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When Kamala wins the popular vote but the electoral college (whatever the fuck that is) says "no" and picks Trump and the dems just go "ah! well. nevertheless,". (hexbear.net)
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[–] 70 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (15 children)

It won't be the electoral college, it'll be a handful of Republican strongholds refusing to certify. It'll play out like a repeat of Gore v Bush except the GOP's argument will be way dumber.

The Supreme Court will hand it to Trump 6-3 and the Dems will still blame Jill Stein.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The Supreme Court will hand it to Trump 6-3 and the Dems will still blame Jill Stein.

    I kind of think they'll blame Chappell Roan and use it as an excuse to be homophobic.

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  • [+] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)
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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago*

    I have had liberals on every social media site I am on tell me if Trump wins then I, a nonbinary person, deserve to be hate crimed for not supporting Harris, so yeah... I do think that. If genocide isn't a red line, what makes you think queer rights would be?

    The parts of the community that stan democrats tend to be white so I think they'll stay on board bc white people tend to choose whiteness over all else

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

    It won't be a repeat of Bush v. Gore, because that election was actually pretty close. This will be one of the most hilariously lopsided elections in history, where Kamala wins like 75% of the vote, and wins every single swing state (along with at least one red state no one expected to go blue), but the GOP makes a dumb argument and the Supreme Court forces Trump to win.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    The whackadoos will really come out of the woodwork then. Nutcases of every variety.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    what do you mean by that lol

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    I mean we've already had two nutcases going after this nitwit just for running again. If he "wins" against a majority and against the EC through some amazing and unconstitutional horseshit in Congress and the courts, we are probably going to see a coup.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    he won in 2016 with an electoral majority but lost the popular vote, and since democrats refuse to do anything but eventually become republicans, they haven't made a way to prevent this. Trump could easily do it again this year.

    american democracy is actually extremely shit, who knew

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

    Read the original comment again. Americans will tolerate an EC win without a majority. But Congress refusing to certify, the supreme court backing them, and the presidency being decided by the legislature instead of the votes? Has it ever happened?

    Again, we've seen two whackadoos go after him just for running. If he "wins" this way?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago*

    2000 ended up being decided by the Florida state government and federal supreme court so it's kinda happened. I think the deciding factor is if the democrats are willing to go along or not, and considering how much they keep banging on about needing a "strong republican party" and "national unity", there is no reason to think they would actually put up a fight in a 2000-style (or similar) situation.

    Here's hoping more assassins come out of the woodwork though!

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

    what do you mean by 'whackadoos' because he seems to be doing fine 4 years after the end of his term. its awfully pathetic of your 'justice' to take this long to imprison a cut and dry criminal.

    And america does not have the political will for a popular revolution, where were the riots all across the country when roe v wade was destroyed? Where are the mass movements against trump threatening to overthrow him if he wins even legitimately?

    Nothing, scraps. Americans will get angry, then shrug their shoulders and roll over like the dogs of empire they are.

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

    the parliamentarian beheads kamala and declares the beginning of a thousand year burgerreich. libs have no choice but to follow procedure.

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

    Ah, well, nevertheless it was Jill Steins fault

    Is wat we're going to hear on repeat

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    • [–] 29 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    I am really hoping for Kamala to lose this one. Dems should be actively punished for committing genocide as well as all the other stuff. Just saying 'other stuff' because their poor handling of railways, labor rights, trans rights, and now what's going on with the hurricane just sort of fades into the background of a fucking holocaust.

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  • [–] 33 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    Do they actually care if they lose, is it really a punishment? Feels like they'll just continue Republican policies whenever they're next in power and keep willingly being dragged to the right.

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

    Yeah it comes down to two case:

    1. Dems care whether they lose -> okay so they should lose so they don't think they can just enthusiastically prosecute a genocide and still win
    2. Dems don't care whether they lose -> cool I will treat them similarly and simply not vote for a party that does not care about winning
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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    It mostly punishes the libs putting Kamala signs all over their front lawns. The Dem politicians are only punished in the sense of losing more people to socialist ideas.

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    • [+] 24 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
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    • [–] 24 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    A tie vote could happen which means faithless electors can throw the election

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

    watch a bunch of them switch their votes. Guy A switches Trump to Kopmala, guy B switches Kopmala to Trump, etc. Ends up being the same but everyone has to add a little "*Electors 20, 30, 29, 19, 92, and 340 voted wrong."

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    • [–] 19 points 2 years ago

    Tbh I feel like that's a pretty likely outcome at the moment lol

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