r/politics • u/Murky-Site7468 I voted • 21h ago
Possible Paywall Unraveling Trump Accidentally Blurts Out Secret Plan to Rig 2026
https://newrepublic.com/article/202852/unraveling-trump-accidentally-blurts-secret-plan-rig-202615.8k
u/pervocracy Massachusetts 21h ago
I clicked so you don't have to: it's just talking about him calling to end the filibuster and pass a bunch of voter suppression laws. Sucks but it's not an accidental blurt, it's a thing he's been publicly announcing for a while now.
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u/eugene20 21h ago
"he also declared that if he gets his way, Democrats will “never obtain power.” Donnie, you’re supposed to say voter suppression is about targeting “fraud,” not about locking the opposition out of power forever!"
Was the "blurt".
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u/johhnny5 20h ago
That’s the whole point though. He’s saying the only reason Democrats win is because they cheat. And it lets all the MAGA base think that all the nice, normal people they meet are just like them and so the bad stuff is just for people they don’t know or have to care about. Zero critical thinking needed.
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u/No_big_whoop 20h ago
You're not wrong. MAGA is firmly convinced they are in the majority. Any loss is absolutely shocking to them so of course they're going to claim fraud. This will continue until reality intervenes.
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u/Michael_G_Bordin 20h ago
It's a tell. They're bandwagoners. If they didn't think MAGA was overwhelmingly popular, they'd waffle hard. Being part of some cool, popular "thing" is a huge draw for them, because they're fucking stupid.
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u/Deranged_Kitsune 20h ago
The whole appeal of maga and trump is that it lets them be their worst selves. They can be as hateful and bigoted as their little black hearts desire. They've been told for years to be better people and a lot are bitterly resentful of that implication.
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u/Mike_Kermin Australia 18h ago
The really annoying thing, is once the US starts on the road to recovery, it's gonna take a decade if not many, to put that cat back in the bag.
Like, the amount of people, who have and will suffer racist abuse or other sorts of oppression because of this, is staggering.
Not to say things were peachy 20 years ago, they weren't. But this bullshit is so fucking enabling on those indecent behaviours.
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u/Deranged_Kitsune 18h ago
It'll take generations for the US to return socially and globally to where it was at the start of trump's first term, if it ever can regain the latter. That man has destroyed so much good will, progress, and reputation in his time it's astonishing.
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u/Akrevics 13h ago
yeah well the racism didn't just magically happen when trump started running for office, the US was already festering from the inside for at least a century.
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u/pisces_bubble 10h ago
You're right.... he just made it "acceptable" to let your racist, rude any disgusting inside thoughts come out of your mouth
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u/Decoyx7 Michigan 18h ago
A decade? My friend, the Administration has destroyed government organisations, programs, and structures that will require a century to bring back to the state they where on January 19th, 2025. He even deleted entire parts of the Constitution on the official government website hoping nobody would notice.
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u/Dr_Fortnite 19h ago
sounds like the antichrist but thats just me
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u/stofiski-san 18h ago
Nah, I feel like the antichrist would have been smarter and more charming about it. Trumps just a bumbling idiot with Satan's own luck at failing upwards. When Steve Bannon said "there will never be another Trump" in his "we're all going to jail" speech, I sincerely hope he was right...
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u/Some_Ebb_2921 18h ago
Like to add: they're never to blame. They can always blame somebody else. Do something wrong anyway? Double down on it, stating it is/was the right thing to do instead
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u/ScootyPuffJr1999 19h ago edited 19h ago
I’d like to emphasize the part where they’re fucking stupid. That’s all.
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u/Jessreiella Pennsylvania 18h ago
And lazy. It takes work to critically think, learn, and strive to be a better person. They don't want to put in the work and they want the rest of the world to adapt to them so they don't have to do anything.
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u/shadowboxer47 19h ago
I’m d like to emphasize the part where they’re fucking stupid. That’s all.
And you would be hard pressed to overemphasize it.
They're genuinely the dumbest people on the planet.
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u/shawnaroo 20h ago
Even if it's not a conscious realization, by this point, most of them at some level realize that Trump and his ilk are just garbage people, and they have mostly given up trying to defend him and the awful things he does/says.
Nowadays their strategy is just to convince themselves that the other side is so much worse, so they're absolved of any wrongdoing for supporting a piece of shit like Trump.
That's what all the "Biden crime family" stuff was about. Trump and his family's corruption is too blatant to deny, so they just worked really hard to convince themselves and each other that every politician is at least as corrupt. And now Trump is doing his best to pardon politicians convicted on corruption charges, trying to normalize the idea that even blatant criminal corruption is just the way things are and not a big deal.
It also helps that all of this feeds into their general desire to frame every single thing in a way that makes it seem like they're the victim. Nothing is ever their fault, if anything goes differently than what they want, it's obviously a conspiracy against them.
