This is precisely where the Democrats need to address their attention. They need to win all of the special elections that are winnable. I remember post Watergate when the deepest and most loyal, republican districts, out of discust for their own, elected Democrats.
Now we just need to make sure Dems win the House seats of those tapped by the Melon Felon to serve in his administration so we can take the House back.
And thanks to whomever coined the phrase Melon Felon. I love it!!
If you read the voting statistics break down a large number of black people and student got thier votes thrown out. It's statistically significant because only a tiny fraction were Republican ballots. 🤔
In the early going, this seems to be following the same pattern we saw in 2017, where longtime local/state seats held by Republicans suddenly began flipping blue. If we can just flip the three open House seats in the special elections held this spring, Democrats would have control of the House.
YES💙Please, spread the news on the special elections coming up SOON in Florida where Democrats can gain 2 of the 3 seats that we NEED to REGAIN THE HOUSE! Josh Weil & Gay Valimont NEED our support! There's also a special election in NY21 Blake Gendebien which can get us the 3rd seat!!! 💙Pass it on!🤗
This is more proof that reliable voters who show up to vote in special elections are now Dem voters. This is a good sign for 2025 gubernatorial elections in VA and NJ and 2026 mid-terms.
My dad is 87 and always used to be an optimist.
Now he is sad.
Hopefully the democrats will recover.
To me this has always been a class struggle however it is framed.
Between those who control the money and those who don't.
Your post was humorous, there are though lots of people really struggling with this Trumpian madness.
I live in the UK and see people suffering from information overload.
I am old enough to have lived through Thatcher and the fall of the Iron curtain.
This time though the changes seem much bigger.
Because, the 🍊 🤡 and his minions were too dumb to rig the whole voting system, just the presidential part. Too many blue counties that voted blue down the ballot except for the presidency???? Really????
Sadly yes corporate Democrats really don't like progressives and it's a tiny minority of the party. But realistically that was our only choice. So now here we are with the lunatics taking over the asylum. I hope MAGAts gets what they deserve, but the rest of us are on the same train.
I disagree. I thought she was an amazing candidate! Even though she had less time to campaign I saw so much enthusiasm for her! She was a wonderful candidate! We really missed out on a huge opportunity by losing out on her.
Obviously anything is better then trump. Just that she was a bad candidate as she failed to rile up the democratic party voter base. We have the numbers to prove that.
She got 20 mil less votes compared to biden 2020 (Trump got less votes aswell compared to 2020).
What in your opinion made her a horrible candidate? Please give facts to support your rationale and not personal opinion like because you didn’t like her laugh or she lacked policy when there are mountains of evidence to prove otherwise. Just curious.
I guess that makes sense. What my mind grapples w is all the swing state rallies were overfilled w so many people they couldn’t get in. Moved to bigger venues to accommodate massive crowds. GOP flipping & what looked to be unanimous support. But voter day rise in split & bullet ballots is suspect?
People knew what was on the line. I believe ppl did show up. My neighbors votes weren’t counted. They were challenged, they found out later. Something nefarious happened. People can say whatever but she had people out in droves rooting for her and Walz. I just don’t believe any of this.
The numbers are in. Trump lost. Harris would have won the electoral college were it not for voter suppression. Watch Vigilantes, Inc. then look at the numbers from swing states researched by statistician/reporter Greg Palast.
Doctorate in Legal Jurisprudence, was a prosecutor, an Attorney General, a US Senator, and a Vice President. She was not a horrible candidate. 🍊🐷 stated at inauguration that Musk used Starlink to change results.
Re read what i wrote. I never said she was worse then Donald Trump anything is better then trump. Just that she was a horrible candidate that went with an horrible election strategy.
we have the numbers that proves she failed to motivate the democratic party voters.
Several people think she won.
At the inauguration, Trump said Musk interfered so he could win.
We had torched ballot boxes, millions illegally taken off the voting polls right before the election. 80+ bomb threats Georgia. Ballots where it was Trump, then all the rest Democrat
Yall need to start reading what i said, it aint hard. Like i have said Countess times in this thread. Anything is better then trump. But she simply is horrible candidate due to failing to mobilise the voters.
I didn't love her in the beginning but she grew on me way more qualified than 🍊 pig Dems messed up should've started a year and half ago getting behind a new candidate not at the last minute like they did with Harris
I’m reading a lot in the comments about cheating. It’s also very probable that many people were never going to vote for a woman let alone a black woman.
