• I mean, to be fair to those folks, as they are citizens it’s highly unlikely that even that guy could get them all deported.

    For all his talk on ‘remigration’ he doesn’t seem to have any more of a real plan on this than on healthcare.

    I’ve already expressed my opinion elsewhere (but to reiterate - they should follow the example of Uncommitted and vote in a way to keep the GOP candidate from winning while declining to endorse Harris). The best hope here is that they are voting in the polls for Stein to show their displeasure with Harris but they’ll be more strategic at the ballot bot.

    The thing is, in normal times it’s perfectly fine to withhold your vote or use it as a protest vote when you don’t like any of the likely candidates - while knowing that regardless our democratic institutions will be safe and sound and continue to carry on the day.

    But at the same time, I’m reminded about Brexit. In particular,

    some publicly admitted they intended to use a “protest vote” in the belief the UK was certain to remain in the European Union.

    Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-anger-bregret-leave-voters-protest-vote-thought-uk-stay-in-eu-remain-win-a7102516.html

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      I mean, to be fair to those folks, as they are citizens it’s highly unlikely that even that guy could get them all deported.

      Our Supreme Court just gave him a free ticket to do whatever the hell he wants, as long as it can be traced back to his official capacity. The only check on this is impeachment, which fails as long as 34 Senators are on his side.

      Health Care was a bugaboo for him because he needed to get Congress to go along, and those people still need to win their own elections. But he would have all the things he needs to deport all the people he doesn’t like, without Congress: a pen to write Executive Orders, a Corps of Engineers to build camps, a complacent Judiciary, and a total lack of a conscience.