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- chapotraphouse@hexbear.net
Given Donald Trump’s hostility toward democracy, it’s worth pausing when he asks supporters, "Why are we having an election?”
By all appearances, Donald Trump really doesn’t like it when Democrats describe him as a threat to democracy, and yet, the Republican keeps saying things that reflect a degree of animosity toward the American system of government.
Take the former president’s rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday, for example. The New York Times reported:
Trump said polls suggested he was at “93 percent” although it was not clear what that number was referring to. The former president said he responded by saying: “So why are we having an election? They didn’t have an election. Why are we having an election?”
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Man is that fucking cheeto scared.
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.
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
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.
In the first image, he must be polling at like 110% lol.
Who leaked that poll?
Prolly some librul who’s against trickle down economics
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.
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https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trumps-unsettling-new-question-are-election-rcna167196
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/one-democratic-criticism-seems-bother-trump-rcna163685
https://www.msnbc.com/the-weekend/watch/-sleepwalking-into-a-dictatorship-why-trump-poses-a-serious-threat-to-democracy-208497733803
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/08/17/us/trump-harris-election/f423d6f6-d305-5db3-b5ba-16cc4d6e7b4dOh, 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.
We’ve regressed from Stop the Count! to Why Count?!
Next it’ll be "how count? "
Haha exactly, it’ll be ‘I got dis many counts’ and show a measure of length between hands
Didn’t GOP try to defund The Count (well, PBS and 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
Who didn’t have an election?
I suppose I shouldn’t be looking for meaning in anything he says.
Guy’s fucked in the head. It’s all verbal diarrhea.
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.
Which honestly is something the DNC can fuck right off about. Make it democratic, what do you have to lose? Are you scared the people might choose someone your corporate overlords dislike?
But it in no way is party candidate selection as important as ensuring the national election is democratic.
For DNC it was more about time. I’ll have to leave it to them to figure that out, but it seems they thought they didn’t have enough time.
Under normal circumstances I’d agree, but as long as the GOP is the Fascist Party, spending time on a primary so close to the election is a luxury we couldn’t afford. Immediately coalescing behind a single candidate and hitting the ground running is what we needed.
Yep, it’s a problem to be solved AFTER they take the election.
That’s definitely what he meant. He’s whined about it before.
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.
Where are these rules documented so that the violations may be cited?
“< crickets >”
– #magaThe 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.
After exporting Trumps all over the world America is getting a Trump of their own.
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???”
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.
I couldn’t find the 93 percent quote in that article, maybe they edited it? And who are “they”?
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?
pro-tip: If you don’t want to be called a fascist, don’t say fascist shit.
Even Russia pretended to have an election.
Even Best Korea makes everyone fill out a ballot paper
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…
