• NutWrench@lemmy.ml
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    6 hours ago

    Elections are run by the States, not the Feds and Trump says a lot of stupid sh*t. This isn’t something Trump can just “Hereby Do Dee-clare” and it becomes reality.

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      People keep saying that but you have to realize that laws are only enforceable or even a thing when the mechanisms in place and society wants to enforce it. There is a bunch of outdated laws that everyone kinda decides to not enforce it anymore. And here we have all the 3 powers that should keep each other in check all working together. Most of Congress (both the Senate and the House of representative), the courts and the executive branch all supporting the government agenda, and it is both on all levels of government, local, state and federal. And to make it worse, all the media corporations that sometimes work as a 4th power also support it and close to half the population also supports the government. So it does not matter if it is legal or not.

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      6 hours ago

      Not according to the law, but he does have a personal army of trigger-happy thugs who can just march in and kidnap or shoot the people running elections, or steal the ballots, or kidnap, shoot or intimidate voters.