If you’re trying to make it harder for people to vote, stop pretending to give a shit about democracy. Every American - regardless of their political views - deserves to have their voice heard.
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Both sides always do whatever they can to win, democracy is stupid.
aug 23, 2025, 5:48 am • 0 0 • view
Voting and having one's voice heard are entirely different things. Democracy has never represented individuals other than the individual who gets the most votes.
aug 21, 2025, 1:28 pm • 0 0 • view
When everyone is the same, you don’t need votes, because that would reveal the differences in people 🙃Zieg Hiel 🙋♂️
aug 21, 2025, 1:18 pm • 5 0 • view
Turns out the right to vote is in a number of constitutional amendments, but republicans like to play loophole games. If things aren't explicitly written in the constitution they exploit the shit out of it. They have no honor, none. Slimy fucking scumbags. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/wha...
aug 21, 2025, 2:35 pm • 2 0 • view
Only people with zero confidence in their political project would try to make it harder to vote.
aug 21, 2025, 12:52 pm • 20 3 • view
Christian Fascist Nationalism hates American Democracy... the end.
aug 21, 2025, 2:50 pm • 1 1 • view
Yeah they ain't even pretending to give a shit about democracy anymore.
aug 22, 2025, 1:48 am • 0 0 • view
Except if they disagree with wildly unpopular policies that fuck over everyone except the rich.
aug 21, 2025, 1:54 pm • 0 0 • view
*not Nazis.
aug 22, 2025, 5:27 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 21, 2025, 2:21 pm • 3 0 • view
Exactly!!! Thank you!!!
aug 21, 2025, 1:39 pm • 0 0 • view
And why the F if you're so popular WOULD you NEED TO DO THAT.
aug 21, 2025, 2:48 pm • 0 0 • view
According to the fascist in the White House, only white men who will vote for Republicans deserve that right.
aug 21, 2025, 2:58 pm • 0 0 • view
yes!
aug 21, 2025, 1:26 pm • 1 0 • view
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aug 21, 2025, 2:31 pm • 3 2 • view
so depressing
aug 21, 2025, 2:40 pm • 1 0 • view
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aug 21, 2025, 2:46 pm • 5 4 • view
And to the Texas republicans: why gerrymander to get more Republican votes and instead make policies everyone wants to vote for!
aug 21, 2025, 2:19 pm • 2 0 • view
When we all VOTE the MAGAt's lose.
aug 21, 2025, 2:23 pm • 5 1 • view
Yeah fool
aug 21, 2025, 2:46 pm • 0 0 • view
we also need to remove citizens united and the electoral college
aug 21, 2025, 2:51 pm • 0 0 • view
Does an improper/illegal vote cast count as democracy? Look up the monthly headlines from Bridgeport CT where I live about political hacks who game the elections cycle after cycle. Honest elections are a part of “democracy”. Jail time for violating the rules by both R and D.
aug 21, 2025, 1:17 pm • 2 1 • view
Indeed, it is the BEDROCK of our democracy.
aug 21, 2025, 3:59 pm • 0 0 • view
Texas is just begging for Mother Nature to mete out some justice. It's a shame so many innocent Democrats will have to take one for the team.
aug 21, 2025, 3:09 pm • 0 0 • view
The last thing that we need are MORE stupid/ lazy people voting.
aug 21, 2025, 2:00 pm • 0 0 • view
He can still vote but Ted Cruz needs to shut the hell up.
aug 21, 2025, 4:44 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 21, 2025, 4:59 pm • 4 1 • view
Absolutely
aug 21, 2025, 2:16 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 21, 2025, 1:15 pm • 1 2 • view
Trump said 2024, you’ll never have to vote again! Huh?🤔
aug 21, 2025, 3:46 pm • 1 0 • view
Not anymore, we’re a fascist country now!
aug 21, 2025, 1:39 pm • 0 0 • view
When has conservatism ever supported democracy? Name one policy initiated by Republicans intended to strengthen democratic ideals.
aug 21, 2025, 1:35 pm • 11 0 • view
Exactly making it difficult to vote doesn’t make you the good guy! 🤨
aug 21, 2025, 3:09 pm • 1 0 • view
Why does this even have to be stated 😭 why on earth, in the United States of America, is it necessary nowadays to point out the very obvious about democracy. People aren't angry enough at the current admin holy fuck
aug 21, 2025, 10:13 pm • 1 0 • view
No the fuck they don't Most are fascists and complicit cowards You need to have an education and actual scruples to earn the right to have a say in governance
aug 21, 2025, 1:32 pm • 2 0 • view
All Americans deserve a "...government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." Abraham Lincoln November 19, 1863 As tRump likes to point out, Lincoln was a Republican. He's probably rolling in his grave today.
aug 21, 2025, 2:12 pm • 0 0 • view
👏👏👏
aug 22, 2025, 1:50 pm • 0 0 • view
I already am about to lose that supposed "right" Thanks to the ironically named "SAVE" act. So that "right" is no longer an actual "right"
aug 21, 2025, 3:21 pm • 2 0 • view
Save ourselves while we can.
