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[-] Ho_Chi_Chungus@hexbear.net 77 points 9 months ago

Hello, Operator? I'd like to report a certified sit-back-and-enjoy moment

[-] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 76 points 9 months ago

Take em all off all the ballots.

[-] thefartographer@lemm.ee 43 points 9 months ago

I'd like to cast my vote for Chat GPT, but, like one of the significantly older, more janky versions. Hell, SmarterChild for President!

[-] vexikron@lemmy.zip 38 points 9 months ago

Can I vote for a sentient cloud of methane being released by already thawing permafrost?

[-] thefartographer@lemm.ee 32 points 9 months ago

No. That's actually likely to happen. Quit putting shit like that out in the universe.

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[-] flan@hexbear.net 72 points 9 months ago

Presidential elections should be decided the old fashioned way: shooting matches between warlords to determine who has the mandate of heaven.

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 38 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

political duels are so fucking funny. I need them back so bad dude

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[-] kristina@hexbear.net 71 points 9 months ago

It'd be hilarious if this became a common thing and our voting system became even more of a farce

[-] LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA@hexbear.net 54 points 9 months ago

This is what I'm hoping for actually. I saw where this was going the moment it started. After everyone started impeaching the other team, this is the only way this could have played out.

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[-] Ho_Chi_Chungus@hexbear.net 68 points 9 months ago

I remember seeing a post earlier about whether Hexbear thinks Trump or Biden wins 2024 but it seems no one predicted that there simply would not be a presidential election in 2024. At least if this keeps going

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[-] Thordros@hexbear.net 60 points 9 months ago

Antipresident Trump ruling from the new capital city of Mar-a-Lago.

[-] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 32 points 9 months ago

when they said "the south will rise again" i didn't expect an antipope

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[-] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net 68 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Imagine being some dnc dipshit paid six or seven figures, and this unbelievably plain outcome didn't occur to you

Still getting paid more than me despite being demonstrably dumber and picking the wrong fucking choice every time

Also I live in Texas, wasn't voting for genocide Joe anyway

[-] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 31 points 9 months ago

The Democrats fucking love to disprove the very meritocracy they claim to defend

[-] Mindfury@hexbear.net 67 points 9 months ago

PSL winds up being the only party represented in every state ballot following a spate of tit-for-tat removals of Trump and Biden across the whole country
PSL candidate receives protest votes from dems in each state Biden is excluded and vice versa
PSL candidate accidentally wins Florida
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lol

[-] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 35 points 9 months ago

This would be both funny and good, so it can't happen

We'll end up with some libertarian nutbar instead

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[-] SnowySkyes@hexbear.net 67 points 9 months ago

Yes! Be the catalyst that slowly sends this nation into a state of balkanization! KEEP GOING! sicko-flipped

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[-] TupamarosShakur@hexbear.net 64 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The only thing stopping him, he said, was that people in Texas “believe in democracy.”

sorry fellas, stop the balkanization celebrations, the gop is just as civility brained as the libs

[-] RION@hexbear.net 58 points 9 months ago

pog pog pog

give me a president/antipresident dynamic where the states are split in who they recognize. shatter the fabric of the nation lets-fucking-go

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[-] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 56 points 9 months ago

Here's how Jeb! can still win:

[-] Ho_Chi_Chungus@hexbear.net 71 points 9 months ago
[-] manuallybreathing@hexbear.net 40 points 9 months ago

please clap, those continents back together 😬

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[-] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 52 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

We all knew that move in Colorado was going to open up a Pandora's box. Let's see if it's one that won't be closed. sicko-flipped

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[-] Tunnelvision@hexbear.net 51 points 9 months ago

I like how it says threaten. Fuckin do it bitch, you know it would be the only thing to get people off the couch and into the streets again. As much as we talk shit about the electoral system, taking Joe Biden off is pretty much the thing that will tell everyone in Texas that Greg abbot is basically the president of Texas, and everyone hates that guy. No more democracy, not even the illusion.

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[-] Great_Leader_Is_Dead@hexbear.net 48 points 9 months ago

The balkanization has begun.

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[-] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 47 points 9 months ago

Let's just appoint guaido as president until we sort this out

[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 32 points 9 months ago
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[-] Wheaties@hexbear.net 46 points 9 months ago

lol, ok, if this becomes a trend maybe a 3rd party becomes viable in time for november

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[-] SerLava@hexbear.net 42 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Biden would sweep the presidency if this happened because Democrats would have no excuse to dump quadrillions of dollars into moving the Texas election by half a percent

[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 53 points 9 months ago

they had no excuse for losing to trump the first time and did it anyway

[-] buckykat@hexbear.net 39 points 9 months ago

Dems would still dump piles of money into texas anyway

[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 41 points 9 months ago

THIS IS HOW RFK Jr. CAN WIN THE ELECTION!

Remove both Biden and Trump from the ballots.

[-] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 29 points 9 months ago

Idk why the lowercase Jr. in an all caps sentence is so funny

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[-] happybadger@hexbear.net 41 points 9 months ago

Good thing Trump was at risk of winning in deeply progressive Colorado. We needed to enshrine Biden as the only candidate in a state where he won 55% of the vote by a margin of 500k people in 2020.

[-] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 40 points 9 months ago

Typical yanks, even balkanisation is a spectacle for them.

[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 38 points 9 months ago

In a stunning turn of events, Jill Stein has won the majority of electoral votes as the Democrats and Republicans have spent the last year kicking each other off the ballots for a change, leaving it wide open for a 3rd party challenger.

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[-] CrimsonSage@hexbear.net 38 points 9 months ago

Like most people joke about a civil war, but I could genuinely see it happening. The white petite bourgeois is so fucking insane right now I could see them pushing for it. Remember the last civil war really was just as goofy from a material perspective, the northern libs really really didn't want to abolish slavery, all they wanted was to renegotiate a new power sharing agreement between the northern ruling class and the southern. But the southerners were so fucking batshit insane anything other than 1000% southern interests was white genocide. It was only really the act of war that gave abolitionists actual power to force northerner whites to be descent human beings and abolish slavery. Like modern libs want so desperately for the conservatives to like tone down fascism by like 1 degree so they can keep the capitalism machine ticking over. Just look at how the dems are basically giving Republicans their dream crime against humanity on the border just so they can get them to pay for their other crimes against humanity. And yet the conservatives are still too insane to take a victory.

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[-] GeorgeZBush@hexbear.net 37 points 9 months ago
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[-] vexikron@lemmy.zip 36 points 9 months ago

On the one hand: Fucking how. HOW? How could you possibly do that in an even kind of legal way?

On the other hand:

...

My body is ready.

Reality already became more ludicrous than fiction when the writers of Law and Order said they could not make an episode based around Trump's uh -legal troubles- because it people would think it was too unrealistic.

Please just let this farce of a country end, I am ready for it.

[-] flan@hexbear.net 57 points 9 months ago

Law is just an abstract idea, someone has to enforce it. If Texas does this and nobody stops them then what is the law?

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[-] Azarova@hexbear.net 34 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

lathe-of-heaven I hope this turns into a trend of states just arbitrarily removing their least favorite candidate from the ballot leading to a constitutional crisis that finally balkanizes this fucking horrific empire.

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[-] DengistDonnieDarko@hexbear.net 34 points 9 months ago
[-] PosadistInevitablity@hexbear.net 33 points 9 months ago

I mean, what did they expect?

Both sides think the other is doing this in bad faith.

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[-] stigsbandit34z@hexbear.net 31 points 9 months ago

Political kayfab 🥱

[-] QuillcrestFalconer@hexbear.net 31 points 9 months ago
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