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I’m… honestly both in awe and aghast at how fucking blatant the regime is being about it. They’ve literally shut down the team that is in charge of addressing and categorizing security threats to the US originating from Iran immediately before starting a fucking war with Iran. Like… I just… what the actual fuck. I can’t even.
Between this and the documents leaked about their plans for the election, the intent couldn’t be more obvious if they put it on a fucking billboard. I hate that it comes down to such imbecilically stupid and petty US political bullshit like that, and that it’s killing so many people and fucking up so may other parts of the world… but seriously, I really think that was a massive part of their rationale here. It’s a distraction (operation Epstein fury), combined with creating an extremely obvious opening for an asymmetrical/terroristic threat that will be used as a justification for removing the electoral process. That’s the plan.
I've been telling everyone I know that it's extremely obvious they're trying to provoke a terror attack on US soil.
They want another 9/11, so they can indefinitely cancel elections. That's the whole fucking plan.
We didn't cancel elections after 9/11, and we've NEVER cancelled an election in this country, not even during the Civil War.
There is NO justification for cancelling elections, under ANY circumstances.
Right, but almost nothing this administration and government are doing currently is normal or justified. They just do it anyway.
One of the cornerstones of the Project 2025 plan is making the 2024 election the last one. This is how they get there.
We just can't allow it. No cancelling of elections under any circumstances.
It's more important that your state authorities understand this, because elections are managed by the states. Trump can "cancel" elections, but it isn't in his hands. The states would have to cooperate, and what if they don't? What if they just tell him No, our elections will go on as planned?
We can have our elections anyway, no matter what he wants. If some Red states want to honor his demand, that's on them, but I suspect that even Red states aren't going to like it. There are plenty of ambitious MAGAs who want their shot at the corruption, too. They won't be happy to know that MAGA isn't accepting any new elected members.
And what about non-federal offices, like state and municipal elections? Those jobs have to be filled, too.
It's not just a matter of saying no elections, there are a LOT of ripples from it.
Donald Trump is Constitutionally ineligible to be President right now. But here we are. Hopes, prayers, and traditions will not save us from the fucking Nazis.
Besides, the goal isn’t to cancel elections, it’s to control them. Control who gets to vote and for what.
Exactly. W won a second term largely due to 9/11, I'd wager. He started off as extremely divisive and polarizing. Most people were at least deeply sus of him, if not considering him entirely illegitimate. The economy starts to implode.
Fast forward a few months, 9/11 happens, and most of the Murc's Law Media is falling all over themselves to prostrate before W. People acting like not voting for Republicans is not supporting the troops, or whatever the fuck.
Without 9/11, I don't see how that guy would have had a second term.
I could easily see a repeat here if there was some big terrorist event that they could blame on Iran. The real blame should lie with Pedonald and his maladministration for attacking Iran and doing a shit job on security here, but we have way too many idiots in this country that operate like windsocks.
Would be funny if it backfires and at the next SOTU just one American does the right thing and set off a bomb vest in the middle of that crowd.
They WANT another major terrorist event. Hell, they would also rather see see dozens of little terrorist events (mass shootings, bombings, etc) by disgruntled Iranians or other people who are pissed off at the US's actions. They need this shit to justify their actions and enact more measures that are vague enough to apply to anyone... and then apply it exclusively to their opponents and anyone they don't like. This is how you get highly oppressive laws that are allegedly supposed to stop criminals and terrorists but don't seem to be doing much in preventing that, but are doing a damn fine job of making social changes and legislation passing/enforcement of things that protect people a lot more difficult.
If an attack doesn't occur naturally, it will be manufactured.
And they will suck so hard at covering it up that it will be extremely obvious they did it. It will be as obvious as the Alex Pretti murder. What they said was so radically different than what was actually filmed and seen that they genuinely believe reality doesn't matter.
I am going to call it. They will deliberately stage an event to have as many people attend it as possible. A concert or an indoor venue, they will have no security or minimal security, they will cut out all of the surveillance cameras and they will place multiple small trucks or vans loaded with high explosives into the basement parking and bring down the entire venue.
And they will end up failing at the lack of surveillance and all the footage will be leaked and preserved. Someone livestreaming the event will not have their footage be deleted from the internet and be downloaded. It will be so obvious due to the stupidity and indiscretion of the people tasked with planting the bombs and other factors.
Unfortunately under this scenario the fascists will still be able to cancel the midterms.
FIFA and the Olympics are on the horizon
They didn't like that the team said there were no threats coming from Iran.
Well yeah when you know you need that disaster to happen then you do this, bonus because you might have to do the disaster yourself and you will not have anyone to link it back to you.
Is there another way?
We have figuratively shut it down!