For months, residents of Carroll County have driven past the weekly hate sessions staged by Rep. Bobbi Boudman (D-Wolfeboro) and the Wolfeboro-Tuftonboro Democrats. The signs have grown uglier. One placard read: "They want 1939 Germany. Let's give them 1789 France."
Once again, Mikey, the facts don't support your opinions.
Trump didn't "undermine democracy": He highlighted real vulnerabilities like mail-in expansions, unsecured drop boxes, and procedural shenanigans in key states that eroded trust. Courts dismissed cases on technicalities or standing, more than evidence; audits and whistleblowers raised legitimate questions that legacy media and officials stonewalled. Doubting a process isn't rigging; ignoring irregularities is the real threat. Biden's own "Ole Joe" basement campaign and Big Tech censorship didn't exactly scream clean.
Immigration: Trump built barriers, cut illegal crossings, ended catch-and-release, and pushed merit-based reform. Congress (including GOP majorities) blocked full fixes—blame the football, not just the quarterback. Biden-Harris opened the floodgates, creating chaos, fentanyl deaths, and wage pressure on low-skilled Americans. Studies show mixed effects: some find small declines among natives without college degrees or in specific sectors, despite overall claims of complementarity. Americans do those jobs when pay and conditions improve—mass low-skill increases suppress that.
SCOTUS: Nine justices have been the norm since 1869. Republicans followed the constitutional process (elections + Senate advice/consent, including Garland). Dems' "packing" talk is raw power grab after losing fair fights—FDR tried it and failed for a reason. The Court isn't a demographics poll; it's law, not feelings. Conservatives aren't a "minority" imposing whims; recent rulings track originalism amid cultural shifts.
Filibuster, impeachments, and "corruption": Weaponized lawfare and two theatrical impeachments failed because evidence didn't stick for removal. Senate Republicans aren't "spineless" for rejecting partisan theater. Cassidy lost his primary because voters rejected disloyalty to the party's direction after Trump delivered pre-COVID growth, energy independence, and the Abraham Accords—not dictatorship, but accountability in a primary.
Graham's bluntness reflects reality: Parties evolve; pretending Trump isn't the dominant force post-2024 is denialism or being purposely naive.
Trump built; critics whined, lawyered, and imported problems. Results over rituals. America voted for the fixer, not the finger-waggers.
Stop the insanity. Trump's BS claims of irregularities have all been debunked ad nauseum. Every press conference they claimed they had reams of proof, every court case they showed up empty handed and admitting in court there was no fraud repeatedly. Their BS claims are all about aiding their drive to disenfranchise voters they know don't favor them by limiting their access physically or remotely. Trump himself uses mail-in voting while he falsely claims the process is rife with fraud.
Immigration; you repeat the common MAGA lie about fentanyl while the facts show any effect from the border is extremely limited because the vast majority comes through ports. This information, like much that refutes idiotic MAGA claims you parrot, is readily available and has been for years.
You claim Congress, including GOP majorities, blocked full fixes and I shouldn't blame Trump, but you overlook the simple fact that Trump has a rubber stamp in Congress for anything he pushes for. Clearly he doesn't care to fix legal immigration or he'd be pushing fixes through Congress like he pushes everything else he wants through.
Immigrants do jobs Americans won't do, like agriculture and construction work, they don't take jobs Americans want. Studies have shown this over and over.
So nine justices is the norm for the Supreme Court, and you think with all the norms Trump has trampled on the Democrats shouldn't break any? DUH! Think about the norms the Republicans broke to deny Obama confirmation of his nominee and then confirming their own just weeks before an election. Once again your double standard rears its ugly head, you're okay with Republicans crushing norms but if the Democrats even consider it you whine.
Thank you for reinforcing what I said about the Supreme Court. Yes, it's supposed to be about laws, but it's not anymore. The SC showed its servitude to Trump when it helped him delay all the cases about his well-earned charges, and continues to show it by expanding the shadow docket exponentially from any previous norms (there go those Republicans breaking norms again, again with no complaint from you as long as it's your team helping itself) to stop judges who are actually following the law from keeping Trump from breaking it.
