Donald Trump announced Sunday that Republicans plan to dispense a large “Election Integrity Army” to every single state for the 2026 midterms – invoking his debunked claims that the United States does not have fair elections. In a message on his Truth Social platform the president appeared to attribute his “Historic Election in 2024” to the fact that the Republican National Committee sent thousands of volunteers across the country to poll watch or assist with election litigation through a volunteer program. “During my Historic Election in 2024, when I won every single Swing State, and decisively won both the Electoral and Popular votes by wide margins, the Republicans had an Election Integrity Army in every single State to preserve the sanctity of each legal vote. We will be doing the same again in 2026, but it will be much bigger and stronger,” Trump wrote. Trump did not elaborate on who would be part of the “Election Integrity Army” or how large it would be.
189 Comments
Bunitonito@lemmy.world · 195 pts · 86d
So lemme get this straight: the guy who won the last election is claiming that the elections are rigged? I'm just trying to understand here
kurmudgeon@lemmy.world · 138 pts · 86d
It's how he knows they're rigged. If they weren't he wouldn't have won.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafe · 68 pts · 86d
He just assumes that both sides are rigged, and whoever rigs it best is the winner. That's why he was so pissed in 2020. He knows it was rigged, but so many voted against him that it invalidated whatever he did. He was more successful at rigging the 2024 election.
He's going to rig 2028, too. Don't be surprised if the smoke clears, and he gets more votes than the other candidates, so he has no choice but to honor the will of the people over the Constitution, and remain in office.
DillDough@lemmy.zip · 45 pts · 85d
2016 as well. He even opened multiple investigations into it during his first term and the results were conclusively that the only notable instances of interference were either from or on behalf of the Republican party.
grue@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 85d
He shouldn't even be on the ballots in 2028!!!!
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 85d
If wishes were fishes, something something, like little bitches!
I forget how the saying goes. Point is, trump is a bitch.
obvs@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 85d
I think Mother Nature may vote against him in 2028.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 85d
You still think there will be a 2028 election?
nomy@lemmy.zip · 14 pts · 85d
Sure there will. Russia, Myanmar, and Burundi still have elections, why wouldn't the U.S.?
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafe · 4 pts · 85d
We have NEVER cancelled an election in this country, not during WWII, not even during the Civil War. Cancelling an election is a BRIGHT RED LINE, that will not be crossed. If it is, it is INSTANT Civil War.
I will not recognize an unelected MAGA government.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 85d
Who is gonna lead a civil war? You? I have trouble believing it will happen because so many lines have been crossed already that should have led to revolution and hasn't
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafe · 0 pts · 85d
Are you in third grade? Is that the depths of your intelligence, that when someone makes a suggestion, the best you can do is shoot it down because the person making the suggestion can't implement it? That means that the ONLY people who can make suggestions about our future are those who can actually make their suggestions happen, like Sociopathic Oligarchs. That's what your dumb comment translates as.
No, I'm not going to lead a Civil War, that's not my skill set. But that doesn't mean I can't identify those who do have that skill set.
What do you think all those knowledgeable, experienced military leaders that Hegseth and Trump fired are doing?
Who knows? We haven't heard a peep from ANY of them. After a lifetime of navigating one of the most difficult career tracks in the world, getting to the highest reaches of power, motivated not by money, but by the personal mission of protecting America from ALL enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC, they seem to have disappeared.
The greatest domestic national security threat since the Civil War has taken over the nation, and gotten rid of them, so they can't thwart MAGA's treasonous plans. Surely, those military leaders have accepted their ignominious firings, which were accompanied by public disparagement of themselves and the jobs they invested their entire lives in doing, and are sitting on the veranda, drinking cocktails, and watching the sun set on the nation that they failed to protect, right?
I doubt it. Some were probably willing to chuck it all, and get on with retirement, but these are guys who have lived their entire lives literally waiting and planning for the next fight. These are NOT guys who give up easy. I would bet that at least a few of them are talking to each other, and creating some sort of plan if a Civil War breaks out, and we aren't going to hear a word about it until it happens
If there's a Civil War, military leadership will NOT be a problem, we have no end of great military leadership on our side. I suspect the military leadership on their side isn't as loyal as they assume, and since they've fired all the moral competence, much of what is left is corrupt incompetence. Many of them will be able to be just bought off, MAGA's Achille's Heel.
The problem will be Civil Leadership. In a situation like a spontaneous Civil War, rebel leadership will most likely default to the current leadership, which means the MAGA comedy act of Schmuck & Jeffries will be the headliners, and that would be disastrous.
