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WHO WOULD WIN?

Dynamite (Objectified) VS Thragg (Invincible)

Who would win

Dynamite

Thragg

Voting ended onMay 26

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The Dazzlings vs Saja Boys debate

Am I completely late to the party on this one? Yes. Do I care? Absolutely not. I'm going to subject you to my opinions today.

I feel like when people compare the Dazzlings to the Saja Boys and so confidently claim that the Dazzlings would win, no competition, they're conveniently forgetting that in terms of how their powers work, the Dazzlings are just a more competent Velvet and Veneer. They're complete phonies that rely on outside sources for their talent. I think we're also forgetting the fact that the Saja Boys are LITERAL DEMONS? WHO EAT PEOPLE? But I'm getting ahead of myself. I would also like to mention that, if we were to project the plot of KPDH onto MLPEG, the Dazzlings wouldn't even be the main competition and quite frankly wouldn't be a target unless they made themselves a target, which brings me to my next point.

As clever and evil as they are, the Dazzlings are still petty high school girls at their core and act that way, too. In the original plot of Rainbow Rocks, the girls were able to defeat them while still playing fair. The only scenarios in which the Saja Boys would play fair with the Dazzlings is if they were to either use the Dazzlings to further their cause (bringing down the Honmoon) or simply entertain their ideas out of amusement. Since they are not opponent No.1, I sincerely would not put it past them to just wipe the Dazzlings out for convenience if they got too annoying (either by exposing them as phonies or again, straight up just eating them or letting other demons eat them), because the only point of playing fair in the original plot of KPDH is to sway the crowd in their favor and beating Huntrix at their own game. Considering the crowd of EG mainly consists of high schoolers that were already riled up for this 'Battle of the Bands' and have already been shown to not see evil right in their faces on multiple occasions, one of those factors of playing fair is already out of the way. And even further, considering that the girls are just participants and not manufacturers of this competition, I would argue they don't exactly have that second reason either unless they're specifically doing it to get on Dash's nerves, but I digress.

"But why didn't they just eat the Huntrix!" The Huntrix are armed and trained for this specific conflict. The Dazzlings, the girls, and quite frankly the entire high school as a whole, are not.

"But the Dazzlings have the entire school backing them and in love with them and they have mind control!" The Saja Boys had, at the VERY least, an entire city backing them, if we only take into account the locations we see in the movie. And they have also displayed that they also have mind control through extension of Gwi-Ma. Also lets be so serious with the mind control argument, do you really think that even if they can get into the Saja Boys' heads through their negativity to control them, they would get past GWI-MA's INFLUENCE? I think not. They already have a puppetmaster, and he will NOT let a trio of petty high school girls push him off his throne in their heads.

"But what if the Dazzlings were in their siren forms!" I genuinely don't think the conflict between them would last long enough for the Dazzlings to recognize them as an actual threat until it's too late, and big daddy Gwi-Ma is at their front door. And especially if the Saja Boys can sway the other competitors and spectators in a similar way they did in the KPDH movie, which I would argue would cut off a lot of the negative energy that the Dazzlings feed off of in the first place.

Now, mind you, I'm not trying to say that the Saja Boys would sweep the floor with them 100%, but I am saying that it would AT LEAST be a fair fight if not weighed in their favor. I'm tired of people saying that "The Dazzlings would win, no competition!" because yall are CLEARLY not thinking about the circumstances fairly. A lot of people are just biased towards the Dazzlings, either because of nostalgia or because they just don't like K-Pop Demon Hunters as a movie, and don't think any further beyond that. Yes, the Dazzlings are clever, and yes, they are competent. But they're also cocky high school girls and bullies, which even if that furthers their goal and spreads negativity for them to feed off of, does not automatically give them a win against a group of demons with actual genuine talent and charm that could easily match their own, and arguably more years of experience in the sly and sinister field.

But anyways, back to drawing and daydreaming about writing fanfics instead of actually writing them, and thinking about King Candy x Count Olaf because I'm perfectly healthy.

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Trump Anti-Voting Order Draws Furious Pushback

Read more here.

After President Donald Trump issued an executive order Tuesday that experts said could potentially disenfranchise millions, Democratic election officials and voting rights advocates swiftly vowed to fight it.

“This is not a statute. This is an edict by fiat from the executive branch, and so every piece of it can be challenged through the regular judicial process,” Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes (D) said in an interview with Democracy Docket.

Fontes called Trump’s order a “cheap substitute” for the SAVE Act — the GOP’s nationwide proof of citizenship bill — that he doesn’t think will pass through the Senate, but also offered a particularly nefarious reading of its true purpose: setting up a way to cancel the 2026 midterm elections.

“I genuinely believe that the Trump administration wants to cancel the 2026 elections so that he and his party can stay in power,” he said. “And we have to fight like hell against that by every means available.”

“Trump’s executive order is unlawful,” Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold (D) said in a statement. “It would prevent eligible Americans from exercising their sacred right to vote. The Trump administration is weaponizing the federal government and trying to make it harder for voters to fight back at the ballot box.”

California Sen. Alex Padilla (D) — who previously served as the California secretary of state — also slammed Trump’s order. “I know full well that President Trump’s executive order does nothing to improve the safety of our federal elections — what it would do is disenfranchise millions of eligible American voters,” he said in a statement. “President Trump is a notorious election denier. He lacks the authority to implement many of the changes laid out in this illegal executive order, which also ignores the requirements set forth in the bipartisan Help America Vote Act.”

“The executive order signed today by Donald Trump is a blatant federal attack on states power and eligible American voters everywhere. Let’s be clear: this action aims to make free, fair, and accessible elections nearly impossible.”

Drew Godinich, the interim executive director of the Democratic Association of Secretaries of State, called Trump’s order a “blatant federal attack on states’ power and eligible American voters everywhere” and said in a statement that “our democracy is in peril in a way we have never seen before.”

