• Sanctus@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I really feel like his coup attempt should at the fucken least bar him from running. This race really shouldnt be happening right now and we all know it. I fucken hate this place. He should have had harsh consequences, not whatever the fuck we’re looking at now.

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      4 months ago

      In the past, the coup attempt would have barred him from running again because when he was impeached after it, the Senate would have unanimously convicted him which would have disqualified him. But since the entire republican party is complicit, they acquitted him instead, which allowed him to run again.

      The entire republican party and 2/3 of the Supreme Court are completely on board with project 2025 establishing an authoritarian christian dominionist regime, which means the normal government checks and balances have already been corrupted and neutralized.

      We the voters are the only remaining barrier that can stop it, the only way to do that is keep the Democratic party in power. We did it in 2020, partly in 2022 (we lost the House), we have to do it again now in 2024, and we’ll have to keep doing it every election until they are finally destroyed as a viable party. We’ve been barely hanging on with the thinnest of margins.

      They can keep trying again and again–we can only fail once (like we did in 2016). One more failure and they win for good because they’ll implement Project 2025 and it’s over.

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        4 months ago

        Yeah I’m not doing that. Fuck eternal vigilance. If the Republicans dont stop they should be dissolved as a party. If I have to spend every election like this, I will instead advocate for eliminating the domestic terrorists. We deserve real choices with real candidates that really care about the American people. This is not it in the slightest. I’ve only ever gotten to vote against this shit stain. I want real choices. And I’ll fucken carve them out of my state, my country, if I have to and I won’t be alone. In reality I’ll probably be arrested after my first Molotov but I dont see the FBI acting which means they’re compromised too.