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Trump will declare a ‘national emergency’ before midterms: Bannon
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The states: "that's cool, we're gonna have our elections anyway"
It has to be some kind of mass psychosis at this point, the amount of faith Americans continue to have in systems that the fascists have systematically subverted and destroyed on their path.
“No no, I’m sure THIS TIME we’ll be okay”
In high school, Americans all take civics and history classes where they teach us how balanced the government is to prevent this. They didn't mention who inspired the German holocaust.
Not when he sends ICE to shut them down
how many ice’s you got tho?
you know, aside from the obvious TOO FUKEN MANY
Well we're pumping the defense budget up to $1.15 TRILLION. So we gotta spend that money somehow. Edit: can't spent it ALL on Israels genocide
All they need to do is send them to key "swing" cities.
You won't see ICE taking voting boxes and machines in vehemently blue areas. You'll see them in contested areas that make the real difference.
The people need to organize to resist this. We can't count on the Dems in office to adequately do it.
The voting machines could also be rigged without anyone knowing since the agency responsible for election integrity has no people in it.
A couple thousand ICE agents spread across 110,000 polling places in the US?
Good luck.
Doesn't have to do them all. Democrats are super concentrated relative to Republicans. Here in Georgia, if ICE would shut down just Fulton county, they'd shift the state-wide margin by close to 10 percentage points, and that's just 40 polling sites.
“Your honor, there were armed and masked men impersonating law enforcement and intimidating people at a polling place. I believed it was my patriotic duty to defend my community from what must have been terrorists.”
Judge: "Don't care. Guilty. Do not pass go, do not collect $200, go directly to jail"
Too many people think our justice system cares at all about circumstances.
In Texas, individual precinct judges are granted extremely broad police power to ensure the proper decorum in and orderly operation of their polling places. And this power is independent of the county sheriff, the constables, and any local police department
I’m from just outside Atlanta originally, would be hilarious if Fulton just shut them the fuck down.
Hell a couple of well placed car crashes on 285 and 75/85 might keep ice stuck for weeks
Key swing states have been systematically limiting the number of voter locations and ending other means of voting like mail-in. Expect to see squads positioned around key Democratic cities within swing states. Also expect "emergency situations" like the threats to voting locations like last time. That strategy didn't get nearly enough attention.
They have around 30,000, and will likely expand that rapidly before the election. They just have to slow stuff down and dissuade enough swing voters from showing up.
Don't have to do them all. Just a few blue areas in a few swing states. Enough to invalidate the entire election.
and half the states send their national guards to support ICE