The smart thing is to vote early and avoid the ruckus the stupider people will inevitably create around polling places on November 5.
See vote.gov for details
If you have the opportunity, vote-by-mail is genuinely awesome also. I qualify in my state because I'm chronically ill, and it's one of the few silver linings. I get a ballot in the mail every time an election happens like clockwork, I have time to do my research and it's significantly harder to forget.
In California you no longer need to apply for vote-by-mail, they mail a ballot to everyone and you can either mail it back, no stamp needed, or drop it in any ballot box, or take it to any polling place on the day to hand it to a person.
It's so much better to be able to sit there at a computer or on your phone, looking up the candidates for the smaller offices and marking them as you go.
And you can get phone notifications for when your ballot is received and counted.
This is automatic in WA state, and I absolutely love it. Never missed a local or federal election.
During covid my state allowed anyone to sign up for permanent mail in voting ans I love it. Wish every state had it. It’s so convienent.
It's also a hell of a lot more convenient to fill out a ballot at your kitchen table. You can look up all those downballot no-names you have never heard of.
This is actually one of the reasons they are against mail in or drop off ballots. Educated voters scare the shit out of them.
Remember remember the 5th of November. Gunpowder treason and plot.
Sounds about right for ol Orangeman
Remember, remember this fifth of November
The insurrection, incitement, and plot.
I see no reason
That Donald Trump's treason
Should ever be forgot.
I know of no reason the gunpowder treason should ever be forgot
Nov 5th is election day.
Presumably he's trying to rile up demonstrations at polling places themselves.
Demonstration, intimidation, physically preventing anyone not wearing a MAGA hat from voting... Potato potato
NOVEMBER 5TH WILL BE ONE OF THE DAYS IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICA!
FEBRUARY 30TH WILL NOT BE!
AND FEBRUARY 29TH IS THIS YEAR BUT NOT THE NEXT OR THE ONE AFTER THAT UNTIL THE NEXT ELECTION YEAR
Maybe not next year but there was one year, in one country. https://www.timeanddate.com/date/february-30.html
Is Trump on Twitter again?
He's waiting for the 6 month mandatory period to expire, when he will dump ihs DJT stock and make an absolute killing. Maybe finally become an actual billionaire.
Then he will be back on shitter full time. Payoff for fElon will be more users on his site, while Truth Social folds.
Shut the fuck up. That kind of language is how Stephen Fry gets killed.
Don't worry, he'll just have to do some boring fundraiser and in the meantime he'll have the highest ratings.
Even more of a coincidence is that the recent UK general election was held on 4th July!
When he was tweeting for his followers to amass and how it was going to get "wild" (from memory I think that's what he said) on January 6th long in advance I was freaked out but everyone said that was not a big deal.
I still doubt anyone will see this as a big deal the second time :/
YOuRe bEiNg AlArMisT!
D for Dementia
That's good enough for me!
Well if there's no consequences, he's gonna do it again. Every parent to a toddler knows this.
I think he needs a loooong timeout.
The FBI do not care about you at all.
They're too busy shutting down Torrent sites for their corporate owners.
New Zealand citizen Kim Dotcom has entered the chat.
The FBI gives a shit because Trump has threatened to overhaul their whole dept.
Holy shit!! He said something that I actually agree with. I didn't think that would ever happen.
VOTE!!!!! Volunteer to give rides to those that wouldn't be able to vote without it. Anything you can do, it will make a difference.
I mean yea? It's election day for an election that I think both sides consider pretty important. Granted, that's a bit of hyperbole, but this is a far cry from a call to violence. Harris could say the exact same thing, in fact she's likely has said something similar.
Saying this is a threat isn't just an overreaction, it's downright embarrassing. This is the kind of crap the right shares to try and paint Dems as weak, thin-skinned, idiots.
Trump says so much awful shit that warrants this reaction, but not EVERYTHING does FFS.
Get ready for armed dip shits at polling stations across America
Itll be the most relieving day since we'll finally be rid of his sorry ass
As much as I want to believe you, I don’t think we’ll be rid of him till he shuffles off the mortal coil. His cult is too large and too loud.
There’s no way the counting will be done that day. I expect it to take a week before the results are clear but still several recounts
Finally. The brits burned down the White House, it's about time they get some retaliation. And he may be immune in the US, but not in the UK, so we could solve two problems at the same time.
Didn't they do that in 1812?
- And no, we haven't forgotten about it.
Them: 😴
Oh shit I haven’t seen one of her posts in a while. She’s fucking hilarious
Yeah that will serve them for jacking up those tea prices!
Remember, remember the fifth... what?
(mumble mumble)
But it throws the whole thing off, there's no rhyming!
(mumble mumble)
Oh come on, they can't be that dense!Remember, remember november the fifth... no, it doesn't work at all!
(mumble)
From the colonies? Oh, right.Blue No Matter Who: Vote like you life depends on it our whole entire world will die without a dem vote. Trump: November 5th (American election day) is the most pivotal OP: OMG TRUMP IS A TERRORIST, be very afraid!
This is reductionist, and ignoring the fact that trump is indeed, a domestic terrorist, regardless of whether or not the media has the balls to label him as such.
He has instigated an attempted coup, that failed, but only because they weren't prepared or organized, not for lack of actually performing the coup.
And Nov 5th is the date Guy Fawkes attempted to blow up the English parliament, so I think the OP has reason to post the similarities here.
Downplaying trump's ongoing domestic terrorism and violent rhetoric against his fellow Americans is just bolstering the fascist gameplan here.