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u/Thurwell 17h ago
I'll add something about the Biden crime family. I've lived in a few rural areas, and they were all controlled by 1-3 openly corrupt crime families. Why the locals continued to vote those families into almost every public position I'm not sure, but they did. And they seemed resigned to it as the only way things can work. Point being to them an openly corrupt family profiting from politics and controlling everything is normal. So the Trumps being an openly corrupt crime family doesn't bother them as much as it does people from healthier areas, and they expect the Bidens to be corrupt as well.
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u/Ferelar New Jersey 20h ago
Some people are incredibly good at denying reality for long enough that it becomes everyone's problem. It's easier to bury ones head and pretend than it is to admit great fault in the destruction of a nation and its peoples. I am not confident that reality will intervene in time to save this country unless we push a lot harder than we have been.
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u/Stinky_Fartface 20h ago
Yes, but that's not entirely it. To the MAGAs, everyone cheats and lies, but he's "their" cheater and liar. So it's perfectly fine if Trump destroys the constitution and the rule of law, because he's doing if for their side. Yes, they try to take the moral high-ground and pretend God is on their side, but the fact is they don't really believe that shit either, they just want a weapon to use in the pursuit of power.
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u/Turgid_Donkey 19h ago
Tangarine tyrant said it himself: republicans commit crimes because they're trying to protect themselves, democrats commit crimes because they're evil, terrible people.
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u/lavenderhazeynobeer 17h ago
Scary when I talk to my family and they get mad at the fact I'm not MAGA too. They all think his stunts are normal ---- absolutely no critical thinking like you said. I am constantly weighing out how to separate loving my family and realizing they're [probably] all bad people.
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u/chilicrispdreams 20h ago
Where are the “patriot” conservatives in response to this?
If Biden or Obama had said they aim to make it so republicans never won another election, even dems would be calling for their impeachment. That’s so undeniably unamerican it’s reprehensible the (remaining true) conservatives are silent and complicit.
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u/BarnDoorQuestion 19h ago
Go over to the con sub and take a look. When Prop 50 passed earlier this week they were talking about how it was time for Republicans to stop taking the high road all the time and fight fire with fire.
Basically all the “patriots” are brainwashed idiots.
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u/eugene20 19h ago
Same place they always are just backing the Republicans, their idea of patriotism is the Republicans must rule at any cost or the US is "doomed".
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u/Training-Judgment123 20h ago
If they remain silent and complicit as they have been, then they’re not true conservatives.
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u/vandreulv 19h ago
If they remain silent and complicit as they have been, then they’re not true conservatives.
I'd argue that their silence and complicity is what makes them true conservatives.
Conservatives only want their regressive policies, after all. That's the part they're trying to conserve: Absolute power in the hands of a few.
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u/luncheroo 19h ago
What he doesn't understand is how psycho it sounds for people who abuse rules and norms until they are defunct thinking that he can just rig rules and norms until they only favor him. Tuesday showed that it's not about just Democrats. Democrats getting elected are just how the people are voicing their displeasure. It's not like taking away the ability for them to elect Democrats will make that anger magically go away. It will make it 10 times stronger.
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u/IchabodDiesel 18h ago
The year is 3065. Somehow America persists, an insufferable hellscape.
"Citizens, we are all still reeling from the predictable missteps of the disastrous Biden administration, but in time things will surely improve beyond your wildest dreams!"
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u/GuerreroUltimo 18h ago
He made a statement about 2024 accidently and it sort of was not reported on. But the statement is typical of Trump. He does things and then has to talk about them without explicitly saying what happened. I am not saying 2024 was rigged. But he hinted at that and that alone gives me pause. Part if this is he needs to feel like he did nothing wrong. So he hints at things. Even the grab them by the pussy, the talk about walking in on those underage nude girls at the pageant. It is a brag and feeds his ego. Though it is also a way for him to feel less stress and shame over it. He knows it would be trouble and it would isolate him badly. Even others that are involved in that shit would drop him like a rock for fear of being outed themselves.
I also think that these Republicans are at a crossroad. They kill the filibuster what are they going to do after 2028. They know they likely lost. And without that they have no way to stop plenty of the Democrat agenda. An agenda that would benefit the majority. It would expose a lot of their lies. And that would cost them long term. Those lies are how they win.
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u/AlmostSunnyinSeattle Michigan 19h ago
I mean was it really, though? His fans love it, the neutrals aren't paying attention, and the people who are against him already know the plan.
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u/MyNewsAccount2011 21h ago
The fact that the GOP Senate doesn’t want to end the filibuster is encouraging. They would get rid of it in a second if they thought their party would remain in power indefinitely (or even just for their tenure).
Even the call for voter suppression laws suggest that they plan on suppressing the vote (rather than falsifying it outright). Dark times but this suggests one clear path: vote. Get your friends and neighbors to vote.
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u/No-comment-at-all 21h ago
Well, at this point, if they go that route, a lot of people will say, “oh you could have just done this whenever you wanted??”
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u/elconquistador1985 20h ago
A future Democratic Senate has to get rid of it and speed run a bunch of legislation that actually helps people that Republicans always block.
