Trump wanted to deport Haitans to Mexico. You’re not getting a free ride to Ireland. Hope you like tequila.

For me, it was the days and weeks after Jan 6th, when it became clear that outright insurrection, a violent coup, was not going to spark a course correct.

The republican party should have shattered. The non-fascists should have woken up, and fought with MAGA, and years later, a viable political party rise from the ashes.

But that didn’t happen. A few conscientious dissenters fell on their swords, most at retirement age anyway. Fascism took over completely. And the American people ate it up.

Weeks after Jan 6th, it was clear that consequences were not coming. They took their mask off, and no one cared, or couldn’t stop them.

And here we are. Convicted felon with absolute power on his way to the Whitehouse, who owns the SCOTUS, Senate, and likely the House.

Trump will have unchecked power to do whatever he damn well pleases.

Way to fucking go, America. I fucking hate my countrymen.

Possibly benefit from some brain drain too

Don’t worry, he’ll live comfortably with himself because all the bad things MAGA will do in the next 4 years and beyond will be the Dems fault. No self reflection or personal accountability will occur.

Don’t forget misogyny

Eh. The local elections are pretty hard to find good information. Candidates and ballot measures.

It’s hard to even find any kind of real debate outside of their written statements, which seem extremely misleading.

Edit - but at least the vote tallying makes sense

Not a problem. They lose one voter (if the conviction sticks) and strengthen the fanaticism of their victimization narrative. To them, that says that the deep state just covers up for the antifa, and suppresses their voice.

I hear Tar and Feathering traitors was all the rage back in the founding father days.

Altho I could make an exception. Barack would tear him a new one in a celebrity former potus death match

All right, Texan Republicans. You have your moderately attractive blond white girl sacrifice to rally behind. You can do something about this now.

Contrary to our stereotype, the vast majority of Americans don’t resort to gun violence or the threat of gun violence to get what they want.

The gravy seals you see on TV are just cos playing and would turn tail and run if they ever really had to put it all on the line. Or even if the local police simply didn’t enable them.

Because you’d been falsely presenting as a disillusioned Democrat that could be won over if Harris changed position on supporting Isreal. And framing it as others such as yourself could be won over as well, and that the Dems deserve whatever they get for failing to do so.

Yet you now admit that the Dems will never get your vote (in the short term), and that changing position on Isreal support would not get them your vote.

That’s literally what this community has vocalized repeatedly in response to people like yourself who grandstand on genocide despite the only other option being worse genocide.

Tl;Dr- you admit that pandering to people like you will achieve nothing.

So you’re literally admitting that your entire narrative is in bad faith.

At least you (finally) admit it.

Probably because running a presidential candidate is a waste of money unless your intent is to split the vote.

Start local, gain influence, work your way up.

Edit - to those downvoting, the Green Party literally has zero representation, even at the State level. And you want to jump straight to POTUS. Riiight.

Get one state senate seat. Get one House of Representatives seat. Get some kind of representation. Then you have a bargaining chip.

Ahh, I guess I misread. I thought they got convicted for attempted voter fraud but acquitted of voter fraud.

Like I said, intent is a large part of the law. A lot of crimes don’t get charged because intent is a high threshold to prove. Just because it seems the intent is obvious, proving it beyond reasonable doubt in a court of law is a very different matter.

But driving under the influence is literally the charge. There’s also reckless endangerment and other tack on charges. You couldn’t necessarily tack on attempted homicide, because intent is required.

In this case, attempted voter fraud is literally the charge. Sentencing guidelines are a state level decision.

That’s just how the law works. If you want more punishment for failed voter fraud, pressure the state to increase the sentencing guidelines.

Bernie endorsed Hillary too. Fat lot that did. My progressive friend still wrote his name in on the ballot.

Luckily my friend is done fucking around. But seems like a lot of the “leftist” vocal minority here on Lemmy want the rest of us to pay the “find out” tab for them again.

I do not respect the self identified “leftists” that do nothing but make demands and then move the goalposts.

You expect libs to be respectful, yet give no respect yourself.

Check you privilege. Your single issue voting is throwing minorities and women under the bus.

I do not respect that.

Can someone explain why this is different from election interference?

You have people going away for years for stealing/destroying ballots, as they should.

But to throw away the result of millions of counted ballots seems like these low level interference x1000. How have they not faced dire consequences?

And yeah, I know, if its considered state level crimes (because states define tgeir own election rules), then it’s local law enforcement, prosecutors, judges who look the other way because it’s for their team.

But these seem to be major crimes with a clear record. How are they not locked away despite political alignment?

Eh. It started respectful, but dealing with the same tired “never genocide” canvassing of every single election thread gets old. And the people making those arguments know exactly what they’re doing.

Do you expect the opposition to fall over themselves to be respectful and accommodating while the other is not playing by the same rules?

Does that remind you of something the Dems were very heavily criticized for doing in the recent past?