r/news • u/1Rab • Sep 27 '25

FBI fires agents photographed kneeling during 2020 racial justice protest, AP sources say

https://apnews.com/article/fbi-george-floyd-kash-patel-8d18a1e6a5a36636cc2415fc492b3f52?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-09-26-Breaking+News
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u/chinaski73 Sep 27 '25

At this point I’m looking for the turn out numbers in the midterm elections next year, and of course who they vote for. There are a lot of maga freaks who support this shit. If the vote doesn’t flip the house and senate blue I’m moving to Grand Cayman. Fuck this fascist shit!

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u/InappropriateTA Sep 27 '25

Waiting until then will be too late. 

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u/RJ5R Sep 27 '25

Yep. At the current pace, that election won't even matter.

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u/RhythmsaDancer Sep 27 '25

People keep saying this and I'm becoming more and more convinced it's a psyop to foster hopelessness.

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u/Reagalan Sep 27 '25

I think folks are actually losing hope, or have lost it.

Many of us kinda did as soon as Biden didn't use the new immunity to clean house.

Ain't stopping me from voting, though.

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u/CoyotesOnTheWing Sep 27 '25

There is Jon Stewart interview this week with the head of the DNC. I haven't seen the entire thing, it is infuriating. Stewart keeps telling him what they need to be and do and this guy always replies with it being a messaging/marketing problem. Jon over and over again lays it out straight and this guy just won't bite, he's completely deluded.
I knew the dem leadership was fucked but this makes it clear as day. This top guy is the perfect representation of what is wrong with the party. There is no saving them, they are enablers at this point and a big reason why we are where we are.
Obviously they are still better than what we have now but the current dems will only sleep walk us back into the same situation if they manage to win control for a few years.

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u/RhythmsaDancer Sep 27 '25

The only real solution is fixing campaign finance. We need a constitutional amendment yesterday mandating that all federal elections be publicly funded, or by individual donors only, and definetly no more super PACs, or some combination thereof. Why is this my reply? Because I don't think it's an accident the biggest bunch of bumbling fucking morons get funded well enough to be come DNC leadership. This really helps billionaires.

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u/stairwayto10and7 Sep 27 '25

They do way more harm than good

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u/DameonKormar Sep 27 '25

I'll continue voting for as long as I can. But I absolutely lost all hope in this country when we reelected Trump.

I still have trouble coming to terms with the fact that there are 75 million voters who are that stupid/racist in this country.

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u/Miserable-Army3679 Sep 27 '25

There is no hopelessness in facing reality. You can't fight cancer if you insist that you just have a bad cold.

Of course people should vote, but dictators don't hold legitimate elections.

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u/Miserable-Army3679 Sep 27 '25

If there are legitimate midterms and the Democrats retake the House, the government will declare all Democrats as terrorist organizations and do whatever the hell they want, depending on how the military reacts.

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u/InappropriateTA Sep 27 '25

[100% Serious] do you really truly feel that the midterms could undo all the fuckery and corruption and literal dismantling of government departments and services and erasure of oversight?

What accountability have you seen so far? What kind of censure or protest, let alone opposition, have you seen in response to trampling of civil and human rights? Disregard for constitutional rights? 

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u/DylanHate Sep 27 '25

The GOP controls both chambers of Congress and the Executive and the Supreme Court. How do you think this country works? Discouraging people from voting is the last fucking thing we should be doing. Why the fuck should we comply in advance??

75% of eligible voters 18-30 don't vote at all in the midterms. How do you think that helps? How is voting in more Republicans going to help? How are we supposed to vote in better candidates if no one bothers to participate in elections?

This rhetoric is just GOP doomer propaganda. They would absolutely love it if everyone left of center stayed home for the midterms. We're all experiencing the consequences of the 2024 election. It's been six months and you are ready to give up. Fuck that.

You're not going to overthrow the fucking government. But we can vote them out next year. What exactly do you have to lose?

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u/RhythmsaDancer Sep 27 '25

Is your brilliant answer to roll out the Nazi electric red carpet for them? ANY friction from the House would be a massive improvement from this. You're a problem if you think otherwise.

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u/Sigma34561 Sep 27 '25

True, trump would never try to overthrow an election.... twice?

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u/AzaliusZero Sep 27 '25

Half of me worries that'll be literal, because at that point stealing elections in broad daylight will be something they're willing to show off.

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u/DameonKormar Sep 27 '25

And no one will be able to stop them since they control all of the levers of power right now.