Totally not an ominous or fucked up to say when blue states are absolutely recoiling in horror at the fucking disgrace of a president he is /s
I think the fraud in the midterms will be so rampant you won’t even know where to start to counter it all. At the end of the day the choice will be throw out all the votes and hold a second vote or accept the outcome. This will just be in areas where suppression hasn’t already sealed the deal. So, while maybe a few of these smaller elections get sorted, any of the elections that did get blown up and slip through will be gains.
You have to understand, they are going for complete control from top to bottom. It doesn’t matter how successful they are because there is nothing you can do can to wrench away their established power. When the election committees move to fix the damage done they will be completely on their own. Since the systems they’ve always relied on will have been dismantled they won’t be able to act fast enough.
On election night some two years from now, you better be ready to do one of two things. Join the already growing factions to oppose the federal government or accept you live under authoritarian rule.
Every time I hear Trump talk, I cringe because he uses such simple words that sounds like a 2nd grader wrote his speech.
“Big”, “bad”, “sad”, etc. I ask you to listen to any of his interviews or any of his short answers to reporters and you’ll understand what I’m talking about.
He knows his audience, I mean, he’s speaking to MAGA. It would be hilarious if he spoke intelligently except for press conferences and so on. But yeah, he’s also thick as 2 short planks, which I guess is why they find him relatable.
It’s a bunch of 5th graders, but same thing…
I’m sure 5th graders can write better speeches.
A CBS News poll last week found voters are giving Trump high marks for his first month in office.
Uh. Polling for the week of 16-22 February shows that he has a net disapproval rating a few points higher than his net approval rating. For a president barely out of the first month of their presidency, that’s a historic low. This is likely to drop even more as inflation increases, and prices also increase; prices must increase to absorb the cost of tariffs, and that’s been a cornerstone of his economic policy agenda.
He will remove all registered Democrats from the voters lists, and SCOTUS will declare it perfectly legal.
So he’s planning to rig the mid term elections.
Same as all the elections since Republicans stole the 2000 election. Voters suppression and misinformation propaganda have kept them in the spotlight.
I am confident that this most recent election was rigged simply based on how nothing has been reported on invetigations of the areas where the election deniers were running the show and Republicans are constantly projecting their worst behavior. The fact that they claim prior elections were stolen is a solid sign they were planning on stealing one and this would be the one because it aligns with Project 2025.
They will absolutely be leaning into more voter suppression and will be emboldened to alter the actual vote counts themselves to make it look like their voting ratio is even higher.
I also strongly believe that the last election was rigged, and am worried that no one really seems to be looking into it. Between Trump’s own claims that he would win no matter what and Elon “It’s just one line of code” Musk there is enough to be concerned with. Most likely, I think they simply didn’t count a bunch of Dem votes.
I ask this honestly of all the people who think the last election was fair: What did Trump have to lose by not cheating?
If he cheats and he wins, he becomes president and can then use Absolute Immunity™ to completely shield himself from the consequences of both the most recent election and also the 2020 election interference / coup d’etat that he was in court for.
If he cheats and loses, he goes to prison - probably for the rest of his life.
If he plays fair and wins, exact same outcome as if he cheated, only with worse odds for victory.
If he plays fair and he loses, he goes to prison - probably for the rest of his life.
Trump would have been a fool to not try to rig the election. He was already in deep shit, and he couldn’t possibly get in more trouble than he already was. Cheating and getting caught in 2024 would have been like throwing gasoline on a raging forest fire.
Literally everybody with half a brain said for 4 years that Trump and his team, if not prevented from running again, would learn from their mistakes in 2020. And the lesson they learned wouldn’t be “Don’t cheat.”, it would be “Don’t lose.”. Right after the dust settled, Republicans moved to disenfranchise voters specifically for the next election to give them the edge they needed to win this time around. They left no margin for failure this time, and I wouldn’t have put it past them to have altered voting machines while they were at it. But nobody is looking into any of this because we’re too concerned with not appearing like hypocrites.
The greater fool is the one who trusts a person who cheated and went unpunished to not cheat again.
Wouldn’t it be up to the FBI to investigate such things?
