House Republicans join Democrats to keep Trump from buying Russian oil.
This is an important step and will likely be overwhelmingly supported in the Senate as well.
@randahl The true purpose of the slob's diesel deal with Russia isn't to ease local supply issues.
It's so that, when Ukraine bombs another one of Russia's refineries, the slob can declare Ukraine a terrorist state for attacking a critical American supply line, and either impose sanctions, or attack it directly.
These midterms couldn't be more important. You do not get to sit them out. Ensure your voter registration is current, and then vote Democratic. All offices. No exceptions.
Democrats have well-proven themselves to be a completely ineffective opposition, from not bothering to use the legislative and legal tools that they have to counter his efforts through campaigning with themes that actually support and affirm his rhetoric.
In short, Democrats basically got the guy reelected and were then complicit in all the crap he's done.
Voting Democratic is to reward them for that.
The alternative to actively going out of your way to reward a candidate that promotes doing bad things is... not to do that. You don't have to give them your support.
You COULD go farther and work to promote representatives that would actually oppose all of this, instead of profiting off of it. But that's extra.
The simplest alternative to voting for crap is not voting for crap. The alternative is to just not join in the complicity by actively empowering the bad candidates.
Well sure, there are a hundred different things that contributed to us being in this shit now, but how do we move forward to get out of it?
This is my point: the US was designed to anticipate and deal with this shit without the need for emergency nuclear options against a malfunctioning president.
Those conventional mechanisms run through Congress so we don't have to wait four years for another presidential election. The people we elect to Congress can restrain a president but so far aren't using rules at their disposal to do so.
In the US system these midterms are not about opposing Trump but about supporting candidates who will. But we won't get that by voting in candidates who won't.
We can't get out of this shit by electing candidates who won't take those actions.
@volkris @ewhac @randahl If you have a voting choice of ”bad” and ”really bad”, you either choose ”bad” or you start or join the revolution.
You don’t vote for ”really bad”.
And I don’t expect volkris to understand this, but to everyone else reading this: remember, activism is always easier under a poorly functioning democracy than under full fascism. Don’t vote fascism just to ”make a point”. And not voting is just as bad.
If you want to go down that road, there's a debate to be had over which is the bad and which is the really bad, the one engaging in incompetent corruption today or the one enabling it, profiting off of it, and helping to shape the future so that we'll keep getting more of it.
Don't vote fascism OR fascism enabler.
That's how we just get more of this going into the future.
You do have a choice. You don't have to vote for either "bad" or "really bad," and we can leave the argument over short term vs long term weight as purely academic.
@volkris @ewhac @randahl So the alternative is... ?