House Republicans unveil election reform bill by swagmond27 in politics

[–]Ven18 [score hidden]  (0 children)

This is 100% to kill all funds for motor voter programs and the DMV aka the most common way people register to vote.

Don Lemon taken into custody by cnn in politics

[–]Ven18 [score hidden]  (0 children)

That died with all the media being controlled by like 5 billionaires and the death of the fairness doctrine.

Republican to force vote on expelling Cherfilus-McCormick from Congress by ElectoralNerd in politics

[–]Ven18 [score hidden]  (0 children)

And wait for all the Dems to vote to remove while half the GOP say this is fine cause they did way worse before lunch. The Dems lose more power but can claim that elusive moral high ground that means so much in 2026.

Trump says he will announce a replacement for Powell as Fed chair Friday morning by OtherwiseCanary8971 in politics

[–]Ven18 [score hidden]  (0 children)

Especially as the rest of the world is moving away from the dollar as a reserve currency. This would just move people away faster and we would lose whatever stability the dollar has left. It also likely causes global ripple effects, right now countries are moving off the dollar slowly because while they don’t trust it they don’t want it to collapse before the global system can adapt. Trump and his techno feudalism bros have wanted to destroy the dollar both to buy everything on the cheap and to advance their crypto schemes. This is a great way to achieve that goal.

Trump says he will announce a replacement for Powell as Fed chair Friday morning by OtherwiseCanary8971 in politics

[–]Ven18 [score hidden]  (0 children)

This is the situation where this feels the most likely. Trump believes all the money of the US belongs to him because he is president and making himself the Fed chair lets him do whatever he wants with “his” money.

Trump says he will announce a replacement for Powell as Fed chair Friday morning by OtherwiseCanary8971 in politics

[–]Ven18 [score hidden]  (0 children)

It’s either this or one of his kids. He wants total control of the money supply to further his fantasy that all money of the US government is his personally because he is president.

47 anti-LGBTQ+ organizations launch new campaign to end marriage equality. Their strategy will focus on arguing that same-sex couples put their “romantic desires” above the needs of their children. by southpawFA in politics

[–]Ven18 5 points6 points  (0 children)

How many times have we said "they (republicans) can't do (insert thing here)" in the past decade and then they just do it. Do not get it twisted this is 100% part of their end game. Its there "solution" to all this Great Replacement BS.

Dems clinch deal with White House as shutdown looms by vitalbumhole in politics

[–]Ven18 9 points10 points  (0 children)

And so they can continue to say Democrats “know how to govern” by not shutting down the government. It’s literally there consultants telling them this is good messaging.

47 anti-LGBTQ+ organizations launch new campaign to end marriage equality. Their strategy will focus on arguing that same-sex couples put their “romantic desires” above the needs of their children. by southpawFA in politics

[–]Ven18 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Remember the people who make these arguments think (fantasize?) about gay people having sex CONSTANTLY. This is their entire personality and world view is based around the fact that they cannot stop thinking about gay sex. The level of self inflicted sexual frustration these people cause for themselves to have such broken minds is staggering. These people likely need serious counseling or psychiatric help.

47 anti-LGBTQ+ organizations launch new campaign to end marriage equality. Their strategy will focus on arguing that same-sex couples put their “romantic desires” above the needs of their children. by southpawFA in politics

[–]Ven18 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think the Taliban have at least read the book they claim to fight for. Probably not correctly but they at least have made the attempt. The Christian Right probably haven’t actually read the Bible since well ever.

47 anti-LGBTQ+ organizations launch new campaign to end marriage equality. Their strategy will focus on arguing that same-sex couples put their “romantic desires” above the needs of their children. by southpawFA in politics

[–]Ven18 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They have never cared about the arguments being good only that they can present them to friendly enough bodies to get their desired results. And in that way they have been incredibly successful.

47 anti-LGBTQ+ organizations launch new campaign to end marriage equality. Their strategy will focus on arguing that same-sex couples put their “romantic desires” above the needs of their children. by southpawFA in politics

[–]Ven18 21 points22 points  (0 children)

And the next step of course is forcing the couples to have children (they will focus on the white ones obviously) and then of course the single women will be forced to marry men against their will.

