In wake of Donald Trump’s call for Republicans to ‘take over’ voting, senator Ruben Gallego urges citizens to take a stand and give the ‘ultimate response’

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/58550623

The Democratic senator Ruben Gallego has proposed that, should Donald Trump try to sabotage the midterm elections, Americans should respond with a general strike that would “grind the country to a halt”.

Earlier this week the US president called for Republicans to “take over” and “nationalise” voting in at least 15 unspecified locations, repeating his false claims that elections are plagued by widespread fraud.

On Thursday Gallego, a senator for Arizona and an Iraq war veteran, warned that Trump could seek to interfere with the November midterms that will determine control of Congress – and urged citizens to fight fire with fire.

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
    171·
    14 hours ago

    “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed”

    Forcibly taking our elections away would definitely threaten the “security of a free state,” and make it perfectly legal to create armed, well-regulated militias to protect our rights.

    I would further argue that it means that we have the RIGHT to employ those armed, well-regulated militias in defense of the “security of that free state,” which means attacking our enemies, the ICE Apes. If they want to make them the front line troops of their domestic army, they should remember, we have much, MUCH larger numbers.

    • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works
      22·
      7 hours ago

      Your mention of “legality” assumes there’s some neutral third party deciding what is and isn’t acceptable, but when the fascists control the judicial branch and the law enforcement portion of the executive branch, it no longer matters what the law says.

      • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
        2·
        4 hours ago

        There’s that negativity we can all expect, begging us to surrender in advance.

        Yeah, no shit, Sherlock, that’s kind of the point - we have to FORCE them to abide by OUR CONSTITUTION, not their whims. WE WON’T SURRENDER IN ADVANCE!

        • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works
          0·
          2 hours ago

          What are you talking about? I’m simply pointing out the fallacy of thinking that you can use the very system they’ve hijacked as a way to bring them down.

          It doesn’t matter if militias are legal or not because they’ve demonstrated quite clearly that they don’t give a shit what the law says. You’re not going to get them to back down by applying the law if they don’t respect or recognize the law. You’ll have to do it by force, and at that point the rules don’t matter. The only thing that matters is who wins.

          • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
            1·
            2 hours ago

            We don’t let them hijack it, it’s as simple as that. If they can take it from us, we can take it back. All we have to do is play Hard Ball, and force them to abide by the Constitution, with NO EXCEPTIONS.

            Protecting The Constitution is the objective, and it doesn’t help at all to advocate for calling it lost, and proceeding in a vacuum. Otherwise, they can fill that vacuum with whatever they want.

            If we don’t want MAGA to decide what America will look like forever, then we better go all in on defending and preserving the Constitution, because we don’t have anything else.

            • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works
              1·
              1 hour ago

              Your comments are so weird. It’s as if they were pre-recorded or LLM slop as you’re making references to things that were never said or even alluded to previously and you don’t seem to be acknowledging anything I have said.