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Fake news. USA loves him. This is nonsense to keep the left in line and “hoping” things will “get better at the midterm”
Never been here, huh?
Never been to a red state, huh?
I live in Missouri and work in Oklahoma. People have gotten real quiet over the last year.
They had 10 years to be quiet. They deserve whatever they get
I agree, but that's not what we were talking about.
Exactly. Let’s just change the topic to an important one. What’s your favorite modern jazz band?
Modern jazz? What's the band that did the music on Cowboy Bebop? Seatbelt?
I don't know a lot of modern jazz, but I'll rock out to Cab Calloway.
Yes, I like the intro to that song. It’s a lot more interesting than the lives of people in the United States who will be destroyed by their own inaction.
I’m into Foat. Anything with Foat. That’s my smooth jazz jam.
Things will almost certainly get better after the midterms. The question is how much better...
Currently, Republicans control everything. Supreme Court, Presidency, both houses of Congress. But it's practically already written in stone that Dems will retake control of the House in the midterms, giving them at least control over half of Congress. And as long as they've got some semblance of a spine, they can use that to slow down and obstruct the Trump regime, making them less powerful and less effective at getting what they want. That's basically the minimum we can expect out of the midterms. (And since the House has almost exclusive control over the budget, if the Dems actually have the balls to try it, they could cut the Trump regime's funding entirely until their demands are met.)
But, potentially, it could get better than that. For starters, the higher their margin of control in the House gets, the more they can afford to ignore a few traitorous/spineless Dems and still exert some power/control without having to appease those assholes. It's also entirely possible that Dems may take control of the Senate, which would give them the ability to deny court appointments and maybe actually get some meaningful legislation passed (though Trump could still veto that legislation unless they get some Republicans on board with it as well). Potentially, a big enough win in the midterms could even make impeachment and conviction/removal a viable option. Not only for Trump himself, but for a lot of his cronies and enablers, including a few Supreme Court justices who could easily be removed under corruption charges.
Is that last part likely to happen? Fuck no. Even if Dems sweep the midterms resoundingly, they won't have enough of a majority in the Senate to complete an impeachment or pass veto-proof legislation without the cooperation of at least a few Republicans. But who knows? As the Epstein files release law showed, it's actually possible to get the Republicans on board, sometimes, for some things. And maybe seeing their Trump-enabling brethren take a bloodbath in the prior election will make some of them more willing to stand up to Trump, to distance themselves from him.
No, the midterms absolutely will not 'fix everything' or even bring things 'back to normal'. But they are almost certain to improve the political situation in the US, at least slightly. How much of an improvement we get will largely depend on how decisive the results are.
Man, why you gotta dash my hopes like that?
Well, the larger their majority, the more spineless Dems they can afford to have while still getting something meaningful done. But if their margins are thin, it only takes a few spineless/traitorous Dems to ruin everything.
Flipping state houses in the South would also be a huge thing and that isn't as talked about.
True, true. A lot could also happen at the state level during these midterms ... and though the federal stuff gets a lot of press and attention, state-level stuff often has more of an impact on people's everyday lives.