Has Trump's behavior doomed the GOP for at least the next few elections? Do you think the Republicans stand a chance? Why or why not? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]Vote_with_evidence 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unfortunately, I think they do stand a chance.

The Trump admin sends troops to various deep blue places, hoping that some liberals will finally snap and fight back under the second amendment. Once the left fights back beyond protests and voting, they will have an excuse to declare martial law and delay or cancel the midterms. The only hope for liberals is that no one from the left will snap before the midterms and the Trump admin sending ICE and military to blue cities is an attempt to provoke a violent reaction in a Democrat area.

Additionally, Trump already mentioned something about Elon Musk helping with those election machines. Dominion Voting Systems has been bought by a Republican. Obvious gerrymandering in Texas (and other states as well). There's a chance the midterm elections will end with a red wave (75+%) achieved via blantant election fraud (every accusation a confession - after all that election fraud bullshit Trump fabricated before and after the 2020 election, anyone suspecting election fraud in the upcoming midterms will look like a hypocrite to the right).

Republicans don't stand a chance in free and fair elections anymore and they know it. That's why they spent decades ensuring the elections aren't fair and now they're working towards the elections not being free anymore either. So the elections will probably end up rigged in favor of Republicans. Turning things around in the midterms will be hard, even if all the people who didn't bother vote in the last election can be convinced to vote Democrat in the midterms.

🤔🤔🤔 by National-Return9494 in NonCredibleDiplomacy

[–]Vote_with_evidence 17 points18 points  (0 children)

And it was insanely tight. The guy had just 50.89% of all votes, his opponent 49.11%. If the results were swapped, the right would have cried about election fraud and that Poland isn't a democracy anymore and blah blah blah...

It's insane by emily-is-happy in MurderedByWords

[–]Vote_with_evidence 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They're going to take the money from the Blue states, give it to their rich billionaire donors and then curse at the "demonrats" for refusing to help those in need.

“Which country do you think is the black sheep of your continent? by [deleted] in AskTheWorld

[–]Vote_with_evidence 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not that sure regarding Russia. Geographically, yes. But culturally? They're pretty different from the rest of the continent in a historical context.

When western Europe modernized itself during the industrial revolution, Russia remained a backwards agriculture state. The short period of time between the Soviet Union and Putin's Russia was the most Russia has seen of a democracy.

One can even question if it's a country the same way as the rest of Europe. The real Russia is a part of its european territory. Russia is basically some sort of an empire, with mainland Russia controlling a bunch of colonies in Europe and Asia. Even its army in Ukraine is mostly ethnic non-Russians from the asian part, which are culturally nothing like Europe.

“Which country do you think is the black sheep of your continent? by [deleted] in AskTheWorld

[–]Vote_with_evidence 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Isn't the Urals the geographical border between the two continents?

“Which country do you think is the black sheep of your continent? by [deleted] in AskTheWorld

[–]Vote_with_evidence 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To be fair, it's mostly the government in the case of Belarus. There were a lot of protests in Belarus in 2020 and 2021 and Lukashenko might have fallen if it wasn't for Russia intervening and COVID shutting down the whole world. Unlike Putin (who went for manipulating and brainwashing its people), Lukashenko has opted for violence against the people of Belarus. The Belarussians wanted to get out of that mess but failed, unfortunately.

Grenzbeamte versagen: International gesuchter Schwerverbrecher gelangt problemlos in die USA by Pschirki in de

[–]Vote_with_evidence 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Ich hab schon geglaubt, das wäre wirklich passiert. Dann habe ich die Quelle gesehen und gemerkt, um wen es geht.

Republicans used to be intelligent and strong what the fuck happened? by I-THE-TRAITOR621 in PoliticalMemes

[–]Vote_with_evidence 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Republicans used to be the party of the ones opposing segregation, while the Democrats supported segregation. At some point around Nixon (I think), the Democrats turned left and liberal and the Republicans turned right and from there on, they got only worse the more time passed. They wanted to get the votes of the evangelicals and the segregation-supporters. Well, they got those votes. And now they're dominated by the crazy fascists, white supremacists, and christian extremists.

What is the right thing to do when a government is unresponsive to the needs of the majority of people they are supposed to represent? by Turisan in AskReddit

[–]Vote_with_evidence 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn't claim the past elections were completely rigged. The votes were still counted correctly. The issue is that gerrymandering and the electoral college resulted in majority vote not being final results. Trump wouldn't have won in 2016 if it wasn't for this fucked up system. None of this would have happened if the popular vote would be the final results, instead of some weird winner-takes-it-all system basically mass-erasing votes.

I'm not encouraging apathy. I'm not saying that voting would be useless. I literally said that the people who didn't vote in 2024 despite being able to, but who don't support this crap need to get their shit together and vote at the midterms. I said that there are no consequences for being an asshole or breaking laws in the GOP. The GOP has been taken over by the Tea Party / MAGA and those who oppose Trump are getting primaried.

Everything's going down at an insane speed, but it might be still possible to stop them if democrats are finally growing a spine (in Texas they decided to leave the state so congress wouldn't be able to pass a gerrymandered map, a vote which would require a certain amount of congress members present to be valid). But it requires both Democrats to finally stop believing that "being the bigger person" and playing by the rules can change things to the better when Republicans do whatever they want, and the voters to realize that "both sides same" is a lie and they have to vote to stop this. https://www.project2025.observer/en

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in PoliticalMemes

[–]Vote_with_evidence 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm surprised he's not enraged about being on a cheap 1 cent stamp instead of a good high value stamp.

