President Donald Trump is openly hinting at taking over the midterm elections by declaring a national emergency.

Newsmax’s Wayne Allen Root interviewed Trump just after midnight Tuesday morning, and said that Trump had the right to declare a national security emergency next month, forcing through photo identification, proof of citizenship, limits on mail-in ballots, and other heavy voting restrictions. Trump seemed to like that suggestion, but didn’t want to tip his hand.

“Let me just say stranger things have happened, okay? I’ll leave it at that,” Trump said.

Trump is afraid of massive Republican losses in November’s midterms, and has been unsuccessfully pushing his allies in Congress to pass the draconian SAVE Act. With that appearing more unlikely each day, Democrats and other Trump critics are raising concerns that he may take drastic action, such as declaring a national emergency and maybe deploying legions of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to the polls.

In fact, Democrats have been trying for close to a year to get documents from the Department of Homeland Security regarding its policies and memos on sending ICE agents to polls. Agents were seen at polling places in Texas during its May primaries and in California in June, but when Democrats used the Freedom of Information Act to investigate, they were sent useless press clippings.

If Trump tries to invoke national security to take over federal elections, it would shatter precedent and could set off lawsuits and protests across the country. His repeated, disproven claims about voter fraud and rigged elections suggest that he’ll make the same excuses in November. The question is how to ensure a fair and accurate result that can stand up to his attacks.

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[–] 136 points 3 months ago (26 children)

We need to all be eyeing the break glass solution: a general strike. If Trump subverts the elections, then we turn off the economy until fair elections are held.

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  • [–] 52 points 3 months ago (11 children)

    It's all good in words, but I've got maybe 3 days worth of food at my place. So come day 5 I'm fucked

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  • [–] 94 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    That's why we're supposed to take care of each other in situations like that. My kitchen is overstocked and I'm a chef who knows how to make the most out of what's available. I share my food and you pitch in however you can.

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

    I'm well versed in the art of I'm sure this and that will go together lol. I just know I am out of meat and am low on lentils at the moment. Was trying to think of something I could use the lentils for tonight.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago

    And hopefully at this point people will realize that it was designed to be that way, then do something about it. This is modern slavery.

    Sadly, I doubt it, they will still blame trans and brown people while being fucked by psychopaths.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    Yeah, it’s not something everyone can just prepare and brace for on their own. It will require a temporary switch to full blown socialism wherein people take care of each other until everyone is on their own feet again*.

    • Which is never, if capitalism has its way
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  • [–] 14 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    I feel like fucking with the election could actually be the trigger for more people to actually act and even march in mass on Waahington. Its the one thing I can think of that I would very likely go for.

    It would basically be the final break for "Are we permenantly broken as a country."

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

    I don't know. We let an insurrection happen and then re-elected the leader of it. Not sure how many final lines we can have to cross. I think our government has already proven it's completely broken and needs to be replaced.

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  • [+] 0 points 3 months ago (1 child)
  • You do realize how close we were to elected officials hanging from the gallows on the front steps of the capitol, right? 1 locked door and a half dozen cops.

    But regardless, the point is that the ringleader was never punished, and he was reelected and is sitting in the Oval Office right now talking about committing more election fraud after Elon "fixed those machines right up" in 2024.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago

    Is that right? Because I'm not convinced. Even with data like this the knowledge of Trump's remarks about Elon "knowing computers", his completely lackluster few rallies before the 2024 elections, the bomb threats, the millions of mail-in ballots in ditches, and the various other election interference, we still haven't organized as a nation and removed the cheater.

    In fact getting most people to actually look at the data is like pulling teeth.
    I think instead we'll just roll over like the livestock we are for our oligarchic masters, as we've done so far.

    Would love to be proven wrong though. Please my fellow Americans, prove my doubts wrong. Organize and become Wolves.

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

    You may need civil war before this is over. If striking is breaking glass, what would civil war be?

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago

    IIRC, in the decades leading up to the 20th century, workers and other pro-labor bamfs in the US would go on parades around town to signal their collective strength to the bourgeoisie/industrialists and intimidate them into compliance.

    Bring back the bullying of capitalists, please. Also, who doesn't love a parade?

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

    A general strike is functionally impossible in the US. You'd need every major industry, every freight industry, and every service industry nationwide onboard. Most of the workers in those industries can't afford a weeks long strike. You'd need every major port on board. You'd need the capitalists to coordinate it because Americans fucking hate each other. We will have an open civil war with atrocities every day before we have a general strike.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    Which is why I believe a rent/mortgage strike is far more viable. Builds up our resources as the working class, instead of depleting them. Imagine just a single month of no rent/mortgatge how much you could stock up in terms of supplies for a general strike.

    Now imagine a whole neighborhood doing that, a whole town, a whole city, a whole state. It would do severe economical damage, and possibly even crash housing prices.

