I am so ready to pack my shit and never come back if marriage equality falls.
Who would’ve thought having a partisan executive appoint a partisan judge and by approved by a partisan congress would result in a partisan Supreme Court! My vote is for using a system similar to Tennessee’s State Supreme Court. A commission of judges nominate a short list of candidates -> the governor appoints from the list -> after a year, there is a popular election on whether the judge should retain their seat.
For the Supreme Court, I’d modify it to: every federal judge elects the short list with Single Transferable Voting or Approval Voting -> President appoints one -> after a year, the populous has a retention vote. Also limited and staggered terms so appointments are distributed evenly across presidencies; must pass a background check & audit; criminal & civil convictions have mandatory prison time and fines are based off percentage of wealth.Of course neither party (and definitely not the oligarchs) are going to push for systemic changes that could curb their power, so we all need to be united with a General Strike. In the past these have lasted a few days to about a month; I expect making the constitutional changes needed to save our democracy will take longer and meet greater resistance, so Mutual Aid Networks will be crucial to support the strikers and keep essential services running. You can start by plugging in with the ones in your community, they are already everywhere.
The U.S. should revisit if we need a supreme court anymore.
Or at least set term limits and have a lot more of them.
I’ll vote for anyone legally dismantling SCOTUS. Also if we can’t get rid of the supreme court can we at least move it to the northern most tip of alaska? Nowhere in the constitution does it say scotus has to be in DC.
The summit of Denali
Hell yeah now we’re talking. Hope they fucking enjoy their free RVs there.
Seekest thou the SCOTUS?
Stay tuned… interracial marriage will be on the chopping block.
Fuck Kim Davis
Well, Trump has taught us that you can ignore the Supreme Court if your party controls Congress. So if there ever is another Democrat president with Democrat control of Congress, just revert all this and ignore whatever the SC says.
We should only be elevating Democrats who make it clear they are ready to play hardball.
We all know that he is not getting out of the white house peacefully
He’s never giving up power.
I thought I never had to hear about Kim Davis again. I never want to hear or think about that toad again. What a shame
Would they hear the case if a court clerk said she would no longer hand out marriages for anyone not religious as that is offensive to them?
Or maybe people who are left handed marrying people who are right handed? The abomination!
Where does this bullshit stop?
Government should NOT be interested in marriage. They simply should not care. The MOST they should do is have ready to made contracts if they want to manage divorce, child support, and death wealth distribution. Those are contracts. Contracts are made between consenting adults. The government either lets their citizens enter into contracts or not.
All the people that didn’t vote are partly responsible for this.
Hey, guys, I found that comment! You know, the one where some smug prick tries to remind everyone how correct they were… ::checks watch:: 11 months ago.
Thank goodness they showed up. I was afraid there was going to be a political post that didn’t devolve into liberals and leftists screaming at each other about lesser evils and supporting genocide.
I guess someone needs to do the important work of making sure those who oppose christo-fucking-fascists never find common ground.
That’s all nice and good but you’re just wrong because of the electoral college. I voted, but I also knew that in my state, my vote would not change the result and it has never changed the result in my lifetime. So if one of my friends decided to stay home, I wouldn’t judge them for that. There aren’t enough of us in our state to change the results. That’s the sad reality, and you need to understand that so that you stop blaming innocent well-intentioned people who actually understand their own reality better than you do.
Last presidential election had the highest turnout of voters and youth voters in American history.
Our problem is much more depressing and much more deeply baked-in.
More than 1 in 3 people didn’t vote.
That’s probably accurate but not unusual, it still had some of the highest turnout in history and the data backs this up, we didn’t have as much of turnout problem as an attention span and informed voter problem.
The problem was more revealed in exit polling determining that people largely didn’t see a difference between candidates, saw no difference between Harris and Biden (kinda true) but saw Trump as a “lets see how he does” option because he wasn’t in charge when egg prices went up.
Studies have shown the Trump beat out Dems in all categories and it has a lot to do with people largely losing interest in politics and just marginally paying attention to social media propaganda, which skews heavily right. Financial uncertainty often pushes populations towards conservatism and authoritarian leaders, and Dems are very, very bad at this kind of populism.
Excuse me, but HOW THE FUCK do you LOSE INTEREST in politics?!
Is there too much lead in people’s food or something?
I don’t mean to be mean, but you need to talk to more people.
A lot of people in America simply do not believe they can change anything. Either because they don’t know how, they’ve never shown up to a town hall, or because the only politics they hear about are from states and federal buildings they’ll never live or work in, or because the only politics they hear about outside of Trump being a dipshit is some 2% thing that will do something which might lead to something else maybe, or because South Park taught them that caring about anything is cringe and, actually, the smartest people spend all day making fun of anyone with an idea.
I mean, let me ask another question: how the fuck do you lose interest in unions? And yet, the US lost interest a looong time ago.
Mostly they just want both sides to burn down and be replaced with something less horrible
But the right has enough supporters to win.
