thylovelylionheart:

spillybun:

spillybun:

Seems like democrats can only win by cheating. All these “found ballots” are fricking ridiculous, you can’t get more obvious.

The Republican wins but oh no we have to recount because we found all these mysteriously uncounted ballots and oh look now the Democrat wins 🤔 how odd

it reminds me of when I was in DC on a school trip, and it was a trip that my school was on with like 15 other schools around the country, and we had a mock Congress and we debated and voted on a bill that was very dividing.

The people who had a more liberal view on the bill, who wanted to pass it, were extremely vocal and all their arguments were emotionally-based and at one point what seemed like a good chunk of the crowd of 150 kids cheered very loudly even though the people running this mock congress explicitly told them not to. And then they did it again after being reminded not to.

The people who had a more conservative view on the bill were quiet. One of my classmates stood up and said some very incorrect things and it was incredibly painful. Another one of my classmates, a debate team member, stood up and explain very tactfully how the bill is unconstitutional.

(What did I do? I sat in the back of the room and cried bc I’ve been on tumblr long enough to know that this mock Congress was gonna stir up drama and conflict. And it did.)

When it came time to vote, people raised their hands on either yes or no, and the like, 25 leaders went around the room and counted hands. At the end, they announced the results.

It was around 80-70 against the bill.

All the people who supported the bill gasped and freaked out and were super confused. All the people who voted against the bill stayed quiet. One of the people who spoke in the mic earlier for the bill stood up and asked for a recount. They recounted.

90-60 against.

At another point during the trip, my small group of about 15 kids from around 5 different school were playing an icebreaker game called trainwreck. It’s like musical chairs; there’s one person in the middle, and if they say a statement that is also true for you (i.e. “I have blue eyes” or “I’ve never been to Hawaii”) you stand up and try to find a newly empty chair. If no one stands, it’s trainwreck, and everyone has to stand up and find a new chair.

Well, this one (white) gal who was extremely vocal about her liberal beliefs was in the middle, and she said “I’m a liberal!”

No one stood. Not a single white person, Latino, Asian, or black person. (And we had at least one of each in that group.) She was thoroughly shocked.

I think in today’s day and age, with social media and celebrity advocates and the news and etc etc, that a lot of people forget that there are people with conservative beliefs that aren’t the Big Bad White Men they diss on TV. And when it’s shown to them, when the votes say “Hey, we’re silent but we’re here”, people don’t believe it. Because how could there be so many “””bigots and racists and etc””” in the world to vote against what the media and celebrities have made into the popular and trendy and acceptable and seemingly majority vote?

It’s because when we say we’re conservative, we get hate for it. My classmate got locked out of her hotel room by the two girls from other schools that she was sharing with because of that mock Congress vote against the bill.

So a lot of us stay so quiet, they don’t believe it when our voting speaks.