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[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Careful with that monkey paw.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Don't threaten me with a good time

But seriously, I think they have to because with all of their gerrymandering and election prices fuckery, they're still losing elections because of their Nasi-ism and fascist daddy issues being front and center of the party now.

They know damn well the writing is on the wall when the daddy issue boomers are dying quicker than they thought, gen-x is split, the new generation hates Nazis, and the fact that they know they can't not be Nazis without losing their base, if they don't win now and squash democracy now they're going to fade away.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago (9 children)

That's not a good thing. They're acting like trapped animals and telling their base this is the country's last chance at the ballot box...

Basically it's a setup for Jan 6th part 2.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Basically it’s a setup for Jan 6th part 2.

I mean, jan 6 was four years ago, any country with a decent legal system would have brought to justice those responsible already, right?

No, I must be thinking of Brazil.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (3 children)

wait who the fuck is Lara Trump? I don't recall this one from before.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 39 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Fingers crossed that it is.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago (1 children)

ohhh....i don't think you got the implication...or maybe you did.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I’m hoping they get dismantled and vaporize into a cloud of abject embarrassment and ridicule- then collapse in on itself like a dying star.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

But not the type of star collapse that creates a black hole. They aren’t so much into the darker colors.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Wow! There is a duck with a microphone!

[–] [email protected] 97 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

They don't really plan on having "elections" anymore if they win again.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

They don't plan on having elections anymore either way.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 9 months ago (1 children)

the leading contenders for the new national party leadership have said in plain english and on right wing media that if they get in and take charge that every dollar the party raises will go to electing trump. they are saying this with one big state without state chair, one swing state with a state chair under indictment, and one big swing state with a party civil war. this is notwithstanding me at last reports literally having more money in my checking account than one state's party.

the national party's funds won't go to repair the local infrastructure. or to protect vulnerable members in the house and senate or state houses that are in the balance. the national party's funds will be going straight to trump. the money not going to pay his legal fees that is.

let's hope that their fears come true. because as soon as trump got to power, the republican party has acted like nothing but a cult with a strong religious ferver. having one national party being a literal cult acting as a political party in a country this size is not good for anybody.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Trump sucking up all the down ballet money is excellent.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

the fact that he can't restrain himself long enough to stop dumping RNC donations directly into E Jean Carroll's pocket is absolutely delicious

the fact that Republicans are either going to win this next election or commit a bunch of terrorism (and I'm using the inclusive "or" there) is a little less tasty

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