And at this point, short of the SCOTUS getting overthrown before the finish, ushering in fascism, all the politics are just arranging deckchairs on the Titanic.
All the people who did vote for the cheeto are responsible as well. And I think that was the point, marriage equality was on the ballot 14 years after the supreme court ruling
The point I think is that this was largely preventable from within our own ranks. Because we didn’t turn out, the minority was allowed to rule. Yes, the minority is responsible but they were a forgone conclusion. Inaction on the left allowed a preventable outcome to occur.
Democrats aren’t “left.”
They are the left party in the us, fuck off with this worthless game
At some point we need to tell the “internet people who tell us who to blame” that hillary would have won in 2016 if not for the electoral college. At some point people just give up and that was the entire democratic party in 2024.
Not a single person in the democrats has a plan to fix democracy in the US and until they do the gerrymandering, electoral college and republican rule by minority will continue
Cool story, would still have been nice to avoid the transgender genocide or killing health insurance.
I’m sure all the finger pointing at neighbors will help, instead of, you know, taking 5 minutes to understand how we got here and why its going to continue.
65 million don’t vote. “But Trump” is not a legit platform to run on. You have to give voters something to vote for. Dems fucked up
Noo! The democrats were entitled to your vote! Vote blue no matter who they wanna deport and remove!
The problem is that should have been the only platform needed, but still wasn’t enough
That’s exactly it. Dems keep throwing winnable elections and when they do get power they don’t attempt to implement any reforms to make it harder for republicans to hold power both electorally and monetarily so their voters get poorer and disenfranchised and leave.
I can do both, don’t worry.
Every non-voter in California is responsible for this /s
“The overall turnout of eligible voters in the 2024 general election was 63.7%. This was lower than the 2020 record of 66.6% but higher than every other election year since at least 2004.”
People did vote. Constantly blaming the small group of disillusioned voters is just weird.
“The small group” of more than one in three people that didn’t vote.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/upshot/turnout-2024-election-trump-harris.html
NYT reported that data suggests that nonvoters would have given Trump a larger win.
Oh, you were actually aiming at 100% turnout. Well, that’s just silly.
90%, 80%, hell, even 70%. The general wisdom (not necessarily as true today) is that the higher the turnout in U.S. elections, the more likely the democrat is to win. That was the driver of the attached:
mandatory voting looks like a small price to pay for a (more) healthy democracy, Australia seems to be doing a lot better than the other British colonies right now
of course with the US, something like that would have to be combined with an extensive overhaul of public education (moving away from the “breed compliant factory workers”-goal), because healthy democracy also requires an educated population capable of knowing when they’re being lied too
Argentina has mandatory voting and they have Milei. How healthy is that?
Argentina also votes on Sunday (a change way simpler than reforming education) and last elections they had 77% turnout. A lot of people simply don’t participate in the democracy and there’s no way around it. No one serious expect 100% people to vote and blames the 30% that doesn’t for the outcomes.
No one expects 100%. Australia hovers around 90% turnout.
The rest below is me just working out some numbers, and isn’t meant to convince anyone of anything.
There are ~236 million Americans citizens of voting age, of whom 73.6% (174 million) are registered to vote.
Of the 174 million registered voters, 155.2 million voted.
Of the 155.2m, 77.3m voted for Trump, 75.0m voted for Harris, and 2.9m voted for someone else. Not that this is how the system works, but more people voted for “someone other than Trump” than voted for him.
If 90% of the 174m voters had voted, that would have increased turnout by 1.4m voters. Not enough to change the popular vote, even if they were all for Harris (though depending on distribution there is at least some small chance the Electoral College votes would have changed enough).
If 90% (212.4m) of the 236m eligible voters had voted, that’s 57.2m more votes to cast.
Pew Research says that polled non-voters went 44% for Trump, 40% for Harris. Applying that to our hypothetical 57.2m voters, it’s 22.9m more for Harris and 25.2m more for Trump, bringing our totals to 102.5m Trump, 97.9m Harris, and a new block of 9.2m undecided. Note that two of those figures rounded up, so the apparent total is 212.6m rather than 212.4m.
The difference between Trump-Harris at this point is 4.6m votes. For Harris to tie/win the popular vote on the new undecided block, she would have needed 75% of them (Harris 6.9% vs. Trump 2.3m).
All of that hinges on polls reflecting reality, which lately is much easier to question (not based on misinformation, just with polling managing so often not matching the real vote results).
Thank you for going on this numbers journey with me.
It’s on the Project 2025 list. As such, I expect it to fall, like Roe.
Heritage is clearly funding this erasure of what We The People want.
What can we do? Surely we outnumbered these people
We do outnumber these people, and don’t call me Shirley.
Find out where the heritage foundation meets, and have a crowd gather outside. Lock the doors. Burn the building. Let no one out.
That’s how we get change.
K st in DC. They have the name engraved in concrete on the building
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If you did anything. They will use drone strikes and the conservative media will cover for them.
To stop this admin if it comes to it. We’d have to knock out comms for all the drone operation bases.
