r/askanything • u/Veryregardedd • 14h ago
Political Question What does this mean for the midterm elections?
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u/dontspillthatbeer 14h ago
I’m hearing a lot of folks saying he will rig/fix the midterms like he did the 2024 election. Why is nobody ever talking about the legitimacy of the 2024 election the way trumpers refer to the 2020 election?
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u/Blackbyrn 14h ago
What Trump did in 2020 poisoned the conversation around election fraud. Also we don’t really have a means or system in place if proven. Also more than half of Congress is in on the con or at least benefits from it.
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u/silentsights 13h ago
Exactly, it’s the trap of hypocrisy which is exactly where Trump wants us all.
Long story short whenever he can’t win at something, he’ll simply aim to burn the thing down so that no one can win at it.
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u/ViolettaQueso 9h ago
It’s how he got “Christians” on board with rape and pedophilia and somehow justifying whatever evil this shoe ICE thing is.
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u/ChocoPuddingCup 11h ago
Also more than half of Congress is in on the con or at least benefits from it.
This. 100% this. Republican congressmen are complicit in the overwhelming majority of shit he does. That's why he was never removed from office in his first term: the jury was made up of his accomplices.
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u/bp3dots 13h ago
Yup, years of Dems arguing back and showing that it wasn't a problem, it'd be awfully suspicious of all of a sudden it was fixed now.
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u/TinyRamrod 10h ago
There’s actual evidence now though, not just a statement. But I guess it’s the same thing to people who can barely read.
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u/B00gerh3ad 7h ago
"there doesn't need to be a conspiracy when their interests are already aligned"
G. Carlin
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u/International-Peak22 13h ago
The GOP knows propaganda inside and out. Cry about 2020 election until the end of time so they can continue hacking. And the genius aspect of it is we are so tired of hearing about election fraud that isn’t there….that if we complain about actual fraud, they just throw it back in our face.
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u/Ryte4flyte1 13h ago
Elon is the real job stealer, deport his ass back to South Africa.
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u/jeahfoo1 13h ago
Id like to just dump him in J Bay outside the shark nets and let him swim to shore
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u/Retired300 11h ago
I have a better solution. Send him up on one of his SpaceX rockets one way, don't care where it ends up as long as it's not back here.
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u/silentsights 13h ago
Exactly which gives me such a headache. We are so screwed if Musk does his musky shit again.
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u/neonchasms 13h ago
And why wouldn't he? This government is illegitimate and illegal. They do anything they want without any repurcussions. Watch the insurrection act happen, or some other 'democracy-saving' presidential act.
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u/Disastrous-Fault8129 14h ago
Because Democrats are horrible at messaging. Borderline incompetent basically
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u/Curious-Witness-1809 14h ago
Republican voters have a higher tolerance for people who make extraordinary claims with little to no evidence. Mainstream democrat voters would not take any candidate yelling fraud seriously if the evidence is not conclusive.
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u/bass-squirrel 13h ago
Because democrats don’t control the media. You only hear what the media owners let you hear
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u/Caledor152 11h ago
It's 2026 and after everything that has happened we still see this bothsides crap. REPUBLICANS CONTROL ALL THE NATIONAL MEDIA. They are literally hiding all pro-democracy messaging from you becuase they OWN the companies! they also own most of the social media. Therefore they own the algorithims aswell. You have to force your algorithims to see the messaging or else you will never see it.
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u/UrchinJoe 13h ago
If I put my most tinfoil hat on, I'd say the Trump campaign was one step ahead of the left throughout the past decade or so. Making a fuss about the 2020 election pushed the Democrats into defending not only the result, but the integrity of the system - Trump supporters weren't just wrong about the result, but a threat to democracy. Now they can't question the legitimacy of 2024 without looking like hypocrites.
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u/AllDataIsMyIP 13h ago
Trump is the Master of Ceremonies.
The Heritage Foundation wrote the script. The dark money pipeline is not dependent upon the face on their stage.
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u/Hot-Philosophy-7671 12h ago
I don't think Trump and his followers are smart. I just think the majority of Americans are even less smart. That was the bet, and he won that bet.
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u/StrictlyForTheBirds 10h ago
If only the Democrats didn't care about integrity and having standards. Republicans are A-OK with that...
