Trump Redux: The Death of Democracy, or Overblown Hyperbole?

[Weekender]

I'd still put the Democrats as favorites to pick up seats in the House and Senate in 2 years. Too little too late.

I think Kamala lost the popular vote because people in the cities decided they weren't going to vote for a cop if they didn't have to.

We should be careful not to buy into the idea of a mandate. I genuinely think the majority of Americans are not on board with Trump's agenda, they're going to have it crammed down their throats.

[Lucem Ferre]

Secret Service Denied Entry to a Chicago Elementary School Looking for an 11 Year Old for Sharing an Anti-Trump Video

[DJChameleon]

I picked up some know your rights cards just last night to pass out regarding ICE and attending an event on the 15th around organizing but I'm always in those spaces doing this type of work. The momentum to have people get involved and organized is still there. After the election, at least 100 people joined my local DSA chapter so we are growing and doing the work in different working groups. There was a 101 meeting last night that was packed a couple of cities over. I was at a social board game night. We were printing out know your rights cards to give out.

I do realize my experience is probably different than the apathy that others are experiencing but it makes sense. The fever pitch of the election cycle drained a lot of normies. So they are probably gonna sit out the fight and just wait around til mid term elections to get involved again.

[DJChameleon]

https://www.cleveland.com/news/2025/01/i-want-more-babies-in-america-jd-vance-says-in-his-first-public-address-as-vice-president.html

Less than a week after being sworn in as Donald Trump's vice-president, former U.S. Sen. JD Vance of Ohio told a National March for Life rally by the Washington Monument that the new administration stands "with you, and most importantly we stand with the most vulnerable."

"I want more babies in the United States of America," the Cincinnati Republican said in his first public address as vice president. "I want more happy children in our country and I want beautiful young men and women who are eager to welcome them into the world and eager to raise them."

What a fucking clown. How do you want women to get pregnant when they could be risking their life since they aren't allowed abortions if things go wrong in certain states?

[Weekender]

Forcing people to have children they don't want is a proven way to get happy children don't you know.

[DJChameleon]

Yeah I completely forgot about that silly me.

[Weekender]

It is super freaky to want other people to have children. The only time this is an acceptable sentiment is if you are hoping to become a grandmother.

How about we encourage people to do what they feel is right for themselves. Small government my ass. I hate these creepy loser fucks so much.

[degrassiknoll]

Power in numbers. Mormon style.

[Trollheart]

You do of course realise this is what another very popular dictator wanted too? The SS were actually told not only to breed with their wives (if married) but to play the field, to the point where special SS schools and nurseries were set up to raise the children of illegitimate issue. This was because good old Adolf and smiling Heinrich thought there weren't enough Aryan babies being born. History repeats itself. I bet Vance doesn't want any more smiling BLACK babies in his world!

[degrassiknoll]

Also why Elon is pronatalist with a dozen children among different partners.

[Weekender]

Yes I do understand that Vance is a Nazi.

[Auroras In Ice]

Listen up peasants, we need you to start squeezing out more meat cogs for the machine that makes your tech oligarch overlords richer. Too expensive to fix 'em, so we need more meat cogs to swap in when they crap out. Now get out there and breed, and may the odds be ever in your favour.

[degrassiknoll]

See, and this is why being a walking incubator exposes one to a level of sexism that is different from that which men experience.

[Weekender]

Yeah, I think you have to be very insecure as a man to argue otherwise.

[Lucem Ferre]

Yeah, I think you have to be very insecure as a man to argue otherwise.

Nobody here is arguing with that.