#vote dems out

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

it is. so weird to me that I'm having to say this again after a real-life cartoon supervillian already once ran for president on a platform of hatred & fascism and won, but.

it's November, please fucking vote

#not a shitpost #serious post #this election cycle will DETERMINE what legislation gets passed #it will DETERMINE THE FUTURE OF ABORTION RIGHTS AND GAY MARRIAGE AND OTHER LGBTQ+ PROTECTIONS #the supreme court plans to destroy as much progress as possible and that means we have to rely on congress to protect those rights #which they can only do if the Dems control the senate and the house #we are in FULL BLOWN DAMAGE CONTROL MODE here #especially because it is still somehow perfectly possible and actually probable #that the festering pile of garbage in human form who recently tried to overthrow the government will end up back on the ballot in 2024 #we still haven't recovered from 4 years of trump and if we don't show up at the polls it is perfectly possible we will get another 4 years #vote this november to protect basic human rights #and vote in november 2024 so we don't have to survive another 4 years under trump #because many of us--the most vulnerable of us--won't survive. and many many more will suffer #vote to protect yourself and your neighbors. vote to protect those who most need protection. #vote because it is the right thing to do #vote out of kindness #and vote out of spite--because billionaires are spending insane amounts of money to prevent you from voting #so tell them to get fucked and vote anyway #do it out of spite and do it out of heart and do it out of rage and do it out of love #show up #us politics

[qqueenofhades]

Thoughts and prayers to all the pundits who really wanted the "Black voters don't like Biden," "Democrats don't like Biden," "the Democrats are divided/won't have their coalition," "Biden is historically unpopular for an incumbent," and all the other narratives to keep going all the way to the election. Oop.

#politics for ts #now mind you i am sure they will keep trying #but yeah maybe also they're full of shit #(for context biden just whooped the shit out of the SC dem primary with 97% of the vote and 13% more black voters than 2020) #(be interesting to see how much trump pulls in a couple weeks) #(also be nice if the Very Smart Pundits could shut up a few days seeing as once more They Were Super Wrong)

[lobotomyladylives]

not trying to get involved in voting/abstaining from voting disk horse as I really don't know what the fuck I'm gonna do but it's wild that anyone is surprised that so many ppl are tapping out on the presidential election when our choices are: the pedophilic dementia patient now known as genocide joe, or the wildly unpredictable racist rapist narcissistic nationalist billionaire. HOW are these our only choices. it's such a fucking outrage & whoever wins I hope someone pulls on oswald

#like. ok yes bidens domestic policies will be less harmful than trumps. but he is quite literally funding a literal genocide rn #& if ppl hold their nose to vote for him anyways the dems will continue to think they can throw the worst candidates possible & still rely #on their voter base to just go for ''the lesser of two evils.'' like at a certain point when do we just start shooting them #i know i sound like one of those firebomb a walmart ppl who do not in fact go out & firebomb a walmart but GOD #my post

[stirdrawsandreblaws]

screaming crying coughing up blood every time i have to fucking defend genocide joe bc ppl wanna lie and say he isn't responsible for most of the best domestic policy we've seen in decades

his foreign policy is dogshit, yes, and he should rightly be called on it and primaried out, but we can criticize the shit he's actually done wrong instead of making shit up about him ~not doing anything good~

#thinking about the keystone pipeline shutdown and how fully 2/3 of the people he appointed to legislative systems were women and poc #thinking about student debt forgiveness and rejoining the paris climate accord and unfucking some of the extreme gerrymandering #and improving COVID protections (that were roundly thrown out by corporate america which is its own concern yes but like. he's not a king) #'biden didn't fix' blah blah blah he's not a fucking dictator he can't actually do whatever he wants. the only thing the GOP lets slide #is the aforementioned dogshit foreign policy bc fuck knows every last republican loves bombing the middle east and supporting israel #(remember that the evangelical xtian death cult requires israel for the apocalypse!! that is a very real fucking thing these ppl strive for #(and evangelicals support the GOP for this very fucking reason. you cannot forget this. we are all fighting for all our goddamn lives rn) #stirring up trouble #i hate biden i hate his foreign policy i hate how ok he is with fascism i hate most of his pre-presidential voting record BUT #i will not let that hate blind me to the reality that he is Objectively Miles Ahead Of Any Fucking Republican Alternative #i still want his ass primaried out of the presidential race so hard he physically blacks out upon seeing the polling results tho #and fuck. at least the dem side seems to have a lot of good progressive downballot candidates this time around already.

