Um so there is a document that says that isn’t ok so… 
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What's with the picture of toilet paper?
So no more states rights? Where's all the Republican objectors? Smaller government? 2nd Amendment?
Nothing cause they'v always been fucking cheaters and hypocrites in addition to pedophiles and rapists.
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That's why they're hypocrites and cheats without any honor or deserving of respect.
We tried to warn them...
“Republicans ought to nationalize the voting,” Trump told former deputy FBI director and conservative commentator Dan Bongino on his radio show on Monday. “We have states that I won that show I didn’t win. ..."
This shows how he thinks. He has no evidence he won, and cannot have evidence because he didn't win. But a mind like Trump's makes no distinction between what he wants the truth to be and what is the truth. There's no room at all for the notion of being wrong, or the idea that you might need to find out the truth. This is a deeply broken mind.
The rapist mentality
No objections from MAGA says more. Fuck Republicans
It's the mindset of a religious extremeist.
Faith-based, motivated reasoning, that is very often utterly delusional.
The exact opposite of critical thinking.
The conclusion is already known, the evidence and reasoning must be made to fit.
As opposed to... the evidence is known, the reasoning must lead to any potential conclusion, and when the body of evidence changes, this neccesitates revision of conclusions.
This is a very serious problem for way, way, waaaay more people than just Trump.
Trump just is his own God, as he is a malignant narcissist, but there are basically around 100 million people minimum in the US whose brains basically operate in this way.
It's the mind of a spoiled child who's never been told "no".
Very familiar for anyone who had had a narcissist in their lifes.
An entire country is in a toxic relationship now.
He hasn't seen ANY consequences yet. Why stop now?
There are still many unanswered questions about the Georgia raid, such as why a criminal investigation has been opened into an election that took place six years ago and was audited three times
Someone’s buttfrustrated
So that's why he shat himself on live TV yesterday?
No, that was just the regular Sunday unloading. Most unfortunate that there were people in the room.
Not really. Rarely is anybody in the same room with him who isn't also a POS.
Birds of a feather dump togeather?
Allegedly he's been doing it for me than 20 years. He was notorious on the Apprentice.
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President Trump called on Republicans “to take over the voting in at least 15 places” in advance of the next election
Yeah, that can't happen. We're going to have to stop them. Volunteer to be a poll worker, especially if you happen to live in any of these "15 places." This article doesn't say specifically which places these are, but I think it's safe to assume they are important swing districts.
Sure. You’ve all done fucking nothing up to this point but NOW you’ll stop him.
They won't need to do anything but put ICE outside the polls in non white neighborhoods. They will do this anywhere they can to intimidate voters. Enough people will not go vote just because of their presence there.
They won't need to do anything but put ICE outside the polls
Then we show up and put ourselves between the polls and ICE.
I don't disagree. I like that spirit. I'm just telling you the reality that unless ICE (or "election integrity enforcement" or whatever they end up calling it) is not present AT ALL than there will be significantly less voter turnout.
They will also use any organized resistance as a reason to "recount" the votes in that area.
I'm not saying this to be a Doomer. I'm saying this so people prepare. There is no scenario in which the upcoming election is free and fair. We need to be preparing state and local level resistance. A unified and state armed multi state coalition. If the blue state politicians don't move on this. Well, we need to start considering that our state governments are not taking the threat seriously and accept what needs to be done to form a real resistance. ICE will not leave because we brought signs. Alex Pretti had the right idea. But we need the organization of an actual state government to do that.
A unified and state armed multi state coalition.
That's what they want. The fascists want us to give them a reason to escalate, because escalation will ensure that people stay away from the polls. We need to be organized, we need to be unified and we need to form a real resistance, but we also need to be smart, and that means NOT giving the fascists exactly what they're hoping for.
ICE will not leave because we brought signs.
Signs don't threaten them, that's true, and that's exactly the point. They want us to threaten them, because then they can escalate. We need to be smart. That doesn't mean we need to be ineffectual or passive, it means we need to be very careful about how we proceed.
You are falling for political talking points by weak politicians that do not want to stand up for the people they represent that are being killed and kidnapped. I need you to understand something important. Fascist DO NOT need an EXCUSE to escalate. How do you think we got to SS troops going door to door asking for papers? Was it because of all the escalating excuses we gave them?
Please, we need people like you to not fall for Democrat politicians that are just trying to save themselves.
You also offered no alternative. Your advice to be "careful" is not advice. If you actually had a proposal I'd be interested in discussing that. But you are essentially arguing for doing nothing as the fascist continue to escalate in the face of nothing being done.
But you are essentially arguing for doing nothing
No, that's not true. I am arguing that we must be smart about what we do. Nonviolence is not the same as doing nothing.
Have you not been paying any attention?
THEY FUCKING ESCALATE WITHOUT AN EXCUSE ALL THE TIME.
Where is this bullshit "oh guys let's not agitate them it might make it worse"
THERE'S NOT MUCH WORSE THAN LOSING FREE ELECTIONS
ESCALATE. FIGHT. FUCK THEM.
No. That's exactly what they want. They want us to give them a reason to escalate. If they escalate anyway, then they expose themselves as the violent fascists that they are. That's important. Public perception does matter.
Absolutely agree - many states also pay their poll workers for their time and efforts, I am in a swing state and have served multiple elections since 2020 and yes the shift is a long one but it is very rewarding.
I feel so afraid for the future.
I won't go quietly.
That's what his bowel movement said at the press event.
This sounds illegal.
Oh no, how terrible, I expect that will make all the difference.
There is no legal justification for the Federal Gov't to take over elections in the US, as that is the purview of the State's, according to the constitution, if I'm not mistaken.
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It's incredible that americans still believe that they can win peacefully.
Voting isn't about winning. They're going to fuck with it. It's about forcing their hand. There are still a lot of people who will turn on them if they prominently destroy free elections. We need to create a situation that can't be denied, particularly by the military brass, that they're breaking their oath of office. It's already obvious, but it isn't coup levels of obvious.
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