Weak Civil leadership (and it doesn't get any weaker than Schmuck & Jeffries), will only lead to a Military takeover, and having a Military Dictator wouldn't be any better than a Capitalist Dictator. We need to identify and support leadership candidates that we can count on in a Civil War. So far, about the only only ones showing any real leadership strength are the progressives, and those who instructed the military to ignore illegal orders. Those are the kinds of people who should be in charge.
If I had to pick one that I would trust to lead us in a Civil War, one who understands both the political and military sides of the conflict, I think the best choice might be Mark Kelly. He's got the military experience, is extremely intelligent, not a whiff of corruption in his entire career, and he's tough enough, and brave enough, to go toe-to-toe with MAGA, and not back down.
If Mark Kelly emerged as the defacto leader, with a competent military led by MAGA's cast-off officers, I'd be on board with that Rebellion.
tabarnaski@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 85d
Every non Republican since 2016 has been hoping that someone is gonna come somehow and save the US from Trump. We're in 2026, Trump is still president and nothing seems to push back against him.
I don't believe in a sudden revolutionary surge in the US. Shit's gonna get worse, slowly, irrevocably, unless the general population develop some sense of solidarity and there's real political involvement from the population at every level. But that's hard in a population as divided as the United States'.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 85d
You didn't make a suggestion, you made a prediction. I'm saying I don't believe civil war is inevitable if the election is cancelled. So many things have already happened that should have inevitably led to revolution and hasn't. If these guys are planning one, I want to know what they're waiting for
redsand@infosec.pub · 1 pts · 85d
You mean Vance. Donald's keepers don't have any use for him after midterms
Fishnoodle@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 85d
Technically he can't run for a third term. He wouldn't be on the ballot
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafe · 6 pts · 85d
700 million people will write his name in.
lemmyng@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 85d
*700 million fake voters generated by AI will write his name in.
LostCarcosan@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 85d
Nah, they'll just use the names and information of 700 million people, including recently and not so recently dead people and choose their votes for them
iThinkDifferentThanU@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 86d
Exactly!!! What time is it? this orange pedophile #dingleberry needs to go the fuck off
SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml · 11 pts · 85d
Dingleberry?
You can do better than that. HERE, let me get you started. A to C.
A loaded adult diaper of belligerence
A Man for All Treasons
Adjudicated Serial Rapist (VOTED MOST ACCURATE)
Adolf Diddler
Agent Oratnge
Agolf Twitler
All in all, it's just a little prick with no Wall
He lives in: Alternative fact land
Ancient Orange
Assholini
Ayatollah Complainy (Thanks Stephen Colbert)
Baron Von Shitzinpantz
Benedict Donald
Blab the Inhaler
Borderline Junius
Borderwall Personality Disorder
Captain Bone Spurs
Captain Capslock
Chainsaw-In-Chief
Chaos in Chief
Cheat Miser "Whatever I touch, starts to melt in my clutch."
Cheddar Cheezus
Cheeto Brain
Cheeto Christ, Stupid Czar
Chettolini
Coffin dodger
Combover Caligula
Commander in Thief
Commander in Tweet
Condom Escapee
Conman-der in chief
Conquistaorange
Coppertone Caligulia
Coup Klux Tan
Current presidential placeholder
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 85d
Mods, can we sticky this? It's a lot of useful information! I think we could all find this list useful! Plus we can add to it as time goes on.
SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 85d
D to M
Darth Cheetoh
Dementia Don
Der Gropenführer
Diaper Don
Dick a l'Orange
Diet Dr. Putin
Dingus Con
Dipshit Donnie
Disaster in Chief
Dodgin Donny
Dollar Tree Dictator
Don Feloni
Don Poorleone, The Fraudfather
Don the con
Donald “putinsremoved” Trump
Donica Lewinski
Donnie Dumpo
Donnie Thin Skin
Donorrhea of the mouth. A Republican ailment.
Dorito Mussolini
Dr. President McDonald J Christ
Droolius Geezer
Dumbo Donnie
Dunning-Kruger Overdrive
E Pluribus Dumbdumb
Epstein associate
Everlasting Jobstopper
F Elon
Felon47
Faux prez
Felon (DO NOT USE by order of inmate #P01135809)
Facsimile Fuehrer
Fanta Fascist
Fanta Fuhrer
Fart face von shit stick
Felon 47
Felonious Dump
Fibbernazi Revenger
First lady Donald J. Musk
Forrest Trump? “Tariffs are like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re going to get.”
Fraudfather
Grifty McGrifterson
Grifty McGriftface
GropenFührer
Gulf Of Idiot. Middle name of Of
Hair Farce One
Half off Adolf
He Who Must Not Be Named
Herr Combover
His Royal Heelspur
Historic Embarrassment
Hocus POTUS
Individual One
Inmate # P01135809 Thursday, August 24 2023 at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta, Georgia.
