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DHS chief says ICE could make arrests at polling places — ignoring federal ban on armed agents at voting sites
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I've called it a while back. Make a database of people's political affiliation using social media posts and other sources. Have agents sit outside polling places with facial recognition technology that flags anyone on that database that is likely to vote Democrat and detain a number of them until the polling ends then release them without charge. This prevents them from voting and can have a significant impact on the outcome of the elections.
On top of that they're going to have mail in ballots thrown out, further interfering with free and fair elections.
This is coming. Trump knows he will have his ass absolutely handed to him in the mid terms given his well-deserved abysmal approval rating. Better fight back now.
And if the US ever manages to recover from this blatant establishment of a dictatorship, every single one of those who participated at this should be charged at the fullest extent of the law. There is no claiming ignorance of what they're doing. Even floating the idea of sending ICE to arrest people at polling places is a violation. They know damn well that they're rigging the election.
They know it, and they know that we know it. They don't care. That's what people aren't seeing straight enough. Trump and the Guardians Of Pedophiles ate blatantly trying to cheat amd telling people how much they're going to cheat. Now, show me one, single US citizen that's done anything concrete to actually stop him. I'll wait. Instead, there will be more protests. Then he'll call the protesters unpatriotic traitors and MAGAts will eat it up. They'll not only cheer for him as he sacrifices our democratic elections, they'll say it was the right thing to do to "save America" from people smarter than them. Which is everyone too intelligent to be a MAGAt.
They're daring us to try and stop them by force, in order to invoke the exception in the law another commenter cited. They want to pretend that us trying to stop their coup makes us the "armed enemies of the United States" instead of them.
This is the consequence of failing to prosecute Trump for Jan 6.
Where people stay in their designated protest areas during the designated protest times in order to not be too much of a bother. Need to make sure they're back to work on time Monday morning for the oligarchs! Oh, and clean up after yourselves before you leave too to make it as easy as possible for everyone to pretend to never happened...
There was that guy that set himself on fire. End of list.
Nolan Bushnell?
I mean, I'd count Luigi among others. And taking them out is a lot more effective than taking yourself out IMHO.
I learned something interesting about the upcoming Brazilian elections the other day that seems intended to counter exactly this kind of thing: there's a law (and perhaps it's in the constitution, I don't recall exactly) that says that no one shall be arrested for a couple of days around the election date, unless someone is caught in the act of a crime or if it's for a major crime.