Donald Trump’s campaign strategist for his 2016 election win says: “I believe we will have a national emergency declared by late August,” ahead of the Congressional midterm elections due on November 3. “You will have enough evidence by mid-August to show that we have a massive problem” of election fraud, he tells me in an interview. Trump’s televised address to the nation on Thursday last week was the beginning of the process, he says.
The president declassified documents, which he claimed show “shocking vulnerabilities in our election infrastructure” revealed by the 2020 election.
These had been hidden, even from him, by a “deep state” conspiracy of US intelligence services, he posited.
Trump demanded that the Congress pass a bill called the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility, or SAVE, Act. The bill stipulates that all voters produce a passport or birth certificate to be eligible to vote. Democrats denounce it as an effort at mass disenfranchisement. The Brennan Centre for Justice at New York University estimates that it could block 21 million Americans from the ballot box.
Under the US Constitution, it’s the states, not the federal government, that run elections. The SAVE Act would force state governments to hand voter roll information to Washington.
Trump sent his Homeland Security Secretary, Markwayne Mullin, out the following morning to issue a threat to state officials: they could face prison time unless they followed the administration’s orders to remove non-citizens from rolls.
We have a national emergency. And congress failed to deal with it twice, during Trump’s first term. Sadly, I don’t think that’s the emergency he’s going to claim.
Not just midterms to worry about btw. One year ago nearly to the day: https://www.c-span.org/clip/white-house-event/president-trump-quips-about-canceling-2028-elections-if-us-is-at-war/5170008
During the war, you can’t have elections? So let me just see, three and a half years from now, if we happen to be in a war with somebody, no more elections? That’s good.
Pretty sure he said pretty much the same thing ahead of the 2020 election.
Fuck Steve Bannon, genuinely crazy he walks around free without fear
Right? Like why platform a guy who got bankrupted by lying about school shootings being a hoax?
I have no doubt that this will happen. The Iran war is about to hit a nasty escalation with usa ground troops. It will not be a decisive victory because Iran makes about 55,000 drones a year. Last year it shipped them to Russia. Now they will be used against americans and the other gulf states. Desalination plants will be the first targets and then watch the whole mideast explode and the world economy tip into recession and possibly depression.
This could well happen soon and then drumpf will cancel midterms.
Heritage Foundation: “We want a supreme ethno state that controls the world.”
The World: “Fuck you!”
Who owns the voting machines? Who audits the software? How are the votes tabulated? Are they using remote servers like in Ohio 2004?
For me as a European it’s weird why there is such push back against voter ID. could someone explain what the deal is? in my country you can’t vote without an ID with a photo and I think it’s normal that you need to prove who you are when you vote.
This is one of those things where you need to understand the intricacies of how our elections work. You don’t and no one here will have the time or patience to explain it to people that don’t need to know. Voter ID is against our constitution.
It would be nice if foreigners understood they can’t possibly learn why this is in a social media comment and to not make ignorant assumptions just because “well it works in my tiny little country”.
Not US but the answer is simple.
IDs are a taboo in the US (otherwise the government would interfere with your privacy or something).
So they have
- Passports (too bad that a small percentage of population has)
- Birth certificates (yeah, super secure /s, in practice just a way to bar people that changed their name/surname)
- Driving licenses/liquor id: these are the closest to IDs but technically they are not ID. The proposed changes are exactly for stopping accepting driving licenses
- SSN: don’t even make me started
The problem is that in this country there is no automatically issued national id. To get one costs money and takes time, something the demographic they are trying to prevent voting does not have in abundance.
Also, elections are run by the states in this country, and most do already require a proof. My state requires a utility bill, or ID, or something that proves you live at the address, which are tied to voter roles. So the ID thing is a red herring mostly, and non-citizen voters are usually limited to tiny fractions of percentages if any. It is not an actual problem, just a useful one.