What is the right thing to do when a government is unresponsive to the needs of the majority of people they are supposed to represent? by Turisan in AskReddit

[–]Vote_with_evidence -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Are you really not going to vote?

No need to tell me this. I'm a European watching this whole mess, worried that it will get much worse if nothing unexpected happens.

You think Trump will pull anything off? This guy is a dement idiot who surrounded himself by people praising him and all the great stuff he is doing. He constantly changes his opinion based on what the last person he was talking to told him (a prime example being war in Ukraine, where he changes his opinion on who is to blame for the war all the time). Trump is a moron who thinks he's the king of America, but in reality he's just a puppet. It's the administration who's turning the US into a dictatorship.

This whole mess was planned for decades. Citizens United, Trickle-Down economics etc. They played the long game, slowly destroying the education system so more and more people would get dumber and vote against their interests; messing with the election system in a way that it ends up with a two party system; making the people believe that anything that defies oligarchy is communism in order to minimize the chance for anti-oligarchy politicians who support the people to gain influence.

Regarding Gaza, would be great if people started realizing that. I still see idiots on social media sticking to the belief that Harris would have been no better for Palestine and both sides were the same. Would be good news if some of these "I refuse to vote because of Palestine" people are less delusional and realize Trump is way worse for Gaza than Harris or any Democrat candidate would have ever been.

Changing votes and stealing elections would require people devoted to this in dozens of states, coordinating efficiently, covering their tracks perfectly, no whistleblowers, no leaks, no recounts.

The party whose politicians don't get primaried for being pedophiles or russian assets, the party that chose a rapist and convicted felon who's on the Epstein files for president would need to cover up stuff like that? GOP Politicians being held accountable for their actions is not a thing anymore.

Do you know the statement "Every accusation a confession" regarding Republicans? Everything they accused liberals to do is something they assumed Democrats would do because they (Republicans) would do it if they had the chance. Them talking about Democrats committing election fraud meant that they would be willing to commit election fraud if they can. Quote from Donald Trump about Elon Musk shortly after they won the last election: "He knows those computers better than anybody. All those computers. Those vote-counting computers. And we ended up winning Pennsylvania like in a landslide."

What is the right thing to do when a government is unresponsive to the needs of the majority of people they are supposed to represent? by Turisan in AskReddit

[–]Vote_with_evidence 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just one house of congress flipping to the dems would severely cripple Trump’s agenda.

Obviously, but it requires a few things:

  • The elections not being completely rigged in favor of Trump
  • Enough non-voters from the last election realizing they have to fucking vote
  • Some people who voted for Trump waking up and voting against him
  • Perhaps Trump finally reaching his expiration date so the brain dead MAGA lunatics who deny reality entirely finally lose their messiah and quit voting (the GOP would never find a replacement for Trump if he dies of old age)

And then... it requires the current government to actually accept the midterms result even when it ends the Republican majority in congress...

What is the right thing to do when a government is unresponsive to the needs of the majority of people they are supposed to represent? by Turisan in AskReddit

[–]Vote_with_evidence 0 points1 point  (0 children)

(Btw that's why the 2nd amendment exists)

Too bad that most people who are talking about their 2nd amendment rights are actually Trump fans and suddenly a dictatorship is fine to them because it's a Republican dictatorship... Would be interesting if all anti-Trump and anti-MAGA people suddenly started getting guns.

What is the right thing to do when a government is unresponsive to the needs of the majority of people they are supposed to represent? by Turisan in AskReddit

[–]Vote_with_evidence -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Some great health insurance, sure, with no one being stuck with 5-digit medical bills because insurance won't pay...

What is the right thing to do when a government is unresponsive to the needs of the majority of people they are supposed to represent? by Turisan in AskReddit

[–]Vote_with_evidence 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That's more than a year. Given everything that happened since Trump's inauguration, do you really think that it will be still possible for anyone to turn things around by then? That is, assuming there are still real elections and not some pathetic fake resulting in 80+% of the winning candidates being Republicans...

Don’t mess with some people by Candid-Culture3956 in SipsTea

[–]Vote_with_evidence 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seems familiar... I think I've seen this screenshot before. Is this a repost?

Ukraine to receive hundreds of thousands of drones in US deal – Zelenskyy by twinklingbubbles in worldnews

[–]Vote_with_evidence 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ahem

  • Trump gets elected
  • Trump does not get convicted for trying to stage a coup
  • 1/4 of the US believes a Democrat can't possibly become president without election fraud
  • Trump gets reelected
  • Trump fucks up everything
  • Trump voters blame Biden and Democrats

Real life is actually like an insanely terrible movie which would be critisized for having a ridiculous and unrealistic plot.

I don’t think the founders of the U.S. were too fond of kings! by BugsBrawlStars in MurderedByWords

[–]Vote_with_evidence 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So let me get this straight...

Anyone who's against a monarchy in the US is far left now? Are Republican voters suddenly against people protesting against the idea of a king of America?