    Especially if paired with weaponizing local homeless populations by encouraging them to take residence in the various empty homes we have here in the U.S.(which last I think I heard was like 22 empty homes for every homeless person).

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Now get people to actually do it. I'll gladly do it but I don't think my neighbors would. not because they are on the side of evil, but because they can't afford a day without money. (At least that's what they think, the reality though might be different)

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  • [–] 46 points 3 months ago* (3 children)

    is it time that the UN starts to talk about putting [armed?] observers on the ground to make sute that the elections are not tampered with, like they do for other 3rd world countries?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    The boring truth about that is that those third world countries are often dependent on foreign aid. And one of the conditions to keep recieving aid, is that UN is allowed to place observers and make sure the election is free and fair

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

    “Let me just say stranger things have happened, okay? I’ll leave it at that,” Trump said.

    I’d love to hear some specifics. I doesn’t feel like things have ever been this crazy.

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  • [–] 22 points 3 months ago

    Jim Crow only existed because whites were able to threaten and prevent blacks from voting (Thanks, Johnson).

    Hitler basically had a coup handed to him but stayed technically "elected" again via fear and fraud.

    There's a lot of crazy shit Republicans are doing and courts are allowing that should be unthinkable.

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  • [–] 30 points 3 months ago

    If Trump tries to invoke national security to take over federal elections, it would shatter precedent and could set off lawsuits and protests across the country

    Oh no... not lawsuits and protests! That will spell doom for him. No way he could ever recover from that.

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

    This was the plan since day 1. Don’t act surprised now or when there are armed men at polling stations on Election Day.

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  • [–] 25 points 3 months ago

    Is there any legal precedent for what happens when would-be voters are detained in front of polls by federal agents for bullshit reasons that definitely have nothing to do with their voter registration? If not, I'm sure there will be.

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  • [–] 24 points 3 months ago

    The Antichrist who hates America and is raping children while stealing billions doesn’t want to be held accountable? Crazy!

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

    Time to prepare for mass protests. Completely surround the White House if he does that.

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

    These people will rake you down with belt-fed machine guns before they acquiesce to "public pressure" to resign their most powerful office.

    But they won't have to, because they just have to ignore you like No Kings and then you'll go home.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    No, just needs a lot of people with signs. That'll fix it

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  • [–] 22 points 3 months ago

    He can try, states are going to vote though.

    America held elections during the literal civil war, we can hold elections while an orange vapor balloon tried to fat on them.

    We just need everyone to see what’s going on and overcome fear. Once people hear about this nonsense I expect any remaining people that aren’t awake yet but can be reached will wake up and they won’t tolerate it.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    The surest way to turn a +/- 2 Talarico electorate into a 5-6 point Talarico win is to openly try and fuck with the election.

    Even in Texas. Even when (some of) the Republicans are as corrupt as god makes politicians, including the candidate and their governor. Turns out, it's a lot harder to propagandize people in the middle of the bullshit you're pulling.

    Incidentally, that's why some of your Republican friends and family are at their most reasonable immediate after something happens. They haven't received their lines yet, and the feelings of the story are still their primary decision drivers.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    This is also why I think the more immediate goal of Democrats and progressives is to attack the right wing propaganda vectors. If those collapse even if it's just say talk radio, tv, and maybe Facebook it'll destroy a lot of the transmission capabilities and people will more likely make decisions based on their actual baseline personalities.

    As for how to destroy them, I say just blow out their business models. Ban their ability to advertise and collect data.

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

    And if things escalate to a violent country situation, a V for Vendetta country, then those places you've mentioned should be the absolute #1 first priority for the rebel militia.

    Just like in that movie, now that I think on it. Odd...

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

    It isn't too odd when you think about it, Alan Moor and I both read 1984 which places a good bit of focus on propaganda and methods of control. Makes sense that two people pulling from the same source will come to similar conclusions, even if Moor was writing on the aftermath of an isolationist fascistic regime while I'm planning on how to blow the kneecaps out of one before it becomes fully entrenched.

    Also I have only consumed V for Vendetta comic break downs but I have listened to an audio comic drama of watchman and watched the movie and yeah I agree with Moor fuck most of the adaptations of his works, The Justice League adaptation gets a pass though.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Mark it 8 dude he is going to do this.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 months ago

    Newsmax’s Wayne Allen Root interviewed Trump just after midnight Tuesday morning,

    Ok first of all, wtf is this?

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago

    This isn't shocking and has been floated around the real question how will people respond to it. It doesn't help they gave him that semi king status where anything as a Presidential act is fine to do.

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

    It doesn't matter. This is going to be like 2020, where the outrage was so strong that it overwhelmed all their cheating schemes. That's why he's so fixated on that race. He knows he cheated, and should have won. If Biden won, it can only mean that he must have cheated worse, so if he can find evidence of Dem cheating, it will be end of the Dems, and MAGA will be in power forever.