He says a lot of things. Very few truths and a lot of lies. I’m listening to the same people who voted for Trump and then Biden tell me they voted Trump this time. They also gave me a mini lectures about hormones and how no woman should ever be President. So 🤷🏼♀️.
I mean Believe what you want but the numbers don’t make sense and he says he rigged it why would he lie against himself normally a person will lie in the other direction
To sow confusion, create a crack in our side. We spend our time arguing with each other about whether elections are legitimate. His side says they’re not, if our side says the same, it paves the way for Project 2025 voting rights restrictions because everyone agrees something must be done.
Wake up Democrats!
Fkn REACT to all the red flags including trump himself admitting to cheating, cyber experts warning the White House (asking Harris to seek recounts‼️), investigative journalist Greg Palast presenting what he states is PROOF of voter supression, & disenfranchised voters galore.👁🕵♀️🕵♂️‼️
Why wait? Please, spread the news on the special elections coming up SOON in Florida where Democrats can gain 2 of the 3 seats that we NEED to REGAIN THE HOUSE! Josh Weil & Gay Valimont NEED our support! There's a special election in NY21 Blake Gendebien which can get us the 3rd seat!!! 💙Pass it on🤗
Senate or State Senate? That’s kind of an important distinction. Since you say “district” I assume you mean State Senate, which is encouraging, but not the same as taking an actual senate seat, which would be a real gamechanger.
yes, SOOOOOOO many don't understand the difference.
It's a couple of counties, and under 9500 votes total, but we'll take it, just need to understand with such a small # of votes, it literally could have been a likable male Democrat in the area & she was just a touch less popular even if she's (R).
This is how it is done. Local 2025 elections matter! Check your state, county, city websites! Every election, school brd, city council, library brd, county commissioners, State house,senate; they all matter https://bsky.app/profile/fpwellman.bsky.social/post/3ldqo2kkbzc2i
It makes you wonder if Trump's admission that musk knew those vote counting machines in and out, and thanking him for the victory, was just an admission that he rigged the election. This may be further proof. How else could someone win a seat in a place that supposedly voted Trump like that?
Please. Let the Republicans running in the near future elections realize that Trump has jumped the shark, MAGA is flailing. It isn’t worth prostrating yourselves at his altar anymore!
I know Iowa is on the cusp of turning blue again. I think the Des Moines Register pollster got her variables right, but the heavy D publicity turned out angry MAGA and suppressed lukewarm indies and D. The anger scale has flipped. Recognize that.
MAGA “won” this election by suppressing (reduced voter booths, registration purges) and disqualifying millions of votes (mail-in, provisional ballots) within battleground states
Far from everyone.
I'm beginning to suspect, tho, that those who should and can do something about it, investigating, shouting it from the rooftops, are CHOOSING to bury their heads in the sand🤬!
A Newsweek article mentions that Crockett & 1 or 2 others are reacting/talking about investigation.
I am baffled by the capitulation and spinelessness of the Dems. Just mindboggling considering Trump cheats unabashedly. He had a lot of help from Musk and Russia.
I agree with you only 25%. I think most liberals underestimate just how illiberal the average American voter actually is. But I 100% agree that we and Dems have to do better.
Better get Ivanka's patented voting machines from China (2017) out of the Red States before the mid-terms or they will be hacked to erase votes "just enough" again.
They did not win fairly. There was a massive effort to disenfranchises many voters as they possibly could is it in as many swing States as was possible. Millions of people's votes did not get counted.
I don't think he did. Especially when he joked and thanked Musk for his win because of his great computer skill. And of course the four absentee ballot boxes on blue states that mysteriously blew up back in October
#s don't make sense. Down ballot went to dems! Higher turnout than ever before. Several cyber security peeps saying there was a breach. Several states saying the counts were off due to "tabulation" issues. Winner announced way too fast. We arent dumb. I hate being gaslit.
Joe rogan admitted elon had an app and knew who won hours b4 the polls closed. Mike Flynn and co talked about a go fast switch to prevent dems from cheating in ballot counting on a voice call.
Trump kept saying he didn't need votes.Trump told on elon on the inauguration stage.