Insulting and frankly appalling ( Sir Keir Rodney Starmer )
King Georange
King of Dumbfuckistan
Klanned Karenhood
Lil' Donny Two-Scoops
Lord Feltersnatch
Lord Repugnant of the Fourth Reich
MAGA Teresa
Maga-Lardo
Manchild McTinyhands
Manchurian Cantaloupe
Mango Moron
Mango Mussilini
Mango Unchained
Marmalade Maggot
Marmalade Messiah
Melon Felon
Moscow Marionette
Mrs Donald Putin
MyPillow guy low-budget stunt double
SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 85d
N to Z
Nectarine Nazi
Ol' Smeller
Old Wack Donald
Old white and needy
Orange Caligula
Orange Foolius
Orange Hitler
Orange Judas
Orange King George
Orange Tufted Shit Gibbon
Orange Von Fat Fuck
Orangesama bin G'olfin
Orangutan
Papaya Pinochet
Payless Putin
Pee Wee German (Thanks Stephen Miller)
Pedoführer
PeDonald
Pervert Hoover
President Quid Pro Quo
President Pudding Cup (thanks Jeff Tiedrich)
President Stumblefuck
Preznit Fuckwit
Pumpkin pol pot
Pumpkin Pustule
Pumpkin Spice Palpatine
Putin’s Puppet
Satan's Little Helper
Scammer in Chief
Sleepy Donzales
Super Callous Fragile Ego Extra Douchey Rapist
Super Callous Fragile Racist Sexist NAZI POTUS
T-Bag
Tang the Conqueror
Tangerine Palpatine "Let the hate flow through you. Feel the power of the covfefe side of the farce!”
Tangerine Palpatine
Tangerine Skidmark
Tangerine Turd
Tangerine Tyrant
The Billionaire Saint of Perpetual Grevience
The Count of Mostly Crisco
The Fanta Menace
The Melon Felon
The Quicker, Thicker F***er Upper
The Slob Father
The Village People's Idiot
Theme song: I Shot the Tariff
Theme song: Tsar Spangled Banner
Toxic Revenger
Trumpaloompa
Trumplethinskin
Trumppopotamus
Trumpty Dumpty
Unfathomably ignorant
Unredeemable piece of shit
Velveeta Voldemort
X‘s Diaper
logi@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 84d
Please lay off Monica. Other than that, do carry on!
Triumph@fedia.io · 39 pts · 86d
It's a dog whistle to the "militia" people.
RunningInRVA@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 86d
And a dog shit dog whistle at that. Everybody hates this guy. Who is going to volunteer to harass people at the polls?
backalleycoyote@lemmy.today · 28 pts · 85d
GuyFawkesV@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 85d
Probably the same folks who are rushing to gerrymander the black vote out of existence in the South.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 85d
You are understanding correctly.
Leading up to November 2024 elections, he said on multiple media outlets "We already have all the votes we need. The election has already been decided. It's the last election you'll ever need to vote in. Thats how good we rigged it."
Literally said it MULTIPLE times.
And now he's talking about it again, openly as being rigged.
He's saying the quiet part outloud, and nobody is outraged, because nobody is taking him at face value.
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 85d
Flower@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 85d
It's a sound bite that works. Get his public angry enough that they stop thinking rationally about how stupid the statement is and his supporters will cheer while voting rights are taken away.
Master@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 85d
If you look at the statistics... yea it was rigged by trump and he wants to make sure the places he was not able to rig get rigged this time too.
desmosthenes@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 86d
just to rig them again; himself
desmosthenes@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 86d
always projection with these fools
danc4498@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 86d
He claimed 2016 was rigged too. He’s been preparing people since the beginning for this.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 85d
It's a fascist thing.
Psydefisch@sopuli.xyz · 56 pts · 85d
"Election Integrity Army" keeping elections fair since 1921.
ExtremeDullard@piefed.social · 55 pts · 86d
Why gee, that's a surprise...
Here's my prediction: the GOP will win those totally fair elections in a landslide.
Time to hit Polymarket!
WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 85d
Here’s my prediction: “the resistance” will do fucking nothing, roll over, and accept it
Sanctus@anarchist.nexus · -1 pts · 85d
You sure are all over out there with your activism. I saw you straight up rip an ICE agent's arms off to save a child in them. Its just absolutely inspiring how much you put forth towards this. I truly appreciate all your efforts.
WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 85d
Your country. Your problem. Until your inaction inevitably makes it ours.
Sanctus@anarchist.nexus · 1 pts · 85d
All these Canadians with such steal. Truly you are so brave as to balk and howl at those online. I'm sure it will accomplish much shitting and pissing while you beseech others and close your eyes to the reality that people are resisting. You're pissed its not an action movie and the villain wasn't ruined in under 3 hours.
WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 84d
You don’t seem to understand that you’ve had about 3-4 decades to get your house fire under control and that “the villain” isn’t a single person.
You’re not resisting. You’re complaining.
Sanctus@anarchist.nexus · 1 pts · 84d
Says the guy complaining.
Edit: also Americans are not a monolith either, funny how you can state that about "the villain" but Americans are an amorphous blob that all have had 40 years to get a hold.of this somehow but I myself am not even 40. OK, kid. Keep yelling at the left, that'll stop fascism
CircaV@lemmy.ca · 52 pts · 85d
If the US doesn’t have fair elections—how did Trump get elected twice? Oh right b/c they’re fair when maggots get their way, and elections are rigged when they lose. If Mango Shittler sends armies to polling stations is it fair to say……that there will be blood???
Fredselfish@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 85d
So he admitting that he stole the election in 2024. Because he just magically won every single swing state by large margins? The same states that Musk so happen to make sure all the voting machines worked "properly".
Motherfucker spent all the time from when he lost until 2024 claiming Biden stole the election, so after he did just that he can now claim us all nuts for saying he stole this election.
Because if we ever crawl out of this fascist mess (which I highly doubt) we will learn that Harris won all the legitimate votes and the votes for Trump were is base at 30% rest were faked.
SabinStargem@lemmy.today · 22 pts · 85d
You know what annoys me the most about that thing? The Democratic leadership didn't insist on any double checking or tests to ensure that the voting wasn't fixed. They just shrugged their shoulders and assumed everything was above board.
Or worse, didn't care.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 85d
There were a number of lawsuits at the lower levels. Like Rockland County that was suing for a recount. Unfortunately the judge said they lacked standing or some BS.
FosterMolasses@leminal.space · 3 pts · 85d
This but unironically
thetentacle@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 85d
Hypocrisy or contradictions are not an obstacle for fascism, at all. Quite the opposite! So yes they want you to know they cheated, and that they outsmarted you that way, because you were too dumb to stop them, it's not something that they want to hide, it's a powermove. As in I can cheat and you can't do anything about it even if you tried.
Here is a literal quote:
"Wenn unsere Gegner sagen: Ja, wir haben Euch doch früher die […] Freiheit der Meinung zugebilligt – –, ja, Ihr uns, das ist doch kein Beweis, daß wir das Euch auch tuen sollen! […] Daß Ihr das uns gegeben habt, – das ist ja ein Beweis dafür, wie dumm Ihr seid!" - Rede vom 4. Dezember 1935, zitiert nach Helmut Heiber (Hrsg.), Goebbels-Reden, Band 1, Droste, Düsseldorf 1971,
translation: "When our opponents say: 'Yes, we did grant you the […] freedom of opinion earlier – –', well, the fact that you granted it to us is certainly no proof that we should do the same for you! […] That you gave it to us – that is precisely proof of how stupid you are!"
FosterMolasses@leminal.space · 4 pts · 85d
I wish this entire comment were headline news. Maybe then Americans would finally get it.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafe · 41 pts · 85d
Let's send a "Presidential Integrity Army" to the White House. A few million should do the trick. Burn it to the ground, with the rats and roaches trapped inside. It will be worth the cost to rebuild it.
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz · 21 pts · 85d
Don't rebuild it. It's a symbol of oppression and warmongering.
CircaV@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 85d
Americans are too fat, disengaged, and complacent to ever raise one fat bloated finger off the couch to do anything. They are a population completely lulled into passivity.
I hAvE to wOrK I can OnLy PrOtEsT on ThE WeEKeND I HaVe biLLs To Pay
Etc ad nauseum
Derpenheim@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 85d
Put your money where your mouth is and blow the head off your least favourite politician.
Typhoon@lemmy.ca · -5 pts · 85d
They mentioned protest. You jumped to blowing someone's head off. This is what's wrong with America. You think that the next reasonable step after doing nothing is outright murder. It's not.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 85d
Now you're talking
WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 85d
Americans won’t even set fire to a data center. They’re not going to do shit.
athatet@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 85d
I mean. We aren’t even allowed to talk about doing it. Reddit banned me for similar comments.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 85d
At this point I don't think we need a White House OR a president.
Reality_Suit@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 85d
No matter what Trump does, he will always be a pedophile.
richardwallass@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 85d
Orange
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 85d
Illegal.
And fascism.
America was warned. America didn't listen. Now we get to do things the hard way. Maybe it'll only last 17 years like it did for Hungary.
stylusmobilus@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 84d
I hate that for those of you who did listen when the easy way was an option.