aug 21, 2025, 3:56 pm • 1 0 • view
They want your vote, not your voice. Your oppression is their profession. These people are pathologically sociopathic
aug 21, 2025, 1:27 pm • 12 5 • view
Well said! 🙏🏼
aug 21, 2025, 3:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Bingo
aug 21, 2025, 2:59 pm • 4 0 • view
How do we manipulate Trump into giving up his citizenship?
aug 21, 2025, 2:41 pm • 0 0 • view
It's a power grab, pure and simple.
aug 21, 2025, 1:11 pm • 0 0 • view
Magas DON'T give a shit about democracy. Republicans have been taught democracy is bad, and their polling shows it. They will be the first to tell you we are a Republic and not a democracy... as if the two things were mutually exclusive (we shouldn't have to point out they are NOT).
aug 21, 2025, 6:21 pm • 1 0 • view
Truth
aug 21, 2025, 1:33 pm • 0 0 • view
Absolutely so 100%
aug 21, 2025, 2:00 pm • 0 0 • view
They don't care about democracy. Ask any Republican, and they will tell you this is not and never was meant to be a democratic nation. They will tell you all kinds of other versions of what the Founding Fathers wanted, and none of them were about Democracy. They hate democracy and love tyranny.
aug 21, 2025, 2:02 pm • 5 2 • view
Fewer people vote - Republicans win. More people vote - Democrats win. It's all very simple ...
aug 21, 2025, 1:55 pm • 0 0 • view
This is NOT just going to go away…the courts are not going to save us & Trump is not going to be “voted” out (remember Jan 6?) WAKE up America & unite! Sort out your differences later! Help Shut it all down. Nationwide General Strike: generalstrikeus.com
aug 21, 2025, 3:16 pm • 0 0 • view
It's true that every voice needs to be heard but definitely don't want to hear right-wing extremist or any Nazis or any bullshit like that. They shouldn't have a voice.
aug 21, 2025, 2:46 pm • 0 0 • view
One way 2 get around voting obstruction is "Vote Country Over Party." In other words, Vote for whoever you Want 2. Voting is Private!! What Works For You? Is it this now? If it is this, your ass is in a world of trouble....Again!!😏😒
aug 23, 2025, 5:43 am • 0 0 • view
The USA is the only country in the world that "gerrymanders". By gerrymandering politicians pick voters. Politicians have been rigging our voting system since 1812. 1812. Citizens United made it legal to bribe everyone, even Presidents & they are all for sale. blogs.loc.gov/loc/2024/07/...
aug 21, 2025, 2:51 pm • 1 1 • view
I hate to say it but they do this crap in the UK too, re-drawing council district boundaries to gerrymander the first past the post system we have here. We had a referendum on abolishing FPTP in 2012/13, I voted, only about 30% (if that) of the electorate bothered to vote on it. So we're stuck.
aug 21, 2025, 3:46 pm • 0 0 • view
In the New Order, democracy is encouraged just as long as the right people vote the right way for the right candidates. In other words, not democracy.
aug 21, 2025, 2:30 pm • 1 1 • view
We are way beyond that. We have a fascist government taking actions to become a full-blown dictatorship. MAGA are doing everything in their power to make it look like our votes don't exist.
aug 21, 2025, 2:23 pm • 1 1 • view
MAGA movement is rooted in the idea that they are better than the common good. That they are missing out on limited resources. It's a depply- embedded, neurological fear response and damn hard to overide.
aug 21, 2025, 2:44 pm • 2 0 • view
Curtis Yarvin www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... “You’re too dumb to vote” is a foundation of his game plan for the US He’s the guy behind the curtain
aug 21, 2025, 3:32 pm • 0 0 • view
Not just deserves to have their voice heard via their vote. Every American has the *right* to make their voice heard via their vote.
aug 22, 2025, 12:26 pm • 0 0 • view
nice try but ur talkin to fascist
aug 22, 2025, 9:11 am • 0 0 • view
Yeah good luck with that
aug 22, 2025, 7:31 am • 1 0 • view
I thought they were dropping the D word. No longer pretending.
aug 21, 2025, 2:00 pm • 1 0 • view
Well said👽
aug 21, 2025, 6:20 pm • 0 0 • view
Voting is our MOST FUNDAMENTAL free speech right.
aug 21, 2025, 2:26 pm • 0 0 • view
That's the war we're in. We've got a criminal in the WH, and he thinks he can call the shots (all shots), and we need efforts to continue putting pres pedophile in his place.
aug 21, 2025, 1:43 pm • 0 0 • view
Double Purple Hippo Ditto
aug 21, 2025, 1:34 pm • 0 0 • view
Well, these people plan only for white men to have a voice. Project 2025 and project. Esther are very clear about this reality they want to bring to about in the USA.
aug 21, 2025, 2:32 pm • 7 0 • view
If you cared about democracy you would have never voted for Trump last Nov. Democrats missed the fact we lost the country last November and have let Trump, actually Miller & company, systematically disassemble the constitution. They counted on Dems bringing a pen to a gunfight & now here we are.
aug 21, 2025, 12:56 pm • 44 8 • view
Cheating has no defense!
aug 21, 2025, 2:18 pm • 0 0 • view
So many of us tried to sound the alarm but no one took us seriously. This has been decades in the making and Democrats thought it was business as usual. It’s not and it’s almost too late.
