Along with one or two of the lib Supreme Court justices dying and getting replaced with Christian fascist.
I predicted this almost a year ago.
Can’t find the post but basically I said that Dems would do some stupid shit like waste political capital on gun control (they did) and other nonsense (like talking about taxing vapes and tobacco) and that they would do nothing to actually address material needs of people struggling through the pandemic (and they haven’t) this would lead to voter apathy and a massive blowout in 2022. Following that, it’s obvious they would try to impeach Biden after the multiple attempts to impeach Trump, only this time they will have taken both chambers of congress and can actually do it.
And yes it will be very funny :jokerfication:
Two things, political capital isn’t real, and they did not “try” to impeach Trump. They did impeach him. It is simply only symbolic unless the Senate votes to remove, which requires an impossible 67 Senate votes. I cannot imagine what would make 67 senators vote to remove a president but there will not be 67 senators voting to remove Biden or anyone else. Only 14 democrat senators are up for reelection in 2022 so even if Democrats lost every single one (they won’t), you would need a manchin, a sinema, and a third “bipartisan” democrat senator to remove.
What would be more funny is invoking the 25th amendment and democrats that go along with it and signal loyalty to constitutionality and norms and all that liberal bullshit.
Andrew Johnson was acquitted during his impeachment trial since the Senate fell short of 1 vote (35 out of 36). That’s the closest it’s ever gotten.
The funniest thing that could possibly happen would be if a long drawn out 25th amendment battle that goes nowhere for months, then Biden resigns out of respect for procedure, then Harris is made president and immediately impeached for…I don’t even know, admitting to smoking weed one time
Blowout WIN for the Democrats is far more likely than a blowout win for the GOP. The fact that everyone in the Chapoverse is “convinced” that the Dems will lose makes me think that Dems will win 250+ house seats and 55+ Senators more and more every day.
I don’t even care that’s just a hellworld prediction. Caring about this shit is for libs just have fun.
Arguing is fun!
Fr fr tho, Leftists need to stop talking about “material conditions” as if they have any relevance to American politics because the fact is none of us understand anything about real material conditions.
So basically, it’s Doomer Pascal’s Wager.
If the doomer prediction doesn’t happen, it’s a pleasant surprise. If it does happen, well, I told you so.
If the optimist’s prediction happens, it’s just as they expected. If it doesn’t happen, it just feels like more hellworld.
I’m also kinda leaning in the direction the Democrats just dominate politics for the next 10 years. Trump was a traumatic event for so many Americans because it forced them to have an opinion on how the government works. I don’t think anyone actually enjoyed it. Everyone was pissed off all the time. It got exhausting and people seem to rather want everything to go back to just living in the suburbs, eating your treats, go to work until you die.
It also doesn’t help that normal everyday Republican voters are bleeding out rapidly. They’re either losing enthusiasm or they’re all dying. The ones who stuck around are getting freakishly Q-pilled and alienating everyone around them. The January riot at the capital was unpopular with absolutely everyone, including the chuds. They’re all going nuts and the more sane ones are completely checking out.
It seems to me that the Q crowd is running a successful, decentralized harassment campaign at school boards / local government meetings across the country right now. I wouldn’t be so quick to dismiss them as freakishly Q-pilled agitators. As living standards continue to decline, I think people could become more receptive to their conspiratorial theories of blame.
In my view, the right could tolerate these people because they represent an army of zealots who are far more activated than the typical voter. And that’s putting aside the fact that the Q crowd could / does get its own into office, who can then become something reckon with. This attitude of “Republican Party to Soon Become Irrelevant” is something I’ve heard before – before Hillary ate shit in 2016.
I have a different memory of the Trump years. People loved dunking on that guy! You could write the same “Wall Closing in on Trump” / “This Remark Crossed. The. Line.” article every week for 4 years and just change some proper nouns around and you would have a massive audience. People hated him for sure, but they also got off on this overhyped good vs. evil narrative where they were acting like reply guys and thinking it was heroic
GOP voters bleeding out was a demographic inevitably. That’s part of the reason why Dems were so triumphant in 2016 and dismissed the possibility of a Trump presiency. Trump was a “retreat to move forward” in that respect - someone who’s odious to the vast majority of voters but also helps shake up a stale brand who’s constituency is literally dying out.
