Their freshly-minted Senate candidate has yet to explain the Adult Friendfinder account in his name on his work computer looking for man on man encounters.
Prediction: Trump loses 24 by slightly more than 20, about 9-10 million votes. Swing states go for Biden, again. Trump and Biden are close for the first few hours of counting, until the mail-in ballots push Biden WAY out in front, again. Trump declares himself the winner, and victim of fraud, again. Except, he’s not speaking from the White House as incumbent. He doesn’t have prominent figures calling for investigations and recounts and audits. It’s just Trump, from Florida, and his far-right talking heads blarping about it all happening…again. Trump isn’t able to con any governors, secretaries of state or AGs into trying to overturn their state’s results, or touch any fake elector-type schemes. The Big Lie II won’t convince his angry former doners to give him $250 million again to “stop the steal.” And the militias aren’t about to dare the FBI and DOJ to send them to prison for 18-20 years like those who plotted J6. Finally, the Capitol has 37 new security measures in place, including 10,000 armed guards in DC for the counting of electoral votes. Trump loses, can’t get support or enthusiasm for another failed challenge, and “retires” to FL to eat burnt steak until his arteries finish hardening.
Love this, don’t forget the convictions coming his way. 🤞 So. Many. Convictions. Allowing him to peacefully retire to FL when karma has SO many bills due just seems unjust.
I agree with first four sentences. But he's got an entire apparatus in place to f* with votes in many states, file lawsuits, maybe fake electors again, and plenty of House members who'd take them up. I also expect a large number of irate cultists throwing tantrums in DC and at the local levels.
Everyone who devoted money, time and resources to the dozens of lawsuits, fake electors schemes and paying for audits should think twice about going through that again. At the height of his power, it didn’t work. I agree he will try, and some will try to assist him, but it will be something new they try. That’s probably the bigger concern, what will they try next.
So it appears that there will be a consistent, if not exactly large, "anti-Trump" vote within the GOP. Well, that's a good thing, if it holds up. Ultimately, Democrats need to vote like the future of the republic is at stake. That's because it is. Even if Trump wins reelection the legitimate way, he will take the measure of America in terms of just how gullible we are, and how little our own freedom matters to us. He is a ridiculously obvious con-man, and he will have nothing but the deepest contempt for the suckers and fools who put him in office.
Another factoid I read is that Biden is siphoning Haley votes AND getting her big fund raisers now working on his campaign. Biden now has $155M cash at hand in his campaign coffers. Some $53M came in last month.
Trump on the other hand Trumps campaign is not quite so flush, hence his takeover of the RNC as his piggy bank. The better news is that his small donors are dropping like flies and the larger donors are radio silent preferring not to help pay for his legal fees.
Thanks to no transferrable vote being a common thing in this country we are doomed to a forced two party system. The Republican party is currently 3 (at the least) parties all claiming to be Republicans because any third party affiliation is political suicide.
Wouldn't it be interesting political theatre to see more than two parties in this country and then the parties have to work together to form coalitions to be viable? These repugnantlican chucklefucks can't even work together to do nasty things to other people they judge and look down upon and that is literally their favorite thing to do!
We could also be more like I dunno New Zealand? You jump to a country like Italy and I really do not think the myriad of problems they have stem from a STV, same with Israel. Of the many complexities going on in Israel STV isn't it.
You think things work now? That this 200 yearish experiment is a success for the American people? A fair and frightening amount this country seems to be all in with a literal cult of personality leader, that is one half of this two party system but it is working for the most part still?
I totally agree gerrymandering is a major problem with our current voting system and representation,
I can understand your reasoning but a representative government isn't like the soup and too many cooks. Having only two parties means that when one party wins around 50% of the other people lose. With a transferrable vote people have better representation and I would bet money that TFG would have received even fewer votes.
With a transferrable vote we don't have to always pick an old white guy we could have other people in government. We might have even had more women and folks who aren't white in government too by now.
I'd rather see those things and take a chance on something new than this status quo that we know is pretty well and fucked with literal democracy in this country being at risk. I'd rather have a few more 'hands on the wheel' than one big fascist fist and a transferrable vote pretty much guarantees fascism isn't going to win an election.
Things are getting done? Discourage foot dragging in our current system? I think we live in different countries? I am in the United States of America where a republican majority did fuck all when it had the ball after talking for so long about how horrible things were and once they were in charge...
