When the midterms come, understand this:

The GOP no longer sees losing as legitimate.

If they lose, they'll claim fraud.

If they win, they'll claim mandate.

But thereโ€™s no version where they quietly accept defeat.
https://www.theindex.media/the-midterms-are-coming-the-gop-is-going-to-cheat/

The Midterms Are Coming. The GOP Is Going to Cheat.

What the GOP is planning for 2026 and 2028 makes 2020 look quaint.

The Index.
@Daojoan that's always the play.
@Daojoan For the GOP the only fair election is the one they win
@Daojoan The best response to this is to hand them an overwhelming defeat, one that they can't spin or cheat their way out of. The usual tricks they rely on only work in close races.
@not2b @Daojoan And they will proclaim *that* to be another form of "cheating".
@Daojoan Straight out of the fascism playbook

@Daojoan

Assuming they allow midterm elections. There's a lot of time between now and then.

@Daojoan Again: this is all based on the assumption there will be midterms.
@Daojoan they are all afraid they will go to jail, which makes them desperate, like a cornered animal.
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@[email protected] I keep asking people who are sanguine about #voting the #Fascists out, 'do you honestly believe they'll allow free & fair #elections? Do you honestly believe they're going to accept any result they don't like?' That head just seems so naively delusional to me

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@Daojoan then we'll just stay in the streets and find the GoP the ๐Ÿ–•๐Ÿพ
@Daojoan democracy is on the ballot, so we can't risk running anyone to the left of Liz Cheney
@Daojoan remind me: what is the 'G' in 'GOP' for again?

@Daojoan

In two years when the midterms come, the damage to this country will be done and will very likely be irreversible without opposition and people willing to fight.

Anyone suggesting we wait for midterms or we put all our eggs in the basket of midterms is a fool.

People asking me for money for midterms get a resounding โ€œ F U!! We canโ€™t wait to fightโ€

@Daojoan Mid-terms almost always go against the sitting President

The House & Senate are both very close; a normal mid-term swing would switch control

A loss of control would mean impeachment and criminal investigations

"They're going to cheat" is too quaint

They're going to fight like losing means years in prison

@Daojoan

Cheating is a GOP MO since Al Gore. Blue states should secede and let red states rot like Russia.

@Daojoan
If you listened to #Trump he already refused before the election 2024 to admit that he could lose, so if had lost to Harris, the #GOP would have already produced fireworks of propaganda, legal proceedings, ... from November 2024 on.

Even if they would haven't prevented Harris, they would managed to manage her legitimacy, at least in the eyes of the MAGA mob.
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