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With the fascism, the shit in the epstein files, and this shit, its just a fucken joke now. Burn it to the ground.
None of it is a joke. If Americans treated it seriously when it all first started, we wouldn't be here right now. It's a fascist coup wrapped in the American flag, always has been.
But saying it doesn't seem to motive people to do what's necessary to oppose it. Those words have been overused and misused to the point of being completely ineffective to communicate the seriousness of what's happening. It's a five alarm fire and ppl are just going to work and doin their hobbies and acting like this is someone else's problem to fix. Which is exactly what the political class has taught us for decades, don't engage, don't participate, don't think to be actively involved in your own governance, don't have any power of influence, just vote every couple years and then fuck off back to your wage slave lives.
You know full well that it's just a figure of speech. Don't be deliberately obtuse. It is a joke of a government.
How do I know they cheated? Because we cheated and they beat us!
This is a perfect comment because it describes exactly what happened (from their perspective) in the most succinct way possible. 💯
Remember, its only election fraud if a republican loses.
its only fraud if trump gets less votes than he wanted.
even if its on the same ballot, if 12 republicans win on the ballot, and 1 democrat wins.. Its only the democrat win thats fraudulent, not the entire ballot. not the republican votes.
Republican votes are never fraudulent, especially when they are.
Also, Remember, They have a urgent criminal need to subvert these elections, to maintain power.
Because the epstein file releases, which have been heavily redacted and censored in their favor, still reveals a vile cult of sick child rapists.
They are literally fighting for their lives, That is how desperate they are to steal these next two elections. Thats why they are so dangerous right now, Thats why they are trying to crush the public with ICE, Its why they are trying to build databases of opponents and dissidents, its why they are doing everything they can to violently intimidate and suppress anyone wanting to act against them.
Thats why they are so obsessed with fraud, because, as they've done for 50 years, Republicans always point the finger at the democrats for everything that the republicans themselves do, want to do, or will do.
You are so 100% correct. They have never been this close to total power, and they know that not only will they not come back from another failure, the consequences are likely to be EXTREMELY bad. The American people will not accept anything less than serious punishment for MAGAs CRIMES.
So like you said, they are literally fighting for their lives. I'll add to that, that they are socio/psychopaths with all manner of extreme mental presentations, and are capable of going beyond anything in our worst imaginations. They not only will employ serious violence, they WANT to.
This next election will tell the tale. I find it impossible to believe that there is any chance that they will allow this election to proceed unmolested, and if the majority of either chambers flips, they will contest it with all sorts of simultaneous strategies that they are already discussing.
MAGA currently only has a one vote lead in the House. If a couple more quit immediately, which might be possible if they keep committing heinous atrocities, the House may flip BEFORE the election.
Dems should be using whatever influence they have with corporate America to hire some suffering Congressional Republican who hates what's happening. I'll bet there's a bunch. Woo a few away with good salaries and benefits, and MAGAs election fraud will be for naught.
The American people will not accept anything less than serious punishment for MAGAs CRIMES.
As a non-American, I hope you're right, but fear you're not.
last time we had presidential corruption, it was pardoned "to help the country heal".
Which was utter bullshit and Ford should have been impeached and put on trial for doing it.. but America does not have a good history of holding presidential malfeasance particularly accountable.
USA people, if you don’t manage to get out of this jam, it’s been real. One last chance guys, don’t mess it up.
Midterms are more than half a year away and they already start normalizing the narrative of the next 'big steal'. Until November they will have convinced their base that a democrat win would solely be based of the Reps not being allowed to cheat the election (which is somewhat true but you know how they'll mean it).
Good luck hoping for the outcome to be an non-violent end of Trumps presidency.
It's really easy for Republicans to make this argument as well.
How can libs win elections when you don't know any?
This makes a lot of sense to some guy from Kansas. Everyone he knows loves Trump, so how can Trump lose? I hear this from a lot of relatives.
Hey, remember when we helped out with the whole hitler situation? Want to return the favor?
They will have to before its over if we don't get rid of this trash pile of humans.
“It just looks on its face to be fraudulent.”
“Can I prove that? No, because it happened so far upstream,” Johnson added.
