cheat like hell like they do

Sociologists find that universally, in countries with persistent corruption, the populace believes "everyone is doing it" -- and that therefore, they are being taken advantage of unless they do the same.

It's this pervasive sentiment that makes it so hard to break. It is a memetic social disease.

“Please raise your right hand. I pledge, to the greatest president in the history of the United States, that loves us so much he can’t even breathe, that I will go out with my family, my friends, I’ll do it any way, I don’t care if I’m registered or not, I’m gonna try and cheat like hell like they do, there’s never been bigger cheaters, they don’t care. I am gonna go out and I’m going to get my friends and family and we are going to vote on November 3rd, or we are going to vote before that!”

The prayer of modern Republicans.

And you never thought it would reach this point.

That loves us so much he can't even breath.

The sooner he stops breathing the better.

They weren't actually able to get through the pledge, because Trump started rambling.

The clip in the article fittingly ends with a woman in the crowd seig-heiling.

Any election now is going to be meaningless, like in Russia.

Hail the Fourth Reich.

The republicons - so much projection, as usual.

The cons have been ratfucking and ratfucking for decades now. They would likely have next to no power if it was not for all their ratfucking.

It’s all there. Conservatives have to cheat to win, instead of having a platform that resonates with people. Fascists.

MAGA are domestic terrorists.

Do yourself a favor and zoom in on those faces. Holy shit it's wild. Old lady in purple borderline sign heiling, horror level wide smile plus multi chin bottom left, Mimi level makeup dead center, token POCs, etc.

I dare him to say this in Dealey Plaza, from the back of an open-top car.

Wow these fucks look like they could be drinking some Jonestown juice any day now.

🤞🏼

They have dug themselves in way too far to allow a fair election to fill seats with non-loyalists.

They are going to do everything they can to make it look close but still ending in their favor.

I fear this only ends in 1 of 2 ways — and decentralized nation-wide civil unrest and violence on behalf of Trump supporters vs actual patriots who support the constitution is “the good ending”.

The bad ending is they steal it and we collectively roll over and spread our cheeks for them and we accept that reality is just that everything gets worse forever and ever until the infrastructure/economy fails and we all just die, or these insane clowns fire off a nuke and initiate Armageddon. Either way the bad ending is they destroy America and/or all of human society.

When studying faces in a crowd that has gathered for any reason, I sometimes look for expressions that tell me something about the individual through an ubiquitous expression of the group. In this still shot, I notice a very beaming yet dull look. There is something very self indulgent in this expression and less self awareness than usual as well. I wouldn’t expect much, considering the implications of the overall gesture they are giving in relation to its standing in civic ethics but this is still clearly the collective face of a moron.

False idols? That's a smiting.

Actually insane.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYWrW2YLdME

Transcript: https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/transcript/donald-trump-remarks-closing-remarks-rnc-convention-dallas-september-10-2026/

Trump again proves that he's our own monster, 100% Made in America ^(tm)^

For many decades, our losers have insisted that the winners are cheating, and our winners have also insisted that the losers were cheating when they themselves lost, only to win and be accused of cheating by the team that just swore they were cheating.

It's pretty simple, you register, they check your vote against the registration, if it matches your vote counts, and if it doesn't it won't count. We have bar codes and everything. Any evidence of widespread cheating would be easy to prove, no more difficult than balancing a checkbook (which the USA can't do anyway, but another time). It's not rocket science. It's not even complex. Yet, in every election they go through this stupidity.

So for once, I agree with Trump. Cheat away, Republicans; if the system can be cheated by you morons, then it should be. If this is what it takes to get rid of it, so be it.

I think in reality our system is clearly purely theatrical; party A wins and collects 2 billion dollars, but oh no! they fucked up, so party B wins and collects 2 billion dollars, but oh no! they fucked up, so party A wins and collects 2 billion dollars, forever. It's the political equivalent of "professional wrestling".

Meanwhile bOtH pArTiEs refuse to release the Epstein files, how is it that they both agree on this? It is a mystery. This single issue is never off topic in any USA political discourse.

TLDR voting in USA is crazy