billionaires dump so much money into elections?

Most of the money gets spent after elections are over. Lobbying consumes far more money than electioneering.

Fewer every day.

Ironic

You think it’s bad now? Wait until the polls are closed

It would be very funny to see the 2027 Congress pushing the bipartian “Infinity Money for Israel Act” which Trump vetos out of spite.

But like so much else with The Don, it’s gonna be TACO Tuesday every time he suffers a marginal amount of pressure.

The War That Solved Climate Change

We’ll see where she stands in a year. “The party kicked her out” doesn’t mean anything when she’s not running for anything

Fetterman Energy

blue no matter who and proven.

This seems like a stark rebuke of the above. The national party has been absolutely toxic towards El-Sayud since he filled to run.

Vote Who Chuck Schumer Tells You Too, is more like it

They nuked whole subreddits for posting quotes from John Brown

99.9% of people want to play co-op

That has not been my experience.

Quite a few people insist they’re playing solo and act as though all the other players are NPCs

You also have a real problem of distance rendering, such that people outside your visual horizon seem to stop existing for much of the population.

there is less they can get away with when you’re in person on election day.

I haven’t seen any evidence of that. I’ve seen a lot of evidence to the contrary.

When Trump won in '16 and '24, he claimed there was voter fraud that keep him from an even bigger landslide

Remember this when Newsome runs for president.

You’re going to get called a Russian Wumao Republican-plant Tankie if you say anything about this in two years

California Democrats are just Texas Republicans with the serial numbers filed off

I guarantee you that Republicans will claim election fraud regardless of the election results.

I mean, if you think they won’t be pulling shenanigans on election day…

Harris County’s cascade of election day fumbles disproportionately affected communities of color

There’s no One Neat Trick to prevent people from fucking with an election. At the end of the day, you just have to bank on their hubris. Republicans told themselves they’d never lose Texas for twenty years. They haven’t taken an election seriously since the Tom DeLay era.

Now we just get to see wherever Dems caught them napping, or Greg Abbott can save the party from itself.

If people don’t stand up

Stand up and do what? With whom? When and where is this happening? What are the anticipated consequences? What is the anticipated pushback? Who is leading the struggle? What are the demands?

I see a ton of “Somebody Should Do Something!” but vanishingly little “Join the DSA, rally around AOC, and unionize your workplace. Here’s the steps. Here’s the meeting. Here’s the agenda. Here’s people with resources and experience who can make it successful.”

In Soviet America, Anthropic Boycott You!

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