Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday accused the Trump administration of “rigging the election” by dispatching federal poll monitors to five California counties, as voters cast ballots on Newsom’s Proposition 50 redistricting measure.
The Department of Justice announced Friday that it would deploy personnel to polling sites in Fresno, Kern, Los Angeles, Orange and Riverside counties to “ensure transparency, ballot security, and compliance with federal law,” ahead of the state’s Nov. 4 special election.
In an interview with KQED’s Political Breakdown, Newsom said the move was a “setup” for the Trump administration to cast doubt on the potential victory of Proposition 50 — a plan to redraw the state’s congressional district lines to advantage Democrats.
That and many other moves that can be interpreted as “preparing” for upcoming elections, like deploying troops, buying voting machine manufacturers, …
It is very clear where all this is going. Don’t wait for elections to make your voice heard.
This country isnt making it to the next presidential election without mass turmoil and unrest. It will be an entirely different place again by then.
2026 is going to be madness. And if Democrats don’t take the house, 2028 will be the end.
Stop relying on elections to save you. You can’t vote your way out of fascism. The only way out is through mass civil unrest. Strikes, blackouts, protests.
But that point of contention is too important. Dems need to take the house in order to build the narrative that precedes the unrest. It’s going to be a lot harder to send that message if they appear too unpopular to do that.
That’s why they need to control the media narratives.
And why they want to make negative opinions of the regime illegal.
Once they’ve made it illegal and can control the media they now have created an environment of fear where no one even trusts their neighbor.
The knock on effect is that it is now harder to organize resistance because even expressing dissent has been outlawed.
I’m pretty sure we’ve crossed that rubicon, the last election was just that. Cross your fingers if you must, but I don’t believe for one second that votes matter anymore in the “united” states.
Yup.
Yup. America is fucked for the foreseeable. No one trusts the system anymore. In 2020, the MAGA said the election was stolen. In 2024, the Dems said the same thing(Thankfully, they didnt storm the capitol like fucking morons though).
America is definitely on a path of some to a hard showdown. Not trusting the system, thinking that the only way you can lose is because the other side cheated… nothing good comes from that. The Republican party needs to take back control from the MAGA fuckwits. This extremism on their end is radicalising elements of the left that are becoming the other side of the MAGA coin. And thats only going to make more MAGA morons.
Someone, ANYONE, needs to get that party back to being just corrupt again. Cos what they are now is fucking silly. And by silly, I mean dangerous as fuck.
In 2024, the Dems said the same thing(Thankfully, they didnt storm the capitol like fucking morons though).
I think saying this kind of stuff is SO dishonest. Every election you can find people saying the election was stolen. But that is not even remotely close to what the Republicans did in 2020.
Every presidential nominee has conceded except for Trump. Even Al Gore, whose election literally was stolen by the Republicans in the Supreme Court, still conceded for the benefit of democracy.
So please stop spreading this kind of stuff. It only normalizes what Trump did and will do in 2028.
I dont give a shit what you “think”. Im telling what I saw, and what continues to happen. I mean, ffs, youre doing it right now! Pushing this idea that hes going to cheat in 2028. Thats your current narrative. Just like it was, for a lot of online dems, a lie that he won. You all did the same in 2016, when you werent happy that he won.
MAGA might be worse, a lot worse, but youre “team” is still doing shit. So you, yes you, stop spreading this kind of stuff.
Look, Trump literally tried to steal the election in 2020. If his mob had successfully stopped the congress vote, I believe Trump would not have left office. That is unlike anything that has ever happened before from either party.
So for you to act like a handful of people might have said Trump stole the 2024 election is the same thing is incredibly dishonest. And it is exactly what the fascist wants.
Reality: Trump tried to stay in office after he lost the election. Never conceded. Harris conceded immediately and left office.
You: People on both sides say the election was stolen. They’re the same.
See how you are being dishonest by saying this?
And saying that Trump is going to try the same thing in 2028 is also not the same. He’s already done it, and this time he is building his own private army and sending military into the streets. This is not a time where you can say “both sides are similarly wrong”.
Edit: Just to add my exclamation point, there have been individual senators that have objected to the certification of votes, but NEVER like the republicans in 2020. The Republican Party was complicit in Trump’s attempt to steal 2020 in a way Democrats never have.
Senators Josh Hawley of Missouri, Ted Cruz of Texas, Tommy Tuberville of Alabama, Cindy Hyde-Smith of Mississippi, Roger Marshall of Kansas and John Kennedy of Louisiana voted to overturn the results in Arizona, while 93 senators voted against.
I dont give a shit what you “think”.
My guy, the Republican Party is MAGA. There’s nothing to go back to. It has been irreversibly transformed.
I’ll set aside other comments I want to make. But it’s important to realize that point.
No, the arent. And if you think that, really think that, youre a culture war moron thats had your brain rotted by the reddit echo chamber.