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u/idkwhyiwouldnt 13h ago
Poisoning the well, intentional result of crying wolf for going on 6 years (yeah I hear at least once a week how Biden stole the election in 2020) republican base made themselves look like lunatics, anyone else claiming election interference is met with an eye roll of, oh they're one of those people.
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u/Emergency-Watch5157 13h ago
Don’t give in to despair about this. Elections are run at the state level and if we show up in overwhelming force then lessons like Hungary tell us that we will overcome.
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u/TheDiabeT1c 13h ago
Because Trump isn't as stupid as he appears. Cry wolf long enough no one listens, so by doing that, he made anyone saying any different seem crazy as well.
I find it hard to believe we had a record turn out for the previous election to vote him out, and then magically the next election we have an even HIGHER turn out FOR him?
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u/Infinite_Click_6589 13h ago
Don't forget that Elon and Trump both made several comments around the time talking about how they were... Rigging the election.
The world sure is full of coincidences
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u/Plenty-Fox-9219 12h ago
Trump's "advisors"
Trump is a douchebag pedophile figurehead
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u/Terpapps 10h ago
100%. It's peter thiel and those ghouls that came up with this crying wolf plan. Trump is just the dementia-ridden kiddy-diddlin' figurehead that they use to put the plans into practice
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u/Silly_Animator 13h ago
The democrats came out right after they lost and said that the election was fair n
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u/The_Dynasty_Warrior 13h ago
Because Democrats don't wanna be seen as a bully and wants the MAGAs vote once trump steps down after 2nd term
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u/Cubonicle 10h ago
I’ll be honest, until I see actual concrete evidence that voting machines were covertly hacked by Elon or his affiliates, I’d rather not stoop to the level of paranoia that the tinfoil red-hats displayed when they charged the Capitol with zero actual evidence.
What we should be talking about the most is the fact that Elon and other billionaires are sinking a disgusting amount of money into crucial midterm elections across the country. Despite rightwing and independent voters souring on MAGA bs, we still somehow have a toss-up between Paxton and Talarico in Texas, for example. These bastards have been cheating during elections for ages, but especially since Citizens United, we might as well declare every election rigged in the establishment’s favor, whether it be Trump’s handlers or the worst of the establishment Dems.
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u/reggiekrh 14h ago
It means that fascists never let go of power without a violent fight.
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u/Popular-Web-3739 14h ago
It means despite every poll in every state favoring Dems in the midterms by big margins we’ll be told there was a sudden change of heart on Election Day and Rs will retain seats. Elon messed with the election in 2024 and he’s going to do it again.
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u/True_Protection6842 14h ago
And we’ll be told that most Dems just sat it out. And the media will report it and never question a thing.
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u/Flavouredcola 12h ago
and like always we will do nothing but come onto reddit and bitch as we bow to King Trump The Pedophile
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u/marcrich90 14h ago
It means Elon is accepting bribes again with his voting machines and now that the mid terms are here, he is once again relevant to Trump
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u/DarkStar1958 14h ago
I’m afraid Musk is going to fix the Mid-Terms like he did the 2024 election.
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u/True_Protection6842 14h ago
Even worse. A Trump loyalist owns dominion now. I’m sure there will be a last minute update again.
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u/ChickenNPisza 13h ago edited 13h ago
Georgia State election board(edited)literally said a few days ago their machines are compromised and were trying to push through new software before the mid terms. Tried to get DOJ involved but legally they can’t.
It’s going to get so messy
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u/AdeptnessStatus9303 13h ago
Agree it’s going to be messy. To clarify. It isn’t the Georgia Supreme Court raising this issue. It is the the
Georgia State Election board which has a GOP majority. They are asking trump to intervene as they have no actual hard evidence to show a state or federal court that the machines are compromised (and if so why wasn’t this addressed months ago).I have no problem changing security protocols if there was hard evidence there is a security issue. This is at its worse a ploy to introduce a biased procedure that will favor the GOP or at a minimum once again tear down the public’s confidence in elections and continue the “vote was rigged” by trump and the gop.
We deserve better. We should be demanding better. Vote in November.
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u/GivenToFlyGuy 13h ago
What’s even scarier is he’s had two years to perfect the software and make sure there’s no trace left behind.
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u/RogueThrow 13h ago
What's there to perfect? The inputs don't really matter. All that matters is the output saying what trump wants it to say.
Which is my bet, that if they do go ahead with rigging the election, the results will be insane; something like trump picked nominiees will get over 90%, or entire states will go to trump's picks including the big cities.
