We need to fuck the republicans.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

When the Dems win we need to toss out every republican, remove all the republican judges every last one. They have said fuck the rules. It's time to say fuck them.

Why don't we make some rules to fuck the republicans and purge all of them out of government. Coup thier coup.

To hell with the high road.

Make it impossible for republicans to win anything. Make them lose Everytime. So there is no future for them, none.

They are traitors psychopaths and losers.

They want to drown the government in a bathtub so why are they in the government at all?
They openly say they want to destroy America. We need to root them out as the traitors they are.

[Grasswire2]

1. statehood for Puerto Rico and DC, plus add more supreme court justices.

That would put a crimp in their crinolines.

[Grasswire2]

2. I also believe that a Democratic Congress should pursue mandatory community service after HS

A year spent in a community unlike one's own.

And mandatory public schooling with enhanced funding to equalize the quality of schools.

Too much brainwashing is happening.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

3. Maybe some gerrymandering for starters?

Some radio programs and books which decree all conservatives are evil and mentally ill?

That would be just the beginning of a tit-for-tat approach.

Being a liberal, I probably couldn't live with it for very long. I wouldn't mind seeing a little more nastiness, though.

Edit: We absolutely can't approach them in "good faith" anymore. Bill Clinton tried too hard to be liked by them, I think, and Obama didn't seem to realize they were such uncompromising assholes for a long time.

[regnaD kciN]

4. Ewwww...!

I assure you, I've made a point of never fucking Republicans my entire life!

(Seriously, though, while I can understand some righteously-indignant retribution, we should only stick to what's possible. "Removing the Republican judges every last one" can only be accomplished through impeachment and conviction -- which, as with the impeachment of a President, requires a 2/3 vote of the Senate for each of them. And, even if we run the table in Senate races come November, we still won't have close to 67 Senate seats in the next Congress. And "make some rules" to "purge them all out of government" would require not just "rules," but laws that pass both chambers of Congress, get signed by the President, and pass Constitutional muster. Which would probably be impossible with any Supreme Court, and certainly is with the current one. As much as some of us might want to set up the guillotine in Lafayette Park, we probably better concentrate on what we can achieve with the power we'll hopefully have come 1/20/21.)

[Delmette2.0]

11. Yep.

What we want and what we get are two different things.

[rusty quoin]

5. I like that. There is no playing nice.

[mr_lebowski]

6. I'm all for fucking them over however possible ...

Not sure about fucking.

Though I'd consider it on a case by case basis ...

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

7. First, we need to vote.

2016 would have turned out differently, if more people voted, or if fewer people "voted their conscience" for Jill Stein (to start the revolution).

Elections have consequences, and a large bunch of conservative judges in lifetime appointments is one of the big consequences. As long as they don't blatantly break laws, they can't be removed.

They won. We lost. The country lost.

In November, we have an opportunity to stop the bleeding. To really undo what Trump accomplished will take decades of Democratic majorities.

Vote.

[Hortensis]

9. This. I don't think it will take anything like decades to undo

what the Repubs have done, though. Not if we have the power to undo anything.

When a tornado smashes a building into a pile of rubble, you don't try to tack splintered boards and broken mortar back onto whatever's still standing. You keep what should be kept and rebuild the rest, using the opportunity to build better and stronger. We also already had to make major changes due to global warming, decayed and obsolete infrastructure, etc.

And the Republicans have inadvertently created opportunities for Democrats make many advances and reforms.

The house has already passed major legislation to start doing just that, just waiting for people to vote us control of the senate as well to make it all happen.

Btw, FDR's New Dealers weren't better people than we have now. What they did have was an electorate who, badly hurt and very belatedly "woke" by their own decades of bad and non voting, voted Democrats control of the presidency and both houses of congress for 12 years to fix the mammoth disaster they had allowed Republicans to create.

After Covid is mostly past, seems to me our most intransigent problem is going to be the corrupt judges they put in place. And the enormous costs of climate change. And, of course, in additional to smashing the economy (which should mostly recover itself under good government if the world economy doesn't collapse) the Repubs will leave us deeper in debt than ever in our history, but we will anyway. As the New Dealers had to.

[Amishman]

8. Sounds like a good way to get voted out the following election

People don't want one party rule. I'm against it too.

The idea of removing judges and politicians just because they don't agree with us seems rather totalitarian. The media will howl and the public will turn on us.

Seizing total control by removing the opposition *outside of the electoral process* is a really bad idea.

[Doug.Goodall]

10. I was so disappointed in 2009.

We held the House. We held the Senate. We held the Executive Branch. We had the chance to put our boot heel on the neck of the Republicans and choke them out, but Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reed decided to play nice and let them go. If our leadership had taken the fight straight to the Republicans and defeated them on every front, the Republicans would have been the minority party for 50 years.

We missed an opportunity, and are still paying for it today.