Donald Trump announced Sunday that Republicans plan to dispense a large “Election Integrity Army” to every single state for the 2026 midterms – invoking his debunked claims that the United States does not have fair elections. In a message on his Truth Social platform the president appeared to attribute his “Historic Election in 2024” to the fact that the Republican National Committee sent thousands of volunteers across the country to poll watch or assist with election litigation through a volunteer program. “During my Historic Election in 2024, when I won every single Swing State, and decisively won both the Electoral and Popular votes by wide margins, the Republicans had an Election Integrity Army in every single State to preserve the sanctity of each legal vote. We will be doing the same again in 2026, but it will be much bigger and stronger,” Trump wrote. Trump did not elaborate on who would be part of the “Election Integrity Army” or how large it would be.

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[–] 195 points 3 months ago (9 children)

So lemme get this straight: the guy who won the last election is claiming that the elections are rigged? I'm just trying to understand here

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  • [–] 137 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    It's how he knows they're rigged. If they weren't he wouldn't have won.

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  • [–] 68 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    He just assumes that both sides are rigged, and whoever rigs it best is the winner. That's why he was so pissed in 2020. He knows it was rigged, but so many voted against him that it invalidated whatever he did. He was more successful at rigging the 2024 election.

    He's going to rig 2028, too. Don't be surprised if the smoke clears, and he gets more votes than the other candidates, so he has no choice but to honor the will of the people over the Constitution, and remain in office.

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  • [–] 45 points 3 months ago

    2016 as well. He even opened multiple investigations into it during his first term and the results were conclusively that the only notable instances of interference were either from or on behalf of the Republican party.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    You still think there will be a 2028 election?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    We have NEVER cancelled an election in this country, not during WWII, not even during the Civil War. Cancelling an election is a BRIGHT RED LINE, that will not be crossed. If it is, it is INSTANT Civil War.

    I will not recognize an unelected MAGA government.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    Who is gonna lead a civil war? You? I have trouble believing it will happen because so many lines have been crossed already that should have led to revolution and hasn't

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Who is gonna lead a civil war? You?

    Are you in third grade? Is that the depths of your intelligence, that when someone makes a suggestion, the best you can do is shoot it down because the person making the suggestion can't implement it? That means that the ONLY people who can make suggestions about our future are those who can actually make their suggestions happen, like Sociopathic Oligarchs. That's what your dumb comment translates as.

    No, I'm not going to lead a Civil War, that's not my skill set. But that doesn't mean I can't identify those who do have that skill set.

    What do you think all those knowledgeable, experienced military leaders that Hegseth and Trump fired are doing?

    Who knows? We haven't heard a peep from ANY of them. After a lifetime of navigating one of the most difficult career tracks in the world, getting to the highest reaches of power, motivated not by money, but by the personal mission of protecting America from ALL enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC, they seem to have disappeared.

    The greatest domestic national security threat since the Civil War has taken over the nation, and gotten rid of them, so they can't thwart MAGA's treasonous plans. Surely, those military leaders have accepted their ignominious firings, which were accompanied by public disparagement of themselves and the jobs they invested their entire lives in doing, and are sitting on the veranda, drinking cocktails, and watching the sun set on the nation that they failed to protect, right?

    I doubt it. Some were probably willing to chuck it all, and get on with retirement, but these are guys who have lived their entire lives literally waiting and planning for the next fight. These are NOT guys who give up easy. I would bet that at least a few of them are talking to each other, and creating some sort of plan if a Civil War breaks out, and we aren't going to hear a word about it until it happens

    If there's a Civil War, military leadership will NOT be a problem, we have no end of great military leadership on our side. I suspect the military leadership on their side isn't as loyal as they assume, and since they've fired all the moral competence, much of what is left is corrupt incompetence. Many of them will be able to be just bought off, MAGA's Achille's Heel.

    The problem will be Civil Leadership. In a situation like a spontaneous Civil War, rebel leadership will most likely default to the current leadership, which means the MAGA comedy act of Schmuck & Jeffries will be the headliners, and that would be disastrous.

