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This is all anyone needs to know to understand what we’re up against.
There will be no democracy if he wins.
Biden said it explicitly on his last speech. Of course he also said this was a fight for democracy in 2020. He was right then too, but it never came true so people forgot.
It’s frustrating that if you fight against a thing and beat it, folks think there was no need to fight it in the first place. No. We routed evil temporarily. Great victory; still needs to be defeated again every time it rears its head.
I’ve been using the Death Star as an analogy for my nerd friends. Yes, we won a big battle, but the Empire isn’t dead. Gotta keep fighting.
A little more like Serenity/Firefly than Star Wars
There’s actually a term for that phenomenon: the Preparedness Paradox.
It almost did on January 6.
And if he doesn’t again, it won’t stop him from continuing the same path and not wait for the next election
There will be no democracy if he wins.
Given the outright rigging by voter registration culling, limited polling places, voter intimidation, gerrymandering and electoral nullification/tampering, winning so big that they can’t overcome the results is critical.
Get ready for swing state violence. With polling places severely reduced in swing states in left leaning areas, we will see more rhetoric about “2A people can take care of that”.
What will happen is that polling place will be closed, and no one will be allowed to vote. Since the books won’t be changed to another location, all those people will have their rights taken away. SCOTUS will say in a 6-3 decision “can only vote on this date”, and by doing so will also strip away voting by mail.
He hasn’t been afraid to say the quiet part out loud for a while now. This isn’t news, it’s more like a final echo off of a once-distant wall that’s just about within reach.
If enough people don’t get off their ass in November and vote to put Harris, the only other ACTUALLY REALISTIC choice, into office, then the final dominoes will fall.
I’m looking at all of you casual voters who don’t go every time. I’m looking at you independent voters. I’m looking at you remaining “undecided” wafflers. I’m looking at you unregistered "it’s too hard “ and “I’m too busy” people.
If Trump gets into office again, that’s on all of you, and you’re gonna be part of the problem if you aren’t part of the solution. NOBODY else is gonna do it for you. NONE of the other names that might appear on a ballot in your state will have a snowball’s chance in hell. If you don’t like Harris, that’s fine, you don’t have to like her, but choosing not to vote for Harris is giving your vote to Trump.
So get off your lazy ass for a few minutes to help save the world for what looks like it might be more than the next 4 years; it could be for a lot longer. And while you’re at it, if you keep voting Republicans into Congress, State, and local governments, (where most of the power ACTUALLY is), then they will keep working us all toward this kind of position. Stop putting them in power. Period.
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Well, if Trump wins she’ll never have to worry about voting for a Democrat ever again, or voting in general.
“But my vote doesn’t count” or some bullahit
Man isn’t even pretending to hide it anymore.
Never was
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“Yeah, but Harris is a woman and also…yah know…” - Libertarians and swing voters.
Libertarians = fedora kids and survivalists and flat earthers who don’t feel connected to Trump.
That defines the female libertarian candidate. Jorgensen.
Libertarians had a woman candidate last election.
Libertarians also tried to make a “utopian” town that embodied all of their ideals where nobody was coerced to pay for services or assistance, and long story short the town was overrun by trash and bears and libertarians trying to kill each other. Just google Grafton, New Hampshire, it was a whole fantastic story.
I love American liberals.
“Hmn, I think these folks driving tanks into our town hall and lining people up against the wall… they might be up to no good, we should spread awareness!”
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The problem with both parties is they make effort to pander to the least intelligent and most childlike of their constituents. It’s just the the left’s dumb looks different than the right’s dumb.
Have to = be allowed to
Uh??
I really want to give him the entirely unwarranted benefit of the doubt that he’s saying it won’t matter in 4 years bc he won’t be running (making the assumption he’ll win this time and reach his term limit) but having watched the video I dunno, that “we’ll have it fixed by then” sounds reeeeaaally ominous.
It looks like the real benefit of the doubt is that he’s hopefully talking about laws on voter ID being fixed. Still, what the hell is a presidential candidate doing telling people they don’t need to vote anymore? Even with the benefit of the doubt, this shit is ominous.
Edit: to be clear, I don’t give him the benefit of the doubt. All I’m saying is if somebody wants to, this is the best they’re able to do. It’s also important to be aware of the context of the quote, even if you believe he means it in the worst way.
