politics

As it stands now leadership change in the US does not include the possibility of calling elections.

If Trump steps down, Vance takes over. If Vance also steps down, it's Mike Johnson, then Chuck Grassley, Marco Rubio, and so on.

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_line_of_succession

For that to change, Congress would have to establish a new presidential succession process, which they could do. However, they won't.

This is exactly how every single popular uprising in history has started: by overwhelming numbers of people getting out in the streets to have their voices heard. They always start off as peaceful until drive past that by elite/institutional reaction.

If this were a single instance, then, yes, it would seem feeble and ineffectual. But it's not. It's the early days of a large movement. We're less than 3 months into the regime and this past Saturday was already the single largest day of protest in American history. And there's another one scheduled in 2 weeks on the 19th.

I was at the protest in DC. There was 100k+ people there. I've been a political activist since the protests against the Iraq War in 2003. This event on Saturday was notably different than any other I've attended in 2 ways. One was the sheer size, larger than any other protest in DC I've seen. The other was the demographic composition of the crowd. All previous protests I've been to were primarily filled with male-presenting young people. This was very different. At 38 years old, I was definitely younger than the majority of the people there. It was also far more racially diverse than any other events I've been to except for the 2020 uprising.

What do you expect a giant crowd of people mostly in their 40s-60s to do? You think they were all going to storm the White House or Capital?

For that matter, what are you doing? You say these demonstrations are pathetic? Then surely you must be taking more radical actions that have a much higher chance of effecting change. I'd love to join in, so, please, tell me what you're doing that's puts the 5 million people out in the streets on Saturday to shame?

But you'll burn all the children he has locked up inside. Best to shoot them in the head and steal everything.

That's not really how a general strike works. You can't just post on the internet "do a general strike" and expect it to happen or be effective. Where are the strike funds to help feed people and pay their rent when they stop getting paychecks? Where are your strike captains to organize demonstration events? Where is your army of strike lawyers to defend people when they inevitably get arrested?

General strikes take a long time and a lot of resources to plan. Only then can one be effective.