Thinking of not voting? It’s music to Trump’s ears.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/10/black-voters-2024-biden-trump/
Thinking of not voting? It’s music to Trump’s ears.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/10/black-voters-2024-biden-trump/
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I really don’t get the point of it. I understand single issue voters but if not voting for one guy means the other guy gets in and makes your single issue even worse… how does that help you?
that’s why this conflict is playing right into our adversaries hands.. there’s a bigger picture to all of this.. cut the head of the snake off at the source.. which is the axis of evil 👹 Russia Iran China etc.. Trump is bad for the western world and America as a whole and they want him in power for that reason…
It’s going to be hard to stand-up and fight against the actions of a Trump govt that impacts those who didn’t vote ….
i can’t fathom sitting out a presidential election, for any reason.
Honestly baffles me how anyone could sit on the sidelines during such pivotal elections. If you don’t vote, you’re handing power to those who might not have your best interests at heart
The left spends a lot of time, drop-jawed at the stupidity coming these days from the right. No doubt, the dumbfuckery from Republicans is staggering, and either these people are trying to defend the indefensible (stupidity being the last resort) or they are actually that fucking dumb.
But the grumblings from the left about bailing on Biden just show there are many fucking idiots on the left… maybe not as many, but thanks to the electoral college, it doesn’t take many.
So Fuck Off Michael Rappaport and all these the other morons that have had their feelings hurt by Biden. There are *degrees* of evil and awfulness, nay, orders of magnitude of difference in evil and awfulness…. and twiddling your thumbs in the face of true hatred and evil is the height of idiocy.
I live in California… I’m still gonna be voting.
50/50 this could be the last elections we’ll have, so not voting to teach Dems a lesson is going to backfire.
Headlines like this are so overdone. Just say “that’s what Trump wants”. keep the message simple
Yup, you protesters are asking for Trump, and if you are successful you will get Trump, fascism, and everyone in Gaza killed.
Voter suppression has been a cornerstone of conservatism for almost 50 years.
>“I don’t want everybody to vote… As a matter of fact, our leverage in the election quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.”
– [Paul Weyrich – “I don’t want everybody to vote”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GBAsFwPglw)
Remember, if you have common sense and don’t appreciate Nazi extremism, it’s important to vote for Joe Biden this November.
We voted this week and dropped off our ballot. No polling sites in Oregon!
Literally how Trump won in the first place: people having sufficient distaste for Clinton to stay home. There’s plenty of reasons to dislike Biden, but the alternative is so much worse.
2024, like 2020 was, is an important time to vote. No one should stay home. Also no one should vote for Trump.
i’ve said this before, I’m a former Republican that will be voting for Biden. I’m not happy with everything he does, but a Trump presidency will be worse in my opinion. And I am in the demographic that is least likely to be affected by a Trump presidency. I worry about other people who will be.
I understand a lot of Americans are dumb, but surely they aren’t this dumb?
Kidding, they’re dumb as rocks. Good luck with two more maga Supreme Court justices.
Idiots.
>Music to trumps ears
TFG doesn’t even like music, wrong metaphor.
I you don’t vote, you care nothing about your country, or the direction it will go under new leadership. Your vote isn’t just for you, your vote is for the continuance of a democratic republic.
“I don’t like either of them, so I’m not going to vote!” – is the stupidest thing I’ve heard people say. If you don’t vote for someone, go vote against them. Even though Nikki Haley has dropped from the race, her name was still on the Pennsylvania and Indiana primaries. She took 20% of the vote in Indiana and a good chunk of PA. She, also, beat Trump in Vermont and DC.
Go to your primaries and vote against the candidate you don’t want.
In the general election, Congressional ,state, county, and local elections will be on the ballot. While you may not want one of the presidential candidates, you need to vote for the rest of the people on the ballot.
If you don’t vote, you may as well move to a cave somewhere, because I can guarantee you won’t like the next 2 – 4 years.
A protest vote (or no vote) doesn’t punish Biden. It’s punishes everybody else. The sooner people stop wishing we had a better system and start making the best of the system we have, the sooner we can make the changes we want.
Vote and tell others to vote. Donate time and resources so we don’t have to deal with more chaos (see Arizona’s abortion law now coming into effect because of Donald’s SC appointments)
We aren’t marrying Biden. He’s a coworker. You don’t gotta like him but at least he takes criticism and gets work done. I’d rather work with him than the literal maniac.
Now is not the time to consider not voting. The rights and freedoms of every American citizen is hanging by a thread.
The primaries are the time to push alternative candidates. The general election is for voting for whoever aligns closest with your ideology.
Staying at home or voting for a person who has zero chance to win during the general only benefits whoever is furthest away from your ideology. Republican or Democrat.
Tell me. What lesson did Jill Stein teach democrats in 2016? What influence did her campaign have on this administration’s policy? FUCKING NONE
I always ask the following question to people who say they are sitting this election out:
“How does not voting for Biden translates into improved conditions for Palestinians? E.g if we prevent Biden from being re-elected what then we can realistically expect to unfold to the benefit of the people of Palestine as a result? Because the person who does I’d almost guaranteed to be even less considerate of Palestinian lives.”
I have yet to receive a good answer. It seems to be more about feeling sanctimonious rather than being rational.
I know a bunch of folks in the LGBTQ community encouraging people to vote third party or not at all to protest Biden. I want to shake them like a fucking maraca.