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'Totally illegal': Trump escalates rhetoric on outlawing political dissent and criticism
(www.nbcnews.com)
How the f*ck is this race tied!?
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A lot of people are more interested in hating people that are different from them than making informed decisions.
Sadly I truly believe this is the case. There's no reason to support Trump positions unless you're a billionaire. Any non-billionaire that supports his obvious lies and grifts must be a racist, because he doesn't have anything else going on.
Decades of unfiltered right wing radio declaring Democrats as literally evil and propogating the idea of Republicans being the party of God. When your rival is the embodiment of evil you cannot ever work with them or compromise with them lest you be destroyed.
If Hitler got to power with plenty of supporters, there's plenty of room for propaganda to work in other cases too
So many reasons.
Just one of these is the people who seem to think making the insignificant gesture of voting third-party as a "fuck you" to the Dems is a good idea, when all it does is increase the chance of Republicans winning.
This goes for the presidential race and for most tight senate/house races, too. The ballot box isn't where a coalition starts. A coalition starts by providing candidates who are actually likely to win.
I don't think it's as close as the news says it is. They want eyeballs. I think it will not be as close as these polls say.
That’s what I said before the last time he was elected.
So did I but it must be said that none of these elections in recent memory have been fair elections. The Democrats win the vote totals. Voter laws in "red" states are so thoroughly fucked that they exclude and oppress voting rights so that the Republican voters outnumber the voters who may vote against them. Then you have gerrymandering on top of that. Despite the prosecutions of Republican voter interference, nothing systemic has changed to make voting a fair competition. Any discourse on changes to these problems seem to get silenced.
The current system is broken, seemingly intractable, and favors Republicans. Wash, rinse, repeat every four years.
And so did everyone else.
A lot of people don't want to look into the mirror, but it really says a lot about the Democratic party that 3/3 of their picks have struggled so hard against someone like Trump. Trump is vile dog shit but what does it say about you (the royal 'you') when you can't even come off as something more appealing than that?
A huge swath of Republican voters are not voting for Trump. They are voting against "Democrats". Propaganda in the US has turned politics into a team sport, and you always root for your team, even if your team is having a rough season.
The problem is the media, the lack of education, and the hatred of enough people to choose Trump despite his blatant lies.
Blaming the other candidates is brainless and completely ignores the actual fucking issues
Your thinking here is incomplete. Appealing to who? Some people want exactly the qualities that we think makes Trump dogshit.
I guess not enough youths Pokémon go to the polls.
The correct question others should have posited when the idea of race was created by white supremacists.
Was it? That seems oversimplified but I'm not familiar with the history there.
Concentrated ownership of media and excessive lobbying.
"If you think about it." Please, for the love of God, if you are currently a supporter of Trump, I encourage you to critically think about everything this man has said, and the policies that have happend, and how this would impact your neighbors and family.
That being said if you have the capability to critically think, I can be fairly confident that you aren't supporting Trump by this point. In which case we're fucked if half of voters lack the ability to do so, with or without Kamala winning
Again, he exposes his fascistic tendencies
First off fuck trump and his authoritarian attacks on free speech. Even if the media is being misleading we need to protect it. He needs to be kept as far away from any position of power as possible, preferably behind bars.
Also fuck CBS though, this wasn't him getting mad about them publishing a damaging story on him. It was about 60 minutes editing there interview where the actual clip shows Harris giving a completely incoherent non answer when questioned about netanyahu not listening and escalating the war, and replaced it with a slightly more coherent non answer about it. The media is supposed to speak truth to power and press candidates when they give bullshit like this on serious matters, not help them cover it up. If not for ethics then just to maintain there credibility. They don't deserve to be shut down or have there license revoked but they should be shamed and held to a higher standard.
It's only illegal if someone enforces the law, a judge holds a trial, and an actual punishment is meted out.
Given how little taste our justice system has for holding rich people accountable, it starts to get fuzzy around what is illegal or not. As President GW Bush said: "The Constitution is just a piece of paper." While he's wrong about the material, he was correct that unless people believe in the ideals and rules laid down by the Constitution, then actually build a nation who follows and enforces their ideals, the Condition just sits there as a pile of material.
Hey, does anyone remember when Saddam took power, and had any political opponents removed from government?
removed
That's quite the euphemism... The guy was stilling in the cabinet calling out opponents and with each name, said opponent was immediately picked up out of the crowd, taken outside and shot.
Just a few of those in, people just started throwing eachother under the bus, hoping to be spared. It was a shit show, a disgrace and a horror show that (without a doubt) trump would love to pull off, though I doubt anyone but the most extremists maga would go with THAT.
I think y'all would be just better off ACTUALLY assassinating the guy. If he wins, the USA's so royally screwed it's almost worth making him some sort of twisted martyr for the retards that vote for him.