President Donald Trump threatened to veto every piece of legislation put forward during the second half of his administration if Democrats flip control of the House or Senate during next monthās midterm elections.
āWell, I think the Republicans are going to win. But if there was, you call it gridlock, what happens is I veto everything,ā Trump told reporters Friday morning while speaking on the South Lawn. āAnd then the Democrats come and they want to make a deal. So weāll work it out.ā
Historical precedent and polling data suggest Democrats are on the cusp of flipping at least the House next month and possibly the Senate, due to public frustration over the Iran war and high costs of living.
So, they will override his veto
Especially when they spent the last century dining out on a national myth of āgive me liberty or give me deathā and being belligerent fucking assholes about āfreedom,ā crowing about how theyāre the BEST IN THE WORLD at defending it, insisted it was necessary to let children die in school shootings all the fucking time in order to be able to handle exactly this scenario- and also everyone else is a bunch of weaklings who only exist because Americans put their lives on the line to defend democracy, and fuck everyone else for even questioning it.
Yeah. Thatās wild.
Just because our grandparents held onto a mantra doesnāt mean we do. Expecting us to be enthusiastic about dying for an ideology that we never agreed with in the first place is just as wild a take. I donāt personally know anyone who believed any of that garbage they fed us in elementary school beyondā¦ well, elementary school. It pretty quickly became clear that itās all propaganda. The folks who didnāt recognize that are the same ones whoāre okay with the current status quo.
YOU are okay with the current status quo or youād be doing something about it.
Itās fine, get defensive if you want, but the truth is you are way too comfortable and refuse to risk that comfort to fix the problems you pay lip service to opposing.
I think youāre equating ādoing something about itā with violence, and if thatās the case, then no, Iām not ādoing something about itā, but Iām not doing nothing, either. However, I donāt feel the need to justify my activism to a stranger on the internet, so Iām going to leave it at that.