[despazito]

Soul Eater taking place in the USA is weird until you think about how shinigami did essentially install himself as the world police and keeps a hitlist of "evil doers" deemed acceptable for his pupils to go assassinate to maintain his considerable hegemonic world order. The witches had a point there.

#i support their sexy jihad #that tag saying DTK would vote pete buttegieg is so right he would #DTK is one of those coastal elite dem children but thankfully does turn out to want systemic change #good for him

[afurioushawk]

McCarthy caved and went crawling on his knees to the Democrats to pass a 45-day stopgap to keep the government open for now

Expect Gaetz to raise the motion to vacate ASAP lmao

#i have to admit #i didn't think mccarthy would cave that fast #but he undoubtedly cares more about keeping his speakership #than anything else #let's see what he sold the dems #in the hopes they don't vote him out #the real house reps of dc

[im-a-goat-in-disguise]

Who else looking forward to the Tories getting their dick smashed into a incoming train when the 2024 election rolls around

#UK and USA elections lining up like the planets #at least here labour are. basically guaranteed a win #itd take some SIGNIFICANT suicidal politics to lose it at this point i think #the recent by-elections (pretty much Tory safe seats - labour won both by good margins) #show that Nobody wants even a month more of conservatives #like. how far will sunak and co go to try get a single vote more? #half expecting them to start offering BJs to random members of the public in the vain hope of securing more seats than the SNP #if current trends hold #there's a chance. small. but a chance. that the conservatives dont even get enough seats to be the main opposition party #like. SNP or lib dem might be there instead #which is. just fucking wild. #throwing your chances down the shitter so hard that you dont even get to be the main opponent next round #cant imagine what labour (sorta pro-devolution) and SNP (pro-devolution) could get up to #its going to be SOOOO FUNNY #whos ready to join me. it's like a year in advance but. 10pm GMT. When the exit polls come out #it might be a bigger labour win than 1997. its so atrociously lopsided right now #labour aren't sparkly clean but they're buckets better than 'homelessness is a lifestyle choice' #if your reading this from a conservative 'safe' seat #you are actually in a swing seat. jsyk. vote anything but conservative in the election and hope

[actuallyyangxiaolong]

If you look at what happened in Tennessee yesterday and still say "actually both parties are the same and voting is useless and democrats do nothing" you are at best an absolute FUCKING idiot and at worst are actively helping the neo confederate white supremacists who want to control the government and ensure that women and minorities have no part in it and no rights

#those legislators were voted out by a 2/3 majority bc republicans have a supermajority there #some of those races were probably won by razor thin margins. some races in my state were won by a few dozen votes #if a few dozen more ppl showed up to vote in a few more districts there might have been more democrats #and thus no republican supermajority #bc democrats by and large dont vote for that shit. not a single dem in Tennessee voted to expel them #THAT is how voting works #the reason gerrymandering works is because it DILUTES YOUR VOTE #it can sometimes be overcome if people actually bother to show up and vote #which they wont do if all of these stupid fucking jackasses are sitting there telling them it wont do anything #i have no respect for these leftists who claim to care abt oppressed ppl and then do everything in their power to stop things that help ppl #white supremacists dont want you to vote either if you tell everyone voting is useless then you are HELPING THEM

[miamierre]

american elections are a nightmare

#LIKE THE HORRIBLE PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY ALWAYS COME OUT TO VOTE I HATE YOU DEMS #being a lib in this country is clown hours™.

[drbtinglecannon]

Hey just as a last minute tip, another important part of voting in the US midterms tomorrow is checking what, if any, ballot measures are gonna be on your state's docket.

Ballotpedia.org is a really helpful tool for listing that information all out (as well as just checking all kinds of past & current voting information), just go to the site, type in the search bar "[state] 2022 ballot measures" and scroll down a bit to see it'll list out any coming up as well as brief summaries of each measure. From there you can click on each to read more information on them

Some states have more than others going on, so be sure to check your state and make sure you know what to expect on your ballot

#politics #us politics #american politics #this is all working under the assumption for people who didnt do mail in/early voting. for everyone who did im sending you heart emojis #but yeah i strongly encourage voting for any & all dems running but also local/state politics affect things way sooner than fed politics do #so its imperative to keep an eye out for things like ballot measures & local elections

[hazel2468]

Okay so, this is me rambling.

