We've regressed from Stop the Count! to Why Count?!
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Next it'll be "how count? "
Didn't GOP try to defund The Count (well, PBS and thereby Sesame Street) some 10-15 years ago? If so, that's on them.
All because of his filthy mouth, caught on camera 16 years ago
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Trump said polls suggested he was at “93 percent” although it was not clear what that number was referring to
I just assumed they meant his diaper
not working....
better
My day was better before I had to look at creepy weird old man crotch
Here's the perfect antidote!
This whole thread is just disgusting.
The name of the sub is Politics so… yea.
In the first image, he must be polling at like 110% lol.
I could see an argument for the first pic being a shadow. Wouldn't believe it, but it's slightly plausible at a glance.
Oh boy, that second pic... That just can't be fat, can it?!
There're other diaper photos, but with AI and deep fakes, nevermind shadows, angles, effects, etc. of days gone by...who really knows anymore.
Plus, delete your search history if you venture.
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Well Donald we are having an election so we can show you how many people despise you and your MAGA traitors.
51% of the voting population (66%) by the 2020 popular vote. That's what someone might call actually a big fucking problem if you stop and think about those numbers for a moment.
"Dear America: You are waking up, as Germany once did, to the awareness that 1/3 of your people would kill another 1/3, while 1/3 watches."
- Werner Twertzog aka Professor William Pannapacker
To be fair, Trump actually only got 47%, with the rest going to spoiler candidates.
So it's closer to 30% of America wants to kill 33% of America.
He should be disqualified for even acting like he’s going to be a dictator. If you can’t understand the point of democracy, you’re not qualified to be President.
He is disqualified as per the 14th amendment and the legal fact found in Colorado that he engaged in insurrection. But it needs court enforcement.
Not only is he disqualified, but his question about having an election shows his ignorance of the US Constitution itself which states there will be an election for President every four years. Elections for Senators and House Members are also laid out. Maybe like read the foundational document of law for the country you claim you want to run, Weird Orange?
so you can hopefully lose the election a second time, and the popular vote a third time.
They're intentionally saying this to cast doubt and challenge the election results, no matter how badly they lose.
If we can't get some of them to turn their conspiracy theory around and establish faith in our fair election process, then we're going to be dealing with this forever and ever.
Bush v. Gore was the end of democracy for us it turns out. That set a precedent we're not able to recover from today.
Bush v. Gore was the end of democracy for us it turns out. That set a precedent we’re not able to recover from today.
No less than three of Bush's lawyers are on SCOTUS now, BTW.
Their reward for being good puppets of the heritage foundation :(
Yep. They are preparing the ground for another putsch. Trump's not legally eligible to hold the office, so maybe he has a point...
https://protectdemocracy.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/PD_County-Cert-WP_v03.1.pdf
Trump and his MAGA flying monkeys (who are not nearly as addled in the head as he himself is) have every intention of disrupting the counting and certification of votes in as many jurisdictions as possible in order to throw the election to the House (one state, one vote) or SCOTUS. When he questions "why are we having an election" it's because he's trying to stop us from having elections under his dictatorship and is floating the idea in advance to normalize it.
This is why he's going to keep repeating that he's winning by absurd margins. He'll have Magoos convinced that it was an obviously stolen election because "how could he have won 90+% of votes in polls but still lose???"
Even Russia pretended to have an election.
Even Best Korea makes everyone fill out a ballot paper
Who didn't have an election?
I suppose I shouldn't be looking for meaning in anything he says.
I think he’s referring to the DNC not having primaries. But with a sitting president parties don’t really have primaries to pick a candidate. But since Harris moved into Biden’s place on the ticket, Trump has been whining about how it’s unfair 🙄.
But then he gets all discombobulated and complains about having to deal with an election even though he was also just made the GOP candidate without any primary elections (I think?). At that point I lose the thread as he devolves into sundowning.
The GOP had primaries. Trump won without attending any of the GOP primary debates.
As I've been quoting since last year in regards to the GOP:
can't win a primary without Trump, can't win a general with him.
Where are these rules documented so that the violations may be cited?
"< crickets >"
-- #maga
The best anyone can make sense of it is that the Dems didn't exactly have an open primary to select Harris. So he's ?? confusing that with why have a general election? Which still doesn't make any sense but that's the best explanation.
That's definitely what he meant. He's whined about it before.
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Guy’s fucked in the head. It’s all verbal diarrhea.
Oh, he doesn't want an election now? So he just wants Biden or Harris to remain in office?
I mean, Roberts did basically declare Biden king.
In days long ago, one could dismiss such rhetorical musings as fantasy. Then Jan 6th happened, and all that followed, including the GOP falling in behind.
This anti-democratic cult must be crushed.
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I just want to be super rude to him. "Because the assassin missed. It's not like you are going to respect the results anyway. The demographics that were against you in 2020 have only gotten worse."
Alright, I’m more than a bit confused about this one. He stated that democrats didn’t hold a real primary and went on to question why they would need a presidential election. How is A related to B? It reminds me of the ubiquitous casual stochastic terrorism of the early 2010s in its complete absence of logic or adherence to reality.
It's a 'why have rules at all if we're going to ignore them' whine about how Harris didn't have to win a primary.
Man is that fucking cheeto scared.
Not that it makes it much more clear, but he's talking about the nomination. He's saying Harris didn't have to go through a traditional primary, so... either he's saying a) retroactively he shouldn't have had to either, or b) since he won the primaries, and Harris didn't have to... then he should just automatically be president and skip the whole "election where are people can vote" thing.
Probably he meant both, that he shouldn't have to go through a primary or national election. He should just get to hand-pick a poll and get his crown.
To get rid of him. For good and all.
Precisely to stop people like you, Donald.
Because US Constitution, Article II, section 1?
"Article II
Section 1
The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.
He shall hold his Office during the Term of four Years, and, together with the Vice President, chosen for the same Term, be elected"
Mans is completely fucked.
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