We have our IDs, but they want more than that, they want birth certificates becuase apparently, they all want passports, birth certificates which is really hard to get because not everyone still has their natural name. Social Security Cards are hard because the Social Security Administration is a pain in the ass to work with and sometimes they don’t have your information either.
To get a new SSN card, you’re going to need your parent’s SSN as well. Which is incredibly difficult because not every parent knows their SSN by heart or better yet, some people don’t even know where their parents are, some people don’t even have relationships with them anymore.
It’s literally such a hassle, the regular common Joe/Jane is not gonna do that, they’re going to ignore it becasue they don’t want to deal with the hassle because the regular common person in America is working hard and working a hard life at that.
Note that it stipulates passport or birth certificate and perhaps marriage certificate, and gives them leeway to waive these requirements. It’s rationalized by “voter identity”, but a birth certificate doesn’t prove your identity, even if you can validate it (mine is a rotting old piece of paper with an embossed stamp, seems easy enough to fake), it would only mean a person was born with the name that you claim to have.
For many people, the specifically requested documents are lost or they never had them.
Now if this was a “need to establish a fair voter id system and issue cards to all voters with a reasonable timeline to actually pull this off”, then the argument could be made. But it is a last minute “better have you birth certificate right now, no time to get replacements from the government, don’t vote instead, unless we decide you are ok, then you can vote anyway”.
Particularly the leeway to not require the document is similar to another voter suppression method of the past. “Pass a literacy test to vote”, which might sound like an …ok… idea, except the tests were designed to be impossible to pass, with bad wording, multiple plausibly correct options, etc. But at least it was unfair to everyone, right? Oh, if your grandfather could vote, you are exempted. So a lot of black people were conveniently blocked from exemption on a test that claimed to support educated voting but was just designed to ti fail everyone that would be required to take it.
We have that as well but it’s managed by each state instead of nationally. Usually with a state drivers license or state level ID card.
People are not against voter ID, we are against bad voter ID that disenfranchises people before an election.
Americans, where is your outrage??
We’re waiting for the Midterm Election. Once that’s over, and the Dems have taken over Congress on a bloodbath, we’ll release our outrage.
We won’t be electing the same loser weenies we elected last time, who absolutely REFUSED to hold MAGA accountable, and then helped them get back on their feet and steal the election again. The next Dem Congress will be angry, and seeking to punish MAGAs for the corruption and treason.
How I wish what you’re saying will turn out to be true.
Yet, most I’ve seen from U.S. Dems is some fancy dressing for Donnie’s address to Congress, some sad letters by Schumer, and Newsom trolling MAGA on Xitter. If this is all U.S. Dems have after YEARS of possible preparation, this revolution will be little more than a fart in the wind.
Half the problem is that Dem voters give their leaders permission to do nothing. Before they’ve even taken back power, they are are already saying “It doesn’t matter, they never do anything to help us anyway.”
How about telling them: " We’re going to give you another shot, but we’re going to elect warriors this time. You better help them fight, or we’re coming after YOU, too."
I feel like my outrage fuse broke the first time he was elected.
we’re too tired, poor, sick and shitting ourselves. oh, and convinced the problem is the immigrants or homeless or brown or trans folks.
So 350 million pussies. Got it.
I guess masturbating over your 2nd amendment was just noise this whole time.
349 million pussies! Leave Luigi out of this!
that’s been the plan all along; from the ones in washington to the capitalists helping because a shit population helps them, too. we’ll sadly never have an actual revolutionary solution to this shit.
There will suddenly be a lot of “fake birth certificates” and “fake passports” for blue electorate voters.
Here’s the plan for how the SAVE Act is intended to work:
- SAVE Act requires voter ID, but it actually requires a photo ID that says “US citizen” on the ID.
- For most people, the only identity documents that do that are passport books and passport cards.
- Bad news: By and large, Americans don’t have passports. Passport adoption is really low compared to Europe.
- Suddenly a bunch of Americans have to apply for passports to vote. Many will have trouble gathering the required documents, including birth certificates and marriage licenses (for name changes). Many won’t get it done in time.