But I am pretty damn frustrated about the whole “You NEED to vote look at what’s happening VOTE DEM!” and “Why the hell should I ever do anything for Dems ever again?” very opposite energy posts. Because I think that the answer lies in *fucking both attitudes*.

The simple answer to “why should I ever vote for Democrats again? They aren’t doing shit!” (which is a fucking VALID complaint and I’m right there with you) is that we exist in a 2 party system, and if you don’t vote for Democrats, the people who hate you will vote Republican. It’s that simple. It’s a sucky answer, it’s fucking awful. But you vote Dem not because you love everything they do or think they’re doing a good job, you vote for them because the other option is not voting and we end up with more Republicans. More Trumps. Because Conservatives in America have been rapidly going mask-off facist. They’re not even fucking hiding it anymore.

Now. The problem with liberals who respond to literally every fucking critique of Democrats with “Well you have to vote for them!” is that they don’t seem to understand that a lot of us do AND IT ISN’T SAVING US. We’re still about to fucking lose Roe v. Wade. And probably trans healthcare across the board (not like it’s not fucking impossible to get in most places already). And same-gender marriage. And disability rights. And basically every single advancement made to civil rights in the last like, 70 fucking years. There is a REAL frustration and anger with the Dems- politicians who say “vote for us because we have your interests at heart!” and then they don’t do jack-diddly-squat.

I’m not a fucking politician, or a political expert. I’m a social worker, with a job in disability advocacy. I see how this shit impacts people every damn day- it impacts ME every damn day. It impacts my co workers and friends and family and every damn person in this country. I’m fucking PISSED. And while I understand that yes, there is a lot of nuance to politics and stupid rules and the Dems not doing anything is at least in part (perhaps mostly in part) due to how the system was BUILT to fuck over anyone it deems less worthy, that doesn’t make me less mad. So yes, I’ll vote Dem. I’ll encourage other people to do the same. But can we stop fucking responding to actual FUCKING anger and outrage with “Vote Democrat!”??? We fucking KNOW. We KNOW we should vote Dem. We’ve BEEN voting Dem, and we’re still here. Because the system is so fucked up and designed to screw us over.

#politics #me rambling #yeah im not a political expert by any means #i just know that I'm angry #and I want something fucking DONE #like NOW #like YESTERDAY #we're about to lose bodily autonomy even more than we already had #the right to privacy is going out the window #and im fucking PISSED #and it doesn't help to see a bunch of mostly white liberals #screaming about how we just need to vote dem #i am fucking voting dem #because they're not the party of openly queerphobic antisemities who say they want me dead #out loud #im voting dem and how the fuck is it helping? #we're allowed to be pissed and be loud about it

[barrowsteeth]

relieved they're starting to call the GA runoff election for warnock but jfc america, when will we learn?? it should not have been this close.

But congrats to the senator, and to all the people who worked their asses off to get out the vote. 💜💜

#us pol #ga runoff 2022 #and i don't mean to disparage all the people who worked hard for warnock #and to get out the vote #and had to deal with new jim crow laws #and long lines #and shortened voting times #dems should have come out in full force for warnock #and when i say dems #i mean white dems #we all know we're the problem in many states #and yet this happens again and again

[reallycoolsoup]

Y'all ever notice the people who make posts denouncing leftist for hating Biden and other democrats never actually have anything to say besides vote?

Like genuinely they never encourage any thinking beyond: well regardless of who the democrat candidate is the republican is worse

Like yeah no shit? Do you think blocking any conversations about how to improve the government besides voting is helping anyone?