The FBI that has been is going through constant purging right now and kicking out non-trump
fascist zealotsloyalists? That FBI?Yes but there needs to be some appetite from politicians, Dems seemed completely unwilling to entertain the idea it may have been rigged, perhaps out of fear they would be compared to Trump in 2020. All the noise about election rigging has been about people voting when they couldn’t or dead people voting and the like, no one is really talking about simply not counting votes. Meanwhile, we’re told that turnout for 2024 was relatively low, and yet the lines out of the polls that I saw were always heaving.
They reduced the number of polling places and slowed down processes to cause long lines in Democrat-controlled areas. That suppressed Democratic turnout.
It’s hard to say without a better system in place for verification, but yeah I agree it’s a pretty suspicious set of circumstances. Republican bleating is almost always projection, making it doubly so.
I voted in Florida and it was really creepy that all the electronic voting machines were managed by a Republican, but not Dems.
Yeah, you know they’re up to something because of their constaint screeching about dodgy voting machines.
…or the individual states where this allegedly happened.
Congrats to TWeaK for helping rove me right about one of my election predictions though - that no matter who won a noticeable share of the population was going to believe the election was rigged. I was guessing upwards of 1 in 6 if Trump lost (aka about half of MAGA), fewer if Trump won (not because Trump was more likely to be believed to win in a fair election, but because Trump had poisoned the well of election fraud claims in 2020).
Yes, this will be outright vote manipulation. Russia-style.
since Republicans stole the 2000 election.
Simple question: Do you believe that election deadlines are meaningless and should simply be ignored, or do you believe that each county in a state can have different rules for how votes are counted without it violating the Equal Protection clause for the 14th Amendment? Because that’s the heart of what Bush v Gore was decided on.
Based on what we know regarding the election, even if the last recount Gore had asked for had been completed and been official, he still wouldn’t have won. Some media agencies have estimated that had the entire state been recounted under the new standard Gore wanted to use that might have led to him narrowly winning, but that’s not a recount he ever actually asked for (and if he had and had done so earlier, Bush v Gore would have either gone the other way, or had to be justified on entirely different grounds since Equal Protection wouldn’t be an issue and it was specifically the deciding issue expressed in the SCOTUS opinion).
Simple question: Do you believe that election deadlines are meaningless and should simply be ignored, or do you believe that each county in a state can have different rules for how votes are counted without it violating the Equal Protection clause for the 14th Amendment? Because that’s the heart of what Bush v Gore was decided on.
I believe understaffing communuties that support the opposing party, gerrymandering, discouraging early or mail in voting, and other voter suppression is stealing an election. I also think that restrictvie deadlines on recounts thst exist only to hamper the ability to complete a recount is stealing an election.
Deadlines are fine when they are reasonable and things are running smoothly. But a deadline existing is not an absolute that cannot be adjusted based on a judicial order to allow enough time for the process to be completed properly.
The election was stolen in the steps before the recount stage because of voter suppression. Squashing the recount was just the cherry on top.
So he’s planning to
rigcancel the mid term elections.Yeah way more likely he’s going to use mass protests as a pretext for Martial Law and canceling elections indefinitely.
He accused Zelenskyy of this, which to me says he’ll definitely do it himself
Tinfoil hat time, but im more concerned that some kind of false flag would happen on a boarder city. Kill a lot of people, blame it on migrants, close the border, declare martial law, cancel elections.
An American Reichstag fire
deleted by creator
Maybe, but I think it’s more likely they’ll want some pretense of legitimacy and rig them instead of cancelling them altogether.
Like bombing an apartment complex.
Learning from putin
the fix is already in.
It has been for years, especially if all this info about the extremely insecure voting machines, starlink, ballot manipulating code, stingrays, etc is true, which it seems to be.
I cannot for the life of me understand why none of the dems in power are talking about this election being fixed. Other countries have spoken up about the same thing happening to them. At least one has demanded new elections. There seems to be plenty of evidence that this happened in the U.S., so why would they refuse to acknowledge it? Do they think people won’t believe them? They keep trying to play by rules that conservatives have long since abandoned. I just don’t understand anything anymore.
Because they spent the last four years with the conservatives falsely claiming it for 2020 and want to look like they’re taking the high road by accepting the results and making a big show about doing a peaceful transfer of power
Notice “taking the high road” is always an excuse for inaction. “Never mind the failure to deliver, feel the moral superiority.”
