Progressive Politics

It won't matter.

We can see by the elections that have taken place so far in 2025 and 2026 that they've angered enough Republican voters to kill their chances, whether those people flipped to Democrat or opted to stay home. Dems have flipped something like two dozen districts in the last year, several of which Donald won by double digits in 2024.

Doesn't mean they won't try. It is likely they can't ascertain the scope of how badly they've pissed off their own voters though. This is likely to do with the fact that Donald and his inner circle can't be bothered to take a sobering look at their own internal polling data.

If Republicans can't rely on the states that voted red in 2024, and they evidently cannot, they can't adequately strategize in the way Bannon is describing.

And if Republicans opt to escalate their aggression even more, it just pisses off more voters.

I think it far more likely Donald tries to do something on affordability that he can brand with his name before the election. He'll gladly add another trillion to the national debt and send checks to voters if he thinks it'll let him grift a few more billion while he's still able to put two words together.

Or perhaps common sense and depressing.

That's cool, cause they seem to be losing elections in red states. The swing appears to be such that short of screening for voter intentions at the door would still have them lose. Not that I have much faith they won't adjust the results after the fact.

My correction: "watered with the blood of patriots, and fertilized by the flesh of tyrants."

We should kill the bastards, and live out our best lives long after.

Unfortunately, most of the polling places in my state (and probably many others) are conveniently located at schools, libraries, or other government buildings which have long since been declared Gun Free Zones.

You'd get arrested just for showing up. Otherwise you'd all have to mill around outside the property line which in most cases would be quite some distance away, where you can be safely ignored and/or not be able to see anything that may be going down inside anyway. And the "gun free zones" around schools specifically here extend for quite some distance away from the school property itself, IIRC several hundred yards.

More than that, give tickets and fines to companies doing business or sharing intelligence with them.

Identifying the Ice members and publicizing the information is a great idea, preferably after making it a law for all officers to not wear masks or hide their identities and to identify themselves as they work and not go around like a group of cartel members.

The administration will call it doxxing, but it's reasonable for police to show their faces and be accountable for their behavior, the only reason they are disguising it is to prevent them from being held accountable for their behavior. So an abuse that was committed cannot even be pinned on a team of officers as leadership of ICE obscures their identities.

It won't be long before we get more private groups of criminals, cartels, to pretend like they are ICE to murder and kidnap, and people won't know if they can defend themselves without getting murdered and then tarred as a terrorist, not knowing if it's federal agents (breaking the law, which you have a legal right to defend from I don't care what anyone says, it matters what a jury says and they would mostly agree, a badge does not give you the right to execute people without cause.)

The nation voted to deport illegals, it didn't vote to turn Ice into an extrajudicial paramilitary force accountable only to the president with a 200 billion dollar budget. They didn't vote to cancel the Bill of Rights, like the 4th amendment. They also didn't vote to deport the accused to foreign concentration camp prisons for life, or deport them to the shittiest countries they had never been to, just out of mean spiritedness. We've enough money to give ICE more than any military in the world outside of ours and china's, but not enough to honorably deal with illegal immigrants?

The administration wants to make precedents on this issue, they have the most support on it, to use later in stealing elections and crushing dissent. To nurture federal dickheads they can cherry pick for special units, and otherwise radicalize their federal agents and base with their Fox News bullshit and lies to fool their part of the population into not realizing they are trying to kill the republic and take what little working people have.

National Strike.