Military officials are sketching out a plan that could deploy a few thousand National Guard members, officials said. The use of active-duty forces has also been discussed.
Its pretty clear that the plan is to wreck Democratic-leaning cities one by one.
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Each time he’s done this they wasted a shitload of money, his numbers dropped and he ends up looking like an idiot. Even more importantly, it brings them no closer to expanding their control over the populace. They might actually be too stupid to be effective authoritarians.
Funny if you think “his numbers” actually mater at this point in time.
The numbers always matter. Dictators just get by with smaller numbers.
Are all these “elections don’t matter” people a psy-op? Either take up arms because democracy has failed or fuck off with this Trump-aiding “voting doesn’t matter” fatalism.
Yeah approval doesn’t matter until approval really fucking matters. I’m not saying this is going to cost him power, but I am saying that Franco’s white terrors weren’t because he just hated his opposition so much. They were about stopping it’s spread and its ability to gain influence.
Nah, I just think you’re never going to have a proper election again. We’ll see I guess.
Really unpopular presidents lose elections. Really unpopular kings lose their heads. It matters, even if he’s messing with the election.
I’m more making a comment on you’re not going to have a proper/legit election.
The problem with most Democrats is they assume anything said or done during the next election will matter.
Seriously, what are angry letters from Schumer going to do when the SCOTUS rules in his favor over ignore several electoral votes cause he claims they’re fake?
What’s the cabinet going to accomplish when it’s all hand picked fuckwads who play his tune like a bad 3rd world regime?
What’s the vote of half the house or Senate matter when you need a clear majority to enact an impeachment, and half the country is still good with this all?
Lemmy needs a remindme bot, cause I really want to see how this goes in 3.5 years.
Very poorly is my best guess at this point. I don’t think the US is going to have free and clear elections anymore. Time will tell, but too many people are way too focused on things like numbers and such.
The fascists don’t give a fuck about numbers.
Each time he improves the process, scopes out his opposition and finds out what he needs congress to pass to make it easier. These first few times wont work, they aren’t meant to, they are meant to set everything up so he can control the populace with military force without any legal opposition