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Thereby guaranteeing that no Republican will hold statewide or federal office in Minnesota for the foreseeable future.
Idk man I honestly doubt that's true.
These people that support trump and friends are fucking feeble minded idiots.
You will show them graphs and even replay this exact speech straight from Jizz Dicks mouth and they will hear something on Fox news about how a school is letting a furry kid use a litter box for the bathroom and they're coming for your children next!!
And then they will straight up, 100% vote for this shit again. Seriously. It would be a fascinating case study if I didn't have to be directly affected by the absurd stupidity of it all day to day.
My apathy and cynicism grows exponentially every single day.
They’ll just blame the protesters/liberals. “Look what you made him do!”
I think they’re planning to cheat or ignore the election. It’s the only way that doing all this abhorrent and wildly unpopular shit could make any political sense.
It’ll be a huge relief if it turns out that they really are this stupid, but it’s impossible not to worry that they aren’t.
They will be deploying multiple strategies, including Pre-election voter roll purges, gerrymandering, new Federal ID laws, closing voting places in Democratic districts, etc.
Then they will deploy strategies on Election Day itself, like posting ICE at polling places for security, and then have them do preliminary ID checks of people in the line,.followed by beatings of anyone who talks back, especially first thing in the morning. Widely broadcast video on Election Day morning of active polling places ICE beatings across the country should sufficiently intimidate people from exercising their right to vote (although there is a good chance that a LOT of people would react just the opposite, and flood the polling places in defiance).
And they even have a POST-Election Day strategy. The biggest thing that has made MAGAs claim election fraud, are the write in ballots that arrive AFTER election day. They don't like a MAGA win on election day, only to have that win evaporate as the write-in ballots arrive and get counted. So they want to stop the count on Election Day.
So they'll take a couple of days for the initial count to settle, and if they spot potential trouble from write-ins, they'll raid the states election HQ, and confiscate all the ballots, machines, data, etc. then declare the winner themselves.
They have Pre-, During, And Post- Election Day strategies, and probably a lot more than I outlined. You have to watch these scumbag MAGAs, they've cheated at everything in their entire lives, that's where most of their expertise lies.
Looking forward to my poll beating.
Only way to lose is to be afraid.
If ICE Apes start physically abusing people in line, the rest of the line needs to defend every citizen's right to vote, and jump on the ICE Apes. I don't care how many weapons they have, a carful of Apes is going to go down fast against an angry mob of true Patriots.
It would be funny if every registered voter were to open carry at the polls.
Don't forget that Trump wants to claw back mail in ballots. He's spewing a lot of the same old rhetoric he's always been.
Not looking forward to having to wait in line with my kids jumping up and down going on and on about how bored they are, then probably running off and getting into trouble and forcing me to leave line and chase after them.
Not to mention the voter intimidation that will absolutely happen.
It's unlikely they would have the ability to completely cheat the election at the level Putin does. They'll simply thumb the scale in battleground states
Minnesota will be a fucking landslide. Republicans are going to get slaughtered
I’m more worried about invaliding results or simply ignoring them.
Or a coup by the Republican Congress refusing to cede power.
That is definitely a concern for me too. MAGA Republicans have learned they can just ignore any laws or court orders that are inconvenient for them. I don't know how effective it will be, but I expect them to try as a last ditch effort
The Republicans lost control of Minnesota back in the 1980s for state wide offices. The Twin Cites metro area holds the majority of votes and therefore most of the power in this state.
Politically, the DFL has long abandoned the outstate.
Until they rig the elections.