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Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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how illegal is it to lie during a political campaign? like, could I run for president on a disgustingly far right platform, and then just say “sike, i lied, everyone who voted for me fucking sucks, we’re doing progressive shit now” like, aside from being assassinated, would I face any consequences?
Unfortunately, politicians do still do this, just not on issues as extreme as segregation. Look at Fetterman walking back all of progressive stances.
On the contrary, Democrats do this all the time. Quite a few have flipped Republican soon after getting elected.
sadly it is happening, just the other way around
I’m just here to admire the title of the post.
I think trump’s “America first” and anti immigration platform was a bit 180’d by his “but waaaaay more h1b1 visas” post election stance.
Didn’t America just elect a billionaire who is supposed to represent the needs of working people…. For the second time…?
Notably after losing the first go-around when he was a little too honest in the 60s. So he learned fromhis naivety, which is ballin. Shows he had a soul and a brain.
>The leading newspaper in the state, the Atlanta Constitution, refused to endorse him, and described him as an “ignorant, racist, backward, ultra-conservative, red-necked South Georgia peanut farmer.” The strategy worked, however, and with the support of rural farmers, born-again Christians, and segregationist voters, Carter forced a runoff election and won with 49 percent of the vote.
Is what i’ve been saying the Dems should do, just leave all the racial, social DEI stuff out of the campaign, it shoos away votes, you can do them anyway once you win.
He pulled an LBJ and flipped the script
I mean you’d not really lose anything
Haha, sure wish this would happen next week, surely there’s a chance! Surely!
Honestly it’s a shitty move, but at least it was for the right cause
Based, but bad for electoral democracy. Elected officials should try to implement the policies they campaigned on barring extenuating circumstances.
This is literally what every politician does. Literally all. the. time… They just do it in a morally opposite way of this post. The good ol bait and switch.
no they do, but just in the opposite direction
Is this why people didn’t like him as president??
The ol’ switcheroo
They do it all the time, they just turn Republican after inauguration
But they do?
Like, several former Democrats have switched after they got to office
Politicians lie all the time. Now they just do it about doing good things and do bad things instead.
Oh *that’s* why they hate him.
Uh hey they do lie all the time, just not the way you like it
No ther do this just in the opposite direction “nothing bad is going to happen!” Then they do all the bad things
Republicans do the bait and switch all the time running as democrats.
Come to Canada where the socialists got elected by hijacking the liberal party
Yes, politicians still do this. Republicans run as Democrats or Independents all the time and switch parties.
Oh so it’s cool when Carter does is but when the supreme overlord trump does it, it’s tyranny huh!
…/s I hope I conveyed myself clear enough
I mean trump announced that he lied about his promises before he even took office lol
They do do it like this, its just in reverse, running on never having heard of Project 2025, and now, well…
Yeah they go the opposite way, like brain damage Fetterman.
Populism 101:
Promise the sky
Get elected
Do not deliver
Repeat with something else and hope the base is still dumb
They do, just in the wrong direction
Oh but they do, but just the other way around :/
Lying to voters should be a felony.
I’m really hoping that the past 4 have been a ruse, and once Elon musk gets power he’ll become cool again: establish universal basic income and stuff.
But because he doesn’t have any real power, if he tried that it wouldn’t work…
We really need to invent time travel and stop Harambe from getting killed. That gorilla really was holding Pandora’s box closed…
Carter was a piece of shit, he handed Iran over to the islamists. May he burn in hell for all eternity!