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Trump doesn’t rule out declaring state of emergency before midterm elections
(www.theguardian.com)
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He can’t do anything.
There’s not enough military personnel to lock down election sites, the whole thing is too distributed, states conduct elections, and everyone who is mad is so mad they will be voting.
Furthermore any boots he deploys to enforce some kind of emergency are going to juice turnout against him so hard I almost hope he tries this shit. It won’t end well for him.
He doesn't have to do it everywhere. They just have to appear to be in enough places to scare the right people away.
I expect them to try, I don’t expect them to succeed.
From the party elected twice?
Also logistics, it takes a lot of food, fuel, and general supplies to move a large number of people about let alone entire presumably battalions of soldiers to random ass locations. Even if they just deployed them on voting day proper there's a solid chance they wouldn't even get to any locations until voting is over especially if it's randomly sprung on the soldiers, and if they do it for early voting and mail in multiply the fuckfest with long-term deployment issues especially since I could see some areas being overwhelmed with food and gas running out or low not even getting into general service denial.
Conservatives don't give a teeny, tiny chicken fried fuck about feeding or caring for troops. Not one bit.
You're not wrong but not feeding your troops is a great way to have "communication issues" or have them sit on their asses and not listen to you also fragging. Also the fuel thing should not be underestimated, I could easily see a convoy being stranded somewhere random cause they ran out of diesel.
I agree 100%. Conservative incompetence and idiocy is the only thing that gives me any hope these days.
Yeah the physical limitations to this are massive.
He doesn't have to lock down them all, unfortunately. Dude was not lying when he said he could personally murder someone and it would improve his likability with his base. Utah and Idaho will vote for a dead mule before they vote for a democrat, liberal, or leftist.
Yeah well fuck it everyone needs to go vote no matter the conditions.
Being afraid is a guaranteed loss.