You need those in the right position to organise a sustained shutdown which is now the next easiest way. There’s enough in the right places but getting them to do it is the thing. That’s what’s missing; the people to lead and sort out logistics.
MartianRecon@lemmus.org · 24 pts · 85d
How are you guys who stayed home feeling? You could have helped prevent this bullshit from happening, and you did nothing.
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 85d
They are still insisting that they are in the right.
I say that a movement that can't be bothered to vote, or even spoil its ballot, is not credible in doing the higher order civil disobedience.
MartianRecon@lemmus.org · 8 pts · 85d
They literally expect people to fight a civil war against the Republicans, then they expect to have a seat at the table in the restructuring of the government.
They are literally the reason this shit is happening. Fuck the Idle Left. They do nothing but complain.
Folstar@lemmus.org · 3 pts · 84d
You are very good at typing not-particularly-true-things that divide those who should be opposed to the current regime. Also using vague language where you're talking about a tiny fraction of the population but you make it sound so much grander while retaining deniability. Does the GOP pay you, or do you do it for love of the game?
MartianRecon@lemmus.org · -1 pts · 84d
Spare me that nonsense. You see people on her all the damned time talking about not voting (proud of this fact), and they refuse to participate in our democracy. This same exact group of people think that somehow, they will be part of the conversation in recreating the country after a conflict happens.
Folstar@lemmus.org · 0 pts · 83d
So you do their work for free. How generous of you.
MartianRecon@lemmus.org · 1 pts · 83d
Naw I just call people out who 'have all the solutions' yet do nothing. I've voted in every election and primary since the 2004 election whene I first could vote. I've helped register people to vote every year, and I've actually went to meetings and talked to candidates.
Have you done any of that? Or are you just another terminally online leftist who doesn't actually participate in our democracy?
FosterMolasses@leminal.space · 3 pts · 85d
They'll learn the hard way, as history has shown us time and time again.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 85d
Sure will.
And those of us with brain cells will learn right along with them.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 85d
Of course they are. They're petulant children.
FosterMolasses@leminal.space · 13 pts · 85d
Something something Kamala bad
Something something Zionist-Hitler "dems are as bad as real nazis" generic tankie cope, etc
7101334@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 84d
SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 85d
But that brown lady laughed funny. And she's ARROGANT.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 85d
And she was a GENOCIDER. She was actually GENOCIDING.
GENOCIDE GENOCIDE GENOCIDE.....oh fuck Donald Trump is president again. Uh.....GENOCIDE.
MartianRecon@lemmus.org · 1 pts · 85d
'The democrats didn't run a primary 4 months before the general election, so I'm going to sit out because the VP of the current president stood down because I was mad that he had a debate and did poorly whilst being sick and being jet lagged. The democrats also said I couldn't be a member of the Pink Pony Club and I didn't like that.'
FosterMolasses@leminal.space · 3 pts · 85d
'That'll show 'em! We owned the libs harder than the actual conservatives! And since I'm in no way a lib, this all has zero repercussions for me!'
chiliedogg@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 84d
But if Harris had won, Israel would have continued committing genocide!
MartianRecon@lemmus.org · 3 pts · 84d
Yes, and they would have had less support from the US, given that she supports a 2-state solution vs wanting to bulldoze the entirety of Gaza.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 85d
They're as bad or worse than MAGAts.
But "something something genocide blah blah blah".
Anyone that thinks genocide in another part of the world is worth sacrificing democracy in their own country is a fool not worth speaking to.
MartianRecon@lemmus.org · 2 pts · 85d
They are worse in my mind.
They know trump is bad. They know the actions of the republican party are bad.
They, in their 'wisdom' are too stubborn, entitled, or lazy, to actually do something against these forces. Instead, they'd rather spend their time online evangelizing their own pet causes and attacking anyone who actually does anything against these people.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 85d
Yep. Fuck these types and their moralizing and their purity tests and their little gotcha games they think they are winning. Infuriating.
They act like some perfect candidate/party will just emerge if they stamp their feet hard enough.
Sure, the redcaps are dangerous and annoying in their own way - I would imagine a lot of them are functionally illiterate - ~20% of American adults are functionally illiterate.
^ From Patheos. I've seen others claiming about 21%. I'll say 20% just to be conservative. In any case, it is bad and I bet a sizeable amount of people are terrible at critical thinking and/or spotting logical fallacies, as well. Not to mention those with overactive amygdalas creating far too much emotionalism and a thirst of simple "solutions" driving them into the arms of Republicans. It's hard to get them to accept basic reality, never mind actually having some understanding.