aug 21, 2025, 2:18 pm • 32 4 • view
Democrats are just waking up. It’s either succession or war now. I do not see how this gets fixed unless by some miracle GOP give up power.
aug 21, 2025, 2:20 pm • 6 1 • view
You're kidding, right? Hillary Clknton & black women (THE BASE OF THE PARTY) have been talking about this for 10 years. Too many people didn't pay attention. As they say in my community, don't act all brand new now.
aug 21, 2025, 7:03 pm • 0 0 • view
It goes and comes. It will come around. Always has even in worse times than these. The Dems have been awake. I see them at every meeting in Venice. But there are more registered R’s where I live and with the gerrymandering it is very hard to win for a Dem. Last year we put 2 on the school board.
aug 21, 2025, 3:58 pm • 0 0 • view
How, they are literally destroying voting? SCOTUS now taking up Louisiana redistricting case and would gut the VRA if they side with lower court. California has no choice but to gerrymander now and I don’t see this administration letting that happen.
aug 21, 2025, 4:05 pm • 0 0 • view
It will take at least a decade to sort out what DOGE did, and so much dirt behind closed doors!
aug 21, 2025, 3:33 pm • 11 1 • view
It was so frustrating and exhausting when everyone kept downplaying it. “He wouldn’t do that!” while he actively promised to do that and more. “But Biden didn’t do everything he promised and he supports Israel!” The choice was democracy’s death or a not optimal candidate. Kinda an easy choice.
aug 21, 2025, 4:45 pm • 2 0 • view
The fact is, we aren’t going to get a truly progressive candidate as long as corporations and billionaires can buy politicians. Right now we need literally anyone better than the turd reich. We can focus on getting better policies when the government is less cartoonishly evil.
aug 21, 2025, 4:49 pm • 0 0 • view
I don’t like Newsome. His views on trans people are bad and he’s in the pocket of pharmaceutical companies. But he’s one of the few democrats who is throwing the shit the GOP is tossing right back at them. So he has my support.
aug 21, 2025, 4:54 pm • 2 0 • view
That part!
aug 21, 2025, 3:32 pm • 0 0 • view
Democrats need to grow a pair of bollox, or it's the end of everything that the unions fought for, for the working class.
aug 21, 2025, 9:02 pm • 0 0 • view
This is classic disinfo bullshit. The voters made their choice in the fall, and now we are the ministry party. We have been doing everything possible in that role but it is very limited. We aren't "letting" them do anything, they have the power. Are you actually an American voter?
aug 21, 2025, 2:23 pm • 1 0 • view
*minority
aug 21, 2025, 2:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Unaffiliated and never voted for Trump. And if you think this is disinformation you can just block me and move on. My forefathers signed the Declaration & Constitution, I am not about to watch those documents get torn up. States need to stand up or Miller will send more troops.
aug 21, 2025, 2:29 pm • 0 0 • view
Can you prove you are in fact an American? It's easy to do. If you're old like me and still get an actual newspaper, you can use that (see below). Or you can take a piece of junk mail, cover all but your city/state and add a little note to that.
aug 21, 2025, 2:31 pm • 0 0 • view
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aug 21, 2025, 2:40 pm • 0 0 • view
None of these images is proof you're an actual American. Don't you have a handy piece of junk mail lying around? Just add your user name and date and you're all set.
aug 21, 2025, 2:47 pm • 0 0 • view
There is enough of that in my feed, I live in New England, many surgeries in Boston & fly to Cleveland clinic regularly. You spend the time on my timeline, you are a librarian right?
aug 21, 2025, 2:51 pm • 0 0 • view
Nope. I don't give engagement to either useful idiots or disinfo accounts. It's very easy to prove you are real and since you won't I have to assume you are the latter. Have a nice day/night wherever you might be in the world.
aug 22, 2025, 3:06 am • 1 0 • view
I do not have to prove that. You can go through my timeline, there are plenty of videos and photos. bsky.app/profile/last...
aug 21, 2025, 2:39 pm • 1 0 • view
Unaffiliated until blame time. I didn’t hear you voted AGAINST 🍊!
aug 21, 2025, 2:33 pm • 0 0 • view
Go through my timeline… lol voted for a democrat not a third party nor sat back and did nothing.
aug 21, 2025, 2:34 pm • 1 0 • view
Ok TRO & injunction theater is not doing everything possible. Pretending there will be midterm elections that are free & fair is just helping Trump. Congress talking about midterms rather than going back to their states and telling the truth that we lost the government is not doing everything.
aug 21, 2025, 2:26 pm • 0 0 • view
I truly believe democrats didn’t lose the election. They were just too weak to scream out that the election was stolen for fear of sounding like them. Dems are doing it slowly (as dems do) but check out Rockland County NY wheee dems had not one vote for Harris. Too bad it’s too late.
aug 21, 2025, 6:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Ellen, Kamala Harris got over 65,000 votes in Rockland County, not zero. You may need to recheck your sources.
aug 21, 2025, 7:49 pm • 1 0 • view
www.newsweek.com/2024-electio...
aug 22, 2025, 11:01 am • 0 0 • view
That is a press release of a plaintiff grifting off the case funneled thru an inexperienced London based reporter. bsky.app/profile/r5-t...
