Elections are 100% controlled by the states, there is nothing they can do to force states to comply with this stupid shit. Trump is an utter fucking moron.
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A bunch of states are going to kowtow to him anyway, a judge is going to declare it unconstitutional, Trump's going to throw a hissyfit & bomb Djibouti or some shit as distraction and Congress is going to pass it anyway.
Trump is an utter moron, being supported by utter morons, with utter morons calling rational people "the real morons" for daring to ask "wait, what?"
I'm tired, and I can't weld good enough to make a Killdozer...
If you're a registered Democrat, you're going to get a late night visit from ICE.
castle doctrine gonna suck for ice
Own a modern firearm to shoot fascists foot soldiers, as the founding fathers intended...
Fuck that we tally ho.
They are not prepared to deal with cannons. Or revolutionary war recreationists
States rights blah blah blah right?
we are a christian country!!! oh you can't minister to our detainees.
No.
Goddamn I want to leave this country, but no one wants immigrants from the US and I don't blame them
I definitely get and feel similarly, and I guess this aint a bright spot but unless things change drastically and rapidly so there are very few places on the planet that will be able to serve as a refuge for the pain coming over the next few years. The best we can all hope for is that the US collapses rapidly before the technofeudalists and christofascists can further cement control
Yep, most countries are going to refuse American refugees. We'll just have to stay here, and fight back.
The only country I can easily emigrate to is arguably worse. Which is doubly sucky
Keep your options open, there is still time for it to be preferable to America. I have faith in Trump that he will make things much worse.
We don't need fucking Trump's permission to vote.
No person needs permission from a leader to vote.
Leaders are elected first in the hearts and minds of the people and then at the ballot box.
A leader can try to take away the ballot box, but they can’t take away people’s will and leaders who forget this will ultimately lose one way or another.
We need to fight back against the hurdles and vote. Don't let this get us down and maybe we can get the message out as to what people need to do the get over the hurdles they're creating.
FUCK YOU RAPIST
More specifically, child rapist. As well as rapist of women.
I wake up every single day thanking the stars I’m not an American. What a fucking disaster this country is. Vote for a rapist, get raped, I guess.
You think the oligarchs that put Trump in office will stop with the US? Better keep an eye on your own politicians
At least I didn't grow up having to do active shooter drills in school and I don't live in fear of risking bankruptcy for a trip to the hospital or praying that my employer doesn't wake up feeling like firing me.
If your nation is capitalist, just add a yet on to any of those.
Yet, my quality of life has been better than that of any given American in a comparable income bracket.
Yeah yeah thats great and completely misses the point. See you in five years when you are blind sided.
I'm not missing the point. It takes a special kind of misery to tell someone "you'll be like us in 5 years".
And even though I may, I would have still lived a better life without having been forcefed a bunch of propaganda about being the pinnacle of human history.
Probably more like in 10-15 years, but yeah. They're definitely missing the point. 20-30 years ago nobody would have thought something like modern day America could have happened.
I mean people did, they've been ringing the alarm bells since the 70s. Its happening in Canada too. Anywhere a corporation lurks under capitalism is in danger of becoming what we are. Be vigilant. Dont be capitalist.
Modern-day America makes sense, though. It may have become stale, but it was literally built on genocide and slavery: the whole tragedy and farce thing.
As I've said, many a time, once dictatorship's instantiated, he'll not just remove the vote from all non-Republicans, he'll de-naturalize all non-Republicans, then they can be ICE'd..
making it criminal to do ANY trade with "illegals"/woke.
I found out that he & Miller had a 1-MILLION deportations quota on ICE, for their 1st year..
You're too far in nazi territory, when you're doing that kind of shit .. there's no pretending that away, any more than there's any pretending-away Israel's admission that it's annexing territory from Lebanon, once it's got Hamas controlled/down..
Putin, Trump, Netanyahu, Millei.. same fundamental-values, they're demonstrating..
& the fools who are "certain" that social-pressure will prevent the tippingpoint from being crossed..
..solving the wrong problem, while helping the enemy that is walking our world into its "secondary-crime-scene", for our world's butchery..
The Great Filter's actual! This century is it..
_ /\ _
I'm really hoping someone clicks on Minecraft.exe before then, to be 💯
Lmaoo I never thought of the Great Filter as a political thing potentially, I always thought of it as a technological thing like industrialization or disease or something. Interesting
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States are well within their power to ignore most of this. They don't answer to the executive branch.
The elephant in the room is him ordering the postal service not to deliver ballots from people not on the federal approved voter list. The postal service isn't state ran. Trump doesn't have direct control over who the post master is, but the board that selects the post master is mostly empty seats so I guess he could flood it with sycophants with support from congress and appoint a new post master if this one puts up any resistance.
It also seeks to bar the U.S. Postal Service from sending absentee ballots to those not on each state’s approved list.
Legal experts noted other potential flaws with the order. David Becker, a former Justice Department lawyer who leads the Center for Election Innovation and Research, said the Postal Service is run by a board of governors [not state governors] and the president has no power to tell it what mail it can and cannot deliver.
A spokesperson for USPS said Tuesday the agency will review the order. Trump has sought to bring the independent agency under more presidential control, proposing to fold it under the Commerce Department — whose secretary, Howard Lutnick, was on hand for Tuesday’s signing.
The USPS can be bypassed through strategic and frequent placement of ballot dropboxes. I already didn't use the postal service after the bullshit Trump tried to pull in 2020. It's better to use the dropboxes in every way except for one, and in my case it's only a block to get to the dropbox so it doesn't even apply.
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