Candelestine

Mike Johnson is probably going to block it. Then he's probably going to get thrown out of his position for blocking it, and the three-ring-circus that is the House GOP will have to find someone else that wants what is currently probably one of the shittiest jobs in our entire country--the Speakership of our House of Representatives in a House torn between Trumpian fascism and the old guard repubs. Then the new person will have to allow the aid to pass. Then the aid can start shipping again.

Whole process will probably take a couple months. Maybe.

The reason you are being downvoted is because you're reminding people that the internet has a lot of very young folks on it. People don't really want to be reminded of that, they want to feel like all the hijinks that internet people get up to are with adults. But if your age cohort is here on a niche service like Lemmy, then there must be more of you elsewhere, on other services too. This is genuinely unhealthy, in many different ways, so it disturbs people.

So, they downvote you for reminding them of something they'd rather not think about. Afaik though, there is nothing wrong with this question being posted here.

Regarding the question itself, we do tend to call them urban myths for a reason. People have not yet outgrown silly, superstitious thinking from centuries ago. It's not necessarily an age thing either, plenty of older superstitious folks too. lol

Oh, and welcome to Lemmy.

Only Philips was able to get even a tiny bit of support. He's as centrist as Biden. This whole corporate conspiracy you guys love is nonsense. There's a shitload of corporate money in politics, make no mistake, but this is a far cry from the resistance that Bernie ran into. Bernie had actual support.

How do these guys poll? Have you even listened to Dean, the one doing the best? He's not espousing any leftist ideas you know, he's a reach-out-to-the-repubs style dem.

Against "the parties own rules" how? Each state runs their shit differently.

Phillips received 19.7% of the vote in the New Hampshire primary, despite Joe Biden not being on the ballot. Phillips received less than 2% of the vote in the South Carolina primary.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Phillips_2024_presidential_campaign

Each state sets its own primary rules, so they're all over the place. If the guy can't get enough support, he can still be a write-in.

Sorry, but that's not preventing someone from running.

Yeah, I'm not sure there's a viable blueprint for that. Something has to handle huge moving bands of guys with guns, tanks and artillery. Otherwise they kill you and take your stuff.

Right. My bad. State-moving-towards-a-communist-society then.

No, we know, those of us that lean left-for-an-American, anyway. We just don't want an actual communist state. They have this nasty habit of turning into dictatorships somehow. We at least get to throw our shitheels out of office periodically, without having to resort to violence.

Imagine they're likely reconstituting forces for renewed assaults in the future. Aviation seems to be what they lean on when they have no other easy alternatives to achieve current objectives. The aviation attrition hurts though, and that's before the f-16s and Gripens show up.

Don't underestimate the backlash. The big, mellower, center segment of the population that is generally more chill isn't in favor of fascist idiots.

Just, do what you can to help maintain motivation in the face of the fascist fear-train. Fear is their #1 tool, it's the emotion that underpins their whole worldview. Control is simply a response to that fear. Without that underlying current of fear, though, how do they get people to grant them control?

Why does this feel like a game of ring-around-the-rosie...?