- What a disaster! So many people can’t vote!
- But wait! SAVE Act comes in with a solution! States can be exempted from the ID bullshit.
- But there’s a catch! To get the exemption, your state must have been turning over its voter rolls to the feds, quarterly, since July, 2025.
- If your state, like every, uh, blue state, hasn’t been doing that… Well, I guess it just sucks to suck. There’s no way to become compliant now, and the SAVE Act hasn’t even been enacted yet.
Suddenly a bunch of Americans have to apply for passports to vote. Many will have trouble gathering the required documents, including birth certificates and marriage licenses (for name changes). Many won’t get it done in time.
In addition, the agency that processes the passport requests can use voter data to selectively deny applications.
Oh, you’re a democrat voter in a battleground state… Sorry it took us 6 weeks, but it looks like you forgot to write the date in MM/DD/YYY format so we’re going to need you to to re-apply.
Red voter? Crayons are fine, sir.
We’ve been saying that for a year.
Also he’s 0 for 17 on suing states for their voter rolls.
Art of the Spiel
Which is really strange, because the voter rolls are public information in every state of the Union. You can just buy them, and many political action groups do.
Well, it’s not actually about the voter rolls.
Also Trump famously doesn’t pay people.
I don’t know how to switch accounts and fucked up my wife’s entire persona she was building by commenting under her account. Instead of deleting the comments when I realised my mistake, I just switched accounts and left those comments there for her to find when she woke up. I claim to have planned to go back to delete them, but instead I was just gonna completely forget about them.
Why people don’t switch profiles on the operating system level and just let family fuck around with their stuff I’ll never understand.
Unfortunately, a lot of red states probably handed the voter rolls over willingly, without needing a lawsuit at all.
Red states gonna Red state.
This.
It only takes one.
How many times has he declared national emergency. Its lost all meaning when coming from the Republican party.
Can we just skip ahead to the part where the fascist takeover is complete. And then the fucks who said we were just fearmongering start using their new excuses for why ending democracy was necessary to protect the constitution. And then people move the goalposts and say it still isn’t a full nazi style dictatorship because there aren’t yet gas chambers…that we know of.
We need to end democracy to Protect the Kids!!! Also threat of China??? Ayy-Eye!!! Yet you live in fascist society anyways… 🤔 hmm very interesting…
I don’t do politics. Not my thing. If you just follow orders, I’m sure it’ll work out (for the right people) 😇 😇 😇
Didn’t some states experiment with gas chambers for executions already? It’s not unlikely they already exist in use in some official capacity today.
I definitely think some detainees have been secretly executed some way or another. Wonder when they will do it openly and how people will excuse it. I guess MAGA is already okay with police executing people for minor crimes without being convicted so it isn’t that much of a stretch for them to justify mass executions of people who haven’t been convicted of serious crimes
I hate how right you are
I wish so hard every day to be wrong. There has been so much time to turn this ship around. The fascists publicly announced their plans so many times. Yet somehow it’s just being allowed to continue on to the fascist takeover and likely holocaust. It’s plain as day on the way there, there are so many ways it would be stopped in a rational society, yet it continues down that path. What happened to “never again”? What was the point in all that holocaust education in schools if society is just going to let it happen again. BTW, maybe holocaust education in schools should have focused more on how it was allowed to happen, maybe that would have prevented it from happening again
So, his administration is still sticking with the story that china took information from millions of ballots, but didn’t change any votes. How exactly does showing your photo id protect from that? What are they doing to safeguard our polling data? Oh, right, nothing…not even a slap on the wrist for china because “that was a long time ago and they’re a different country now.” It’s all just going to be a bullshit excuse for what’s coming from him.
I think everyone has been mostly peaceful so far because we’re expecting the midterms to change things. If he fucks with the elections, it’s not going to remain peaceful and he’ll use that as an excuse to use the military on citizens and jail democrats.
The Divided States of America. Only way forward.
Wild Wild West was a warning?
I’ve been calling it the Untied States