What a little shit
Y'all have complete control over the government, and are willing to manufacture facts at every opportunity. Prove it, or shut up
It’s all projection. When you know you’re capable of doing it, you think everyone else would be too.
You are witnessing the end of the United States of America. It can't be stopped.
This is the end of the Union but this isn't the end. I don't like where this is headed but, so be it.
Why does it seem like everyone forgot that he already tried to rig the elections on Jan 6? Democracy officially died on January 20, 2025, and we were screaming from the rooftops that it was going to die if Trump were reelected. But Trump is just a symptom of a larger issue.
The real rot in our system has been here since the founding of the country. The founding fathers chose capitalism as the form of economics, and what they didn't realize (or maybe did) was that they were just replacing one king with another. They explicitly allowed people who seek power to continue to be allowed to have power over others. Regardless of how much it is or isn't regulated, it will always lead back to the same road. Call it monarchy, oligarchy, fascism, dictatorship, authoritarianism, or whatever else you want, but this is the road that we travel down whenever we allow rulers in society.
The only way to fix this forever is to not allow rulers in society. Anything short of that will lead us right back here.
Yep. The death throes of a nation begin and ends with a cowardly little weasel promoting fascist ideologies.
We have to disband this entire government.
Republicans are obviously doing crimes but the Democrats are complicit to these in spite of the inexcusably lazy defense of "decorum". You don't stand on decorum when criminals are killing people outside and shitting all over your floor.
We could always take a page from the French and burn DC to the ground lol
Mike Johnson cleans Trumps asshole with his tounge after changing his diaper. Can I prove it? No.
You have just as much proof as trump does claiming election interference by Democrats, so I definitely believe you.
This is it. This is when it actually becomes permanent.
"It just looks on its face to be fraudulent, because we didn't win. Of course we win, we always win because we say so. Any loss is fake. There is only the Republican party. If you don't love the one party state you don't love freedom."
Of course, it must be fraud. Everyone knows that Trump is the most popular president in human history. If he isn't winning every election by at least 99%, then the other guys must be cheating. /s
Excuses are just delay tactics while they maneuver to secure the mechanisms of power behind the scenes. What is America going to do if they succeed, the election happens, and everyone knows it's bullshit? What is each of you reading this going to do? Anything? Democracy dies with a whimper?
For people like me, we'll be relying on our local governments and neighbors.
I'm lucky that I live in Seattle, Washington. My government will do its damnedest to fight back and protect us. If there is a civil war, my local government is on my side. That helps. It also helps that we'd have Oregon with us. California, maybe, but there's a lot of red between Eugene, OR, and San Francisco, and their state and local governments are more entrenched in the federal status quo (looking at Newsom).
We are also very active as far as activism and mutual aid go in this region. And our gun ranges can get crowded.
That's what they will claim if their meddling isn't enough to win the election. All the claims of fraud and fake polls and being supported by the silent majority is just the groundwork for not accepting an election loss.
GET YOUR FUCKING GUNS, Y’ALL
They had yet to prove any fraud
The only fraud in any election the pants 10 years has been perpetrated by republicans
"Fraudulent" means "not what MAGA wants."
I knew the American empire was going to fall eventually, I just didn't expect them to speed run it, cheering.
Well, at least maybe after November, people will stop thinking this is going to end in 2029. I've been so frustrated people saying things like "it's only for four years" "I'm looking forward to when he's out of power" "maybe I'll visit the states in 2029"
“maybe I’ll visit the states in 2029”
To visit the smoldering wreckage.
You appear to be a fascist sympathizer, but that’s provable. Every lawsuit attached to voter fraud remarkably time and time again results in pointing to some Republican voter fraud scheme.
Prove it you f’in parrot, or shut yer hole.
Buy guns
Four weapons safety rules (and an extra for good measure). This is the bare minumum general knowledge needed before handling a firearm.
We need to take this VERY, VERY seriously. I gamed out how Trump gets a third term - shit like this enables it (in 2028) - this is a test run.
Almost time for the guillotines. Go ahead, try and suspend elections ... announce that Republicans are officially rebels.
Its going to be real fun for Republicans when the economy is destroyed and they can't get rid of the dictator/fascism machine they created.
So, that evil little elf is willing to do something blatantly illegal, then.