I get the argument, but a lot of it relies on the law being applied universally. The SAVE act's most stringent requirements are for registration, which won't affect existing voters, unless .... the administration finds some way to purge voter rolls of legitimate voters who then have to re-register. This is partially why they're suing states for voter rolls - even trying to extort MN's with ICE.
In a blue wave year, Dems could make serious inroads into or even flip red states. The SAVE act would let red state politicians tip the scales with near impunity. Don't rely on the chance that it'll hurt their own too (or more) - assholes will use the Act to hurt you or your neighbor and it needs to be stopped
It's worth noting that everyday Dems often want very different things than the "leadership Dems" that are in power under corporate and foreign influence. I don't want vassals - a tiny silver lining of Trump is American hegemony in decline. Thats only a good if Authoritarians don't step into that gap. I hope EU can be the standard bearer and defender of liberal (as opposed to illiberal) democracy in the world until we get our shit together
I get it, we don't deserve trust. What would you look for to decide we can be trusted again though? I'm worried we'd need to rewrite the constitution to put in serious guardrails of some sort. Congress and Judiciary were supposed to be the guardrail, and they're failing pretty hard. What system can truly protect against bad actors with power?
I wonder if DOJ tried to Honeypot the Congress folks that went to see the files with false documents. We know their searches were monitored. I hate that I sound like a conspiracy theorist but I don't know what I'd put past these assholes
I think there's this assumption that the more centrist a dem is, the more electable they are and that may have been true decades ago. Now though? With how polarized the electorate is, people either vote for their party's candidate or the couch. Trump got roughly the same number of votes in 2024 (77M) as 2020( 74M) maybe he changed some minds; but Harris got 7M fewer votes than biden (81->74). People stayed home. "Not trump" wasn't enough to get excited about for enough folks, and that's about all Newsom has to offer
I genuinely believe Bernie is more electable than Newsom. We should give voters some credit
Definitely, but there should be systems in place like impeachment, no confidence votes, etc. in the US, Congress can impeach a president and remove them, but if they don't do so, we-the-people don't have legal recourse for removing members of Congress in the middle of their terms.
A lot of the advice angry Americans are getting right now is "just vote them out in the midterms". This feels woefully insufficient
Seems like we all want to be as nutrient-conserved as possible! It's too bad there are all the rules about proper disposal - I get why they're there, but yeah, random hole for me. Tree on top sounds great
One weird trick! Terminal still scares me as well as installing from GitHub, but I have win11 required at work and mint at home and the speed and ease of use are like night and day
You can't make yourself calm down because our emotions control us, not the other way around - but you can control your breath and your breath can affect your emotions.
Box breathing, 4-7-8, or even just deep "flower breaths". All work great at centering yourself when emotions are getting out of hand
I get the argument, but a lot of it relies on the law being applied universally. The SAVE act's most stringent requirements are for registration, which won't affect existing voters, unless .... the administration finds some way to purge voter rolls of legitimate voters who then have to re-register. This is partially why they're suing states for voter rolls - even trying to extort MN's with ICE.
In a blue wave year, Dems could make serious inroads into or even flip red states. The SAVE act would let red state politicians tip the scales with near impunity. Don't rely on the chance that it'll hurt their own too (or more) - assholes will use the Act to hurt you or your neighbor and it needs to be stopped