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.
The evidence is coming from inside the house.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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”.
Americans, where is your outrage??
I feel like my outrage fuse broke the first time he was elected.
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."
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.
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.
I’ve been calling it the Untied States
Wild Wild West was a warning?
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Right? Like why platform a guy who got bankrupted by lying about school shootings being a hoax?
It’s wild that this writing has been on the wall since at least before he was reelected, and it literally does not matter at all.
What’s worse, is you fucking know the liberals will refuse to stop him, and will help quell the violent leftists.
Honestly it’d be soul crushing depressing watching this whole country implode if it wasn’t also the best reality TV ever produced. Deep state document dumps, “shocking vulnerabilities” nobody can name, a coup dressed up as a voter ID bill. You can’t write this stuff. Grabbing popcorn, front row seat, watching till the end.
non north American curious: Donnie announced a third term yesterday I think, does this means that Obama can also run? it would be interesting to see it, because from what I see in social media, Obama is loved and missed
If Obama tried to run under this pretense ol’Donnie will have him in prison on Trumped up charges as his first political prisoner.
No, Obama can’t run. Only Lumpty Trumpty or any other Republican gets a third term.
There gonna say: you are allowed two consecutive terms. Obama already had those.
Dirty trick that should not be able to stand. But this is an authoritarian society we are talking about
Yes, but this third term wouldn’t be consecutive
Nah, keep in kind they’re going to make up the rules as they go. They’re dramatically incompetent, but this should be easy to restrict to Trump only, even for idiots of their kind.
Also, wouldn’t it be easier to have a puppet run and him VP until a “sudden but debilitating illness” regrettay forcing Annoying Orange to take over again?
VP is also prohibited, would have to be speaker of the house as 3rd in line
What the article isn’t saying is that Bannon himself is part of the plan, making sure everyone knows a national emergency is coming, getting in front of it. Bannon’s not talking about election insecurity out of concern: telling the media now is his part in making it happen. This asshole WANTS a third term and everything that goes with it, including ICE at polling stations:
Steve Bannon Doubles Down on Third Trump Term – Newsweek, April 2026
Also, it bears repeating: before you give this asshole too much credence it’s best to always keep in mind that Bannon was arguably Jeffrey Epstein’s best friend. So close were they that Epstein was on his way to meet Bannon the day he got arrested in 2019. His very last text was to Bannon as he was being detained at Teterboro Airport, telling Bannon their plans are “All canceled” now.
To quote one of Bannon’s texts to Epstein,
The only national emergency is him raping kids. Bullshit cunt of a president. Even Joe Biden was better.
Even Joe Biden was better.
Joe Biden enabled Donald Trump.
Even Joe Biden was better.
Joe Biden enabled Donald Trump.
I don’t get it, but your logic is usually sound.
Did Pres Biden enable Mr Trump by being imperfect, or not demonstrably adequate so people couldn’t be convinced he was inadequate? Biden’s unhealthy parasocial relationship with Israel was an issue, but aside from what I remember as background noise of forgettable decisions I only think of his presidency as boring and incremental improvement.
Were our expectations of so much more, in retrospect, reasonable? Yeah, we probably all hoped for more than some milquetoast victory lap for a last-term civil servant; but with the dirty money coming in, who else could survive a primary and get onto the ballot as an option?
Did Pres Biden enable Mr Trump by being imperfect, or not demonstrably adequate so people couldn’t be convinced he was inadequate?
Biden has the opportunity to arrest, prosecute, and imprison Donald Trump and choose not to go so for his whole four year term.
The only national emergency is him raping kids
Yeah, that’s far from the only national emergency.
Biden was the first president since the 70s who tried to enforce antitrust laws, meaning going against megacorporations to reduce anti-competitive practices.
BRING BACK LINA KHAN
Mamdani just brought her into his administration in NYC
Mamdani
Wow, what a breath of fresh air that guy is. We’re truly in the honeymoon phase on him.
All true.
He also made the biggest mistake in our lifetimes appointing Garland and who dragged his feet for 4 years and let Trump get away starting an insurrection.
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Well, you’re certainly doing your best to make sure it doesn’t.
These people think we’ll get to vote
And he will be ignored. Too many are ready for that shit.
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100%.