As far as the things on the shadow docket go, it's staggeringly disingenuous for the court to claim, as it often has, that they're not ruling Trump can do the things he's doing, but that they're simply putting on hold any delays in Trump doing them while the cases work their way through the courts. The shadow docket criteria require applicants to prove they will suffer significant and irreversible harm if emergency relief is denied and there must be a high probability the applicant will win on the merits of their case, but the SC is not applying that criteria. Why? Because they want to give Trump what he wants, as well as the Republican donors that have been so generous to some of them, like Clarence Thomas, who almost rivals Trump's level of corruption.
By blocking lower court injunctions, the SC allows Trump to do what he wants, like banning transgender people from the military, and the only significant and irreversible harm is to those people. There is none for the government. They could easily simply wait until the cases work their way through the courts, get a ruling and then see what they're allowed to do. But when you own the SC you don't have to play by the rules, you just run to them whenever a judge that's actually following the law shuts down your illegal or unconstitutional actions and get on the shadow docket so you can get yet another free pass to do whatever you want.
I don't support removing the filibuster, despite the fact it supports the status quo and makes progress less likely. I think if it was removed our government, economy, and foreign policy would all suffer from an even greater whiplash back and forth with changing party control.
"Weaponized lawfare" is a joke MAGA dog whistle. If you don't want to be charged with crimes, don't commit them. Trump did, repeatedly, and when attempts were made to hold him accountable, instead of owning up to his mistakes Trump, as usual, deflected, lied, and attacked the people trying to hold him accountable. No one is above the law should be the norm, but it's not with Trump. He took the unique path of running for president again to get out from under all his charges. Millions of misinformed and disinformed people ignored all the facts, his sexual assault, all his lies about the economy and how he'd "fix" it, and the obvious cognitive issues and voted for him, leaving us in a state of having an ignorant malignant narcissist with clear cognitive decline progressing rapidly as our president.
Two impeachments failed because of Senate Republicans spinelessness. There was no theater involved, just facts. Trump asked a foreign country (Ukraine) to try to help him find dirt on Biden for his own benefit, a situation our Founding Fathers specifically wrote into the Constitution not to allow. His treasonous behavior for his own gain was a far greater transgression than Nixon having his people break into Watergate offices to help his re-election campaign, and the call was well documented.
The second impeachment was more complicated, as his words on the day of the insurrection weren't explicit, but his recorded phone call to an election official repeatedly asking him to fake election results so Trump could win the state was all the evidence any Senator should have needed to vote to impeach, not to mention his constant (and ongoing) efforts to undermine election integrity with ZERO proof.
I'm still laughing at your description of Cassidy's loss. It was Trump being Trump, baiting his zombie followers into rejecting a Senator widely recognized as good and effective solely because he failed to show the blind loyalty Trump demands. Your claim that the voters even thought about issues shows just how out of touch you are with what Trump's followers think about. Trump wants complete rule despite his obvious incompetence in governance and all his other glaringly obvious shortcomings.
Graham's bluntness isn't the problem, nor would Trump being the dominant force in recent Republican history; it's the naked surrender of Congress's authority and the willingness to continue prostrating themselves to him. That's not their job; they're there to represent us, they're our representatives in our democracy, not Trump's assistants.
Trump hasn't, and can't, fix anything. He complains about things real and imagined, lies about how he'll fix them, then does whatever he wants and lies about it. That's why Americans, even former MAGA members, are turning on him.
Results over rituals indeed; Americans are seeing the results, that's why he's got historically low polling numbers.
What will Democrats do if they regain power? If history is prologue, Democrats will likely repeat a familiar cycle: Denounce “threats to democracy” while expanding them once restored to unified control of the White House, Congress, and courts. Recent protests, rhetoric, and activist demands will drive intensified use of executive and regulatory power. Past Democrat administrations expanded executive actions on immigration, EPA, healthcare, student loans, vaccine mandates, DEI, energy, and tech platforms over “misinformation.” They employed selective enforcement and intelligence activities involving private citizens. Many see Trump's DOJ actions, tariffs, agency reforms, and “enemies within” rhetoric as existential dangers. The pattern suggests Democrats will:
Expand regulations on climate, antitrust, labor, ESG, and technology.
Intensify anti-“disinformation” efforts through social media pressure and digital reforms.
Leverage institutions via aligned personnel, selective prosecutions, and potential court or election changes.