aug 23, 2025, 1:29 am • 1 0 • view
Yes I’m quite familiar with this case which is why I know Harris didn’t get zero votes in the county.
aug 22, 2025, 12:28 pm • 1 0 • view
aug 21, 2025, 4:53 pm • 3 0 • view
$billionaire MAGA propagandists (Musk/Thiel, Murdoch, Bezos, Zuckerberg, et. al.) are collectively working with US adversaries to divide Americans and undermine our Republic and working class. They own/control the most influential media in N. America. That's all it takes to repeat 1930's Germany
aug 21, 2025, 2:09 pm • 1 0 • view
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aug 21, 2025, 2:09 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 21, 2025, 2:09 pm • 0 0 • view
well they have to at least pretend to give a sh*t about democracy-their base expect at least the illusion that the g.o.p magats care. Folks capable of cogent thought know better but the g.o.p. magat base are not capable of this.
aug 21, 2025, 2:04 pm • 0 0 • view
The incredible, disgusting part is that the GOP are ALL openly fighting against all Americans voting, and cheating through any means, and msm isn't calling them out at all!
aug 21, 2025, 6:44 pm • 0 0 • view
According to Texas, only white votes count
aug 21, 2025, 2:37 pm • 5 0 • view
This seems concerning. thehill.com/homenews/cam...
aug 21, 2025, 12:52 pm • 1 1 • view
If you think it matters. He admitted to cheating in the last election.
aug 21, 2025, 1:10 pm • 15 1 • view
Source/ link?
aug 21, 2025, 2:00 pm • 0 0 • view
I’ve been an observer of US politics for many years. The actual conduct of government by American leaders today is far afield from the nation’s founding principles. This does not surprise me. What does is the public support for their policies by those professing belief in those lost principles .
aug 21, 2025, 5:07 pm • 0 0 • view
I can only account for it as a structural breakdown in the country’s systems of education and public information.
aug 21, 2025, 5:07 pm • 0 0 • view
They are fully committed to democracy as long as it’s for white men.
aug 21, 2025, 11:01 pm • 0 0 • view
They can't compete so instead they try to eliminate competition
aug 22, 2025, 2:24 am • 0 0 • view
It's a great day to release the Epstein files and the Trump flight logs! 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
aug 21, 2025, 2:00 pm • 4 1 • view
Every AMERICAN deserves to see the Epstein File’s also !!!!!!!!
aug 21, 2025, 2:25 pm • 6 1 • view
That's cute and we all want a Unicorn, but right now you have a fascist in the White House, and you have to fight him if you want to stop him from becoming a dictator. Reality tramples idealism in this instance.
aug 21, 2025, 3:09 pm • 0 0 • view
It is so funny to hear Dems talk as if the majority of people didn't vote for this! We absolutely love what Trump is doing. Dems just don't see or care how much they hate this country. Republicans will be here for a while. So stop crying and reform.
aug 21, 2025, 5:52 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s sorta what democracy means…💙🇺🇸
aug 21, 2025, 4:11 pm • 0 0 • view
Republicans DO NOT WANT YOU TO VOTE. They want their base to vote but not you. Look at the barriers they put in place & the misinformation spread about voting machines & now mail in voting which will disenfranchise military, elderly & others.
aug 21, 2025, 3:32 pm • 1 0 • view
👍
aug 21, 2025, 1:02 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 21, 2025, 2:38 pm • 3 1 • view
I think they stopped pretending... Fox just lies about it
aug 21, 2025, 1:34 pm • 0 0 • view
That's why the machines have to go and paper ballots with a watermark on Blockchain will make every vote count , plus we'll know the winner election night, just like it used to be.
aug 21, 2025, 4:25 pm • 0 0 • view
If we had a trustworthy system that employed trustworthy software engineers we could probably vote online.
aug 21, 2025, 1:55 pm • 0 0 • view
Project 2025 pretty much stated that inside their 700+ page tome.
aug 21, 2025, 2:06 pm • 0 0 • view
tRUMPs Tariff Criminal Organization without US Citizens Representation
aug 21, 2025, 1:21 pm • 0 1 • view
👍👍👍👍
aug 21, 2025, 2:12 pm • 0 0 • view
No point reasoning. They don't want that, and Trump doesn't want that. He knows the tide has well and truly turned x
aug 21, 2025, 1:05 pm • 2 1 • view
Ikr? The right doesn't seem to understand that they too will be silenced in the end if trump succeeds!
aug 21, 2025, 2:03 pm • 4 0 • view
OK, headline is/will be correct. Are Dems infiltrating Red districts with cogent updates about how constituents are getting screwed by Donnie? In Spanish? Anyone? Anyone? Then stop whining if not.
aug 21, 2025, 3:17 pm • 0 0 • view
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aug 21, 2025, 2:31 pm • 3 1 • view
Voting should be the easiest thing we do as American citizens.
aug 21, 2025, 2:47 pm • 0 0 • view
Everyone deserves equal representation. I don’t understand how through gerrymandering there is more representation in most states for the white population. America finds a way to perpetuate extreme racism. This country belongs to all who were born here or immigrated legally and obtained citizenship.
aug 21, 2025, 9:58 pm • 0 0 • view
We need to organize & volunteer transportation for thise who have difficulty getting to the voting booth.
