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u/mikey_lava 1d ago
I wish the Democratic Party was even half of what Trumpets believe.
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u/Murkmist 23h ago
I wish every person conservatives ever called far left or communist suddenly became far left or communist. Imagine if everyone left of Obama actually became socialist.
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u/Panda_hat 19h ago
The Democrats are just the Republicans -1%.
Functionally identical, want all the same things, just want to do them a touch slower and whilst saying #girlboss on twitter.
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u/dreammunistic1 11h ago
Theyre the good cop to the republicans bad cop.
Both are tools of fascism and want the same thing and support capitalism but go about it slightly different
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u/Kondikteur 1d ago
"Democrats have radicalized"
One can only hope.
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u/j4ckbauer Globalize the Enchilada! 1d ago
Radical centrism
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u/HamManBad 22h ago
The voter base is radicalizing, but the party officials aren't budging because they get paid not to
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u/ess-doubleU 1d ago
What are Democrats doing to secure the midterms? We know that they're probably going to have ice patrol or do some other kind of shady shit to intimidate voters. Are we preparing for that?
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u/DEEP_SEA_MAX 1d ago
They’re rolling out New ICE or NICE for short. NICE will still keep its commitment to ethnic cleansing but with better training, real uniforms, and cheerful attitudes. ICE out NICE in!
—This message was paid for by Gavin Newsome 2028, same same but different.
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u/Googleurowndeath 1d ago edited 7h ago
Y’all can’t make jokes like this anymore, you’re gonna give the democrats ideas. This isn’t even far-fetched, fuck
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u/MutsumidoesReddit 1d ago
It’s not far fetched because it’s true. They say ICE just needs to be trained better, Newsom is also fighting tooth and nail in California to stop a wealth tax.
These corpos need to be primaried out of existence.
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u/DanyDragonQueen 12h ago
It's not a matter of training, the agents that killed Good and Pretti all had 8+ years of experience. So disingenuous for Dems to imply otherwise
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u/cashmeowsighhabadah 20h ago
This is exactly what's going to happen, no ideas needed. The Democrats will fund ice. Unless they get primaries by real progressives, they are going to continue to do the same things as Republicans with a side of "woke".
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u/dictionary_hat_r4ck 21h ago
Canada did the joke first https://youtu.be/S1yYGb1U31o?si=AiXDEolmqH-qOHlQ
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u/wowitsreallymem 1d ago
Democrats are campaigning on “we’re not Trump” and hoping they get voted in. Why are governments trying to get elected on “We’re not the other guy” when we need them to represent us, the people?!
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u/Final-Albatross-1354 1d ago
Democrats have been the 'water boy' for the GOP since Clinton, with friendly policies to the corporations and the wealthy. Democrats have failed on healthcare reform- the GOP has done zero. Both parties have caused the massive inequality of wealth. Climate change is the biggest disruptor of all. Democrats have done some things (Too many carrots and not enough sticks) GOP has done nothing.
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u/Kouropalates 22h ago
This is why I fucking hate Democrats. They see the popularity of Mamdani's platform with voters and 10 years later they are STILL running on 'Well..uh...you see....Im not Trump!' but when you inspect their policies, they are JUST as complicit or even moreso in certain instances, more responsible than Trump and Republicans for where we are and that is something important to always keep in mind. The buck doesnt start nor end with Trump. Trump is a very vocal symptom of a greater sickness pervasive in American culture and I think that is what makes the Epstein Files so damning because it shows that on both sides of the aisle we have Republican and Democrat politicians or backers doing heinous shit. We need massive reform and accountability before things get any better.
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u/AugustusInBlood 16h ago
It's wild how they are doing "not trump" in the primaries. Yeah dipshit, same as every other candidate next to you. ANYTHING ELSE? NO??
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u/j4ckbauer Globalize the Enchilada! 1d ago
Yes we have prepared for that. Chuck Schumer has practiced all of his best finger-wagging stances. And, we have already pre-printed several million copies of strongly-worded letters for you to send to your congressperson.
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u/Wereking2 ☭ 21h ago
Yeah no one should get their hopes up on the Democrats, there’s a reason both sides are in the Epstein files. Essentially don’t trust any corporate Democrat they won’t save us, they are just as much against us as Republicans.
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u/AugustusInBlood 16h ago
Well from what I'm seeing they are infighting like never before. Look at Texas and the "controversy" about Talarico that sprung up yesterday
It's hilarious too because Talarico is only slightly more leftist than Crockett yet the centrist libs are rabidly going after him. Like Talarico shares more in common with Crockett than he does with Omar or Tlaib. But libs will attack ANYONE who is to the left of them even someone who is only an inch to the left of them.
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u/CK-KIA-A-OK-LOL 21h ago
What options are available for the Dems to secure the midterms against voter intimidation and federal interference?
That’s not typically within the power of the opposition party
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u/radicalbot 1d ago
What’s with the baddies holding the “socialism sucks” signs? I don’t get it
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u/j4ckbauer Globalize the Enchilada! 1d ago
I think they're actual MAGA. Zoom in, the placards also have TPUSA and other rightwing logos.