Sir, this is a Lemmy’s.
In name only. This place has been flooded with reddit pricks who got banned for being too fucking stupid not to wish death on people in a open forum, just because they happen to disagree on an issue.
Someone, ANYONE, needs to get that party back to being just corrupt again.
That’s precisely what created MAGA. That’s the swamp.
The Democrats did purge the radicals… and that was their base. Over decades, America’s heartland was sold out to corporations and the urban Brunch Democrats didn’t care. The small farms are gone. Then right wing Democrats told middle America that the economy was fine when it most clearly was not.
Biden was a moderate. Harris was a moderate. What’s that definition of insanity again?
Harris is DID NOT say the election was stolen. She did the exact opposite of what Trump did. She conceded and acknowledged result of the vote.
On Nov 6 she said:
… we must accept the results of this election. Earlier today, I spoke with President-elect Trump and congratulated him on his victory. I also told him that we will help him and his team with their transition and that we will engage in a peaceful transfer of power.
A fundamental principle of American democracy is that when we lose an election, we accept the results. That principle as much as any other distinguishes democracy from monarchy or tyranny, and anyone who seeks the public trust must honor it.
Never said that Harris did. But thanks for playing.
Which Dems did then?
I mean very different league, but there are studies reports noting some extreme irregularities in several key cities. IE juristictions where hundreds voted for the democratic senator, but zero votes for harris etc…
but yes obviously the key huge thing to point out is democratic represenatives and candidates. aren’t loudly screaming those on the news and twixxer etc… to encourage mass civil unrest
The guy who just replied to you for one…
I thought states are in control of elections?
They can make up bogus “fraud” claims, then take it to the supreme court, and have them rubber-stamp a republican victory.
California will refuse the court order… and voila… a constitutional crisis.
trump will send in the army and declare martial law, and order the assassination of newsom. Civil war…
States are. Trump’s “monitors” have no authority to go anywhere where the state tells them not to go. They have no authority to “review” or change anything.
But many of those states are run by Republicans who have every incentive to cheat
That’s something internal to the state, that the state will have to deal with, like “CyberNinjas.” What Trump wants is to directly interfere with election results, using Feds. The law is really clear that the states run their own elections.
I agree. What I’m saying is that Republican run states will allow his fuckery to enable chrating.
Lol “will”. GOP fuckery is the only reason Republicans have held power for the last 30 years.
And we all know Trump and maga are really into following laws and being fair.
Election workers gonna have these jag offs breathing down their necks
Well, they can’t have free elections after shitting on all subjects. Imagine a working democratic house and senate actually taking care of Trump…
I’m liking this guy more and more.
The same guy who had Charlie Kirk on his podcast a little while ago to kiss his ass? Hell no. He’s better than Trump, but a wet pile of dog shit is better than Trump.
Who would you like to see win the Democratic primary?
Mamdani lol, or Colbert
Or AoC
Or even Walz, at least he knew to call a spade a spade and a weirdo a weirdo (until his own party muzzled him).
If we get Newsom it’ll just be more of the same hooray-for-rich-donors-to-hell-with-the-rest-of-you let’s-head-over-and-court-the-far-right bullshit the Democrats have been doing for decades and I’m fucking sick of it. We need a president and congress that sits for the people, not just the people that bribe them.
An AOC/Walz or Walz/AOC ticket would do great as long as the party lets them
Great answers.
You’re the first person to actually answer with something besides ‘anyone else is better then him.’
The big issue isn’t just the Republicans, really; it’s how the Democrat leadership shuts down anyone who isn’t pro-Israel and pro-rich-donor. They’re so old-boys-club that they’re totally out of touch with voters.
And so people see one Nazi-party and one reach-across-the-isle cooperate-with-the-Nazi-party and just… walk away.
I mean, Schumer’s said flat out his only job is making sure the Democrats support Israel. And all the rest of the leadership talks about is how they don’t seem to be getting support… so they should quit supporting trans rights and stuff, and go court republicans.
It’s fucking infuriating. And Newsom is just cut from that same insipid cloth.
What’s infuriating is that people see the two parties and think they can be remotely the same.
I blame the education system and maybe lead in the water lines.
I mean, they’re not, if you actually pay attention to politics. One group are actual racist shithead Nazis, for one thing.
But the other group are apologists for the Nazis, as long as the nazi’s donors give them money too, anyhow. Because they’re rich and white, so who cares about consequences right?
The issue is that looks close enough that people who don’t pay attention to politics (and let’s be real, that’s most people) just… don’t care. We see it, but the news makes sure they don’t, and even in the case of Faux News feeds them an alternate reality narrative.
He’s a corrupt shitbag. We pay the highest residential energy rates in the entire world here because the regulator is totally captured. Oh, and guess who is a major shareholder of the utility company? What a coincidence.