Pursue higher taxes, expanded entitlements, new immigration pathways, and identity-based policies.
Seek to eliminate the filibuster and pack the courts.
Advance progressive priorities often described as democratic socialism.
The irony is notable. Declarations of “fascism” and “oligarchy” likely accelerate bureaucratic growth, surveillance, financial controls, cultural gatekeeping, and narrative management—hallmarks of the administrative state, justified by equity, democracy protection, and social justice. Institutional alliances with academia, media, tech, and agencies reinforce a “ratchet effect” where government power expands more easily than it contracts. The party has shifted left, embracing the Progressive Caucus, Democratic Socialists, globalist donors favoring supranational governance, and Muslim extremism. European parallels—migration strains, speech rules, energy policies, and populist reactions—serve as warnings. Our Founders warned against concentrated power and factions. As America approaches its 250th anniversary, voters should prioritize institutional skepticism over partisan loyalty. The choice remains clear: strengthen our constitutional republic or drift ever more Left to a centralized administrative state with stronger Socialist/Marxist features.
The level of insanity you have achieved is remarkable MEPD. You manage to regurgitate a bunch of old talking points like eliminating the filibuster and packing the courts that MAGA clowns were using as far back as 2020. Guess what? Biden stomped Trump (which you still won't admit despite the fact that he beat him by far more than Trump beat Harris, which Trump loves to refer to as a landslide or mandate despite the obvious lie it is) and neither of those things happened, though the Democrats would have had every justification for doing them after the chicanery of Mitch McConnell stacked the court. But that's okay with you because he's your guy, so stacking the court with a bunch of conservatives who will decide cases on your dear leader's whims rather than on law is fine, but heaven forbid the Democrats fight back, that you can't tolerate.
There is too much crazy here to get into all of it, so I'll use those two as examples. Combine that with your absolute absence of self-awareness of your cult membership demonstrated by your statement people should "prioritize institutional skepticism over partisan loyalty" and anyone who hadn't read all your previous MAGA supporting lies would already know you're someone who has completely fallen into the MAGA echo chamber and doesn't have a grasp of even the most obvious facts.
It's not like Democrats would withdraw from a treaty, then start a war of choice to distract from a sex scandal their president is involved in, driving prices up in the process while showing ZERO concern for American citizens circumstances, and trash the image of America around the globe, Trump's already taken care of those things, among many other disasters.
I'll tell you what the Democrats WON'T do; they won't make things worse, which is all Trump's capable of.
Trump is good at promoting himself and his family for financial gain, and complaining about things. He has no ability or desire to fix things or to govern or lead, which is why both his terms will go down in American history as the worst administrations ever.
Also, you claim to be worried about the country drifting Left while Trump has taken us far to the Right, attacking not just norms but every democratic institution that doesn't bend the knee to him. He has checked all the boxes for authoritarianism along the way, though thankfully people are pushing back. You should worry a lot more about what would happen if Trump succeeded in his wishes than any sort of drift Left.
James Carville: “They are just going to have to unilaterally add Puerto Rico and District of Columbia as states… And they may have to expand the Supreme Court to 13 members… If the Democrats win the presidency and both houses of Congress, I think on day one, they should make Puerto Rico [and] D.C. a state, and they should [expand the Supreme Court] to 13. F--- it. Eat our dust.” (Framed as necessary to “save democracy.”)
Chuck Schumer: “Everything is on the table” regarding actions like ending the filibuster or court-related changes if Democrats regain the Senate majority.
Nancy Pelosi: Schumer “told me that if they win, they will change the Senate in terms of the filibuster” to pass priorities like voting rights legislation.
Democratic Party plans: “Day 1: Nuke the filibuster. Day 2: Pack SCOTUS. Day 3: Make DC & PR states. Day 4: Enact federal takeover of elections/redistricting/campaigns.” (This echoes public Democratic discussions and threats reported widely.)
Various House Democrats: Push to impeach Trump or prepare articles “on Day 1” of a new Congress if they regain the House majority.
So, Mikey, maybe you'd care to comment on what Democrats are saying on the record...
BTW, I did answer your question and posed a question for you to answer.
