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We are in the worst place ever right now. We all know that.
Take a deep breath and get out and vote. Our Vote is Our Voice.
I remember a quote a while back..."It does not matter who you voted for it is that you voted." WRONG! It sure as hell matters who we vote for. I ask you all to vote for Biden and Harris. They are a path to the future.
We must fight hard for years to come to clean up the cesspool left by the GOP. If we elect Biden it is our collective duty to stay on the front lines and fight every day. No President can do this all on their own. Together we can.
The world is looking at us to correct this wrong. It will be a long row to hoe, yet we can do this. Trust me, there will be a lot of baby steps along the way. We will not do a zero to sixty in 30 seconds...anyone that tells you differently is a fool.
VOTE
vercetti2021
(10,150 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(149,297 posts)All that matters right now is next Tuesday and you voting for Biden/Harris...
WA-03 Democrat
(3,017 posts)NoRoadUntravelled
(2,626 posts)Well said and inspirational.
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)hurl
(931 posts)Exactly. Voting is just the beginning. No more sidelines. Those didn't work out well for us.
LakeArenal
(28,713 posts)They never let us down.
But we shouldnt get mad.. Get even.
Nov 3.
mobeau69
(11,074 posts)KY_EnviroGuy
(14,483 posts)and hoping for a brighter, more just America next year. Our leadership is desperately needed right now.
As Thomas Paine said, these are the times that try men's souls.
KY...... .........VOTE
sheshe2
(83,324 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)as we are! Talking to some who said they'd sleep better after the election, though they aren't American and can't vote - they are still very interested!
MustLoveBeagles
(11,563 posts)Midnightwalk
(3,131 posts)We knew this was going to happen. I dont know about you, but Ive been depressed the past few weeks.
We dont have the luxury of being depressed. We need to win. We need to fix what these traitors have broken.
It has never been clearer that despair is the currency that republicans trade in. Thats their entire spiel. Vote for us or else. Heres another injustice to make us lose hope.
Im done with that. We will beat them no matter what it takes.
sheshe2
(83,324 posts)Angry and anxious.
Silver Gaia
(4,514 posts)Feel the same.
chikita
(26 posts)Can we mourn and vent for at least a day,?
It's not every day that we lose the supreme Court for the next 20 years. I'm still wondering if there was anything else we could have done to stop the confirmation.
I thought senators could talk and talk and talk and talk and basically filibuster. I don't understand the rules, maybe somebody can explain it to me. Thanks
sheshe2
(83,324 posts)We all knew it was a done deal as Mitch and the GOP shoved her down our throats and laughed in our faces.
We Hillary voters knew that SCOTUS was huge issue back in 2016. We knew how important it was to elect Hillary. We knew the importance of court.
It is fine to mourn, I did that 4 years ago. Tomorrow we need to fix it and none of that can happen if Biden is not elected.
calimary
(80,693 posts)If it'll help, sure. But for some of us it's gonna be an IMMEDIATE shifting of gears to DEMAND that the Supreme Court be expanded.
"Rebalance the court!" should be our relentless battle cry. RELENTLESS. NOT giving up til we GET.
stlstdg
(34 posts)Provided that Biden/Harris win and that the Democrats win the Senate, write
your Senators and demand that they move to add Justices to the Court--
and the other Federal Court districts as well.
There's nothing in the Constitution to stop them from doing it. Given how
much a threat that this new conservative majority poses to everything we
stand for, there's absolutely no argument that anyone can make that will
convince me that we have to all just swallow this.
I'll be writing my Senators if the election goes as we all hope it does.
BComplex
(7,979 posts)be changed where appointments are not for life, or we need to re-balance the courts.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)Trump isnt supposed to use the White House for partisan political crap, but he broke the rules. Hes supposed to divest himself of his business dealings because he isnt suppose to gain financially while hes president. He broke the rules and has been using the Presidency to get richer. His entire term has been transactional.
He isnt allowed to accept foreign help but he broke the rules. He isnt supposed to give his family governmental appointments, but he broke the rules. And it goes on and on.
They broke every single rule about appointing a Supreme Judge.
This country, with its Democratic majority can change the rules now. We will change the Supreme Court appointments because no Democrat is going to stand for a theocratic Supreme Court. We just arent. We will do it legally too, without breaking the rules. And we will make sure the rules are followed from now in.
Cha
(295,899 posts)"It doesn't matter who you vote for.. just vote".
Of course it MATTERS.. look at who we got to be a Dictator & in the Senate.. and a Big Part of that was because in the Swing States Stein & Sarandon told GD LIES.. Spewed "Hillary was Worse than trump".'
