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In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders makes me *want* to vote again! [View all]Buns_of_Fire
(17,175 posts)the republican party will also draft him to be THEIR candidate, too!
He will then win the presidency and EVERY electoral vote -- plus three more that we'd forgotten were there. Statistics will show that this will be the first election in US history with 99% participation. The Kook Brothers, Jamie Dimon, Lloyd Blankfein, DICK Cheney, Rafael Cruz, and Louie Gohmert immediately leave the country and apply for political asylum in China -- which rejects them, arrests them, and exports them back to the US as part of a shipment of bamboo shoots (look for processing codes ending in RXXX on the cans).
Unfortunately, during his inaugural speech, he strips off his mask, revealing that he's really Cthulhu, and proceeds to eat both houses of congress, alphabetically, by state. (I shrug. All candidates have a few flaws.)
Granted, it MIGHT not play out exactly like that.
But it's surely going to be nice to go to the polling place and actually vote FOR someone, for a change.