MEPD, I thought you comment about "Ole Joe" was a lead-in to something else. Congratulations for not joining the Trump crazy train on one of their most basic and damaging lies about the 2020 election being rigged. One follow-up though? How do you continue to support him when he continues to try to undermine American democracy by trying to make people doubt our election integrity? (Along with all the other problems with supporting him, of course)
Okay, I've said this before, but since you keep asking about immigration, I'll say it again. No, I don't support uncontrolled immigration. I DO support fixing legal immigration so people who want or need to come here can do it legally, but Trump had every chance to do that in his first term having both houses of Congress, and he didn't even try. He'd rather use it as a political football. That's right on brand for him though, complain about things ad nauseum but never do anything to fix anything.
As far as what Democrats are saying, I don't support killing the filibuster. Although it's a roadblock to progress, it's also a roadblock when we lose our minds and vote a moron (twice) into office, so we need the protection it gives us, though it does tend to protect the status quo.
I laugh when I hear MAGA cult members whine about the Democrats thinking of packing the Supreme Court. There's nothing in the Constitution that says there has to be nine justices, and the flagrant packing the Republicans did, and the incredibly unethical way they did it, seems to pose no problem, only if the Democrats fight back do the MAGA cult members have a problem. The highly conservative Supreme Court, in addition to ruling to placate Trump's whims instead of on the law are also completely unrepresentative of American demographics. Conservatives are a minority in our country, the Supreme Court should not have twice as many conservatives as liberals on it.
You are sadly misinformed if you believe most studies show immigrants depress wages for American citizens, though this is a frequent lie told by conservative bigots.
The opposite is true to a degree, and the fact is they take jobs Americans don't want and won't do, as we're seeing the impact of their loss already in some sectors.
Trump should be impeached just on corruption alone; I'd doubt the sanity of anyone who didn't think he should be impeached. Sadly, we know it will never succeed due to the spinelessness of Senate Republicans, who have already twice proven that a mountain of evidence of his guilt doesn't matter to them, only fealty to Trump.
How do you feel about the Senator Cassidy from Louisiana losing his primary for having the temerity to vote guilty when Trump obviously was losing his primary to a Trump-backed candidate? How do you feel about Trump's lapdog Graham saying it's Trump's party and no one can oppose him or they'll get crushed? Are you comfortable with that? Doesn't sound at all like a dictator, does it? lol
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Once again, Mikey, the facts don't support your opinions.
Trump didn't "undermine democracy": He highlighted real vulnerabilities like mail-in expansions, unsecured drop boxes, and procedural shenanigans in key states that eroded trust. Courts dismissed cases on technicalities or standing, more than evidence; audits and whistleblowers raised legitimate questions that legacy media and officials stonewalled. Doubting a process isn't rigging; ignoring irregularities is the real threat. Biden's own "Ole Joe" basement campaign and Big Tech censorship didn't exactly scream clean.
Immigration: Trump built barriers, cut illegal crossings, ended catch-and-release, and pushed merit-based reform. Congress (including GOP majorities) blocked full fixes—blame the football, not just the quarterback. Biden-Harris opened the floodgates, creating chaos, fentanyl deaths, and wage pressure on low-skilled Americans. Studies show mixed effects: some find small declines among natives without college degrees or in specific sectors, despite overall claims of complementarity. Americans do those jobs when pay and conditions improve—mass low-skill increases suppress that.
SCOTUS: Nine justices have been the norm since 1869. Republicans followed the constitutional process (elections + Senate advice/consent, including Garland). Dems' "packing" talk is raw power grab after losing fair fights—FDR tried it and failed for a reason. The Court isn't a demographics poll; it's law, not feelings. Conservatives aren't a "minority" imposing whims; recent rulings track originalism amid cultural shifts.
Filibuster, impeachments, and "corruption": Weaponized lawfare and two theatrical impeachments failed because evidence didn't stick for removal. Senate Republicans aren't "spineless" for rejecting partisan theater. Cassidy lost his primary because voters rejected disloyalty to the party's direction after Trump delivered pre-COVID growth, energy independence, and the Abraham Accords—not dictatorship, but accountability in a primary.
Graham's bluntness reflects reality: Parties evolve; pretending Trump isn't the dominant force post-2024 is denialism or being purposely naive.
Trump built; critics whined, lawyered, and imported problems. Results over rituals. America voted for the fixer, not the finger-waggers.