Too much evidence
Also look at the rallies Harris was filling the stadiums to the nose bleed sections Trumps people were walking out he could hardly keep a crowd Why aren't they investigating?????
So TFG and Musk clearly worked to fix the 2024 election results. The democrats become the fifth column winning regional elections because TFG and Musk are too business thinking they've won and lining their pockets as the Constitution a piece of paper and real law reasserts itself - quietly. I hope!
I listen to and read Heather Cox Richardson and she seems to think we won’t make it to 2026 unless we shut down this constitutional crisis successfully now. The democrats need to organize with a central message and leader. I don’t see that happening.
She’s right. The Democrats are falling over themselves to put forward the most ineffectual possible, in the face of a fascistic power-grab by the Republicans.
I believe yesterday was a turning point but everyone on Bluesky needs to call all their congressmen/woman daily. We the people can put a stop to this nonsense but we need to advocate for the American people. We can’t just say our elected officials should.
That's why we don't wait till 2026. We flip the house blue in 2025. The seats are out there. It will be hard in those areas. But if we come together we can make this happen. We need your help.
I’m already giving money, writing post cards, working with red, wine & blue and indivisible. I write or call my congressmen/woman daily. Not much more I can do it’s up to the democrats in congress to organize and shut this shit down
Yes, I’ afraid of that too but hopefully democrats and republicans that aren’t too scared will start to fight back in mass. I listen to heather cox Richardson and her advice is priceless.
That’s actually untrue. There are republicans in the senate that are not maga but are afraid of the MAGAs and when they vote with closed ballots they do vote against trump. They can be reasoned with. And don’t attack me, I’m one of the lucky ones that escaped Ohio. that state has no middle ground
Let’s keep up the momentum, troops. Celebrate every victory while pointing out every mistake by the enemy , and yes, republicans are now the enemy, and holding them to account on each one.
Well,maybe someone should tell someone who gives a fuck so they fix it?
Oh, that's right, Democrats only bring up cheating AFTER the fact..never in time to do anything about it.
Biden and the DNCC had THREE MONTHS to challenge the election results and DID NOTHING!
(and NOTHING is what Dems do best)
I don't think they cheated in the conventional sense. They lied and the press helped them. When the NYT, WAPO and CNN normalize him it creates ambivalence.
It's a state seat not federal, so we're still screwed on the national scale until we flip those seats in April.
But every win whether it is a school board seat a County commission seat every win matters. Fight fight fight.
From the bottom to the top we've got to paint this country blue again.
Damn. Thanks for the correction and clarification! I probably should have done a half second of research. I saw Senate and I was blinded by an opportunity to tell everyone that Thom Tillis doesn't wash his hands and didn't think any further. I know better than that. 🤦
The one thing that Republican politicians still have not figured out is that there are a sizeable chunk of MAGA voters that do not vote when Trump is not on the ballot, + by being MAGA supporters or MAGA apologists, the hurt their own changes when they run in an election without Trump on the ballot.
It's almost like people actually don't like Trump..... Makes you wonder how he got all those votes. Elon knows those election machines really well apparently.
The chart below is from NC and the presidential election. NC has 100 counties and in EVERYONE OF THEM, the Attorney General got MORE votes than V P HARRIS. Durham county is 80% democratic, she got 3,000 less votes than the attorney general. This also happened in Arizona, Ohio, New York, and 4 more
Senators should be ashamed of their support for Trump and his unqualified minions! He needs to be removed or impeached. No one will ever forget the wrong decisions you are making now by allowing him to destroy America this way.
All these small wins are great but we need the big wins at the federal level. There are 2 vacant House seats, both in Florida, both once held by Republicans. We need to support the Dems running for those seats and flip them. That will cut the Magat majority in the House to 1 seat.
Yes, we need to promote voting April 1st for Gay Valimont in Florida to replace Mat Gaetz seat in U.S. House Florida District 1 & Josh Weil is the Democratic nominee for Congressional District 6. He's running against Randy Fine in the general election on April 1.
This is State Senate seat, not US Senate, so he won’t get to vote on any federal legislation or Trumps nominees. Still a good news as he flipped this seat.
There were bomb threats in heavily democratic areas as well. I believe in Georgia if I remember right. It doesn’t matter now. The Democratic Party has to show push back so we have a country that we recognize.
