Totally normal. Nothing to see here
7d 15h ago by lemmy.zip/u/stumu415 in politicalmemes from lemmy.zip
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.
They'd probably argue that it was "totally corrupt" or "woke" or "DEI" or whatever the bullshit-of-the-day it is
I'm still predicting a terrorist attack (blamed on the Iranians) used to cancel the midterms. Polymarket gives this a 1/20 chance
Do you often consult gambling addicts for their advice? It's a weird flex, but you do you, I suppose.
With this administration and it's insider trading, yes.
Yeah, and all those stories are of people doing the equivalent of stock dumping as the thing is about to happen, not them broadcasting their plays months in advance. So, again, you often consult gambling addicts? Cause that's all who's playing around with far away predictions.
5-10% of gamblers are predicting something that would be unthinkable a decade ago.
Also note that 90-95% of gamblers think everything will run as normal.
There are gambling addicts on both sides of the bet. Which side don't you like?
Upvoted but fuck polymarket however I'm curious what are the odds on Obama being jailed before the end of the year? Lol
Also, agree to fuck polymarket. Betting on events that people can influence should be illegal. (Which would include many traditional sports betting events)
It will be incredibly incompetently pulled off. There'll be a car bomb that will only result in the car catching fire because it turns out gasoline isn't actually that explosive, or the bomb will detonate at midnight rather than midday because they don't understand 24-hour clocks, it will not work at all because they got the instructions from Grok.
They might just fake a bio weapons attack but the big problem with that is once it's proven that it's a fraud there won't be any justification anymore. So they will need to do some actual damage to something.
I'm sure there is enough money to be made to pay someone competent enough to act and keep quiet afterwards.
An incident wouldn't need to be big for an excuse to start the cancellations of elections.
If you find somebody on their group capable of hiring somebody competent...
Or keeping quiet about that hiring.
Anyway, the GP is a huge throwback to the CIA intervention in Brazil in the 1960s. It's almost a description of it. Or of the people asking them to intervene again nowadays.
Yeah, get out or get a rifle.
And then learn to aim. It appears none of the current gun nuts can aim with a damn
To be fair, it seems like it's been all radical centrists doing the shooting so far.
Not sure if that's something the left should be ashamed of though.
Is it possible to be a radical centralist that sort of seems like a contradiction in terms.
"Everyone has raised some good points, and I will kill anyone that says otherwise"
I feel like the spirit behind the term is something closer to "radical status quoists" but that has about as much bite as a two hour old kitten, also it's annoyingly wordy too many syllables absolutely no flow between words.
more like "refusing to vote for the appointed candidate I accepted meant Trump came in, so I consider anyone critical of the center to be a Trump supporter and will kill them all".
Like the Popular Front with the gulags first.
To be fair, it seems like it’s been all radical centrists doing the shooting so far.
To be fair, that's utter tripe. Not one of the shooters has been a "radical centrist".
Feel free to provide even ONE.
Well. 2 have been major Ukraine guys. Then there's the PA guy . . . .
Purchased five new guns since Trump took office again. There is absolutely a war or revolution of some sort coming and we need to be prepared.
DIY drones could be a good hobby to get into . . .
Instructions unclear. Earthshakers ready!
Fuuuuuuuuck I'm tired of living through so many once in a generation crises.
It's been the same one this whole time, the parasites with billions of dollars and unquenchable greed.
The class war has been with us throughout human history.
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.
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.
Once fascism gains unbounded political power you don’t get it back without force
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.
this guy's gonna end like Gaddafi
probably more like pol pot. he'll never be held to account for his crimes.
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.
These updates seemed like a call to action at first, but now they feel like a means to psychologically accept what's happening. 350 million people in this country and there's effectively no opposition to a senile fascist fuck-up taking permanent control. None of this is okay or tenable. Americans can't afford to keep waiting for him to croak, especially since he has capable fascists in line behind him.
Americans are more worried about being one paycheque away from poverty than they are to one election away from a train ride to gas chambers.
can't get to the gas chambers on trains if there's no trains
Fair point. I heard somewhere that revolutionary overthrows never happen until widespread hunger sets in.
Great, so I'm sure he won't mind if antifa and the leftists steal the election! Thanks, Trump!
I mean wasn't his whole shtick to his fanbase, still troubling that a president has a fanbase, that the last election was stolen so he was going to put in checks and protections against election fraud etc.
They must be very pissed about this news
Sounds like the Democrats should rig it for real then
Still not above witch hunts though. After all, if the cheaters lose, that means the other side cheated.
This was the plan from the beginning.
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.
Except someone already gave you three credible sources. So what the actual fuck are you talking about?
Edit. Oh. It was after you posted this. Fair nough.
“I only take my propaganda direct from the Epstein Class Pedos”
That’s what this comment sounds like
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.
What would Trump say the reason for making truth social was? Ah.