I’ll take problems that can be solved with a treatment regimen of high speed lead injections for 500, Alex.
More treason.
In a healthy nation the Republican party would be disbanded and outlawed.
But this isn’t a healthy nation, so assuming we get to continue having elections and they are fair and the Republicans lose, I expect American’s hamster brains to completely forget about this in one or two election cycles and start flirting with letting these traitors have power again.
This dipshit proved who he was the first time around and we only managed to get through one term without him before letting a child back into the Oval Office. We’re a very stupid nation.
That’s insulting to children. They run Model UN better than this.
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.
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 There is a bunch of outdated laws that everyone kinda decides to not enforce it anymore.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.
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.
We all knew he would do anything and everything possible to stop the midterms. He knows he will go to prison if he gets impeached and charged, so he is waging a full on war on every right we have.
This november will be very interesting with thousands of DHS gestapo at local voting station intimidating voters, GOP refusing to swear in democratic winners, and the hourly posts by the president telling his cult everything is rigged and they are all going to have to fight for something BS.
About that
Why are you posting a picture of your president’s toilet paper?
He doesn’t use toilet paper they just hose him off after a code 2. That picture above is the presidents makeup applicator for covering up bruising on his hands.
Or we could post the part of the constitution that details voting. It’s up to the states to run their elections, congress has some say about when. The 10th amendment forbids the feds from ursurping any authority that states have that isn’t expressly given to the feds in the constitution.
Wait, are we still all thinking he’ll peacefully leave the white house after the shit he pulled last time?
It’s not even about him, it’s the party. He didn’t start the campaign to fix elections, the party did after they successfully bullied the democrats out of the 2000 election and filibustered a recount with court challenges and Ginsberg crossed over and endorsed the steal.
You can draw a straight line from the stolen 2000 election, and it was stolen in multiple ways, from voter suppression, purging valid voters from rolls, putting faulty machines in democratic districts and otherwise sabotaging their use, throwing ballots in the trash from democratic districts, and so on.
This doesn’t end with the president.
I was too young to vote/know about the 2000 election, and I find it fascinating now to learn about it.
Fucking wild ride and it’s been fucked since before maga
The source of this fuckery is the 1971 business roundtable, where monied interests huddled up and made the first iteration of a long game to cooperate on what they agreed on. Dividing and ruining any opposition. ie infection unions with the mafia, corrupting all facets of the establishment, like changing the consumer price index several times to understate it. Since then it’s average 5-8 percent a year just by 2008 under the old measure, and 2-3 percent under the new. That is the biggest, and perhaps most consequential to working people, every year we take a pay cut, and nobody talks about it. They started The Fear of the Others in the 70s and by the 80s and 90s transformed le and the courts into fascist organizations given unconditional support. To make that happen of course they flooded the country with cocaine and taught gangs how to cook crack, to also fund paramilitary death squads in Nicaragua, and probably a lot of other countries that’s just the one we know about. The author that broke that scoop got intense pushback but his reporting checked out and got picked up by other papers, but he committed suicide according to Ohio police, two rounds to the back of the head, worse suicide we ever saw I imagine them saying, but I digress.
Business Plot v2.0, now with more technology
Maybe he will die
🤞
Really hope he doesn’t die peacefully. At the very least he should take a violent shit in his pants before passing.
Trump is in this for his own personal benefit, not something bigger than himself. He will cower at defeat for the sake of survival, but not before he’s actually been defeated. The only way he dies is if he croaks.
The thing is, there’s no mechanism for nationalizing voting, and I don’t really see a clear path for Republicans to do that in the next nine months. They’d have to pass legislation to do that, which would be extremely difficult given their margins in congress. Even then, states control elections as a function of the Constitution, and while the Supreme Court is happy to approve whatever unconstitutional bullshit Trump dreams up, it will take times to get through the courts. He could try to seize control of the voting process from states, but I don’t know that he has the infrastructure to manage the whole voting process through the executive branch, and the fact that he’s asking the Republicans to do this for him makes me think he knows this. Either way, any kind of coup on the election process would face the same legal challenges as legislation.
That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be extremely worried. I think it’s unlikely that the Republicans will, “nationalize the voting,” but I think it’s very likely he’ll send federal goons in to, “prevent voter fraud,” (AKA suppress the vote).
The Executive Order has been their “clear path” to all sorts of shit they have no right doing.
Yes, but most of those have either not been achieved yet or have only been achieved because they were relatively easy. He tried to abolish the 14th Amendment through EO on day one, and it’s just getting to the Supreme Court now. He’s been able to illegally dissolve federal agencies because the Republicans in Congress have abdicated their power, and destroying something is much easier than building it.
