Between rising prices and gilded ballrooms, Trump has practically giftwrapped oppo ads for Democrats.

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    Probably bored of unlimited power and is tired of being around the other miserable fucks in his cabinet.

    I cant imagine a hell worse than the personal life trump has created for himself.

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    He’s knows he’s going to lose, so he wants it to be as messy as possible.

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    Doesn’t matter the damage would take a generation to fix and the heritage foundation has solidified 3/4 of its plan. The other elephant in the room is that the fascist terrorist state of Israel fully owns both parties so unless we start arresting these politicians for treason we’ll continue to be occupied by a genocidal state. This is the part where I get yelled at because vote blue no matter who which I have done my entire life and I’m pretty old and things continue to get worse. Also, candidates like Newsom are also neoliberal Israeli first fascists so there’s that too.

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    He will try his hardest to cheat, but he is also pissing a lot of people off.

    Now if the Stop All Voters Equality bill passes, then it’s possible we could lose tens of millions of votes due to more election rigging by Republicans, but even then it may not be enough.

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    Well GOP have, in my lifetime, always screwed up the economy, piled up the debt and started wars leaving Democrats to attempt to pick up the pieces. That leads to GOP once again blaming Dems for everything and Americans believing them. Now many Americans believe Dems are just as bad even though often a Dem President doesn’t have a Dem Congress or Senate so can’t get much done. But it’s never the voters fault that they are getting what they vote for or fail to vote against.

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      I’m real tired of hearing this line at this point. States run the elections, and even if he were able to get past that, republicans are on the same ballot and are also retiring in huge numbers. They need the elections to happen, they’re going to happen.

      Now, you could argue that the elections won’t be free elections, and that would make more sense. Even shitholes like Russia have ““elections””, but of course the result is predetermined. Nonetheless, Russia has ““elections””. That’s not even getting into how the US has never cancelled an election, not even in the civil war.

      Saying he’s trying to cancel the election just makes people who are considering to vote to change something for once less likely to do so, because why would they if they’re going to be cancelled anyway. You shouldn’t do the job of voter suppression for the GOP.

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      He can’t, elections are done by the states, including Republican states. They want their elections, too. If he tried to suspend elections, very few states would go along with it. Maybe Florida, they’re all MAGA anyway.

      He’s finding other ways, a mix of strategies.

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    Remember the pandemic, he sucks at handling a crisis and can only succeed if dems shoot themselves in the foot and put an unpopular candidate.

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      If there was another pandemic right now trump would deny its existence annd even more millions of Wankees would die. And they’d die for him and for “freedumb” - willingly.

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      she’s a woman, that’s what made her unpopular

      it wasn’t a bad decision, she’s still the most qualified candidate

      but americans showed what they want and they will live with it

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        Run a progressive woman like AOC and if she loses I’ll concede it’s misogyny. Until then I’m putting the blame on the shitty platforms these centrist women keep running on.

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    They are betting on there being no midterms, or provoking a 9/11 type attack and rallying support before then.

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      For any attack against the US, the Donvict is at the top of my list of suspects responsible at this point. It’s the new meaning of ‘America First.’

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    Donald Trump thinks he can shoot someone in the middle of 5th Avenue, and still not lose the midterms.

    Which means he’s going to cheat.

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    Many people are underestimating how much red and purple states are going to suppress blue votes. This is without the SAVE act suppressing an unprecedented net amount of democratic votes.

    Previously we were looking at a base 3 point advantage for republicans…people got used to that. It’s estimated Trumpism expanded that to about 5% the last election…going forward it could be 8 or above. The Democrats will never will again if the save act passes. It’s just numbers.

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      The SAVE act is too much of a wild card variable to accurately predict, too wide reaching with too much general fuckery. Most Republican fuckery requires precision so as to prevent back firing, slow well tested and generally easy to control. This is the equivalent of calling an arty bombardment on yourself, sure you may just kill your enemies or you just blow yourself up.

      Wouldn’t factor too much of it before it passes, which I suspect it never will simply because the Republicans with brain cells probably want it to stay in limbo. It’s basically a no lose situation for them if it stays just a bill they support openly even if backrooms deals have effectively killed it.

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      I’ve heard a lot of people talking about how the SAVE Act may actually hurt more Republican voters, as they’re significantly less likely to have a passport vs Democratic voters

      This absolutely does not make it ok

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    Does Trump plan on leaving the White House at the end of his term?

    Remember, last time he said no.

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      Remember when all the “Never Trump” Republicans broke rank and joined Democrats to certify the election results in 2021? People forget about the MAGA Republican insurrection attempt, maybe because it was right before the MAGA Chud insurrection attempt.

      So… about former Speaker Kevin McCarthy, and the rest of the neocon Republicans… where are they now? I understand they’re not exactly in a position to uphold our democracy, now.

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    Yeah, I think he is. I think he’s doing the most outrageous things possible to rile people up, so when they react he he can then declare Martial Law and cancel the election.

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      What is the GOP going to do about the record amount of retirements and empty seats if they cancel the elections?

      They need the elections as much as the Dems. It’s a matter of how free the elections will be. They will happen, but will they be predetermined like in Russia, or will they be the US standard level of BS?

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        If he goes full authoritarian (which he’s trying to) he won’t need the elections. He or his stooges would just place sycophants into those empty spots. Given the way he’s angling to rig the elections, and the lack of resistance to that so far, he definitely doesn’t need the elections as we know them now.

        That’s the thing some people aren’t getting: we keep thinking he needs to operate within the checks and balances of the current system. But he doesn’t need to if nobody has the will or the ability to enforce them. At that point the constraints of the current system mean nothing.

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    You’d think running against a Russian agent, pedophile, rapist, thief, insurrectionist and an unapologetic fascist would be easy, but the Democrats will “Go High” and fuck it up again anyway.

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    The Democrats look more and more like a controlled opposition party every day. Likely he has nothing to fear from them, win or lose.

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      Fetterman, Chuck and Nancy sure but AOC, Sanders, Porter and Warren seem legit

      I there’s a pac money graphic for this somewhere