Are you fucking daft. This whole comment reads like someone who learned everything about the world from action video games and movies, and I guess that tracks with our population currently. The Drone Command Bases will have flashing mission-icons above them, right?
Congratulations, the brain rot has metastasized in you. Stop role-playing, I beg you to go outside.
Mate. I’m just using my logic that is being adjusted by the ways Trump uses drone strikes. He will not hold back against the general public. I hope you understand this. No one he considers an enemy is safe. Look at what he is doing to traffickers. They can paint it any way they want. And they will escalate domestically. If anyone starts to really start a resistance. I’m just telling ya how I see it playing out.
I really feel like our movement has a chance at success if we collect enough power-ups and body armor upgrades.
Oh yes because doing indiscriminate drone strikes was so effective in Iraq and Afghanistan. Drone strikes are precision strikes meaning they are generally better for taking out a core group of high value targets, but they’d be right fucking useless on a large scale function. There’s a reason that the Navy more or less shutdown the drone program in WW2 that being that when the best way to deal with an enemy is to just to throw as much explosives as possible at a problem high capacity bombers are better, this general rule of thumb still reigns. You cant occupy and pacify an area with just drones because sooner or later folks will figure out counter measures, you can’t really do that as easily when an army is bearing down on you.
Not to say drone strikes can’t be effective when used in conjunction with traditional warfare, but we’ll look at the war in Ukraine the Ruskies and Ukrainians keep figuring out new ways to jam each other’s drones. It would probably only take a week at more for basic countermeasures to occur in the US, it could literally be shining a spotlight at the drone to fuck with it’s camera depending on the model and the lights output.
So predictable. The angry assholes hated losing that ruling, as well as losing the culture war around it. That’s why they didn’t really give up, but switched to harping on bathroom bills and “men in women’s sports”. The wedge was trans and they were going to hammer on that until they got enough Confederates in office to, yeah, attack trans, but also go after gays, even if, or even especially because of, the culture being against them for it. They hope to deport, imprison, threaten and smash down enough people to reverse that culture war, too, believe that.
They won’t be happy until they turn on streaming services or their television or go to the movies and won’t have to see any gays, unless it is for comic effect or the like. They definitely don’t want to see anything normalized…
This might not be reversed in the near future - maybe. But the weirdoes on the right will treat this just like they did abortion. They won’t give up, even if it takes them 50 years to take the rights of others away.
I just have no idea why gays voted for Taco. Or any Confederates for that matter. It just makes no sense at all. I know some gays IRL who have voted for Taco. Twice. But I guess there was actually a group called “Jews for Hitler”, too, until the Nazis shut it down…
If all LGBT people were a precient we would be more pro democrat than anywhere but parts of south LA
That’s why they didn’t really give up, but switched to harping on bathroom bills and “men in women’s sports”.
I’m so glad democrats circled the wagons around vulnerable minorities on this one. Can you imagine if they just ignored it and let republicans set the narrative, or worse, ran the “men in women’s sports” hate in their own ads?
Man imagine if people started saying that trans people should just suck it up “for a bit” too. As if somehow not fighting for our rights would lead to them being magiced into existence.
Once again, 'both sides’ers.
This is what they were ranting about doing all along. You allowed this to happen.
Hard disagree. Decades of status quo policies as conditions constantly worsened inevitably led to this making it pretty easy to see how the Democrats allowed this to happen.
Why would democrats do this to us???
you’d think this would be undeniable now to even the most smooth-brained liberal… that the DNC/GOP have been playing controlled opposition for each other for decades/centuries, after seeing how the DNC’s leadership still hasnt fully endorsed Mamdani for the NYC mayoral race…even though he won the primary by a landslide.
On the contrary, legislators like Gilibrand are saying overtly Islamophobic shit and no one in the party leadership is saying anything is less than perfect about it.
It’s as if these people don’t remember the riots that happened to earn equality.
The false narrative that basic rights were earned through “civil debate” has been parroted by right wing talking heads for so long.
Most people are uninformed, and have an impression that rights just kind of happened via peaceful protests or debates, either due to their own ignorance or learning a very whitewashed version of history.
They do and now they have a surveillance state to make sure the riots don’t happen again
And a president who wants to shoot those protestors, and a federal police, answerable to no one, who can definitely do it. I’m giving it a year before we see at least one protest met with overwhelming lethal force.
Within that year I also expect to see MANY ice agents murdered in the streets.
Gosh it is almost like these MAGAts are just doing whatever the hell they want. I have a few things we can do when we get back in power.
when
An optimist!
Not really. This thing isn’t going to outlive Trump, and he’s very old and not in good health.
Anyway now baby…any day
Funny. That’s not going to happen. Well do the things, vote, but Johnson’s behavior regarding Arizona is his test run on 2026.
So much for individual freedom and small government, huh.
The small government is the biggest lie pushed by the right wing side of our country. In fact, when you read where the money comes from, it actually comes from a “Dark Enlightenment” coalition of techno-fascists looking to dismantle democracy.
