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Five-Alarm Fire Warning After Trump Says 'Republicans Ought to Nationalize the Voting'
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The time for the courts to process cases is in favor of the administration seizing control not against it. There is an absolute worry about these clowns seizing control of elections, as they know the blue states will do nothing if they do send the feds in, even with their own state police and national guard, forewarning of the plans, they will do nothing, the republicans know it, we know it.
Until that changes there is nothing to stop them. Ignoring it won't help, we need new opposition leaders. New politicians and appointees. That is about step one and we keep trying to skip forward to step 3, which will fail without completing the prior steps.
I mean, if you're talking about Trump sending in federal agents to seize ballots, then yes, that would be bad and there is very little an individual state could do to stop it without an armed conflict. At that point, ballot stuffing would be a secondary concern over the fact that a second Civil War had broken out. I maintain that the more likely scenario, though, will be Trump sending CBP and ICE goons to stop, "illegals," from voting, which would be a flimsy pretense for voter suppression. But, "federalizing the elections," would require upednig Article 1, section 4 of the Constitution, and even with our deeply fucked up court system, I can imagine Trump getting that through in 9 months. Maybe I'm wrong, and a favorable court would allow him to proceed until he got it to the Supreme Court, but I think that's a stretch.
I tend to agree even our courts would be unlikely to directly support directly defying the constitution as such at this point, although since they cancelled lower courts issuing nationwide injunctions I would not be certain. That is license for the feds to throw people in camps without habeous corpus, with no way to stop them. It was a huge betrayal and our media sucks, our historical experts suck, the entire ivy league should all be burnt to the ground because they left us ignorant of that and so many other important facts we should know to prevent total ruin, which is on our path.
I disagree that there is nothing the states could do. They have armed personnel, they have citizens that support them, they have the law on their side. We outnumber them, we have a national guard, we have cops, and we could create militias, blue states not only should physically prevent the feds from marching in and running fixed elections, they have a duty to.
Not standing up to them is what led us here, if we stand up now, we can prevent it from getting worse. It's the lack of pushback that has led the establishments, the courts, et al, to give up pre-emptively. We made sure the democrats won in 2020 and they did nothing with it, allowed everyone to get away with betraying the country, with rank corruption. Not even a cross word from our geriatric leadership let alone a concerted effort to nail them to the wall. Not a purging of traitors from the establishment, not making sure the federal agencies fulfilled their statutory duties but allowed them to remain captured, in this context namely the justice department.
I mean, yeah, if the feds try to seize ballots, this is probably what's going to have to happen, but please understand where this goes. Feds come in, demand the ballots to look for, "fraud," local authorities refuse, and there is an armed standoff. Maybe a state calls in the National Gaurd for backup. Trump can then either nationalize that gaurd in response, leading to conflicting orders, and Trump almost certainly invokes the insurrection act, allowing him to send active duty troops into the state. That would be the beginning of the Civil War.
I doubt Trump wants something that messy though. He'll almost certainly attempt to purge voter rolls wherever he can and suppress the vote with ICE. Dominion voting was also bought out by a Republican election official, so that could be another method to falsify the vote as well. Luckily those methods are imperfect (even Dominion voting requires a physical ballot trail), so we can still overcome that kind of voter suppression.
Yeah it's messy now that it's gotten to this point. This was something that needed to be addressed in 2021 through 2024 and wasn't so now it's exponentially harder. There is a chance in the succession fight to take it back with popular opposition, organization, and strong leadership, but I'm afraid we won't have any of that. The same people that brought us Hillary and Biden and Harris will land on newsom, whose time was 2024 and he fucked us waiting his turn. But the important thing is no one made bad faith bigotry allegations on him. /s It's hopeless with them in charge and they are as arrogant as every blaming those wanting popular reform for their loss, for not believing hard enough.
They seem more numerous than they are because of armies of influence agents including mechanized divisions, allied with the right aligned ones contributing guerilla fighters and sabotage with their mechanized trolls to help the candidates that can't win get the nomination. Bottom line, it's already too late barring change in leadership, and if by some miracle they did eke out a victory and not have it stolen from them all 7 ways from sunday, they would do nothing with it, and hand it right back to the extremist party.
And make no mistake it's the party fixing elections doesn't end with the president.
All that said, We know what they are going to try to do, because they are testing the waters, and setting precedents, so we should have forces in place to prevent the feds from doing those things in the first place, mobilized police and guards, and guards handpicked for loyalty in the units in certain locations, protecting the governor and legislatures and court officials from arrest, protecting voting precincts. A mobilized citizenry, including militias, should be mobilized, in place, and ready to be fully deputized as agents of the state should they be needed.
A campaign making everyone aware of the real legality, that the supreme court has no authority to cancel any part of the constitution, and their bad faith interpretations to help their party will not be accepted if in sheer defiance of reality. Need different wording on that, Courts Don't Decide Elections, Voters Do. States Do. And so forth.
Of course it won't matter if the democrats are only banking winning for not being the other guy, which is going to be their plan after crushing the left under waves of bullshit. Because they learned nothing, and fear popular reform taking the party more than the Republicans winning, and enough of the public, and the right, support them keeping control.
Only way out is with new leadership.