Attention Pennsylvania voters!

Senator Bob Casey’s race is now at a margin of 0.53%.

An automatic recount in PA is triggered with a margin of 0.5%. That’s a difference of 0.03% or a little over 2,000 votes. We need to make sure every ballot is counted here, and there’s thousands of uncounted ballots right now due to voter error.

Did you mail in a ballot? Check to see it was accepted here:

If it says anything other than accepted/counted/etc, your ballot needs your attention. A mistake in filling it out means that your ballot will not count unless you “cure” it. Check your county’s curing policies:

See full instructions for curing by county here.

You have until November 12 to cure your ballot in PA.

Do you know someone who mailed in a PA ballot? Please pass these links on to them. You may be the difference between their vote counting or not in a super close race.

Everyone else, you can help PA voters cure their ballots. If you live in Pennsylvania, you can help canvass in your county (see links in this thread). If you are in another state, you can sign up to call voters and help them cure by phone.

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joe biden, you stupid fuck. listen to me. Crimes are legal for sitting presidents as long as they’re official actions. Listen: Joe. You have one chance

Even if he decides not to do, y'know, the obvious, there's gotta be some creative ways he can fuck shit up for Trump. Nothing he does in terms of actual policy will stick, but make Trump spend his first hundred days undoing Biden's last 75.

Especially make him undo stuff that will be incredibly popular. Executive order legalizing marijuana nationwide. Declare a free pizza party for the whole country, scheduled for the first week of February.

Declassify Trump's IRS records, his FBI file, and everything available about his personal habits during his previous stay in the White House. Did he ever order any pay-per-view porn? Clog a toilet? The American people deserve to know.

I'm just spit balling here; I'm sure there are even better ideas.

Humbly submitting that it would also be very funny if he resigned and then Kamala did all those things

Honestly resigning so that the country gets a black Asian woman President whether the assholes like it or not would be the funniest thing he could do all on its own.

I actually can't stop thinking about how the losing party last election dressed like vikings and tried to break into the white house and the losing party this election are sharing suicide prevention hotlines

#Mood

Gilmore Girls (2000 - 2007) I 2.08

Happy national doomscrolling day to those who reluctantly celebrate, anyone got a xanax or 2, or maybe like an edible

I feel a sense of resignation and, somehow, anxious peace. Whatever the outcome, progressives and Democrats and liberals and leftists gave it their best shot. We did well. We fundraised, educated, canvassed, knocked, phone banked, texted, rallied, memed--whatever it took. And nobody can say we didn't fight for what we believe in.

We won't know the election results until tomorrow at the earliest. Polls are looking slightly promising for Kamala Harris. It's best to just wait it out, the lies and declarations from anyone who claims to know who won before the Associated Press calls the race. Mis- and disinformation is rampant. But if you've voted, you've done your part. Congratulations, and I'll see you on the other side.

Literally begging anyone who can vote in US elections to vote, and to vote against Trump. Which means voting for Harris, not abstaining or voting third party.

My family actually did move here from an authoritarian country, where voting literally didn't matter, they literally did throw out your vote, and they literally did assassinate citizens who spoke out against them.

We would all very much like to keep living in a country where those things are not the place!

You know, the same things that Trump and his stooges have openly said they want to do. And two of the main propaganda lines for why people in the US shouldn't vote, which is a lie.

Voting matters. The parties are not the same.

And make sure to vote in down-ballot races!!!

And like. The fact that voting matters in the US is a very real reason for hope. It is something you should genuinely appreciate. We can make a difference.

And a lot of people risked their lives or even died to earn that right, and it's a right not everyone has.

IS IOWA DOING SOMETHING GOOD FOR ONCE???

Jimmy Carter, who turned 100 recently, said that he just wanted to live long enough to vote for Kamala Harris.

Yesterday, early voting opened in Georgia, and among the first-day voters was former president Jimmy Carter, casting his vote.

I got unexpectedly emotional about this.

Just an aside...in 2020, the first-day voting in Georgia set a state record with 136,000 voters. Guess how many people voted early in Georgia yesterday?

328,000.

This.

A debate platform to spin lies without any fact checking. Brilliant CNN.

Question: what will you do about climate change?

Biden: mmmmsjhshduheeuuagghh

Trump: the police. the police. they love me. the police all love Donald J. Trump. the police.

It would be funny if I didn't live here

Biden is joke.

Trump is a criminal joke.

The mass news media holds neither accountable.

US politics, baby.

I’ll say it again, please just grit your teeth and vote for Biden…

Vote blue.

Are those "Biden protections" in the room with us at the moment? Go eat shit and die.

They are in fact in the room with us right now.

4/26/24 - Biden/Harris administration incorporates latest rule to the ACA that includes protections on the basis of sexual orientation and improves pre-existing protections for gender identity, mandating nondiscrimination in health care and insurance coverage for LGBTQ+ Americans.

4/19/24 - Biden/Harris administration finalized a Title IX rule that clarifies the scope of nondiscrimination protections on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity throughout educational activities and programs.

1/9/24 - Biden/Harris administration reverses Trump/Pence era “License to Discriminate” rules.

6/8/23 - Biden personally announces a series of initiatives that include efforts to protect queer and trans foster youth, improve access to mental health services for LGBTQ+ youth and address the rise in hate-fueled violence.

