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My wife and I have had ongoing conversations about getting the hell out of here if tRump steals this election.
I say steal because there is no fucking way this asshole will win fairly. He knows it! Just look at the shit he and his Repug cronies are doing in full view. He has the courts stacked with right wing loyalists, he has DOJ in his court, he has the USPS set up to prevent mail in ballots from being counted, he has his sycophants in Congress standing meekly by while he violates law after law and he has his armed idiots in the police departments and his right wing militias carrying and using assault weapons on our streets!
Now, we have a pandemic and Americans can't go anywhere, so we wait anxiously for a vaccine. Hopefully, once there is a preventative available we can get it and other countries will open their doors to those of us who still believe in democracy and hopefully, he and his violent followers will want us; who have resisted, to leave. Logic would dictate that he would want us gone rather than keep millions of us here against our will. We'd be less of a threat to him if he could get us out of "his" country. Make no mistake about it as this shit hole would be "his" country to do with as he wants if he's able to prevent the people's choice from taking office.
We hope that other countries will be charitable to us and will remember what the US did for the world back when we were good and decent. Americans as refugees!!! Can you imagine that?!? How very sad...
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,786 posts)And Republicans down ballot. Let us get to work.
augyboston
(193 posts)I totally agree, but we need to not bury our heads in the sand.
tRump is out to steal this and it's looking more and more like he could possibly succeed.
I hope I'm wrong and Biden wins in a landslide, we take the Senate and keep the House.
At the minimum, we need to take the Senate and keep the House.
Perhaps that will be enough to prevent him from becoming Putin II?
beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)to stop the american refugee flow
ConstanceCee
(314 posts)My husband and I were talking about this very thing this morning, about crossing the Rio Grande (aka Río Bravo) and asking for asylum. Seriously.
dixiechiken1
(2,113 posts)We just sent in our passport renewals. We're both 56 yrs old so we have to continue working. Trying to figure out where in the hell we can go (that will also allow us to work) if Numbnuts steals this election. Haven't yet figured it out but we are thinking the same thing - asylum. I pray some kindly country takes pity on us and allows for this, (a la Gilead).
I can't believe it's coming to this. F*ckers.
virgogal
(10,178 posts)augyboston
(193 posts)That first term will look like a walk in the park compared to the hell he will bring down over the next four or 8 or 12 or until he dies!