Please, not again.

They are sure the Leopard will never eat their face.

Yup. They think Daddy Trump is going lock up all the liberals and create a facist conservative paradise.

Trump hasn't said the truth about one thing his entire life.

Trivia question: Which politician has proposed "suspending the constitution" in recent years?

Hint: It's the same politician that said "take the guns first, go through due process second.”

Another hint: Trump said both those things.

I will have more rights under Biden. There's more to rights than guns. Like as a gay man if I lose my right to exist, that's a bit harsher than my right to own something.

Milorad Dodik (more like No-dick), even

Trump really beats all those examples.

Def. But the xenophobia and superiority complex on lemmy is outta pocket, tbh.

It's hilarious for all the "democracy" the US loves to "export", it actually has a pretty terrible democracy. Wildly popular policies have no way to make their way to the government unless a rich person or corporation also lobbies for it.

Change would happen if 74 million Americans would grow a second brain cell and stop voting republican. If democrats were the only party winning elections, people would be more willing to participate in primaries or vote for a third party

Our democratic system is broken to the core though, and there is basically no way to fix it which is why he still won.

The biggest fixable issue is the whole thing where all electoral votes in most states go to one candidate. That is a thing that is fixable. Because that is a matter of state law. The problem being of course that most states don't want to change that, because for most states it would mean less attention from presidential candidates because they'd be playing less of a role in determining who wins (by being worth a smaller, harder to shift margin). Convince every state to switch to the way Maine and Nebraska hand out electoral votes (2 based on statewide popular vote, one for each house districts vote - states get one elector for each member of Congress this assigns electors based on who would vote for that member of Congress) and the problem is mostly fixed (everything except not being able to win the presidency by just winning California and New York by large enough margins and having an average showing elsewhere). Importantly, it's fixed in a way you don't have to get most of the states to agree with all at once to make happen.

Abolishing the electoral college outright would require a constitutional amendment and those are intentionally very hard to do. An interstate compact to functionally eliminate it by getting 270 electoral votes worth of states to agree to assign their electors based on the national popular vote rather than anything at the state level is somewhat more doable but will also be legally challenged under the doctrine that the federal government is supposed to approve any interstate compact.

Several states have even proposed banning him from the ballot for his coup attempt, including mine. Unfortunately they are being tossed out, probably by judges that he put in power.

Any judge that gives a fuck about the law and the Constitution is going to toss those out, as they are premature. He's a fuckwit that's awful in all kinds of ways, but he is still due due process. Arguing 14th Amendment Section 3 applies to Trump requires arguing he has engaged in insurrection or rebellion or given aid or comfort to an enemy. Which he probably did, but "probably" is not generally a standard we punish or restrict people over, nor do we do that without due process and the only process so far in this case is "has been investigated and formally accused".

This is one of the reasons that the Trump legal teams first and highest goal is to delay. If they delay long enough they can argue that the courts are being used as a form of electoral interference and possibly give Trump an election boost, if they delay even longer and he wins they can argue executive immunity. Because that's the path with the best odds for Trump - he's much better at manipulating crowds than at lying to judges.

Huh?

Aww, bless your heart.

Fascism is great for the supporters, at first. They get to steal tooth gold.

Under his orange eye, brother.

Yes, and I was like "how the fuck do so many people actually agree with that!?" Then I realized by dumb brain added "best" lol

no they're right it was pretty funny

What the fuck! Whichever day you vote, is a public holiday in my country. All institutions are obliged to do so.

We Can barely hang on to the shitty voting system we have. I can almost never make it to polls (and often work Sundays) but I used to receive automatic mail in ballots. Now I need to apply for ballots early before each election and many politicians are fighting to make it harder and harder to do mail in. Women's reproductive rights have back slid, internet freedoms have become restricted, vaccines are being required in schools and hospitals less not more. This guy is talking about progressive reforms and we are here just trying to dig fingernails into basic rights.

We vote by mail in my state. I love it. Me and The Wife sit down at the kitchen table and fill out our ballots together and then pop them into the mail and that's it. Granted, I live in a solidly blue state so my presidential vote basically doesn't matter anyway.

A lot of us aren't fine with it. One side benefits when less people vote. Our government is absolute shit at getting things done because half of politicians elected want to hinder all progress.

So retail workers can't vote because they work weekends? You're gonna screw someone over regardless of what day you pick.

In my state we have a minimum of two weeks of early voting including some weekend hours. I'd support some increases, but it's actually not that hard to vote if you just try.

Voter's paradox

Local elections can be decided by a handful of votes. If you don't think it matters who is in charge of the local government, you should read what happens when Libertarians take over.

So you're shooting yourself in the foot. You and everyone else who seems to think the ballot begins and ends with voting for who is president.

I think there's a significant portion of the population that is unpollable and it's really started to make things less certain.

They have zero predictive value with regard to the ultimate outcome.

No presidential polls ever hold predictive value, not until we start to poll the electoral college about which team paid them more.

Well, Biden hasn't done any of those things, but we need to accept the facts that he did block peace negotiations in Ukraine, he vetoed multiple ceasefires in Palestine, and he supported both conflicts by providing weapons.

I don't know if trump would have been better, but we gotta admit that Biden actively did a terrible job.