President Donald Trump declined to endorse Vice President JD Vance for the 2028 presidential election during a press briefing in Ireland
President Donald Trump declined to endorse Vice President JD Vance for the 2028 presidential election during a press briefing in Ireland
One problem. The midterms havenāt even finished. This is preceding the midterms.
Thatās fine. But we donāt need to start talking about elections! It leads to thinks like good olā Mitch saying we canāt let Congress vote on a SCOTUS position because weāre a year away from an election.
Your patronizing tone is not welcome. I donāt fucking care what the status quo is, Iām sick and fucking tired of the status quo.
Itās also normal for them to put christmas decorations out in some stores before thanksgiving and youāll still get people whining that itās too soon or whatever. This is all just a weird complaint, because it happens every election cycle, and, weād ideally like to move on. The zombie corpse of Mitch McConnell can read a calendar and the political reality as much as anyone. Theyāll use whatever tricks they have to fuck over as many people as they can as long as they can. But we need to start talking about whatever the post-Trump era will look like, nobody wants to stay mired in this.
In case you forgot, that wasnāt a hypothetical. It actually occurred during Obamaās admin. Enough people thought āyea that sounds rightā to the point that there wasnāt even a procedural change in SCOTUS selection.
Christmas decorations being up early is one thing. Talking about electoral politics is an entirely different thing, that actually has consequences. People tune out of politics all together because we talk about elections years before they actually happen.
Both parties absolutely love that we spend all our time with politics discussing elections, because all they do day in and day out is fundraise for their parties. Assuming that they never eat or sleep, politicians in both parties have less than 30 seconds to review bills before they vote on them, because of all the fundraising they do. The constant electoralism means that they never have to change.
And then one of those ghouls, Barrett? was sworn in like 2 weeks before an election when it suited their needs.
Yes, I know. Mitch did that one too, and has to do with Mitch weaponizing the fact that people tune out of politics because of constant electoralism. Itās not just Mitch, itās not just Republicans, itās the underlying system. Part of that underlying system is constant electoralism.
your thesis is that people werenāt tuned into the election 2 weeks before the election?
My thesis is that electoralism is so constant that enough people agreed with him in 2016 to the point where no changes were made to SCOTUS selection, setting himself up to just do what he wanted. The Democratic party was pissed at both situations, but they saw fundraising opportunities instead of actually fucking doing something.
I read that situation as the republicans had the democrats in complete checkmate and just did what they wanted to do. They made up arguments on the fly to suit their needs, and I think they will continue to do that in the future. The US is a system in which there will be constant elections, so try not to get too twisted about that?
I will rage against the dying of the light. I will not go gentle into that good night.
Heh, Costco has them out as of a few weeks ago (at least) and itās not even freaking Halloween yet.