126 points

Don’t get complacent. Be ready to vote.

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64 points

Vote regardless.

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honestly I just vote for my right to bitch. So I always vote regardless if I have any good options or not.

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People should vote even if Biden’s election is certain, because the size of the majority matters. Get enough seats and people like Sinema and Manchin will no longer have any relevance, and get large majorities in both houses and you can finally push through the many changes that are needed.

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7 points

A majority of the problems people on this site have with Biden would be fixed by having more Democrats in Congress.

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3 points

If Trump died the day before the election, I’ll be there to spite vote. I literally do not care what the circumstances are.

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116 points

This is all wishful thinking.

We’ve had politicians with clear signs of dementia still being elected years after those signs show up. Ronald Reagan was said to have very clear signs of dementia in the run for his second term.

The only thing that will keep Trump off the ballot at this point is his death. He could be catatonic in a wheel chair and he’ll still be on the ballot. There’s simply no mechanism the RNC could pull even if it wanted to to keep him off the ballot.

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The only thing that will keep Trump off the ballot at this point is his death.

Not sure if his death will do it. I can imagine them doing a Weekend at Bernie’s with him until after election day.

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3 points

Wishful thinking from salon.com with a click-bait title?!? I’m shocked!

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111 points

Each day in court brings that reality closer. Trump can’t run. Trump can’t hide. Trump can’t do all the things that have enabled him to thrive as a despotic grifter his entire life. His mind is slipping, his grip on the world is weakening and at the end of the day Donald Trump recognizes it. You can see it in his eyes. His last cogent thought may well be the recognition that he’s the world’s largest loser and everything he’s done his entire life has led to utter failure.

Emphases mine in case anyone needs a little not-quite end of week pick me up.

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42 points

I don’t care if he ever thinks that thought. At the end of of his days he will have left us with a horde of lunatics empowered by his ideals. We are stuck with Trumpism.

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But without the charismatic messianic leader, it’ll fracture. Look how the repubs in the house are already turning on each other.

Trumpism won’t go away, but it’ll be increasingly rudderless

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Yeah, but the cons have been doing everything possible to manifest someone just like donnie. If it wasn’t him, it was clear it’d be someone like him. Just look at Palin…

I wouldn’t call it “Trumpism”; it’s been the core of the cons and the Republican Party for years and years.

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27 points

I took tomorrow off to recover my mental health, so your emphasis is very much a boost I needed

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19 points

I hope you get to do whatever helps you recover and re-energize, but for me it’s unplugging from everything and getting lost in the natural world. Hang in there, buddy.

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21 points

Trump can’t run

Hasn’t been able to do that for a LONG time.

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7 points

I don’t think he will ever consider himself a loser. He’s done everything he’s wanted and pretty much gotten away with it. Even if he’s convicted of 100 felonies, he will at the worst have to spend the rest of his life at his Florida mansion tweeting and still doing whatever he wants.

If he doesn’t see the inside of a jail cell, there is no justice in the world.

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5 points

Inject this into my VEINS

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59 points

This will go down as one of the worst, dumbest, most inane and completely retarded political campaigns in history … a broken immoral illegitimate unqualified candidate supported by an entire sector of the country because they couldn’t come up with an actual political leader that could have freely and openly met with far more support. Instead, they took the worst candidate they could find and have poured billions of dollars to drag him up to their leadership and spend a fortune to try to convince everyone that they are right.

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You sound like you don’t know about the history of politics in the US. Trump’s cover-up of the payoff was illegal because it’s happened before. That’s why there’s campaign finance laws. Elections were undoubtedly more corrupt in the past.

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Wishful thinking

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