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Calling it now:
Trump will deploy ICE to voting facilities in November to mass arrest voters, and confiscate ballot boxes.
US democracy is objectively gone.
this post was submitted on 14 Jan 2026
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They don't even need to go to such measures. Just harassing everyone in line who is a woman or looks like they might vote Democrat will disenfranchise enough voters to keep their edge.
I also think Elon rigged the electronic voting machines and is going to do it again. Call me a conspiracy theorist but with weird anomalies in close districts that used those machines, a bizarre increase in bullet ballots, Trump accusing everyone else of rigging the election (if everything else he says is projection, why not this?) and Trump literally Freudian slipoing and saying he stole the election multiple times.
Extra easy because the whole FPTP system has been carefully designed over the decades so that only a small handful of areas decide the election. Just declare another national emergency saying that illegals are planning to infiltrate the election, mass deployment of ICE thugs snatching citizens from voting queues, job done.
Narrator: they continued to support him
I think the best we can hope for is that his voters just stay away from the polls.
just start a conspiracy theory
something along the lines of 'the voting machines will turn their flat earth round' 🤷
MTG is the clever one. She bailed out just before the upcoming election.
Look for her to get a pundit gig and a book deal, then be rested and ready for 2028.
I don't think she is going back, I think she legitimately hated it. She has her Congressional pension, she has her deals lined up. Why abandon the cushy private money to go back?
You're right. Republicans are so poisoned, and their hatred of Democrats is so intense, they will never, ever vote for them.
I've seen them say it.
It's cool, I'll never vote for a Republican so fuck em
The spineless shitstains just voted down the Venezuela bill to limit the orange cancers ability to wage war with other people's lives, so yeah no. They will continue to fluff that mushroom till the day they are voted out (otherwise like parasites they will stay in office no matter how long they mitch glitch out.)
Greedy fuckers aren't giving up their power anytime soon. No matter how they might whine about the nasty taste, they'll get on their knees.
The only hope, only, is getting new voters. Voters who didn't vote last time. That's it. Republicans will never, ever, jump ship. You just actually need to engage them.
Respectfully, you're wrong.
We just saw almost two dozen districts Donald won in 2024 flip in the 2025 elections. It's pretty clear that at least some Republicans have flipped already. I can only assume that Donald's continued insistence on ignoring affordability will only hasten that trend.
Problem is the Dems won't do anything about affordability either.
Do have some evidence stating that those districts flipped due to mass Republican defections?
It seems more likely Republicans stayed home and that seems the second best hope for the midterms after you know... actually engaging with the voters and solving the issues they care about.
I mean, Trump is a LOT of things, but he is also doing exactly what he said he would do. Why do they suddenly have a problem with an administration based ENTIRELY on racism, greed and a total misunderstanding of economics and military strategy led by a genuine mentally disabled person. This is EXACTLY what they asked for.
"All these bad things were supposed to happen to the other people, not me!"
This is it exactly. They were fine with brown people being hurt but can't look past a nice white lady being shot in the face over someone's ego.
They're consoling themselves with the fact that she wasn't straight.
Well people like that will search for any excuse. This is a harder one than children in cages for these people, though, since it does go against the standard narrative.
The DOJ is working hard to find a reason to dehumanize her, I am sure they will "find" something that makes this OK.
They were fine with brown people being hurt but can’t look past a nice white lady being shot in the face over someone’s ego.
Many sure seem to be doing their best to try. We'll see if it's enough to matter with the giant IF there's any legit elections there going forward.
Ehh, he didn't give the $2000 tariff credit
Agree in spirit though. The 90% of what he's doing was very predictable at voting time, with the remaining 10% being worse than expected somehow
If he had, he'd be getting away with a lot more Gestapo shit.
but he is also doing exactly what he said he would do
No, he's not, and that's why people are pissed.
He hasn't done anything meaningful to address inflation or the cost of living, and people's living situations have gotten significantly worse in a short amount of time. And this is in a time where he's promised to rebuild Venezuela's infrastructure and sent 40 billion in stimulus to Argentina.
Further, his promise on immigration was a mass deportation of criminal illegal immigrants, not refugees, green card holders, de-naturalization, and certainly not invasions of courts, kids schools, churches, and most definitely not summary executions of US citizens.
Very important distinctions to be made here. People are pissed and that's almost certainly going to be reflected in the 2026 elections.
He’s been doing all of the awful, harmful, spiteful things he said he’d do. He’s done none of the helpful things he said he’d do. The cultists are still holding out hope that eventually he’ll get around to helping them because he kept the angry and bigoted promises he made. Many will keep burying their heads in the sand because the cognitive dissonance of admitting they followed the wrong man for a decade is too much for their fragile egos to bear.
Okay, so a poll among the self-identified Hispanic community says more of them think their economic situation has worsened rather than improved.
Meanwhile though, Trump's approval rating is stable at 43%, still somewhat above the lowest point of his first term, and the GOP still has a 10-point lead over the Democrats in favourability. Polls for the midterms predict a close race with a small edge for Democrats.
I think the favouribility rating on Dems is misleading.
Trump is unfavorable because he's destroying the country, but many of us aren't happy with Dems because they aren't stopping him.
We'll still vote for Democrats because they aren't fascists, but I agree that we shouldn't be happy with what ANYBODY in Congress is doing right now.
Trump has a 43% approval rating despite destroying the country.
Macron's approval rating is around 25-30%. Merz' is just over 20%. Starmer's is around 45%.
30% will always vote Republican no matter what. You’re going to have to get the other 30% that stay home to get off their asses and get to the polls. Are people pissed off enough to actually participate this time, or will they continue to just complain and do nothing about it?
Time for this headline again, eh?
I'll believe it when I see it