cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/42694823

Trump has no power to “decree” that voters must present ID or to end mail-in balloting. But that doesn’t mean he can’t at least try both. Under the Insurrection Act or some other dusty statute, he can declare a state of emergency. Then he can decide that said state permits, nay requires, him to take extraordinary measures. On October 5, say, that might mean outlawing early voting. By October 13, it might mean no mail-in voting. By October 29, a reminder that all voters must present ID to vote. And by Sunday, November 1, two days before the election—an announcement that all these “reasonable” measures have alas failed, and he is now forced, against his will, to postpone the election.

  • Optional@lemmy.world
    702·
    3 hours ago

    Back in 2024, Kamala Harris and the Democrats struggled to convince voters that a second Donald Trump term would constitute a serious threat to democracy. We can debate the effectiveness of her, and their, rhetoric. But on a certain level, it was a hard argument to make because it was hypothetical.

    On what planet was it hypothetical.

    Honestly. It’s like everyone’s still using fucking Windows. Fuck levels critical.

    • doesit@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      1 minute ago

      It’s like people don’t understand what happened and almost happened on J6.
      If all fails he’ll definitely will do this again.

    • johncandy1812@lemmy.caEnglish
      28·
      3 hours ago

      He couldn’t have made his intentions any clearer. I think people just figured the Senate and the DOJ would keep him in check. They didn’t see him taking control of those to this extent.

      Now people are about to find out just how much control he had over the military.

    • bearboiblake@pawb.socialEnglish
      1058·
      3 hours ago

      “Trust me”, said pro-genocide candidate Kamala Harris, who shows no interest in reigning in the billionaires and corporations rushing to support fascism. “I’m better than Trump. I support US imperialism politely.”

      • Hapankaali@lemmy.world
        7·
        1 hour ago

        “Yes, of course I will choose the pile of rusty nails dipped in horseshit over the stale sandwich for lunch. As the sandwich is not very appealing, this seems like the logical choice,” said the well-balanced, rationally thinking individual.

          • MrVilliam@sh.itjust.works
            231·
            2 hours ago

            Harris was imperialist and colonialist, but not fascist. It’s ludicrous to equivocate trump and Harris as both being fascist.

            And in any case, yeah, vote for progressives in primaries. I know that there wasn’t a real primary for 24, but that has more to do with Biden not stepping aside soon enough than anything else. Dem voters are getting tired of establishment enablers, and DNC leadership is no longer interfering to pick favorites (see Mamdani’s victory) so we could actually see progressives taking over the party.

            You’re painting a false equivalency (both sides the same) and pining for other options without actually offering a solution for how to get there, implying that we just stay home and not vote at all. You’re the problem. If you don’t like the fascism, vote against the fascist. If you don’t like the non fascist option, tough shit because there may not be a next time if the fascist wins (and he did and here we are talking about suspending elections). If you actually want better Democrats in the general for the 26 elections, you need to start paying attention now because it’s primary season already, and you can and should be donating/volunteering for who you believe in.

            If you’re being serious about wanting an option outside of the two parties, only one of them is open to things like ranked choice to get rid of first past the post and eliminating the electoral college so that it’s people and not land doing the voting. Spoiler alert: convincing people to withhold their vote helps the other guys win, and they’re thrilled to keep it a two party system. You may not like somebody milquetoast like Biden, but he course corrected and arrested the slip into fascism while getting some progressive stuff through. Not enough, but it’s fucking silly to say that Harris was the same as Biden and also Harris is the same as trump.

            • flandish@lemmy.world
              26·
              1 hour ago

              They are both capitalists and will therefore both trend toward fascim, albeit at different rates. But that trend toward is a very slippery one way street with entire world wars being necessary to only temporarily revert it and try new ways.

              This is why it’s such a depressing mindfuck that the dems would rather remain the way they are instead of change. They want it. Just in a gaslit “guess we gotta be fasc” manner instead of trump’s “we are” manner.

      • beelzebum@lemmy.world
        172·
        2 hours ago

        Ive noticed that these guys are trying to start the same moral panic shit among Democratic voters to demotivate them this time around. For example, with Talarico - a key senate seat flip.

        • Optional@lemmy.world
          5·
          1 hour ago

          It’s definitely going to happen again. So-called moderate trump voters and our own LemLeft have learned nothing.

        • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
          321·
          2 hours ago

          Shove it up your ass. We tried to save the Democrats from themselves in 2024 and people like you ran static interference so that the Dems could run on “more of the same” and ultimately lose the election.

          • null@piefed.nullspace.lolEnglish
            102·
            1 hour ago

            Funny, I don’t remember seeing you promoting any progressive candidate for the the primaries.

            Saw you wokescolding Kamala voters a lot though…

            Must just be that you do the first part in communities I’m not in.

            • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
              13·
              49 minutes ago

              Funny, I don’t remember seeing you promoting any progressive candidate for the the primaries.

              My entire comment history is right there buddy. Its all in there. Go take a look instead of relying on your clearly faulty memory.

              Saw you wokescolding Kamala voters a lot though…

              I love that word. I’m going to take that word.

              And again, instead of reacting to your impression of what you think I said, go through my comment history and find examples of that. If you need tools to better access them, I can provide that to you. I’ve got my entire comment history also available in JSON format, if that makes it easier for you, and you also have no excuse. In other words, put the fuck up or shut the fuck up, because I know precisely what I’ve said this entire time, and you are responding to your emotional impression of what I’ve said, not actually what I’ve said.

              My criticisms have been explicitly focused on the maneuvers of the party, the Biden campaign, the Harris campaign, and those who shield the parties or the campaigns from criticism

              All of this is based on the central thesis I offer, which is:

              • That its functionally and practically impossible to move an electorate over the course of a campaign which only lasts a couple of months. There are no mechanisms or tools available to campaigns to do so. Focusing critiques on individual voters when there is no function mechanism to change the minds of millions of voters is counter productive and loses you voters. The Harris campaign lost 6 million votes while not understanding this.

              • The only path to winning an election is to move a candidate to a set of popular enough policy positions they win the majority of factions necessary to capture the electoral college.

              • Any one saying that voters just need to “do better” while defending or apologizing for Candidates or campaigns with unelectable policy positions is a dangerous provocateur who, by shielding campaigns or politicians from criticism is operating on behalf of the opposition.

              If a candidate holds a policy position which will prevent them from winning the election, voting for them isn’t “strategic”; its irrelevant. The only options you have is to move politicians to electable positions. There is no other way to win.

              • null@piefed.nullspace.lolEnglish
                11·
                12 minutes ago

                Hit me with some keywords I can use to find the candidate who’s campaign you vocally and regularly supported through the DNC primaries in that JSON dump.

  • 2piradians@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    60 minutes ago

    6 years ago I posted on FB that any qualms over mail-in ballots should have already been raised and in the process of being addressed ahead of the 2020 election. A large portion of my friends and family were MAGA, or at least dem-hating, so they inundated me with conspiracy theory rubbish.

    I knew he would pull some shit, somehow. Then J6 came to pass.

    So now he’s blatantly planning to fuck with the election 8 months ahead of time. Nothing has changed in terms of protecting voters, and it’s as predictable now as it was in 2020.

    But I think the fucker underestimates us and his base on this. As serious as 2A advocates are about guns, there are more of us by orders of magnitude who value our voting rights.

  • Sanctus@anarchist.nexusEnglish
    51·
    2 hours ago

    That means we have until October to bring down every data center in the country. Get to work.

  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
    139·
    2 hours ago

    Back in 2024, Kamala Harris and the Democrats struggled to convince voters that a second Donald Trump term would constitute a serious threat to democracy.

    I don’t think anyone in the political space failed to recognize it as an existential threat; its that Harris didn’t campaign as if it was an existential threat.

    If it was such an existential threat, why would you actively disenfranchise your base?

    If it was such an existential threat, why would you say things like “I would do nothing fundamentally different than the current administration”, when the administration was DEEPLY unpopular?

    If it was such an existential threat, why did you spend 1.5 billion dollars trying to court voters which you have never been able to get, specifically by elevating some of the least popular voices within their own party (eg, Liz Cheney and Republican voters)?

    Nothing about how the Harris campaign operated beyond selecting Walz as VP demonstrated that they recognized Trump as an existential threat to Democracy. Voices were, in the course of the campaign, CLAMORING, for them to do better. They didn’t listen and they chose the approaches they did.