IMO, attacking project 2025 is worse then a waste of time
why?
assumption: The goal is to win in Nov
Fact: to win, we need turnout from Biden supporters and votes from undecided
Theory: 90% of Americans don't pay much attn to the news; only at most one or two top stories will get noticed Project 2025 is to complex; no one will pay attn
Abortion, Jobs, Immigration, that is what we will win on
Heather Cox Richardson explains why America has never been in this moment before.For more context on how unaware the American people might be of the movement...
Fascists do not make the trains run on time. They jail anyone who complains about the trains being late. Fascists do not rebuild the economy, the pass spoils to their cronies. Fascists do not solve problems, they create scapegoats. And Trump is a Fascist.
"The proof of #Biden's ability to run the country is the fact that he is running it. Successfully. Not a debate performance against a pathological lying sociopath."*
Boosted some posts about how even if they hold onto power, Dems aren't willing to and don't have any meaningful plan to expand the court. This is true.
But also: even if they win in November, the radical right isn't going to let them take those offices without a fight. J6 was a dress rehearsal.
We already voted & got a relative best-case scenario in 2020, *and yet we're here now anyway* 👀
... press would agree with, though in other wording:
" The more he is seen as a stubborn old man who leaves the real work to his courtiers, the more he will undermine Americans’ faith in their system of government. Representing America abroad, Mr Biden will project decrepitude—to the delight of China and Russia and the dismay of America’s allies." 1)
@timo21 #USpol #BidenDebate #TheEconomist (2/2) ...democracy is that voters can choose their rulers, but Mr Biden and Mr Trump offer a choice between the incapable and the unspeakable. Americans deserve better." This is the wrong wording. Biden is not incapable. However, in the debate, he was incapacitated. He was not up to the debate job that night. ANYONE who who's honest to themselves has to admit that this is not the performance needed for a leader of a superpower.
In 1992, the really successful billionaire entrepreneur, #Ross Perot, founder of #EDS, competed for the US presidency. He only received 18.9 % of the vote.
From this, we could learn that a billionaire with no political track record would never win the presidency. Except that, we all know, in 2016 this is what happend.
It is true that the #US mainstream media have very much lost their legitimacy as the Fourth Estate.
However, there are foreign media that do a superb job. One of them is #TheEconomist, which maintains a bureau in the capital and has its own research arm, e.g. modeling (US) elections.
In the intro of this week's #USpol podcast, #ChecksAndBalance, the 3 #US journalists agree that #Biden's chances of being re-eleclected have shrunk considerably...
#USpol and the reneged rise of #fascism
If you have already heard of #MAGA's #Project2025* for taking over the #US totalitarian style, good. Here's your recap of the 900+ pages.
A man who literally tried to overthrow the government is running for president and everyone is out here treating it like it is normal. 1/6 was a coup. Trump and his cronies planned it and executed it. Just because they failed doesn’t make it ok.
What the fuck is wrong with the American media? (Rhetorical question, they are a bunch of nepobaby fascists)
Trump says he has 'nothing to do' with Project 2025, disagrees with some of its elements
Former President Trump sought to distance himself from the conservative Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 on Friday, saying he has “nothing to do” with the initiative and disagrees with some of its aspects. Trump said in a post on Truth Social that he is not involved in the right-wing... #press
And I hate that it’s taken me all this time to finally get my head around solid techniques for breaking through the mind control of someone who hasn’t already been somewhat disillusioned.
Don’t forget the power of questions in the role of breaking down a person’s manipulated worldview.
Core to that is trust. You believe what you do because of the sources you trust. Why do you trust those sources?
They believe what they do because they trust their sources. Why?
This conversation alone would do more to find common ground with a MAGA than arguing about the Constitution or rule of law. Get them to think about trust rather than to act automatically. Get them to tell you what gets them to trust someone. Then induce more critical thinking and self-awareness by asking follow-up questions about that trust.
I started looking into Project 2025 so I could be more informed about it and...wow. This is really bad, absolutely horrible. They want to get rid of anything that benefits citizens and protects children and workers.
American is in big trouble - big trouble. The decent folks over there a very worried about their future and the fragile state of freedom. I am seeing alarm bells going off everywhere and calls to this thing called Project 2025 broadcast far and wide - look it up, it’s a recipe to dismantle an entire government once Trump gets hold of power. It’s a fascist regime with terrifying consequences. No one should turn their back on this because it has serious ramifications for the entire world
How the pro-Israel lobby bought the US Democratic Party
In the past four years, in response to the success of nine progressive Democratic candidates who refused to toe AIPAC’s line, the pro-Israel lobby radically changed its approach:
Instead of funding candidates in general elections, "it moved to defeat progressive candidates in primaries, thus preventing them from sure victories in their urban safe seats in Democratic strongholds."
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#USpol #Economics
#MAGAnomics #MustReads
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As I was discussing the "root of all evil" in the #US present-day #Republican political thinking with
@Jeramee a while back, I had my misgivings about dating the Republican counteratta…
Axios is right-leaning, but their journalists are warning of the dangers from #TFG's annihilistic, antidemocratic, & cruel platform:
"You have to love how Axios’s plain language summary of Trump’s platform is “He’ll set up concentration camps and jail his political enemies” - literally fascism and tyranny - but somehow this all gets sidelined in our day-to-day discourse." -W Stancil
Starting July 1, Hungary will assume the rotating presidency of the Council, during a period of transition for both the Parliament in Strasbourg and the Commission.
Ignore polls. Times have changed. The pollsters are probably having a hard time getting anyone except MAGA types. The only poll that matters is in November.
#JoeBiden can achieve a legacy even greater than #LBJ by also withdrawing from his re-election bid and then leading a *unified* #DemocraticParty to VICTORY in #November.
I am asking people to vote for Biden because it reduces my chances of being murdered in a pogrom. Antisemitism is getting worse and I appear more visibly trans every day.
