Rachel Maddow warned viewers on Monday that President Donald Trump plans to interfere with midterm election results, following the Supreme Court’s recent 7-2 ruling against his executive order instructing the US Postal Service (USPS) to block states from distributing and collecting mail-in ballots.

Trump’s order, which he signed last March, would’ve directed the USPS to refuse to deliver mail-in ballots to anyone whose information hadn’t been properly submitted to a new state citizenship list maintained by the federal government.


"Trump is counting on confusion, uncertainty, and a lack of confidence in the mail-in voting system to suppress voter turnout," she said.

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[–] 7 points 3 hours ago (1 child)

"Lesbian political pundit Rachel Maddow"

What does her sexual orientation have to do with her political point whatsoever? She's saying that as a journalist not as a lesbian, what the fuck.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 hours ago*

    At first I agreed with you, then saw that the source is LGBTQ nation, so if she wasn't a lesbian, it possibly wouldn't be reported on by them. Her orientation is what ties this piece of news into the LGBTQ realm.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 hours ago

    I thought y'all had term limits over or what...

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  • [–] 9 points 5 hours ago (1 child)

    I'll be voting in person, as I always do.

    I urge everyone who possibly can to do the same. Yes, it's inconvenient, yes, there will be long lines. But, your employer must, by law give you time off to vote. Just stand in line and look at your phone, or even take a folding chair.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 hours ago

    We don't need the warnings. Everyone assumes trump'll do something untoward. What we need is a plan of action. All neighbourhoods should designate a pocket telephone picture taker to record anything and everything to gather any evidence needed.

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  • [–] 9 points 14 hours ago (6 children)

    What's the plan to stop him?

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  • [–] 6 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

    Civil war should it come to it.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 hours ago* (2 children)

    That's not going to happen.

    What will happen, assuming he's successful, is the Democrats will quietly fall in line after a few weeks of posturing. There will be lawsuits, and the courts will ultimately decide in Trump's favor.

    Unrest comes when people have their way of life existentially threatened through hunger or homelessness. Or when their position within the caste is in question.

    Unrest will come from the Right if they lose. When the undecideds and liberals lose an election, they say "damn, better luck next time" and move on. They aren't willing to do anything that might jeopardize their comfortable way of life.

    The people pushed to the margins will be further castigated, and find themselves in an even more dangerous position.

    Unrest will come from the margins. People with nothing, and everything, to lose. The police will be granted further impunity to kill, and POC/LGBTQ+ will die. They'll protest, and they'll be killed by cops and right wing nutjobs alike. And no help will come. "Allies" will start to go quiet if the violence gets particularly bad and those communities will learn who their true friends are.

    Arm yourselves. Violence is coming regardless of who wins in November.

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  • [–] 22 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

    What gave it away, the president's own words over and over about stealing it?

    Thanks Rachell, don't know what we would do without you.

    I seem to recall something with Israel that made me stop listening to you though.

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  • [–] 8 points 14 hours ago (1 child)

    The general public arent paying nearly as much attention, so yeah, literally as many voices as possible shouting the warning. Take a hike with the shitsnark.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 hours ago

    The general public arent paying nearly as much attention

    Trump said before he was elected in 2016 that if he didn't win re-election, he would challenge the results. Then he did exactly that. The dude has already openly committed a coup.

    At this point, if the public isn't paying attention, it's because the political system is clearly fully committed to letting Trump do whatever he wants.

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