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When Republicans run spoiler candidates going back decades, it’s no big deal. But when Democrats do it once, OOOOOO!!! there needs to be a federal investigation!
Dirty tricks? Yes. Any broken laws? No.
Just more grievance politics bullshit from the Republicans who can’t win a fair election without cheating.
I thought it was comical that someone pointed out Alaska is a ranked choice state. So if you have a ballot that says
If 10% don't know what the R or the incumbent mean... Then they pick both Charlie's and George last the incumbent isn't hurt by it... Still is considered to be voted for before George
That’s just the cherry on top. I lived in New York when they instituted ranked choice voting, and it could not possibly have been more clear. Anyone who claims that ranked choice voting is “confusing“ shouldn’t be voting in the first place.
When Dems take the House (and hopefully the Senate), they should investigate the election interference that the Trump administration is doing on these midterms
Yep. Trump will pardon everyone. But it needs to be well documented and brought up to every candidate running for the Epstein party.
It's good thing that election interference can be handled by each individual state, making it pardon-proof.
Technically, they can't. Effectively, who knows? That's why we need to hold their feet to the fire. They're going to try again regardless. We can't have them all just saying it's all water under the bridge again and forgetting to do anything. prosecute every last one of those fuckers to with in inch of their life and an inch of beyond the law.
We have to start play dirty, the “they go low we go high” does not work
Well that or Democrats need to actually actively pursue replacing all first past the post voting setups.
Democrats need to exploit the loopholes that currently exist and work to close them.
The Michelle Obama Doctrine of "When they go low, we go high" is a proven election loser, but that doesn't mean we have to lie, cheat, and steal like they do. All we have to do is play Hard Ball, and FORCE MAGA to play by the actual rules, not the "rules" they invent to get themselves out of any situation.
In sports, teams/players are forced to follow EVERY rule, no matter how obscure or arcane. No team gets to pick and choose which rules they agree with, or change the rules to give themselves an advantage when the other team is doing well. They don't get to choose the referees, pay them off, and demand the referees rule in their favor.
Things like deciding a Supreme Court seat can't be filled during the last year of an administration, then shoving an approval through in the lame duck period can't be allowed to happen again.
The 14th Amendment/ Section 3 specifically prohibits those involved in an Insurrection from holding elected office. That not only means any politicians who were directly involved, but also any politicians who amplified The Big Lie - that Biden stole the 2020 election - which softened up the citizenry to support an Insurrection. That alone means that MOST Republican/ MAGA politicians must resign their seats IMMEDIATELY, and any future candidates who have a record of supporting the Insurrection, the Insurrectionists, or have denied that Biden WON the 2020 election will be declared ineligible to run.
14A/S3 was passed, and made a Constitutional Amendment, precisely for the situation we are in - to punish Traitors who have tried to overthrow our government, and to keep Traitors from ever holding a position of influence within our government. It makes perfect sense, and we are lucky that our forefathers who had experience dealing with traitors would foresee this situation, and went through the trouble of passing a CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT to give us the tools to hold these Traitors accountable.
Thanks to Lincoln, it means that every single MAGA in our government, at ANY level, is ineligible to hold office, and we have an obligation to the Constitution, our Nation, and the World to carry that out.
Let's do what the Constitution, and Lincoln's victorious Union government has empowered us to do, and eject these MAGA Traitors from our government. All it takes is the will to play Hard Ball, which isn't hard at all. It's just following the rules, and expecting the other side to follow them, too. It's only what we expect from both teams when we sit down to watch any Sportsball game. If Hard Ball is good enough for sports, why isn't it good enough for politics?