The vice president told a crowd of roughly 20,000 in Dallas that former President Donald J. Trump had said he would terminate the Constitution in a second term.
“Consider: Donald Trump has openly vowed if re-elected he’ll be a dictator on day one, that he will weaponize the Department of Justice against his political enemies, round up peaceful protesters and throw them out of our country and even, and even and I quote, ‘terminate’ the United States Constitution,” Ms. Harris said.
Those points are only alarming to intelligent, sane people. The problem is there’s a cult of unintelligent, insane people in this country.
If the media focused on just this narrative half as much as the focus on Biden’s age, which is an issue, it might actually reach enough ears enough times that the not lost people might be swayed. There aren’t enough people and headlines referencing Trump’s felonies, rapes, and views to dictate. I saw a few headlines when it was said, and people just said, “same old Trump”. More people need to start speaking about it in the media as a serious matter. And literally continually refer to him as a rapist felon.
They just need a particularly ragebait-y conclusion to latch on to. Like the fact that the Constitution he wants to ‘terminate’ also includes all the amendments.
Including the second amendment.
The one that’s misquoted constantly by republican gun nuts.
The title nearly writes itself. “Trump wants to take away your Second Amendment gun rights!”
He has literally talked about bypassing the 2nd Amendment.
Or, Mike, take the firearms first and then go to court, because that’s another system. Because a lot of times, by the time you go to court, it takes so long to go to court, to get the due process procedures. I like taking the guns early. Like in this crazy man’s case that just took place in Florida, he had a lot of firearms – they saw everything – to go to court would have taken a long time, so you could do exactly what you’re saying, but** take the guns first, go through due process second**. - Donald Trump
This is an actual quote from a White House meeting discussing the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
People who already would vote Democrat need to be alarmed into making sure they vote their asses off
Well we can only vote once, though, legally
Some MAGAs got caught trying to vote twice last time
Yes we can only vote one time but we can also make sure our moms, dads, siblings, friends, mail carriers, etc all go out and vote as well
Trump wants to be a dictator.
Dismantling two and a half centuries of checks, balances, and protections isn’t half as easy as you may think.
The jury is still out on whether he’s capable enough to do it if he wins again. This said, who the fuck wants to take that chance?
Trump is also a selfish, amoral piece of shit that will pull us out of NATO and kowtow to Putin as he expands across Europe. He doesn’t care about anyone but himself, and the foreign countries and businesses he’s forever indebted to.
The only “upside” to this guy is the delusions he’s selling his fanclub on. They’re all lies, but America is infested with enough idiots that we’re now having to deal with this situation.
I’m so ashamed of this segment of my countrymen. What absolute rubes Trump voters are.
Which is somehow different than Biden refusing to give up power and drop out despite no one wanting him?
Yes! Amazing both sidesing a man that wants to end democracy with a senile moderate.
Except the part where Biden is no moderate, and several of his policies, he’s been to the right of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher
Probably going to be the new dem nominee
I mean, realistically we knew it four years ago…
Its why we kept trying to argue Biden needed a better VP. But moderates told us VPs don’t matter.
I can hold my nose for Kamala, but fuck man. If there ain’t a real primary next election I’m over the party.
I’ve voted D for president for literally 20 years now…
08 was the only time I didnt just vote against the Republican party.
If the DNC doesn’t take this as a wake up then I don’t know how we’re going to avert catastrophe. But I can already see another primary in 2028 with no challengers because the DNC scared them all off to protect the incumbent democratic president. And I’m not sure what happens with 3 sham primaries in a row.
They don’t care. They’re all corporate removed anyway, they’ll thrive under Republicans, except for the few of them who do actually care and would be too noisy.
Those who voted for them are the ones who should worry – those whose existence and well being actually do depend on Republicans not being in power
Fuck that. She’s been nearly invisible and very quiet. Definitely doesn’t exude strength.
Nice of her to show up finally.
I just have no faith in her ability to beat Trump. She’ll do worse than Biden ill bet.
Pretty sure they’re already there.
Are we really gonna chase them as a constituency?
they were already united.
this is about mobilization and harris may be able to bring a wider, deeper pool of voters to the polls. I can tell you, where I am, there is absolutely no fire or enthusiasm for biden and we will miss warm bodies at polls pulling D levers because of it.
There are a lot of people that don’t realize they are sexist, or racist. They are surrounded by people that all also don’t realize they are racist, or sexist but they will start finding all the flaws in them. They won’t say "I don’t trust a woman as president " but they will coincidently find other flaws in the person because they are involuntarily being more critical of them.
The point is, there are racist and sexists voting for Biden that wouldn’t vote for Kamala. They just don’t realize they are sexist.
I live in rural Arizona. I am essentially an expert on these types of people.
I don’t know. One thing that she’s really good at is going on the attack. Go back and watch her in Senate hearings. If there’s anything we need post-Biden, it’s someone who will take the fight to Trump instead of bickering with him about golf and letting him control the narrative. Assuming that she hasn’t let those skills atrophy in the interim, of course.
I don’t know why this is so hard, I care very little about her as a person. Biden is mostly at the whim of his party already and Kamala would be too. So the platforms remain nearly the same, but somewhat better on critical things like Gaza.
I don’t see how this is a loss for the dems to run her, they’re guaranteed in my mind to lose with Biden now. And you’re right, anyone who gets on stage and is younger than 65 against Trump will just trounce him. I was waiting for Biden to fight back just once against Trump but nope, he just sat there with his mouth open.
She’s not senile and Biden is basically winning on a platform of not trump so I can only imagine she’ll do better. The people don’t like Biden, they dislike trump. No one currently in the running is anyone’s first choice and pretending otherwise is just madness, so someone who has the advantage of not being fascist and not being senile only sounds like an improvement.
I don’t think so. She’s no Joe from the 2012 vp debates, but she’s also no Joe from the first 2024 presidential debate.