The GOP is sacrificing some elections they could have won now in exchange for rebranding in a way that will theoretically help them in the future (based Chads who want to RETVRN to Latin Mass, ban single mothers, and eliminate taxes on cryptocurrency). There’s going to be a lot of short-term pain as older and middle aged moderates are turned off, but very soon we’re gonna be in a situation where the GOP is increasingly the “youthful” party while the Dems get more and more necrotic.
what are you talking about wasting political cap on gun control? They havent even done that.
This is why it’s important to vote. Vote for democrats. They are not the same as Republicans. They will feed us bread crumbs atleast :so-true:
They won’t need to impeach Biden. He came into power a lame duck and is now almost a non-entity puppet moved about by whichever faction of Cabinet is in power this week.
If they can get the deep state on side the dem cabinet will be dead in the water or co-opted and the Republican establishment will, finally, have absolute power and Biden will get the blame for anything they do.
They’ll impeach him or their supporters will rip them apart.
I think 30-40% of elected GOP are scared of being killed by their own voters if they aren’t rabid enough.
Why aren’t democrats scared?
No, their supporters will not rip them apart, come on. If we learned anything, their supporters don’t give a shit about anything except owning the libs. They could own the Executive Branch, and have every single seat in the Senate and House somehow, and then do absolutely nothing, and their supporters would still be happy because they’re owning the libs, or they’d still say it’s the Democrats’ fault somehow.
Because poor and minority dems are scared of the republicans and think the dems might at least slow the horror parade if they aren’t hung from the lampposts(they won’t).
Richer dems, of course, have the system working as intended, they get their moralist wankery, and they get no actual threat to their pocket book.
It’ll take real desperation (food and power shortages) or a complete collapse of democrat institutional glamour to do this, and if the covid deaths under Biden didn’t do it I don’t know what will.
I’m sure it will happen though, the US is in a terminal spiral and the last few months have made me think it’s closer to the ground than I thought.
The dems are pretty much 2 election cycles(ie 4 years) from being effectively extinct. I don’t think those in power really care and a lot of their desperate supporters are being gaslit into believing they’re on an equal footing.
They won’t need to impeach Biden. He came into power a lame duck and is now almost a non-entity puppet moved about by whichever faction of Cabinet is in power this week.
Is that really true though? Like I’m totally on board with the reality that Biden is sun-downing and I absolutely think there’s conversations being made about the viability of his candidacy in 2024 but if he was that much of a nonentity puppet how do you explain the Afghanistan withdrawal?
Only a lame duck could tear off that band-aid.
Everyone in power who wasn’t getting kickbacks knew we had to give up eventually, but no one who plans to get re-elected would do so.
Also it was set up by Trump who probably would have changed his mind.
Eh…I don’t know…it seemed to me like there was a pretty big contingent of powerful interests still ready to kick that horse. I don’t really disagree with the characterization of him as a lame duck who was able to pull off the bandaid but I think calling him a nonentity puppet is a bit too far a reach. A lot of feathers got ruffled.
I’m struggling to put this into words. Maybe someone can help? I’m not so sure the right-wing in the US can be successfully mobilized anymore. I don’t mean militia preppers or internet fascists, they’re their own thing. I mean the boomer chuds in the suburbs who put Trump signs in their front lawns. They were in it for Trump himself and that’s it. Of course they’re going to vote for anyone with R next to their name, but there’s such a lack of enthusiasm in the general population for anything political. Everyone’s either fallen back to the fringes, or they’re hanging on to memories of 2016, or they’re actually joining cults.
It’s also entirely possible that the people in the US most interested in voting (older, suburban white people) died of covid in alarming rates and simply no longer have a voice, so there’s an illusion of lack of enthusiasm.
Also, I’m not going to be surprised if the Republicans win the House with over 300 seats in 2022. My gut also says they’ll run generic White Business Guy in 2024, instead of some kind of flamboyant charismatic figure.
Judging by what I see people I know post on Facebook, they got so extreme and insane that anyone remotely normal couldn’t handle them, so they just started being quieter about it around people who aren’t similarly riled up.
If they’re anything like my relatives, they’ll either get so far down the Q pipeline their politics don’t resemble anything rational and they’ll even start to claim the Republicans are Satanists, or they’ll succumb to their short attention span and stop caring about voting or who the president is.
He’d lose if that’s the case. His voter base has stopped caring or become so insane they think he’s a hologram. The bourgeoisie also have nothing to gain from him.
I think in the run up to 2024 he’ll make a lot of noise about running again but ultimately wont because he knows he’d lose.