aug 21, 2025, 1:36 pm • 0 0 • view
Offer void in Georgia, and soon I’m sure in other Trumpian states. georgiarecorder.com/2025/07/30/s...
aug 21, 2025, 1:52 pm • 1 0 • view
Im talking about putting up signs in my local area offering transportation at no charge.
aug 21, 2025, 1:56 pm • 0 0 • view
Which they will interpret as an illegal “gift”. But good on you for taking action. Just don’t be surprised if they drop the hammer.
aug 21, 2025, 2:08 pm • 1 0 • view
I wont. And I dont care. Gotta take a stand somewhere.
aug 21, 2025, 2:21 pm • 0 0 • view
🎯🎯🎯
aug 22, 2025, 8:05 am • 0 0 • view
MAGA is not American!
aug 21, 2025, 1:33 pm • 11 2 • view
Your country makes voting so difficult. Come up to Canada & we'll show you how to run an election. I've never waited longer than 45 minutes in my entire life to vote. My registration comes AUTOMATICALLY because I get registered through my taxes. It's almost like you actually don't want a democracy.🤔
aug 21, 2025, 1:37 pm • 2 1 • view
Why do people talk like this? Addressing the public and blaming them for the sins of the ruling class. It's lazy, it's condescending, it's tiring to read. WE want democracy. The aristocrats and oligarchs do not.
aug 21, 2025, 1:53 pm • 3 0 • view
Conservatives here want to make it harder to vote. And have. Like the so-called Fair Elections Act that was passed by the Harper government, which was never fully repealed because Canadians’ brains are too broken by American propaganda that would have been unpopular
aug 21, 2025, 2:38 pm • 1 0 • view
But.. but… but…. Putin told Donald no one uses mail-in ballots anymore!
aug 21, 2025, 2:12 pm • 3 0 • view
Here's the real problem, and no it's not Elon and space hacking: www.gregpalast.com/trump-lost-v...
aug 21, 2025, 3:11 pm • 0 0 • view
👍And, if you believe that the lst Amend. stands for "Free Speech" than call out those that are suing people for exercising "Free Speech" as being "contradictory". When news media are suppressed for asking "questions" this is also contradictory to the suppressor's claim of believing in "Free Speech".
aug 21, 2025, 3:51 pm • 5 0 • view
99% of U.S. Media have bent the knee to the Gross Old PDFFiles Party. They get NO free pass from me! Ever since Reagan signed into law the destruction of the Fairness Doctrine instead of trying to improve it for the times. Make no mistake: the Media have gone 99% cray-cray for GOP-Crooks.
aug 21, 2025, 2:19 pm • 3 2 • view
There is 1 amendment each regarding: -free speech -the right to own weapons -income tax -succession of prez -congressional pay -alcohol consumption There are 5 amendments regarding the right to vote.. 15th, 19th, 23rd, 24th and 26th.. So voting is pretty important in America
aug 21, 2025, 8:51 pm • 0 0 • view
Amen.
aug 21, 2025, 9:01 pm • 0 0 • view
All the dumb cows following over the cliff.
aug 22, 2025, 3:49 am • 0 0 • view
Agreed. Voting is our right as a US citizen. Its not a privilege but a right!!!
aug 21, 2025, 1:31 pm • 0 0 • view
Let’s deal w this election by rules as they are now. Our problem? Democrats have a big tent &too many get tribal “I won’t vote or 3rd party bec of ___!” Doing so gave us fascism. I will vote for whomever Dem run even if its a ham sandwich. I’ll get closer to what I want than authoritarian nutjobs
aug 21, 2025, 2:11 pm • 1 1 • view
I'm the same. I will only vote Democrat b/c collectively, when in charge, they actually pass legislation to make our lives better.
aug 21, 2025, 3:06 pm • 2 2 • view
nope #geniocracy #dummies #pollTest #DemocracyFail #PolitburoNow
aug 21, 2025, 3:25 pm • 0 0 • view
Electoral college doesn't help!
aug 21, 2025, 1:35 pm • 1 0 • view
And if you don't give a shit about democracy, then you don't give a shit about America, because democracy is what America was created for. A Republic by THE PEOPLE, and for THE PEOPLE. By definition a republic requires democracy to exist. Killing democracy automatically kills the republic.
aug 21, 2025, 1:59 pm • 0 0 • view
Well, if you're talking about gerrymandering blue states, this here Texas Democrat doesn't care one bit about representation for California Republicans. They want fair districts, let them first ask Greg Abbot for fairness.
aug 21, 2025, 6:44 pm • 0 0 • view
www.modelingforchange.com/truemajority.html
aug 22, 2025, 8:27 am • 0 0 • view
I think we are well past the time of Republicans pretending they care about democracy. They are flaunting their fascism.
aug 21, 2025, 7:20 pm • 0 0 • view
They have already said at a press conference that they don't want democracy because that political system allows citizens to elect their own leaders!
aug 21, 2025, 1:30 pm • 29 5 • view
🤦♀️
aug 21, 2025, 2:12 pm • 1 0 • view
They stopped pretending 10 yrs ago. Most Americans dropped the ball bc these ppl did it right out in the open. Begged ppl to care since 2015.