Even if he signs an EO to take over the elections tomorrow, he’ll still face legal challenges that will likely wind up in the Supreme Court, and he’ll still need to build out the infrastructure to run these elections federally, something the federal government has never done. I’m not saying that he can’t steal the elections, or that we shouldn’t be worried, but the idea that he’s just going to, “federalize,” elections in fifteen states before the midterms seems pretty unlikely.
Listen to what you just said. Congress won’t act to stop him and SCOTUS takes a year before they might stop him. If he does do an EO tomorrow, the legality of the order likely won’t be settled until after the midterms. The only things in his way are logistics and the people.
What would stand between him are the state Attorneys General. They have been very successful in blocking Trump’s actions through the courts (at least until the Supreme Court, which has been ruling against lower courts’ decisions at an incredibly high rate). It’s likely that the AGs would block this long enough for the midterms.
Hasn’t there already been significant efforts towards a national vote? We saw the massive progress turn into a slow burn on the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, which was the closest we’ve ever come.
That’s about ending the Electoral College. What Trump is talking about is the federal government taking control of how elections are run. The state’s are in charge of conducting their own elections, even federal elections, rather than the federal government, per the Constitution. This is what makes it difficult for Trump to rig elections through direct methods such as ballot stuffing.
The time for the courts to process cases is in favor of the administration seizing control not against it. There is an absolute worry about these clowns seizing control of elections, as they know the blue states will do nothing if they do send the feds in, even with their own state police and national guard, forewarning of the plans, they will do nothing, the republicans know it, we know it.
Until that changes there is nothing to stop them. Ignoring it won’t help, we need new opposition leaders. New politicians and appointees. That is about step one and we keep trying to skip forward to step 3, which will fail without completing the prior steps.
I mean, if you’re talking about Trump sending in federal agents to seize ballots, then yes, that would be bad and there is very little an individual state could do to stop it without an armed conflict. At that point, ballot stuffing would be a secondary concern over the fact that a second Civil War had broken out. I maintain that the more likely scenario, though, will be Trump sending CBP and ICE goons to stop, “illegals,” from voting, which would be a flimsy pretense for voter suppression. But, “federalizing the elections,” would require upednig Article 1, section 4 of the Constitution, and even with our deeply fucked up court system, I can imagine Trump getting that through in 9 months. Maybe I’m wrong, and a favorable court would allow him to proceed until he got it to the Supreme Court, but I think that’s a stretch.
I tend to agree even our courts should be unable to support directly defying the constitution at this point, although since they cancelled lower courts issuing nationwide injunctions I would not be certain. That is license for the feds to throw people in camps without habeous corpus, with no way to stop them. It was a huge betrayal and our media sucks, our historical experts suck, the entire ivy league should all be burnt to the ground because they left us ignorant of that and so many other important facts we should know to prevent total ruin, which is on our path.
I disagree that there is nothing the states could do. They have armed personnel, they have citizens that support them, they have the law on their side. We outnumber them, we have a national guard, we have cops, and we could create militias, of which I would join if not living amongst the enemy as it were, the simple souls don’t realize they are the traitors here but anyway, blue state not only should physically prevent the feds from marching in and running fixed elections, they have a duty to.
Not standing up to them is what led us here, if we stand up now, we can prevent it from getting worse. It’s the lack of pushback that has led the establishments, the courts, et al, to give up pre-emptively. We made sure the democrats won in 2020 and they did nothing with it, allowed everyone to get away with betraying the country, with rank corruption. Not even a cross word from our geriatric leadership let alone a concerted effort to nail them to the wall. Not a purging of traitors from the establishment, not making sure the federal agencies fulfilled their statutory duties but allowed them to remain captured, in this context namely the justice department.
Quickly: let’s do nothing!!!
Trump’s comments come as Republicans in Congress push a bill that would enable massive voter purges, impose photo ID requirements, and ban ranked-choice voting, universal mail-in ballots, and the acceptance of mailed ballots that arrive after Election Day.
And you just KNOW the Democraps are going to let them have it all too.
I can see Schumer now, giving a forceful floor speech, his fist in the air, half-glasses on the podium, “rest assured, this matter is not concluded!” Then promptly voting yes with a promise from republicans that we’ll vote on something else later maybe.
I’m sure he will at least get the promise of a concession before that happens.
He received concepts of a concession.
Just imagine the strongly worded posters designed and printed out by interns. Surely they will turn the tide.
The election was quite close in Minnesota, and Harris won it.
Is his plan as blatant as taking the demographic that voted against him, loading them into a van, and disappearing them?
It could certainly be one plan. Why bet on just one treasonous possibility when you could pursue dozens? That way, most could entirely or almost entirely fail, and you could still get what you want!
