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.
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.
We are commenting on a thread about the current president openly interfering in state elections. It can be assumed the elections will be compromised.
It’s not a binary issue. Elections have been getting more and more compromised for decades. 2026 will be even more compromised. They will not be entirely compromised, and we have to keep working from the assumption that they won’t be unwinnable, even while preparing for the possibility that we might not win them.
Honestly, I fear that Democrats are more responsible for hurting their chances than Republicans. Even as bad as things have gotten, the Democratic establishment has continued to dig in and refuse to give any ground whatsoever to progressives. It’s becoming a real mask-off moment for a lot of rank and file liberals.
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.
There’s been evidence of Republican slanted election interference for decades, don’t both sides this shit.
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.
It’s fucking proven that he cheated in 16 and 20 and since we did nothing to stop him 24 is a given. Give your balls a tug.
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.
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.
You’re a Republican aren’t you? You voted for this, didn’t you? Scratch a both sideser, find a MAGAt.
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.
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:
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…
Trump sends a mob to the capital building to stop the certification of an election. A guy on the internet says there were some irregularities.
u/Bennyboybumberchums: iTs ThE sAmE pIcTuRe
Never said it was, thats just what you took it to mean so you could treat a stranger on the internet like shit. Theres always excuses from you people. You never take responsibility for anything. Whatever you did, they did it worse. Whatever you said, they said worse. Whatever horrible shit you say, well, they said it first. Like fucking children, terrified of being wrong.
You absolutely are. And the rest of your comment only doubled down on it. Quit equating what Trump did in 2020 to what random people on the internet said one time. It is not even comparable.
Saying this kind of stuff only gives Trump and his supporters justification for doing the same thing or worse next time.
And if you think my comment was “treating you like shit”, you probably need to get off the internet. I was as respectful in saying “you are 100% wrong” as possible.
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?