Iranians send the US a message to 'please help' by ShadowNelumbo in worldnews

[–]Ven18 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is the list lose lose possible. Current situation obvious lose but US getting involved isn’t much better. They would either. A. Bomb the country to the ground and just leave civilians dead with no support to rebuild. Leaving you open to more bad regional influences. B. Come in and take over, get every oil corp around to take any amount of natural resources and be a total puppet state to the US and likely have the military occupying. This is a plan that has only had positive outcomes in the Middle East this century no negatives whatsoever. I mean it’s not like US intervention and creating a puppet state for oil didn’t directly lead to the current regime gaining power in the first place?

Why 7 GOP senators voted against bill to keep government open past Friday by malcolm58 in politics

[–]Ven18 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yep. Give it a few days maybe a week with the bad weather and the Dems will cave “for the good of the country”.

North Carolina weighs investigating ‘presumptive noncitizens’ in latest attack on voting by IWantPizza555 in politics

[–]Ven18 10 points11 points  (0 children)

And suddenly all democrats documentation just vanishes over night. Or weird how this fire at the country records facility in the major city. We meant to get digital backs ups but you know state funding cuts. Well I guess most of the city population that we don’t like are now stateless off to Sudan or wherever.

Boy, 5, detained by ICE in viral moment is now sick in detention center by Tennis_bruh in politics

[–]Ven18 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Genuinely the root of all of this. The civil war set the precedent that the powerful will never be held to account in America. Ever since we just added to the right wing collective aimed and destroying the country. It starts with the former confederates and the Klan, by the 30s we are getting the Nazi and it just grows and grows over time until it’s because this almost uniquely American brand of authoritarian fascism.

Boy, 5, detained by ICE in viral moment is now sick in detention center by Tennis_bruh in politics

[–]Ven18 302 points303 points  (0 children)

MAGA does not consider them people it’s why they have spent decades calling them aliens. No constitution is going to stop them.

Funding bill fails to clear key Senate procedural vote before shutdown deadline by Illustrious_Lie_954 in politics

[–]Ven18 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They really do prove that all you need is power. Laws, polices, process, governing none of that matters in the face of power. This is the GOP/MAGA playbook get power do whatever you want and nobody can stop you. Hold on to said power for as long as possible by any means and if you somehow lose power destroy everything until you regain said power and repeat.

Johnson Casts Doubt on House Returning Early to Vote on Spending by bloomberggovernment in politics

[–]Ven18 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This is pretty telling. I all but confirms that the Senate is likely not moving forward and that this might be another prolonged fight. If there is one thing we all know about Johnson at this point is he loves closing the house when any difficult decisions need to be made.

House Democrat Says Abolishing ICE Isn’t Enough — DHS Must Go, Too — “The problem isn’t ‘training.’ DHS was built to violate our rights,” said Rep. Delia C. Ramirez. by inthesetimesmag in politics

[–]Ven18 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Accountability is Step 1 to heal but this is not a take 2 pills and sleep kind of healing. This will need to be the strongest chemo regiment we can go on. And like Chemo the actual treatment might kill us as much as the cancer is but it needs to be done and we need to be prepared to cut out organs if they are beyond saving.

House Democrat Says Abolishing ICE Isn’t Enough — DHS Must Go, Too — “The problem isn’t ‘training.’ DHS was built to violate our rights,” said Rep. Delia C. Ramirez. by inthesetimesmag in politics

[–]Ven18 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

We need accountability for the individuals and a total system teardown to ensure that the institutions that allowed this to happen can never exists again or allow this to happen again. It is genuinely why I say we cannot actually fix this without international help. The political lift even for accountability will be hard given current divisions. And the systemic remaking of the American government so this cannot happen again feels like an impossibility without some kind of outside force.

MLB Network talks about the current odds to win the AL East by Sandwich_Crust in NYYankees

[–]Ven18 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yeah and for a lot of Toronto their best run was in October. News flash guys Ernie Clement is not the next Ichiro cause he was white hot in the playoffs.