Stop the insanity. Trump's BS claims of irregularities have all been debunked ad nauseum. Every press conference they claimed they had reams of proof, every court case they showed up empty handed and admitting in court there was no fraud repeatedly. Their BS claims are all about aiding their drive to disenfranchise voters they know don't favor them by limiting their access physically or remotely. Trump himself uses mail-in voting while he falsely claims the process is rife with fraud.
Immigration; you repeat the common MAGA lie about fentanyl while the facts show any effect from the border is extremely limited because the vast majority comes through ports. This information, like much that refutes idiotic MAGA claims you parrot, is readily available and has been for years.
You claim Congress, including GOP majorities, blocked full fixes and I shouldn't blame Trump, but you overlook the simple fact that Trump has a rubber stamp in Congress for anything he pushes for. Clearly he doesn't care to fix legal immigration or he'd be pushing fixes through Congress like he pushes everything else he wants through.
Immigrants do jobs Americans won't do, like agriculture and construction work, they don't take jobs Americans want. Studies have shown this over and over.
So nine justices is the norm for the Supreme Court, and you think with all the norms Trump has trampled on the Democrats shouldn't break any? DUH! Think about the norms the Republicans broke to deny Obama confirmation of his nominee and then confirming their own just weeks before an election. Once again your double standard rears its ugly head, you're okay with Republicans crushing norms but if the Democrats even consider it you whine.
Thank you for reinforcing what I said about the Supreme Court. Yes, it's supposed to be about laws, but it's not anymore. The SC showed its servitude to Trump when it helped him delay all the cases about his well-earned charges, and continues to show it by expanding the shadow docket exponentially from any previous norms (there go those Republicans breaking norms again, again with no complaint from you as long as it's your team helping itself) to stop judges who are actually following the law from keeping Trump from breaking it.
As far as the things on the shadow docket go, it's staggeringly disingenuous for the court to claim, as it often has, that they're not ruling Trump can do the things he's doing, but that they're simply putting on hold any delays in Trump doing them while the cases work their way through the courts. The shadow docket criteria require applicants to prove they will suffer significant and irreversible harm if emergency relief is denied and there must be a high probability the applicant will win on the merits of their case, but the SC is not applying that criteria. Why? Because they want to give Trump what he wants, as well as the Republican donors that have been so generous to some of them, like Clarence Thomas, who almost rivals Trump's level of corruption.
By blocking lower court injunctions, the SC allows Trump to do what he wants, like banning transgender people from the military, and the only significant and irreversible harm is to those people. There is none for the government. They could easily simply wait until the cases work their way through the courts, get a ruling and then see what they're allowed to do. But when you own the SC you don't have to play by the rules, you just run to them whenever a judge that's actually following the law shuts down your illegal or unconstitutional actions and get on the shadow docket so you can get yet another free pass to do whatever you want.
I don't support removing the filibuster, despite the fact it supports the status quo and makes progress less likely. I think if it was removed our government, economy, and foreign policy would all suffer from an even greater whiplash back and forth with changing party control.
"Weaponized lawfare" is a joke MAGA dog whistle. If you don't want to be charged with crimes, don't commit them. Trump did, repeatedly, and when attempts were made to hold him accountable, instead of owning up to his mistakes Trump, as usual, deflected, lied, and attacked the people trying to hold him accountable. No one is above the law should be the norm, but it's not with Trump. He took the unique path of running for president again to get out from under all his charges. Millions of misinformed and disinformed people ignored all the facts, his sexual assault, all his lies about the economy and how he'd "fix" it, and the obvious cognitive issues and voted for him, leaving us in a state of having an ignorant malignant narcissist with clear cognitive decline progressing rapidly as our president.
Two impeachments failed because of Senate Republicans spinelessness. There was no theater involved, just facts. Trump asked a foreign country (Ukraine) to try to help him find dirt on Biden for his own benefit, a situation our Founding Fathers specifically wrote into the Constitution not to allow. His treasonous behavior for his own gain was a far greater transgression than Nixon having his people break into Watergate offices to help his re-election campaign, and the call was well documented.
