my heart and it pisses me off.

For the past few years, I've been warning everybody about how elections have consequences. I imagine that there are hundreds of posts on this blog with that phrase in all caps listed with the tags. Now the elections have happened, and we have to live with real fucking consequences. And we're going to pass these consequences on to other generations because this is the one that you can't get a do-over on. When you give a movement like this the power and the mandate that this country just gave them, there is no easily rolling back the things that they end up doing. They are going to fundamentally change the lives of people in this nation and especially change the way the younger generations of Americans live and love and learn for years to come. And you have people in your life who made that happen. It's another disgusting day in America -- a prelude to another reprehensible four years (at the very least) -- and I'm ashamed of tens of millions of my fellow Americans because this one is on them. They know exactly who the man is that they voted for, and now we know exactly who they are, too.

[thashining]

Oh? They want to talk about nepotism and abuse of the presidential pardon power??

[onlytiktoks]

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/02/us/politics/kash-patel-fbi.html

[loubella77]

My man 😝 he IS my president hahahahhaha

[foxy-kitsune-fox]

Vote all red (Republican) on ballot in the federal, house, senate, district, major, governor, not blue (Democrat), Election Day. Donald Trump And JD Vance 2024.

~ Baron Tremayne Caple A.K.A. Foxy Fox/Foxy Kitsune Fox/Fox Man/Fox King/King Fox/Gemini Man/Autism Man/Rainbow Man Is A Metrosexual/God Of Autism/King Of Autism/God Of Asperger/King Of Asperger 🦊

[shrinkrants]

...politics dictate the conditions that inform our lives each and every day, so our engagement with politics – the work of shaping those conditions – must be ongoing. We must not allow the electoral circus we’re experiencing to reshape our ideas about what is possible. We should be reshaping the standards of candidates rather than the reverse. For example, we have not been in the streets for the past ten months demanding a more “empathetic tone” towards Palestine. We have been demanding an end to the genocide, an end to apartheid, freedom of movement for Palestinians, and an arms embargo. Those demands must continue to echo across our politics. When it comes to abortion, the codification of Roe was never enough, and it’s still not enough. The list goes on.  Resisting the erosion of our politics also means resisting the normalization of troubling rhetoric. That means rejecting the “she’s a prosecutor and he’s a felon” nonsense. People who argue that being a “prosecutor” positions someone as a savior in an era when carceral systems mark people for mass disposal amid the ongoing normalization of mass death and mass murder are not well-positioned to save themselves or each other as our situation declines. People who believe the label of “felon” should disqualify someone from political life do not understand the nature of the power struggle we’re experiencing. It is Trump’s life as a member of the ruling class, who are typically exempt from criminalization, that has positioned him to do great harm. This is always the case. Think about the oil executives who knew decades ago that they were driving us toward a mass extinction event. These men are responsible for mass death on an incalculable scale. People are dying from heat stroke, fleeing from wildfires, and being drowned by floods as I type because of the conditions that these executives knowingly cultivated. They are mass murderers, but they are not “felons” because the system exists to facilitate their harms in order to generate profit. That same system disposes of people who have no functional role in sustaining the wealth of the ruling class. It does this through the violence of poverty and criminalization. Prosecutors and police feed human beings to a torturous disposal system that robs its victims of both their present and their future. -- Kelly Hayes