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Leopards and faces (piefed.cdn.blahaj.zone)

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[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 34 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I feel like this could have been a Key and Peele sketch.

[–] peteypete420@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 weeks ago

Coulda have? Whatta mean..... o, huh I guess they have stopped making new episodes. Dam them and their growing and varied and awesome careers!

Sometimes at work when calling out peoples names, Ill toss the occasional A A Ron in there, gets em everytime. Nothing like making a room full of dmv customers laugh.

[–] Ungraded@lemmy.ml 27 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

There should also be one billionaire who just made another billion

[–] jaaake@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago

The problem with that is it becomes inspirational. So many of the people (who are actually paying attention and not just blindly voting for the party their community does) think of themselves as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago

But, but, no more income tax, and we were promised $5k, and, and, own the libs…

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago

It was either this or chaos under Ed Miliband.

[+] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world -17 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Christ, you all are trying really, really hard to push voters back into the Republicans' waiting arms.

The only thing Donald did not lie about was the immigration crackdowns. He lied about literally everything else, so yes, the vast majority of Republican voters last year did not support what's happening now.

What they voted for was a lower cost of living, same with the people who elected Democrats this week. If Democrats want to win next year, you will hop on the economic populist train and stop this stupid finger wagging.

[–] ILoveUnions@lemmy.world 17 points 4 weeks ago

That's hilarious. He made it very, very clear that he was lying constantly. The only way to ignore that was willful denial of reality. His promises were meaningless slop. And they should've known that. There is no excuse, he was already president once.

[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 8 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Very few people are actually swing voters. Most people are born into a party and vote for that party their whole life. The idea of deciding who to vote for based on the issues is as foreign a concept to them as deciding which religion they like the best and joining it.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world -2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

Not when your grocery bills, rent, and everything else have tripled in just a few years. (But not your wages, of course.)

That creates a lot of swing voters, and it's how Donald was able to build his coalition in 2024. Harris' policy position on it was "I won't change anything."

[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

People forget that turnout is a thing. To win an election you don’t have to convert the other party’s voters to your side, you just have to convince them to stay home when your voters are turning out to vote.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world -3 points 4 weeks ago

Harris did an excellent job of that too, with the whole 'I wouldn't change a thing' messaging, because of course Genocide Joe's ego is the most important consideration when fascism's on the ballot.

[–] balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

You keep repeating this quote but you're either misinformed or lying about the context. I'm not saying what she said had good optics, I am saying what she said isn't what you're claiming.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world -1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

She said exactly that, when asked what she would change: "Nothing comes to mind."

Dumbest politician ever.

[–] balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

The question was framed in such a way to try to get her to shit on Biden.

[–] kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago

Which she should have done, but she had more allegiance to the party and its billionaire donors than she did to the working class.

[–] fin@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 weeks ago

Replacing Trump with something else is the first thing to do.

[+] verdantbanana@lemmy.world -34 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

voting is rigged so no one technically gets the day they voted for except the ones owning the voting machines

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 44 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

If the machines are rigged in favor of one candidate, then the people who actually voted for that candidate still do get what they voted for. But the voting population as a whole doesn't.

[–] tornavish@lemmy.cafe 17 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Until that is a proven fact, we need to show up and vote. Speculation isn’t fact, and neither is numerology.

[–] vzqq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

You could just vote with paper and actually count. You don’t have to use machines owned by lobbying multibillionaires.

[–] Soulg@ani.social 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Ok and what do you propose about people who will lie about their count because there's always going to be that shit

[–] vzqq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

You count the votes in public in front of representatives of all parties?

We’ve been doing this shit for literal millennia, sometimes side by side with people you were fighting just a few weeks before. It’s not fucking rocket science. My country will happily send observers and instructors if you need help figuring this democracy shit out. So will pretty much any other country in the UN.

You guys need to get this shit sorted, pronto.

[–] tornavish@lemmy.cafe -3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Pedantic

[–] vzqq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

It’s not pedantic to insist that your democracy is predicated upon a simple and easy to audit mechanism. In fact, it’s essential.

It’s how many advanced democracies do it. Electronic voting is just the illusion of modernity.

[–] tornavish@lemmy.cafe 4 points 4 weeks ago

Pedantic to mention it because “showing up” can be a term for “doing it” and doesn’t literally mean a physical presence at a voting boot.

[–] verdantbanana@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

who did own the machines

Dominion Voting Systems Corporation was a North American[2] company that produced and sold electronic voting hardware and software, including voting machines and tabulators, in Canada and the United States.[3] In 2025, Scott Leiendecker purchased the company under a new company called Liberty Vote.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_Voting_Systems

who now own the machines

Dominion Voting Systems has been sold to Liberty Vote.

https://www.npr.org/2025/10/11/nx-s1-5570868/analyzing-dominion-voting-systems-sale-to-firm-run-by-ex-republican-elections-official

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My Fellow Americans,

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I have spent my life working to strengthen America's elections. That commitment began years ago, in the aftermath of the 2000 election, when I worked for the Missouri Secretary of State. Later, as Election Director in St. Louis, I led the effort to modernize outdated systems and rebuild public trust. Eventually, I founded an election technology company that today serves nearly one in four voters nationwide.

With Liberty Vote, we are building on that legacy. We are turning the page and beginning the vital work of restoring faith in American elections. While these changes will not happen overnight, Liberty Vote's mission is rooted in American values and committed to transparency, independent audits, and verifiable paper records.

Our purpose is simple: to ensure that America's elections are secure, fair, and honest.

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Founder and Chairman, Liberty Vote

https://libertyvote.com/

[–] tornavish@lemmy.cafe -1 points 4 weeks ago

I’m not reading that because you don’t understand my comments. The direction you are going with this is not at all the intended direction of the comment. You are changing the conversation into something else because you do Not comprehend.

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 11 points 4 weeks ago

Nooo it's not rigging it's "gerrymandering" and we weren't bribed to allow that it's "lobbying."