50 points

As an Australian I hope HarrisWalz wins because trumpet is a potential threat to other countries and not all of you americans are piece of shit bigots

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not all of you americans are piece of shit bigots

Australia’s kindest affirmation.

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3 points

I feel like there was a missed opportunity to invoke the immortal diss “shit-cunts”.

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8 points

As another Australian, a vote against Trump also is a vote against the Palmer united party, Dutton and other c**ts.

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I’m an American living in the Netherlands. The Dutch just elected a “conservative” goon named Geert Wilders several months ago. His rhetoric has been eerily similar to what’s coming out of the UK, Germany, France, Canada, and Australia. Hell, Meloni in Italy has roots in the OG fascist party. They’re getting too comfortable.

From what I can discern through my news apps (Associated Press and Reuters, these days), Palmer and Dutton are quite a vintage of proper cunts, but I argue the entire anglophone world is inundated with these authoritarian cocksuckers.

With sincerity, I hope that in your next election they’re shoved into the trash compactor of history along with all the other bitch-made invertebrate right-wing lunatics that are pissing in everyone’s coffee across the globe, just as we (hopefully) will do so with the Orange fucker today.

EDIT: Well, looks like we’re fucked.

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9 points

Actually, most of us are not. But that silly Electoral College we have…makes it so that Democrats have to win by huge margins just to break even on that and on things like representation in the House.

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Technically it’s the other way around. The size of the electoral college is determined by the size of the House plus the Senate.

Now, the House was meant to increase in size as the population increased.

Now, since the mechanism for that increase wasn’t spelled out in the constitution, there were heated arguments every 10 years over the new maps, but it came to a head in 1921.

Long story short, the permanent apportionment act of 1929 set the size of the House at 435 members. We’ve added two states since then, and the US population has tripped. But still it’s 435.

Repealing that one law would fix several problems.

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This is more about me and my skewed perspective than it is about Americans… but it’s easy to get the impression that amongst every group of 10 seppos there are 5 hipsters and 5 MAGA-cap-wearing idiots. Logically I know that this is false but it’s hard to supplant this image.

A while back I started watching a youtube channel about 4wd recovery or something in texas. They just seem like cool normal people, I’d be stoked to meet them while “wheeling” or what have you. The thing is, I’m pretty sure they would be Trump voters just because of where they are.

Would it be more accurate to suppose that maybe 2 thirds of people every where are just kind of normal people who aren’t as obsessed with politics as I am, but they do tend to line up behind whatever party their friends, family, and forebears have?

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1 point

i am various types of shit pieces

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1 point

Thanks. I may be garbage, trash, or cancer depending on the situation, but I do try to not be a bigot. I’m also thankful it isn’t very hard.

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1 point

Aww, thank you bogginfriend

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145 points

DON’T BUY IT. VOTE.

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20 points

Possibly what you mean is don’t use this news as an excuse for lazy complacency.

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5 points

Yeah, that’s what they said.

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2 points

No they said “don’t buy it” which traditionally means “it’s not true”.

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24 points

Every poll is a lie.

Vote.

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5 points

Seriously. They all seem to say fucking different things. Useless bunch of shit.

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176 points

Maybe he should do another speech where he talks about shooting people, throwing people in jail and about how much a pile of shit this country is. That seems to be working well for him, gaining him some votes. Maybe he should dig deeper into the racism and xenophobia, it’s what got him his highest numbers in the poles, right?

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94 points

pretty sure at this point he’s not counting on votes to get him in the white house, but violence

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45 points

According to conservative relatives there was no coup, only bad players.

I’m so sick of living in a malignant narcissist’s alternative reality. Can we go back to a time where half of us don’t play along with and encourage the delusions of mental illness? Pretty please?

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5 points

We will as soon as the opportunistic orange coattail riders finally realize he’s bad for them and throw him under the bus.

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Can we go back to a time where half of us don’t play along with and encourage the delusions of mental illness? Pretty please?

Uh, that’s been America forever. Ever notice that most of these people believe that there’s a magical man in the sky telling them what to do? They’re talking about getting physically attacked by literal demons in their sleep today, but they’ve been saying that for decades.

Just look at this shit: https://archive.org/details/TheVistaGroup-PaganInvasion1

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21 points

Hopefully the current president won’t be as pathetic as the one who was in the Whitehouse the last time the fascists tried to overthrow the government.

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9 points

shenanigans

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10 points

by hooligans

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16 points

You would think the Poles wouldn’t like him that much

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9 points

Actually there’s a very ignorant type of American for which this approach works quite well.

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132 points

Celebrate the poll then vote 💙

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83 points

Let it motivate you to go vote. You are not alone, even if you live in a deeply red area.

Every person who votes helps tell the story that the majority of this country rejects a crazy person leading our country.

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18 points

Living in a red state this is how I thought of it, even if my vote is wasted at least maybe the world can see a majority (even if it’s slight) of Americans voted against trump numerically even if he wins.

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8 points

there was a televised discussion of a poll this morning projecting 260s for both sides. if neither side wins decisively, guess who gets to choose the winner. a little bitty bible thumping trump loving nearsighted nitwit named mike.

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