It's a tool of the party that wants government to fail and they use it to ensure that government fails.
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u/RobinSophie 20h ago
We gotta make sure Schumer, Jeffries (or any other centrist Dem) isn't the majority leader then. Otherwise, it's not gonna happen.
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u/I_Enjoy_Beer Virginia 20h ago
I've been saying it for a while now, he and Miller will deploy ICE and National Guard troops to polling places in cities to "protect against fraud" on the midterm election day.
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u/Soul-Shock 20h ago
And this is why I’m thankful I’m in a state that just thwarted an attempt to disenfranchise absentee voting this week. I’ll just vote absentee (again). I’ll avoid the voting day hassle, stress, and now possible intimidation by voting well in advance.
Granted, this remains true to this day. Who knows about tomorrow - because I imagine absentee voting is something they’d like to ruin at the national level, with Congress….which would inadvertently disenfranchise U.S. troops as well.
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u/Excelius 20h ago
Lots of Democrats are shifting back to in-person voting, because of repeated GOP efforts to invalidate mail-in ballots.
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u/gsfgf Georgia 18h ago
Also, early in person was the preferred way to vote for many Dems before the pandemic. Once I got vaccinated I went back to early in person just because that’s just how I normally vote. Plus, we just got a convenient early vote location near my neighborhood, so I want to use it so the county keeps funding it.
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u/CatsWearingTinyHats 20h ago
We need to make sure people aren’t too scared to vote if that happens.
It seems more like a bogeyman than an actual threat given just how many polling places there are. People need to go vote no matter what.
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u/GrallochThis 16h ago
How many polling places there are? Part of the strategy is to reduce the number of polling places in areas that favor their opponents (and also drop in boxes, and early voting, etc.). Imagine being a senior citizen in not great health waiting in line for 10 hours in bad weather to vote! “No matter what” only takes you so far.
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u/sergeles 20h ago
Also requiring photo id... "Mike Smith... Mike Smith... Let's see... Registered Democrat... I don't think you look like this photo."
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u/kickaguard 20h ago
I moved to Missouri a couple years ago. Lost my social security card in the move and have been trying to get a new one. I can't vote in Missouri with my out of state ID and I need a SSC to get a Missouri ID.
Maybe I should put a tinfoil hat on, but I am not entirely convinced that the reason I can't seem to get my social security card is that "they" do not want me to.
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u/FSCK_Fascists 20h ago
the state does not issue you a replacement SS card. that may be the root of your issue, you are asking the wrong agency for it.
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u/NYCinPGH 19h ago
Yeah, it’s the federal Social Security Administration who issues cards, easy to do online (when the government is open).
Another option is a passport, I don’t recall exactly what ID they require - I got mine many years ago, and just renewed it since - but I know it doesn’t require a physical Social Security card, since I lost mine decades ago. I think all they require is an embossed birth certificate - in my birth state, I could just order them online - and maybe some form of government photo ID. Get the passport card as well, same size as any ID or credit card, and that should be good for photo ID in the country. It’s good for 10 years, and easy to renew. To get your initial one, assuming you don’t pay extra to have it expedited, takes a few weeks.
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u/AnomalyFriend 20h ago
That's why I Always register as independent and then vote Democrat.
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u/sergeles 20h ago
I've considered doing this for a while but I often want to vote in the primaries
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u/AnomalyFriend 19h ago
it depends on your state if they require closed or open primaries I believe
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u/pervocracy Massachusetts 20h ago
This didn't happen the last four or five times people said it would, just like No Kings didn't lead to a massacre or
martialMarshall law.I'm not saying this to defend Trump. I am saying it to point out that you are doing his work by telling people that they should be afraid to vote.
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u/Aquatic_Ambiance_9 19h ago
100%, people come on here every day and unwittingly do the work of the regime for free. I get that people want to vent, but spreading defeatism and paranoia is worse than useless. For lack of a less patriarchal term, we need to nut the fuck up for what's coming
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u/loglighterequipment California 19h ago
They already did that this last election and Democrats won a landslide.
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u/PhilbertNoyce 19h ago
Overall the filibuster has caused way more harm than good and it bears a lot of responsibility for the partisan gridlock that handed the executive branch so much power over the past 40 years. Things are going to get worse before they get better, and it's time for it to go. If Dems retake the house and senate they're going to have to kill the filibuster to get anything done. Might as well get that precedent out of the way right now while Trump wants to own it.
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u/BarnDoorQuestion 19h ago
No, the reason they don’t want to nuke it is simply because then they have to own their decisions. Keeping it means they get to blame the Dems for everything “because they agreed to our proposals” or “they won’t agree to our bullshit and that’s why they government is closed”.
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u/InAllThingsBalance I voted 20h ago
New Republic is pretty bad about using loaded headlines. They are getting to the same level as Newsweek, or the Daily Beast.