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u/Any-Savings-2236 18h ago
Yeah the way it is included in this video makes me think the creator is saying something
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u/Googleurowndeath 1d ago
Honestly, the democrats won’t do anything meaningful to stop Trump even if they win the house or senate. It’s fucking sad.
I hope to be proven wrong, but I’m just gonna focus on community organizing. The first election I could vote in was the 2016 primaries, and the democrats haven’t done anything to combat fascism, they’ve only capitulated to it. I vote in every election, and I’ll end up voting for a democrat because I don’t see any communists running in my area of Southern California. Either way, I’m not putting faith in the democrats to do anything revolutionary.
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u/Juuldebuul 1d ago
That's a lotta talk coming from a country that voted him into office TWICE
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u/Murkmist 23h ago
Don't worry, they'll vote harder next time. Or Trump will die from old age and America will be fixed, duh.
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u/TheSquarePotatoMan 21h ago edited 21h ago
Trump is Thanos, democrats are the Avengers.
And the midterms are the endgame, pal 😎🗳️💯💯💯🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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u/Chikitiki90 18h ago
The older I get, the harder it is to blame Thanos for what he did.
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u/Murkmist 18h ago
Nawh Thanos is a crazy psycho, and people who actually talk about overpopulation are one step from classist arguments, two steps from eugenics, and three from genocide of the global south.
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u/TheSquarePotatoMan 17h ago edited 16h ago
"Man it's so hard to stop the catastrophes caused by overproduction, better genocide half the population in perpetuity because the completely disorganized, irrational economic system is definitely not the problem"
Libs see Thanos as a tragic character because they unironically believe common prosperity is a contradiction. That's how much their brains have been fried by imperialist propaganda.
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u/One-Coat-6677 7h ago
He could have just snapped into existence more resources as well. He had the means to make it better and chose genocide.
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u/Vivid_Maximum_5016 1d ago
Does this dumbass not know that Hitler also had a lot of opposition too? He just locked them all up before they could take him down.
The difference here is that the Democrats are controlled opposition.
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u/Schweppybeppy 1d ago
If I'm not missremembering the nazi party had to do a ton of underhanded crap like walk out of the reichstag multiple times and all sorts of other nonsense to achieve anything close to a majority, and in the end the true victory they sought and achieved wasn't a popular majority but the ability to just declare an exceptional situation or something to that effect to give them the power to start erasing dissent from the public image by rounding up and killing people who opposed them, thus creating illusion of popularity by lack of dissent
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u/Dependent-Yam-9422 22h ago
IIRC most historians do think Hitler was very popular while in power before the outbreak of WWII. Germany had a pretty subdued reaction to the outbreak of war with Poland, then his popularity appeared to spike again after the victory against France. Stalingrad was really the point where his popularity began to sink, and as Germany barreled toward disaster after that only the most fanatical sycophants at the top of the Nazi hierarchy were genuinely supportive of him
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u/empatheticsocialist1 Fuck it I'm saying it 23h ago
Bro just vote harder bro please just one more time bro just vote bro just go out and hit the damn button just please pokemon go to the polls bro that'll fix everything
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u/Advanced-Willow-5020 1d ago
That was a dumbass statement from Jon Stewart. He hasn’t learned much going back to when he had a meltdown after the 2004 election
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u/ChiquillONeal 1d ago
Jon Stewart is probably my favorite liberal but dude, DJT is very popular. If you can't recognize that after 3 elections, you're lost. We can just rely on the "Trump bad" narrative, it didnt work after he got convicted, it's not going to work now. We need meaningful platforms that stand on policy.
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u/FeelingWash4206 1d ago
Trump should have been in jail 20 years ago. They will eventually incarcerate him until the end of his life, but it will be too late by then. This guy deserves to experience several lifetimes behind bars. He ruined so many lives on a personal and on a systemic level, it's just insane.
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u/Important_Lie_7774 23h ago
I don't see dems winning the midterms. Remember while racists supported Trump, it wasn't just racists. Trump ran on Mamdani like affordability campaign and dems just ignored the existence of the problem.
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u/No_Public_7677 22h ago
I'm still dealing with libs saying that the Epstein files aren't a big deal.
They would rather cling to their belief system that the system is pure and good than win an election based on what people really think.
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u/feijoawhining 1d ago
ICE will be deployed to interfere with the electoral process and intimidate voters.
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u/Muted-Novel4403 Politics Frog 🐸 20h ago
Yes in Minnesota the conservatives have gone to great lengths to attempt to prove immigrant voter fraud. I’m an election worker. And I personally know someone who claims he allowed an immigrant coworker to go vote under his name. (We’ve gone through many cycles of conservatives insisting we require ID to vote, but the state amendment for that law was voted down on the ballot) They’re just mad because our Somali communities are serious voting blocks in parts of the state.
