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The Washington Post reported that activists are working with the White House on an executive order to declare a “national emergency” over America’s elections and pave the way for a power grab.

“Pro-Trump activists who say they are in coordination with the White House are circulating a 17-page draft executive order that claims China interfered in the 2020 election as a basis to declare a national emergency that would unlock extraordinary presidential power over voting,” reported the Post‘s Isaac Arnsdorf. “President Donald Trump has repeatedly previewed a plan to mandate voter ID and ban mail ballots in November’s midterm elections, and the activists expect their draft will figure into Trump’s promised executive order on the issue.”

Peter Ticktin, a MAGA activist in favor of the executive order, told the Post that “we have a situation where the president is aware that there are foreign interests that are interfering in our election processes,” and that “the president has to be able to deal with it,” including by banning mail-in ballots and certain voting machines.

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[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 24 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Someone please lock Dem leadership in a closet somewhere so people who care can deal with this.

[–] UsernameHere@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Both sides are the same so we should just not vote and let Trump win.

-Leftists

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 0 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Yep, any criticism of the weak zionist leadership that suppressed the 2024 autopsy which confirmed that their zionism is an albatross on the party and is actively undermining the Khanna/Massie war powers resolution because they want Trump to start a war with Iran is definitely a call to abandon democrats and let republicans win, not a call to replace the incompetent leadership with people who would crush the Republicans easily with an actual populist platform.

[–] UsernameHere@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Leftists lose elections so consistently and have so few voters and so few candidates that they can’t even exist as a party. They need the democrats to even exist because the majority of voters are on the right or center of the political spectrum.

Leftist claiming they can win elections is like a fat sports fan criticizing the athlete that actually plays the game and has the ability to win.

Leftist have never won any where near as many elections as democrats.

[–] Wataba@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Where are these people who can deal with it?

Please, show some evidence that they actually exist. I don't need names and addresses, thats just opening them up as targets.

Do they exist? Because all I've seen is a lot of bitching and whining and declaring that no-one is good enough to do that.

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

The bar is not high. The members of the squad, who are some of the most popular members of congress in the country; Ro Khanna, who's trying to bring a war powers resolution to the floor that would check Trump's plan to attack Iran but is actively being undermined by Schumer and Jeffries because they want war with Iran. Bernie Sanders, the most popular senator in the country... You could literally draw Democrat names out of a hat and chances are they'd be better than Schumer and Jeffries.