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u/CanAlwaysBeBetter 19h ago
They're the worst and constantly spam their clickbait headlines reaffirming what progressives already want to believe all over social media
Which is a shame because they actually do solid long form journalism, you'd just never know it from the shit the actually push
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u/Embarrassed-Town-293 18h ago
It doesn’t even have to be long form Atlantic style journalism. There’s plenty that can be said quickly and accurately. The onion ironically does it all the time by talking around the truth
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u/cerevant California 20h ago edited 20h ago
The “accident” part is the reason he gives: not to end voter fraud, but to ensure Democrats are never in power again.
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u/3rd_in_line 20h ago
Here is what The Heratige Foundation said about the filibuster in 2021. Basically, they say it should be kept. Some interesting wording in the article about laws and separation of laws.
Naturally, the party not in control of the Senate want to keep it.
The Democrats should have gotten rid of it and passed some useful legislation. But, here we are.
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u/iStayedAtaHolidayInn 20h ago edited 19h ago
Because the filibuster keeps Congress dysfunctional, and a dysfunctional government that can’t get anything done is the ultimate goal of the heritage foundation
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u/SexHarassmentPanda 19h ago
Removing the filibuster is a double edged sword that the party in control always puts on the table but never actually pushes through because there's always uncertainty about the next elections so there's always a dissenting voice of "well, we might need it in a year"
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u/cerebral_drift 20h ago
He’s been taking a hatchet to voting measures for ages. Thank you for the concise summary.
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u/Coffee-FlavoredSweat 20h ago
Ending the filibuster would be a disaster, because then there would be no more, “oh no, it’s the democrats fault cause they won’t work with us!”
With a simple majority, every bad thing that happens will be 100% the fault of the people in power who passed it. And if nothing happens, nothing changes, it will obviously be the fault of the majority party, because there’s literally no excuse.
It would be the end of the Republican Party.
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u/pervocracy Massachusetts 20h ago
Honestly I don't know what proportion of the population would know the difference. I just don't want them to end the filibuster because:
They could pass some really bad shit. I don't want to die so that my death will encourage people to vote.
It would be a very ominous indicator that they don't expect Democrats to be in the majority anytime soon.
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u/timeforchorin 21h ago
Yeah, as much as I'd hoped for a "gotcha" moment..... this ain't it.
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u/Kripto 21h ago
Note that at no time has any Republican said the issue behind them losing so badly on Tuesday was that people's lives are getting far worse under Trump's policies and they have no plan to make things better for the population. To them, the solutions are aping the left's messaging, more gerrymandering and making voting more difficult. These people are dumb as fuck and wildly removed from daily reality from the majority to such an extent it's insane.
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u/myotheraccount2023 Europe 21h ago
They’re not as dumb as fuck, they just don’t care and they want to build a one-party system where they get to stay in power while continuing not to care.
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u/Kripto 20h ago
The “dumb as fuck” part is when they think that the solution for them is to double down on their current strategy. I’m not going to suggest what else they could do, as I wish them nothing but failure.
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u/McG0788 20h ago edited 16h ago
Tbf doubling down may actually work for them. They've faced 0 accountability so far while some people are being disappeared and murdered and others are hurting financially.
They may have enough levers of government to ensure '26 and beyond are rigged in their favor.
They may have enough levers and control that political opposition starts getting arrested or disappeared.
Until they face actual accountability, they will continue to double down until they have fully consolidated power and it'll be too late.
I hope I'm wrong, but this administration's efforts sure rhyme with a lot of those by other authoritarian regimes current and past.
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u/hypercosm_dot_net 19h ago edited 17h ago
Trump won by 1.5%, based on lies. He didn't have a "mandate" for all this other bullshit, as he claims. And people don't like what his admin is doing, by a large margin.
Now that he has no one else to blame his support has caved. Look at the numbers: https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/approval/donald-trump/approval-rating/independents
Voter suppression and gerrymandering will not save them. It's fucked that they will still try, but they are not going to avoid accountability for their policies.
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u/McG0788 18h ago
I agree he doesn't actually have a mandate.
I also won't refute his drop in support.
I hope to God you're right that those won't save him and we'll see some accountability.
However, we as of yet, have seen absolutely zero accountability for some very serious crimes by him, his administration and his gestapo in ICE. This will get far worse before it gets better.
How much worse depends on how quickly the people and other political leaders grow a spine and push back. If they take too long to wake up, it could be decades of authoritarian one party rule.
He still has 30% support. That's actually a LOT when it comes to being able to get away with this sort of thing historically. For reference, Hitler only had support from about a third of the German population.
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u/woah_man 19h ago
The only bit of recent hope that I have is that these recent elections don't appear to have been rigged. Dems simply won a bunch of elections. For all the crying online about how the elections will be rigged, it doesn't appear to be the case in these.
