Comment by behringer
11 hours ago
There's no regime change coming when those in power run the elections, have already cheated in the past, and know that they are now untouchable.
11 hours ago
There's no regime change coming when those in power run the elections, have already cheated in the past, and know that they are now untouchable.
It is not too useful to make bold unsupported claims that the current administration has the power to subvert elections. That just lowers us to their level, and the last thing we need is for a further erosion in confidence in our democratic system. The states run elections, and no matter what Trump says to get people to keep paying attention to him, they don't jump when the president tells them to. The feds have money and nukes, but States have a lot of the actual power.
Elon Musk just announced spending 300 million to make it harder to vote.
And it didn't even make the headline of the article I read it in.
And he's being spreading lies about elections for years. Again, not regularly mentioned even in critical articles about him, because it's so normalized.
Half the states are actively engaging in voter suppression, and the ones that aren't are under attack on all fronts by the federal government.
States run the elections.
The US president just today said that Republicans should "nationalize the voting" in future elections.
It certainly gets us to keep talking about him. Which seems to be his primary skill. It does not have any basis in reality, however.
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That sounds like a call to get rid of the electoral college...
Well that's nice (i.e. an impeachable, despicable offense), but it doesn't actually change how elections are run.
He also said his polls are the best they've ever been today. Trump works hard to cultivate an aura of inevitability, but he simply does not have the power to make false things true by declaring them so.