Absolutely, especially when other capitalist countries are doing universal health care and college.

without voter intimidation

I don’t follow. Their entire campaign of aggression has been against Democrats and Democratic areas.

It is voter intimidation, and not only did it backfire, it destroyed their own coalition. They’re losing by double digits in both red and blue districts, and I don’t see how voter intimidation works when both sides have turned on you.

Yes, the Georgia thing looks bad now, just like all the EO’s that took weeks and months for the courts to invalidate. Checks and balances are working, they just don’t work instantaneously.

Oh yes. :)

Always fun that Lemmy shows that people I’ve blocked replied too. I always hope they’re sitting there waiting for a response that’s never going to come.

The regime is acting like popularity is irrelevant, and that only approval from their base matters.

The key word here is ‘acting’.

And, at the same time, ignoring all evidence to the contrary, resulting in the recent bloodbaths at the polls. I’m fine with them shooting themselves in the foot in their refusal to approach electoral politics like grownups.

Voter intimidation only works if you know who to intimidate, and clearly, they do not. It’s why they stopped with the crazy overt gerrymandering.

If nothing else, go on record for posterity.

I also think sending ICE to intimidate voters is likely.

He can try, but there’s no reason to think the 2026 elections won’t be a repeat of the 2025 elections, where two dozen red districts flipped in several states, many of which Donald won by double digits in 2024. ICE doesn’t have the manpower to handle that level of unpopularity, and dialing up the violence will only exacerbate Donald’s unpopularity further.

The registration and comment system is, unfortunately, a little cumbersome to use, but I encourage you all to take a few minutes today and submit a public comment if you can. Maybe mention Musk’s many failures and broken promises, and how you don’t want him to be able to integrate his companies further into our governing infrastructure.

Could be.

I don’t think it’s clear to Donald because he is constitutionally incapable of confronting bad polling data, and Republicans assuredly have an abundance of negative internal polling data, but he’s managed to make himself so unpopular that not even gerrymandering is looking like it can save his majority. (Which is why they stopped doing it.)

His musings on federalizing blue state elections are just that, though: Musings. If they can’t get Minnesota to buckle, they can’t get California or New York to buckle. And dialing up the aggression will only make that more true, not less, and aggression is all Donald knows.

I think it far more likely he’ll try to get a Trump check out to voters before the elections, personally. It would be a whole lot easier to tack another trillion in debt onto the national debt to accomplish the goal of keeping his majority.

Deliberately ingesting tainted food is just stupid.

From your keyboard to God’s ears, man. It’s interesting to me that it doesn’t seem to cross people’s minds that there are a bazillion types of milk too, and you don’t have to drink the nasty kind.

It’s not a gamble. The red states outnumber blue states.

The fun thing, though, is when an unpopular leader realizes that they are so unpopular that they can’t even gerrymander because it may backfire.

Fair points all around.

I imagine most don’t even know what pasteurizing even means. They’re just consuming algorithmically-elevated content with words that health grifters influencers think will scare them into clicks and engagement.

And apparently blue states too.

I’m not sure how to feel about this, TBH.

I wish it were federally mandated that districts could only be redrawn after a new US Census, and to me, that gerrymandering has been overtly and publicly normalized and made legally permissible this year is an eminently bad thing.

But at least one state very publicly fought back.

Don’t take health advice from people who failed biology, friends.

Wild that that sentence apparently needs to be typed. Maybe not here on Lemmy, but it just feels like a good exercise to actually type it out.

That’s an excellent analogy. Thank you.

Yep, they did. I got something like 25% more than the Presidents Day sale and free delivery.

It wasn’t $1 crazy, but it was pretty clear to me the chatbot wasn’t programmed particularly well.

They will, unfortunately, be radicalized by AI slop in ways we can’t currently conceive of. The stupidity and ignorance will be a huge problem in decades to come.

I actually got a sick discount from Mattress Firm a few years ago just by asking their chatbot if it could give me a better deal on a mattress I wanted.

By definition, having one’s life automated means not knowing how to do anything, and that is very strongly reflected in the younger generation right now if you know any educators. “Why do I need to learn this if an AI can do it?” is a common refrain in their classes.

It’s not the life for me.

Exactly.

What Donald is doing has always occurred. It’s just been better hidden, and he doesn’t care to hide any of it. The corruption we’re seeing now is only new if you’ve never cracked open a history book.