aug 21, 2025, 5:25 pm • 0 0 • view
It's important to remember that gerrymandering is just one part of how they intend to manipulate elections to stay in power. Not the only one.
aug 21, 2025, 3:25 pm • 2 1 • view
It's not hard to vote. Voter integrity is about making it impossible for non-citizens. Everyone knows how to get an ID. Don't patronize people.
aug 21, 2025, 1:24 pm • 0 0 • view
Voting is easy quit lying.
aug 21, 2025, 9:20 pm • 0 0 • view
That’s exactly how it’s supposed to be..but in dt’s fucked up world, we are not a democracy any more. HE wants complete control over our lives and that’s not acceptable to any decent person who lives here. He’s a pedo, a rapist and convicted felon and belongs in prison..NOT in OUR WH 😪🇺🇸
aug 21, 2025, 2:17 pm • 2 1 • view
Huzzah!
aug 21, 2025, 3:08 pm • 0 0 • view
So long as Democrats embrace the electoral college and refuse to campaign on popular POTUS vote there is little reason for millions to vote.
aug 22, 2025, 11:39 am • 1 0 • view
They know by midterms even some MAGAs will have enough of this shit show!
aug 21, 2025, 7:14 pm • 0 0 • view
and if not they deserve to not have to pay taxes No taxation w/o representation!
aug 21, 2025, 2:25 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s time to do away with the electoral vote. And this bullshit proves it. When people start cheating and making up their own rules, things need to change. We have turned into a corrupt country that does not follow the constitution. It’s there for this exact reason. But reasoning is no longer.
aug 21, 2025, 1:55 pm • 0 0 • view
The grand ol party of pedofiles never ever believed in elections until the fat felon taught them how to rig ballots in every state
aug 21, 2025, 4:11 pm • 0 0 • view
I would add : “in a world where ppl are not swimming and drowning in misinformation and disinformation and they know how to fact-check and are critical thinkers..so the party for whom they vote, evil or not, is actually what they voted for..”
aug 21, 2025, 3:44 pm • 1 0 • view
@angrystaffer.bsky.social I don't even think they're pretending anymore. They're straight up embracing authoritarian rule.
aug 21, 2025, 12:53 pm • 70 6 • view
Masks are off.
aug 22, 2025, 11:47 am • 0 0 • view
aug 22, 2025, 3:36 am • 0 0 • view
The people should select their leaders in a democracy. Leaders should not select who represents the people. Hope all the “We the People” sticker people realize that. Leaders should know better!
aug 21, 2025, 2:15 pm • 1 1 • view
Except for Nazis. They deserve to have their throats ripped out.
aug 21, 2025, 5:27 pm • 0 0 • view
Gerrymandering is voter suppression. cbwrong.blogspot.com/2025/08/trum...
aug 21, 2025, 3:23 pm • 0 0 • view
“They don’t have our best interests at heart? Eliminating mail in voting, early voting, more or less voting in general, isn’t good for us?”
aug 21, 2025, 7:04 pm • 0 0 • view
youtu.be/pN7IB-d7Hfw
aug 21, 2025, 6:19 pm • 0 0 • view
Pretty sure the current administration stance would just prefer land owning, white men, who can pay poll taxes be able to vote.
aug 21, 2025, 1:28 pm • 0 0 • view
I’m sort of beginning to wonder about that. Because some of the Trump supporters voices are racist misogynistic fascist and hateful. And quite frankly I think they should be silenced forever
aug 21, 2025, 6:35 pm • 0 0 • view
Everyone who is not a fascist deserves to be able to participate, sure. The only thing fascists deserve is to not exist - and, if you want everyone else to be able to participate, this is non-negotiable and with zero exceptions. Fascism is cancer. Period.
aug 21, 2025, 2:59 pm • 0 0 • view
Not just each vote, but the value of that vote is now unequal.
aug 21, 2025, 2:10 pm • 0 0 • view
Let's make voting MANDATORY instead.
aug 21, 2025, 1:54 pm • 0 0 • view
Gerrymandering for *any* political reason must be banned. #woof
aug 21, 2025, 3:35 pm • 0 0 • view
“Trump pretending to give a shit about Democracy” would be a good meme to call out his buds Vlad, Bibi, and “add Dictator name”here.
aug 21, 2025, 5:56 pm • 0 0 • view
Republicans never done anything to help the American people. All they do is lie, cheat and offer a fake outrage.
aug 21, 2025, 3:49 pm • 1 0 • view
Voter ID requirements are not onerous. "Ease" is not the only aspect of a good election.
aug 21, 2025, 2:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Neither is guessing the number of jelly beans in a jar. www.brennancenter.org/issues/ensur...
aug 21, 2025, 2:09 pm • 1 0 • view
If you're just going to make shit up I'll ignore you
aug 21, 2025, 2:12 pm • 0 0 • view
Read the link son.
aug 21, 2025, 2:14 pm • 0 0 • view
No I have no reason to care
aug 21, 2025, 2:40 pm • 0 0 • view
🤡
aug 21, 2025, 2:41 pm • 0 0 • view
muting
aug 21, 2025, 2:49 pm • 0 0 • view
You don't care until it affects you. Enjoy your MAGA membership.
