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Don't threaten me with a good time. That'll just make Republicans look even worse.
No it won’t
It’ll be ‘see, we voted in Democrats but nothing changed’
Sadly they will just is it as “looks at the dems doing nothing” and still worship the pedophile
They can look worse? The pedophilia, rascism, fraud, corruption, destroying our alliances, screwing up our defense stock piles, threatening neighbors and NATO allies, starting another pointless war, destroying the White House, covering for Epstein, making concentration camps, commiting felonies and raping people left any room?
Sadly, all of that isn't enough for MAGA. Trump vetoing literally everything would even look bad to them. Consider this, a MAGA veteran has his benefits slashed bcz Trump vetoed a bill with bipartisan support. Even the most indoctrinated would take notice of that.
They are in a cult. He could literally saw off the veteran's leg and people would still vote for him. They blew up a school and killed 200 little girls. There is literally no bad enough.
They’ll notice, but then Fox will give them some talking points to justify it to themselves.
All the talking points in the world won't bring down prices or stop them from hearing Trump tell them to their faces that he doesn't care about them or that prices are high. People are starting to finally realize it, he doesn't care about anybody but Trump. Too little too late? Maybe, but they are losing support. It shouldn't have taken this much, but the fact that MAGA is crumbling is a good thing. Let's take the win where we can. There's still plenty of work, but everything doesn't have to be all doom all the time.
I very much welcome less doom and the crumbling of MAGA
Name one thing Trump could veto that MAGA would care about.
Yes, but have you considered that that's a GOOD thing from many a MAGA veteran's perspective? A conservative will endure losing benefits as long as it means bad people (aka those of wrong skin colour) also lose it. Remember how he said if the dems win, "everyone will get healthcare" and it was a warning, not a promise.
Even stupid people will notice when their Healthcare gets worse, things get more expensive, and the VA tells them to fuck off.
They're scared for a reason, you think all this rhetoric about the dems making them pay is for nothing? They're afraid they'll see the inside of a prison cell if congress flips.
Do we really care about MAGA veterans?
If sanity returns and Trump doesn't get to have a third term, all the Republicans will just line up to say they were secretly working against Trump this whole time, which will make (most of) them look good to their base.
Then it's up to us to show up with receipts
They'll probably either not care or accuse the receipts of being AI - whatever FOX tells them to do.
Just look at JD Vance and Ted Cruz, both reasonably popular with MAGA Republicans despite openly expressing their contempt for him before he was elected.
"Democrats want to fall in love; Republicans just fall in line."
So we should expect them to forget (or "forget"), but I never will.
Yeah, it's actually an amazing incentive to pass progressive bills that tackle affordability and inequality. Since the laws will go no where, Moderates can vote yes because they don't have to be concerned about their leash holders. MAGA will be clearly all about culture war and oligarch power rather than their facade of caring for "real Americans".
This is assuming the Dems can get their shit together and focus on economic and corruption issues.
This is assuming we can also get AIPAC the fucking fuck away from our politicians.
That'd be nice but I'm thinking even simpler things that expose the MAGA-cares-about-Americans lie and avoid third rail topics. The point is to punch fatal holes in Trump's power. Overreaching is the easiest way to blow any lead that we gain. I don't want to sound like Seth Moulton but we're going to get much farther by picking the right battles. The MAGA base feeds on culture war bullshit so don't give it to them.
If you want to go international, start with Ukraine and Iran. We don't even need to investigate the kompromat. Just pass a bill with undeniable support for Ukraine - missiles, intel, etc.
Dems should start holding daily WH-style press conferences in a dedicated space. Give it enough gravitas that the right wing news can't ignore it.