But a whole lot of these often overly-online people don't seem to fall into this nexus per se. They seem to have galaxy-brained their way into thinking they are this rare breed of the truly morally superior creatures and no one else has ever noticed the flaws of the Democratic party/certain candidates. 🙄
MartianRecon@lemmus.org · -1 pts · 85d
You're spot on man. One side has the illiterate, and the other side has people who agree with stuff 'in principle' but refuse to actually vote.
It's literally no wonder Democrats move to the center, because rational republicans have joined the party. And what's more is those rational republicans generally adapt to the party, and they don't pull them to the right.
The other fucking issue that infuriates me is that not every district is in NY where you can elect AOC. I love AOC, but she's flat out not electable in a lot of the country. Guys like Talrico are just as valuable as her, because they'll probably agree on 70% of the platform.
The terminally online Left refuses to vote for anyone unless they agree with every single point they make. And this is only exacerbated by countries like Israel and Russia who want Republicans in office and not Democrats.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 84d
This is such a key point. Foreign actors are likely to benefit from having the country run by idiot Republicans. And if you consider billionaires to be part of that group - foreign actors (and they do, since they will surely pull up stakes, take all their money and go somewhere else if they must) they have a lot of the same motivation to have an inept government.
MartianRecon@lemmus.org · 1 pts · 84d
Exactly. That's why people are downvoting this uncomfortable truth. The 'left' doesn't believe they also are targets for the bullshit Russia and Israel do to this country.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 83d
I'm sure many of them are manipulation targets nearly as much as the far right.
jordanlund@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 85d
He can't change our vote by mail status and any jack boots coming here are in for a surprise...
Election integrity here is ALREADY maintained by precinct committee persons. It's an elected position.
One of their job duties is monitoring ballot drop off locations for tampering and intimidation.
rumba@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 85d
He can use that army to deter those mails from reaching their target because he sees them as suspect.
And if they see it happening, who's going to stop it?
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 86d
Way to Telegraph your move. I'll be sure to provide some "security" for the rest of us
HasturInYellow@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 85d
If you see someone intimidating voters at your voting office, it is your patriotic duty to SHOOT THEM IN THE HEAD.
CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 84d
As a voter I would be intimidated by that
TemplaerDude@sh.itjust.works · 20 pts · 85d
meowmeow@quokk.au · 17 pts · 85d
Objection@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 85d
What does that even mean? He's already president with secret service protection, so it's not as if he'd be particularly easy to kill now (and has had it since well before being elected) and it's not as though there's some special "become impossible to kill button" he's waiting for the midterms to press.
Do you mean, it'll be too late for killing him to stop the things that are in motion? Because that's always been the case. Killing some senile octogenarian was never going to make a difference.
Real life isn't a movie. You're not cutting the red wire with 1 second left on the clock counting down to fascism.
meowmeow@quokk.au · -10 pts · 85d
You’re trivializing a serious situation. If you weren’t an ML, I’d have a discussion with you, but since you’re clearly only interested in watching the US catch on fire, I don’t think talking to you would be useful. So, I’m just gonna preemptively block you. Have a the day you voted for.
platform9469@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 85d
Ah the brilliance of making open and empty death threats over the internet against a sitting president. What an amazing discussion it would be
Objection@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 85d
I'm not, actually. I just want the US to refocus on confronting the domestic roots of fascism rather than trying to control the world, while fascism is so deeply rooted.
I guess I should know better than to expect a liberal to answer any serious question under any circumstances.
tacosanonymous@mander.xyz · -2 pts · 85d
Cool. What’s your plan?
Murse@slrpnk.net · 6 pts · 85d
fwiw, recognizing that something needs to be done, vs having the means to be the one to actually do it are two very different animals. No need to ridicule the former; and if you're the latter then I sure as fuck hope you're not posting about it online.
tacosanonymous@mander.xyz · 0 pts · 85d
They’ve already replied and said they don’t really mean, "we."
100% agree with you. There is no amount of organization we could do (for that specific goal) that wouldn’t get shut down violently.
Murse@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 85d
Yeah true. The way I see it, the 'we' in this case is a lot bigger than just the US. Anyone who pulls that off will instantly become not just an American hero, but a global hero. "We" is all of humanity.
Like... in the 1930s, if some Ethiopian dude just popped up from beneath everyone's radar and put a bullet between Hitler's eyes, he'd be a hero everywhere, but especially in Germany.
And as long as it's been with no results, I don't think there's anyone in the US willing/able to step up, so in light of our (US) spinelessness, we (the entire planet) may be relying on importing those skills from another nation.
