President Donald Trump is promising to reveal “really big news” on election security. Many Republicans wish he wouldn’t.
The president’s speech, expected to be delivered in prime time Thursday from the White House, comes amid renewed hostilities with Iran, which are once again driving up fuel prices ahead of an election that most strategists still expect to turn on cost-of-living issues.
“The people I talk to are scared shitless,” said a former Trump administration official, granted anonymity to speak candidly. “It’s not scared shitless about the text of what he’s going to say, it’s, what does he add to the text?”
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spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works · 99 pts · 45d
Let's put our 80 year old dotard with severe dementia on national television! What could possibly go wrong?
My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world · 53 pts · 45d
Meh, his base will love it.
At this point, the only thing that would be legitimately shocking for the audience would be if he had an actual aneurysm or heart attack mid-speech and died. Anything else he says or does won't move the shock needle much at all.
GreenBeard@lemmy.ca · 28 pts · 45d
If he walked out on stage with no pants, sang badly for 20 minutes, fell over, and crawled away he would be greeted with thunderous applause and rabid acclaim.
CuddlyCassowary@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 45d
I would prefer that vs. everything else he’s done.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 44d
He's gonna walk onstage and yell "free ice-cream for everyone!" After he's informed that nobody brought ice-cream, he will blame the democrats
I am stoned
CADmonkey@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 44d
Truth is sometimes found in the buds.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 44d
So back in 2016, I tried this thing to explain why Trump was so unpresidential.
I found a picture of him, on stage, wearing tan suit pants.
I pixelated the lower half of his body. Showed it to my very-Christian aunt. she freaked out about him not wearing pants and how it was wrong of me, how it was an attack on him, how it was out of context. Everything except “hang on a second! That never happened!”
People started talking about what context was it appropriate to be pantless on stage, etc.
Which was my entire point. It never happened, but he is such a fucking creep she didn’t think twice about it. No one even questioned that he was letting it all hang out.
The “well, here’s the thing…” didn’t go over too well.
yakko@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 44d
Do it again, but this time with one of the true things that has happened
Asafum@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 45d
My maga coworkers were already talking about what time it would be on. They're grabbing their popcorn... They love this piece of shit.
Kirp123@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 45d
If he dies on TV that would probably become the most watched video of the decade.
CannonFodder@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 45d
Fingers crossed.
osanna@lemmy.vg · 3 pts · 44d
and toes!
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 44d
The only thing that'd be better is if he could find a way to die twice.
anomnom@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 44d
Shitting his diaper so hard that it squirts up the front and gets on his face would do, but then we’d have to see 30% of his followers trying to mimic it.
artyom@piefed.social · 12 pts · 45d
They've been doing it for over a decade and it's worked out extremely well for them so far.
800XL@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 44d
Don't forget Republican darling Ronald Reagan, who just like the current Republican darling had a second term marred by rapidly declining mental function.
whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 46 pts · 45d
spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works · 34 pts · 45d
Worse: Trump is a child rapist.
muzzle@lemmy.zip · 29 pts · 45d
If they are so scared, why don't they stop him? They are literally the only one with the power to do it.
Polyphilic@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 45d
Trump can fire almost anyone he wants for almost any reason
dan1101@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 45d
He can't fire senators and they are the ones that can stop this.
Triumph@fedia.io · 3 pts · 45d
He can fire them in the middle of 5th Avenue.
DarkCloud@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 45d
He's going to start an election security department to oversee elections and have it be part of the executive branch and hence (according to his supreme court, and unitary executive theory) it will be under the control Trump officials.
That'll be the end of it.
neonchaos@piefed.social · 11 pts · 45d
And their first order of business will be to cancel the mid-terms to "save money" and "safeguard against voter fraud". Then when the lawsuits come, he'll slip Roberts another $20 and get the court to say that Prez can do that because the Constitution doesn't explicitly say the words, "POTUS cannot cancel elections".
That or he's going to issue an EO for a federal poll tax to be paid directly to him, as a means of ensuring voter integrity.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 44d
So he would be checking off the 24th amendment to the Constitution as yet another amendment to violate. trump is going for the Pokemon method of fascism "Gotta violate them all".
Can't wait until I have to shelter ICE agents in my house under the penalty of law in violation of the 3rd amendment. /s
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 44d
They’re not scared about what he’s going to do, they’re scared he’s going to say something stupid and embarrass them.
Did I read that right?
Rakonat@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 44d
Literally every time he opens his mouth is an embarrassment. Even without opening his mouth sometimes.
bigbangdangler@reddthat.com · 13 pts · 45d
We're all scared shitless. Some of us are just slower on the uptake.
Yeller_king@reddthat.com · 8 pts · 45d
Not nearly scared enough.
wirebeads@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 45d
Someone out ol yeller out to pasture for good. Fuck this mango Mussolini piece of shit.
Come on America, do the 2nd amendment thing you all feel so strongly about.
FullPenguin@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 45d
Something like that before midterms would be just what the GOP wants to exercise more control and cancel elections.
If it happens now, we'll all be highly suspicious of an inside job.
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 44d
Yeah... we don't need him to become a martyr
osanna@lemmy.vg · 2 pts · 44d
yep, they go on and on about their 2A rights, but when there's an actual tyrant? crickets
SupraMario@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 44d
You don't jump to the cartridge box....there are 3 others before it.
CADmonkey@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 44d
Not to mention it takes time to set up paralell infrastructre/systems.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 44d
We will guarantee free and fair election by pointing a gun to voter's heads and ensuring they vote MAGA
o0evillusion0o@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 44d
All the announcements I care about are the TRUMP-EPSTEIN FILES (TM)
stretch2m@infosec.pub · 3 pts · 45d
The Grim Reaper came for the wrong guy.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 44d
The networks think Trump can stuff it