The second impeachment was more complicated, as his words on the day of the insurrection weren't explicit, but his recorded phone call to an election official repeatedly asking him to fake election results so Trump could win the state was all the evidence any Senator should have needed to vote to impeach, not to mention his constant (and ongoing) efforts to undermine election integrity with ZERO proof.
I'm still laughing at your description of Cassidy's loss. It was Trump being Trump, baiting his zombie followers into rejecting a Senator widely recognized as good and effective solely because he failed to show the blind loyalty Trump demands. Your claim that the voters even thought about issues shows just how out of touch you are with what Trump's followers think about. Trump wants complete rule despite his obvious incompetence in governance and all his other glaringly obvious shortcomings.
Graham's bluntness isn't the problem, nor would Trump being the dominant force in recent Republican history; it's the naked surrender of Congress's authority and the willingness to continue prostrating themselves to him. That's not their job; they're there to represent us, they're our representatives in our democracy, not Trump's assistants.
Trump hasn't, and can't, fix anything. He complains about things real and imagined, lies about how he'll fix them, then does whatever he wants and lies about it. That's why Americans, even former MAGA members, are turning on him.
Results over rituals indeed; Americans are seeing the results, that's why he's got historically low polling numbers.
What will Democrats do if they regain power? If history is prologue, Democrats will likely repeat a familiar cycle: Denounce “threats to democracy” while expanding them once restored to unified control of the White House, Congress, and courts. Recent protests, rhetoric, and activist demands will drive intensified use of executive and regulatory power. Past Democrat administrations expanded executive actions on immigration, EPA, healthcare, student loans, vaccine mandates, DEI, energy, and tech platforms over “misinformation.” They employed selective enforcement and intelligence activities involving private citizens. Many see Trump's DOJ actions, tariffs, agency reforms, and “enemies within” rhetoric as existential dangers. The pattern suggests Democrats will:
Expand regulations on climate, antitrust, labor, ESG, and technology.
Intensify anti-“disinformation” efforts through social media pressure and digital reforms.
Leverage institutions via aligned personnel, selective prosecutions, and potential court or election changes.
Pursue higher taxes, expanded entitlements, new immigration pathways, and identity-based policies.
Seek to eliminate the filibuster and pack the courts.
Advance progressive priorities often described as democratic socialism.
The irony is notable. Declarations of “fascism” and “oligarchy” likely accelerate bureaucratic growth, surveillance, financial controls, cultural gatekeeping, and narrative management—hallmarks of the administrative state, justified by equity, democracy protection, and social justice. Institutional alliances with academia, media, tech, and agencies reinforce a “ratchet effect” where government power expands more easily than it contracts. The party has shifted left, embracing the Progressive Caucus, Democratic Socialists, globalist donors favoring supranational governance, and Muslim extremism. European parallels—migration strains, speech rules, energy policies, and populist reactions—serve as warnings. Our Founders warned against concentrated power and factions. As America approaches its 250th anniversary, voters should prioritize institutional skepticism over partisan loyalty. The choice remains clear: strengthen our constitutional republic or drift ever more Left to a centralized administrative state with stronger Socialist/Marxist features.
Just look at what happened in Virginia.
The level of insanity you have achieved is remarkable MEPD. You manage to regurgitate a bunch of old talking points like eliminating the filibuster and packing the courts that MAGA clowns were using as far back as 2020. Guess what? Biden stomped Trump (which you still won't admit despite the fact that he beat him by far more than Trump beat Harris, which Trump loves to refer to as a landslide or mandate despite the obvious lie it is) and neither of those things happened, though the Democrats would have had every justification for doing them after the chicanery of Mitch McConnell stacked the court. But that's okay with you because he's your guy, so stacking the court with a bunch of conservatives who will decide cases on your dear leader's whims rather than on law is fine, but heaven forbid the Democrats fight back, that you can't tolerate.
There is too much crazy here to get into all of it, so I'll use those two as examples. Combine that with your absolute absence of self-awareness of your cult membership demonstrated by your statement people should "prioritize institutional skepticism over partisan loyalty" and anyone who hadn't read all your previous MAGA supporting lies would already know you're someone who has completely fallen into the MAGA echo chamber and doesn't have a grasp of even the most obvious facts.
It's not like Democrats would withdraw from a treaty, then start a war of choice to distract from a sex scandal their president is involved in, driving prices up in the process while showing ZERO concern for American citizens circumstances, and trash the image of America around the globe, Trump's already taken care of those things, among many other disasters.