Wishful thinking ofc. If justice, legal or vigilante, was going to happen, it would have by now.
meowmeow@quokk.au · -2 pts · 85d
I’m emigrating in July. Fuck you people.
bold_atlas@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 85d
LOL.
platform9469@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 85d
Lol bot
meowmeow@quokk.au · -1 pts · 85d
Anything you don’t like is a bot, bot.
habitualcynic@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 85d
Where to? I’m struggling with visas for places my wife and I want to live. We have backups where it’s not an issue, just less ideal weather.
meowmeow@quokk.au · 0 pts · 85d
🇨🇦
AxiomPraxis@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 85d
If you want to avoid the same mentality as down there.. avoid Alberta.
meowmeow@quokk.au · 3 pts · 85d
It’s not Alberta. But I’d take Alberta if that was the option. Anything is better than this shit hole.
habitualcynic@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 85d
Nice, my lineage documentation is too shoddy
meowmeow@quokk.au · 1 pts · 85d
I’d prefer farther away, but… at least I can drive and keep my stuff.
Just be out by October. Take the first one that says yes.
robocall@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 86d
How does one apply for this election integrity army job? What is the wage and how much work is there?
queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone · 26 pts · 86d
Grab your gun and Punisher neck gaiter and roll up to your polling place and menace the people going in. Congrats, you are now in the Election Integrity Army.
Wages you say? are you not a patriot? Is the fear in the eyes of your fellow human beings not payment enough?
I_Jedi@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 85d
Oh, wages are covered.
The job works on commission. Any property acquired through civil forfeiture during your duties in the Election Integrity Army are yours to keep.
PineRune@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 85d
This is why when a cop asks if you are carrying any money on you, the answer is always "No."
fiat_lux@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 85d
I assume the army is ICE because this is textbook Nazi shit, so the signing bonus is up to $50k and the salary starts from there too. The work will last as long as the state can manufacture enemies.
robocall@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 85d
I applied for ICE but they didn't hire me because I am a radical leftist that was mostly applying to keep detailed records of the human rights violations.
billwashere@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 85d
This is not going to end well.
BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 21 pts · 85d
They are going to purposely go to places with higher percentage of POC voters to antagonize and start something.
FosterMolasses@leminal.space · 2 pts · 85d
I feel like there was a word for this in the past, hmm...
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 85d
America was warned.
America didn't listen.
sportsjorts@lemmy.zip · 15 pts · 85d
So elections are canceled. They can shoot me as much as they want and I will reanimate and drag my carcass to the piles to vote against the pedo traitor.
hexabs@lemmy.world · -20 pts · 85d
So you'd go through all that just to vote, huh? smh
sportsjorts@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 85d
Sure would. SMB.
bold_atlas@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 84d
Well having a spine comes with a downside but I'd still recommend it.
Cantaloupe@lemmy.fedioasis.cc · 15 pts · 85d
The voting rights act wasn’t enough huh.
FosterMolasses@leminal.space · 6 pts · 85d
Nothing will ever be "enough" for fascists.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 85d
Yup.
Fascism was never put down by asking politely.
AlexLost@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 85d
So, election interference then, eh. He knows the Rs will never win again with the shit they've already pulled, but it won't matter if you can't actually vote anymore.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 13 pts · 85d
Shame if they got tarred and feathered.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 85d
If they are not fair, then how the fuck is he even in office?
explodicle@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 85d
Because liberals believe he won a fair election. Only leftists really believe our elections are unfair, and the right wing seized an opportunity.
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 85d
The concept of legality is fungible under this administration like no other.
And however crooked the elections were before is nothing like what is about to be attempted.
bitwolf@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 85d
Election fraud lol
No one really covered all the stolen mail in votes and burned mailboxes by MAGA citizens
lordziv@lemmy.nz · 2 pts · 84d
I mean, nothing about FPP is fair tbh.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 85d
Army. Not commission. Not task force. Army.
Jarix@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 85d
Where the state militias who supposedly are allowed to exist to defend against tyrannical governments
Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 85d
Out intimidating voters by brandishing firearms in blue districts.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 84d
They traded their independence from the feds in exchange for free used equipment.
trackball_fetish@lemmy.wtf · 11 pts · 85d
Duh? Not to mention this but people keep putting their head in the sand
silentjohn@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 86d
We've been organizing and mobilizing our own poll watch response groups.
tacoplease@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 85d
So masked and armed terrorists
WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca · -4 pts · 85d
Americans don’t care
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 85d
Hopefully the citizen coalition will have their own observers with recording devices as well.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 85d
I'd rather they had enforcement devices
Wataba@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 85d
Your best shot at preventing this was November 2024.
This is your bed now.
tidderuuf@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 85d
Yup. No way America is coming back, even if turnout by Dems is the highest in history there will still be battles in courts and Trump has had plenty of time to put his cronies in those key locations.