I'm not going to bash Biden and I acknowledge he's done A-ok and that is much much better than the alternatives. That isn't my point, but we might have had a female vice president or even a female president long before now if people were not forced to always vote one time for the horse they think has the best chance of winning, not the one they want to back the most. Biden could still win with a STV, it just means he doesn't have to be my first choice.
I realize people hate change or risk but I do not see how this is system gives representation to the people of this country,
We all have a working memory of how to get things done, even those of us who aren't pursuing a lifelong career in politics and you mention sound bites and credentials but here we are with one of the two parties being led by a cult of personality leader so into spewing sound bites he started his own social media vacuum to spew them in. So I really do not see it working at all when a sizeable portion of this nation is all in on a man who leads one of the two parties and has admitted that he'd only be a fascist on "day one".
Weird pseudo fact from last night--on the NYT interactive results map for Ohio, at one point it showed PAB ahead in every county except one, Holmes County in the middle eastern part of Ohio which is also the center of Amish Country. Haley was shown with like 3,000 ish votes/over 50%.
Alas, it was too good to be true as several minutes later there was an update and Haley only had about 300 votes and was getting smashed like 80-15 or something like that.
"I love the Amish, they're very fine people, they don't listen to the fake news from the woke media."
🥱
Say it with me…
Civil. Asset. Forfeiture!
Civil. Asset. Forfeiture!
Repeat until $464million in hand.
Civil. Asset. Forfeiture!
>when God has abandoned you forever.
The day Satan finds out that Trump has no soul and the bargain was a fraud, then Trump will be abandoned forever.
But his Senate candidate won in Ohio.
The Republicans are all MAGA.
UGH
The party has gone full batshit.
Their freshly-minted Senate candidate has yet to explain the Adult Friendfinder account in his name on his work computer looking for man on man encounters.
Ta, Evan. The bigliest Loser!
Prediction: Trump loses 24 by slightly more than 20, about 9-10 million votes. Swing states go for Biden, again. Trump and Biden are close for the first few hours of counting, until the mail-in ballots push Biden WAY out in front, again. Trump declares himself the winner, and victim of fraud, again. Except, he’s not speaking from the White House as incumbent. He doesn’t have prominent figures calling for investigations and recounts and audits. It’s just Trump, from Florida, and his far-right talking heads blarping about it all happening…again. Trump isn’t able to con any governors, secretaries of state or AGs into trying to overturn their state’s results, or touch any fake elector-type schemes. The Big Lie II won’t convince his angry former doners to give him $250 million again to “stop the steal.” And the militias aren’t about to dare the FBI and DOJ to send them to prison for 18-20 years like those who plotted J6. Finally, the Capitol has 37 new security measures in place, including 10,000 armed guards in DC for the counting of electoral votes. Trump loses, can’t get support or enthusiasm for another failed challenge, and “retires” to FL to eat burnt steak until his arteries finish hardening.
Love this, don’t forget the convictions coming his way. 🤞 So. Many. Convictions. Allowing him to peacefully retire to FL when karma has SO many bills due just seems unjust.
I agree with first four sentences. But he's got an entire apparatus in place to f* with votes in many states, file lawsuits, maybe fake electors again, and plenty of House members who'd take them up. I also expect a large number of irate cultists throwing tantrums in DC and at the local levels.
Major difference this time, though.
The VP in charge of certifying the vote is…Ta. Da….
Kamala Harris!
Everyone who devoted money, time and resources to the dozens of lawsuits, fake electors schemes and paying for audits should think twice about going through that again. At the height of his power, it didn’t work. I agree he will try, and some will try to assist him, but it will be something new they try. That’s probably the bigger concern, what will they try next.
Bravo, Evan :)))
Tick tock, motherfucker.
So it appears that there will be a consistent, if not exactly large, "anti-Trump" vote within the GOP. Well, that's a good thing, if it holds up. Ultimately, Democrats need to vote like the future of the republic is at stake. That's because it is. Even if Trump wins reelection the legitimate way, he will take the measure of America in terms of just how gullible we are, and how little our own freedom matters to us. He is a ridiculously obvious con-man, and he will have nothing but the deepest contempt for the suckers and fools who put him in office.
"Ultimately, Democrats need to vote like the future of the republic is at stake. That's because it is."
Yes. I get tired by our weirdos too but they are not a danger to the Republic.
He lost the popular vote twice already. Note that it matters to PAB. He'd lie about the number of fries in his MacDonalds meal.
