Pre-match: Can't believe it took this long for this thread, the 2024 Presidential election thread!

Great point. These kinds of big moves don’t work without years of preparation. This ain’t the time to make it a campaign issue but it’s past time for Dems to start putting this into the conversation.

 

Man I just don’t see it for 3 of those things.

 

Ok…I’ll concede on this but only as an opportunity to point out that educating voters on that don’t already know all this would kind of be the job of the dude running on a plan to do so.

 

Which ones?

If anything, people are this dumb. Along with lacking a basic understanding of US government functions.

 

Nothing about the GOP being near broke, (see MI) but the funds for house, holy hell. And they will still keep paying Trump’s legal bills.

Democratic advertisers have a significant head start in fall reservations for Presidential, Senate, and House generals. While these totals are sure to even out, here's a look at current Aug-Nov reservations.

President:
🔵$130M 🔴$0
Senate:
🔵$256M 🔴$129M
House:
🔵$77.4M 🔴$348K

— AdImpact Politics (@AdImpact_Pol) April 10, 2024

 

The GOP is probably banking on Trumping being on the news everyday with all of his trials going on. Free advertising!

 

I wonder how informative these numbers are for Republicans. thanks to Citizen United and Republican corruption, they have started using SuperPACs for a lot of their donations. It allows them to hide their donations a lot more and makes it much easier to funnel money from their donors into their pockets that they can't really do with donations to the national committees.

 

I’m struggling with the idea that for the last 40 years Dems have campaigned on appointing judges that will protect RvW…and have have them made it a point to bring it up during confirmation hearings…and yet somehow now they’re supposed to remain silent on the fact that the only way to correct this is to expand the court…as the Supreme Court…as constructed…means it’s lost for the next 50 years. “Scare off voters”? Who exactly is going to be scared of that? Reforming the Supreme Court should the the center of Biden’s campaign. How many SCOTUS L’s is enough before it finally becomes the center? You want reasonable gun control legislation? Great…I do to. But even if that legislation is passed it will be struck down by this court. Want abortion to be available under the terms set out by SCOTUS before this one corruptly reversed 50 years of precedent? Great. But they’ll shoot it down within minutes of me signing it. Want to fix gerrymandering? Great. See above. Want a new VRA that protects everyone’s right to vote? Great. See above. Want to fix the issues created by the Citizens United issue? Great…see above. If you want ANY of these things in your life time….vote for senators and representatives that will pass a bill expanding the SC, and then pass bills to codify all this and you’ll get it in the next four years. If you don’t…you’ll be dead before any of this is fixed.

 

Exhibit Z:

Today, the Justice Department has announced the “Engaged in the Business” Final Rule – an updated and clear definition of who must obtain a license and conduct a background check before selling firearms.

🔗: https://t.co/kft2H0HteD pic.twitter.com/10c4f4kcNs

— U.S. Department of Justice (@TheJusticeDept) April 11, 2024

This will be challenged in the northern district in Texas (or whichever is that single judge district). He will issue a nation wide injunction within hours of the challenge. It will go to SCOTUS…and they will side 6-3. So maybe this will be the L that breaks the camel’s back? This won’t be law in thirty days.

 

I think the issue is that the Democrats have been incredibly naive in their approach to the Judicial system. While Republican have been looking to appoint judges that are willing to appoint along ideological lines (laws be damned), Democrats have continued to appoint people who share their ideology, but are still bound by the confines of the laws.

That's why Democrats have focused on legal battles to protect existing laws and rights, while Republicans have focused on appointing judges willing to ignore the laws.

 

Realistically, the only hope is that Democrats win across the board and the Republican party implodes following the November election...

 

And it's going to change the more Trump keeps talking and the more the Republican party keeps going through on abortion bans.

 

That’s the point though. Even if the Republican Party implodes…it’s a 6-3 scoreboard. You literally need two of those 6 to die in office while the Dems hold the presidency or the senate…or it will always be 6-3 at best. The war is already over. They won.

Are you referring to Dem politicians or Dem voters? Dem politicians I agree. Dem voters? I don’t. And if Dem politicians don’t start showing them a pathway to finally see the light at the end of the tunnel…you’re going to lose them because they’ll realize there’s no point in trying to change things through the ballot box and they’ll just stop showing up. And if we’re not going to expand the court we’ve already passed the why bother stage.

 

Bro people are still struggling with the green lantern concept of presidency. Plus I just watched a clip of the British Labour party (their democrats) move to the right on transgender care and something else. I say that because a large part of the population maybe liberal but a heavy chunk are light blue and light red and don't understand how things work. Combine that with a press that will compare him to Orban and or Chavez and it will have a lot of people that believe in the "right way" of doing things stay home or vote Republican

 

Why?