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Never underestimate what the GQP will do to prevent anything resembling a fair election. They will purge voter registrations by the millions, gerrymander district maps to make them look like spider webs, and make registering and voting damn near impossible.
Republicans will burn the country to the ground to remain in power.
Don’t forget about rigging the voting machines!!
Georgia state election rigged by Republican election officials who wiped the servers clean after lawsuit and FBI investigation in 2017.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/georgia-election-server-wiped-after-suit-filed
And of course, how can we forget about the Florida count being decided by the SCOTUS in favor of Bush when the count in fact showed Gore winning back in 2000!
Rigging and cheating elections is nothing new to the repugs.
And I always thought it should be more telling how the USA is run when you had George Bush, president, father of George Bush, president, but apparently people can't connect the dots.
Or making it a felony if an election candidate ever was fined for jaywalking or some other minor transgression ... perhaps even give them jailtime for it ...
Trump has 34 felonies and SCOTUS forced him to be on the ballot.
And didn't the Constitution plainly say he couldn't legally run, but scotus is not interested in that document constraining them anymore.
Whoa whoa whoa we can't ruin young Republican lives over minor transgressions.
It's okay, the laws will only apply to democrats
They'll also start a war to remain in power. Fun.
Not "will". They always have, historically.
A foreign war? They can try, but we don't cancel elections for foreign wars, and it won't give maga much of a boost in elections.
A civil war against Americans?
I don't think they'd try, but if they did they'd fail. Like not just lose the war, they'd fail to start it.
Unarmed NG in a handful of cities is about all he can manage. Like, the only group he might be able to get to open fire on crowds is ICE, and even cops hate ICE more than they hate protesters.
If they thought they could do it, they'd have done did it by now.
They'll be a last minute desperate attempt, but nothing will materialize
Thats a pretty optimistic take. Hope you're right, for everyone's sake.
It's not just blind optimism...
There a lot, like a mind-blowing amount, of various reasons the US would be impossible to occupy, especially by a domestic force.
Like even protests, if they start cracking down we can just spread out.
Stop making protest happen downtown, and spread them out in the suburbs all around the city.
Spread the cops too thin, they'll be too scared to do anything. Especially if protesters have vest and rifles.
Steve Bannon? That chucklefuck is part of the problem. He shouldn't get a pass just because he's not one of Trump's besties anymore. If somehow Trump does end up in prison after all, Bannon should be in the next cell over, having to watch all of Trump's bowel movements through the bars.
“We can’t win if trump isn’t on the ballot, and that’s never happening again.”
So, you built a cult of personality with an obvious expiration date. And that expiration date already passed. Lol good
At risk of sounding like I'm dick riding, Vance has all the cunning and charisma to fill the power vacuum. He's just lacking that "too stupid to talk to" quality that most Maga voters find relatable, but given the spotlight he could probably hit those notes they like.
It kind of is good Kirk got slimed because he's the only other I could think of that did all the poses they like and was also too stupid to be told anything.
The longest government shutdown in US history came from Trump and he still got voted back in because people didn't want a South Asian woman as president. And now we have that shutdown record broken again.
The fact that he won the Latino, Muslim and Black vote and now they're acting surprised by the mass deportations, ICE raids and tariffs he's been imposing is peak "Leopards Ate My Face" material.
I really hope we're even allowed to have an election in 2026.
My Spidey Sense tells me he'll start a war in the next 12 months then get the Supreme Court to side with him on postponing elections during wartime, and then we'll stay in a permanent state of war afterwards.
No. A presidential election has never been postponed ... EVER. There were elections even during the Civil War.
Trump can try this route to stay in office... but he will not be president and his wartime rule will only be as strong as the guards around him. He will become a domestic threat to the Constitution if he tries to stay in office unelected.
Uh... The dude already tried to stay in office unelected. That's what the Jan 6 riot was. He faced no consequences, and then got elected again.
Didn't stay in office tho
We will see if the guardrails hold again.
"2026 will be worse if we don't course-correct."
And course correct means? Don't think we're gonna like the answer.
Donald course-corrects daily. Today he’s the peace president, tomorrow we invade Aberbaijan and Albania.
maybe if they double down and do even more military in the streets and other nazi facist stuff why whining and crying about people saying they are nazis and facists. that outa make em more popular for sure.
Maybe doing stuff like stealing away things such as direct file for taxes, convenient and/or early voting, not to mention causing kids and the elderly to STARVE, and fucking up airplane travel will make them all the more delighted with the conservative "movement" (as in bowel) and the Confederate Party...
I mean, other than racism, or being completely checked out, or being in the centimillionaire+ tax bracket and in it just to lower your taxes....just why in the fuck would you ever vote for this shitty party? They always make everything much worse.
Dems can make some huge gains if they have a working class message. Plan on holding Trump/ICE accountable for their actions and not be Israel simps. It isn't hard. Trump and Steve Bannon keep hinting at some plan if they lose so it won't be easy even with Trump being the worst.
The fact that they have a golden opportunity right now convinces me of the fact that they will fumble the absolute fuck out of it. They already went to war against mamdani. Any progress will be in spite of the D party.
Did you see the part where the defacto leader of the party didn't show up to his own press conference, so the reporters asked Bernie (who was just watching from the back) if he'd answer questions?
The Democratic establishment fought Mamdani (and progressives generally) along with Trump and the oligarchs and lost massively. Both parties are in chaos right now, because it's obvious that money is no longer enough to win elections, even safe ones
They're all going to be quiet for a while before the other shoe drops, hopefully the infighting will make it easier for progressives to rise to prominence
Every time these fuckwits lose, they think it's because they weren't fascist enough. The same thing happened with the LNP in Australia when they lost. I say let 'em keep thinking that.
I say let 'em keep thinking that.
Right, but they're in power and power having that thought pattern is scary if you're a targeted member of a minority group (Ask the LGBT population about the similarities between 1930s Germany's stance on the LGBT and today's America's stance on the same).
“Democrats just flipped two Georgia commissioners,” marking “their first statewide wins in 30 years.”
What? Is he trying to gaslight the fact that both of Georgia's US Senators have been Democratic since 2020? One of whom was subject of intense media coverage for back-to-back runoff elections in 2020 and 2022 with the US Senate majority up for grabs?
Yeah, I looked into it, they are saying these two specific seats were held by Republicans for decades. I've seen reports of 30 and 40 years.
Republicans “And that’s why we to do everything we can to fuck with voting.”
Hopefully he dies and we impeach and remove the entire administration
I will be ecstatic the day he dies but the traitorous orange paedo being locked up in prison while seeing his cohorts and family going through the ringer is even more delicious...then him dying of an excruciatingly painful incurable cancer would be the cherry on top.
Oh, I thought they meant the economy. That too, I'm sure.
A lot will change in a year.
Yep. We haven't gotten a full year of the orange moron yet but January seems like a distant memory.
Just checked my local election results and it looks like a full sweep for the dems. :)
Same.
Any race where the parties were listed? Double digits in favor of the D. The only close race was the school board where party affiliations were specifically not listed for Reasons and you had to check the local party website to see who believed in democracy. And even that had the lone chud lose by about 5%.
My locals aren't the most representative since we are pretty solidly blue, but the large numbers of libertarians in town tend to keep it a close race. Not so much this year.
I just hope they don't try to cancel the midterms altogether... Or refuse to swear in the new dems...
I tend to believe they will...
So... yea...
Bloodbath!!!!! Or....maybe people just aren't into your shit? Jeezus.
Theyre talking about a landslide defeat for the regressive scum.
I really feel like its going to be far more literal than that...