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“Republicans” should.
Not the States, not bipartisan whatever…just them. That tells you everything.
So less state rights? And more big government? The cornerstone of the Republican party?
If by now Americans don’t believe him when the orange shitstain talks… they deserve the inevitable dictatorship they themselves installed.
We should have nationwide consistency on who is eligible to vote (felons?) and how/when to register to vote (same day? automatic as part of getting state id?), yes. I think that's actually what his addled brain was thinking of, even if it's because he thinks blue states "cheat" at all states from rules-making to operations, which we have good evidence no state does, blue or red--other than gerrymandering.
But, there's little need for it to be actually administered by the federal government (our state and local governments are corrupt enough). In fact, any election activities by the federal government should be more like FEMA, where they assist the states be the states remain in control from procedures to priorities and everything else.
I wouldn't be opposed to UN election observers, either.
I don't know if this it "the line", but I wouldn't expect anything less than state pd vs. national guard standoffs at voting locations in blue states, just like we had around schools during desegregation in ex-confederate states. Blue state governors are unlikely to stand down; they generally has good poll numbers / support.
I'm in Arkansas so it won't matter if they nationalize or not; plus, Sanders will volunteer for nationalization of our voting operations and claim it saves money and benefits the people of Arkansas.
I'll take problems that can be solved with a treatment regimen of high velocity lead injections for 500, Alex.
More treason.
In a healthy nation the Republican party would be disbanded and outlawed.
But this isn't a healthy nation, so assuming we get to continue having elections and they are fair and the Republicans lose, I expect American's hamster brains to completely forget about this in one or two election cycles and start flirting with letting these traitors have power again.
This dipshit proved who he was the first time around and we only managed to get through one term without him before letting a child back into the Oval Office. We're a very stupid nation.
That's insulting to children. They run Model UN better than this.
We all knew he would do anything and everything possible to stop the midterms. He knows he will go to prison if he gets impeached and charged, so he is waging a full on war on every right we have.
This november will be very interesting with thousands of DHS gestapo at local voting station intimidating voters, GOP refusing to swear in democratic winners, and the hourly posts by the president telling his cult everything is rigged and they are all going to have to fight for something BS.
Wait, are we still all thinking he'll peacefully leave the white house after the shit he pulled last time?
It's not even about him, it's the party. He didn't start the campaign to fix elections, the party did after they successfully bullied the democrats out of the 2000 election and filibustered a recount with court challenges and Ginsberg crossed over and endorsed the steal.
You can draw a straight line from the stolen 2000 election through 2020 to now. And it was stolen in multiple ways, from voter suppression, purging valid voters from rolls, putting faulty machines in democratic districts and otherwise sabotaging their use, throwing ballots in the trash from democratic districts, and so on.
This doesn't end with the president.
I was too young to vote/know about the 2000 election, and I find it fascinating now to learn about it.
Fucking wild ride and it's been fucked since before maga
The source of this fuckery is the 1971 business roundtable, where monied interests huddled up and made the first iteration of a long game to cooperate on what they agreed on. Dividing and ruining any opposition. ie infection unions with the mafia, corrupting all facets of the establishment, like changing the consumer price index several times to understate it. Since then it's average 5-8 percent a year just by 2008 under the old measure, and 2-3 percent under the new. That is the biggest, and perhaps most consequential to working people, every year we take a pay cut, and nobody talks about it. They started The Fear of the Others in the 70s and by the 80s and 90s transformed le and the courts into fascist organizations given unconditional support. To make that happen of course they flooded the country with cocaine and taught gangs how to cook crack, to also fund paramilitary death squads in Nicaragua, and probably a lot of other countries that's just the one we know about. The author that broke that scoop got intense pushback but his reporting checked out and got picked up by other papers, but he committed suicide according to Ohio police, two rounds to the back of the head, worse suicide we ever saw I imagine them saying, but I digress.
Business Plot v2.0, now with more technology
Maybe he will die
🤞
Really hope he doesn't die peacefully. At the very least he should take a violent shit in his pants before passing.
Trump is in this for his own personal benefit, not something bigger than himself. He will cower at defeat for the sake of survival, but not before he’s actually been defeated. The only way he dies is if he croaks.
