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Far-right hosts are blaming the GOP's big election losses on Taylor Swift (www.businessinsider.com)
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[–] 109 points 2 years ago (2 children)

"Taylor Swift is going to come out in the presidential election and she is going to mobilize her fans," Kirk warned his viewers on Wednesday, adding, "And we're going to be like, 'Oh wow, where did all these young, female voters come from?' We better have a plan for that."

Kirk acknowledging a) the party does not attempt to represent young women and b) the current plan is that they hopefully just don't vote.

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  • [–] 78 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    No, the current plan is not that "they hopefully just don't vote." The plan is to actively prevent them from voting through various forms of suppression. They're not just sit around waiting to see what happens.

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  • [–] 51 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    TBH, actively trying to suppress voters isn't even the worst of it. The next step is making sure that it doesn't even matter if they do.

    You know, like they already do. Source: Am in Ohio. There are already public statements from officials that they are trying to dilute/overrule/ignore the results of our vote to legalize abortion and weed. And that's even outside things like gerrymandering.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That's the whole point of their independent state legislature theory. They argue that the state legislature can simply declare their own election results if they don't like the voters' results and that nobody, not the executive nor the courts, can challenge them. They are literally arguing that we should dismantle democracy altogether and somehow people are still "bOtH sIdEs"-ing.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago

    It's astonishing that their first thought is to oppose it by any means necessary when it passed with +14%.

    Like dude, you're just self sabotaging yourself and your party. This is just going to happen again and again until you accept it.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Weed too? I only saw headlines about abortion.

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