    Weak Civil leadership (and it doesn't get any weaker than Schmuck & Jeffries), will only lead to a Military takeover, and having a Military Dictator wouldn't be any better than a Capitalist Dictator. We need to identify and support leadership candidates that we can count on in a Civil War. So far, about the only only ones showing any real leadership strength are the progressives, and those who instructed the military to ignore illegal orders. Those are the kinds of people who should be in charge.

    If I had to pick one that I would trust to lead us in a Civil War, one who understands both the political and military sides of the conflict, I think the best choice might be Mark Kelly. He's got the military experience, is extremely intelligent, not a whiff of corruption in his entire career, and he's tough enough, and brave enough, to go toe-to-toe with MAGA, and not back down.

    If Mark Kelly emerged as the defacto leader, with a competent military led by MAGA's cast-off officers, I'd be on board with that Rebellion.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Every non Republican since 2016 has been hoping that someone is gonna come somehow and save the US from Trump. We're in 2026, Trump is still president and nothing seems to push back against him.

    I don't believe in a sudden revolutionary surge in the US. Shit's gonna get worse, slowly, irrevocably, unless the general population develop some sense of solidarity and there's real political involvement from the population at every level. But that's hard in a population as divided as the United States'.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Americans have been carefully socialized to be polite, and "wait and see."

    But we have also been raised since the beginning on tales of underdog Revolutionaries, winning against the mightiest army in human history, and going on to become the mightiest nation in human history. That is a strong thread running through our national DNA.

    We have put up with a lot, counting on our system of government to get us through this mess, and we only have two more elections to get through, and we will know where we stand. There is an excellent chance that the Dems will prevail, and if can convince our elected leaders to do their jobs (I know, I hear ya), we could actually take back this country, and reconfigure it to reflect the original promises of our Founding Fathers, and our Founding Documents. It will be since in a century opportunity, and we can't squander it this time, again.

    But if MAGA cancels elections, that's a BRIGHT RED LINE that has never been crossed in our history. It literally means the end of American Democracy. If we won't fight for that, then we deserve to lose it.

    But it won't just be the Cancellation of Elections that will motivate people. That would mean that MAGA has finally decided to deploy their final end game, and become a Dictatorship. That will be accompanied by such a brutal crackdown, that nobody will remain polite anymore. All it will take will be one or two serious violent uprisings in which MAGAs are harshly punished, with either little retaliation, or, over the top retaliation, and it will break loose everywhere.

    It will take a lot before the dam breaks, but it will break eventually, and when it does, it will be really ugly for MAGA.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Technically he can't run for a third term. He wouldn't be on the ballot

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    700 million people will write his name in.

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    Dingleberry?

    You can do better than that. HERE, let me get you started. A to C.

    A loaded adult diaper of belligerence

    A Man for All Treasons

    Adjudicated Serial Rapist (VOTED MOST ACCURATE)

    Adolf Diddler

    Agent Oratnge

    Agolf Twitler

    All in all, it's just a little prick with no Wall

    He lives in: Alternative fact land

    Ancient Orange

    Assholini

    Ayatollah Complainy (Thanks Stephen Colbert)

    Baron Von Shitzinpantz

    Benedict Donald

    Blab the Inhaler

    Borderline Junius

    Borderwall Personality Disorder

    Captain Bone Spurs

    Captain Capslock

    Chainsaw-In-Chief 

    Chaos in Chief

    Cheat Miser "Whatever I touch, starts to melt in my clutch." 

    Cheddar Cheezus

    Cheeto Brain

    Cheeto Christ, Stupid Czar

    Chettolini

    Coffin dodger

    Combover Caligula

    Commander in Thief

    Commander in Tweet

    Condom Escapee

    Conman-der in chief

    Conquistaorange

    Coppertone Caligulia

    Coup Klux Tan

    Current presidential placeholder

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    Mods, can we sticky this? It's a lot of useful information! I think we could all find this list useful! Plus we can add to it as time goes on.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    D to M

    Darth Cheetoh

    Dementia Don

    Der Gropenführer

    Diaper Don

    Dick a l'Orange

    Diet Dr. Putin

    Dingus Con

    Dipshit Donnie

    Disaster in Chief

    Dodgin Donny

    Dollar Tree Dictator

    Don Feloni

    Don Poorleone, The Fraudfather

    Don the con

    Donald “putinsremoved” Trump

    Donica Lewinski

    Donnie Dumpo

    Donnie Thin Skin

    Donorrhea of the mouth. A Republican ailment.