Link to tweet
How are those privileged Fuckers" "revolution" doing now?
I hear one is now...wait for it....a lobbyist. Everything they despised and now she is one.
Don't think the revolution is doing all that well, Cha.
LudwigPastorius
(8,943 posts)Cerridwen
(13,251 posts)Need to soldier on. Not be so sensitive.
LudwigPastorius
(8,943 posts)The OP needs to accept that there is nothing wrong with righteous anger.
sheshe2
(83,324 posts)I never mentioned righteous anger or if it was right or wrong. Anyone paying attention knew this was on the agenda in 2016 when they made their choice who to vote for or not to vote.
We have know this since 2016. We knew then and now we are here.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)The world has burned down, oh my, my negative tone when we have one of the most important elections in our lifetime nearing its conclusion, was too fucking much. I dropped out and listened to music, I feel better now.
Here is what we do. We fight and vote and remind family to vote. We win and then we undo the BS that has been done for the last four years.
vercetti2021
(10,150 posts)One week away and the doom will ramp up
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Honestly, the key and solution is VOTING. At this point, I really dont want to hear from anyone who has not voted and dont have the mindset that NOTHING will stop them from getting their vote counted short of death itself.
vercetti2021
(10,150 posts)I did my part and that's all I can do.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)time out and vote, and dont wait until the last minute, because anything can happen in such a situation.
vercetti2021
(10,150 posts)Work was hard with finding time. But i got it done.
sheshe2
(83,324 posts)I dropped out and watched Halloween movies, that is just me. I had to get away.
Here is what we do. We fight and vote and remind family to vote. We win and then we undo the BS that has been done for the last four years.
You are correct.
PS dropped my vote off along with my 94 year old mothers.
Joinfortmill
(14,233 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)sheshe2
(83,324 posts)yellowdogintexas
(22,114 posts)We lost our straight ticket voting this year
"Don't Stop At The Top" is our fight song.
Flipping the Texas House is a major goal and it is doable.
Increasing the #of Dems we sent to Congress is also doable.
sheshe2
(83,324 posts)Top down, DEMOCRAT.
hadEnuf
(2,149 posts)If Biden wins we are not winning the war; we are just getting a foothold on the beach and a better position to fight from.
yaesu
(8,020 posts)without healthcare during a pandemic, and as mentioned on MSNBC, the supreme fascist court will be systematically going back decades readjudicating, undoing all of our protections & rights. Don't really see anything to be hopeful about the future.
drray23
(7,587 posts)They are hearing the arguments in two weeks, not rendering the decision. That wont come until spring. By then, we may have voted in a public option.
Gore1FL
(21,029 posts)The gnashing of teeth is self-defeating.
We are overwhelming them at the polls. The GOP is on it's way out.
Fuck Trump. Fuck Republicans. The future is ours.
KPN
(15,585 posts)MLAA
(17,163 posts)I gave the young woman a tip and a cold drink (it was warm her in the desert) and said dont forget to vote. Then I corrected myself and said dont forget to vote for Biden and Harris. She said, no worries I saw your yard sign and agree!
bdamomma
(63,652 posts)mad get even and VOTE. Clean Trouble as John Lewis had said.
Thank you sheshe2
luvtheGWN
(1,336 posts)COL Mustard
(5,782 posts)Also donated $46 (get it?).
sheshe2
(83,324 posts)denbot
(9,894 posts)Youre kinda preaching to the choir, no?
Perhaps not.
crickets
(25,896 posts)The more of us who vote, the more we overwhelm any chance of contesting the results. We are voting in historically large numbers, numbers too large to argue with. We got this.
sheshe2
(83,324 posts)Here is a thought...perhaps some of us are feeling blue is because we are becoming part of a wave. The wave is blue. It is powerful and a force to be reckoned with.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)ask what you can do for your country. ~ John F Kennedy
If those words dont apply now, I dont know when.
sheshe2
(83,324 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)Keep giving him support, even if he is not doing it exactly the way or giving exact priority to the way we would personally do it.
As was done to Obama.
We do not vote and walk away. Our job is on the front lines.
BlueMTexpat
(15,349 posts)I voted absentee and have received confirmation of receipt.
I am also continuing to contribute to several Senate races, especially to the Bullock-Daines race in my birth state of Montana.
May there be a HUGE BLUE TSUNAMI next week!
pansypoo53219
(20,906 posts)there is no third choice. so i voted forlieberfuckenputz, kerry + clinton.
united we win, divided THEY win.
renate
(13,776 posts)What we have become must be repudiated in a tidal wave if the world is ever to forgive us (trusting us again will take a little longer).