It’s a corporation of fascists, so naturally any plan that works was thought up by the CEO and the plans that don’t were thought up by Steven Miller.
Why wouldn’t he commit more crimes? He’s been committing crimes with impunity his entire life. Who’s going to stop him?
It’sa me, Luigi!
Best I can do is Tommy and Ryan.
There is no way MAGA will accept a Democrat victory in the Midterms, especially if it flips either chamber.
There is no way Trump leaves in 2028.
We ALL already know this in our hearts and our brains. We have to talk about it, and internalize it, and start making contingency plans for those nearly CERTAIN situations.
None of us “know” that. Also- even if it’s the illusion of a choice, you do have one: Do something, or don’t. Why assume so much?
Yes, we ALL know that. Today, he was doubling down on how Republicans should take over the elections.
You either aren’t paying attention, or you’re a troll. I suspect the second. Either way, based on that response, nobody is interested in what you have to say.
There’s no way that pants shitting mother fucker makes it to the end of his term. The syphilis will get him before then.
If there is a civil war, I hope Trump lives long enough to prosecute his end of it. That would make it much easier for Antifa America to subdue the Dogey Confederacy. All the people who give Trump ‘great’ ideas will cause the Fuher to waste a great deal of resources and coordination on stupidity.
He’s literally falling apart before our eyes and his brain is melting, even the best doctor’s in the world can only Frankenstein him together so much.
The man ad libbed an hour and a half speech at Davos. We’ve been hearing reports of his impending demise since 2016. He’s got at least another 10 years even if he shits his pants every day.
idk if trump will make it to 2028
Yes. Agreed. I’ve already put contingency plans in place for family, friends.
There is no way Trump leaves in 2028.
I mean, I know what you’re trying to say, but you’re actually accidently correct for reasons you don’t mean to be. The election would be 2028. The official transfer of power would be Jan 2029.
So, even with what you’re trying to say, trump wouldn’t have left in 2028 anyways.
I mean, barring getting kidnapped and forced out of power because he’s not physically present.
Yeah, EVERYBODY gets that, thanks.
Real “ACKSHUALLY!” energy.
Surely the guys with big trucks flying Don’t Tread on Me flags are against this
They think they’ll be doing the treading. They are mistaken, but they won’t realize until it’s too late to save themselves.
Why? It’s only 15 states and won’t affect the truck nuts crowd.
This is the line. Let’s be honest. That’s the red line. If he actually crosses that line you should do things that the World mods will ban me for saying. But that’s it. That’s the point where any semblance of democracy is totally gone. Where even the most neoliberal Democrat has to know that voting no longer means anything. That’s the point where you have to make a choice. That would be the final Point wherein there is a line of the sand you either put on the red hat and fall in line or you play back. Some would argue we’ve already reached that point mind you, but I think that would be the last reasonable line.
Let’s be honest. That’s the red line
There’s been many red lines this past year. And this one isn’t even a surprise move, it’s been claimed loudly semi-continuously for five years now. Yet here we are.
This is the line?
No, this is the goalpost moving.
Anyone who didn’t see this coming was either living under a rock or mockingly dismissing everyone telling them it’s coming as Russian bots trying to take votes away from Democrats.
Yes, this is the Red Line. We have never suspended elections in this country for any reason, not even during the Civil War. The Midterms are the LAST CHANCE for Democrats to begin to take power back from MAGA legally, and if that last opportunity is stolen, then the only option left is violence.
Canceling elections, for any reason, is a BRIGHT RED LINE, and we must not allow our elected officials to cross that line, or allow our elected officials to look the other way. We have to let them ALL know that the Midterm election will go on as usual, and MAGA will accept the outcome, no matter what it is.
And we have to also let them know that if MAGA cancel elections, and our Dem representatives allow it, they will BOTH suffer in the inevitable violence that will follow. Whether you actively committed treason, or just say back and let it happen, you are equally guilty.
never boo someone for being late to a party, just hand them a beer
SNL this past weekend
This link needs more prominence. Thank you for sharing. Spot on SNL.
I don’t think they’re late to the party, I think they’re moving the goalposts like I said…
“Some would argue”… Not them, they wouldn’t argue that.
REPUBLICANS should get Sole Control over who Wins Elections? They MUST Need some FUNDING for that! Let’s GIVE it to Them!
-Chuck Schumer (D) and Hakeem Jeffries (D)!
These two idiots shouldn’t get anywhere close to a leadership position anywhere. Shift supervisor at the Dollar General is too much for them.
It’s long past time for the MAGA comedy act of Schmuck & Jeffries to get the hook and be dragged offstage.
Don’t forget to ask for more funding for Democrats so they can continue their fight, this time for reals, honest.
