Five-Alarm Fire Warning After Trump Says 'Republicans Ought to Nationalize the Voting'

There's no way that pants shitting mother fucker makes it to the end of his term. The syphilis will get him before then.

Yes. Agreed. I've already put contingency plans in place for family, friends.

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?

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.

It's not that people don't care, ever. Tens of millions of people care.

Unfortunately, their combined "donations" can't keep up with corpo/billionairie "donations", because most of us don't have generations of wealth acquisition to "donate"

Sadly, corporations are people and money is free speech, so what can you do? Supreme Court was "court of last resort", it's over.

Clarence got a new motor home though, so that's nice. Every cloud has a silver lining

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.

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.

It'sa me, Luigi!

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 through 2020 to now. 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.

Maybe he will die

Don't forget to ask for more funding for Democrats so they can continue their fight, this time for reals, honest.

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.

That's insulting to children. They run Model UN better than this.

before letting a child back into the Oval Office. We’re a very stupid nation

Child-rapist, before letting a child-rapist back into the oval office.

And I still believe 2020 was the last free election we had in this nation

You're one post off bub

I'll upvote this because it was funny to read in an otherwise depressing and aggravating political post.

Wut

A general strike would suffice. Then demands for resumption. Some of those demands should be massive wealth transfer that leaves no billionaires.

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.

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.

The Executive Order has been their "clear path" to all sorts of shit they have no right doing.

Don't be so sure the votes aren't there in Congress. Mike Johnson just went on the record saying "I know that it's fraudulent every time a Democrat wins, although I can't prove it". I bet Republicans pass something batshit crazy before the midterms.

But then it gets to the Senate, and Democrats can fillibuster, right? Well, the fillibuster is just a rule, which the majority keeps around because it knows it will be in the minority someday. But what if Republicans ditch it to guarantee a permanent majority? They absolutely would ditch it, if they thought it would make a difference in the election, and cement Republicans control of Congress.

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.

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.

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 are you posting a picture of your president's toilet paper?

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 from states have that isn't expressly given to the feds in the constitution.

If not expressly outlined in the constitution, it's a state power in other words, per the 10th amendment, from day one.

It is "one person one vote", but sadly, Amazon is the biggest person so they have the one vote.

(corporations are people! Supreme Court, USA)

If you had 1 person one vote then he wouldn't have won the 2016 election. Hillary had almost 3 million votes more than him.

Nah he'll just write an executive order and the SC will back him up.

So is everything else distracting us from the Epstein Files, or is the Epstein Files distracting us from everything else?

Or is it all distracting us from something even bigger that we haven't even figured out yet?

So he is trying to delect from the epstein files by doing even more worse thing?

That's the part I don't understand, if they were all antifa, why did he pardon them?

Reading the actual quote, he wants to take over the elections but only in 15 states. He's blatantly saying he wants to take over states that Democrats might be able to win, leaving the red states alone.

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.

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.

Because Trumps stupid shit that he has no power to do has totally been stopped and checked so far.

He's not talking about primaries.

Political parties are toxic and should be abolished. At the very least they should have zero acknowledgement or support from the state, including prohibiting use of state support for their "primaries" and prohibiting listing party affiliations next to candidate names on ballots in the actual elections.

He's not taking about primaries, and in fact he said 15 states, so he only wants to take over voting in startes that are difficult for him.

And lots of early voting by dropping off ballots. Ideally several weeks of it.

Approval, not RCV/IRV.

ban FPTP and gerrymandering.

but let's not kid ourselves here. the US needs lots of help and systemic change/updates