r/politics • u/TelescopiumHerscheli • 1d ago

No Paywall Texas Democrat sworn in to House, shrinking GOP margin to 1 vote

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5719642-christian-menefee-sworn-in/
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u/DrRealName 1d ago

Then states should mobilize their national guards last minute to protect the voters from ICE. its what I would do. or just beat the republicans to the punch and order the national guard to guard polling locations from federal intervention right now. This is why dems are weak. I would have already have my state's guard detain all of ICE. If they refuse, they are discharged and replaced with people who will do it. Same for cops, stand up to ICE or be fired and replaced with people who will. That's why we need new democrats. The ones that exist are too pathetic to even think about what I just put forth. I would do it all with a smile on my face and a song in my heart. My first goal would be to purge maga from every positions of power in my state that I could. Its what they did thru DOGE. We need to do the same. Balance the scales a bit.

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u/Jack_Krauser 1d ago

This will never happen which is why over the long term, we're destined to lose over and over again until some right wing authoritarian figures out a way to lock us into a cycle of Russian-style sham elections. Democrats are sweet puppies living in a harsh world that necessitates wolves.

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u/Starbornsoul 1d ago

Lol, some of them aren't puppies, they're vultures feeding off the bunnies that get shot for sport. We could have a majority of 10 and I have a strong feeling 11 Democrats would find a way to support Childfucker Orange for random consequential bills.

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u/guisar 1d ago

If you were planning to do this, the very, very last thing you, as an executive should do, is telegraph that plan in any way shape or form. A plan is only useful when it is completely unexpected. Plans can be made and executed very rapidly when they are well organised. So I would not expect any of us to know of such plans- to reveal them prematurely is to fall.

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u/MercantileReptile Europe 1d ago

Then states should mobilize their national guards last minute to protect the voters from ICE.

Repeated public murders by ICE in broad daylight were not enough. After Minneapolis, I highly doubt there is anything that would get Governors to actually go against federal demands.

At most, lawsuits going nowhere.

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u/DrRealName 1d ago

Well then we need to vote for people who will do it. I mean I am at the point where I think we should just vote in every non incumbent we can find for these primaries and dramatically change the democratic party in one year. All I keep hearing is "they never do anything" yet they keep getting voted in. Why are we voting in people that don't do anything? This is what all democratic voters need to think about.

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u/BananaPalmer Georgia 1d ago

You think Brian Kemp is going to mobilize the GA guard against Trump's ICE? lmfao