    He can't possibly believe that Biden had that many legal votes, because them he'd have to believe that he's hated that much, and he thinks people love him.

    It's how a dumb 9 year-old thinks, but that's Trump.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago

    If someone openly talks about plotting to commit crime, something should be done to stop them

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (15 children)

    Why doesn't he just pull an Orbán and quit? He's rich and nobody's going to sue him. Why live like this when you don't have to?

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  • [–] 18 points 3 months ago (11 children)

    Because he is legally protected by the office of the president. Once he leaves, he will be prosecuted, and will go to prison for the rest of his life, for multiple offenses.

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

    he will be prosecuted, and will go to prison for the rest of his life

    If it actually came to that (and I don't see why it would) he would flee to Russia or Saudi Arabia before spending a day in prison.

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

    LOL. Name one President who ever suffered consequences for his actions. Ever.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Name one president who has committed this level of treason, pedophilia, and corruption.

    There are only two possible endings to this - We are all enslaved, or MAGA gets crushed and purged from our government and society. As long as we are between those two outcomes, we are not done.

    It's either MAGA, or us, and there are a LOT more of us, and we're angrier, and smarter. They will not escape punishment a second time, or the Democrats will join them.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago*

    When did that become a LAW? Its people like you that allow them to get away with it. Posts like this tell them that you expect them to get away with their CRIMES, and you'll accept that outcome, even if you hate it.

    Instead, you ought to be making it very clear to not only MAGA, but also the Democrats, that you DEMAND punishment this time, and you will accept nothing less, or the Dem collaborators will suffer the same fate.

    The Dems are already getting the message, and making plans for the Democratic House after the Midterms. They know they won't get any legislation through, Trump won't sign it, so they are already making plans to turn all their committees into investigative bodies, and start forcing them to testify and explain themselves. That's a LOT more than they did during the Biden Admin.

    Besides, no president ever deserved serious punishment more than this cartoonishly corrupt, treasonous pedophile. It doesn't make any difference what precedents or customs are, this Psychopath has shattered them all, and is deserving of punishment like no previous president.

    Finally, YOU may be skeptical of the Dems willingness to punish MAGA, but MAGA isn't. They are sure that the Dems intend to punish them harshly for their crimes, because they know they deserve it. Let's not disappoint them.

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

    I have come to understand narcissim is classified underpersonality disorder because of the sheer lack of self-preservation they have.

    At the end of the day, it's about tearing down and going into the grave screaming for them, along with taking as many as possible.

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

    I think he'll take action much closer to the actual election. When it's too soon for the courts to say anything about it.

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

    Subway sandwiches on standby.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago

    News at 6: Trump and his Heritage Foundation pals do more illegal shit with zero repercussions.

    Establishment politicians: We fOlLow the LawS, dRasTic mEasUrEs are AntI-aMeRicAn!

    Trump and Co.:

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago

    it would shatter precedent and could set off lawsuits

    Lawsuits would be useless at that point, absolute performance theater.

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

    As a former National Guard officer I am concerned that the Guard will be turned on us and most of the Guardsman will not push back. I live in the South and I know most of the state governors will do nothing. I hope the blue state governors do something. I hope the Guardsman remember their oath. I am not hopeful. Prepare for the worst.

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

    we are so lucky this old fart has dementia

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  • [–] 27 points 3 months ago*

    He’s just a useful moron used as a mouthpiece.

    The real villains are guys like Miller, Netanyahu,, Putin, Murdoch, Musk, Thiel and the trash at the Heritage Foundation. They’re the ones pushing this agenda.

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

    my solace with every crazy scheme is that he always fucks up everything he touches. waiting for spectacular losing. would interfere with his JD blanket pardon scheme, ala nixon. either way he'll screw himself. party of confederacy only knows failure. like to play soldier, fat fuck?

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

    he always fucks up everything he touches

    Like he fucked up the 2016 and 2024 elections? He sure seems to have a lot of power for someone that fucks everything up.

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

    Yeah...Americans love to blame Trump for all the power they repeatedly give him.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    I'm not convinced we gave him anything. There are Russian Tails in 2016, 2020, and 2024 all in favor of him. You can see it get more pronounced in every election with the 2024 election being the most obvious, likely because they failed to successfully cheat in 2020 thanks to all the mail-in ballots.

    Including more data on the numbers here: https://electiontruthalliance.org/analysis/clark-county-nevada/ There are more states you can look at, but you'll need to go back to the main page and scroll down to the bottom for the other states.

    And that's not counting all the other election interference like the bomb threats, and mail in ballots found in ditches, or the purged voter rolls. But of course they poisoned the well by projecting their own actions on to the Democratic Party, so now if you dare to say the a man known for fraud, and cheating did it fucking again, you get called blue maga or some shit.

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