More specifically, child rapist. As well as rapist of women.

No person needs permission from a leader to vote.

Leaders are elected first in the hearts and minds of the people and then at the ballot box.

A leader can try to take away the ballot box, but they can’t take away people’s will and leaders who forget this will ultimately lose one way or another.

If you're in a state with mail-in voting, you need the federal government to carry those ballots, and he just told USPS to interfere, so

We need to fight back against the hurdles and vote. Don't let this get us down and maybe we can get the message out as to what people need to do the get over the hurdles they're creating.

Yep, most countries are going to refuse American refugees. We'll just have to stay here, and fight back.

The only country I can easily emigrate to is arguably worse. Which is doubly sucky

I definitely get and feel similarly, and I guess this aint a bright spot but unless things change drastically and rapidly so there are very few places on the planet that will be able to serve as a refuge for the pain coming over the next few years. The best we can all hope for is that the US collapses rapidly before the technofeudalists and christofascists can further cement control

The elephant in the room is him ordering the postal service not to deliver ballots from people not on the federal approved voter list. The postal service isn't state ran. Trump doesn't have direct control over who the post master is, but the board that selects the post master is mostly empty seats so I guess he could flood it with sycophants with support from congress and appoint a new post master if this one puts up any resistance.

It also seeks to bar the U.S. Postal Service from sending absentee ballots to those not on each state’s approved list.

Legal experts noted other potential flaws with the order. David Becker, a former Justice Department lawyer who leads the Center for Election Innovation and Research, said the Postal Service is run by a board of governors [not state governors] and the president has no power to tell it what mail it can and cannot deliver.

A spokesperson for USPS said Tuesday the agency will review the order. Trump has sought to bring the independent agency under more presidential control, proposing to fold it under the Commerce Department — whose secretary, Howard Lutnick, was on hand for Tuesday’s signing.

castle doctrine gonna suck for ice

Nailed it. And to quibble, Jan 6th 2021 :)

we are a christian country!!! oh you can't minister to our detainees.

A bunch of states are going to kowtow to him anyway, a judge is going to declare it unconstitutional, Trump's going to throw a hissyfit & bomb Djibouti or some shit as distraction and Congress is going to pass it anyway.

Trump is an utter moron, being supported by utter morons, with utter morons calling rational people "the real morons" for daring to ask "wait, what?"

I'm tired, and I can't weld good enough to make a Killdozer...

50% of the boys and men in Germany were dead at the end of WW2

So quickly? I was thinking the ruling would come down 4-5 years after the event

Apparently it’s a goal of 100 million removals, nearly one in three of us.

Lmaoo I never thought of the Great Filter as a political thing potentially, I always thought of it as a technological thing like industrialization or disease or something. Interesting

Stumbling onto this comment late from a route I barely remember now lol - do you write anywhere? I'd read it probably, I've randomly come across a few of your comments by now that are insightful and deliciously dense.

I'm really hoping someone clicks on Minecraft.exe before then, to be 💯

You think the oligarchs that put Trump in office will stop with the US? Better keep an eye on your own politicians

They can't pass the SAVE act, it won't make it through the Senate filibuster.

Yep. He sure is, so that there's no way it could possibly be implemented in time, and then he'll use the resulting chaos as 'proof' of voting fraud

they got to ride that thin line of not alienating the fence sitters of genocide and not genocide, and still pretend to care to feed their vote blue no matter who base

What do you need to do?

This EO has all of the legal weight of a blog post.

Article 4 Section 1

Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector.

The only groups that have power over elections is the State and Congress.

Trump can draft an EO declaring himself king of mars. He can write anything in an EO, he's the E. A state can simply ignore it, it has no chance of surviving a motion for a TRO.

Don't forget to send it the texts asking for money!

I live in a dictatorship that toppled dictators before, and this is the current permeating thought. Not "we'll get rid of him" but rather "let's wait it out." And so you wait out a decade, two, three... Maybe it is over and the plans were arranged so his successor would take over instead.

Your thought is one of a people under a brutal dictatorship. So much for the championed first and second amendments, eh?