I'll tell you what the Democrats WON'T do; they won't make things worse, which is all Trump's capable of.
Trump is good at promoting himself and his family for financial gain, and complaining about things. He has no ability or desire to fix things or to govern or lead, which is why both his terms will go down in American history as the worst administrations ever.
Also, you claim to be worried about the country drifting Left while Trump has taken us far to the Right, attacking not just norms but every democratic institution that doesn't bend the knee to him. He has checked all the boxes for authoritarianism along the way, though thankfully people are pushing back. You should worry a lot more about what would happen if Trump succeeded in his wishes than any sort of drift Left.
James Carville: “They are just going to have to unilaterally add Puerto Rico and District of Columbia as states… And they may have to expand the Supreme Court to 13 members… If the Democrats win the presidency and both houses of Congress, I think on day one, they should make Puerto Rico [and] D.C. a state, and they should [expand the Supreme Court] to 13. F--- it. Eat our dust.” (Framed as necessary to “save democracy.”)
Chuck Schumer: “Everything is on the table” regarding actions like ending the filibuster or court-related changes if Democrats regain the Senate majority.
Nancy Pelosi: Schumer “told me that if they win, they will change the Senate in terms of the filibuster” to pass priorities like voting rights legislation.
Democratic Party plans: “Day 1: Nuke the filibuster. Day 2: Pack SCOTUS. Day 3: Make DC & PR states. Day 4: Enact federal takeover of elections/redistricting/campaigns.” (This echoes public Democratic discussions and threats reported widely.)
Various House Democrats: Push to impeach Trump or prepare articles “on Day 1” of a new Congress if they regain the House majority.
So, Mikey, maybe you'd care to comment on what Democrats are saying on the record...
BTW, I did answer your question and posed a question for you to answer.
MEPD, I thought you comment about "Ole Joe" was a lead-in to something else. Congratulations for not joining the Trump crazy train on one of their most basic and damaging lies about the 2020 election being rigged. One follow-up though? How do you continue to support him when he continues to try to undermine American democracy by trying to make people doubt our election integrity? (Along with all the other problems with supporting him, of course)
Okay, I've said this before, but since you keep asking about immigration, I'll say it again. No, I don't support uncontrolled immigration. I DO support fixing legal immigration so people who want or need to come here can do it legally, but Trump had every chance to do that in his first term having both houses of Congress, and he didn't even try. He'd rather use it as a political football. That's right on brand for him though, complain about things ad nauseum but never do anything to fix anything.
As far as what Democrats are saying, I don't support killing the filibuster. Although it's a roadblock to progress, it's also a roadblock when we lose our minds and vote a moron (twice) into office, so we need the protection it gives us, though it does tend to protect the status quo.
I laugh when I hear MAGA cult members whine about the Democrats thinking of packing the Supreme Court. There's nothing in the Constitution that says there has to be nine justices, and the flagrant packing the Republicans did, and the incredibly unethical way they did it, seems to pose no problem, only if the Democrats fight back do the MAGA cult members have a problem. The highly conservative Supreme Court, in addition to ruling to placate Trump's whims instead of on the law are also completely unrepresentative of American demographics. Conservatives are a minority in our country, the Supreme Court should not have twice as many conservatives as liberals on it.
You are sadly misinformed if you believe most studies show immigrants depress wages for American citizens, though this is a frequent lie told by conservative bigots.
The opposite is true to a degree, and the fact is they take jobs Americans don't want and won't do, as we're seeing the impact of their loss already in some sectors.
Trump should be impeached just on corruption alone; I'd doubt the sanity of anyone who didn't think he should be impeached. Sadly, we know it will never succeed due to the spinelessness of Senate Republicans, who have already twice proven that a mountain of evidence of his guilt doesn't matter to them, only fealty to Trump.
How do you feel about the Senator Cassidy from Louisiana losing his primary for having the temerity to vote guilty when Trump obviously was losing his primary to a Trump-backed candidate? How do you feel about Trump's lapdog Graham saying it's Trump's party and no one can oppose him or they'll get crushed? Are you comfortable with that? Doesn't sound at all like a dictator, does it? lol
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