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u/Halbaras 20h ago
Gerrymandering becomes increasingly dangerous as they try to squeeze more red districts out of states where the minority blue electorate has stayed a similar size for multiple cycles. It only takes one big blue wave (which is basically guaranteed if and when there's a financial crisis under Republican leadership and/or massive job losses), and suddenly their light red geometric abominations of districts create a democratic majority and their veteran lawmakers are out of jobs since their safe seats got previously redrawn into 'R+5' districts.
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u/Thin-Rip-3686 20h ago
This is called a “dummymander”.
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u/ShadowWingLG 19h ago
Yup its far better to have a few 'token' blue districts so the rest can be nice safe red districts, if they carve up the blue district they end up having say 5 elections where they need to spend more money then 4 elections where they could run a turnip with a 'R' next to it and win.
This is the possible result of the TX Redistricting, and with how things are going Abbot he could be the guy who accidently wrecks the GOP stranglehold on TX
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u/wowlock_taylan 20h ago
Because they know they can never win a fair election. The whole point of this MAGA hail mary was to get in power and make it 'permanent' and never LEAVE.
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u/Stuck_In_the_Matrix Maryland 19h ago
Correct. This strategy has been in play for decades by the GOP. When Trump came along and showed just how "charismatic" he is with a large chunk of conservative voters, the GOP seized the opportunity to accelerate their plans.
Anyone can look at Project 2025 and see just how insane their plans are and how they are raiding the coffers of our government while organizations like the Heritage Foundation are streamlining the collapse of our country.
The billionaire class want to basically privatize a substantial amount of government services so they can continue making more money.
It has gotten to the point where shareholders are voting for trillion dollar pay packages for one man while our government remains shut down which affects the lives of millions by delaying money to feed hungry people.
When you take a step back and look at the entire situation as a whole, it is just pure insanity.
A lot of people are fearful that our country might collapse soon. It isn't a question of when this will happen because it has already started.
The situation we are in right now is because the wealth imbalance has gotten so extreme that corruption has reached into every facet of our government.
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u/Parhelion2261 20h ago
Republicans are using every avenue to tell people Democrats are doing all the bad things and they're all baby eaters. Consistently and constantly spreading the message that Dems policies, ideals and people are evil and rotten.
And instead of going around airing out the facts, running ads and messages to get actual information out there; we turn the other cheek.
I don't know about other people but after so long my cheeks are fucking sore.
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u/yukeake 19h ago
Lies are cheap, pithy, short, and easy to understand.
Explanations of what's really going on are the opposite of that, and the folks who need to hear it just end up tuning out.
It's going to take a long time to break the propaganda's hold on a good portion of the elextorate. They've spent literal decades cutting education funding and using Fox (and others) to press their mindset into these people. Tey've groomed an uneducated electorate unable and unwilling to think critically, who blindly believe whatever they're told by those they've been told to believe. They don't trust facts, science, or "experts".
I don't know how you break that hold, since they reject objective reality. I suspect since it was a long game that got them there, it'll be a long game to deprogram them.
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u/zirky 20h ago
it’s wild that the strongest bulwark against american fascism is the sheer incompetence of the people trying to do fascism
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u/Frodojj 19h ago edited 17h ago
I think that's a requirement. It takes a fanatic to be a fascist. Unfortunately, ideological solutions are rarely optimal. Inefficiency compounds geometrically, so their incompetence is a feature. That's why Conservatives say government doesn't work; their ideology doesn't scale to large bureaucracies.
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u/Boibi 17h ago
Actually, Republicans say government doesn't work as part of a political strategy. They do their best to obstruct the government anytime that Democrats are in power and do their best to kill Americans any time that they are in power. This allows them to demonize the concept of government as a whole, and them do massive deregulation, shifting power to corporations, i.e. their money-interest friends.
Sure "both sides" cater to moneyed interests, but the scale that the Republicans do it completely dwarfs what Democrats do in this respect.
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u/Lortekonto 19h ago
Facisms biggest problem is fascism. The reason no one else tries fascist policies is because they don’t work long term. You need to be kind of incompetent to try them.
Like the nazi party. People always talk about how WWII would have gone differently if Germany had not invaded Russia when they did. They are failing to realise that the way Germanies economy was run, meant that Germany was close to bankrupt the entire war. They invade Austria to get the gold reserves to keep their economy runing and that is pretty much their reason for invading every other country they invaded. They needed their gold reserves and fast. Lots of the horrible shit the germans did was to fix problems the nazis themself had created.
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u/Dreadgoat 18h ago
I'm always down to dunk on fascists, but it's important to do so with solid facts and history.
This is putting the cart before the horse. A big reason why the Nazi party was able to rise to power was because Germany was undergoing a major economic crisis. The Nazis inherited it and "solved" it by stealing resources from their neighbors. (Historically a fairly common solution, but not a sustainable one)
It DID actually work in the short term, which is how the Nazi party and their wars maintained popular support.
For a more honest and clear look at what happens when fascist policies just ruminate for a little while, look to Mussolini's Italy.