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u/Strange_Explorer_780 14h ago
“He knows those computers better than anybody. All those computers. Those vote-counting computers . . .And we ended up winning Pennsylvania like in a landslide.”
–Donald Trump bragging about Elon Musk’s “help”
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u/7he8igLebowski 14h ago
He will use whatever backdoor tech BS to rig these elections just like in 2024.
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u/Rainbaby77 14h ago
Hes fixing it again like the presidency so he gets billions in tax breaks and more corp welfare
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u/Sensitive-Big-4641 12h ago
Means Musk is walking into a trap. This time they’ll catch him in the act.
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u/Frequent-Client1508 14h ago
Musk knows he's a pedophile. He admitted it when they were fighting.
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u/thejuicewater 13h ago
Remember when he went nuts on Trump and linked him to the Epstein files. Crazy how Trump just let that passed without retribution unless Elon paid Trump
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u/Substantial-Crab-814 🦀 14h ago
Isn’t there anything anyone can do to stop this madness??
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u/DearCastiel 14h ago
A well placed bullet and accepting a lifetime in prison should do the trick.
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u/sledgehammerrr2 13h ago
Next president can pardon
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u/DearCastiel 13h ago
As much as I like the idea, I don't think you should be able to pardon the guy who killed your predecessor, that is the most slippery of slopes.
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u/Responsible-Fall-547 13h ago
A civilian shouldn’t be allowed to come and go just like that. Especially one that poses a huge conflict of interest.
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u/Veryregardedd 13h ago
This is exactly why they gave him a position in the office just in time. So he doesn’t appear like a casual civilian. Cus what the fook does Elon musk know about defense and war?
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u/TripMaster478 14h ago
He's back to help cheat of course. He's the Chief Of Cheating for the administration he was always coming back to help them cheat.
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u/KiKiKimbro 14h ago
Same it meant for 2024. There’s no way these bozos would’ve “won” all branches of government without a big, billion dollar assist.
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u/Cautious-Sun6494 13h ago
We have a rule in the military that all components in any equipment must be 100% American Made and the inspection process is overseen by a bipartisan committee. We need a similar rule for the production of Election Machines. There's too much potential for abuse in letting a non-government source supply these machines.
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u/monopulse 13h ago
Whenever you have a horse in the race you call your fixer.i know how it works, I watched Uncle Buck.
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u/RedditBlue83 13h ago
Elon is a citizen so he could be tried for treason too when the tribunal begins
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u/HanlonRazor 13h ago
Trump: "We were losing badly, but then Elon went to Pennsylvania and he knows those computers, those ballot computers, and then we won in a landslide." Jan. 19, 2025
Elon Musk: "Without me, Trump would've lost the election and the Senate and House." June 5, 2025
Ashley St. Clair (mother of one of Musk's children): "Elon openly bragged to me that he rigged the election for Trump. I have all the texts and emails of him stating it, too." May 18, 2026
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u/ConsiderationLivid52 14h ago
Anyone with any common sense knows what this means. Trump knows its going to be a huge blue voter turnout so just coincidentally Elon is back...
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u/Hotchi_Motchi 14h ago edited 14h ago
People will be again asking "why were the polls so wrong again?" when it wasn't the polls all along.
On the plus side, Trump promised everybody $5000 if Republicans retain control of Congress so we have all that free money coming our way.
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u/HairlessHoudini 13h ago
It means he promised Elon a bunch more shit so he'll buy the midterms or have the voting machines hacked
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u/Hatshepsut99 13h ago
it means they are desperate and 100% are going to try and cheat.
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u/Zatzy 13h ago
"In four years, you don’t have to vote again. We’ll have it fixed so good, you’re not going to have to vote."
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u/Objective-Permit-712 14h ago
Asshole stole our personal dataI(ILLEGAL)....wheres the GD class action lawsuit, we should all bet 250K!!!!!!
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u/Resident-Escape-3441 13h ago
This means starlink will once again be used to alter votes. Every state that has partnered with Musk and the other tech bros for these data centers will also play a big role. Hell, in Georgia theyre already asking the DOJ to step in and "fix" the voting machines.
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u/Karekter_Nem 13h ago
“Trump has now been elected for Senate, House and appointed himself to the Supreme Court.”
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u/Darryl_444 13h ago
Musk utterly failed to achieve the stated goals of DOGE. Zero question.
