• xmunk@sh.itjust.works
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    25 days ago

    I hope they are, it’d be really nice if Trump dramatically underperformed the current polling.

    I’d probably crack open a bottle of champagne, even.

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      25 days ago

      You’re missing the trick. The supposition here is that they’re creating a false polling narrative to buttress their eventually allegations of election fraud. This will feed directly into another coup attempt.

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        25 days ago

        I see the trick… but if all these polls are being falsely produced because Trump is actually ten points behind Harris and it’s inconceivable that he could win… well, they’ll still try and cheat the election but I’d much rather live in that universe rather than what seems to be our universe where the American people legitimately can’t decide between a treasonous, narcissistic, felon and someone… not those things.

        It’d really restore my faith in reality if most people actually saw Trump for what he is… I know they’ll still try and steal the election even if Trump literally only gets five votes in the election and all of them are from people with the last name Trump but it’s genuinely disturbing how close to fascism we are not even a century after giving the last batch of fascists a right trouncing.

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          25 days ago

          It’s worse than even that imo. I think even if he wins we’ll see a coup attempt, because he’s not playing the same game, he’s trying to end the republic

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            Absolutely, when he beat Clinton in 2016 his infantile little bitch of an ego simply could not accept that he lost the popular vote. Remember those years of

            “Yea Donny, somehow you won we all agree on th-”

            ‘No but like these fucking democrats, see, these democrats found extra voters somewhere, they had to… I couldn’t have lost the popular vote, everyone loves me! Immigrants, it had to be Immigrants… millions of immigrants that they snuck over the border to vote. Pelosi! She fucking loves immigrants… must have been immigrants, they’re watching us when we pee, they vote illegally… They’re watching us pee!’

            “Okay Donny, but you know you won right, the popular vote doesn’t even mat-”

            ‘Lies. They lie. Lying Ted I call him. Won it I did. Yes, yes, won the popular vote. They love me. They LOVE ME! Everyone who doesn’t love me… they don’t exist, they can’t, because everyone loves me… Mexicans, they must be Mexicans. Pelosi always sneaking around and watching me. They all love me. You know that right? They only love me.’

            I may have paraphrased a bit but that’s a pretty accurate summary of literally any press conference in his first year in office. Note to performer, please read the part of Donald as a Skaven.

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              25 days ago

              I wpuld normally call such comparisons unkind but the fact of the matter is the Skaven are just as bad as Trump. Actually maybe he is worse than them since at least they are good at some things, plus they have Thanquil.

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          25 days ago

          not even a century after giving the last batch of fascists a right trouncing.

          Problem is we stopped a couple countries that went full tilt, but left it to fester and didn’t hold the enablers to account.

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        25 days ago

        They can try. They have fewer levers to get there this time. Biden won’t just sit there without calling the National Guard.