4/26/23 - Biden/Harris administration files lawsuit against the state of Tennessee, challenging the constitutionality of recently enacted legislation banning age-appropriate, medically necessary gender-affirming care for transgender youth.

2/7/23 - Biden uses his SotU address to encouraged Congress to pass the Equality Act “to ensure LGBTQ Americans, especially transgender young people, can live with safety and dignity.”

12/13/22 - Biden signs the Respect for Marriage Act, one of the biggest legislative wins in the fight for LGBTQ+ equality in over a decade, guaranteeing federal rights, benefits and obligations of marriages in the federal code for same-sex couples. The legislation also repealed the Defense of Marriage Act and affirmed public acts, records and proceedings should be recognized by all states.

8/4/22 - Biden/Harris administration declares Monkeypox a public emergency and wields federal power to ensure equal access in the distribution of vaccines and treatment.

3/21/22 - Biden/Harris administration takes steps on Transgender Day of Visibility to protect trans Americans that includes issuing passports with an “X” gender marker, streamlining identity verification during the travel experience and providing resources to transgender kids and their families.

And that’s just the last two years, without including any educational or research work done towards new policies or educating Americans about LGBTQ identities and politics, like displaying parts of the AIDS quilt in the White House or regularly acknowledging Pride, days of visibility, or other issues within the community.

You may be too young to remember this, but Biden was one of the first major federal-level politicians to support gay marriage, and he dragged Obama along kicking and screaming to the finish line. This administration is one of the strongest allies the LGBTQ community has had. Ever.

For the many many people who do not seem to understand how a government actually works, this doesn't mean Biden himself came up with these decisions, but they were approved and implemented by Congress because conservatives didn't have both the presidency and a majority. They desperately want the white house right now because it will allow them to make any policy changes they want uncontested.

I don't think enough people remember that the Very First Thing Trump's team did when he took office in 2017 was remove the LGBT rights page from the White House site. Like, it was mere hours into his presidency. The whole site went down to make their changes, and everything else was replaced fairly quickly, but not that one.

Or his lawyers arguing, while he was in office, that employers fully should be allowed to fire people for being gay.

I also don't think enough people remember various military leaders, and thus entire units, -literally ignoring orders- in order to protect trans service members.

He is the country's biggest drain on actual social progress, and it'll happen again if he's re-elected.

If you’re living in the US and reading this right now, I need you to know that if republicans take over office this next election, human rights are as good as dead.

The Heritage Foundation, a major Republican think tank, has published a 1,000 page document detailing how they want conservatives to take over the government and what they think should be done as soon as they’re in office. It is, in a nutshell, a call for fascism.

If you’re trans, know that one of the things it includes is basically banning trans people from having our existence acknowledged and it’s worded in a way where you could reasonably understand it to mean that being trans and going out in public is enough to get you put in jail for exposing minors to porn.

If you’re an immigrant, sanctuary cities are also going to be dead under this plan as district attorneys who don’t enforce the federal laws they plan to implement will be charged with crimes as well and they’re banking on them not being willing to pay the fines they’d be charged with in order to protect you.

If you care about climate change and safety regulations, kiss the regulations goodbye and prepare to watch the environment slowly get destroyed.

Here’s a link to the video I watched on this

Here’s a PBS article on it

Here’s where you can read the whole thing if you’re so inclined

Hey. Hey guys?

Do us all a favor and

you need to be explicit on this because there's a hell of a lot of dumbfucks who want to be the smuggest, purest person on the train to the death camp:

i don't care how much it hurts your feelings that you need to vote for... god forbid... a LIBERAL 😰 instead of your favorite little meow meow green party activist. the rights of marginalized people and democracy in the most powerful country on earth are in the balance, and complacency and smugness is how we all lose. i don't care if you're in the bluest part of california or the deepest red bumfuck nowhere in montana, if you don't like fascism it is your moral obligation to vote blue.

yes, i am voter-shaming you, dear hypothetical green voter, in the same way as i would murder-shame you if you went and shot your neighbor. your vote is a tool that affects countless people, even outside your country, not some righteous reflection of how cool and hip and progressive you are.

in 2016, i begged people to vote. i talked about the supreme court, about roe vs wade, about healthcare, about climate change. people told me i was overreacting, that hillary was as bad as trump.

now, with the supreme court packed with lifetime unqualified hardline republican judges, with roe vs wade dead, with obamacare saved only by a single dissent from the late senator mccain, with untold amounts of damage done to regulatory government agencies, with hundreds of thousands of people dead from the worst possible handling of covid,

i have still seen people claim that it's better - fucking better - to have someone like trump as president than someone like biden, because leftists are energized under a republican and complacent under a liberal.

i need all of you to understand that the only reason the usa even still resembles a democracy is because trump was stupid and preoccupied with running scams. if he's reelected, he will focus on dismantling every single rule and boundary that kept him in check last time.

if trump or one of his fascist cronies makes it back into the white house, free and fair elections will cease to exist in this country.

read that again, and really fucking think about it.

do not take for granted the fact that you have the ability to vote. do not take for granted the fact that the person in power will allow themselves to be voted out. don't take for granted the idea that your protests will have any effect under a dictatorship. don't take for granted your right to protest at all. don't take anything for granted.

i don't care how alarmist this sounds, because you should be fucking alarmed.