Tom Clancy’s US Politics Thread

Goodbye America

Maybe if the Democrats weren't such complete fuckups, we wouldn't be getting the insane cultists controlling the asylum again.

But it is what it is. Look forward to Hunter Biden investigations and impeachments.

It's potentially going to be MUCH worse than that.

For a start, almost anything the Dems want to do in the next two years will be curtailed. Then, we can imagine the cutoff of aid to Ukraine, the fellating of big bad Vlad, the US cutting funding or withdrawal from NATO, further removal of human rights that are standard elsewhere and so on.

All entirely possible if the GQP wins big.

Based on what? Hope that the moderates will win the day?

The Trump years have taught them there's no legal consequences for doing the things they want to do, so not sure that it just being a clown show is realistic, tbh.

If they win big here, he'll run again and this time, there won't be the restraint of possible consequence to hold them back.

There's already stories emerging of people waking up to notifications that their postal vote has been refused and that they'll have to go and vote in person, with the police then turning people away, effectively controlling who has the right to vote. Add that to armed right-wing terrorists policing the voter lines and it seems likely that this is going to be a shitshow. They're likely to get the house, if they get the Senate too, it'll be terrible.

It might start with talk of Hunter Biden, but there'll be no end to what they'll try if/when they win in 2024. Term limits out of the window, redrawn constituencies, loaded courts overruling electoral decisions they don't like and the worse it gets, the more likely that the inevitable nutcase decisions spill out and affect everyone else in the world.

Big announcement from Donny on Tuesday 15th. Whatever could it be?!

Yeah, sorry, I don't mean it to sound quite so "DOOOOOOM!".

But it could be a bad day today.

I think that's very possible. The more I think about it I do believe a lot of these issues are because of Obama. To qualify that I mean that his existence as President, a black man, created a mental schism for quite a fair few people who were happy to tolerate black people being movie starts, athletes but leader of their country was a bridge too far,. obviously it must have been a mistake or a conspiracy after that it kinda writes itself.

It’s going to be interesting to see how much the Republicans win. In 2010 there was the infamous shellacking, where Dens lost like 70 seats in the House. There’s no way they are going to lose that many today. Which, when you consider the gerrymandering and voter suppression tactics, deep polarization and the whipping up of fear over inflation, immigration, crime and TEH COMMIEZ is actually good news. Because it means that while the right and it’s media (read: all of them) control the narrative fewer and fewer people are voting for that shit

The GQP will pull Congress of the rails. This might make their base squeal in delight, but frankly it’s going to sink them come 2024. They have been attacking Biden over inflation. Being in control of Congress when, as is likely, the country goes into recession, is not going to be good for them. They have ZERO policy ideas beyond making libs cry.

The American people aren’t, as a whole, going to be down with their government being hijacked to play out lunatic conspiracy-driven politics while they lose jobs and money

It’s also worth noting that Trump is great for the Republican base, poison to anyone else.

Hopefully he gets indicted Friday

I read lots of big cunt conservatives crowing his the Dems are scared of Trump, that’s why the famously liberal US justice system is manufacturing all these legal issues for Trump. As if Trump isn’t the best get out the vote that the Dems could hope for

The inherent issue is as you stack all parts of the chain with MAGA lunatics who are all election deniers and you have a situation where a republican loses, it completely fucks up the chain of certification sowing more doubt in election integrity because their perceived reality is that any time a Dem wins it's rigged and when a republican wins the system works. The country is fucked.

Why same day registration? That sounds like setting yourself up for any potential trouble that could prevent you from voting. If they care about elections, wouldn't they want to register earlier, just in case (I don't really know how American elections work though, maybe it's not possible for them for whatever reason)?

Same here, except no Republicans.

Also got to vote on four state amendments. One of which would have enshrined bring a right to work state into the state constitution

Enjoyed taking my daughter in with me - she’s not missed an election with me since I carried her into her first mid teens at 18 months old - and telling her in, relatively hushed tones, why weren’t voting for Lee because he’s the Republican governor who helped thousands of Tennesseans choke to death so he could gain the favor of Trump

The screeching of “immense red wave, and if not it’s fraud!” from the usual suspects is unnerving. Though watching Small Face Charlie Kirk going into panic mode is funny.

Don’t want to jinx it but it looks like Lauren Boebert is being ousted. That deserves a lol