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.
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.
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?
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?
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
They haven’t received their lines yet
This is exactly why trump is saying this shit openly in advance.
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.
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.
The Antichrist who hates America and is raping children while stealing billions doesn’t want to be held accountable? Crazy!
is it time that the UN starts to talk about putting [armed?] observers on the ground to make sute that the elections are not tampered with, like they do for other 3rd world countries?
and ICC when he tries to flee. Siberia can build a lovely gulag with his name on it. or let Iran rehabilitate him.
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.
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
Respect
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.
That’s why we plan for mutual aid right now.
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.
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
…buy more food?
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).
I feel like fucking with the election could actually be the trigger for more people to actually act and even march in mass on Waahington. Its the one thing I can think of that I would very likely go for.
It would basically be the final break for “Are we permenantly broken as a country.”
Is that right? Because I’m not convinced. Even with data like this the knowledge of Trump’s remarks about Elon “knowing computers”, his completely lackluster few rallies before the 2024 elections, the bomb threats, the millions of mail-in ballots in ditches, and the various other election interference, we still haven’t organized as a nation and removed the cheater.
In fact getting most people to actually look at the data is like pulling teeth.
I think instead we’ll just roll over like the livestock we are for our oligarchic masters, as we’ve done so far.Would love to be proven wrong though. Please my fellow Americans, prove my doubts wrong. Organize and become Wolves.
Nah. They’re all too busy scrolling TikTok.
I don’t know. We let an insurrection happen and then re-elected the leader of it. Not sure how many final lines we can have to cross. I think our government has already proven it’s completely broken and needs to be replaced.
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You do realize how close we were to elected officials hanging from the gallows on the front steps of the capitol, right? 1 locked door and a half dozen cops.
But regardless, the point is that the ringleader was never punished, and he was reelected and is sitting in the Oval Office right now talking about committing more election fraud after Elon “fixed those machines right up” in 2024.
We need to start getting ready for the mass strike right now. The one that temporarily shuts off power plants, water treatment plans and grinds the entire economy to a halt. Evaporating 50% of their stock market assets should grab their attention.
Fuck strikes I got fists let them shoot my ass, I don’t mind bein a martyr
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.
How does that even work? Its not “North and South”, its racist idiots in the sticks and everyone else.
Then you end the fucking racists like Sherman should have
He isn’t ‘mulling’ it or even considering it, it’s already set into motion. They’re going to steal the midterms. Everybody knows except for the American people it seems who will gladly except their already shithole country will become that even more
I think you’ll find that many Americans see this as the last bit of faith in the system they have left. If it gets pulled out of their hands, you’re going to see a very different type of American.
I’ve given up on America caring
Dead ones, yes.
got that right. drones are good at hunting already.
That would set off much worse than just protests across the country.
Subway sandwiches on standby.
They want 1940s Germany let’s give them 1730s France
Time to prepare for mass protests. Completely surround the White House if he does that.
These people will rake you down with belt-fed machine guns before they acquiesce to “public pressure” to resign their most powerful office.
But they won’t have to, because they just have to ignore you like No Kings and then you’ll go home.
Fine, then don’t come you cynical asshole. It’s way cooler to sit on your fat ass at home doing nothing.
It’s too late for protests. lol
No, just needs a lot of people with signs. That’ll fix it
Finally we have some working solutions. I can’t go physically but i can support by posting about the protest online! Let’s do this!
I posted a black square on my instagram in 2020, so I did my part.
I can like your post, power to the people!