He added that Democratic secretaries of state “are doing everything in their power to ensure our country survives the next four years — and our work has never been more critical.”

The ACLU pledged to challenge the order’s legality.

“This is an extreme abuse of power — we’ll see him in court,” the group wrote on Bluesky.

The Democratic election lawyer Marc Elias said his law firm also will sue. (Elias is the founder of Democracy Docket.)

“Moments ago, Donald Trump signed a massive voter suppression executive order,” Elias wrote on Bluesky, “This will not stand. We will sue.”

The election law professor Rick Hasen called the order “an executive power grab” that could “potentially disenfranchise millions of voters.”

“This executive order, if it could survive the inevitable judicial challenge, would severely shift power over federal elections into the hands of the Presidency,” Hasen added.

Wendy Weiser, the vice president for democracy at the Brennan Center for Justice, noted on Bluesky that “the president doesn’t have the power to override a law passed by Congress,” and called the order “the SAVE Act but much worse. It is an illegal power grab that would block tens of millions from voting.”

Outlined in the order are a number of measures that would severely reshape how elections are run in the U.S. — and potentially disenfranchise millions of voters in the process. Chief among them is a proof of citizenship requirement for all Americans who attempt to register to vote or to update registration information through a federal form — a move that would make it much harder for eligible voters to use the form.

“Just like the massive voter suppression law moving through Congress, this is about locking the doors to democracy and handing the keys to oligarchs and super rich campaign donors,” Fair Fight CEO Lauren Groh-Wargo said in a statement. “We’ve faced down power-hungry politicians before — and every time, we come back tougher, louder, and more relentless.”

The order also threatens to punish states that count ballots received after Election Day, along with significant modifications to voting systems and security standards for voting equipment.

“Cutting the very programs that keep elections safe from cyberattacks does not ‘streamline’ national security,” Tim Harper, senior policy analyst of elections and democracy at the Center for Democracy & Technology, said in a statement to Democracy Docket. “Cuts to federal preparedness and cyber support will not reduce ‘taxpayer burdens,’ they’ll actually shift the cost of cybersecurity services to states and counties, and leave communities more open to cyberattacks on schools, emergency services, and local governments.”

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The MAGA and Musk Fever Dream to End Democracy

Elon’s in. Project 2025 is moving forward. And Trump has told us the plan out loud.

Max Flugrath for Zeteo:

“In four years, you don’t have to vote again. We’ll have it fixed so good you’re not going to have to vote.” That’s what Donald Trump told a crowd in 2024. If we didn’t know what he meant then, we do now. One of his latest executive orders is a lawless power grab to seize control of elections and silence voters. The order reads like a MAGA fever dream – giving unprecedented and likely unlawful powers to the president, and bulldozing our Constitution. It requires showing documents like passports or Real IDs to use the federal voter registration form – things many don’t have or would have to pay for – despite courts ruling this is illegal. Even conservative legal experts are calling it an unlawful overreach. This would impact at least 21 million eligible Americans’ voter registrations. With Black, Latino, rural, low-income, and naturalized voters most impacted – folks who already face systemic voting barriers. New Hampshire lawmakers passed a similar citizenship-document law, and voters were turned away from a recent local election. Giving Elon Musk and his so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) power to comb through state voter rolls may be the most dangerous part. Trump wants an unelected oligarch – with roots in apartheid South Africa – to help him decide who’s American enough to vote. DOGE’s weaponized incompetence is a recipe for mass database errors and thousands – maybe millions – of Americans’ voter registrations being wrongly canceled. Here’s MAGA’s likely plan: DOGE stirs up chaos, then Trump points to the mess as proof of election law violations – and uses it to block eligible voters. States that count mail ballots after Election Day could lose federal funds under Trump’s order. That means overseas and military ballots could be tossed – even if mailed on time. The newly-corrupted Justice Department is being told to enforce this gross and “bonkers” misinterpretation of federal law. The DOJ was also told to prioritize investigations of votes that violate election law and Trump’s order proclaimed the agency has “failed to prioritize and devote sufficient resources” to stop voting by people who aren’t citizens. Data going back to 2002 from the Heritage Foundation (the right-wing group behind Project 2025) found just 85 examples. But facts don’t matter under the Project 2025 playbook.

Bypassing Congress and the Courts

This executive order is how Trump plans to get what Congress and the courts haven’t yet handed him: control over who gets to vote. With a massive voter suppression bill up for discussion in the House Rules Committee this week, but facing steep odds in the US Senate, this order takes its most dangerous provisions and makes the documentation aspects worse. It echoes North Carolina’s 2013 voter ID law – struck down for targeting Black voters “with almost surgical precision” by choosing ID types they’re less likely to have. This whole scheme reads like a follow-up to the infamous call where Trump demanded Georgia’s secretary of state “find” him 11,780 votes he didn’t earn. That call featured one of this order’s likely architects, Cleta Mitchell – who helped Trump plot to seize voting machines in 2020. [...]

Time to Organize

We can’t sit by and count on the courts to save us. We are the check. That means speaking up, organizing, and showing up in local and state elections. The Constitution is clear: Congress and the states run elections. MAGA knows it. That’s why Musk dumped massive donations behind the MAGA candidate in the fast-approaching and crucial Wisconsin Supreme Court race. Demand that Congress do its job and rein in this rambling, maniacal wannabe king. Urge your governor not to comply. Push your election officials to stand up.

Fair Fight's Max Flugrath wrote in Zeteo that the Trump/Musk co-presidency is following the Project 2025 and DOGE playbooks in dismantling what is left of our nation’s democracy.

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They just don't make games like this anymore...

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Did y’all see this shit? Beautiful.