What about when Reagan (allegedly) conspired with the Iranians to sabotage Carter's chances of winning the election?
He's not going to win a third term. And he won't be able to cheat into a third term. I'm not concerned about that.
Oh buddy, haven't you been paying attention? Disenfranchising voters and rejecting unfavorable election results has been one of their biggest priorities.
Of course not, that'd be ridiculous.
It's called the FSB nowadays.
I don't really understand how Embrace, Extend, Extinguish is relevant to this, would you mind explaining?
So, the spoiler candidate touting Russian propaganda? I really don't see how helping an autocrat gain power by not voting for the only viable opposition, and in turn likely ending up giving Israel even more aid and approval to escalate their genocide, is going to help anyone in Gaza or even the Middle-East.
If you think the genocide will stop when Trump is in the white house again, boy do I have bad news for you.
Rage Against the Machine lyrics.
Both houses of which are under Republican control. So you're only going to argue details instead of actually responding to the content?
Of the 261 million adults in the US, about 73.5 million of them voted for Trump. That's about 28%. When factoring in non-adults, that number goes to just under 22%. That's not anywhere close to a majority.
For point 2: What about people who voted for Harris and who will definitely be persecuted under republican domestic policy? What about people in other countries who will suffer and die from republican foreign policy? What about everyone on the planet who will suffer even more from climate change due to republican environmental policy?
First: The commander-in-chief doesn't control the military?
Second: Even if he didn't, how would that matter for Ukraine? Removing both their support and the sanctions on Russia would still hurt them a lot.
Wasn't Fox News started specifically to ensure that wouldn't happen again?
Is no one else gonna do it? Alright, guess I'm it.
Steve Harvey: "We asked 100 people, what is the male reproductive organ?"
Contestant: "The penis"
SH: "A WUH... HUH??"
audience erupts into laughter
Steve Harvey grabs onto podium to support himself
laughter gets even louder
SH: O lordy...
one man goes into cardiac arrest and many others begin vomiting profusely from laughing too hard
SH: YOU PEOPLE NEED HELP
the Earth shatters and Satan rises from the underworld to claim unworthy souls
the universe begins rapidly closing in on itself
SH: (putting on a weary voice) Survey says...
the board shows 100 for "penis"
Harvey is able to get off one more shocked look before existence as we know it comes to an end
The damage to the environment will never be undone. The US will double-down on emissions and most other countries in the world will stop trying because they won't think there's any point anymore.
The country with the biggest military of the world, who they have received a lot of support from, just elected a president that supports the dictatorship committing crimes against humanity in their country. Do you not see how that is problematic?
I think Biden still believes that things can swing back in the midterms or next presidential election. I don't think he realizes that this might have been the last election that was possible to win.
If he does something drastic, he'd probably hand even more popular support to the Republicans in general and to Trump in particular who would play victims as much as they could.
If he does nothing, it might be the end of democracy, not just in the US but in most of the world. But he will have "accepted defeat gracefully" and considering he won't live to see the worst of it, I imagine that's all that matters.
Edit: Just watched his speech. Nope, he thinks this is business as usual.
Yeah, great fun watching the planet we all share start boiling and ruining the future not just for our own species but for millions of others.
I would guess that she's trying to separate the voters from the representatives, so that when someone calls out a republican politician for being racist, they have a harder time convincing their voters that she was calling them racist as well.
Right now it seems like people see their political party as their identity, there are both democrats and republicans who do it but I'd say it is far, far more common with republicans.
You can, and should, hold your representatives accountable when they do bad shit, regardless of whether you voted for them or not, and if your party starts standing for things that are worse than another party then you should change who you vote for.
It's a long road to get back from this division in the US, but I hope there's a future where it's possible.
I can add that if you ever say something that you yourself think was stupid, it's often better to just own up to it than to play it off (within limits). Something like "That was a stupid thing for me to say, I'm sorry, you're just very beautiful and I'm a bit nervous" as an example.