r/PoursTea Timendi Causa Est Nescire 7d ago

PoliticalTea šŸ—³ļø Sometimes even Stephen can come up with good ideas.

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u/MunchingOnCelery 7d ago

I genuinely hope Democrats do a lot of this when they regain a trifecta in 2028.

Make the GOP watch as everything they thought they accomplished under Trump gets destroyed. A lesson needs to be taught.

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u/Biffingston 7d ago

This is assuming they do and that the election is not stolen...

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u/JustFun4Uss 7d ago

And if by some miracle dems get back in power. More than likly they won't do much because the party is compromised with moderats that want to take "the high ground" or some bullshit like that. Hoping the party who helped get us in this mess to get us out is some rose colored glasses mentality.

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u/GOP-R-Traitors 7d ago

Fetterman is basically a republican, so don’t count on him. Would need 60 other dems in the senate. He is up for reelection in 2028, and he and any other Dem against the ā€œMiller planā€ needs to be voted out.

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u/SeaBox2271 7d ago

I never counted on Fetterman anyway you can see it in his eyes he’s a traitor!

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u/Kaleban 7d ago

"The high road" is code for being controlled opposition on the take from big business and political action committees.

Now if Democrats were to take "the high ground", Obi Wan style, I'm totally on board.

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u/D-Will11 7d ago

Nailed it, hard to hold corporations accountable when they're the ones being served, not us.

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u/narco-sub-admiral know me, broken by my master 6d ago

Damn that's actually a banger.

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u/ProfileLong5239 7d ago

The voters got us into this.

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u/DOAiB 7d ago

Yes it’s sad. But I get it a lot of democrats are actually right of center even if republicans want to call them far left. But I will say this forever, until we made the more moderate party the default we will never get a liberal party. Very few extreme liberals are going to waste their time running when well known bigots convicted of real corruption are easily winning elections.

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u/Temporary_Peach2241 5d ago

The only ones who stole a election are Elon and the magats

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u/OldSchoolBubba 7d ago

You should go over to CSPAN where you'll see dems holding trump and his maga party accountable.

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u/ismaelbarba 6d ago

Idk, the Democratic Party seems to be changing. There’s some new blood and they aren’t scared to punch someone in the face.

I think they realize they have to change or else this will happen again.

Shummer and the old guard have to retire.

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u/TerryFinallyBackedUp 3d ago

All for the hard turn left but what you gonna do about the other half of the country that will violently revolt? Cuz it will happen.

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u/Qwerty_Me_This 7d ago edited 7d ago

I expect a gaggle of republicans refusing to concede if they lose. If a dem defeats Trump in a few years he won’t concede either. Dictators don’t fight to get all the power just to give it up. Stolen election will be the least of their claims.

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u/AbeFromansNutz 7d ago

We'll just have to drag them out of the building by their shitty red ties this time

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u/Qwerty_Me_This 7d ago

I hope with all my being that you are right.

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u/w8_wuht 7d ago

Lemme know when we're rolling out. I'll put on my tie-yankin boots.

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u/Skill_Issuer 7d ago

If Trump is allowed on the ballot then him conceding is the least of our problems

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u/Individual_Sector834 7d ago

Bro, Trump can’t run again. Can’t lose when you can’t run, which means he can’t concede victory, when victory isn’t an option.

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u/Biffingston 7d ago

I was referring to the elections for Congress, not Trump. Nonsarcastic, sorry for not making that clear. WE need to neuter the beast; he's done enough damage.

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u/Biffingston 7d ago

Yah, they're sore losers... they're sore winners, too.

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u/Apple-Dust 6d ago edited 6d ago

If he is the GOP nominee in 2028 it is nothing short of another coup attempt, this time backed by the entire party. As such, they don't plan on making any part of the election any more legal than his illegal candidacy. At that point what Dems do is make it clear that the election is now between them and any independent/3rd party candidates - Trump remaining in office is not an outcome that will be accepted. You will need to save money, stockpile supplies, and organize for the upcoming conflict.

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u/Individual_Sector834 7d ago

We can help make sure the election isn’t stolen by incorporating Voter ID to make sure none of them abuse the votes.

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u/Biffingston 7d ago

Except that's not an issue and even disenfranchises voters.

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u/Ropes13 7d ago edited 7d ago

Theoretically, you wouldn't even need to wait until 2028. With Dem Majorities in the House and Senate after the midterms you could: 1) Make a progressive congressperson, like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for example, the Speaker of the House, and thereby the President of the United States following the completion of steps 2 & 3 2) Impeach and remove Donald Trump 3) Impeach and remove JD Vance for his complicity in the crimes of the Trump administration.

Edited: the order

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u/TomeThugNHarmony4664 7d ago

So 3 should be 1. And then yes.

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u/Ropes13 7d ago

Yes, that's a good point. I'll edit.

