Trump reveals 'big, big surprise' for ailing Democrats as he warns Blue states will 'totally disappear off the map'
Trump reveals 'big, big surprise' for ailing Democrats
Totally not an ominous or fucked up to say when blue states are absolutely recoiling in horror at the fucking disgrace of a president he is /s
85% of all counties in America
Empty land doesn't vote, you moron. You can be 2000 counties up and only win by a couple million votes, because rural counties are... rural.
Empty land does, in fact, vote...under the racist system that our founding slaveholders pushed for.
If your state isn't green, call your state representative (bonus: the one more likely to give a shit)
The fact that compromised states like Texas and Florida are pending makes me think this will be a mechanism for right wing fuckery.
Oops, turns out that all of these states controlled by the GOP voted 100% republican with no oversight from the feds. Hand over your EC votes please 🫴
If your state isn’t green, call your state representative (bonus: the one more likely to give a shit)
It's not likely to happen, in no small part because Florida and Texas are a majority of the "pending" votes and it's unlikely to pass in either. Most of the states where it isn't pending are smaller states who benefit or at least aren't meaningfully hurt by the EC.
House apportionment hurts states with 1 Rep who are just shy of getting a second the most, and after them hurts California essentially because it blows the curve on population. At the same time, it's the best you can manage with a fixed size House - any other apportionment with the same number of House members will on average have a worse disparity in representation. You'd have to uncap the House or at least significantly increase the size of the House to get a better result.
Of course there's nothing these days that prevents Congressional business from being conducted by teleconference, which would reduce one of the core issues with an uncapped House - the physical and practical difficulties in actually running it. For example, if you were to decide that Wyoming as the smallest state got one rep and every other state got a rep per population of Wyoming then we'd have something like 5780 Representatives.
According to the US election system empty land absolutely does vote. That is largely how you got into this whole mess in the first place.
Are you not aware that tumbleweed leans heavily regressive?
Tumbleweed is also Russian: https://cisr.ucr.edu/invasive-species/russian-thistle
According to the popular vote, yes. But the popular vote hasn’t mattered for many, many years. Of the many things Trump has shone a spotlight on, this has been the most blatant.
e: It only sways the results if enough members of the EC are more afraid of the populace than the party leadership.
But the popular vote hasn’t mattered for many, many years.
It never has.
They align more often than not so it might seem like it does, with the exceptions typically being cases where the Republican does really well everywhere but the Dem strongholds, while turnout for the Dems is much higher than usual in the highest population Dem strongholds. For example, Hillary Clinton won the state of California by more votes than she won the national popular vote - literally had California seceded or something Trump would have won the popular vote as well in 2016.
Republican understanding of elections
The big big surprise is election interference. Which isn't even a little surprise. The guys a fucking dumbass
That's the point, always.
When it comes to displays of hypocrisy, it's a show of power. I get to do this, you don't. It's on purpose to show you that they're in control and they get to do things you don't even though you're actually following rules and decorum. They don't have to and they want you to know it. "Hypocrite" is not an insult to them, it just means they've shown you their power and are happy to be called such.
It's just like with bosses and workers. Workers do all the real labor that makes a business function, but the bosses take all the winnings. Bezos can't deliver all those packages or roll out all those AWS servers on his own, but he gets to brutalize his employees and basically do fuck all not working because the real people who don't actually want to fucking work are the wealthy.
Yeah, not happening. Get ready for Civil War part deux.
Start buying guns now before they take that away.
MAGA against who exactly? There don't seem to be many high ranking Democrats willing to call out Trump on his bullshit, and none willing or capable of leading an actual separatist movement or insurrection. They're actually even more subdued and helpless than they were in 2017.
I'd love to be wrong but I'm calling it now; when (blue) "states' rights" get de facto dissolved and/or their midterm elections are obviously rigged, they will buckle silently and proceed with a Peaceful Transition Of Power™. Maybe their attorneys will send a Strongly Worded Letter to the Trump-appointed federal judges in charge of their case, but that's about all the political violence the American Left has an appetite for.
