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‘We lose the midterms’: Republicans worry Iran might have already cost them Congress
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The number of idiots and monsters still in MAGAcult is way too damn high.
I also truly hope the uncommitted No Vote / Third Party voters complicit in his election (I think I'll call them Maga-lite at this point) have learned a thing or two since last election, too.
Register and Vote Democrat come November. Vote in Dem primaries right now if you want to alter the composition of the Democratic banner.
I'm a third party voter. And I did learn something. That I was right. I'll be voting third-party again to. Dems suck. Republicans suck. I vote for who I want to win, not against who I don't want to win.
Found the Republican.
No you didn't. If I were Republican I would have voted Republican. Why would I do a roundabout voting thing, rather than just vote Republican if I wanted a Republican to win?
I think I'd bet money I did, in fact.
Odds even better from a brand-spankin' new 1-month-old account, LOL. Got that classic false equivalence both sides wedge-driving scent, even!
Looks, Acts, Quacks, Helps a Republican!
Must be a Republican.
Slava Ukraini ;)
Obivously you didn't look at my profile where I listed my accounts. My original account is Lemmy.today. Then it was lemmings.world, but it's closing. So I created this one. I am not a new 1-month-old account.
All that info is right in my profile.
I have been on Lemmy for 3 years, bub.
So you bet money that someone on Lemmy who says they are not a republican, is a republican? Um...doubt it. But if true, you are taking Lemmy way too seriously.
Again tho, if I were republican, wouldn't it be better for me to vote Republican? Why would I vote third party if I were a republican? Seems kinda the long way around, don't you think?
He was President for 4 years and then tried a coup after losing the election. He was elected in 2024 anyway.
Seems like they should have arrested or killed him.
They absolutely have not learned, they might vote dem in greater numbers and we'll get a blue wave, but they are still going to be fundamentally moronic. The blue wave will be blunted by the in-fighting but even if its not and we also get a dem president in 2028 (we almost certainly will) the US will become increasingly hellish and miserable to live in anyway. There will be only so much a democrat can do
I intend to vote dem but that's just self interest now. I can't mentally invest in the suffering of masses of people that Republican vs Democrat victories will have because there is nothing I can do about it.
At this point, for your own sanity, I suggest you treat politics like the climate and weather. Which, just like real climate weather is going to get worse, not better. Focus on enjoying what time you have.
There are fewer of them, but they consistently show up. The other side, however, is capricious and wont act simply to prevent a criminal from taking the wh. I literally dont know which is worse for the country, and that scares me.