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Thanks for posting this in support, @lynn0908.bsky.social . Could you also provide alt-text for this image w/text? Makes it more accessible, and also more visible if searching Bluesky.

There are two in Florida next month that could make a HUGE difference

It's double, triple, quadruple edged. Out of respect to your post, I won't go into detail.

Well there’s a good chance there won’t be another election. You can’t discourage people from participating in something that doesn’t happen. Mocking isn’t appropriate but screaming might be.

I’ve said it a few times. Not that “it’s cute”. And not mockingly. But if people really don’t see that they’re setting it up so there won’t be a free vote in 2 years, they have their heads in the sand.

A few words from a stranger are going to keep you from voting against fascists? Maybe the words ain't the problem..

Wrong. People need to spring into action NOW. Don’t wait for an election.

Of course I did. But I also believe there will not be a vote in four years if we allow Trump and his Project 2025 to continue. We only have months to stop them, not years.

Very true. Elections and our vote are sacred. Our job is to not let it get to the point of no elections.

Well, ya see...the whole point of a coup is NOT TO GIVE DEMOCRACY BACK. sooo...

I'm going to vote and I'm going to demand a paper ballot because no one can hack analog.

I'm sure this young Hitler guy won't be so bad. We can vote him out in four years.

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I think not acknowledging that they've hacked our government & that the rules aren't the same is also dangerous. 36% sat this out b/c they couldn't/wouldn't see the extreme differences - we need to make it clear. Apathy is no longer an option if they value democracy even in the slightest.

They are doing it now and it does need to be fixed! They yelled it’s rigged it’s rigged and now nothing because they rigged it!! They destroyed Kamala votes!

Who's duty is it to keep voters informed ? Who's duty is it to ensure the candidates positions are reflected by their constituency ?

now where is it?" even more at risk for him to lose this past one, so enter elon. their hold on the voting scheme is why they're so cocky and manic now. we need to launch a campaign to revert to paper ballots; it may be too late for next year, but we should start now. hi tech risks our democracy!

Please stop talking about the risk there won’t be another election as if it was non-existent.

Thank you! 👏 We engage in hopeless cynicism at our own peril. The mindset should be not IF but WHEN we have elections. Presupposing that elections won't happen is defeatist. Resolving to make sure our voices are heard at the ballot box is the best defense of our democracy we can have.

Yes, please give lots of publicity to all elections!! If we can flip one seat at a time, we can get these mindless people who are following Putin out of office!! One seat at a time! We can do it! 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲

How does questioning if there will be another election discourage people from voting when the time comes? If people say, “all elections are rigged,” I get how that would be discouraging, but not about being concerned if elections are even in our future.

It’s meant to shock people into the gravity of the situation, not to discourage people from voting

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It’s not mocking. It’s just reality. Dictators and theocratic regimes don’t leave power through elections. They just don’t. Russia has elections and everyone knows that Putin will win in a landslide. Democracies are not defined by having elections. They are defined by the people they represent.

Seriously? That is not discouraging anything. You don’t need to die on every hill, you lose validity and I’m a follower

Exactly. Don't comply in advance. Fight for free and fair elections

I understand what you’re saying, AG. But we have to look at the real possibility of them not happening if they find an excuse for imposing martial law or being subverted by Leon’s AI and Dodgy Bois! We can’t sugar coat or hide the fact that these are real possibilities! But not reasons to give up!

Waking up to the fact that an authoritarian regime that will not permit free elections is being installed is not defeatism. It's woke. Act accordingly.

I’m guilty of this. I’ve actually been amazed at people who still had hope but you’re absolutely right and I won’t do it again.

Or it motivates people to get more involved, engaged, and active to make sure there will be fair and free elections. Let’s not take anything for granted. We also need to start suing in every state to allow mail-in votes to start counting before Election Day and to allow counting past Election Day

It's also just not realistic that we aren't going to have elections so it's an exercise in pointless outrage. Plenty of other things to spend your energy being outraged about, pace yourselves.

It’s like giving up, what’s the use?

Instead we should focus on stopping him from stealing those elections

Can’t vote unless we force them to hold an election. At this point I don’t think they plan to.

It’s not “mocking”—that’s a strawman. The problem with the “just wait for the midterms” approach is that it misreads the situation. The Trump Junta is clearly not behaving as if it plans to ever face the voters again. Recognizing that fact is the first step to building an effective counter-strategy.

There's tons of anger out here over the 2024 election. Between suppression tactics and elon's likely interference many of us don't think future elections are going to matter until we figure out how to avoid these issues and no one will talk about it. No one is investigating what went wrong.

Please stop promoting the delusion that this can be fixed via democratic processes when those same processes are being dismantled right now. You sit on your ass & wait for the midterms - it’ll be too late.

Grab Elon’s little twink squad first so they can say how they helped him make the orange turd win

In fact, we might consider calling more elections if we had more people waking up from their Trump wet dream.

50/50 though

That’s as nutty as MAGA. Countless things have to transpire before that’s even a concern.

Correct

I’m angry too!

I didn't realize you found concrete evidence Elon fixed the voting machines, feel free to share your 'evidence' with the rest of the world, maybe even take them to court if you have the goods. Makes you wonder why he didn't fix the rest of the congressional races to elect more GOP congressman.

