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Fiendish Thingy

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17. What if the earth plunges into the sun, so then what?
Thu May 21, 2026, 09:35 AM
22 hrs ago

Same odds as Dems not taking back the house.

So then what? This is reality we could very well facing come November, and while it is great to be optimistic and upbeat, but we need to start thinking about what we're going to do if they rig this next election six ways from Sunday, which they're already doing. The usual methods for remedying such theft aren't going to work, so we need to start thinking and planning for that contingency.


No, we fucking don’t.

We need to prepare the best strategies to maximize Dems winning both the house and senate, as well as control of as many state legislatures as possible.

That’s what we need to be doing.

Just because you can imagine something and type it on the internet does not make that thing plausible, possible or probable.

You appear to have accepted the false mythology that Trump is omnipotent and the states and the people are powerless, despite decades of evidence that he is merely a destructive, chaos-sowing failure.

Back in the real world, All the data support the exact opposite of your Doomer scenario. Even the republicans are preparing for defeat.

As they have for the past decade, most states are war gaming their potential responses to numerous scenarios. They have successfully thwarted numerous attempts at ratfuckery over the past several years- ask Tina Peters, Kari Lake and Rudi Giuliani.

Nothing can stop the Blue Tsunami in November.

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Then it gets ugly biophile 23 hrs ago #1
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Learn Russian? Irish_Dem 23 hrs ago #3
Nyet!!! Swede 23 hrs ago #6
I already did that. DFW 23 hrs ago #8
Yes we must speak the languages of our new lord and masters. Irish_Dem 23 hrs ago #11
I can even play the balalaika DFW 22 hrs ago #12
You will fit right in. Irish_Dem 22 hrs ago #13
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Then it's all over. DavidDvorkin 23 hrs ago #4
What are your plans? Kaleva 23 hrs ago #5
Thank you for this post! mwmisses4289 23 hrs ago #7
This is exactly what we, as Democrats FalloutShelter 23 hrs ago #9
Then we have lost our democracy. Irish_Dem 23 hrs ago #10
Good question. We all need to face this blubunyip 22 hrs ago #14
After '26 we only have 2 more cycles ('28 & '30) until the post 2030 census reapportionment smashes us in '32, both in Celerity 22 hrs ago #16
Except... Fiendish Thingy 22 hrs ago #19
What if the earth plunges into the sun, so then what? Fiendish Thingy 22 hrs ago #17
Then we lost our Democratic republic. Emile 22 hrs ago #18
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