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.
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.
They haven’t received their lines yet
This is exactly why trump is saying this shit openly in advance.
C’mon father time! What the hell is keeping you. And bring your friend with the scythe.
How are you all feeling about Democratic Socialist Francesca Hong’s last second loss to Crowley in the Wisconsin primary after five USBs had the “wrong info” and a huge vote dump at the end to give the establishment Dem the win despite trailing massively? Myself, I’m of the opinion we can’t trust our elections
I haven’t trusted our elections since 2000 when Bush stole Florida. Even as a child it was obvious something was wrong.
Trump always lies about his accomplishments. He never lies about what he wants to do.
This isn’t shocking and has been floated around the real question how will people respond to it. It doesn’t help they gave him that semi king status where anything as a Presidential act is fine to do.
As a former National Guard officer I am concerned that the Guard will be turned on us and most of the Guardsman will not push back. I live in the South and I know most of the state governors will do nothing. I hope the blue state governors do something. I hope the Guardsman remember their oath. I am not hopeful. Prepare for the worst.
I hope the blue state governors do something.
glancing from Tim Walz to Gavin Newsom to Josh Shapiro
I wouldn’t hold my breath.
The Antichrist who hates America and is raping children while stealing billions doesn’t want to be held accountable? Crazy!
It doesn’t matter. This is going to be like 2020, where the outrage was so strong that it overwhelmed all their cheating schemes. That’s why he’s so fixated on that race. He knows he cheated, and should have won. If Biden won, it can only mean that he must have cheated worse, so if he can find evidence of Dem cheating, it will be end of the Dems, and MAGA will be in power forever.
He can’t possibly believe that Biden had that many legal votes, because them he’d have to believe that he’s hated that much, and he thinks people love him.
It’s how a dumb 9 year-old thinks, but that’s Trump.
There is literally a quote by the buffoon that he hasn’t changed since first grade.
He has a compulsion to brag about his crimes.
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Keep it offline. Learn xo skills
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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?
He’s still winning.
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.
I’d consider Orbán to be a narcissist too, though. Although not quite as far removed from the real world as Trump, of course.
Because he is legally protected by the office of the president. Once he leaves, he will be prosecuted, and will go to prison for the rest of his life, for multiple offenses.
Can you pass your copium, I’m running low.
Once he leaves, he will be prosecuted
It’s Mueller Time! rides again
He’s as likely to go to prison as he is to have his face on Rushmore
he will be prosecuted, and will go to prison for the rest of his life
If it actually came to that (and I don’t see why it would) he would flee to Russia or Saudi Arabia before spending a day in prison.
he would flee to Russia or Saudi Arabia
You misspelled Florida
LOL. Name one President who ever suffered consequences for his actions. Ever.
Abraham Lincoln
I think he’ll take action much closer to the actual election. When it’s too soon for the courts to say anything about it.
He’s desperate and scared. He can’t dig himself out of his shithole. He has nothing to lose by nullifying the midterms. The only hope the USA has is that he dies.
He can try, states are going to vote though.
America held elections during the literal civil war, we can hold elections while an orange vapor balloon tried to fat on them.
We just need everyone to see what’s going on and overcome fear. Once people hear about this nonsense I expect any remaining people that aren’t awake yet but can be reached will wake up and they won’t tolerate it.
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?
It may come to that.
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?
he always fucks up everything he touches
Like he fucked up the 2016 and 2024 elections? He sure seems to have a lot of power for someone that fucks everything up.
Yeah…Americans love to blame Trump for all the power they repeatedly give him.
I’m not convinced we gave him anything. There are Russian Tails in 2016, 2020, and 2024 all in favor of him. You can see it get more pronounced in every election with the 2024 election being the most obvious, likely because they failed to successfully cheat in 2020 thanks to all the mail-in ballots.
Including more data on the numbers here: https://electiontruthalliance.org/analysis/clark-county-nevada/ There are more states you can look at, but you’ll need to go back to the main page and scroll down to the bottom for the other states.
And that’s not counting all the other election interference like the bomb threats, and mail in ballots found in ditches, or the purged voter rolls. But of course they poisoned the well by projecting their own actions on to the Democratic Party, so now if you dare to say the a man known for fraud, and cheating did it fucking again, you get called blue maga or some shit.
his crime ring must be dismantled. need an Eliot Ness with untouchables to rein them in. on his own, he fails.
