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[hale-nathan]

Trump Weird News - No Wharton Or Other Trump Transcripts

[samwisethewitch]

Hey, if you live in the US and haven't voted yet, PLEASE go vote. Not to put too fine a point on it, but your queer friends, your disabled friends, your Black and Brown friends, your trans friends... we're all terrified of what will happen to us under another Trump presidency. Your vote saves lives.

(Also reminder that in most states your employer is required to give you time off to vote, so "I have work today" is not an excuse!)

[hussyknee]

Genuinely thought this was calling for Biden to step down and then that last line fucking nuked me from orbit.

[quantumfizz]

The amount of men and boys who went full mask-off Rape Ape and started threatening women/girls by cheering "Your body my choice" and crowing about wanting the 19th amendment repealed for some reason...surprises some people?

Guess what, they're emboldened now more than they were and they know it won't have consequences. White women can vote 52% for Trump and it doesn't matter. They still fucking hate you, want you to shut up, and think you deserve no rights. Surprise! The writing was right fucking there on the wall! They still fucking hate you for being a woman, even if you're a white woman who believes the same things they do!

[emo-is-sexy]

Ill never understand why there are so many hispanic trump voters like he doesnt like us 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 like just bc you vote for him doesnt make him like you or respect you😭😭😭😭😭😭

[squashfolded]

I’m going to start going into berserker rage if I see any more people spreading the patently false statistic that 64% of native Americans are trump supporters im going to start genuinely killing people

[suitablysolemn]

im not going to be bitter on social media im not going to be bitter on social media im not going to be bitter on social media im not going to be bitter on social media im not

[paradisetemporarilymisplaced]

wow I hate everything abt the world

[theriverdalereviewer]

everyone jumping to team kamala we will never experience true freedom in this country

[plethoraworldatlas]

"You're not gonna push the Democrats left by saying people won't vote for them if they don't change"

You're not gonna push the democrats left by saying fanatically that you will vote for them forever no matter how many war crimes they commit or how genocidal they act as long as they can tell you the gop is worse! The Gop is Worse, but you should never tell a politician that you'll support them no matter what horrible crimes they commit! It certainly won't make them turn left!

"When Democrats lose they go centrist"

The democrats went centrist after they got some of the biggest and most unprecedented election victories in their history. It's why people are telling them that they only win if they change instead of "sitting on their asses doing nothing and not voting"; People are pushing them to change what they're doing, because shockingly they also don't want to live under Trump again, they also don't want the democrats to support a genocide.

Again, instead of being mad at people who are against a genocide, perhaps realize your time would be better spent being against the genocide and against funding it and actually pushing the Blue left instead of throwing your support at them blindly and then doing nothing else

[aquelondungeonmaster]

NOMINATE THE RED SUN FOR THE MCYTBLR SEXYMAN POLL I AM ASKING POLITELY

it is the bill cipher of mcyt: evil shape that talks in all caps humanized as a hot dude.  it comes from a classic mcyt horror series that is literally un-lost media, and we love it. 

IT NEVER SETS

[sybbi]

If anybody wants an update on the precariously-close-to-failed democracy of Ohio, the Republican supermajority is attempting to keep the sitting president off of the November ballot on a technicality they created (and have previously bypassed when convenient).

These are the same people that tried everything in their power to keep an abortion initiative off the ballot despite swearing up and down it wouldn't pass anyway because they totally represent the average Ohioan's opinion on this matter so they KNOW Ohioans are against abortion, and when the measure DID get put on the ballot and Ohioans DID vote to protect abortion, they immediately said "This isn't over," because fuck the people's will.

I've said it before and I will continue to scream it until I'm red in the fucking face:

One party isn't perfect, but they have shown they value the most basic tenets of representative democracy.

The other party is pulling out all the stops to ensure we are a "democracy" in theory only.

[jellogram]

Like oh yes the liberal paradise of California, where there was a multi-million dollar years-long campaign trying to oust the governor for *checks notes* closing stores during a global pandemic

[coyoxxtl]

weak liberal bitches hate it when i go off about how biden shouldn’t be reelected like committing genocide isn’t enough to not vote for a guy

[baronfulmen]

Me smirking as Trump is sworn in: "now that I've sent a message by not voting we'll finally have good candidates next time!"

Trump: "What next time?"

I keep seeing people say things like this: "You know what does matter to the politicians, even more than us voting for them? When we DON’T vote for them."

No, absolutely not. This is not how the US electoral system works. Under the current system, only votes cast matter. Only people who are going to vote matter to campaign strategists.

The last election, less than 20% of my district voted. The 80+% of the people who abstained? Their opinions on the results don't matter. The system does not take them into account. They gave up their right to have a say. Some strategists for future elections might look at the numbers and say: wow, why didn't those people vote, and can we GET them to vote? But ultimately, the system is designed so that if only one person votes, that person gets to decide the winning candidate. You get the representatives voted on by whoever shows up to the poll.

If a candidate thinks you cannot be swayed to vote (because, for example, you've joined a weird anti-voting movement), then ther campaign is not going to cater to you. Their strategists won't care about you. Someone in the next cycle might try for your vote, but you are giving up your right to have a voice for this cycle.... and voters with a history of voting are more promising targets for any campaign strategies.

(Your actual vote is a secret, but they DO monitor that you have voted. This will affect how much annoying campaigning materials you will get, because they do target active voters.)

Also, "if I don't vote, that will make a point!" is just a stupid take in general. If you don't vote in November, and then Trump wins, what have you really done? Do you think the Biden admin will care, as they're leaving office? Do you think the Trump admin will care, as they enter office? Republicans want fewer people to vote! Your abstention will be nothing but a footnote in history about how Trump won.

[rotationalsymmetry]

Rent control is on the ballot for California voters this November.

I uh, get that tumblr isn't exactly sorted by geography, but this is a huge deal.

It's a huge deal even for people who don't expect to be personally affected by it -- rent control is a protection against the poorest people living in a city being forced out, and that's just bad for everyone. When you have a city where only medium well off to rich people live, you get their service employees coming in from a suburb an hour and a half away (blech) or else you get people stacked three to a room. Or people holding down a job or three while trying to earn enough to get off the street or, well, out of their parents' place or away from the abusive partner they can't afford to break up with. Point is, a lack of housing that people can just keep living in at the same price, means a lot of bad things for society, and we probably aren't going to socialize housing within the next ten years but maybe we can get rent control back.