#u.s politics

[thezephyrus7]

It’s time.

[reddsavian]

With Kamala Harris likely becoming the democratic nominee this election, she'll need to pick a vice president. Some ideas have been floated around, but I think I have a winning choice. She needs someone who is articulate. Someone who cares about the truth. Someone with experience taking on pathological liars. Someone who could easily pass for 35. That's right...

HARRIS/BREWIS 2024!!!!!!!!!

[inkshine]

Take this as a sign to remind people to get vaccinated organically, everyone. Post about vaccines on social media, talk to your friends and family about them, et cetera because we are about to enter the long haul.

[moeranda]

We have returned. 🔥

The mood in here is electric⚡️

[shipperwolf1]

HEADS-UP FLORIDA!!!!

[racefortheironthrone]

Did Ralph Nader in 2000, actually play a decisive role in Gore not winning Florida? And did he do it knowingly?

Yes and yes.

[hellyeahscarleteen]

"The election is a necessary– an essential – crucial– but not sufficient, part of this larger project of fighting for everyone's safety, rights and freedom, now.

(And remember, if everything was actually hopeless, various forces in power wouldn't be working so hard to make you believe that everything was hopeless now. Ahem. With the election or beyond.)

To, uh, state the obvious:

So much has been broken for a long, long time, now.

It's beyond time for wide-ranging systemic transformation."

[mysticaiwitchery]

Hey, sorry I haven’t been on here much. Lost motivation (again) and then the election happened. I’ve been posting a lot of politics on main ( @rebootgrimm ) about what’s going on and what to do, so follow that. I’ll reblog the two posts I’ve made about it onto here for viewing purposes.

To my fellow pagans and witches, we’ve survived persecution for centuries, we can do it again.

[untraditionaleagle]

I love you all, we've got this, I've got you. If you're feeling helpless right now, examine what small thing you can do, right now, to help yourself or others. Drink some water, get something to eat, donate to a fundraiser. I am stubbornly picking you up out of the blood and grit and holding your hand oh so gently into tomorrow. The only way out of this is through, and we will do it together.

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

Welp. That's one way out of it...

A couple of weeks ago, I was seeing video thumbnails on YouTube about how the MAGA-sphere was complaining about how President Jimmy Carter said he wasn't coming to Trump's second inauguration.

And now, he's dead.

It would be hilarious if he showed up in ghost or ghoul form...

[petiolata]

Got my voting done 💪 As for this sticker…well nice effort kid, but don't bother going to art school.

I know a lot of people have been pushing the early voting, but I didn't do that because the lines/wait times were longer in my city than they are on actual election day. My wait time in line today was like…45 seconds. My partner who early-voted had to wait in line for over an hour.

All in all the process of going and voting for me took about 30 minutes. It was a long and confusing ballot with seven amendments and propositions on it. Multiple gambling ones, whether the total abortion ban should be overturned, a minimum wage raise, and some other ones.

On a different note, Republicans from both shitass Missouri and Texas tried to block election monitors from being able to check voting sites for compliance. They lost. But it did get me thinking about what they were trying to do with that.

I suspect it's more than just that they wanted to cover up election interference. I think rather that it was a move meant to demoralize people; to demonstrate such corruption and disregard for the democratic process that it would make people believe there is no point in showing up to vote because their votes won't count due to being lost or wrongfully disqualified.

In essence psychological warfare meant to discourage people. I'm not saying they *couldn't* be trying to cover up interference; they could have accomplished both with that move.

[inkshine]

"Why don't you at least try to respect people who voted for trump-" I have enough respect for myself to not swallow my pride and scrape to people who don't respect me, some of whom genuinely want members of my community dead, hope this helps!

[ermesskiss]

IMPORTANT - please reblog

The U.S. senate is conducting an outreach survey about pressing issues including ceasefire in gaza and funding for 🇮🇱

Please take time to fill out the survey and spread especially if you’re living in the U.S.

note: (what is above was copied and pasted from this twt post)

something else, these questions are set up to be intentionally bias (you can see in the photo above) so please answer thoroughly and correctly!!

i don't trust the U.S government but taking this survey will give Congress an insight on peoples views on these events. As long as people are choosing the options that are opposed of being pro-Israel or bigoted i think it'll be fine (in theory)

here are two questions that are very misleading

as you can see they are trying to paint china's government and immigrants in a bad picture, hopefully anyone who is reading this understands that

1) the U.S government is using China's government in a way to look like they steal Americans information but in reality they don't care about our privacy. if they did, Mark Zuckerberg (owner of Facebook) wouldn't have several cases of taking peoples data and selling it

also that banning TikTok is not because of peoples information, it's about the fact that U.S citizens have an easier access to learn things that the Government doesn't want them to know and spread (e.g. Israel colonizing and commiting genocide on the people of Palestine) there is even a video of a government official talking about this (if I can find it I'll come back and link it here)

2) calling immigrants violent (probably referring to middle eastern ppl and muslims) is a way to convince people to deport them, obviously being xenophobic, and other stuff

if you can understand that these questions are bigoted and quite loaded it should be easy to understand which option is morally right.

at the end of the survey they will ask you what topics you care about and what Congress should focus on. don't leave it empty.

say something like:

• call for a permanent cease-fire in Gaza

• stop the funding of the illegal occupation of Israel

• hold big tech American companies accountable for using unethical Congon cobalt to make electronic devices

• literally anything important

putting one of these in the box before submitting will highlight that people want the government to call for a permanent cease fire and to stop funding Israel and etc.

sorry, this was a lot, I didn't plan to write this much out but I thought it was important to add additional information to inform people about the situation. hopefully this made sense!!!

[thevvitchbitch]

Buffalo, N.Y. 🇵🇸🍉 11/18/23

[shipperwolf1]

Vance essentially argues that Trump is a king.

JD Vance has tweeted that the executive branch is not beholden to the judiciary.

These court orders judges are tossing out? Ignored.

Because who's going to stop them? Who's physically going to stop them.

Nobody. A piece of paper certainly won't.

We're going to have to save ourselves.

[racefortheironthrone]

Is most country like Britain or former parts of the British Empire (which I sometimes forget includes the United States), blue represents the more ring-wing/conservative leaning party and red is for the more left-wing/liberal leaning part, but an exception being America and wondering how come?

Great question!

This is actually a recent phenomenon in American politics.

The U.S didn't traditionally have a stable color-coding system for much of its history, in part because American party systems had a very different history that was ideologically distinct from the socialist vs. liberal vs. conservative European model. However, to the extent that there was a color-coding tendency, it was that Republicans were often blue (because of the Union Army's uniforms) and Democrats were often red (because of red-baiting).

However for the 2000 Presidential Election, for some reason all of the networks adopted Democratic = Blue, Republican = Red for their election night coverage and it stuck and now we have this whole concept of "red states" and "blue states" that the rest of the world finds very confusing.