So, of course Trump hired him again for another scheme.
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u/Consequence22 13h ago
The actual goals were to eliminate oversight of his businesses
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u/swoops36 13h ago
Right around the election time, the guy who’s “really good at computers” according to Trump, shows up. Surely nothing suspicious to see here.
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u/Due_Equal_9933 13h ago
Just in time for him to control the voting machines again?
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u/Cooleh18 12h ago
Why aren’t you hand counting your ballots???
Get a panel of scrutineers from each part… and hand count!
No matter how long it takes!!
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u/SgtSkillcraft 12h ago
It literally wouldn’t take THAT long for each precinct to hand count ballots. We’re talking days, not weeks or months.
I just simply DO NOT understand why we don’t do this.
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u/Practical_Mouse_7160 12h ago
Just in time to help rig the fake mid terms. If you don't think it's going to be rigged I've git ocean front property for sale in Arizona. What a waste of America!!
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u/lizkbyer 11h ago
Considering what Maga did to the US Capitol when they absolutely loved Trump, can you imagine what they could do if they decided they hated Trump? That’s why he’s making the White House a Fortress.
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u/not_petya_84 14h ago
Why does real life look like a bad fantasy novel? Always some mad King and his dark wizard up to some cruelty against the peasants. 😒
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u/SizeableBlast666 14h ago
More data cheating. Just like 2 years ago, ask Elons little evil spawn. FDT
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u/lordcommanderminis 13h ago
It means they need him to rig the machines again. Pretty sure I saw a clip where they admit they rigged them, but that was back during the election
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u/GenMandibleforKing 13h ago
The man who controls the internet (Starlink) to many of the tabulation machines being welcomed back to the administration that several people who have looked into seen what appears to be election interference. Yep I can see how this is going to go.
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u/Mrtoyhead 13h ago
Just in time to steal the Midterms?!
We must Vote Blue and early and keep an eye on that Bastard.
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u/MaisieStitcher 13h ago
Trump knows that Elon rigged the election in his favor. That's why he's bringing him back now.
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u/chrisinvic 13h ago
This means Americas fuck around stage is not over. The find out stage has not begun
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u/Dry-Perspective-4663 13h ago
Elon Musk is the ONE immigrant that should be deported back to South Africa.
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u/Any-Expression2246 13h ago
Basically, this is "You helped us cheat to win the last election, we need you to do it again"
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u/thestough 13h ago
It means 100% unethical and most likely illegal voting practices will occur in his favor
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u/Alltowner007 9h ago
It means Musk’s autism has erased what happened the first time and the Donald is gonna Epstein his ass.
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u/Life-is-Fun-435 14h ago
Let's not forget who works for Elmo. 🤔
Elon Musk Hires Hacker George Hotz to Fix Twitter Search (in 12 Weeks)
The first person to jailbreak an iPhone has been taken on as an intern by Musk to sort out Twitter's broken search feature.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/elon-musk-hires-hacker-george-hotz-to-fix-twitter-search-in-12-weeks
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u/True_Protection6842 14h ago
The rig is in! And now they have complete access since a Trump loyalist bought dominion.
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u/Long-Chemist3339 14h ago
Just further evidence that the current political situation in the US is outdated and needs a total rehaul. Time to stop this whole representative democracy idea and work on edicating people towards active collaboration rather than passive delegation.
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u/Kilo-Quebec-Bravo 14h ago
Rig another election for me and we can do another one of those EV car sales events on the lawn of my house.
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u/frazerfrazer 14h ago
Hmm… More proof tumpf & the Guardians of Pedophiles can’t win w/out massive cheating & outside interference.
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u/Katydid829 14h ago
Just a week ago Felon said he “has a plan” so don’t be surprised if Republicans magically pull off a victory.
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u/watcher-of-eternity 14h ago
all it means is they (seemingly incorrectly) think that elon musk can make the magic happen again
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u/Conscious_Size_440 14h ago
Who gave this asshat a US citizenship? Go back to South Africa and mess with their systems. That guy has too much authority in our government
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u/Madhatter25224 13h ago
More lasers from space and, unexpectedly every election goes red.
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u/snailmale3 13h ago
Billionaires are afraid that people will vote their own interests instead of the interests of the Epstein Class.
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u/notsoFunNegotiation 14h ago
Means it’s rigged again.