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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 124 points 1 week ago (10 children)

There is no way MAGA will accept a Democrat victory in the Midterms, especially if it flips either chamber.

There is no way Trump leaves in 2028.

We ALL already know this in our hearts and our brains. We have to talk about it, and internalize it, and start making contingency plans for those nearly CERTAIN situations.

[–] CallMeButtLove@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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

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[–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 86 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Here's hoping that people care this time.

[–] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 61 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 61 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This is the line. Let's be honest. That's the red line. If he actually crosses that line you should do things that the World mods will ban me for saying. But that's it. That's the point where any semblance of democracy is totally gone. Where even the most neoliberal Democrat has to know that voting no longer means anything. That's the point where you have to make a choice. That would be the final Point wherein there is a line of the sand you either put on the red hat and fall in line or you play back. Some would argue we've already reached that point mind you, but I think that would be the last reasonable line.

[–] 3abas@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[–] KindnessIsPunk@lemmy.ca 45 points 1 week ago (2 children)

never boo someone for being late to a party, just hand them a beer

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 10 points 1 week ago

Yes, this is the Red Line. We have never suspended elections in this country for any reason, not even during the Civil War. The Midterms are the LAST CHANCE for Democrats to begin to take power back from MAGA legally, and if that last opportunity is stolen, then the only option left is violence.

Canceling elections, for any reason, is a BRIGHT RED LINE, and we must not allow our elected officials to cross that line, or allow our elected officials to look the other way. We have to let them ALL know that the Midterm election will go on as usual, and MAGA will accept the outcome, no matter what it is.

And we have to also let them know that if MAGA cancel elections, and our Dem representatives allow it, they will BOTH suffer in the inevitable violence that will follow. Whether you actively committed treason, or just say back and let it happen, you are equally guilty.

[–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 54 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why wouldn’t he commit more crimes? He’s been committing crimes with impunity his entire life. Who’s going to stop him?

[–] MuskyMelon@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] Pee_comes_from_the_balls@lemmy.world 52 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Wait, are we still all thinking he'll peacefully leave the white house after the shit he pulled last time?

[–] hector@lemmy.today 32 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (8 children)

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.

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[–] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 11 points 1 week ago

Really hope he doesn't die peacefully. At the very least he should take a violent shit in his pants before passing.

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[–] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 50 points 1 week ago (3 children)

REPUBLICANS should get Sole Control over who Wins Elections? They MUST Need some FUNDING for that! Let's GIVE it to Them!

-Chuck Schumer (D) and Hakeem Jeffries (D)!

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 week ago

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

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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 42 points 1 week ago (2 children)

More treason.

In a healthy nation the Republican party would be disbanded and outlawed.

But this isn't a healthy nation, so assuming we get to continue having elections and they are fair and the Republicans lose, I expect American's hamster brains to completely forget about this in one or two election cycles and start flirting with letting these traitors have power again.

This dipshit proved who he was the first time around and we only managed to get through one term without him before letting a child back into the Oval Office. We're a very stupid nation.

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[–] femtek@lemmy.blahaj.zone 35 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I mean the food, seats, and extra stuff is a lot better than AMC. The only reason I went to the AMC near me was for iron lung and so many seats had stains and the bathroom was ehhh.

Edit: Not sure how it went to this post, my b

[–] 13igTyme@piefed.social 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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

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[–] BenderRodriguez@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We're going to watch this happen and no one will do anything. At this point the only thing that will stop the billionaires is a war.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 35 points 1 week ago

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

[–] dellish@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Trump’s comments come as Republicans in Congress push a bill that would enable massive voter purges, impose photo ID requirements, and ban ranked-choice voting, universal mail-in ballots, and the acceptance of mailed ballots that arrive after Election Day.

And you just KNOW the Democraps are going to let them have it all too.

[–] dancroissant@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Surely the guys with big trucks flying Don't Tread on Me flags are against this

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 week ago

They think they'll be doing the treading. They are mistaken, but they won't realize until it's too late to save themselves.

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[–] pjwestin@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago (9 children)

The thing is, there's no mechanism for nationalizing voting, and I don't really see a clear path for Republicans to do that in the next nine months. They'd have to pass legislation to do that, which would be extremely difficult given their margins in congress. Even then, states control elections as a function of the Constitution, and while the Supreme Court is happy to approve whatever unconstitutional bullshit Trump dreams up, it will take times to get through the courts. He could try to seize control of the voting process from states, but I don't know that he has the infrastructure to manage the whole voting process through the executive branch, and the fact that he's asking the Republicans to do this for him makes me think he knows this. Either way, any kind of coup on the election process would face the same legal challenges as legislation.

That doesn't mean we shouldn't be extremely worried. I think it's unlikely that the Republicans will, "nationalize the voting," but I think it's very likely he'll send federal goons in to, "prevent voter fraud," (AKA suppress the vote).

[–] OshagHennessey@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] pjwestin@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes, but most of those have either not been achieved yet or have only been achieved because they were relatively easy. He tried to abolish the 14th Amendment through EO on day one, and it's just getting to the Supreme Court now. He's been able to illegally dissolve federal agencies because the Republicans in Congress have abdicated their power, and destroying something is much easier than building it.

Even if he signs an EO to take over the elections tomorrow, he'll still face legal challenges that will likely wind up in the Supreme Court, and he'll still need to build out the infrastructure to run these elections federally, something the federal government has never done. I'm not saying that he can't steal the elections, or that we shouldn't be worried, but the idea that he's just going to, "federalize," elections in fifteen states before the midterms seems pretty unlikely.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Listen to what you just said. Congress won't act to stop him and SCOTUS takes a year before they might stop him. If he does do an EO tomorrow, the legality of the order likely won't be settled until after the midterms. The only things in his way are logistics and the people.

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[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He's been saying this kind of thing all along, either canceling or rigging the elections. Why is it only a fire now?

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It was a fire the first time and every time since. It'll be a fire next time too. Likely we'll continue the trend of doing nothing about it while we slide deeper into Nazism, cuz that's how murica do.

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[–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

The election was quite close in Minnesota, and Harris won it. Of all the states won by the Democrats, Minnesota had the closest margin.

Is his plan as blatant as taking the demographic that voted against him, loading them into a van, and disappearing them?

https://www.bbc.com/news/election/2024/us/results

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[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

Quickly: let’s do nothing!!!

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

Republicans” should.

Not the States, not bipartisan whatever…just them. That tells you everything.

[–] MIDItheKID@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

So less state rights? And more big government? The cornerstone of the Republican party?

[–] LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

We all knew he would do anything and everything possible to stop the midterms. He knows he will go to prison if he gets impeached and charged, so he is waging a full on war on every right we have.

This november will be very interesting with thousands of DHS gestapo at local voting station intimidating voters, GOP refusing to swear in democratic winners, and the hourly posts by the president telling his cult everything is rigged and they are all going to have to fight for something BS.

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

The party of small government strikes again.

Pathetic.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

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[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I’d like to see one person one vote for president.

Just not under this crook.

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[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago

If by now Americans don’t believe him when the orange shitstain talks… they deserve the inevitable dictatorship they themselves installed.

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