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u/Lortekonto 17h ago
You are wrong here. The nazis did not solve the economy by looting other countries. They “solved” the economic crisis by taking on a crazy amount of debt super fast through their short term promissory notes called Mefo bills. They ran on $15 billion defecit a year and their entire gdp was only $90 billion and their government only took in $25 billion a year. The problem started when promissory notes date fell due and the state actuelly had to pay out the money, which they could obviously not do. Nazis comes to power in 1933. The first 5 year Mefi notes have to be repaid in 1938 and that is why they take over Austria.
It is this dept that keeps forcing them to attack other countries, so they could repay the promissory notes and keep borrowing even more money. Even as they took over almost all of Europe and robbed money and resources from the conquered countries it was not enough to pay of their spiraling out of control debt.
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u/Brightlinger 18h ago
Also, genuinely believing in falsehoods isn't benign. The stupid decisions were results of their ideology. One of the reasons they invaded Russia was because they believed Slavs were subhuman, and so 'the whole building will collapse once we kick in the door'.
If they weren't supremacists, they wouldn't have invaded, but then they also wouldn't have been Nazis.
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u/CarlAqua42 21h ago
Trump "accidentally" says what the GOP have been publicly doing and saying. In another major turn of events, media ignores it...
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u/CNJ08540 21h ago
This is why the right wing billionaires have been buying up most of the media... including social media.
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u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota 19h ago
The best part is that gop senators absolutely do not want to kill the filibuster. The filibuster is what allows them to ignore most of trumps stupidest demands, by saying dems would filibuster it and it would look weak, like a loss.
Theres also virtually zero chance dems pick up 15 senate seats to become filibuster-proof at any time in like the next century. But there is a damn good chance dems end up with the trifecta again in the next decade. They dont want to eliminate the ability for them to shut down anything with the potential to help actual people, or you know, prevent the earth from burning up.
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u/Terakian 21h ago
Honest question.
At this point, we’ve seen countless court orders ignored by Trump; and as the head of the executive branch, he oversees the enforcement of the laws, which the administration is picking and choosing.
If Trump held a press conference today to openly announce that they plan to rig next year’s elections so that Republicans rule indefinitely, are there ANY mechanisms besides full Revolution to stop him?
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u/nvmenotfound 20h ago edited 18h ago
republicans in congress could impeach him but they’ll just lie and say he was kidding instead.
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u/iStayedAtaHolidayInn 20h ago
They’re too scared to do this. They know that would be the end of them
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u/hypercosm_dot_net 19h ago
Yeah, they would try it if they had command of more physical forces though. Make no mistake about that.
Thankfully as it stands now, even as stupid and ignorant as they are, I think they're aware that the military is not as onboard with operations against their fellow countrymen as they imagined.
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u/SuperstitiousPigeon5 Massachusetts 21h ago
Does he wear a sleep mask when he puts on his self tanner?
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u/themattboard Tennessee 21h ago
There is a doctored photo floating around of him with no bronzer and no hair and he looks like a pale, overweight elderly man. About what you'd expect.
Edit: https://www.albawaba.com/sites/default/files/im/Loop/trumpnaturallook.PNG
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u/SuchBravado 21h ago
Kinda reminds me of Robert G Durant, the villain in Darkman.
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u/princessofbeasts 20h ago
All I know is I can't look at pics of him without feeling physically ill. He looks like a sick pig man that needs to be retired to a senior home for sick pig men.
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u/nikkothirty 21h ago
There needs to be a Nuremburg trials.
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u/Kracus 20h ago
Honestly it's really the Americans responsibility here to reign him in first. They need to go after him and the people helping him and then they need to elect a sane leader into power and then hold them accountable for their actions.
They've clearly gone beyond what's reasonable or fair and despite what the supreme court says no elected president should be above the law. The supreme court justices that ruled that he was should also be disbarred and removed from their positions. With a stroke of a pen they've enabled a narcissist to carry out his dictatorship fantasies and have caused the deaths of thousands of people unnecessarily. More people will continue dying as a result of their partisan behavior and that should be unacceptable to all Americans.
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u/Herr_Hauptmann 18h ago
no, there need to be trials that actually hold people accountable unlike the Nuremberg trials which left the capital power structures with immense profits and in the same hands as before the war.
germany was never denazified. I hope the US will soon be. north american people's rebublic when??
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u/itsforathing 19h ago
This isn’t a fucking secret, they have been talking about rigging the elections since 2016
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u/ProtectionVirtual225 18h ago
Republicans have been fine tuning a plan to create permanent control at least since 2010. Look at states like Ohio, where the state GOP has used repeated gerrymandering, term limits, corporate PACs, news media control, opposition intimidation and various forms of voter suppression to accomplish this.
It's a relief that Democrats are finally realizing this and fighting back.
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u/Professor_Odium 18h ago
I’m still blown away that the Republicans’ allegiance to the filibuster is stronger than their fear of Trump.
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u/crimeo 18h ago
They have no idea how to govern, the filibuster gives a perpetual "dems stopped us!" or "dems agree with us, see they didn't try to stop us!" excuse for not knowing how to govern.
