‘When You Think of It, We Shouldn’t Even Have an Election’

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/opinion/trump-midterm-elections-2026.html?unlocked_article_code=1.gFA.LQL_.rirL6asxYti8

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_stranger_@lemmy.world · 57 pts · 114d (3 replies)

I don't see a need for a president now that I think about it

tacoplease@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 114d (2 replies)

Don't need this president

SupraMario@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 113d

Naa we really don't need a president, many of the founders were against it. Worried about another king or consolation of power.

What'd ya know...only 250 years later and they were right.

newton@feddit.online · 8 pts · 114d

Taco is not a president ,just garbage

jordanlund@lemmy.world · 55 pts · 114d (10 replies)

“I have the right to do a lot of things that people don’t even know about.”

Well, that's true... let's start with "You have the right to remain silent... you have the right to an attorney..."

radiofreebc@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 114d
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FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 114d (8 replies)

“You have the right to not be pegged by a crane-lifted piledriver.

Gif for reference.
animated gif of a crane lifted like driver driving a heavy concrete prefab pile.

SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 7 pts · 114d (5 replies)

What if you want to be pegged by a crane-lifted pile driver?

hiawatha98@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 114d

Asking the real questions

FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 114d (3 replies)

That’s between you and the pile driver

SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 4 pts · 114d (2 replies)

What about the pile driver driver?

phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 113d

And do you need a special ppa to download pile driver drivers for Linux?

FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 114d

This is solved with automation. Alternatively I suppose they might be into that, too.

daannii@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 114d (1 reply)

That's very specific

FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 114d

Rights for all, or rights for none.

So being subjected to a Mrs Peggy there is something for him and all the other chucklefucks to think about

Wataba@sh.itjust.works · 19 pts · 114d (4 replies)

Use it or lose it.

Congrats non-voters.

Glide@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 113d (1 reply)

Don't worry, the accelerationists have been promising that letting everything get way worse will lead to genuine change. I'm sure they'll be starting that socialist uprising any day now!

Aaaaany day now...

CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 113d

I have the "pleasure" of knowing a few of those types.

They are so fucking exhausting. I don't know what's worse - the die-hard Libertarians that carry that bullshit fantasy throughout their lives, or the armchair Marxist theorist chin-scratchers that think the Democrats are equally bad as Republicans and always want to give you a long-winded think-piece about it.

At least some of the Libertarians drain some votes away from Republicans.

They became much worse after October of 2023, though. I guess if they focus on the economics side they are not quite as annoying, and a bit more grounded, but some of them just cannot drop the voter-repellent, like intersectionality and checking your privilege and taking the maximalist position on culture war issues and so on. The best part? Most of them are proud that they don't even vote.

teyrnon@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 113d

At a certain point it's the opposition party's fault, and we are way way past that point.

FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 113d

I wonder if the sanctimonious fucks who wouldn't vote because if Israel are happy now

TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com · 15 pts · 114d (4 replies)

Oh yes we should. Vote early, vote often.

REDACTED@infosec.pub · 6 pts · 113d (3 replies)

So has everyone now accepted that he will run for the 3rd term? Did I miss the legal pushback?

Zexks@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 113d (1 reply)

There was none and wont be any. There seems to be this idea that the states just wont do it. Which is fucking stupid but yeah here we are with a pedophile in the white house so...

FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 113d

Wasn't there a state that tried to leave him off the ballot but we're overruled?

Freeposity@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 113d

He will certainly solicit donations for a third run.

FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 113d

What does he have to do to be taken seriously? Wake the fuck up, America, the jig is up, there is no more democracy, you'll be lucky if there continues to be a pretense of democracy much longer. Fuck anyone who says it's only for four years

minorkeys@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 113d

Okay. I thought about it like you asked and I seem to have very quickly reached a different conclusion. Thanks for the suggestion to think about it.