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There’s of course the quote of DJT saying “Vote, one last time and you won’t have to vote again after that” at some evangelical event before the election. But the way I know is because unlike his first term, he has completely stopped holding rallies for his supporters.

Yes, there is no third term announced yet, but I’m sure he and his sycophants will engineer a crisis to ensure marshal law can be invoked or some other measure to let him rule till death like daddy Vladdy.

He stopped feeling accountable to his base, which is the first time since he’s gotten into politics. He knows if there ever was accountability again in government, he and Muskrat are absolutely done.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Don't play into the defeatism that Musk and Trump want us all to have. They very much don't want people voting and things like this help them get that. The fight ain't over till it's over

If election didn't matter at all yet, why is Musk putting millions of dollars in ads for the Wisconsin Supreme Court race on April 1st?

There is no legal mechanism he could use to stop elections. Elections are run at state and local level including for federal office. This isn't something he can directly stop himself short of a straight up military coup

Elections are still ongoing right now. There were elections this last Tuesday, and there are plenty of important ones coming up

https://ballotpedia.org/Elections_calendar

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

It’s not defeatism; they’re not saying lie down and take it. They’re pointing out to the morons who just say ‘oh well, he is kinda awful, but he’ll be voted out in four years’ are idiots.

We need to kick him out now. The 2025 playbook says he’s going to use an engineered ‘border crisis’ to declare martial law, and he’s been sticking to that playbook like glue.

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