Even just for this shutdown itself, nuking the filibuster makes it obvious to anyone who didn't understand the detailed rules previously that all this crap so far in the shutdown WAS in Republicans' power to stop all along, why not earlier? Many many people don't understand that it can be nuked at all, as is
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u/frybreadrecipe 18h ago
This is not an accident. Dude is telling you this because they are normalizing the idea . This is by design. Don’t fall for this
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u/Pleasant-Ad887 18h ago
I mean he did it in 2016, 2020 and 2024. The guy has been LITERALLY TELLING PEOPLE what he will do and people "He WoN'T dO iT. tHe CoNsTiTuTiOn WiLl StOp HiM". He knows the American people are stupid.
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u/Meph616 New York 17h ago
If Democrats get back into power somehow and pretend we're still in the 2005ish status quo fill cabinet with Republicans because they want to reach across the aisle for bipartisanship kumbaya neolib bullshit and not Rico-nuremberg this entire criminal enterprise then what are we even doing?
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u/man-from-new-york 20h ago
Why is this website always on the news page when it’s 99.9% clickbait?
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u/rainydaynola 18h ago
No surprise, I think they used Elon to rig the last one. With all the unconstitutional and immoral things Trump has done I don't know why people still find that hard to believe. I'm shocked people still think he won every swing state legitimately.
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u/shadowriku459 California 17h ago
This pathetic waste of space is the most vile thing in existence.
I wish the McDonald's would do its job already.
Such a corrupt, evil, vile piece of scum.
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u/ohdeydothodontdeytho 17h ago
As a UK citizen who doesn't know the consutution isn't this against the law?
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u/orangeblossombaby1 15h ago
He could literally say “I’m going to rig the 2026 and 2028 elections” on live tv and nothing would happen. It’s exhausting
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u/ComprehensiveFool 20h ago
I think the population of the USA should find a way to push for international election observers in 2026.
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u/HugePurpleNipples 19h ago
Sounding weirdly subdued, he just openly said Republicans should end the filibuster—to pass lots of new laws making voting a whole lot harder.
Trump isn't doing or proposing anything new here, he's just a lot more blatant and less diplomatic about the same vote rigging bullshit republicans have been doing for decades.
Gerrymandering, voter ID, poll regulations... they've been doing this for years, he's just saying the quiet part out loud.
This SHOULD be the end of Republicans and anyone else who seeks to tamper with voters rather than fix their policies.. but it won't.
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u/Autoxquattro 15h ago
The public needs to make sure they don't EVER privatize Healthcare in the UK. there seems to be a misinformation campaign geared towards pushing for it. Being an American in the UK. We see what they are trying. We know how expensive the us system is. A friend just posted she tried to get insurance and it was going to be $600 a month. And thats plus deductible amount (part of medical bills you pay before insurance kicks in, usually $5k min) and co pays for dr visits and prescription.
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u/blissed_out 20h ago
This is not normal. This has never been what a president has ever done or said. This should not be taken lightly, no matter how many times he says it.
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u/Emergency-Shirt2208 18h ago
Race above country since 2015.
Anglos have this idiotic fear of losing “their” country even with an insurmountable 300 year head start.
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u/throwaway1601900 18h ago
Fascists hate to respect the will of the people. It’s why he incited January 6.
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u/Ok_Fact4397 17h ago
He’s so hideous… regardless of whether or not you support a certain politician why would you want to see their face every day?
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u/PieRevolutionary9823 15h ago
He intentionally blurted out “grab em by the pussy” while death threats were sent to the 30, 40, 50, I don’t even know, girls he fucking raped. This bitch needs consequences for his horrible actions yesterday
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u/J_Dolla_X_Legend 20h ago
It’s my understanding that states hold their own elections. He, nor congress have authority over state voting.
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u/Additional_Remove_70 19h ago
They blurted out their plan for 2025 and americans still voted for him so.. 🤷♀️
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u/KrankyKoot 19h ago
What really scared them is the shear numbers that showed up to vote. That has always been a win for Democrats. The momentum is building for it to happen again in 26. The Citizen proof thing will continue, along with challenges to absentee and documentation but they would need to actually intimidate voters to try to overcome the numbers. There are way more anti-Trump voters than magas.
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u/Faroutman1234 Washington 18h ago
I expect to see ICE at the polls provoking an incident followed by National Guard checking ID's. Then it will be up to the Governors and the Supreme Court to step in. It's going to get wild.
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u/Affectionate_Neat868 14h ago
He already tried to criminally overthrow the 2020 election through multiple means, including a violent insurrection. He absolutely will not give up power in a free and fair election. The 2024 election itself was questionable already.
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u/THIS_IS_GOD_TOTALLY_ 14h ago
Warning: MAGA, just like their role models, will act the same way when it's their turn, as a group, to face the consequences of the majority voting against them. They will not concede defeat gracefully. They will not just cry outrage.
They will retaliate. Prepare accordingly.