Yup.
Which is such a mind numbingly stupid strategy it literally hurts my brain. If there’s evidence, follow it. God I hate this.
starlink
I remain confused why 1) voting machines would have anything to do with Starlink and 2) why voting machines would be networked at all. Like, at all. It just seems like such an obvious and massive security issue. I could design a dramatically more secure way of doing electronic voting machines off the cuff that would keep most of the main advantages while eliminating most/all of the main issues.
Starlink will provide the Internet connection!
Daily Mail is trash
Daily fail
Daily Heil
Daily “Hurrah for the Blackshirts!” Mail.
Republicans should be worried about which sub-group of theirs will become the next target of this bully’s wrath if the democratic party really does dissolve. The only thing this guy has ever done policy-wise is organize hate around groups of people. He’s not just going to turn into a positive and productive president if the country goes fully red. When inflation reaches the point of no return, and there are no democrats to point the finger at, who will he target next?
Republican understanding of elections
The big big surprise is election interference. Which isn’t even a little surprise. The guys a fucking dumbass
85% of all counties in America
Empty land doesn’t vote, you moron. You can be 2000 counties up and only win by a couple million votes, because rural counties are… rural.
Empty land does, in fact, vote…under the racist system that our founding slaveholders pushed for.
If your state isn’t green, call your state representative (bonus: the one more likely to give a shit)
The fact that compromised states like Texas and Florida are pending makes me think this will be a mechanism for right wing fuckery.
Oops, turns out that all of these states controlled by the GOP voted 100% republican with no oversight from the feds. Hand over your EC votes please 🫴
If your state isn’t green, call your state representative (bonus: the one more likely to give a shit)
It’s not likely to happen, in no small part because Florida and Texas are a majority of the “pending” votes and it’s unlikely to pass in either. Most of the states where it isn’t pending are smaller states who benefit or at least aren’t meaningfully hurt by the EC.
House apportionment hurts states with 1 Rep who are just shy of getting a second the most, and after them hurts California essentially because it blows the curve on population. At the same time, it’s the best you can manage with a fixed size House - any other apportionment with the same number of House members will on average have a worse disparity in representation. You’d have to uncap the House or at least significantly increase the size of the House to get a better result.
Of course there’s nothing these days that prevents Congressional business from being conducted by teleconference, which would reduce one of the core issues with an uncapped House - the physical and practical difficulties in actually running it. For example, if you were to decide that Wyoming as the smallest state got one rep and every other state got a rep per population of Wyoming then we’d have something like 5780 Representatives.
According to the US election system empty land absolutely does vote. That is largely how you got into this whole mess in the first place.
Are you not aware that tumbleweed leans heavily regressive?
Tumbleweed is also Russian: https://cisr.ucr.edu/invasive-species/russian-thistle
… a Russian plant
Come on man it was right there!
According to the popular vote, yes. But the popular vote hasn’t mattered for many, many years. Of the many things Trump has shone a spotlight on, this has been the most blatant.
e: It only sways the results if enough members of the EC are more afraid of the populace than the party leadership.
But the popular vote hasn’t mattered for many, many years.
It never has.
They align more often than not so it might seem like it does, with the exceptions typically being cases where the Republican does really well everywhere but the Dem strongholds, while turnout for the Dems is much higher than usual in the highest population Dem strongholds. For example, Hillary Clinton won the state of California by more votes than she won the national popular vote - literally had California seceded or something Trump would have won the popular vote as well in 2016.
BREAKING NEWS
“Government declares Democratic party a terrorist organization " Jails all members”
That would be straight out of Hitler’s playbook, so I wouldn’t be surprised.
Putin did it to Navalny, faked crimes, kangaroo court, poisoned him with nerve agents, put him in the Gulag and then killed him.
Why is he just going to have us all killed 🤦♀️?
Surprises in politics are rarely good for the majority.
Red states are so woke they take more money from the fed than they give! Buncha socialists if you ask me!
That’s the point, always.
When it comes to displays of hypocrisy, it’s a show of power. I get to do this, you don’t. It’s on purpose to show you that they’re in control and they get to do things you don’t even though you’re actually following rules and decorum. They don’t have to and they want you to know it. “Hypocrite” is not an insult to them, it just means they’ve shown you their power and are happy to be called such.
