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Donald Trump’s campaign strategist for his 2016 election win says: “I believe we will have a national emergency declared by late August,” ahead of the Congressional midterm elections due on November 3. “You will have enough evidence by mid-August to show that we have a massive problem” of election fraud, he tells me in an interview. Trump’s televised address to the nation on Thursday last week was the beginning of the process, he says.

The president declassified documents, which he claimed show “shocking vulnerabilities in our election infrastructure” revealed by the 2020 election.

These had been hidden, even from him, by a “deep state” conspiracy of US intelligence services, he posited.

Trump demanded that the Congress pass a bill called the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility, or SAVE, Act. The bill stipulates that all voters produce a passport or birth certificate to be eligible to vote. Democrats denounce it as an effort at mass disenfranchisement. The Brennan Centre for Justice at New York University estimates that it could block 21 million Americans from the ballot box.

Under the US Constitution, it’s the states, not the federal government, that run elections. The SAVE Act would force state governments to hand voter roll information to Washington.

Trump sent his Homeland Security Secretary, Markwayne Mullin, out the following morning to issue a threat to state officials: they could face prison time unless they followed the administration’s orders to remove non-citizens from rolls.

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[–] trackball_fetish@lemmy.wtf 10 points 8 hours ago

Fuck Steve Bannon, genuinely crazy he walks around free without fear

[–] Arancello@aussie.zone 13 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I have no doubt that this will happen. The Iran war is about to hit a nasty escalation with usa ground troops. It will not be a decisive victory because Iran makes about 55,000 drones a year. Last year it shipped them to Russia. Now they will be used against americans and the other gulf states. Desalination plants will be the first targets and then watch the whole mideast explode and the world economy tip into recession and possibly depression.

This could well happen soon and then drumpf will cancel midterms.

Heritage Foundation: "We want a supreme ethno state that controls the world."

The World: "Fuck you!"

[–] cenariodantesco@lemmy.world 21 points 17 hours ago (5 children)

non north American curious: Donnie announced a third term yesterday I think, does this means that Obama can also run? it would be interesting to see it, because from what I see in social media, Obama is loved and missed

[–] Clutter@sh.itjust.works 17 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

There gonna say: you are allowed two consecutive terms. Obama already had those.

Dirty trick that should not be able to stand. But this is an authoritarian society we are talking about

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 7 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Yes, but this third term wouldn't be consecutive

[–] matlag@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 hours ago

Nah, keep in kind they're going to make up the rules as they go. They're dramatically incompetent, but this should be easy to restrict to Trump only, even for idiots of their kind.

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 7 points 17 hours ago

No, Obama can’t run. Only Lumpty Trumpty or any other Republican gets a third term.

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[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 16 points 17 hours ago

The evidence is coming from inside the house.

[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 9 points 15 hours ago

Who owns the voting machines? Who audits the software? How are the votes tabulated? Are they using remote servers like in Ohio 2004?

https://youtu.be/REn1BnJE3do?is=3EERpJcX3FckFBT7

[–] PhAzE@lemmy.ca 38 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Imagine what the US would be like right now if Kamala had won. The US likely wouldn't be as hated or disgraced as it is now.

[–] steveLeo@lemmy.zip 48 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (37 children)

There’s no conceivable way things would’ve been worse under Kamala. She wouldn’t have played three card monte with the nations coffers, she would have been professional and dignified when talking to press and to foreign leaders, and she wouldn’t have hammered on the DARVO button at the first sign of criticism.

Anybody that disagrees, well, enjoy your koolaid.

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 11 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Elections are done by the states, as clearly outlined in the Constitution. If Red states want to opt out, they're welcome to do that, but the Blue states (and most Red ones) are going to have their elections anyway, and they will count.

All the rest of it is just smoke.

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 16 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

The point is to force an constitutional crisis to allow the Supreme Court to rubber stamp the coup.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 points 1 hour ago

The Supreme Court has been fairly unpredictable, which is a problem for Trump, but the bigger problem is that they've been VERY predictable when it comes to a direct challenge to the Constitution. It's one thing when it's an interpretation of the an amendment, it's another thing when it's a downright challenge, like Birthright Citizenship.

I doubt the Supreme Court is going to just ignore the 22md Amendment.

[–] Pulsar@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago

The constitution is worth less than toilet paper without a Congress and a Supreme Court to uphold it.

[–] BigMacHole@thelemmy.club 28 points 23 hours ago (5 children)

Thank GOD the Democrats DIDNT make it Political when they were in Office!

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[–] Smaile@lemmy.ca 5 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (2 children)

donald is going to be a lot tougher to kick out of the white house this time...

[–] SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

He won't be leaving, except feet first, then Junior will be crowned.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 hours ago

In 2021, I really badly wanted to see him literally dragged out kicking and screaming. Woukd still br awesome to see

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