The likes of Trump shows that America might be losing grip on it's position as a world leader. It won't though, if not only for the ridiculous military budget. But economically that place is increasingly moving towards Asia (particularly China). To remain at the top though, you need to have a stable political system. It doesn't even need to be democratic, but a coup (or civil war even) is definitely not a stable situation. So, Trump is definitely not "making America great again". It takes a lot to be actually thrown from the top, but other nations are slowly losing bits of respect or regard for America. Especially during the previous Trump term.
Idk what country you reside in, but mine (USA) was founded on being rogue, our independence was funded by robbing banks. The current system does not help, I haven’t met an actual Biden or Harris Supporter, it literally is only “fuck trump” support. You think you are making a stand against him, but the really sad part is for most USA people Biden failed so hard Trump is looking like a savior (I vote Chase Oliver). Meanwhile the media brainwashed you to call Americans terrorists for exercising their right to protest, literally the most American of rights 🦅🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸🦅
No, and screw you for being so reductionist.
Yes, Trump absolutely sucks, but so does Biden and Harris, and I voted for Biden last time around. I think the FUD around Trump is a quite overblown (he's dangerous, but not in a fascist sense, but in a stupid policy sense), and I refuse to join in. There's no way I'm voting for him, but I also disagree that he's a terrorist or that this election is any different from 2016 or 2020. He's not going to pass pretty much anything in Project 2025, and while the Supreme Court does lean strongly conservative, they're not going to let him get away with the worst of his plans, if he actually follows through (which I highly doubt he will).
If you live in a battleground state (this year, Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin), then do whatever strategic voting you need to do. But if you live anywhere else in the country, voting your conscience will have a much bigger impact even if your candidate only gets a few percent of the vote (or less). Just like in 2016 and 2020, both candidates royally suck, and we need to signal to both parties that neither option is acceptable. But one of those two will win, so that's why battleground state votes are so important, but the rest of the country is so incredibly unlikely to switch from how they've voted in the past that there's almost zero risk that your vote for an independent or third party candidate will change the outcome of the election in your area.
I'm not voting for either major party candidate because it's all but guaranteed that my state will vote the same way they have in the last 20+ years, with a >10% vote difference (probably closer to 20%). I find a lot more value in voting my conscience than throwing my vote away for a major party candidate when the outcome is all but decided for my state.
I'm Australian, and it's not overblown
He's already acknowledging he plans to go full dictatorship. He's already starting with the "crooked, leftist" stuff.
What he's saying and doing are literally parts of the dictator handbook and if he wins, there are severe consequences worldwide (a return to bigotry and empowerment of bullies)
The difference this time over last time is that losing the election ruins the rest of his life, so he has everything to gain by sowing chaos. If he can delay the count even, it's hugely beneficial for him.
You have politicians internationally, his ex staff, ex Australian pm and even a right wing ex attorney general from Australia warning of how dangerous he is.
Russia gains through his win too because if he wins, then Trump will stop helping Ukraine most likely, which is possibly why we're seeing so much manipulation online basically discouraging left wing people voting
There’s no way I’m voting for him, but I also disagree that he’s a terrorist or that this election is any different from 2016 or 2020. He’s not going to pass pretty much anything in Project 2025, and while the Supreme Court does lean strongly conservative, they’re not going to let him get away with the worst of his plans, if he actually follows through (which I highly doubt he will).
If you haven't, you should read some history books from the POV of people who lived through the early to late 1930's in Germany. Erik Larson does one from the POV of the US ambassador to Germany during that time, called "In the Garden of Beasts".
Almost word for word, (with the non-relevant bits swapped around), exactly what Germans were saying about Hitler during that time. Nobody thought Hitler would do or go as far as the media and "alarmists" were signalling, and anyone who called it what it was, a plan to force Germany into a war rather than pay down their debt from WWI, along with the attempted extinction of anyone they classified as "undesirables" (started with Jews, and moved on to many other groups. Replace "jew" with "trans" and the similarities are nearly impossible to ignore); was flagged as being hyperbolic and out of touch and exaggerating what the Nazi party and Hitler were "Really" trying to achieve, or what Chancellor Hindenburg could prevent him from doing to keep his power in check.
Obviously everyone who thought the threat wasn't real or being overblown was wrong. But it took years and years for them to be proven wrong. At every single step along the way, were groups of people saying "This time, this is the check to the Nazi/Hitler power struggle that will work and keep them in check".
There is absolutely no reason that couldn't happen again somewhere else. Assuming that there was something deeply wrong/broken with Germany that led to the rise of Nazism is the height of folly. It can, and is happening here, just as it's been attempted in other countries since WW2 ended.
Do I like the fact that my choices are:
- Vote for a democratic party that keeps shifting more and more towards the right/center without gaining anything progressive in response OR
- Vote for a literal wannabe dictator who can and will give rise to a fascist party in America and hand the most powerful military in the history of humanity over to a certifiable narcissistic wannabe dictator who has literally, not figuratively, done and said everything up to and including "I will be dictator on day one in the office", has never walked it back, and has never treated it as a joke, has already attempted one coup, refuses to believe in the democratic process (see disputing the 2020 election despite no proof) and has all the hallmarks of the next generation Hitler, including literally repeating parts of Hitler's speeches as a part of his speeches.
I'm not super happy with option A, because I would like to see more change here, but that doesn't mean I'm going to let option B happen.
Whether or not you believe that option B is a real threat, like everyone else in the world and most Americans currently believe, doesn't matter to me. You being wrong about this doesn't make me more right. And you are wrong about your views of trump and what he's trying to have happen. But it's unlikely any amount of evidence or historical context will convince you, so I'm not entirely sure why I'm typing this up, except in the hopes that someone else comes along and reads it and maybe it sways them towards acknowledging how great of a threat trump and the current republican party poses to the idea of a free and fair world.
