• Sanctus@lemmy.world
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    Seeing this shit every day is what’s going to push me over the edge. Nothing is ever going to go back to boring politicians unless we slap these dudes in their bare butt, back, and balls. They’ll just keep doing this illegal shit until someone physically stops them.

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      Yeah, pretty much. We’re nearing the point of necessity of underground resistance groups…and they’ll try to tell you you’re a terrorist and so is your group. But, make no mistake, its projection. These asshats in charge right now are the terrorists, and fascist dickwads trying to tear down the entire system we’ve built over the last 250 years. Stay safe, and try not to get yourself killed.

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    Decades of a culture of no significant consequences for politicians abusing the system in blatantly anti democratic or corrupt ways have have culminated to politicians doing shit like this in the open without any shame.

    The US political culture is an embarrassment now. There is a reason why other countries jail their corrupt politicians.

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        Both parties have been abusing this to some degree whenever the electoral ridings have been due for redrawing every 10 years as the population changes. This is the slow slide into tolerance of anti democratic practices I was talking about.

        But these adjustments weren’t due until 2030. The president asking to redraw political maps 5 years early with openly expressed specific intent to gain more seats for his party is an unprecedented new low. At that point they don’t even attempt to provide the illusion of free and fair elections

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    But… I thought this was the most popular administration in history and everyone loves what the Republican-controlled Congress and president are doing, and any poll that says otherwise is fake? Surely they were going to make great gains in the midterms already, something doesn’t add up 🤔

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    And Indiana will let it happen. The only thing that is blue there is Indy. Good luck Indiana… make sure you show up in the polls.

    Edit: corrected poles to polls.

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    Great, my blue vote already gets steamrolled in my hard red district. Let’s do the same to others.

    Edit: /s, in case that wasn’t apparent