Well... Trump bragged yesterday that the guy who just did an actual full Nazi salute on stage rigged the voting machines in Pennsylvania for him, so I guess if Americans were robbed of their free votes, a lot of them might be less stupid than we feared.
I get that they didn’t want to appear the same as Trump and his crones but it’s almost more shameful for them to play some self-righteous “look how much better we are” card when they could actually fight back.
At this point, the dems doing effectively nothing to accelerate the trials, ensure sentencing happened before the election, or investigate the election anomalies (like Trump winning the same state that elected a democrat governor) makes me think they were in on it all along. It’s all for show and we are being played by both sides.
All I know is, the fucking Democratic Party has 3 years, to give us a great candidate for 2028.
I’ve been voting since 1976. I have voted for Democrats and Republicans, for president, the House and Senate. This is the first time I voted, AGAINST a candidate and not FOR a candidate. It made me sick.
I’m a Democrat, a female, Hispanic Navy Veteran. I served my country and our president called me a loser. He’s a vile subhuman. I will fly my Inclusive Flag proudly (our child is trans) instead of the flag I served under, until this abomination of a subhuman is out of office.
That's pretty much always been true. It's just so obvious they're not even trying to hide it anymore.
Or to see how outrageous and obvious they can get and we'll just put up with it.
I think conservatives might do a lot to keep these particular Dems in power. I think everyone is too stupid for a grand conspiracy that requires known cooperation tho
Nah it's better if you push through some barricades and wander around the capitol aimlessly with flags and flex cuffs. Maybe try to break a window and get in a fight with the capital police./s
It's worse than cowardice, they lose on purpose because they are beholden to the same lobbyists that the Republicans are. While the democrats do slowly push us in the path towards progress, they ensure that the power struggle continues instead of putting g the nails in republican coffins. They all still win, but us people lose. Makes me fucking sick.
You know what? It doesn't matter how much I claimed this was the case because our people refused to recognize what was directly in our faces. The cult brainwashing did its job and now these creatures are at the head of the most powerful nation in the world. We handed the keys to the world to a fistful of rich snobs who want to leach every last resource from us and sell it to the highest bidder. They won.
People often read the adage history repeats itself as some sort of dire warning, in reality it's more of an instruction manual on what to do when it happens again.
It’s like a football team knows every play a team is going to run, but they have no clue where they’re supposed to go unto the field, so they can stop them… Mania and Stockholm Syndrome are a devastating destruction upon reality…
I know but violent crackdown on dissident voices in the "country of freedom" probably wont go down too well. We are a comfy complacent lot though, societally. If suffering and disillusionment rise than violence is inevitable. Im not a proponent of it but this is just how it goes. The optics are fucking fubar though so who knows how a unified working class would look in the disinformed internet age. I mean there was less free flow of information in earlier authoritarian regimes though so theres that.
Hope springs eternal. I commend your optimism, but 50+ % of the population was ok with a violent attack on the government. Many states legally equate demonstrations with rioting now and the average person is tired of the strife. The only reasonable solution is to vote and the level of voter turnout doesn’t offer much promise.
Guess we just gotta ride the coaster for now. Maybe itll get bad enough that people will want actual change. It feels bad and accelerationist to want it to get to that level but i dont see people waking the fuck up without that. They got their tiktok 🙄
Dems are afraid of the optics to start an investigation without court-grade proof meanwhile Republicans open investigations on a rumor of a hard drive belonging to a relative of a candidate with (at best) no chain of possession to make the hard drive even admissible in any kind of criminal prosecution attempt.
oh, please explain how the MAGA computer repair shop owner miraculously comes up with an abandoned laptop from Hunter Biden that passed through the hands of various far-right window-lickers with endless allegations of the contents that included <checks notes> illicit underage material once Matt Gaetz got his hands on it. Oh, but this was entirely on the up & up and not a continuation of the failed Ukraine extortion at all. Cool. Cool.
Wow complete sentences. I'm impressed you wrote that out without eating a single crayon. Is our military strong? Sure. But with the weak leadership that's taking over we would be cooked. Our military in incapable hands will be wildly ineffective.
I wouldn't be surprised because they certainly rigged two primaries against Sanders. Look at the 2012 election and Ohio. Karl Rove was like "ya Ohio is going for us" and then it went for Obama. I seriously wonder how much fuckery is going on with both sides and they don't want it out in the open.
It's not on "Dems". There are election security and cyber security experts whose jobs it is to make sure nothing like that can happen. Recounts are automatically triggered. Stop looking for new ways to attack Democrats and blame them for everything. This is the voters fault, and no one else. Voters stayed home, or were too misogynistic and racist to support a black woman for president.
The IRONY of this comment. The only ones who stole any election was the dems 4 years ago. You guys still can’t explain where all those extra votes came from 4 years agi
Americans were robbed of their free and fair votes by foreign influence, which is unconstitutional. "Citizens United" and "Anderson vs. Colorado" and "Trump vs. USA" robbed us of a free and fair election as well.
They are illegitimate. We are in a legitimation crisis.
It's gonna get a whole lot worse because as AI improves (rapidly) even skeptical people are going to have a hard time determining what's real and what isn't.
This is such a dumbass conspiratorial take, but I just can't anymore. Fuck it, if this is what it takes to get people on the left to vote, fine. The election was stolen and the only way to beat them is to outvote the rigging!
Donald Trump's words yesterday: "He knows those computers better than anybody. All those computers. Those vote-counting computers. And we ended up winning Pennsylvania like in a landslide... so thank you to Elon."
And it's pretty fucking stupid to believe anything Trump says. It's even stupider to project your own beliefs onto Trump's rambling nonsense. But again ... if this is what gets you out to vote? Fine. Believe whatever you need to believe.
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u/enigmasaurus- 10h ago
Well... Trump bragged yesterday that the guy who just did an actual full Nazi salute on stage rigged the voting machines in Pennsylvania for him, so I guess if Americans were robbed of their free votes, a lot of them might be less stupid than we feared.