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Snake Plissken

(4,103 posts)
Wed Mar 18, 2020, 06:25 PM Mar 2020

The single most important thing you can do to ensure your well being is ...

VOTE

There is absolutely no excuse for eligible voters not to vote, no matter what your reason for not voting is, if you don't vote things can get worse, and will get worse if you allow the likes of Trump and McConnell to continue making them worse.
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The single most important thing you can do to ensure your well being is ... (Original Post) Snake Plissken Mar 2020 OP
If we even have an election or are still a country by then. Jamastiene Mar 2020 #1
We don't have national elections. States control them. Funtatlaguy Mar 2020 #2
Yeah, and I live in a state that is corrupt beyond your wildest imagination. Jamastiene Mar 2020 #7
Rest easy; it's not some by that Trump can do very easily... EarthFirst Mar 2020 #4
My state is where most of the most corrupt ones come from. Jamastiene Mar 2020 #6
Ammo shelves are moving out fast as well! at140 Mar 2020 #5
No wash your hands, then vote, then wash your hands again. dem4decades Mar 2020 #3
Somehow we have to have vote by mail for the election WhiteTara Mar 2020 #8

Jamastiene

(38,187 posts)
1. If we even have an election or are still a country by then.
Wed Mar 18, 2020, 06:30 PM
Mar 2020

Remember, gun stores are now emptying out too and those fuckers are paranoid as fuck. Talk of any stimulus that involves sending checks to American citizens ALREADY has them screaming communism and socialism and angry. We might not even have a country by then with that many paranoids out for blood like they are. They are blood thirsty.

Trump is now calling himself a "wartime president" too. I wonder if he will allow an election in November.

Jamastiene

(38,187 posts)
7. Yeah, and I live in a state that is corrupt beyond your wildest imagination.
Wed Mar 18, 2020, 06:50 PM
Mar 2020

Most of Trump's nastiest and worst in his administration are tied to NC. NC was told, by the courts, that these gerrymandered districts were done "with surgical precision" to disenfranchise minority voters. I am in a district that was one of the districts that made no sense and was gerrymandered to hell and back. This new district literally has a few households in one county JUST to make the district predominantly Republican and has a different number now JUST to ensure we no longer have a Democrat to represent a largely Democratic area.

On top of that, my state is a state that wanted to make Christianity the OFFICIAL religion of this state. I'm not done. My state wanted to make a law that people have to use a bathroom based on what some jackass put on their birth certificate as their gender at birth and in this state that is not always a health professional. On top of that, my state is a state that had to RE DO the primaries because some asshole Republican (Harris) had his people go around and steal absentee ballots directly from households and then not turn them in. He got not even a slap on the wrist for that and they, the GOP, got to pick a new batch of candidates, mid-race.

Remember Blackwater? Yeah, they came from here. The guy who ran Blackwater has a sister who is in charge of education, nationwide, nowadays. Half of the top and most corrupt leaders of the GOP are from here. The worst of the worst of the Tea Party started and still flourishes here.

I don't have any faith in the election system in my state. The corruption is tied directly in so many ways to the Trump admin that I have even less faith in any election we have until all of that crap is fixed. I am not holding my breath waiting for ANY of it to be fixed. We are screwed. No matter how I vote, the GOP has it set up so that we will be screwed and they will keep their power. I despise them more than anyone can possibly imagine.

EarthFirst

(2,900 posts)
4. Rest easy; it's not some by that Trump can do very easily...
Wed Mar 18, 2020, 06:36 PM
Mar 2020

Your state BOE is tasked with setting; operating and maintaining elections in your state.

Jamastiene

(38,187 posts)
6. My state is where most of the most corrupt ones come from.
Wed Mar 18, 2020, 06:39 PM
Mar 2020

My state was cited as gerrymandering our districts "with surgical precision" to disenfranchise minority voters. I don't have faith in the NCBOE to do anything right or by the rules.

WhiteTara

(29,704 posts)
8. Somehow we have to have vote by mail for the election
Wed Mar 18, 2020, 11:19 PM
Mar 2020

according to everything I read, it will die down, flare-up, die down and flare-up again. That will hit right around election day. Big deal.

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