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Oh absolutely. Keep engaging the system, such as it is. But know it won’t be enough. More is required. More that will not be done white knight riding to the rescue.

Yep, vote. 'Cause why not, it won't make their job easier.

On the other hand, start thinking about escape.

No that's the thing: If the problem isn't solved by the midterms, it's already checkmate. The main goal of an aspiring dictator like Trump is to disable the system's checks and balances and prepare for their ultimate seizure of power. Thanks to decades of executive overreach most of the groundwork is already in place, so it's entirely possible that Trump can get to a point where launching a coup is a realistic prospect by the end of the year, in which case he's just going to do it because he can't afford to be removed from power or he'll be thrown in jail.

I'm gonna vote, too, even though I fully expect to be arrested at some point for TDS because I voted for someone he didn't endorse.

Ah yes, all the other Mao fans will know your a Mao fan now. And you can congratulate each other on owning the libs in a corner of the internet that's already way off to the left of the mainstream

I wish the midterms were overwith so people could stop hoping for that

They'll just place their desperate hopes on something else.

Anything to avoid having to actually do something themselves.

Honestly it seems too late already. Let the midterms rip!

the idiots waiting for the midterm will juts push the goal post further

if we are relying on legal processes, we wait until midterms, magically retake the house and enough of the senate to impeach and unseat. that places the speaker of the house (not maga) in.

if we are relying on extralegal methods, we really ought to have better operational security than to discuss it on the internet. so...

Ofc vote. This isn’t a boycott proposal. But let’s not pretend either.

In the medical industry there is a unit called the ICU, the Intensive Care Unit. This is where the ventilators live. A common side remark made by staff, depending on the day, the type of patients there, is that they are vegetable gardeners. Crude, but oftentimes accurate.

90 year old grandmas whose time has come, who have died, but the families are not ready to let go. So, grandma now lays in ICU, with broken ribs from the CPR that brought her back, unconscious, muscles atrophying and body deconditioning to anything but a bed. Brain dead people who are “fighters” who are “gonna pull through”. And so on. Passive bodies, carefully tended and watered in perpetuity, until the ethics committee gets involved or the family runs out of money after insurance runs out. We have this technology.

The question here is, even if Donald Trump dies, will he be allowed to officially die? Or will he become an orange flower in an ICU vegetable garden, tended and watered in perpetuity?