Count me as a fool then because I think the “2024 election was stolen” claims are as baseless as the “2020 election was stolen” claims were. I am also foolish enough to believe that a democracy with 340M people can get the government most of us want if we work for it and vote.

We need to take action and throw out the computerized voting systems. Paper ballots, hand counted. I don’t care how long it takes to count.

This 💯

No elections vaporizes the financial system. The $35Trillion credit line gets called with no elections!

Two sides to that because I've heard people I know saying well we only have xxxx days left. No! Get off your ass and do something now.

We have elections coming up this year that could change the balance of power in the House so 🖕🏻 to those people and keep voting!!!

Republican voter suppression is doing that

Fantastic reminder, but also pushes people away. This is the same message as “trust Garland” Vibes are not the fundamental issue. And the truth is Trump will at least try to alter (and/or has) elections. Speaking truthfully is what will rally people. Pretending it’s fine is what got us here

‪BACK AT IT, AMERICA!‬‪ Let's Apply Lessons Learned!‬ ‪Here In #Virginia, 2025 #Elections:‬ ‪- Governor‬ ‪- Lt Governor‬ ‪- Attorney General‬ - State Senate ‪- House of Delegates‬ ‪Make Virginia TOTALLY BLUE Again! ‬ ‪Expect, "UNDUE ATTENTION", to All these races!‬ ‪One Step At A Time!‬ 🇺🇸 ⚖️🗽

The more time trump, has the worse its going to be

Good point, I will try to be less vocal in my pessimism

I'm still not convinced that the last election was not tampered with bigly.

Oh, we'll be able to vote, all right ...

I keep trying to shout this point about voter suppression/rejected ballots. This is nothing new. With voter id, long lines, etc., we KNEW what they were up to for a while. Did it make a difference in 2024? I'd like to see some reliable reporting on it.

@mrs-frazzled.bsky.social has a great piece on how the talk of future elections not happening is just voter suppression by ourselves, and how everyone needs to stop. Love her.

Lots of people giving up before the fight even begins. C’mon, that’s not who we are!

‘Divide and conquer’ has always been their tactic.

youtu.be/7xkgoRkC3pc?...

He has officially hijacked the USPS which means that he can shred ballots as they come in

Thank you! It’s hard not to be pessimistic and sometimes it feels futile but reminders to keep fighting are good!

People absolutely should vote. Absolutely. I'm just saying don't wait until then to fight. And be prepared to fight when your votes miraculously don't get counted properly.

Gallows humor is mighty enticing these days.

𝑩𝒚 2026, 𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒃𝒆 𝒎𝒆𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒔…𝒂𝒔 𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒔 𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒎𝒑 𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒑𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒓𝒆𝒗𝒐𝒍𝒕 𝑵𝑶𝑾!

It’s more than just that. The DNCs involvement with Israel is a symptom of a party full of corporate & political bribery, nepotism, weak leadership, and disconnected goals from its voters. The leader told them to “play dead” while teens raid our treasury, healthcare gets cut, and corporations get $

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Also shows how little people know about how elections are run. They are all 'local'! State, county, district. If you're worried about elections, go to your local election commission/board. State election laws are available on the web.

My timeline was on point, some people are fighting really hard for us to have elections!

In addition, some things are just better left unsaid.

You are so right. 🫡

Nobody is discouraging and nobody is mocking. It's frustration at the ineptitude of our leaders

File under: Do not obey in advance

That will never happen with me. I'll walk over glass. I don't care if Republicans rigg elections. I will be a democratic thorn on their side.

You're right, of course, but what do we do about this? therecord.media/hegseth-orde...

Maybe get off your soapbox and stop telling people what to do or what they can say. You sound like a… wait a minute… 😳

I agree, but since it's a very possible situation, we need to prepare

Look up SAVE Act the regime is planning, it would take away women's right to vote, if our name is different than our birth certificate. Sounds unbelievable right? But voting to take away children's & elderly people's health insurance sounds unbelievable, yet here we are. Look up project 2025

The regime is already dismantling the agency that ensures election integrity

T's words were something like; I don't need your votes. Elon has a secret. There won't need to be another election. Then we learn of all the millions of votes thrown out. Now we know about elon's hackers

1001%!!!

Just because we don't have proof doesn't mean that it wasn't, nor that polls carry any accuracy. No one seems to be investigating.

Yes, and the password was leaked for the voting machines. The states where dems won Senate, but lost presidential are extremely suspicious. Do y'all really think musk didn't touch the voting machines? Aoc even asked genuinely who's voting for her & tr ump?

We need to question why. I suspect we will find we slept while many states legislated to give themselves the power to do so. I know they were hard at work at it. My point is that starting with the conclusion is not who we are…it’s who they are.

There were 100 bomb threats

I am 100% aware of this already.

It would have been better if this was rigged. But it wasn't, which means that a majority of voters really wanted this. It's shocking.

Election forensics uses data analytics & stats to determine if election results are statistically normal or abnormal, which can indicate electoral fraud. No recounts done on the presidential race & the few audits done were insufficient. @electiontrutha.bsky.social @smartelections.bsky.social

Yea, there will be more elections, we haven't lost this democracy yet. Are you in it to win it? Or still don't know whose side you are on.?

The message behind comments like that should be understood as ‘things aren’t normal’. Something Congressional Democrats don’t even seem to grasp.