When did giving trump the benefit of the doubt ever work?
It wasn’t even a dog whistle, it was a fog horn. There’s not much room for interpretion.
Mr dictator on day one obviously wants to stay a dictator.
He literally tried to fix the last election by seeking out individuals to form slates of imaginary electors in states he didn’t win, telling his VP to discard enough votes to make him the victor, launching frivolous lawsuits seeking to have legit votes thrown out, seeking to influence local election officials in urban districts to fail to certify their districts votes and ultimately when none of that worked by sending a mob to stop the counting of the vote.
If I shot you in the head and as you were recovering in the hospital went on tv and said went on tv and said I’d take you down next time nobody would give me the benefit of the doubt and propose I meant on the basketball court. It’s completely and totally crazy to propose he meant anything but what he clearly said.
I am willing to accept that he mostly means “we’ll fix the country so it won’t be a close call ever again”. I also am willing to accept he subconsciously means “I just need to pardon myself and I can’t run again anyway, so I don’t give a crap what you do afterwards”.
Thing is, both of those are disqualifying, too, so… no real good options here.
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For real. Everyone welcome every single news outlet to a thread, turns out it’s just one guy that can’t read.
If he didn’t try a coup after he lost the last election, you might be able to give him the benefit of the doubt.
We’ll fix the country such that votes wont matter
Welcome to whose county is it anyway, where everything is made up and The votes don’t matter.
Which is totally doable, just look at some of the hopelessly gerrymandered states. Wisconsin comes to mind. A judge was elected, to maybe fix it, but it still proves a point. I’m sure there are other states.
Not a guess. The bipartisan part is the dem governor. Legislature is locked hard as Republican with a gerrymander.
More so speaking on “I’m sure there are others”
He’s already tried claiming that his first term didn’t count because of the impeachments and he should be allowed 2 more.
There is no situation where he deserves the benefit of the doubt.
That’s what it sounds like in context, especially with the mention about judges
This man is unbelievable. And I mean that quite literally. Don’t believe him, believe the subtext. He wants to end Democracy.
This needs to be front page news and of course it isn’t.
CNN is trying to figure out what to do with their 350,000 LLM made articles about Biden being too old.
They keep trying to make stories about Harris, but since the LLM’s are trained on Reddit all it is doing is spewing out hardcore racism.
Trump saying he has the Election Fixed is PROOF that DEMOCRATS engaged in Election Fraud!
Makes about as much sense as anything they say.
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His dumb fuckin kids couldn’t take over an unfinished donut.
A Christian agenda, not the Christian agenda. The thing that most people don’t get is that in the USA alone there are at least 200 different sects of Christianity and they have some very different ideas and they feel very strongly about those difference. Any voter who thinks Trump is going to enshrine their particular flavor of Christianity as law is a fool twice over. Even if he did manage to enshrine any particular sects rules into law, the chances of it being that particular voter’s flavor of Christianity is incredibly small.
I have said a version of this to a lot of rural people who vote R and do nothing. They all beg for a time when their town had a major “downtown” with ice cream shops playing 1950’s music.
What they don’t realize is once P2025 goes into action these people will have no more use for them and they will be left to die. No more welfare, no more Medicare. Most of rural America will wither away because they don’t do anything. Farms are corpo owned and operated.
Rural America will be turned into a wasteland by republicans.
he will contest the election if he doesn’t win
Republicans say it will be “bloodless” if they get their way. Take that as a warning.
His faith in his future is about to be dashed to smithereens
Our ours will be
If it is, then we fight. Same as last time around.
So think of the SpongeBob meme where he keeps revealing more dirty diapers. We are currently at the panel where he points out the window to the mountain of diapers.
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Ever since, we’ve been trying to clear that little pile and found out it’s a landfill under all their houses.
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I maintain the true buttress holding up conservatism is religious suppression of kinks and sexuality.
Once we convince these people it’s ok to suck a dick, they are not bad for doing it, the GOP will crumble in a year.
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Not doing anything atm, just talking
Once elected he can make it legal
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Maybe he plans to have all the christian’s thrown into internment camps so they would not get to vote anymore.