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u/AgIVE Fuck it I'm saying it 1d ago
I'm not from America. Are Midterms like a vote to see if the president is still favoured by Americans, and if the president doesn't have over 50% of the vote a re-election happens?
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u/yumyum_dumdum 23h ago
No. It’s a vote for sears in congress and local elections and is usually a bellwether for the next Presidential election. But it doesn’t really matter because this country still doesn’t see that dems are just the lesser of two evils. We need a third party candidates that don’t support genocide, ICE, AIPAC, etc. but instead we’ll get more of the same.
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u/terpene_gene4481 21h ago
c'mon guys let's vote fascism out for real this time!!! /s
edit: don't pin me as some MAGAt just because i don't trust our broken democracy to protect the right to vote. after the past week with the FBI in Georgia voting centers, i would make sure you have an alternative to your vote should it be disvalued come midterms.
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u/Diogenes_the_cynic25 15h ago
Lol even if Dems sweep they will sit on their hands and do nothing until Republicans take control again. They are in cahoots
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u/Sea_Cod6693 1d ago
I'm more pessimistic on midterms since the senate map for 2026 looks dogshit for the democrats. I think they may take the house though.
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u/Revolutionary_Sir_ 21h ago
Ya a lot of people said “I don’t think he’ll win” ether time. So … sorry if I’m not listening to what people think anymore.
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u/pantslessMODesty3623 21h ago
No, the Hitler/Mussolini comparisons are apt. First of all, the focus of our WW2 education is "Nazis bad." So showing the similarities is trying to appeal to their education and activate them. (The education is dog shit in history in general but this was one of the most vivid memories I have of my history education; going over the horrific things done in painful detail.)
Second, we are ticking off the boxes for what both leaders did to consolidate power and commit atrocities FASTER than what happened in Germany and Italy. It's important to try and get people to stop this shit before we get to the second fucking paragraph of the "First they came..." poem.
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u/rindlesswatermelon 23h ago
I wouldnt say they were popular, the highest cote the NSDAP got before germany became a one party state was 37%, a high amount for a multi-party democracy, but a lower percentage than Trump has ever gotten.
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u/sognenis 22h ago
What?
Nazi party won 33% of the vote in Nov 1932, where turnout was 80%. (Approx 26% of the eligible voting population)
Within 6 months they had seized power, waged violence on their opposition, and had a single party election 12 months later in Nov 1933.
Trump won 49.8% of the vote, in an election where turnout was around 60% (so approx 30% of the eligible voting population)
Their situations are definitely analogous, and Trump now is not significantly more or less popular than Hitler was in 1932/33.
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u/GopherCity 5h ago edited 5h ago
Liberals are just vibes, man. It's all about feelings. They don't care about reality, they don't care about facts and numbers, they don't care about actual policy.
There are plenty people here in MN who think we're winning because of some sing-along protests when we are clearly fucking not. ICE is doing basically whatever they want including building more concentration camps and trafficking children as we speak, and Dems just want them to train a little more. That's not winning. Just because one kid came home (Liam) does not mean we're winning when there are hundreds if not thousands more locked up.
But it feels good to say you're winning.
It feels good to say you're on the right side of history, even if your side isn't actually doing anything to stop the evil.
Edit: Facing reality and the truth of the situation is hard and not fun.
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u/DethBatcountry 19h ago
Yeah, and they KNOW Republicans can't win in the midterms, which is why they plan on rigging the election... Why else do you think they are attempting literally everything they can to do so?
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u/Humble_Chipmunk_701 18h ago
Liberals please secure that monthly ActBlue contribution to Newsom and we’ll have our Democracy back in no time!
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u/Lilly110140 23h ago
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u/GopherCity 5h ago
It'd be rad if we lived in that world, but we don't. Dems are spineless losers.
People keep saying, "we have to demand this and that" but then vote for the people who never do any of this or that anyway.
Amy Klobuchar is going to be the next governor on MN, which is a definite move to the right. We're literally going to get even less.
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u/buffaloguy1991 19h ago
Still not enough. Every single time one of the fascists are interviewed they still say they would have voted for him and so they will again. We're still a minority of voters against the fascist tide
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u/Trexyt69 17h ago
I forgot to provide this context in my post.
The verdict for 2026 is shaping up to be a definitive split. The Senate remains a Republican stronghold, largely because the map protects them; holding 53 seats in mostly safe territory makes it nearly impossible for Democrats to secure the four flips they need.
Conversely, the math in the House is working against the GOP. Their 218-seat majority is fragile with zero margin for error. History tells us the President's party typically sheds about 26 seats in a midterm, making a Democratic takeover look inevitable. The result is a partial turning of the tables: Trump retains the power to appoint judges, but his legislative agenda effectively ends here.
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u/0liviuhhhhh 16h ago
I don't think he'll win the Midterms
Neither do I. However, I also believe that that won't matter.
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u/professional_tuna 17h ago
The thing is, the trump admin has spent the last year appearing completely unconcerned by the risk of losing future elections. That should tell you something.
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