My take is we must run and elect candidates who are not wealthy and who are respected in their communities by their peers. I think we need to elect middle class candidates to vote middle class values instead of the very wealthy who vote for wealthy concerns.
It draws a clear distinction between our party and theirs. It gives the voter a clear and easy choice. It might even draw some republicans. All said, fair elections might not be in our future.
They forgot to turn the vote flipping algorithm on for this one!!
Adds another layer to overflowing statistical evidence of non-natural voter patterns, all in the direction of one candidate. Go figure!
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Fixed it.
And thanks to whomever coined the phrase Melon Felon. I love it!!
Your friendly Canadian neighbour 🇨🇦
Now he is sad.
Hopefully the democrats will recover.
To me this has always been a class struggle however it is framed.
Between those who control the money and those who don't.
I live in the UK and see people suffering from information overload.
I am old enough to have lived through Thatcher and the fall of the Iron curtain.
This time though the changes seem much bigger.
That went further to the right instead trying to win over the democratic base.
They need to focus on creating grass root movements and listen to the voters aswell as starting to let ppl like AOC take the reins.
It makes even less sense when you throw in the administration accomplishments.
SMH 🤦🏻♂️
I voted for Bernie .... and won!
They gave me Hillary.
I voted for Hillary... and won!
They gave me Trump.
Do you really think your vote is worth shit!?
She got 20 mil less votes compared to biden 2020 (Trump got less votes aswell compared to 2020).
2,She alienated a big chunk of the democratic voters base with her policy's (like for an example supporting isreal)
3, She failed to distance herself from an very unpopular cabinet (biden).
https://www.investigativepost.org/2024/11/10/the-numbers-behind-the-vote-for-president/
https://www.gregpalast.com/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won/
we have the numbers that proves she failed to motivate the democratic party voters.
At the inauguration, Trump said Musk interfered so he could win.
We had torched ballot boxes, millions illegally taken off the voting polls right before the election. 80+ bomb threats Georgia. Ballots where it was Trump, then all the rest Democrat
If it walks like a stolen elections, talks like a stolen election (just listen to them, they're telling us themselves!), it's a stolen election.
#fucktrump to hell.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BOp8IiRaS1U&pp=ygULR3JlZyBwYWxhc3Q%3D
Leeeet's Gooooo...
🤬🤬🤬
Fkn REACT to all the red flags including trump himself admitting to cheating, cyber experts warning the White House (asking Harris to seek recounts‼️), investigative journalist Greg Palast presenting what he states is PROOF of voter supression, & disenfranchised voters galore.👁🕵♀️🕵♂️‼️
It's a couple of counties, and under 9500 votes total, but we'll take it, just need to understand with such a small # of votes, it literally could have been a likable male Democrat in the area & she was just a touch less popular even if she's (R).
Anyone denying is lying
I'm beginning to suspect, tho, that those who should and can do something about it, investigating, shouting it from the rooftops, are CHOOSING to bury their heads in the sand🤬!
A Newsweek article mentions that Crockett & 1 or 2 others are reacting/talking about investigation.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/iowa-democrats-flip-senate-seat-035726091.html
Trump kept saying he didn't need votes.Trump told on elon on the inauguration stage.
Too much evidence
Turnout
Turnout
When we vote, we win
Furthermore there may be more state and local elections and THEY ALL COUNT TOO! For instance Iowa just had a state seat that flipped blue.
Thank you.
I understand the assignment.
GOOD
Oh, that's right, Democrats only bring up cheating AFTER the fact..never in time to do anything about it.
Biden and the DNCC had THREE MONTHS to challenge the election results and DID NOTHING!
(and NOTHING is what Dems do best)
Trump has been saying crazy bullshit ever since he got elected.
That alone was enough for waverers to come down on the side of sanity. Also egg prices didn't fall
I’m awaiting the jailing of Trump and his team of “Traitors” to the Constitution.
But every win whether it is a school board seat a County commission seat every win matters. Fight fight fight.
From the bottom to the top we've got to paint this country blue again.
We need to celebrate every win. I don't care if it's School Board. It all matters.
The reason this seat was flipped was because it didn't have anybody meddling in the process.
F off attitude
I said it election night when they all were giving up at 11pm
He did not win, & you are not alone
#Resist
#GoObamaStyleWILD
Adds another layer to overflowing statistical evidence of non-natural voter patterns, all in the direction of one candidate. Go figure!
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