For anyone wondering, this is true.
https://www.rawstory.com/justice-department-election-integrity/
This is stood out to me specifically (from the last link):
The unit most responsible for overseeing election crime investigations has been gutted.
The people who still will not admit that Trump lost in 2020 are just ok with completely dismantling the unit overseeing election crime investigations.
Makes sense.
He’s trying to cause institutions to rot from within
Him (and the Republicans) has been succesfully rotting them for years. The Republicans began doing it way before Trump appeared, but he has been responsible for an hitherto unseen amount of putrification.
I’m still predicting a terrorist attack (blamed on the Iranians) used to cancel the midterms. Polymarket gives this a 1/20 chance
Once fascism gains unbounded political power you don’t get it back without force
Sounds like the Democrats should rig it for real then
deesperate to hide from the EPSTEIN files to be released by the DEMS, assuming they are not in it and have no motivation to hide it, but thier donors do.
It’s really feeling like there needs to be a revolution.
The government is thoroughly polluted: all the levers greased and bent, and the halls, that haven’t been stripped for spare change, packed full of fascists and incompetents whose foul touch has malformed the remaining seats. We’ve seen how easy it is stall progress when pursuing existing legislative and judicial pathways, that the possibility of seeing these deletorious perversions of the government reversed and fixed would likely take longer than just building a new constitution from scratch with proper provisions builtin.
Also defunded the center for Internet security, which helps protect election offices from cyber threats and forced them to start charging an annual fee for membership.
There also used to be a dedicated information sharing center for elections through homeland security that got mostly cancelled and rolled into their general services.
Prediction: The “this is the last election” theme will be trumpeted everywhere in the media, and the voters will come out again and elect Democrats to fight the Republican scourge, and the Democrats will win! There will be much rejoicing as Good triumphs over Evil (barely! The Rs almost stole it!).
Trump and his family will then leave the White House many billions richer, and the Democratic President will “try” to pass universal healthcare and fail, and will “try” to increase minimum to $15 an hour and fail, and will “try” to increase taxes on billionaires and fail. They will fret over the nuclear option and there will be some talk of using it, but alas, it’s too dangerous! Those darn Republicans!
The voters, disgusted with the incompetence, will turn to their only alternative, and the Republicans will take the White House again.
… and so on.
It has been this way for over 50 years
No, despite the record turnout and majority votes for Dems, the Republicans will win. Everyone will understand what happened.
A bunch of civil unrest will follow, but it will be unorganized. Things will be a bit crazy for awhile, but eventually most of the demonstrators will be quashed, imprisoned, disappeared, or worse (and Trump regime will want everyone to know and believe the worst is happening). The Trump gestapo (ICE) will have gained training and more funding from the GOP traitors, so that even an organized uprising that may finally be formed will also be easily quashed.
This doesn’t have to be our future. But it’s scary how plausible it feels.
Only amendment I’d put in there is that if we do get a competent gestapo it won’t be ICE. ICE, the border patrol before them, and the Texas rangers before them all have a storied history of being impossible to appropriately train and outfit. Since their inception, they’ve been quantity-over-quality bucket of racists and failsons that have only ever been useful as a blunt instrument, despite work stretching back to the Harlon Carter days.
If we get a proper gestapo or KGB, it’ll either come from a different agency or they’ll have to completely gut and restructure ICE first. For now we can scare them off with crowds and airhorns.
That is huge especially when the source is a screenshot of a tweet of “factpost”
It has a blue checkmark, is must be correct!
I don’t know if people are down voting you because they don’t get the sarcasm but then why are they upvoting me?
Guys both our comments are sarcastic. Serious accusations like this should come from serious news source not from a screenshot of a no name news agency
They are downvoting both of you because it is true: https://lemmy.world/comment/24182034
The point I am making is: For serious accusation, you need to post serious sources. not screenshots.
It’s not about whether this particular screenshot is true or false.
This is a memes sub.
FactPostNews (often branded as FactPost) is a progressive rapid-response social media initiative launched by the Democratic National Committee (DNC). It was created to combat online misinformation and counter statements from the Trump administration using formats like memes, viral videos, and graphics.