About that 
Why are you posting a picture of your president's toilet paper?
He doesn't use toilet paper they just hose him off after a code 2. That picture above is the presidents makeup applicator for covering up bruising on his hands.
Or we could post the part of the constitution that details voting. It's up to the states to run their elections, congress has some say about when. The 10th amendment forbids the feds from ursurping any authority from states have that isn't expressly given to the feds in the constitution.
If not expressly outlined in the constitution, it's a state power in other words, per the 10th amendment, from day one.
The thing is, there's no mechanism for nationalizing voting, and I don't really see a clear path for Republicans to do that in the next nine months. They'd have to pass legislation to do that, which would be extremely difficult given their margins in congress. Even then, states control elections as a function of the Constitution, and while the Supreme Court is happy to approve whatever unconstitutional bullshit Trump dreams up, it will take times to get through the courts. He could try to seize control of the voting process from states, but I don't know that he has the infrastructure to manage the whole voting process through the executive branch, and the fact that he's asking the Republicans to do this for him makes me think he knows this. Either way, any kind of coup on the election process would face the same legal challenges as legislation.
That doesn't mean we shouldn't be extremely worried. I think it's unlikely that the Republicans will, "nationalize the voting," but I think it's very likely he'll send federal goons in to, "prevent voter fraud," (AKA suppress the vote).
Don't be so sure the votes aren't there in Congress. Mike Johnson just went on the record saying "I know that it's fraudulent every time a Democrat wins, although I can't prove it". I bet Republicans pass something batshit crazy before the midterms.
But then it gets to the Senate, and Democrats can fillibuster, right? Well, the fillibuster is just a rule, which the majority keeps around because it knows it will be in the minority someday. But what if Republicans ditch it to guarantee a permanent majority? They absolutely would ditch it, if they thought it would make a difference in the election, and cement Republicans control of Congress.
The Executive Order has been their "clear path" to all sorts of shit they have no right doing.
Yes, but most of those have either not been achieved yet or have only been achieved because they were relatively easy. He tried to abolish the 14th Amendment through EO on day one, and it's just getting to the Supreme Court now. He's been able to illegally dissolve federal agencies because the Republicans in Congress have abdicated their power, and destroying something is much easier than building it.
Even if he signs an EO to take over the elections tomorrow, he'll still face legal challenges that will likely wind up in the Supreme Court, and he'll still need to build out the infrastructure to run these elections federally, something the federal government has never done. I'm not saying that he can't steal the elections, or that we shouldn't be worried, but the idea that he's just going to, "federalize," elections in fifteen states before the midterms seems pretty unlikely.
Listen to what you just said. Congress won't act to stop him and SCOTUS takes a year before they might stop him. If he does do an EO tomorrow, the legality of the order likely won't be settled until after the midterms. The only things in his way are logistics and the people.
What would stand between him are the state's Attorneys General. They have been very successful in blocking Trump's actions through the courts (at least until the Supreme Court, which has been ruling against lower courts' decisions at an incredibly high rate). It's likely that the AGs would block this long enough for the midterms.
Quickly: let’s do nothing!!!
Trump’s comments come as Republicans in Congress push a bill that would enable massive voter purges, impose photo ID requirements, and ban ranked-choice voting, universal mail-in ballots, and the acceptance of mailed ballots that arrive after Election Day.
And you just KNOW the Democraps are going to let them have it all too.
I can see Schumer now, giving a forceful floor speech, his fist in the air, half-glasses on the podium, "rest assured, this matter is not concluded!" Then promptly voting yes with a promise from republicans that we'll vote on something else later maybe.
Why wouldn’t he commit more crimes? He’s been committing crimes with impunity his entire life. Who’s going to stop him?
It'sa me, Luigi!
Best I can do is Tommy and Ryan.
The election was quite close in Minnesota, and Harris won it. Of all the states won by the Democrats, Minnesota had the closest margin.
Is his plan as blatant as taking the demographic that voted against him, loading them into a van, and disappearing them?
It could certainly be one plan. Why bet on just one treasonous possibility when you could pursue dozens? That way, most could entirely or almost entirely fail, and you could still get what you want!
It's a corporation of fascists, so naturally any plan that works was thought up by the CEO and the plans that don't were thought up by Steven Miller.