It’s just like with bosses and workers. Workers do all the real labor that makes a business function, but the bosses take all the winnings. Bezos can’t deliver all those packages or roll out all those AWS servers on his own, but he gets to brutalize his employees and basically do fuck all not working because the real people who don’t actually want to fucking work are the wealthy.
Yeah, not happening. Get ready for Civil War part deux.
Start buying guns now before they take that away.
Ready or not, it’s already happening.
MAGA against who exactly? There don’t seem to be many high ranking Democrats willing to call out Trump on his bullshit, and none willing or capable of leading an actual separatist movement or insurrection. They’re actually even more subdued and helpless than they were in 2017.
I’d love to be wrong but I’m calling it now; when (blue) “states’ rights” get de facto dissolved and/or their midterm elections are obviously rigged, they will buckle silently and proceed with a Peaceful Transition Of Power™. Maybe their attorneys will send a Strongly Worded Letter to the Trump-appointed federal judges in charge of their case, but that’s about all the political violence the American Left has an appetite for.
States being stripped of their independence is exactly what happened to Germany in the '30s and I don’t see why the U.S. would suddenly deviate from the script. Your country is way too morally bankrupt to even entertain the idea of a popular uprising.
Since you don’t live here, it’s easy to talk shit from across the pond, gauging reactions from news clips and the limitations of what the internet shows you. Get some popcorn, because shit’s about to get live.
Are we really sharing the dailymail
What’s wrong with DM? Serious question
The same website that posted an article yesterday calling luigi mangione supporters sick for lining up to see a killer they idolize right in the title of the “article” ? its a fucking neo lib conservative corporate turd cutter tongue punching rag. Fuck the dm. Fuck 90% of corporate owned propaganda outlets out there. Ever since regan and then bush senior killed the fairness in media doctrine journalism has almost entirely evaporated and been replaced with boot licking shills cosplaying as journalists
Ew fuck them
I don’t think you should be downvoted for your genuine ignorance to the situation. But now that you have been educated to the reality you should really work harder to educate yourself as to the mechanisms of propaganda that have embedded themselves in the institutions we have been conditioned to believe are the representatives of journalistic integrity which supposedly stand to speak truth to power as we enter into an obvious age of technocratic fascism masquerading as (neo)liberal democracy. A sham form of democracy has never been democratic since liberal democracy fights tooth and nail against economic democracy making it a de-facto class dictatorship nothing more, nothing less.
Yeah I know now… thanks for that …based on the community feedback though from others, .I think I’m going to filter this group. Nothing against you at all but I’m not going to engage with toxicity.
People are really tired with status quo and I understand why. But unfortunately we’ve had a class war waged against us for the last 54 years maybe even a little longer snd now many people don’t have the ability to understand how we got to where we are.all that matters is we are now here at a point of full fledged fascism and we need to mobilize and get ready for a civil war. Those in control of the current administration have said the revolution will be bloodless if the left allows it. The left that ass clown was talking about isn’t even the real left. The dem party is a neo liberal right leaning center controled opposition party and that’s a large part of the problem. True leftism has been eradicated from the discussion for the last 54 years and what we have told is left is actually feckless limp dicked conservatism masquerading as leftism fo maintain the class dictatorship at all costs. It is high time for accelerationism. Most social media outlets are completely censored and controlled. Now is the time to stand up, buy a gun, make some bug out kits/ plans, organize and prepare for the worst. It isn’t going to get better that is for sure.
It’s pretty sensationalist.
Ohh like overly "alarmist’ like what MJ does…? Yeah I don’t need that in my life
It’s a more toxic Brit equivalent to the NY Post. It’s a scummy tabloid with a long history of spreading lies about immigrants, minorities, and anyone else who’s a target for fascists. Oh, about that fascism: the Mail supported Mosley’s British Union of Fascists, and also supported Hitler. Churchill wanted to hang the owner for treason, but unfortunately was talked out of it by other rich people with questionable connections to Berlin.
It’s nickname is “The Daily Moron”.
Need me to explain further?
Lots of things really
Didn’t really answer anything though…
I’ll speak slow ly and use mon no syli la bic words so you can un der stand.
