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Marco Arment Jul 2, 2024

It DOES suck. Democrats ARE ineffective and DO fail to undo most of the GOP’s damage. Even when Dems have full power, they somehow never have any power. That's all correct, and it's frustrating as hell.

That's a stand to take in the primaries.

And then in November, vote like hell for Biden.

Not voting, voting third-party, or voting Republican isn't sending a message to the Democrats. It's literally just voting for a FAR worse, FAR more evil, anti-American dictatorship.
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sidb Jul 2, 2024

@marcoarment Your analysis is correct… until the day after the election when SCOTUS throws it to the House and they ignore the vote and “elect” T anyways. We’re going to feel really dumb for thinking “vote harder” was enough. The killer is already inside the courthouse, and they have no intention of respecting the vote.

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Magnus Ahltorp Jul 2, 2024

@sidb @marcoarment It’s much harder to actually go through with a coup like that if the election results are clear. SCOTUS or any group of people (or single people) only have the power that people give them. If the people asked to ignore the election results do that depends on the legitimacy of the people giving the order.

This is true regardless of what political leaning you have and if the order would be to your liking or not.

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sidb

@ahltorp @marcoarment It had better be quite the blowout then. Otherwise, it’s “irregularities” and refusals to certify and FUD and murkiness. I would love if it could be such a blowout—but we currently aren’t on that track.