States being stripped of their independence is exactly what happened to Germany in the '30s and I don't see why the U.S. would suddenly deviate from the script. Your country is way too morally bankrupt to even entertain the idea of a popular uprising.
Since you don't live here, it's easy to talk shit from across the pond, gauging reactions from news clips and the limitations of what the internet shows you. Get some popcorn, because shit's about to get live.
BREAKING NEWS
"Government declares Democratic party a terrorist organization " Jails all members"
That would be straight out of Hitler's playbook, so I wouldn't be surprised.
Are we really sharing the dailymail
What's wrong with DM? Serious question
The same website that posted an article yesterday calling luigi mangione supporters sick for lining up to see a killer they idolize right in the title of the “article” ? its a fucking neo lib conservative corporate turd cutter tongue punching rag. Fuck the dm. Fuck 90% of corporate owned propaganda outlets out there. Ever since regan and then bush senior killed the fairness in media doctrine journalism has almost entirely evaporated and been replaced with boot licking shills cosplaying as journalists
It's pretty sensationalist.
It's nickname is "The Daily Moron".
Need me to explain further?
Lots of things really
Everyone needs to be contacting their reps about election security. It's obvious the last election was rigged, and they are confident they can do it again with money or otherwise. We should all be in the ear of our elected officials about improving election security, because it starts at the county level.
My reps are the ones who are stealing it. What do?
Every time I hear Trump talk, I cringe because he uses such simple words that sounds like a 2nd grader wrote his speech.
"Big", "bad", "sad", etc. I ask you to listen to any of his interviews or any of his short answers to reporters and you'll understand what I'm talking about.
It's a bunch of 5th graders, but same thing....
I'm sure 5th graders can write better speeches.
He must be stopped
Not surprising tbh.
I'm expecting him to falsely claim election fraud tomorrow after the exit polls in Germany close. If the result isn't AfD at 99%, he'll probably demand new elections and/or only recognize Weidel as Chancellor instead of Merz.
I think the fraud in the midterms will be so rampant you won't even know where to start to counter it all. At the end of the day the choice will be throw out all the votes and hold a second vote or accept the outcome. This will just be in areas where suppression hasn't already sealed the deal. So, while maybe a few of these smaller elections get sorted, any of the elections that did get blown up and slip through will be gains.
You have to understand, they are going for complete control from top to bottom. It doesn't matter how successful they are because there is nothing you can do can to wrench away their established power. When the election committees move to fix the damage done they will be completely on their own. Since the systems they've always relied on will have been dismantled they won't be able to act fast enough.
On election night some two years from now, you better be ready to do one of two things. Join the already growing factions to oppose the federal government or accept you live under authoritarian rule.
Daily Mail is trash
Daily "Hurrah for the Blackshirts!" Mail.
Surprises in politics are rarely good for the majority.
Looking over the Daily Mail (ugh), it sounds more like he expects a red wave. He says we're in for a surprise, but that's the kind of shit they always say.
That's not to say they won't reuse their bullshit playbook (lies, voter intimidation, etc) but so far the most pressing issue we have in the midterms in all states are just milquetoast neolib Democrats running the party, likely to thumb the scales on primary season yet again. You raise the energy of the opposition and the opposition will practically camp overnight in line to cast a vote (and volunteer to vote count, etc).
A CBS News poll last week found voters are giving Trump high marks for his first month in office.
Uh. Polling for the week of 16-22 February shows that he has a net disapproval rating a few points higher than his net approval rating. For a president barely out of the first month of their presidency, that's a historic low. This is likely to drop even more as inflation increases, and prices also increase; prices must increase to absorb the cost of tariffs, and that's been a cornerstone of his economic policy agenda.
Half serious question: can Trump order state borders to be modified? He wouldn’t be creating/destroying a state…I really don’t know the practical limits of presidential power anymore.