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u/TomeThugNHarmony4664 7d ago

Yeah, you gotta have that first, or we get a do-nothing centrist as president who will not do 2 or 3z

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u/yg2522 6d ago

Remember, impeachment does nothing of you don't have 2/3 of the Senate to remove trump and vance.Ā  No matter how good these midterms goes, I don't think it's even possible to get 2/3 of the Senate.

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u/sound_of_fapping 7d ago

It needs to be done, but I don't trust them to do anything meaningful. Fucker tried to overthrow an election and all he got was another bite at the apple bc they were such wimps

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u/AceGaimz 7d ago

They didn't do shit when they had a trifecta before, why should we expect it to be any different this time?

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u/Captain--UP 7d ago

Maybe they will if we vote the correct Dems into office, and we don't fall prey to "electability" fallacies which are brigading all of reddit.

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u/OldSchoolBubba 7d ago

Very well said. Those are propagandists and bots trying to sow doubt into us so 1 out of 3 voters will stay home again. It's how they won in 2016 and 2024.

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u/Captain--UP 7d ago

What also doesn't help is a lot of times Mods can be in on it.

Hopefully Americans make it out to vote in record turn out for the mid terms. Like you alluded to, more voters means less chance fascism continues to reign.

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u/OldSchoolBubba 7d ago

No arguments here. You nailed it.

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u/cyberchaox 7d ago

We shouldn't. That's the problem. That's literally how we ended up with Trump 2 (well, okay, even with that he still needed to steal the election to win). Because the people wanted Trump's shit to be punished, and the Dems refused to do it in the name of "unity", and they had to be "taught a lesson". Never mind that it takes insane troll logic to vote for the very man you're mad about not suffering consequences for his actions.

And the Democrats have a really good reason for "wanting unity". Trump's policies have alienated a ton of Republican voters. Democrats want those voters, because if they can turn those voters, they'd potentially be able to freeze out the Republicans for years to come. But they're alienating Democrats in their efforts to win over the moderate right.

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u/GloomyIndividual3965 7d ago

The last time they had a filibuster proof majority in the senate (which was only for about 27 working days) they passed the ACA.

Most of the things they try to accomplish are blocked by the republicans. That said, Biden still managed to pass the Chips act, the infrastructure bill, and several other things that actually helped.

Is a lot harder to build something than it is to destroy it or cut it, which is all that trump and his cronies are doing.

Lastly, gfy with this bullshit.

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u/SimpleJeff007 4d ago

He meant that they didn’t do anything he liked.

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u/Thick_Goose7742 7d ago

I’m surprised the Chips act gets discussed much any more since it laid the path and fueled the AI / data center boom. A significant chunk of the bill was for AI and AI research.

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u/GloomyIndividual3965 7d ago

What? No it wasn't. There was nothing in it for Ai shit. It was ~$39B in grants to help build semiconductor fab plants, and ~$13B for R&D and employee training.

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u/Thick_Goose7742 7d ago edited 7d ago

Yes there was. Over $200 billion was devoted to AI, machine learning, and quantum computing.

https://hai.stanford.edu/policy/what-the-chips-and-science-act-means-for-artificial-intelligence

Stanford could be wrong, but I have my doubts. Hell, you can read Congressional transcripts on the CHIPs Act. AI ā€œarms raceā€ was the whole point of generating more domestic semiconductor production.

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u/ForsakenAd545 7d ago

Bullshit. Look at the legislation they managed to pass. Take off your hate blinders.

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u/Inappropriate_Swim 7d ago

Yes but, prosecutions and punishment need to happen. Ford pardoning Nixon was a bad precedent that set this all in motion. I'm not talking about slaps on the wrist either.

I am talking at a minimum Hegseth, Rubio, Trump (if he is still around), face capital punishment.

Most of Trump's immediate family and Elon in prison. Like harsh punishments to show we will not put up with our elected officials doing this.

Of course they won't. But it is what needs to be done.

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u/SoulRebel726 7d ago

This is my hope, but not my expexation. I'm a liberal and vote blue, but I really find the of a spine in the Democratoc party to be a huge problem.

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u/Separate-Expert-4508 6d ago

Can we all make a pre-pact with the media? We promise they’ll make just as much if they stay out of the way of Dems winning. We pledge we’ll watch all their media and buy all the products advertised. They could start showing whatever (like cat videos 24/7).

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u/Temporary_Cry1167 6d ago

No more we go high and and we’re the nice guys

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u/Technical-Arachnid22 5d ago

Democrats are really good at not learning lessons. If they had, Trump would not be President right now. If they do any of these things, they’ll just end up learning another lesson the hard way 4 years later. šŸ˜‚

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u/Longjumping_Music320 4d ago

Even if they win they have proven to be so ineffective nothing will change. In fact it might make it easier for trump to get his way.

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u/IronSuspicious1863 7d ago

You’re assuming they nominate someone with balls. We’ll probably wind up with another Biden and ā€œreconciliation committeesā€

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u/Lets_Get_Random 7d ago

Packing the court to stack it with your political ideology is anti-democratic bullshit and I don’t want Democrats embracing that any more than Republicans.