• g0nz0li0@lemmy.world
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    “Taylor Swift is going to come out in the presidential election and she is going to mobilize her fans,” Kirk warned his viewers on Wednesday, adding, “And we’re going to be like, ‘Oh wow, where did all these young, female voters come from?’ We better have a plan for that.”

    Kirk acknowledging a) the party does not attempt to represent young women and b) the current plan is that they hopefully just don’t vote.

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      No, the current plan is not that “they hopefully just don’t vote.” The plan is to actively prevent them from voting through various forms of suppression. They’re not just sit around waiting to see what happens.

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        TBH, actively trying to suppress voters isn’t even the worst of it. The next step is making sure that it doesn’t even matter if they do.

        You know, like they already do. Source: Am in Ohio. There are already public statements from officials that they are trying to dilute/overrule/ignore the results of our vote to legalize abortion and weed. And that’s even outside things like gerrymandering.

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          That’s the whole point of their independent state legislature theory. They argue that the state legislature can simply declare their own election results if they don’t like the voters’ results and that nobody, not the executive nor the courts, can challenge them. They are literally arguing that we should dismantle democracy altogether and somehow people are still “bOtH sIdEs”-ing.

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            The point of The Great American Experiment was to use votes rather than bullets to select a leader.

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          It’s astonishing that their first thought is to oppose it by any means necessary when it passed with +14%.

          Like dude, you’re just self sabotaging yourself and your party. This is just going to happen again and again until you accept it.

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            Yup. Issue 1 was abortion, issue 2 was weed. Both passed with about 57% support. Weed was ever so slightly more popular than abortion, but only a tiny bit

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              I mean I know it was on the ballot, but did the republicans says they wanted to ignore that part too?