He absolutely does not have the authority, nor is there anyone at the federal level to do so.
But it doesn't mean he won't try anyway, or that anyone would stop him.
(The rare occasions of a state possibly splitting have come from within the state itself)
Probably fElon has Big Balls figuring out some way to fuck with anyone that might vote against the redcaps in the mid terms.
Republicans should be worried about which sub-group of theirs will become the next target of this bully's wrath if the democratic party really does dissolve. The only thing this guy has ever done policy-wise is organize hate around groups of people. He's not just going to turn into a positive and productive president if the country goes fully red. When inflation reaches the point of no return, and there are no democrats to point the finger at, who will he target next?
Why is he just going to have us all killed 🤦♀️?
I feel like Saddam Hussein did this move.
That's sounds like a threat.
Uh well that’s….something, I guess. Not great.
They will probably disappear off the map because Trump will be the one drawing it. Does anyone else remember him marking up a hurricane map with a black magic marker because he didn't agree with the National Weather Service?
Considering how so many of them are coast states, I think Global Warming got that covered.
Of course, he will try to make every state poor like the debtor red states.
He will remove all registered Democrats from the voters lists, and SCOTUS will declare it perfectly legal.
He expressed confidence on Thursday night that his Republican Party would prevail in the 2026 elections, keeping its total control of the federal government.
Are we not doing context anymore? Dude is clearly talking about an electoral victory.
Whatever else you are assuming is on you
We assumed he is going to destroy the concept of the democracy. It's very terrifying, without imagining nuking the country or something.
So he's planning to rig the mid term elections.
Same as all the elections since Republicans stole the 2000 election. Voters suppression and misinformation propaganda have kept them in the spotlight.
I am confident that this most recent election was rigged simply based on how nothing has been reported on invetigations of the areas where the election deniers were running the show and Republicans are constantly projecting their worst behavior. The fact that they claim prior elections were stolen is a solid sign they were planning on stealing one and this would be the one because it aligns with Project 2025.
They will absolutely be leaning into more voter suppression and will be emboldened to alter the actual vote counts themselves to make it look like their voting ratio is even higher.
I also strongly believe that the last election was rigged, and am worried that no one really seems to be looking into it. Between Trump's own claims that he would win no matter what and Elon "It's just one line of code" Musk there is enough to be concerned with. Most likely, I think they simply didn't count a bunch of Dem votes.
Yes, this will be outright vote manipulation. Russia-style.
Simple question: Do you believe that election deadlines are meaningless and should simply be ignored, or do you believe that each county in a state can have different rules for how votes are counted without it violating the Equal Protection clause for the 14th Amendment? Because that's the heart of what Bush v Gore was decided on.
Based on what we know regarding the election, even if the last recount Gore had asked for had been completed and been official, he still wouldn't have won. Some media agencies have estimated that had the entire state been recounted under the new standard Gore wanted to use that might have led to him narrowly winning, but that's not a recount he ever actually asked for (and if he had and had done so earlier, Bush v Gore would have either gone the other way, or had to be justified on entirely different grounds since Equal Protection wouldn't be an issue and it was specifically the deciding issue expressed in the SCOTUS opinion).
Yeah way more likely he's going to use mass protests as a pretext for Martial Law and canceling elections indefinitely.
Maybe, but I think it's more likely they'll want some pretense of legitimacy and rig them instead of cancelling them altogether.
the fix is already in.
It has been for years, especially if all this info about the extremely insecure voting machines, starlink, ballot manipulating code, stingrays, etc is true, which it seems to be.
I cannot for the life of me understand why none of the dems in power are talking about this election being fixed. Other countries have spoken up about the same thing happening to them. At least one has demanded new elections. There seems to be plenty of evidence that this happened in the U.S., so why would they refuse to acknowledge it? Do they think people won't believe them? They keep trying to play by rules that conservatives have long since abandoned. I just don't understand anything anymore.
Starlink will provide the Internet connection!