    Dorito Mussolini

    Dr. President McDonald J Christ

    Droolius Geezer

    Dumbo Donnie

    Dunning-Kruger Overdrive

    E Pluribus Dumbdumb

    Epstein associate

    Everlasting Jobstopper

    F Elon

    Felon47

    Faux prez

    Felon (DO NOT USE by order of inmate #P01135809)

    Facsimile Fuehrer

    Fanta Fascist

    Fanta Fuhrer

    Fart face von shit stick

    Felon 47

    Felonious Dump

    Fibbernazi  Revenger

    First lady Donald J. Musk

    Forrest Trump? “Tariffs are like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re going to get.”

    Fraudfather

    Grifty McGrifterson

    Grifty McGriftface

    GropenFührer

    Gulf Of Idiot. Middle name of Of

    Hair Farce One

    Half off Adolf

    He Who Must Not Be Named

    Herr Combover

    His Royal Heelspur

    Historic Embarrassment

    Hocus POTUS

    Individual One

    Inmate # P01135809 Thursday, August 24 2023 at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta, Georgia.

    Insulting and frankly appalling ( Sir Keir Rodney Starmer )

    King Georange

    King of Dumbfuckistan

    Klanned Karenhood

    Lil' Donny Two-Scoops

    Lord Feltersnatch

    Lord Repugnant of the Fourth Reich

    MAGA Teresa

    Maga-Lardo

    Manchild McTinyhands

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    Mango Moron

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    Mango Unchained

    Marmalade Maggot

    Marmalade Messiah

    Melon Felon

    Moscow Marionette

    Mrs Donald Putin

    MyPillow guy low-budget stunt double

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    N to Z

    Nectarine Nazi

    Ol' Smeller

    Old Wack Donald

    Old white and needy

    Orange Caligula

    Orange Foolius

    Orange Hitler

    Orange Judas

    Orange King George

    Orange Tufted Shit Gibbon

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    Orangesama bin G'olfin

    Orangutan

    Papaya Pinochet

    Payless Putin

    Pee Wee German (Thanks Stephen Miller)

    Pedoführer

    PeDonald

    Pervert Hoover

    President Quid Pro Quo

    President Pudding Cup (thanks Jeff Tiedrich)

    President Stumblefuck

    Preznit Fuckwit

    Pumpkin pol pot

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    Pumpkin Spice Palpatine

    Putin’s Puppet

    Satan's Little Helper

    Scammer in Chief

    Sleepy Donzales

    Super Callous Fragile Ego Extra Douchey Rapist

    Super Callous Fragile Racist Sexist NAZI POTUS

    T-Bag

    Tang the Conqueror

    Tangerine Palpatine "Let the hate flow through you. Feel the power of the covfefe side of the farce!”

    Tangerine Palpatine

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    Tangerine Turd

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    The Billionaire Saint of Perpetual Grevience

    The Count of Mostly Crisco

    The Fanta Menace

    The Melon Felon

    The Quicker, Thicker F***er Upper

    The Slob Father

    The Village People's Idiot

    Theme song: I Shot the Tariff

    Theme song: Tsar Spangled Banner

    Toxic Revenger

    Trumpaloompa

    Trumplethinskin

    Trumppopotamus

    Trumpty Dumpty

    Unfathomably ignorant

    Unredeemable piece of shit

    Velveeta Voldemort

    X‘s Diaper

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  • [–] 39 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Trump did not elaborate on who would be part of the “Election Integrity Army” or how large it would be.

    It's a dog whistle to the "militia" people.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    And a dog shit dog whistle at that. Everybody hates this guy. Who is going to volunteer to harass people at the polls?

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  • [–] 15 points 3 months ago

    You are understanding correctly.

    Leading up to November 2024 elections, he said on multiple media outlets "We already have all the votes we need. The election has already been decided. It's the last election you'll ever need to vote in. Thats how good we rigged it."

    Literally said it MULTIPLE times.

    And now he's talking about it again, openly as being rigged.

    He's saying the quiet part outloud, and nobody is outraged, because nobody is taking him at face value.

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