#i just get tired of seeing posts saying shit like: this person is gonna make biden lose 2024 because they pointed out how he is ineffective #most leftists are already voting for the lesser of two evil dems #but as soon as we suggest we should make dems do better well apparently we're russian psyops

[coyoxxtl]

im not very knowledgeable about politics and i been wrong about a Lot in my life in regards to it but i don’t think it’s right to label criticism and anger towards the united states’ absolute joke of a left wing party as “fascist propaganda” like, i think that’s really fucking stupid

#we have had record voter turn out like. for every election since trump made people wake up a little #and we are Still in a full fascist swing like #im so sick of the Vote Choir at this point because CLEARLY we need MORE #yall are wasting Time Energy and Resources on the Voting Choir #and no im not some russian psyop or secret fascist because i dont forget the usa has been fascist since day one #and you Cannot vote fascism out of the united states #because its the foundation of this country. i promise that our centrist party isnt going to change that #anyway im just mad dont argue w me. i voted for biden and other dems ok that should satiate vote blue no matter who nerds. #i mean thats all we needed right? #txt

[carcinized]

sorry to talk politics but hi if you live in america listen up right now. when people say "war on democracy" or that we're losing democracy, that is literally what they mean. no figurative language. our government systems are rigged in favor of the few and rigged in the favor of the elite (senate's skewed representation, power of the supreme court, campaign funding, voter suppression, etc) and that is currently being taken advantage of more than ever before. if you want to help stop that, midterm elections are happening right now, meaning you can vote for your state's representatives in the house and senate (among other things). this is EXTREMEMLY IMPORTANT. in the last two years of biden's term if he had democratic support in both the house and senate he could fix so much. he's already promised to enshrine the right to abortion in law if he can (with a democratic majority in both houses of congress). besides that, you are voting to keep those who are actively trying to take away what's left of our democracy out of power. over 200 GOP candidates running right now are propogating The Big Lie. KEEP THEM OUT. if you want to see actual changes in laws for the better in the next two years, take whatever steps you need to to be prepared now. and if you're not yet registered but are eligible, here's a good first step in doing so.

#I HAVE SO MUCH I WANT TO SAY BUT I HAVE TO KEEP IT SHORT. #i live w a polisci major and a history major and Holy Shit its terrifying to hear them talk #the shit the GOP is doing? literally out of dictator rulebooks. please please please do everything you can to stop them #i dont want to sound all hopeless but honest to god if dems lose this election + 2024? things are going to get bad #please please please get out and vote #<3 #tobin talks

[maeamian]

I don't mean to come off as harsh or rude, but the fact that we beat the shitty dude by multiple millions of votes but he got to be president anyhow and make three supreme court nominations because Mitch made up some traditions on the fly to let him, maybe doesn't show that we didn't vote hard enough in 2016 so much as the institutions of the senate and electoral college structurally bias republicans and are fundamentally undemocratic and I think any conversation that blames voters for how they interact with that system completely misses the fact that the systems are failures and failing us and at minimum a voting based strategy needs to acknowledge that some people's votes just flat out don't count or at least count significantly less thanks to these systems

#Just like I've voted in practically every election my entire life #I did miss one that I view as having been crucial and unfortunate #but one was not the vote difference in that election so my lack of vote there even didn't technically turn it #And things do keep on getting worse in spite of that #and I feel like maybe it's okay to look at these two things and wonder in what way they are related #I'm not saying give up on voting or whatever but my votes just flat out count for way less as a Californian #So I'm not sure what they want me to do about that if voting is the only solution to any problem #Luckily it isn't and I've spent years on election related issues #tbh this is also the fault of the Democratic party who could've seen any or all of this coming. #literally 'the GOP wants to take control of the judiciary to repeal the later half of the 20th century' was common knowledge #among activists when I was in high school back in the early 00's #And probably longer too that's just when I came into possession of it #As has been pretty much everything else they've tried to do or succeeded in doing #Like they aren't doing it in the dark it's just that Civic Society requires elected Dems to feign ignorance #Or at least they seem to think it does #Like for fuck's sake leadership won't even unendorse the last anti-choice dem in congress #And regularly have said 'focus on abortion access is bad for us' #so forgive me if I'm not lining up on the 'we just need more democrats' parade when we also need better Democrats #I'm allowed to demand they at least have a pro-choice litmus test before I go all in on them in response to this #I'm telling you that 'look what voting got us' isn't a cry to give it up but a cry to build power in other ways too #Not mad at anyone but OP of the post this is obviously responding to #But genuinely unimpressed with being chided about voting at this fucking point in history #It's just that I gotta share one good senator and one useless senator with San Fransisco #While the same population out in the midwest gets literally thirty senators #Just can't see how I'm supposed to vote my way out of a system where the winner isn't the person with the most votes