Allowing terrorist attacks opens the door to "national emergency" just in time for election season
this post was submitted on 07 Mar 2026
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This is the plan. Roll out the red carpet for terrorist attacks. Declare national emergency. Cancel elections. Then it's revolution to get the country back. What a lame timeline
"Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later, that debt is paid"
Sounds clever, but I think Trump has evaded payment and will continue
Basically his whole life in a nutshell.
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I’m… honestly both in awe and aghast at how fucking blatant the regime is being about it. They’ve literally shut down the team that is in charge of addressing and categorizing security threats to the US originating from Iran immediately before starting a fucking war with Iran. Like… I just… what the actual fuck. I can’t even.
Between this and the documents leaked about their plans for the election, the intent couldn’t be more obvious if they put it on a fucking billboard. I hate that it comes down to such imbecilically stupid and petty US political bullshit like that, and that it’s killing so many people and fucking up so may other parts of the world… but seriously, I really think that was a massive part of their rationale here. It’s a distraction (operation Epstein fury), combined with creating an extremely obvious opening for an asymmetrical/terroristic threat that will be used as a justification for removing the electoral process. That’s the plan.
I've been telling everyone I know that it's extremely obvious they're trying to provoke a terror attack on US soil.
They want another 9/11, so they can indefinitely cancel elections. That's the whole fucking plan.
We didn't cancel elections after 9/11, and we've NEVER cancelled an election in this country, not even during the Civil War.
There is NO justification for cancelling elections, under ANY circumstances.
Right, but almost nothing this administration and government are doing currently is normal or justified. They just do it anyway.
One of the cornerstones of the Project 2025 plan is making the 2024 election the last one. This is how they get there.
We just can't allow it. No cancelling of elections under any circumstances.
It's more important that your state authorities understand this, because elections are managed by the states. Trump can "cancel" elections, but it isn't in his hands. The states would have to cooperate, and what if they don't? What if they just tell him No, our elections will go on as planned?
We can have our elections anyway, no matter what he wants. If some Red states want to honor his demand, that's on them, but I suspect that even Red states aren't going to like it. There are plenty of ambitious MAGAs who want their shot at the corruption, too. They won't be happy to know that MAGA isn't accepting any new elected members.
And what about non-federal offices, like state and municipal elections? Those jobs have to be filled, too.
It's not just a matter of saying no elections, there are a LOT of ripples from it.
Donald Trump is Constitutionally ineligible to be President right now. But here we are. Hopes, prayers, and traditions will not save us from the fucking Nazis.
Besides, the goal isn’t to cancel elections, it’s to control them. Control who gets to vote and for what.
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They WANT another major terrorist event. Hell, they would also rather see see dozens of little terrorist events (mass shootings, bombings, etc) by disgruntled Iranians or other people who are pissed off at the US's actions. They need this shit to justify their actions and enact more measures that are vague enough to apply to anyone... and then apply it exclusively to their opponents and anyone they don't like. This is how you get highly oppressive laws that are allegedly supposed to stop criminals and terrorists but don't seem to be doing much in preventing that, but are doing a damn fine job of making social changes and legislation passing/enforcement of things that protect people a lot more difficult.
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Sort of how George W had intel that Bin Laden was planning on flying planes into buildings months before 9/11. Lucky for George, he got his war and a 2nd term. Everybody else suffered.
He just wanted to be like his dear old dad!
But daddy didn't get a second term after middle-eastern terrorists attacked the world trade center under his watch.
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if America gets attacked because of this fat man and his administration's war, a firing squad wouldn't be enough to quelch my rage.
He’s a child rapist and murderer isn’t that enough?
Here's the real problem that MAGA is going to have: If we get attacked by Iran, we won't blame Iran, we'll blame Trump. He thinks it would rally the country around him, the way they rallied around Bush after 9/11, but nobody thought Bush was responsible (at that moment). If we get attacked, it's TRUMP'S fault.
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He's getting his tiny rotten mushroom dick half hard at the idea of another 9/11 happening between now and the midterms - he'd so very happily sacrifice 10s of thousands of Americans if it meant more power for himself...
What the fuck are they planning? Another Sep 11th?
Elections will be put on hold. Epstein investigations put on hold. The current government will absolutely allow it's civilians to be killed in order to achieve these goals. That's what dictators do.
Who knows.
I know it's far-fetched conspiracy-theory territory...but it is pretty sus that this dude who was close with like most world leaders had millions of his correspondence released to the public under the Epstein Transparency Act....except for the ones between 1999 and 2001.
Very clearly and brazenly, yes.
Anyone who didn't think this would increase the threat of terrorism has forgotten what they said they never would.
(Or they weren't born yet.)
False flag operation incoming?
If not im sure Isreal can whip something up
They block and alter jobs numbers. This shouldn’t be a surprise.
He cheats at golf.
He cheats at marriage.
He fucks and tortures children.
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Hey Iran, I bet you could get a sizeable bomb to maralago, just say you're giving him a golden gift and he'll be there. Maybe get lucky and his whole cabinet too.
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I'll bet you half a peach that's not all they're blocking.
A Mediaite repost of Daily Mail...
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But no one ever cares.
Past commenters seem to agree when I bring this up, yet poster and mods don't do anything.
This is the final straw for me. I don't like blocking anything; I've only blocked two other Lemmy communities, one a bot spamming one. But I'm blocking /c/News, as apparently it isn't going to change, and I came to the fediverse to get away from mass-upvoted tabloid reposts flooding the top of my feed.
Cool, so while dimbulb donnie is invading other countries for no fucking reason and Stephen Miller is giving absurd quotas of brown people to kidnap and throw in concentration camps and/or extreme rendition, they are increasing the danger to all Americans on top of that?
A terror attack will drum up more support for the war and give them.an excuse to declare emergencies to further trample civil rights.
It's the best thing that could happen for this administration.
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The White House didn't accidentally bomb a girls school.
This was done to incite anger, create groups looking for revenge, have a major terrorist activity on US soil, then lock the entire country down "because war". They want a 9/11.
The point is retaliation to cause an emergency to stop votes
Pretty much
Anyone enjoying their trump vote, so far?
I'm thinking the magatards who cannot even remember what they said they stood for yesterday have permanent erections from things like: fighting "woke", crushing any remaining dissent in media and entertainment, bombing fishing boats, starting a war with Iran, threatening most of our allies, and most of all, kidnapping and disappearing brown people while shooting protesters.
Will it do them any good at all? Nope. If they were living in a trailer and eking out a miserable existence before, they still will be. It will most likely be even more miserable since things like food and health have been ripped away from many Americans. But at least they get to whoop it up over breaking the country and making others' lives miserable.
Luckily the "highly qualified" head of Homeland Security just got replaced with someone new who in ADDITION to being unqualified is also inexperienced.
Well, he used to work for his dad's plumbing company in Utah, so he should be good. /S
You don't need a warning, if you start a war in Iran there can be more terrorist attacks than before. But pretty shure Trump knows that and did it anyway.
Anyway? He hopes for terrorism in the US so he can have even more surveillance, put whoever he wants in his concentration camps in the name of terrorism and cancel the elections.
We’re at a point where his loyalists will abide the darkest depths of perversion so long as their side is “winning”. If 9/11 happened today they’d pick apart the social media accounts of the victims so they could delight in all the libs who died and raise their own to martyrs. Instead of giving up their rights to Homeland Security in the name of “safety” they’ll hand them over willingly in the hopes it hurts everyone else more than it does them.
He did say "people will die", and that's ok.
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We are about to see what happens when you fire all the competent warfighters and national security personel only to replace them with skinheads, dropouts, and AI.
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