Wow it's almost as though midterms represent some kind of check and balance. Trump and the republicans stand a good chance of being wiped out.
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Hey “we just gotta vote harder” Americans, what you gonna do when they take voting away?
Protest peacefully and grumble while more rights are stripped. I have zero faith in Americans anymore. They wont do what needs to be done.
Write a strongly worded letter.
Did America vote against the president in the last midterms? I seem to remember MAGA wanted a red wave and got sweet fuck all.
Shouldn’t have a felonious, rapist, racist, seditious, stochastic terrorist pedophile as president either, but here we are.
I really don't give a fuck what this asshole wants.
His very existence in that office is illegal and immoral.
The US shouldn't have a convicted felon in the oval, but here we are.
Well, more than half of america voted for this, or allowed it to happen, so....
You are wrong. ~23% of Americans voted for Trump. The problem is that a shit ton of people sat out.
Those people can either be classified as "don't exist" because they actively wiped out their own influence, or "as bad as the Republicans", because they were comfortable allowing it to happen, but they certainly CAN'T be classified as "magic absolution of the American public as a whole for this series of events."
Correct. Did i misspell 'or allowed it to happen'?
If they didn’t want it they would have voted.
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Wait, Schumer is the majority leader, not the minority leader? When did that happen?
wow, yeah the original article made that mistake. :P Schumer is still the Minority Leader. No one talks about the Senate majority leader, but it's John Thune, some Republican from South Dakota
Yesterday he joked about it. Today he says it. Tomorrow he does it.
He wasn't joking.
So the reason he's come up with is literally just he thinks he'll lose?
That's a very good reason for there to be an election, Donny
"Democracy" is too close to "Democrat" in his pee brain and kinda short-circuits.
Correct. He conflates political asylum with mental asylum. He’s unbelievably unfathomably dumb.
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I dunno, Biden performed better than expected and he's a sleepy old guy. Is trump saying he's no better than a sleepy old guy?
I mean he sleeps all the time and also on camera.
Fuck off Shitler. I'm gonna vote even harder now!
(dark pen and a very assertive shove into the dropbox)
States control election.
California is working to prevent any candidate that violates the constitution from being on the ballot
🐝 lot cooler if that happened prior to ‘24 instead of it going the way it did…
tbf Donald Trump still lost California, as would be expected.
I mean Colorado did try to have him removed off the ballot. The Supreme Court said they can't do that.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/04/trump-scotus-colorado-ruling
So yea, people did try.
Biden and Merrick Garland sure as fuck didn't.
Not a single charge brought in four years.
Trump literally could have been in a prison cell on November 6 as Harris won in a fucking landslide against some rando dickhole neocon.
And even today oligarch-loving Democrat leadership won't even consider abolishing ICE if they win.
This is what I was referring to.
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Third or fourth time he’s said this, at least twice recently.
Well, he said you'd only need to vote the one time.
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