This is the first time in over two decades that the US has rejected OSCE participation in a federal election.

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    5 hours ago

    Fat and docile, big and dumb
    They look so stupid, they aren’t much fun
    Cows aren’t fun

    They eat to grow, grow to die
    Die to be ate at the hamburger fry
    Cows well done

    Nobody thunk it, nobody knew
    No one imagined the great cow guru
    Cows are one

    He hid in the forest, read books with great zeal
    He loved Che Guevera, a revolutionary veal
    Cow Tse Tongue

    He spoke about justice, but nobody stirred
    He felt like an outcast, alone in the herd
    Cow doldrums

    He mooed we must fight, escape or we’ll die
    Cows gathered around, cause the steaks were so high
    Bad cow pun

    But then he was captured, stuffed into a crate
    Loaded onto a truck, where he rode to his fate
    Cows are bummed

    He was a scrawny calf, who looked rather woozy
    No one suspected he was packing an Uzi
    Cows with guns

    They came with a needle to stick in his thigh
    He kicked for the groin, he pissed in their eye
    Cow well hung

    Knocked over a tractor and ran for the door
    Six gallons of gas flowed out on the floor
    Run cows run!

    He picked up a bullhorn and jumped up on the hay
    We are free roving bovines, we run free today

    We will fight for bovine freedom
    And hold our large heads high
    We will run free with the Buffalo, or die
    Cows with guns

    They crashed the gate in a great stampede
    Tipped over a milk truck, torched all the feed
    Cows have fun

    Sixty police cars were piled in a heap
    Covered in cow pies, covered up deep
    Much cow dung

    Black smoke rising, darkening the day
    Twelve burning McDonalds, have it your way

    We will fight for bovine freedom
    And hold our large heads high
    We will run free with the Buffalo, or die
    Cows with guns

    The President said “enough is enough
    These uppity cattle, its time to get tough”
    Cow dung flung

    The newspapers gloated, folks sighed with relief
    Tomorrow at noon, they would all be ground beef
    Cows on buns

    The cows were surrounded, they waited and prayed
    They mooed their last moos, they chewed their last hay
    Cows out gunned

    The order was given to turn cows to whoppers
    Enforced by the might of ten thousand coppers
    But on the horizon surrounding the shoppers
    Came the deafening roar of chickens in choppers

    We will fight for bovine freedom
    And hold our large heads high
    We will run free with the Buffalo, or die
    Cows with guns

  • ExtremeDullard@piefed.socialOP
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    13 hours ago

    If that doesn’t tell you the midterms will be diddled with by the orange kiddie diddler, I don’t know what does…

  • Freeposity@lemmy.world
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    To be clear, the US federal government has not refused international election monitors ever. This policy of allowing international election observers to observe our elections only started in 2002. However, in 2012 Texas and Iowa both threatened international observers with criminal prosecution if they came within 100 feet of polling places.

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    “If you’ve got nothing to hide…”

    Oh, that’s just for the peasants, got it.

  • kylie_kraft@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    it’s fucking bonkers that Trump is practically screaming that he’s going to steal the midterms by any means possible and we’re all just kind of like yeah, whatevs

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      Very few were ever taught what to do and how to do it if the government were ever radicalized and performed a hostile fascist takeover feom within. Most were indoctrinated to trust the system to be fair. No one is at all prepared to act, least of all the military.

      But yeah, quite a few are just focused on their own little lives and hoping the system just works.

      Congress are the true criminals in all this. It was their responsibility to check the balance of power and they failed miserably (and intentionally). Complicit spineless sycophantic fucks. When he finally does succeed in forming the Citizens’ United Democratic Republic of American Sub-States, how many of them do you think will avoid his (literal) axe?

  • KulunkelBoom@lemmus.org
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    Yeah… international election judges tend to really frown upon being shot to death by the gestapo at the polls. I’m sure trump is just looking out for their best interests. Now, if Americans watching for trump’s slimy underhanded election tricks start getting plugged - he won’t worry at all.