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Republicans Threaten to Take Joe Biden Off Ballot in States They Control

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[-] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 141 points 9 months ago

Do it. Please. This will be the funniest election in US History. Make it so that literally only 1 state has both of them on the ballot and that state has enough electoral college votes and is swingy enough to actually matter, so the entire election boils down to literally one state. I want this because I want to hear libs explain for decades to come about how AKCHUALLY that's just what REAL DEMOCRACY looks like and I should particpate in it more if I want to see it differently. It'll be so funny.

[-] Beaver@hexbear.net 63 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The Founding Fathers always intended that suburban Atlanta voters decide the direction of the country.

[-] riseuppikmin@hexbear.net 28 points 9 months ago

I wonder what the going rate of a highly influencable voter in Georgia would be this election.

[-] EnsignRedshirt@hexbear.net 51 points 9 months ago

Real democracy is when everyone who wants their vote to count moves to Pennsylvania every four years.

[-] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 46 points 9 months ago

I want three winners:

the one with the most votes
the one with the most electoral votes
the one with the most elector votes

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 9 months ago

2024: The First Triumvirate

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[-] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 15 points 9 months ago

See? Division of powers, checks and balances!

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[-] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 41 points 9 months ago

“Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man; he had the Vote.”

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 34 points 9 months ago

After rewatching The Hogfather BBC special every Christmas time for a while, this year I've begun the book and am now SOOOO gonna become a Discworld Guy. All these cute little witticisms in the narration and the puns upon puns. I'm having a fantastic time. There's some pretty easy to pick up class consciousness as well. I should have known, I love this kind of over clever British stuff, I'm certain with the accent(s) I'd be seen as having a dry wit instead of being seen as a sarcastic prick.

[-] GeorgeZBush@hexbear.net 13 points 9 months ago

Yeah I read a few of the books a while back and recently got back into them. They're a great time.

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 15 points 9 months ago

If a book makes me read for fun,.it's really good. Otherwise I feel like I should be reading something informative. Which is stupid as hell cause if I'm rewatching star trek for the 80th time I don't feel like I should be reading something informative. It's nice to read a nice book and not constantly.tly be adding citations and taking notes

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[-] huf@hexbear.net 15 points 9 months ago

the US could only dream of a government as functional and responsive as vetinari's...

[-] MattsAlt@hexbear.net 20 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Please let Georgia be the one and Stacy Abrams to attempt an ascent to God kween and make trump win lathe-of-heaven

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[-] muad_dibber@lemmygrad.ml 78 points 9 months ago

Pokes the US with a stick

Cmon, balkanize already

[-] CrushKillDestroySwag@hexbear.net 73 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Funniest outcome: The election goes and red states and blue states both declare their own winner. Trump establishes an anti-presidency in Mar A Lago. The country's executive branch effectively splits in two - the border patrol reports to Florida, the Department of Education reports to DC, the DOD builds a second Pentagon that costs over half a billion dollars and the Department of Energy arranges for joint custody of the nuclear stockpile.

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 33 points 9 months ago

joint custody of the nuclear stockpile

"I should control the nuclear. Me. Only me. Some people say the mother should get the kids. Many judges think that too. But they are wrong and bad. I say no. The father should get the kids. The mother did her job - big job. Nobody wants to do that. Pregnant and blood... But the father is important very important. And if the mother is too far away - new wife. So - better. Everything is better. I should control the nuclear..."

[-] TheLastHero@hexbear.net 23 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

DOD builds a second Pentagon that costs over half a billion dollars

professional-managerial liberal officer corps VS machismo-chud crayoneater grunts

who will win the grand prize?? (the privilege of paying for reconstruction of the American exclusion zone)

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[-] nothx@hexbear.net 57 points 9 months ago

Fucking please… we don’t deserve something this good tho.

[-] SuperZutsuki@hexbear.net 50 points 9 months ago

It has never made any sense that states have any control over national elections.

[-] blobjim@hexbear.net 18 points 9 months ago

I think it does. In a way it's similar to how the Soviet Union would pick political leaders. It's more hierarchical and distributed. It just happens that every state's votes go to whoever wins the popular in that state.

[-] SuperZutsuki@hexbear.net 19 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

What I mean is that for any national office, the states should have no say who is on the ballot. The elections should at least be audited by a national authority, as well. This is assuming a functional government that wants to continue existing, so please disregard.

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[-] Pastaguini@hexbear.net 49 points 9 months ago

The backlash to the backlash to the thing that’s just begun

[-] Ocommie63@lemmygrad.ml 37 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Odds on for civil war?

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 63 points 9 months ago

Yeah, the closest we're going to get to a 2nd civil war in the States is gonna be a wave of stochastic terrorism

They're gonna try some Turner Diaries shit and it's gonna get ugly real quick

No open warfare, just lots of mass shootings and public lynchings

[-] Trudge@lemmygrad.ml 45 points 9 months ago

There's even a precedent for it in Bleeding Kansas, although John Brown was actually fighting for something worthwhile unlike the current farce.

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 50 points 9 months ago

The dems will simply fold and say "Vote!" and not fight. That's not much of a civil war.

[-] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 35 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The establishment sure but they've been revving the boomer libs for this with MSNBC the same as the boomer chuds have by Fox

Here's hoping RFK does just well enough for a 3 way split and all the boomers getting mad enough to either kill each other or have heart attacks

[-] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 46 points 9 months ago

Liberals don't have it in them to fight for something like this

They rolled over for Bush in 2000, they can do it again

[-] tree@lemmy.zip 16 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I think a millitary coup and the dissolution of the two current parties is more likely and a significant amount of people would not even care, faith is so low in either party. The millitary is not gonna allow that shit to happen they will depose Abott and everyone around him before Texas starts shelling New Mexico.

[-] HexbearGPT@hexbear.net 15 points 9 months ago

0% unfortunately. The treats are still flowing.

[-] allthetimesivedied@hexbear.net 37 points 9 months ago

I’m going to die in the impending hellfire, all alone. Yay.

[-] Runcible@hexbear.net 25 points 9 months ago

none are alone in the great conflagration

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[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 36 points 9 months ago

r/politics thread

[-] CantaloupeAss@hexbear.net 59 points 9 months ago

top comment chain is thirsting over Hunter Biden and insinuating that Joe Biden has a large penis

shit u not

[-] Aryuproudomenowdaddy@hexbear.net 54 points 9 months ago

Fuck I hate reddit comment chains.

[-] muad_dibber@lemmygrad.ml 56 points 9 months ago

Holy shit what is wrong with people.

[-] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 49 points 9 months ago

You know, West Wing gets a lot of flak for the average Liberal's civility fetishes but Jon Stewart is also partially responsible for the quippy smart-ass way of talking that Millennial libs have.