Goes to show that even in Florida they're sick of Trump and the Gross Old Pedophile party.
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yay democrats, sure is better than voting third party
God I hope this is a sign for the midterms.
I don't see any republican ever voting democrat, most of them seem too far gone into the echo chambers, which just keep growing and growing as they consolidate the media.
The only thing that may still break that path is the Iran war jacking gas prices so high that a substantial number of MAGAs abstain out of rage, otherwise goodbye America.
I'm wondering if poly market has odds for the US breaking up like the USSR in the next decade
Just keep in mind, Trump legitimately won 2024 and Biden legitimately won 2020. My parents are die hard republicans and will never vote for a democrat. They have not voted for president in the last 3 elections. That’s probably the best we can hope for. Especially in a midterm.
Political parties across the world have worked very hard to ensure that people consider them to be an intrinsic part of their identity, rather than a choice.
Harris won this district by .7% in the presidential election. This candidate won by a little more, but special elections / off year elections, the party out of power usually gets a little bump.
Looks like this candidate won by 2.3%. So good sign, but you’d think that wars ICE murders would be worth more than 1.6%
Not why the article said Trump won by 11% in 2024. Looks like you’re right though.
Let's see: There's them saying ICE will be at polling stations, there's the SAVE act, there's the war in Iran which Trump believes can stop elections, there's always the classic Insurrection Act and Martial Law, there's them claiming 2020 was stolen and therefore federalizing the election process. And then the redistricting, ending Mail In Voting, gerrymandering, threats, Dominion voting machines now being owned by a MAGA former election official.
All of that and people still think we're having free elections?
I agree there is a lot to be worried about. But at the least it’s a good sign that the voters are turning out against Trump in a major way.
No, it's obvious that the republicans are going to try to manipulate the outcome in their favor.
However, if the swing against them is large enough they won't be able to push the needle far enough back their way.
I think if the push against them is too strong, they'll just go full dictator and enact autocracy. I mean we're quickly marching there anyways but they have to go through some other steps before they just rid of Congress and the SC, though they might keep vestiges as an appeasement for the dumbest of the dumb.
I think we all know where this is going. And I want everrone who reads this to know, I am not an accelerationist and I am not giddy about this. But I don't think there's a peaceful way out of this, and that means a lot of people are going to die, like a lot, probably a lot of my loved ones and community, as well as potentially me. I'm not planning on sitting this one out on the sidelines. It's either me and everyone I love in concentration camps/dead without a fight, or going down fighting and striving for a better world.
I just really don't see many other options besides decades of resistance and guerilla warfare, which we don't have the time for. In a few decades Earth will be so much worse due to an accelerated climate crisis. And this regime has shown itself to be part of a global threat, installing far right governments, or converting them alongside Israel and Russia. We literally do not have the commodity to not fight back with every fiber of being, when that time comes.
If climate change is already looking bad, it won't just be the US pumping out full throttle carbon emissions, it will be most of the world. And yes, what we've done so far is laughable and pitiful, but imagine a world where green energy is banned for oil profits, and governments haven't just stopped caring a little bit, but are actively determined to burn as much oil and coal as possible.
I'm getting tired of hearing this doomer sentiment. What's your ultimate goal? Are you trying to convince people that it's a lost cause to vote so you can tell us, "I told you so!" after the fact?
Apologies if I sound like I'm coming off doomer. I'm actually really not, I actually have a lot of hope and faith in the people, even if it seems hopeless right now. I think we get through this in community, mutual aid, resistance, and withholding our participation from the system.
I don't think voting is going to change anything, not really... I still vote because I think it's dumb not to, but I don't expect to undo the master's system with the master's tools.
Nope! That's why we need everyone who is able armed and doing their duty protecting the polls from, uh, stormy weather
Citizens militia y'all
Based AF, I love defending myself from stormy weather. You know I got that semiauto umbrella on me, and several more for extra rainy days.
I just mailed my overseas vote for my state's primary. Super red and heavily gerymandered, but not much else I can do. We at least had one progressive on the dem ballot whose site (at least until recently) said "Fuck Ice" so that's hopeful.
lol
He even voted by mail for this one too, so he's just going to run his usual bullshit of it all being rigged
The dominoes are beginning to fall
She performed 1.6% better than Harris, who also won that district. It’s a bump, but I’d feel a lot more comfortable if wars, ICE raids, expensive healthcare, election rigging and inflation was worth more than a 1.6% bump.
Especially since the party in power usually has lower turnout in off year elections.
It's important to take into account that this was a special election. These kinds of elections usually have higher GOP turnout than Dems because old racists ain't got shit else to do.
Not saying I disagree
I mean, my view is that his claims of election rigging alone should really have made Trump not politically-viable for any voter already
but setting that aside, it's a situation where the resident of not merely the state but also the congressional district is President, and you'd expect that to bump in the positive direction, opposing the negative bump from incumbent President.
Each one is a battle. The illusion of momentum is dangerous.
And yet people need an iota of hope after ten years of hearing about and talking about the worst president in American history. Someone who truly deserves to be compared to Hitler. Yeah, we've (reasonably) been so depressed about this shit we fucking need the tiniest sliver of hope. Is it really that dangerous to have any?
One theory for why Trump won is that the was so ridiculous that a lot of democrats thought there was no way he could win, so they stayed home on election day. I don't know if that's true exactly, but I know that democracy requires participation and traditionally the more people who actually vote in an election, the greater likelihood of a democratic win.
So yeah, I stand by my caution against complacency. No election is going to win itself, or win other elections, as implied by the dominoes metaphor. Our country will continue deteriorating until people who care actually fight, for real, in a prolonged, sustainable way. The other side never stops fighting.
I still say he could never win. No one in their right mind would vote for him. Any party that nominated him can only blame themselves for losing. But of course I voted. Always vote.
And he’s been even worse than the unelectable fooli thought he was, so WTF, people. But always vote
Trump’s the kind of huy who will just walk in and kick over the entire domino run and brag about it though.
Which is why I will be so thrilled when he dies. The Nazi defies odds by possessing literally zero redeeming qualities. He's every single fucking thing wrong with humanity rolled into one Frankenstein's monster of amorality. He's the closest thing you can ever get to showing a myth like the anti-Christ is based on a real phenomenon. Which is something I don't necessarily understand, but it's basically "if someone is the right kind of evil piece of shit, many people will think they're God".
That's fucking hilarious lol
This is PROOF that ALLOWING Trump's Agenda is GOOD for Democrats!
-Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries and Fetterman!
I mean, it is from one perspective.
A lot of the population seems to be unable to perceive the obvious results from certain policies. Actually having it happen and dealing with consequences is the only way they seem to realize what they were told would happen was true.
It really sucks to have a shitty neighbor.
It sucks even worse to have a shitty leader.
Who would've thunk these things still matter? Not billionaires, that's who.