Imagine a world where Trump wins the electoral college but gets less than 30% of the popular vote because the liberal states took him off the ballot.
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you really almost dont even need to try all that hard to imagine that happening, either.
I think the Supreme Court is gonna come down on the side of not letting states determine who gets put on the ballot. It’s way too destabilizing (in a “bad for capital” kind of way) because once you open that door every state with a trifecta in state govt is gonna remove the opposing presidential candidate, guaranteed. Well, the GOP will at least.
I have theories based on shitty premises:
Worst thing that could happen - supreme court allows it, leftists put people in a state government and the fucking gestapo comes in and goes really mask off with the crumbling democracy
Therefore the funniest thing that could happen - libs respond to gestapo singing Hamilton songs. It causes the supreme court to change their mind but not before all the leftists close to power are ousted
I think the most likely thing the US supreme Court will say is:
Ah, not so fast, he wasn't convicted. And yeah not everyone in the civil war was convicted but this is the most important guy. You can only do this to presidents who have been convicted. We're even being fair, you see, because Florida or whoever has to put Biden back on the ballot!
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Trump gearing up to be elected second president of the Confederate States.
Character idea: guy who doesn't care about politics but goes vote for Trump to 'set things right.'
this isn't even a character, this is going to be half of the voters in 2024
"I don't like Trump, but it's not right what they're doing to him"
At least it'll be funny watching Biden lose to the only man less fit for the job.
I really really want to see some third party seriously take on Biden in states without Trump on the ballot. It would be hilarious if they manage to win a state and fuck up the electoral college, leaving no winner.
MFW the closest thing there is to a relevant third party are the fucking libertarians, who are just republicans who haven't read The Turner Diaries yet.
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no electoral winner means congress decides who the president is. It's happened before. It's how Andrew Jackson got elected.
John Quincy Adams won that election, despite Jackson getting more EC votes and a higher popular vote. Jackson then won the next election normally.
But that election didn’t even have a second party candidate. All four candidates were from the same party. So a third party candidate causing a contingent election would still be a big deal. And it would just be funny.
I also imagine a possible scenario where the third party candidate tells their EC voters to vote for Biden or Trump as faithless electors, with some sort of concessions, potentially even the Vice Presidency.
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Wait this is one that could actually matter right? Trump would never in a million years win Colorado but I can see a world in which he could win Maine.
Is this how American "Democracy" dies? By states just throwing a viable candidate off the ballot? That's...not how I would have guessed.
what could possibly go wrong if you massively motivate Trump's base to vote by feeding their aggrievement while your own candidate is historically unpopular?
Weren't the 2022 midterms an unexpectedly poor turnout for the Republicans as so many of them bought into the "stolen election" bit? Isn't this just going to further reinforce their beliefs that the elections are all rigged?
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The illusion of democracy is crumbling 
2020 me (ironically): “the election was stolen”
2024 me (unironically): “the election was stolen”
Super Tuesday in 2020 made me realize the Dems treat the process of electing a leader like McDonald's does a build-a-burger contest. So people could feel profoundly that Bernie Sanders is correct, but the manager in charge of the burger contest isn't really going to start giving people "bag of lettuce and mayonnaise," so they'll just tinker with the process so it doesn't get the most votes.
Boaty McBoatface tier fuckery. "Oh, you want healthcare, wages, and doing something about the fascists killing you in the street? Nah, you actually voted for genocide and union busting, but we'll co-opt your ironic meme in one picture on our website and wear a Kente cloth in the single most out of touch meaningless statement of all time."
Balkanize speed run cmon cmon!
something something closing in.
These MFs really want Trump to be even more of a martyr?
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Honestly i would actually respect the democrats if they sacked up and banned him from running. They won't because they are a bunch of disorganized neurotic pmc wusses.
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yesss balkanize 
Maine has two electoral districts and one voted went for Trump in the last two elections
Colorado was meaningless. Now they're about to be mad lmao. Hahaha
All I have to say is 6-3
Or 7-2.
Or 8-1.
Or 9-0.
9-0 is very dangerous because I could die laughing.
Liberals cheering this on don't understand the backlash and repercussions it will cause.
What 0 analysis of material conditions does to a mf
By virtue of how they're unable to analyze the world outside of dichotomies ofc they can't trace cause and effect properly and will be forever baffled by how they push the things they supposedly fear into guaranteed frutition.
look forward to seeing you all in the trenches
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I'm taking bets on which state will be next. You can place bets on one state or dude a spread for lower odds.
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Funniest outcome would be having him incapacitated due to deteriorating health and then Haley winning in a landslide
IT BEGINS 
Wait what the hell Trump’s back on the Colorado ballot rn too after appealing? What the fuck is even going on anymore? Is this our Gorbachev arc? 
Is this our Gorbachev arc?
Trump already made the Pizza Hut commercial. It's over. 
no that's how it works. The appeal means the Colorado Supreme Court's 4-3 decision to remove Trump gets put on pause. It goes to the Federal Supreme Court now, who can choose to hear it or dismiss it. If they dismiss it, it means Trump's off the ballot in Colorado for good, then probably a bunch of other states would remove Trump or Biden willynilly depending on who the governor is
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And, here, we, GO
Dudes gonna get blocked in over half the states and still win
ron paul it's happening.gif
Death to America
This is genuinely the most exciting shit to ever happen in the time I've paid attention to our political theater. Hopefully the gravitational pull of all the rubes this is gonna activate widens the divide even more.
The feckless liberals does not have any positive project to offer people as an alternative to Trump. All they have is the claim that their guy is less bad than Trump. And even then they can't really talk about all the horrible things Trump did and wants to do that would affect ordinary people because they are themselves perfectly fine with those horrible things happening.
All they are capable of is being dorky hall monitors, clutching their pearls over Trump breaking the rules. Their strategy is to get Trump disqualified on a technicality, not to take him on in political struggle.
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Looks like they realised supporting Israel guaranteed Biden would lose unless they do something about Trump, so now they're actually genuinely doing something other than performative shit.
Spicy. Gonna be an interesting one.
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