- cross-posted to:
- politics@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- politics@lemmy.world
The Washington Post reported that activists are working with the White House on an executive order to declare a “national emergency” over America’s elections and pave the way for a power grab.
“Pro-Trump activists who say they are in coordination with the White House are circulating a 17-page draft executive order that claims China interfered in the 2020 election as a basis to declare a national emergency that would unlock extraordinary presidential power over voting,” reported the Post‘s Isaac Arnsdorf. “President Donald Trump has repeatedly previewed a plan to mandate voter ID and ban mail ballots in November’s midterm elections, and the activists expect their draft will figure into Trump’s promised executive order on the issue.”
Peter Ticktin, a MAGA activist in favor of the executive order, told the Post that “we have a situation where the president is aware that there are foreign interests that are interfering in our election processes,” and that “the president has to be able to deal with it,” including by banning mail-in ballots and certain voting machines.
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States should declare emergencies first and protect themselves from the fed. Elections are handled by each state, not the government.
The only thing holding a lot of Americans back from violence is the knowledge that that’s exactly the excuse the regime wants to declare martial law and suspend elections. If they just jump to suspending fair elections anyway, then there will be nothing to stop the gloves from coming off. The billionaires and Congress creatures better run for their bunkers. Anybody that the people perceive as having a hand in getting us to this point, either through direct action or failure to react, won’t be safe.
Sounds like an excuse, no dictator has ever been held at bay by lack of action and this regime is not shy of pulling stuff directly from their asses.
The only thing holding a lot of Americans back from violence is the knowledge that that’s exactly the excuse the regime wants to declare martial law and suspend elections.
The only things holding Americans back from violence are relatively abundant food, entertainment and comfort. All of which will still continue to exist once free elections are gone. Plus what they replace them with will be branded super duper free elections, and that will be enough for a lot of people.
There is little to no evidence that the 1/3rd of eligible voters who didn’t vote in Nov 2024 are any more engaged with what is happening than they were back then.
All they have to do is orchestrate this coup in a somewhat intelligent way that doesn’t immediately collapse the economy and they can absolutely pull it off.
Most Americans are not going to fight for abstract rights when their immediate tangible needs are being met.
Bold move in a nation with more guns than people.
I’m not against a Gaddafi or Mussolini ending at all.
we held elections during a literal civil war. What “emergency” could trump that with all our modern life improvements and… checks notes. No civil war in America…
You’re the first Republican President since the civil rights act passed to have negative approval among white voters.
You won the popular vote because for the first time in memory, high propensity voters are going for the Democrats and low propensity voters went for Republicans.
Whatever you’re planning won’t be enough.
if this happens it’s over They are limiting who can give passports, some states are cancelling driver licenses of certain groups… they will choose who can vote or not
Prediction: None of this so called evidence will ever make an appearance in a court room.
And even if it does it will be a Trump Crony Judge that just goes… yeah sure, be a dictator buddy!
His lawyers don’t exactly have high hopes.
Unfortunately we have been boned since the immunity ruling.
If he starts the civil war by ending our vote, do we get to start hitting Ice agents with our cars?
Also make sure to be going 40 or over or they get back up.
You already can! Are you worried about repercussions? They aren’t.
Or just don’t forget to backup yourself
By Wikipedias count there are presently 51 on-going national emergencies in USA, 19 of them have been declared by Trump.
The oldest still active one was made by Carter in 1979, it’s a sanction on Iran.
we have a situation where the president is aware that there are foreign interests that are interfering in our election processes
Of course he is, he benefitted from it. America ain’t coming back until the people take it back, and that’s gonna be done the hard way.
Donald Trump is the national emergency.
If this happens and civil war doesn’t break out than I fear good people will have lost.
There won’t be a civil war and the people have already lost. There.
Surely more protests will work this time.
“They say evil wins when good people do nothing. I disagree, it should just be ‘evil wins’.”
So I’m of the opinion that it should be as costly a victory for the bastards as possible.
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The Chinese government hates the US and, if they interfered successfully, would have done so to get Trump into office, since that would cause the most damage.
Huh? It’s our own election system. 2 corrupt parties for a long time. Candidates nobody wants and this is the result
The flood of troll farm misinformation and lies by both China and Russia as well as right wing ownership of MSM all aided in trump’s rise. Yeah, our shitty electoral college that is DEI for mostly empty States handed trump the win.
Own the shit. No one wanted Hillary or Kamala. Presented by corrupt Dems.
Plenty of people voted for them. You just outed yourself. The only reason Trump is in is because 50% of Americans would not support a woman in office. I mean, who would want a moody, vindictive asshole leading with their emotions rather than their brain?! Right…
Both can be true at the same time. The extreme corruption of both parties because both are beholden to oligarchs are causing frustration, which is being amplified by troll farms.
Sounds about right, there are a lot of pro-trump anti-democrat content circulating in WeChat…
Seems like they are trying to discourage diasporas from voting for democrats
Time to organize
Time. Time to kill Dr. Jeffrey O’dwire, with my new hammer.
