#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!!!!!!!!!

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

Quote:

A MARTÍNEZ, HOST:

One in six eligible American voters now has a disability, and a third of eligible voters either has a disability or lives with someone with a disability. This voting bloc is growing as the population ages. That's according to a recent report by Rutgers University. It found that the total number of eligible voters with disabilities exceeds the total number of either Black or Hispanic eligible voters.

[0vergrowngraveyard]

hey, so i don’t usually talk about this sort of thing on here and i’m not the best with words, but i need to say this:

you, the person reading this, have to survive.

you are strong. you are so, SO strong and so extremely brave. don’t give them what they want. they want you to be afraid, they want you to give up hope, but you cannot give that to them. do not give them power over you like that.

it’s only 4 years. that may seems like a very long time, but you survived his first term. you can do it again, i KNOW you can. and if his term somehow lasts longer than 4 years? i still know you can do it. will it be challenging? of course it will, but i and so many other believe that you can make it through to the other side.

take a break from the screens. go outside and just sit with yourself or invite your friends to sit along with you. spend time with your pets, indulge in your hobbies, or try something new. take the time to enjoy the little things in life. maybe reach out to a mutual you’ve never spoken to or who you haven’t spoken to in a while.

just please don’t give up. don’t give up on yourself. don’t let that smelly old man have power over you as a human being.

please survive. i know you can. it’ll be okay.

[moeranda]

We have returned. 🔥

The mood in here is electric⚡️

[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.

[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.

[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

[rory-multifandom-mess]

Hey moot, just wanted to say stay safe if you’re in a red state i don’t know if you are I personally I’m in Texas , red state but I live in a blue city just idk stay safe and don’t lose hope

Thanks man. Luckily I live in a blue state, so I’m not… too in danger? Plus I live in the northeast so I don’t have to worry about abortion being outlawed, thank god. Love having rights to my own fucking body.

Anyway. I hope YOU stay safe. Good luck out there, and you better not lose hope either. I know I haven’t

[ginathethundergoddess]

I fucking hate this country.

[rebootgrimm]

I dunno if I’m just too AroAce for this, but why are y’all thirsting over Luigi Mangione?? Genuine question.

[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.