non north American curious: Donnie announced a third term yesterday I think, does this means that Obama can also run? it would be interesting to see it, because from what I see in social media, Obama is loved and missed
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If Obama tried to run under this pretense ol'Donnie will have him in prison on Trumped up charges as his first political prisoner.
There gonna say: you are allowed two consecutive terms. Obama already had those.
Dirty trick that should not be able to stand. But this is an authoritarian society we are talking about
No, Obama can’t run. Only Lumpty Trumpty or any other Republican gets a third term.
donald is going to be a lot tougher to kick out of the white house this time...
Elections are done by the states, as clearly outlined in the Constitution. If Red states want to opt out, they're welcome to do that, but the Blue states (and most Red ones) are going to have their elections anyway, and they will count.
All the rest of it is just smoke.
The point is to force an constitutional crisis to allow the Supreme Court to rubber stamp the coup.
don't forget this affects local elections too. parents with kids in school? paying taxes? - scared to vote, so they won’t. know who will? boomer era nazis.
Imagine what the US would be like right now if Kamala had won. The US likely wouldn't be as hated or disgraced as it is now.
There’s no conceivable way things would’ve been worse under Kamala. She wouldn’t have played three card monte with the nations coffers, she would have been professional and dignified when talking to press and to foreign leaders, and she wouldn’t have hammered on the DARVO button at the first sign of criticism.
Anybody that disagrees, well, enjoy your koolaid.
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It would be doing almost the same thingsz but it would be less in your face about them and the billionaire owned media would be quiet about them. We'd be just as hated and disgraced, but the average USian would be once again blissfully unaware of just how hated. At least until the reality inventing machine needed to gin up support for a war, then all the constant anti US sentiment in the places the empire has colonized will be shown in 4k as if it came out of nowhere while the public hoovers it up along with insipid platitudes like "they hate is for our freedumb".
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For me as a European it's weird why there is such push back against voter ID. could someone explain what the deal is? in my country you can't vote without an ID with a photo and I think it's normal that you need to prove who you are when you vote.
We have that as well but it's managed by each state instead of nationally. Usually with a state drivers license or state level ID card.
People are not against voter ID, we are against bad voter ID that disenfranchises people before an election.
We have our IDs, but they want more than that, they want birth certificates becuase apparently, they all want passports, birth certificates which is really hard to get because not everyone still has their natural name. Social Security Cards are hard because the Social Security Administration is a pain in the ass to work with and sometimes they don't have your information either.
To get a new SSN card, you're going to need your parent's SSN as well. Which is incredibly difficult because not every parent knows their SSN by heart or better yet, some people don't even know where their parents are, some people don't even have relationships with them anymore.
It's literally such a hassle, the regular common Joe/Jane is not gonna do that, they're going to ignore it becasue they don't want to deal with the hassle because the regular common person in America is working hard and working a hard life at that.
The problem is that in this country there is no automatically issued national id. To get one costs money and takes time, something the demographic they are trying to prevent voting does not have in abundance.
Also, elections are run by the states in this country, and most do already require a proof. My state requires a utility bill, or ID, or something that proves you live at the address, which are tied to voter roles. So the ID thing is a red herring mostly, and non-citizen voters are usually limited to tiny fractions of percentages if any. It is not an actual problem, just a useful one.
Not US but the answer is simple.
IDs are a taboo in the US (otherwise the government would interfere with your privacy or something).
So they have
- Passports (too bad that a small percentage of population has)
- Birth certificates (yeah, super secure /s, in practice just a way to bar people that changed their name/surname)
- Driving licenses/liquor id: these are the closest to IDs but technically they are not ID. The proposed changes are exactly for stopping accepting driving licenses
- SSN: don’t even make me started
It's actually pretty interesting to watch the downfall of an empire in real time.
It will splash all over everyone. This will affect the whole world :(
It sucks to live in interesting times. It's an old curse come true.
Incredible that it has even been 20 months, and no one is stopping Shitler.
Externally there is no possible way of really stopping him that wouldn't lead to full on war considering how desperate he seems about declaring martial law. And no matter how pathetic the US is looking right now, they are sadly still the number one military might. (Maybe apart from China, what they lack in tech they definetly have in numbers).
A lot of nations already reduced trade relations, but that at most will lead to internal unrest. Most nations barely humor his antics, but there are also a lot of nations dependant on the US.
Internally the most likely candidates to dispose of him would be the rich and powerful oligarchs, but they are currently raking in trillions of profit for peanuts in bribes. The only two things left are either a military coup (which wasn't that unlikely just a while ago), or a full on civil war.
Americans, where is your outrage??
we’re too tired, poor, sick and shitting ourselves. oh, and convinced the problem is the immigrants or homeless or brown or trans folks.
We're waiting for the Midterm Election. Once that's over, and the Dems have taken over Congress on a bloodbath, we'll release our outrage.
We won't be electing the same loser weenies we elected last time, who absolutely REFUSED to hold MAGA accountable, and then helped them get back on their feet and steal the election again. The next Dem Congress will be angry, and seeking to punish MAGAs for the corruption and treason.
I feel like my outrage fuse broke the first time he was elected.
Thank GOD the Democrats DIDNT make it Political when they were in Office!
Last time they had difinitive control over the government was 2010 which they used to introduce obamacare. The 50 50 split of congress during last biden wasn't enough to do anything legally.
You could make a point that it's obvious that laws don't exist, and dems should've done what cons are doing now illegally, but that's not dems are, not what their voting base is comfortable with, and there is an argument that it wouldn't do the country any good anyway.
Reminder that when they did have the definitive control of the government that there was Lieberman in the punch bowl that made The ACA be a boon for insurance companies by removing the public option.
May he rot in hell.
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