In really big cities they do have some sway, but at least in Seattle there was also a lot of turn over in the city council that looks more friendly to the left, and any success in a big city can be used as a policy example.
NYC on the other hand is a different animal entirely, I’d hesitantly say Mamdani is the most powerful city mayor on the planet, and if he’s not he’s top 3 because of how central the city is not just nationally but globally.
I don’t know of any other mayoral races besides this and NYC, but that alone is huge. Two of the largest shipping hubs on both sides of the country being run by people who want to make life better for as many people as possible, could be both the marker and catalyzing agent for the exact sort of tide shift you’re describing
Bannon is a piece of shit ghoul but of MAGAs most influential assholes he’s ones of the few that has enough guile to understand what will happen if they somehow lose the gambit they’ve embarked upon. Things are only going to escalate from here after the big loses they suffered Tuesday and as the economy continues to ride a unicycle on a 2x4 across the Grand Canyon
Rest in Piss
I prefer “born on third thinking they hit a triple”
Maybe we’ll do better this time? Who am I kidding, somebody warm up the freedom fries
The upsetting side of this is that it means MTG actually believes in things beyond her own self enrichment, which is a good quality, and means I have to begrudgingly give her a modicum of respect for it because it makes her vastly more human than most of the rest of the ghouls in the GOP/MAGA
The only thing I don’t like about it is that Paul Rueben’s doesn’t deserve the association
He’s a more problematic drinker than me, how is he still kicking
At this point I don’t even think this would cause anything to be done. Whatever is in those files is either so demented and off the wall that their release would guarantee a violent uprising or is deeply personally embarrassing to Trump and would destroy his brand and image.
I can’t even begin to think of what the former could possibly be considering what Americans are already letting happen without rioting. But the latter, a credible video of him being ass and mouth fucked or otherwise dominated by other men or even worse ,a woman, might actually shake his base off of him. And it would annihilate his tough guy man’s man gimmick
What’s wild is that growing up I was told this is exactly what democrats do and why they want to raise taxes. I don’t have much good to say about the DNC but I’ve never seen corruption as blatant as this before from any politician on the national level in this country.
As many as the corps are willing to pay for until we rebuild the system to prevent them from being able to, or just destroy them outright
By “video on the internet”, you meant a classic episode of Futurama
So I went to the first no kings and several of the other big “protests” that are really just big rally’s with police sanctioned marches, I don’t criticize those attending even though I was and am less than enthused by how anti disruptive and status quo the organizers insist on being. I’m not going to the big one in my state tomorrow because it feels like a trap this time. Just got a bad feeling
Easier to design propaganda when you understand what the people you want to propagandize think
It’s been my worry for the past few weeks, tensions are so high and the administration is itching for the excuse to become even more heavy handed and draconian. I’m of the opinion this(not this moment but the full situation we find ourselves in) is all gonna end in massive violence one way or the other but I worry about this protest specifically because of how it’s been organized.
Requiring full and and email to RSVP to it? And how they’ve been working alongside the cops to make sure it’s just a demonstration and not a proper disruption. To me that screams bad opsec at minimum and if just one of the protests gets violent the fascists will get that list and use it as an excuse to round folks up and scare the shit out of others who want to stand against them.
I don’t want to tell people not to go, I went to pretty much every associated protest all summer in my area. But everyone should be extremely careful, don’t RSVP just show up, be wary of any bridges, and most importantly DONT BRING YOUR FUCKING PHONE
I’ve said this a few time on here, but I’m originally from spitting distance from her district, and based on my experience with so many other folks just like her; protecting children, specifically from conspiratorial trafficking and SA, is her number 1 priority, she’s usually really fucking bad at identifying ways to productively do so because she’s very poorly educated and indoctrinated, but if she has 100% confirmation Trump raped a child, which isn’t unlikely, she would almost certainly turn on him like it seems she has.
It’s very telling that the account you and I were arguing with hasn’t said shit in 5 days ain’t it.
Luckily it won’t just be China! WW3 on deck!
Do yourself a favor and don’t think too much about that unless you want to completely quash any remaining hope you had in humanity