NEW YORK—The Trump administration and its radical right foot-soldiers in the federal government and in the states are undertaking a comprehensive scheme to undermine future state and federal elections, in effect rigging the rolls to keep themselves in power no matter what the voters decide.
  • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
    161·
    22 days ago

    And then when there’s a civil war over douche face and his backers attempts to assert absolute control, I’ll be shocked, absolutely shocked i tell you!

    • Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works
      172·
      22 days ago

      I don’t think either side is prepared for the horrors of a civil war. You’ve got Meal Team 6 and armchair weekend warriors, but an active civil war is something few could possibly conceive and understand the full ramifications of.

      • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
        19·
        22 days ago

        Im not asking for one. I dont even want one. But states aren’t just going to lay down and take this power grab, and they havent been since Trump admin came back into office.

        I’m well aware of how devastating a civil war would be. But, I dont think this administration is giving people a choice. They’re basically telling people to shut up and take what the Trump admin is doing and like it. That doesn’t go over very well when the consequences of that are an authoritarian government intent on making every single person’s life worse. Our system is crumbling before our eyes, and sadly we all just have to sit here and watch it happen bcz a few countries and Fox News have been spreading propaganda around our country for a few decades.

        This is a culmination of a plan thats been in motion since at least the 80s.

        • Salamanderwizard@lemmy.world
          13·
          22 days ago

          This. Like good God, can you folks going “But um, you aren’t prepared for civil war…” fuck off? Who the fuck is ever prepared for any war of any kind? War is fubar. But everything else is already fubar. What are we supposed to do? Just sit on our asses while they kill us? It’s like because you think war is so bad that there’s no reason to ever go to it? Even when our voices, our rights to freedoms, are being stripped away, our friends and families are being ripped apart, our way of living is being taken apart, that none of it is worth going to war over?

          Fuck if you ask me, that’d be the first time in a long time that America has gone to war over anything worth a damn.

        • bassomitron@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          22 days ago

          I don’t think states have the ability to wage a war like they did in the 1800s. The federal government has centralized so much power since then. Back then, all you needed were muskets and cannons and bodies. Nowadays, it’s a completely different battlefield. And guess who has ultimate authority over every State’s national guard? The DoD. I would hope that the commanders of those national guard units would pledge loyalty to the Constitution and their States before whatever the fuck this regime is, but Trump and his lackeys have been actively pushing out all commanders that aren’t loyalists.

  • Optional@lemmy.world
    6·
    22 days ago

    So, if you read the article, it’s talking about the State Elections Board. Each state is packing them with batshit Qanut trumpist fuckwits who will do Herr Rapists bidding and not talk back.

    KNOW who is on your State Elections Board

    MEET with the board because they’re public

    TELL THEM you aren’t going to put up with this bullshit anymore