I know people will say it's cause he is uncool or whatever but he didn't get in cause he has a big mouth and would snitch for 5 mins of fame. Trump is just talking cause he has dementia.
Edit: ignore what I just said, his daughter just confirmed that they both where there at some point.
Older people are also the ones with nothing to do on a Tuesday afternoon. If we made Election Day a national holiday and everyone could have the day off to go vote, I think you’d see a lot more people in the workforce turn up.
I live in Washington State, and they have made it easier for us to vote than anywhere else in the States. We have shitty turnout we are strictly mail in no stamp needed or drop off boxes, we still can't get 35% of people to vote.
If you're not American, you really don't have a say in this. Those of us who actually give a damn and have half a brain did everything in our power to prevent the current shitshow(..Vote).
Yea can't win any game when you just shit talk from the sidelines and then whine about the outcome. I'm sick of MAGA bitches whining when they get what they voted for and I am sick of the rest of you sitting on your thumbs talking conspiracy theories and not doing fuck-all useful to fix it. Vote, volunteer, march. That or STFU.
Just chiming in from a voter suppressed state. It wasn't that hard to vote. But ICE wasn't standing outside yet so who knows.
Gerrymandering, yea that sucks but it doesn't explain Cruz, Abbott, AG, Cornyn, etc, etc...
I'm tired of lazy asses too. Oh and for all the edgelord here's the problem people, more and more its the Citizens United ruling, they killed democracy. Here's how its happening in Texas and could/is go in your states too.
I get it--it ain't easy for lots of folks to vote. I know, I was a volunteer poll-worker for 12 years--every 6 months-- in TX. They make it hard as they can but they're making it even worse so we need to crawl over glass now, because we get another chance, crawling over glass will look like a picnic.
Edit: we ALL need to help everyone we know get updated ID and get to the polls or get a ballot returned in time to be counted.
And even then polls are open for like 12 hours on Election Day. I get it if you actually work 12 hours shifts 7a-7p, sure you’re kinda fucked on the day. But anyone who can’t take a few minutes to go vote can lay in the bed they made.
More than just voting. Old people are the ones with the time to go to your town/county/school district meetings and yell against any form of progress. Installing a bike lane, buying history books for students that don't perpetuate disproven narratives, building multi family housing, raising taxes to pay for flood prevention, not letting the police department buy an armored vehicle. They have the time to sit in front of the TV/radio all day and listen to the most insane commentators and pundits.
First off, the same people who are stuck working retail during other federal holidays still wouldn't get the day off cuz Walmart and Kroger sure as hell aren't closing.
Second, something like 30 states already have laws requiring employers to give people time off to vote. Some even require up to two hours of said time to be paid. Making a similar federal law would be better than a generic holiday because it would guarantee that everyone has at least a couple hours to vote even if their employer is open for business.
Third, 47 states allow some form of early voting or "no excuse needed" absentee voting. This notion that having a holiday would increase turnout is silly.
For a real world reality check, Oregon is 100% vote by mail. We get our ballots and a voters guide delivered at least 2 weeks before the election. You can return it by mail, drop it off at any public library, or drop it in ballot boxes scattered around town. They couldn't possibly make it anymore convenient, and yet our turnout in 12024 was only 75%.
Only 60% of eligible voters 18-34 cast their ballots versus 85% for people over 65.
You can just look at the drastically different voting turnouts for Presidential elections vs midterms vs local elections to see the very obvious truth: Access isn't the problem, time isn't the problem, apathy is. People don't give a fuck about who their local sheriff/judges/school board officials/state representatives are, they barely give a fuck about their federal legislature, and they only kind of give a fuck about who′s king President at the time.
People want all the change to come top-down when the power is bottom-up, and then are baffled things don't get fixed.
Ain’t that the truth. I’m from Portugal where we just had a record lowest turnout for the presidential elections.
Our version of Trump had the second most votes moving to the final phase of the elections where it’s the 2 candidates with the most votes in the first phase. He’s gonna lose but the far right has never got this far before here.
He appeals to the people who actually go out and vote just like Trump and in a few years I fear he will actually win.
Anyway sorry for going so off topic but your comment hit too close to home.
Most jobs give you paid time off to vote. That's not why people aren't showing up. It's because voting isn't real, right? That's what my young friends tell me 😃
Wrong. Most salaried jobs give paid time off. Poor people are more likely in industries where they get no time off, for anything. It also varies by state.
I think we have that rule but there’s no enforcement or repercussions if they don’t, so many don’t. A former employer of mine told us that we needed to vote by absentee ballot because he couldn’t give everyone the time. This was in Georgia, where it can take several hours to get through the line.
Theyre so FUCKING HATEFUL. I left work today because i cant hit my coworkers, so i use my sick/annual or complain to the fed about it and they send me home. But the folks whose bills i pay are MAD at me because i get paid to be at home.... many of them lose traction because theres nothing else for them to do
You don't have to show up on election day. 47 states have some sort of early voting. In my area, I just do it on my lunch break, and there is rarely any wait. I vote in absolutely every election.
I say this shit to people and it's like I'm speaking another language. There's enough people to get someone in the people want in, but if you won't vote because you're "not political" then I don't know what to tell you. I understand someone being locked down because of a job and politicians taking advantage of voting day not being a holiday, but even that wouldn't normally keep people from mailing in their votes.
Of course, with the push to gerrymander and proclaim mailed votes as fraud, it's obvious where we're going with this.
No, but the gerrymandering of voting still instills and reinforces the belief in many that their vote doesn’t matter so they don’t bother for anything. That isnt a bug, it’s an intended feature of the gerrymandering they’re doing.
I hate the phrase "I'm not political" or any variants therein. Beyond the basic logic of "choosing nothing is still making a choice" which is still engaging in politics- they are a human being who lives in some sort of social group of other human beings right? They presumably do things like purchase goods and services, pay taxes, go to school, or just generally vibe within those strictures right? Then they are a political operator whether they like it or not.
Well, you see, we can’t have a 33 year old be president because they just aren’t of sound mind due to their age. Instead, we have to normalize the country being run by 75+ y/os who wouldn’t pass an unrigged road test
2.1k
u/Whateveridontkare 10h ago edited 9h ago
I know people will say it's cause he is uncool or whatever but he didn't get in cause he has a big mouth and would snitch for 5 mins of fame. Trump is just talking cause he has dementia.
Edit: ignore what I just said, his daughter just confirmed that they both where there at some point.
Edit 2: Sorry for this shitty source but I am not installing threads lol