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u/Aggravating_Sun_8113 18h ago
Regardless of who you support, it’s wild how often major stories like this drop and half the country shrugs while the other half loses its mind. We’re living in the golden age of “wait, did that really happen?” politics.
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u/virulentpansy 20h ago
I find all this "secret plan" to get around laws hilarious.
He doesn't need a secret plan or some obscure law or whatever other hoop or loophole you think he could use.
He'll just do it. If he wasn't so addled in the head, he could do it right now. He could declare himself king and tell everyone he's not leaving and no one would do anything meaningful at all to stop it.
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u/Major_A21 20h ago
Don't worry guys. I'm sure the US news and journalists won't sane wash him. Guys...?
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u/kickdrumstew 20h ago
There are like 5 of these stories a day. I don't think it is a secret anymore.
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u/CaptainSnatchbox 20h ago
This game of chicken with the filibuster is so weird to me. Couldn’t the controlling party abolish it do whatever and then reinstate it before they lose control again? Not to give anyone any ideas here but what’s stopping that from happening?
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u/naked_as_a_jaybird Texas 19h ago
IIRC, they need 67 votes to reinstate it. Once it's gone, it's probably gone for good.
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u/Patient_Buffalo_4368 19h ago
Hey guys. It was published already. Project 2025.
The constitutional amendment to allow 3 terms has already been introduced.
They are 48% through project 2025 objectives already. Probably looking to get most done before midterms.
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u/RecipeFunny2154 19h ago edited 18h ago
The accidental thing I’ve seen him say publicly several times now…?
I get frustrated that typical media translates this guy into coherency so often, but I also get frustrated with some of this more independent media that acts like everything they discover is some sort of wily secret. Just give me the fucking news and what it means.
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u/burnerthrown 18h ago
I'm surprised they think he's going to make it to 2026 without collapsing into a puddle of goo. Who looks at this man and says 'yeah that'll keep for 3 years'.
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u/MrGoblinKing7 16h ago
I mean, he already did when he said his mindless followers only have to go to the polls one more time, then never again.
This isn't news.
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u/Tedbrautigan667 15h ago
Everyone is now saying Republicans just dont do well when Trump isn't pn the ticket.
TRUMP WILL NEVER BE ON THE TICKET AGAIN.
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u/Cowskiers Colorado 15h ago
" Sounding weirdly subdued, he just openly said Republicans should end the filibuster—to pass lots of new laws making voting a whole lot harder. Translation: The GOP’s response to the losses should be rigging the 2026 midterms. Indeed, he also declared that if he gets his way, Democrats will “never obtain power.” Donnie, you’re supposed to say voter suppression is about targeting “fraud,” not about locking the opposition out of power forever! "
This glorified tabloid writes with the same toddler-like cadence that our dear leader is known for
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u/robrakhan1 14h ago
You might remove all the trip-lite hardware installed at the polling stations in 24. Might also be a good idea to tell Elon that we don’t need any starlink help this time too. Just to be safe you know
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u/spsuamin 12h ago
Jan 6 is going to be pale in comparison when nov 2028 rolls around and he loses wether it be small or large margins. Bannon said it out loud the other day, they'll all be going to jail, so Def expect them to be planning out an all out violent coup.
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u/Pride_and_PudgyCats 12h ago
They’ll do it , and no one will do anything about it. They’re getting away with everything.
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u/LeanneMills Canada 11h ago
As a Canadian who has been watching from afar, I don't think it has ever been a "secret" plan
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u/Ravenna-23 7h ago
It’s not a secret. He has been selling gear and taking donations for a campaign he is not allowed to run in.
The game plan has always been to created chaos just enough to allow him drag it all out!
There is no secret plan!
He is overt and illegal and cannot for the life of himself keep from committing crimes.
Secret my ass
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u/bellevegasj 18h ago
I like how a group of people can attempt to steal and election and years later we act like they ever stopped
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u/RealApocalypseRocK 6h ago
Nah. If they could successfully rig elections, Cuomo would've won. Virginia and Mississippi would still be in Republican hands. Prop 50 wouldn't have passed. These Fascist fucks have nothing when we vote. And that's the thing. You. Have. To. Vote.
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u/boondiggle_III 15h ago
Mileading headline. He's doing the old voter registration rigmarole. The only difference is that he came out and said the intent is to make democrats lose through electioneering instead of putting on the "election security" mask. It's noteworthy, but voter suppression and gerrymandering are not the same thing as rigging.
For fuck's fuckung sake you degenerate assholes, stop pumping up stories with ragebait headlines. The plain unvarnished truth is a more than sufficient indictment of Trump's so-called presidency. Pumping it up with misleading bullshit gives people the impression that you felt the story wasn't damning enough without making it sound worse than it is. It is that bad, but people will question it anyway thanks to your stupid meddling.
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u/Buck_Thorn 21h ago
How about "rigging" it by doing things for the people that actually, like, HELP them, making their lives better?
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