aug 21, 2025, 2:42 pm • 1 0 • view
Harris voter, here
aug 21, 2025, 2:49 pm • 0 0 • view
TEXAS...you need to go to those redistricted areas w/BIG SIGNS in English & Spanish, go w/bull horns & Spanish speakers...march, protest, gather & talk. Take this directly to the ppl this affects. TELL THEM in basic language...YOUR VOTES ARE BEING TAKEN AWAY. Make it clear & simple. DO IT NOW.
aug 21, 2025, 3:39 pm • 2 2 • view
We already know.
aug 21, 2025, 6:45 pm • 0 0 • view
Yeah, I think we're past the point where they need buy-in. Just stop the pretense already. 2026 is going to be a Russian-style election. Spare the expense and just deposit the money in tRump's Deutsche Bank account.
aug 21, 2025, 1:53 pm • 0 0 • view
That is true. In a democracy. But a democracy no longer exists in the United States of America. Project 2025. I wonder if the willfully ignorant are beginning to recognize what was right in front of their eyes all along? Too late though.
aug 21, 2025, 4:19 pm • 1 0 • view
aug 21, 2025, 1:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Who’s ever seen them pretending to care about democracy?
aug 21, 2025, 2:59 pm • 0 0 • view
Concur 100%.
aug 21, 2025, 2:01 pm • 5 0 • view
bsky.app/profile/af68...
aug 21, 2025, 2:30 pm • 1 0 • view
Well in all honesty, I never heard Turd give a shit about democracy. Except for when he lost of course.
aug 21, 2025, 7:27 pm • 0 0 • view
Not if they’re conservatives they don’t.
aug 21, 2025, 4:57 pm • 1 0 • view
Absolutely.
aug 21, 2025, 2:02 pm • 0 0 • view
Unpopular opinion: our current situation is proof that unqualified democracy doesn't work. And that Hobbes was right, only rule of the sword matters. Be ready to WWII some Nazis.
aug 21, 2025, 4:49 pm • 0 0 • view
If we could abolish the electoral college method and gerrymandering shit and allow every vote to count that would be nice!!!
aug 22, 2025, 9:59 am • 1 0 • view
Voting by citizens is bedrock democracy. Americans are citizens, not subjects.
aug 21, 2025, 1:18 pm • 0 0 • view
Every American deserves the right to shout directly into my ears at all times
aug 21, 2025, 3:41 pm • 0 0 • view
Righteous!
aug 21, 2025, 2:53 pm • 0 0 • view
He doesnt care about democracy or voting or rights.He only cares about himself.When he speaks-its just twisted lies & threats& mocking.When he claims he's going to make something better 1)it wasn't broken 2)its only going to be better for him& his sleezy buds. He wants to be king.
aug 21, 2025, 11:15 pm • 1 0 • view
YES! And as I’ve said many times, vote early and vote often! 🇺🇸💙🇺🇸💙🇺🇸
aug 21, 2025, 1:37 pm • 0 0 • view
As simple as that
aug 21, 2025, 5:48 pm • 0 0 • view
GOP: Yes, as long as they are white nationalist males.
aug 21, 2025, 7:31 pm • 0 0 • view
bsky.app/profile/blue...
aug 21, 2025, 9:57 pm • 0 0 • view
"We don't have to sit by and watch our meritocracy be replaced by a permanent aristocracy, and our democracy be undermined by dynastic wealth." - Robert Reich "Slavery is malignantly aristocratic." - Antoinette Brown Blackwell
aug 21, 2025, 1:39 pm • 6 6 • view
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
aug 21, 2025, 3:15 pm • 0 0 • view
Mitch said it best... if we let them vote, we're never going to win again
aug 21, 2025, 1:37 pm • 0 0 • view
I’m not so sure. Sorry. About a third of the country voted to drill a hole in our life boat.
aug 21, 2025, 4:49 pm • 1 0 • view
Mine hasn't been heard in 30 years in Texas. It's why my UT grad child took her degrees to another state and why Hubbs and I leave on Saturday. When the top 3 officials are as corrupt as Abbott, Patrick, and Paxton, it's time to leave their christo-fascist hellscape.
aug 21, 2025, 7:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Totally agree, protecting access to voting should be the most basic commitment in a democracy.
aug 21, 2025, 7:22 pm • 0 0 • view
If republicans deep down didn't know how disliked they were and unpopular their platform is, they wouldn't be doing what they're doing to voting, gerrymandering, etc. It's just too much to ask of them to have them be truthful about all this.
aug 21, 2025, 12:52 pm • 95 11 • view
Are they all in a bubble? I don't know how they wouldn't notice unless they were just chambered with their own people and insulated by their own crap. I think they like it, and that cruelty is a real turn-on for a lot of them.
aug 21, 2025, 4:04 pm • 0 0 • view
They know, Mike Johnson said it went can only win, when the turnout is low, we know how that works the electoral college.
aug 21, 2025, 3:31 pm • 16 1 • view
Hey Republicans! They're trying to steal your vote!
aug 21, 2025, 3:36 pm • 0 0 • view
eliminate Electoral College, make voting mandatory for every citizen. US would be amazing
aug 21, 2025, 8:06 pm • 1 0 • view
Do they realize that dictatorship can negatively impact everyone even them. No one is above trump’s malice.
