Summary
Republican lawyer Mike Davis, a potential pick for Attorney General in Donald Trump’s incoming administration, made inflammatory posts on social media following Trump’s election victory, saying he wanted to drag Democrats’ “dead political bodies” through the streets and “burn them.”
Known for his extreme rhetoric, Davis has repeatedly advocated for aggressive action against Trump’s opponents, including threatening to “cage children” and throw rivals “in the gulag.”
Trump has publicly praised Davis, and his son, Donald Trump Jr., has expressed support for Davis’s potential role in the administration.
“F*** unity… We have the votes. And they tried to kill Trump,” he said in another expletive-laden post, referring to Democrats.
Is someone going to tell him?
He knows. All they need is an excuse.
We can’t fight this shit with ineffectual moderates like Joe Biden.
The whole nation rallied and got him in office and a 50/50 Senate along with the House…
He wasted that for 2 years, then got nothing else down the other 2 years because he lost the House.
America was sold Biden as a way to defeat trump, and it just resulted in a brief pause.
We need to let progressives run the party, they’re at least willing to fucking fight.
We need to let progressives run the party, they’re at least willing to fucking fight.
DNC:
DNC:
Have we considered just giving everything to the wealthy anyways?
Have you considered that progressives don’t have very much money?
I just want to nip this line of thought real quick. Policies and candidates matter, convincing voters about your positions all the time (not just during an election) matters, meeting voters where they are and having conversations matters.
Trump basically proved this.
Harris out raised Trump almost 2 to 1. Harris had an army of volunteers and the biggest ground operation in history. Trump improved his margins over 2020 anyway. Most importantly, Trump did better in states and counties where neither campaign was spending any resources, like New Jersey, or another really good example is Dade County which swung over 40 points in Trump’s favor since 2016, with neither party campaigning there.
A big reason was what Biden and Democrats did, not during the election, but in the three years before the election. They passed some moderate policies and utterly failed to sell those policies to voters as things that will help the average person. The average voter if asked what Biden did for them would give you a blank stare, and that’s on Biden and Democrats failing to 1) act boldly and 2) communicate their policy vision and how it helps people.
Meanwhile Republicans everyday beat on the drum of inflation and immigration and crime, whether or not those issues were real people felt like they were real. And most importantly people saw these messages, because Republicans are able to get in front of regular voters, to get into the national consciousness. Sometimes by going to spaces that aren’t blatantly right wing, but right wing friendly, like Rogan, sometimes just being loud and causing controversy that trickles into other spaces. When moderate spaces ridicule the latest right wing controversy, that also gets their message in front of regular people, who may not agree outright but will at least consider it. The average voter rolled their eyes at Trump saying immigrants are eating pets, but just by seeing the outrage gave some consideration to immigration and whether it’s a problem, including a cultural problem, and considered and thought about the Trump campaigns larger argument. And it cost Trump zero dollars to get a week or more of coverage about what he considers the problems with immigration just by making an outlandish claim.
Money is helpful, but it’s not even close to everything. We need Democrats with real liberal policies, getting in front of voters to explain what they mean to their lives, to talk about money in politics and corporate greed and wage stagnation and the transfer of wealth from the working class to the oligarchs, to talk about what is sure to be new epic levels of government corruption and incompetence that hurts real people. And Democrats need to do that everyday, not just in the months before an election, and need to do that in spaces where people are, not just on cable news.
He wasted that for 2 years
Willful ignorance of everything passed in 2021-22 (and despite incredibly narrow margins) does not mean it didn’t happen.
Biden’s mandate was to protect Democracy, not increase infrastructure spending. Yes that’s a good addition to protecting democracy but the things you’re referring to were the expendable part of the job at hand. We got the sides at the expense of the main course. And what reason was that for again? Oh yeah, they didn’t want to seem like they were litigating political issues. Do you think that bought them some reciprocation from the incoming administration? Read the quotes from this potential AG again if you’ve already forgotten the context in which we’re having this discussion.
Playing nice with fascists does not fucking work and yet that’s all we’ve done since they tried to overthrow the government. Now our inaction means they don’t even need to overthrow the government. They can just walk in the front door.
The person you’re responding to thinks they’re a political savant and know everything. Best to ignore. Even when they’ve been proven wrong they adjust and pretend they knew all along.
Time to start electing straight up antifa politicians and appointing antifa judges who will not put up with any of this shit.
We’re fucked. Form mutual aid groups, get out if you can.
get out if you can.
Got family out last year (inter-racial marriage), I’m mostly out myself.
Last year made me truly appreciate the meaning of the word ‘privilege’.
The south has never, and can NEVER forget we elected a black man over them. There is no greater crime in their conception.
Any advice on getting out? It’d be greatly appreciated.
Get a passport and leave. Figure the rest out while you’re not in a concentration camp. MILLIONS of Jewish people fled Germany this way.
I’m so fucking glad my entire family got ours last year. We are so fucking gone when the shit hit the fan.
Do you have family overseas? No matter how distant, now might be the time to make friends.
If you have in-demand skills, you have a relatively good path to immigration. More so if you know multiple languages. If not, now is the time to learn.
Married to a European, so I just lucked out, she made sure the kid was a dual citizen too.
Did you hear that Trump has announced he’s going to cancel all birthright citizenships?
I have, but haven’t followed up, so take that as internet info.
Btw, I lived in the south, I wasn’t a citizen there either.
If I’d hung around another year I would have been a muslim terrist from the Iraqi Taliban or something.
I know, and I don’t doubt that.
But my wife is white (like, blond, blue eyes, Galadriel white), so they won’t touch her citizenship.
I guess I was an anchor baby in the end anyway.
edit: Oh, I’m rich too, so I’m golden either way.
Fucking privilege, man.
My wife can apply for dual citizenship as the grand daughter of Irish immigrants. Her sister already moved to Ireland about five years ago. We’re making plans to protect our son.
I may be called a coward, and part of me would agree, but I’ve watched this country descend into fascism for over thirty years. I no longer have hope that things will get better.
Problem is you can’t escape what’s been set in motion, only delay it. It’s creeping in everywhere, corrupting it all. Sooner or later we will have to face it collectively and it’s not going to be pretty.
its really looks like they are literally begging for a revolution. i mean, such obviously inflammatory language serves no purpose other than to goad retribution. he cannot be so insanely threatening and not expect a reaction
Vive la résistance
Be sure that you’ll quickly be flagged as a traitor by the people selling your country to Russia and cie
We’re all simply traitors for being on this site.
We’re traitors for having Signal installed.
We’re traitors for voting against him.
We’re traitors for deleting twitter, and Facebook.
We’re traitors for being a registered Democrat.
We’re traitors for supporting the rights of LGBTQ and minoties.
We’re traitors because we dissent.
If the above is what constitutes a traitor, I’d rather die a traitor than participate in any support of the harm they will do.
I’d rather not die of course.