Now it's time to just stock up, go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for all of this to blow over.
mattyroses@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 85d
It was March 2020, actually
SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 85d
I already said it. There's not going to be a real election. And the media will call it a "miracle Red Wave."
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 85d
bastard wants a civil war hes gonna get it if he keeps on
RunningInRVA@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 85d
So a bunch of pussies. Let’s do this.
Professorozone@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 85d
I see this news on a lot of sites but I couldn't find the truth social post.
I do believe he said it though. Apparently he did this in 2024.
unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 85d
So... a "Make sure all votes are for the only true candidate" army?
800XL@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 84d
Fucking try it.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 85d
The real “problems” will be in contested purple areas. No need to bother in secure blue state areas. They only need to exert as much effort as needed to maintain control.
But who knows. Maybe a little extra brutality in blue states just for funsies is probably on their radar.
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 85d
... For the 5 people who decided to submit votes as noncitizens
Government efficiency at its finest
theblurstoftimes@leminal.space · 2 pts · 85d
So Elon is going to help this time eh?
BucketBong@p.hobo.social · 2 pts · 85d
The land of the free and the home of the brave.... remember when that meant something America.
III@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 85d
...did it ever mean something?
nomy@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 85d
It did and still does (mean it's time to play ball).
Bluedragon012@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 85d
There's alot of noise and "I told you so's" going on in here. what is the solution? Start planning how we Americans can go vote safely and securely no matter what, that is our duty. And before you say you first: I'm disabled and can't fight like the healthy, I'll go to the polls regardless, even if I die doing so, I will not let them win.
Lucky_777@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 84d
You will have allies there, but go vote early. That's your best defense to this stupid orange buffoon
87Six@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 73d
It would be really nice if Death would come back from vacation
GutterRat42@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 85d
https://youtu.be/CmkKI8IuynA
Just me posting a completely irrelevant video
GhostFace@lemmy.today · -23 pts · 85d
We all knew this was going to happen. I'm probably not going to vote this time. They're in power and they're not giving that power up. It's over.
Edit: I'm so sure that many of the people downvoting have done what they can to prevent this. Some of us cried when he was elected knowing what was to come. Many of us have been fighting this for the last 10 years. If you wanted to fight then you should have been doing something earlier.
By the way, the person responding is a bigot.
D_C@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 85d
Yes, it's always the best idea to roll over and let the bullies just win without as much as a whimper!!
Everyone knows that narcissistic, mushy brained, child rapists (and their sycophantic enablers) will just stop being evil once they get their way.
FUCKS SAKE.
FUCK. SAKE!!! GROW A PAIR. CHRIST
GhostFace@lemmy.today · -14 pts · 85d
I'm going to be brutally honest. I think you're on the wrong side politically based on how you responded.
Go join Trump and the magats. It's where you belong.
Voting isn't going to change anything this time. We're just going to get harassed, arrested or worse by his integrity army.
Edit: Thanks for outing yourself by responding with JKR material.
D_C@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 85d
D_C@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 84d
Wow, runs to the mods to get my comment removed THEN edits their comment to show what a bad ass they are.
Haha, yeah, there's definitely no capitulation and cowardice in doing that!!!!
However I'll respond as I damn will please.
JKR is a cunt but using her old movie (from over two decades ago) to point out what a surrender merchant you are is acceptable.
Quick, coward, go running to the mods and cry to them. Quick, QUICK!!!!
regedit@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 85d
Take that doomer shit back to reddit.
Your account is just over a week old and half of your comments are how you and others should give up. You do you, but there are plenty of American propaganda pieces from the 1940s and beyond talking about how to deal with fascists. Many of us will be voting and giving a shit past our personal comforts this year. We welcome you to do the bare minimum to fight it, as well.
GhostFace@lemmy.today · -11 pts · 85d
Not really surprised that more people aren't on this site when people like you have such aggressive attitudes. Also, that's a bold assumption. That's not half my comments, and you'd know. Half my comments aren't even on political communities or posts.
You want more support? Maybe try harder to welcome other people instead of looking at people that are already weary from fighting and threatening them or making poor judgements about them.
athatet@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 85d
Welcome.
Here we tell people to shut the fuck up when they talk about not voting because it’s basically the easiest thing you can fucking do.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 85d
Even if I knew beforehand that it wouldn't make a difference I'd still do it because it's not hard to do.
No excuses.
GhostFace@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 84d
"Not hard to do."
Um excuse me? Did we read the same article?
There's going to be armed thugs at the polling stations. Voting by mail is being sabotaged.
Voting has never been all that easy to begin with even before this. People do get harassed at polling stations, assuming they can even get there sometimes. Fun fact, but where I live they closed a polling station down early and proceeded to move it to a location over an hour away.