Another factoid I read is that Biden is siphoning Haley votes AND getting her big fund raisers now working on his campaign. Biden now has $155M cash at hand in his campaign coffers. Some $53M came in last month.
Trump on the other hand Trumps campaign is not quite so flush, hence his takeover of the RNC as his piggy bank. The better news is that his small donors are dropping like flies and the larger donors are radio silent preferring not to help pay for his legal fees.
Fun read:
https://www.jefftiedrich.com/
Thanks to no transferrable vote being a common thing in this country we are doomed to a forced two party system. The Republican party is currently 3 (at the least) parties all claiming to be Republicans because any third party affiliation is political suicide.
Wouldn't it be interesting political theatre to see more than two parties in this country and then the parties have to work together to form coalitions to be viable? These repugnantlican chucklefucks can't even work together to do nasty things to other people they judge and look down upon and that is literally their favorite thing to do!
Yeah, instead we could like, I dunno, what? Why do you even remotely think that works?
We could be like Italy and need a new government every six months or so. It would make this year look like sunshine and ponies.
Nah, we would be Israel. The 30% hard right bastards sticking together, the left splitting so ruled by MAGA.
I am all in on two partyies It is the gerrymandering enabling the extremes that is the problem.
We could also be more like I dunno New Zealand? You jump to a country like Italy and I really do not think the myriad of problems they have stem from a STV, same with Israel. Of the many complexities going on in Israel STV isn't it.
You think things work now? That this 200 yearish experiment is a success for the American people? A fair and frightening amount this country seems to be all in with a literal cult of personality leader, that is one half of this two party system but it is working for the most part still?
I totally agree gerrymandering is a major problem with our current voting system and representation,
Transferable votes mean that you can vote for who you want, not that they'll win.
I can understand your reasoning but a representative government isn't like the soup and too many cooks. Having only two parties means that when one party wins around 50% of the other people lose. With a transferrable vote people have better representation and I would bet money that TFG would have received even fewer votes.
With a transferrable vote we don't have to always pick an old white guy we could have other people in government. We might have even had more women and folks who aren't white in government too by now.
I'd rather see those things and take a chance on something new than this status quo that we know is pretty well and fucked with literal democracy in this country being at risk. I'd rather have a few more 'hands on the wheel' than one big fascist fist and a transferrable vote pretty much guarantees fascism isn't going to win an election.
Things are getting done? Discourage foot dragging in our current system? I think we live in different countries? I am in the United States of America where a republican majority did fuck all when it had the ball after talking for so long about how horrible things were and once they were in charge...
I'm not going to bash Biden and I acknowledge he's done A-ok and that is much much better than the alternatives. That isn't my point, but we might have had a female vice president or even a female president long before now if people were not forced to always vote one time for the horse they think has the best chance of winning, not the one they want to back the most. Biden could still win with a STV, it just means he doesn't have to be my first choice.
I realize people hate change or risk but I do not see how this is system gives representation to the people of this country,
We all have a working memory of how to get things done, even those of us who aren't pursuing a lifelong career in politics and you mention sound bites and credentials but here we are with one of the two parties being led by a cult of personality leader so into spewing sound bites he started his own social media vacuum to spew them in. So I really do not see it working at all when a sizeable portion of this nation is all in on a man who leads one of the two parties and has admitted that he'd only be a fascist on "day one".
I laughed, I cried, this was the feelgood post of the day!
"Donald Trump is still consistently losing 20 percent of the primary vote, to Nikki Haley and others"
Donald, Even Vlad only lost 13 percent of the politburo electorate.
Of course I received a lot of pressure to vote for Trump, but my heart made me write in
Václav Havel.
❤
Weird pseudo fact from last night--on the NYT interactive results map for Ohio, at one point it showed PAB ahead in every county except one, Holmes County in the middle eastern part of Ohio which is also the center of Amish Country. Haley was shown with like 3,000 ish votes/over 50%.
Alas, it was too good to be true as several minutes later there was an update and Haley only had about 300 votes and was getting smashed like 80-15 or something like that.
"I love the Amish, they're very fine people, they don't listen to the fake news from the woke media."
They don't listen to the media. Period. Unless the media has found a way to work without stuff like radios, tv or the internet.
Is Lebanon the middle eastern part of Ohio? Asking for a friend.
It's west of East Palestine.
It's just below the Syria that is more commonly referred to as Dayton. LOL
None of which seems to matter to today’s Republicans