aug 21, 2025, 2:01 pm • 2 1 • view
Amen!
aug 21, 2025, 3:11 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes and YES
aug 21, 2025, 1:33 pm • 0 0 • view
Trump’s EVIL.
aug 21, 2025, 4:33 pm • 0 0 • view
They can't win when informed citizens vote.
aug 21, 2025, 1:06 pm • 5 2 • view
It's the very basis for our democracy. One person, one vote.
aug 21, 2025, 2:48 pm • 0 0 • view
In a Democracy, Voting is not just a right but it's a solomn Duty. I may be a Conservative but I am Democrat because Democracy works!
aug 21, 2025, 3:48 pm • 0 0 • view
Apparently, the current administration does NOT care about Democracy. But make no mistake, they care deeply about Bigotry.
aug 21, 2025, 1:00 pm • 8 1 • view
Hitler didn't directly "stop" everyone from voting in the traditional sense, but rather undermined the entire democratic process by: Eliminating political opposition and choice. Suppressing free speech and assembly. Creating an environment of intimidation and fear. This is what Trump is doing!
aug 21, 2025, 2:05 pm • 0 0 • view
Some need to learn to think.
aug 21, 2025, 1:11 pm • 1 0 • view
False: nazis do not deserve to have their voices heard
aug 21, 2025, 4:33 pm • 0 0 • view
Pretty amazing to see the difference in comments between this post on Xitter and here.
aug 21, 2025, 3:10 pm • 0 0 • view
He wants to strip overseas service members, his own ambassadors, their families and staff members, corporate employees working in other countries, and also those unlucky enough to be in witness protection or under domestic abuse protections from being able to vote. Ppl in hospitals & nursing homes.
aug 21, 2025, 2:24 pm • 4 1 • view
Yeah, but a lot of them need to learn a little more about the world and the candidates. That's their responsibility.
aug 22, 2025, 3:43 am • 1 0 • view
Is crazy how Democratic/liberal citizens argue to fulfill that promise, to their own detriment - while Republicans do all they can to do the opposite.
aug 21, 2025, 1:52 pm • 0 0 • view
But his Fearless KGB Leader Putin told him the mail in ballots, which trump always has used, are not good for democracy 🤣
aug 21, 2025, 12:58 pm • 19 5 • view
And are used in the Kremlin troll's fascist swamp...
aug 21, 2025, 1:06 pm • 9 0 • view
🎯
aug 21, 2025, 1:08 pm • 3 0 • view
They will! Gerrymandering is going to be a disaster! Trump has never succeeded in his life. Bail out kept him afloat. Republican/ Independent and Democrat will vote against him. Regardless! I have to believe this because I couldn’t move for days when Kamala got robbed
aug 22, 2025, 1:08 am • 0 0 • view
Oh they straight admit they don't want democracy. That's why they are so pedantic about us being a "Republic."
aug 21, 2025, 3:37 pm • 0 0 • view
I think there should be a voice for the voiceless children of the future.
aug 21, 2025, 1:50 pm • 0 0 • view
In fact every citizen in a democracy who is eligible to vote should be required to vote.
aug 22, 2025, 7:28 pm • 0 0 • view
This is, true. & it includes Top Down. & the Wretched "Un-Supreme"Court. The American people have our Representatives/ Senator's however, they appear to be waiting for.....? Instead of having Town Halls and making a plan...of actions.... Protests ,will only bring out not only the N.G., but tanks...
aug 21, 2025, 1:30 pm • 2 0 • view
Gerrymandering, filibuster, and electoral college have already taken away your vote. You only have an illusion of Democracy now.
aug 21, 2025, 1:53 pm • 0 1 • view
Anti-democratic fringe rhetoric is now a mainstream right-wing talking point and official position of the Trump administration.
aug 21, 2025, 9:32 pm • 1 1 • view
They’re not just making it harder to vote, they’re making harder for your vote to count. Texas has far more registered Democrats than registered Republicans, yet Dems are in the minority. That’s not democracy.
aug 22, 2025, 6:04 am • 1 0 • view
It’s time to just call this The Epstein Administration. And that will really fuck with him.
aug 22, 2025, 1:16 pm • 2 0 • view
💯💯💯💯👏👏👏👏
aug 21, 2025, 2:57 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s really not a surprise.
aug 21, 2025, 3:02 pm • 0 0 • view
Just recently, we voted in a school board primary ... I'm super busy, could have easily overlooked this, but we live in WA where the ballot comes in the mailbox, with a voter info pamphlet, and puts these on radar. There was considerable community interest, it's like here citizen opinion matters.
aug 21, 2025, 2:59 pm • 2 1 • view
Not people, no more white washing, black and brown people.
aug 21, 2025, 3:30 pm • 0 0 • view
Republican state legislators are pissed about California's redistricting effort. Somebody please toss in a crying towel, and the contact info for all their Texan legislative brethren.
aug 21, 2025, 3:29 pm • 2 0 • view
Paper towels comes to mind
aug 21, 2025, 3:54 pm • 2 0 • view
if they stop mail in voting then there needs to be a day set aside for the handy caped and elderly to vote
aug 21, 2025, 2:59 pm • 0 0 • view