President Donald Trump is openly hinting at taking over the midterm elections by declaring a national emergency.
Newsmax’s Wayne Allen Root interviewed Trump just after midnight Tuesday morning, and said that Trump had the right to declare a national security emergency next month, forcing through photo identification, proof of citizenship, limits on mail-in ballots, and other heavy voting restrictions. Trump seemed to like that suggestion, but didn’t want to tip his hand.
“Let me just say stranger things have happened, okay? I’ll leave it at that,” Trump said.
Trump is afraid of massive Republican losses in November’s midterms, and has been unsuccessfully pushing his allies in Congress to pass the draconian SAVE Act. With that appearing more unlikely each day, Democrats and other Trump critics are raising concerns that he may take drastic action, such as declaring a national emergency and maybe deploying legions of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to the polls.
In fact, Democrats have been trying for close to a year to get documents from the Department of Homeland Security regarding its policies and memos on sending ICE agents to polls. Agents were seen at polling places in Texas during its May primaries and in California in June, but when Democrats used the Freedom of Information Act to investigate, they were sent useless press clippings.
If Trump tries to invoke national security to take over federal elections, it would shatter precedent and could set off lawsuits and protests across the country. His repeated, disproven claims about voter fraud and rigged elections suggest that he’ll make the same excuses in November. The question is how to ensure a fair and accurate result that can stand up to his attacks.
Why doesn’t he just pull an Orbán and quit? He’s rich and nobody’s going to sue him. Why live like this when you don’t have to?
I have come to understand narcissim is classified underpersonality disorder because of the sheer lack of self-preservation they have.
At the end of the day, it’s about tearing down and going into the grave screaming for them, along with taking as many as possible.
This was the plan since day 1. Don’t act surprised now or when there are armed men at polling stations on Election Day.
Would it be common sense to organise against this? Would it not set a good precedent for Americans to encircle the polling stations and make their grudge known?
The surest way to turn a +/- 2 Talarico electorate into a 5-6 point Talarico win is to openly try and fuck with the election.
Even in Texas. Even when (some of) the Republicans are as corrupt as god makes politicians, including the candidate and their governor. Turns out, it’s a lot harder to propagandize people in the middle of the bullshit you’re pulling.
Incidentally, that’s why some of your Republican friends and family are at their most reasonable immediate after something happens. They haven’t received their lines yet, and the feelings of the story are still their primary decision drivers.
This is also why I think the more immediate goal of Democrats and progressives is to attack the right wing propaganda vectors. If those collapse even if it’s just say talk radio, tv, and maybe Facebook it’ll destroy a lot of the transmission capabilities and people will more likely make decisions based on their actual baseline personalities.
As for how to destroy them, I say just blow out their business models. Ban their ability to advertise and collect data.
And if things escalate to a violent country situation, a V for Vendetta country, then those places you’ve mentioned should be the absolute #1 first priority for the rebel militia.
Just like in that movie, now that I think on it. Odd…
It isn’t too odd when you think about it, Alan Moor and I both read 1984 which places a good bit of focus on propaganda and methods of control. Makes sense that two people pulling from the same source will come to similar conclusions, even if Moor was writing on the aftermath of an isolationist fascistic regime while I’m planning on how to blow the kneecaps out of one before it becomes fully entrenched.
Also I have only consumed V for Vendetta comic break downs but I have listened to an audio comic drama of watchman and watched the movie and yeah I agree with Moor fuck most of the adaptations of his works, The Justice League adaptation gets a pass though.
That would set off much worse than just protests across the country.
my solace with every crazy scheme is that he always fucks up everything he touches. waiting for spectacular losing. would interfere with his JD blanket pardon scheme, ala nixon. either way he’ll screw himself. party of confederacy only knows failure. like to play soldier, fat fuck?
We need to all be eyeing the break glass solution: a general strike. If Trump subverts the elections, then we turn off the economy until fair elections are held.
A general strike is functionally impossible in the US. You’d need every major industry, every freight industry, and every service industry nationwide onboard. Most of the workers in those industries can’t afford a weeks long strike. You’d need every major port on board. You’d need the capitalists to coordinate it because Americans fucking hate each other. We will have an open civil war with atrocities every day before we have a general strike.
Which is why I believe a rent/mortgage strike is far more viable. Builds up our resources as the working class, instead of depleting them. Imagine just a single month of no rent/mortgatge how much you could stock up in terms of supplies for a general strike.
Now imagine a whole neighborhood doing that, a whole town, a whole city, a whole state. It would do severe economical damage, and possibly even crash housing prices.
Especially if paired with weaponizing local homeless populations by encouraging them to take residence in the various empty homes we have here in the U.S.(which last I think I heard was like 22 empty homes for every homeless person).
It’s all good in words, but I’ve got maybe 3 days worth of food at my place. So come day 5 I’m fucked
That’s why we’re supposed to take care of each other in situations like that. My kitchen is overstocked and I’m a chef who knows how to make the most out of what’s available. I share my food and you pitch in however you can.
This is the way
I’m well versed in the art of I’m sure this and that will go together lol. I just know I am out of meat and am low on lentils at the moment. Was trying to think of something I could use the lentils for tonight.
My go-to for lentils is Dahl
Come over to my place. I’ve got lots of food. Mutual aid is essential in a general strike.
Or … just bust down the locked door of the grocery store and take some food. Illegalism is also good.
And hopefully at this point people will realize that it was designed to be that way, then do something about it. This is modern slavery.
Sadly, I doubt it, they will still blame trans and brown people while being fucked by psychopaths.
…buy more food?
Yeah, it’s not something everyone can just prepare and brace for on their own. It will require a temporary switch to full blown socialism wherein people take care of each other until everyone is on their own feet again*.
- Which is never, if capitalism has its way
You may need civil war before this is over. If striking is breaking glass, what would civil war be?
If striking is breaking glass, what would civil war be?
When they send in the cops and military to try and force people back to work, and people start shooting back.
Subway sandwiches on standby.
They want 1940s Germany let’s give them 1730s France
Is there any legal precedent for what happens when would-be voters are detained in front of polls by federal agents for bullshit reasons that definitely have nothing to do with their voter registration? If not, I’m sure there will be.
Yep. There will be many such cases. Held for 24 hours, then released without charges. But, oops! They missed the election and couldn’t vote!
They can sue, and maybe even get some money out of it months or years later, but the election is already over and they still can’t cast their vote.
This is what’s most likely to happen imo. And if any single polling station faces “resistance” he’ll just use it to lock the whole country down.
There aren’t enough federal agents. Even ice, to make a gigantic impact here.
This will only be a small part of the play.
For midterms for the house, sure there are
They already rigged districts and can focus such efforts on a handful of districts. Similar story for statewide elections, interfere with a single big city in a state and that could assure a senator.
He does this imma get violent, first the flock cams then the brutality, this is his only warning… Fuck these pedophiles mofos
Keep it offline. Learn xo skills
I got more skills in my piss, than that old senile pedophile should be dead crook of a president
“Let me just say stranger things have happened, okay? I’ll leave it at that,” Trump said.
I’d love to hear some specifics. I doesn’t feel like things have ever been this crazy.
Jim Crow only existed because whites were able to threaten and prevent blacks from voting (Thanks, Johnson).
Hitler basically had a coup handed to him but stayed technically “elected” again via fear and fraud.
There’s a lot of crazy shit Republicans are doing and courts are allowing that should be unthinkable.
Newsmax’s Wayne Allen Root interviewed Trump just after midnight Tuesday morning,
Ok first of all, wtf is this?
