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Donald Trump announced Sunday that Republicans plan to dispense a large “Election Integrity Army” to every single state for the 2026 midterms – invoking his debunked claims that the United States does not have fair elections.
In a message on his Truth Social platform the president appeared to attribute his “Historic Election in 2024” to the fact that the Republican National Committee sent thousands of volunteers across the country to poll watch or assist with election litigation through a volunteer program.
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FYI it’s illegal to post soldiers at polling stations in the US
Show me one example of trump giving a fuck about the legality of something he wants
As an alternative we’ll accept someone holding him accountable for an illegal action.
A few have tried, one came close.
Tariffs were overturned by the Supreme Court.
I guess this will also get overturned after six months.
Election will not get redone, but everyone will be very sorry and promise not to do it again.
Have you signed up to be a poll worker yet?
Why are you asking this question over and over?
Well, have you?
Yes, and we ousted out kleptocrat. Have you?
It won’t be soldiers. It’ll be Proud Boys and your local bigot embracing the opportunity to harass women, minorities, LGBTQ (or people they assume are)… basically anyone that doesn’t look MAGA material. It’s an open call for mob intimidation under the auspices of “protecting election integrity”.
Legality doesn’t seem to be an issue for the current administration.
Yes, and they know it, but they don’t care. They believe in the might is right. People need to wake up. The rule of law is over.
If we can’t place our ballots, we’ll have to vote with bullets. Of course that’s what they think they want.
But ICE officers are fine - we’ll just let the roberts/thomas totally legitimate supreme court decide.
FYI that doesn’t matter anymore and isn’t going to magically course correct when they have nothing to fear from a dociled populace.
Lol following the law is rules for thee, not for me
lol.
Are you ready to shoot over it? Because ain’t nobody saving us but us.
Tell the police
Ba ha ha ha ha. What makes you think that matters? Trump will make it legal
Well, we had the chance to save our democracy, and we blew it because of eggs. Say, how’s that affordability crisis looking nowadays?
I just spent around $40 on two burgers, fries, and a shake at Five Guys… So bad. It’s looking bad.
Paid $4.50/gal for gas at a fucking Costco and my haircut costs 2 times what it did a year ago so I’d say Trump’s nailing it ~ elon
But this would have happened no matter who won though since they’re both bought by AIPAC /s
Nah. Netanyahu has been trying to convince every US president for the last couple of decades, to do this…and this is the only time one of them have been stupid enough to fall for it.
Eggs are so easy to go without too. I’ve never purchased an egg in my life
More like “election preventing army”. Trump and the GOP can no longer afford free and democratic votes.
A bunch of failsons with a fourth grade reading level patrolling polling stations with AR-15s. What could be more American than that?
People stopping the gravy seals from fucking with voters. I will be doing my (probably) non-violent part.
If this “army” is anything like ICE we all know what that means: voter intimidation and violence.
MAGA is attacking election integrity from several ends. We always knew this was going to happen if he gets re-elected. And with “we” I mean not enough people to matter, apparently.
Time to use those 2A rights y’all yanks always scream about.
Really… The world is watching you yankers. At this point. If the un is not controlling your election. We know it’s rigged. And you are completely useless. Won’t stand up for yourselves. And the sooner we convince our governments of this the best. The USA is over.
What exactly should random people living paycheck to paycheck do about our entire government being controlled by fascists?
We are already protesting and striking.
Our leaders have failed us. The good ones failed to stand up to the bad ones, and the bad ones are in charge now and control the media, the military, and the Supreme Court.
You want Dave from Burger King and Emmett from Starbucks to resort to guerilla warfare?
Should we be committing harkiri in the streets?
You think you’re angry?
Imagine being here, watching it happen face to face, arguing with a never ending army of brainwashed people who get off on cruelty because they’d rather burn it all down than let immigrants and trans people live in peace.
To be honest, that’s what the American people have always done throughout history. When the elite got out of hand, the people revolted and successfully brought them down. So yes, Dave from Burger King should be there in the streets too. At the biggest anti-Trump protest the US had so far, only 2% of the American people were present. And those who were present waved signs for exactly one day and then went home. That is simply insufficient.
Apparently lie down and watch facism bloom. Y’all’ve already let it take root and flourish.
It turns out that this second amendment I keep hearing about was not worth the paper it’s written on either.
What did German citizens wish they’d done a hundred years ago?
Right, lay down. That’s what some of the largest protests in united states’ history are. Protests that are getting larger by the month. “Laying down”.
You aren’t in any position to criticise, keyboard warrior.
Not just some of the largest, the largest. No Kings makes up the top three
I think a lot of people don’t realize just how gigantic the US is and how much of a logistical nightmare it is to organize nation wide things, and how relatively little small groups of people can do to the federal government
The criticism of not starting soon enough is valid; this kind of mass action should have happened earlier. But it is happening now and people like the mentioned keyboard warrior dismissing that are hindering not helping
Earth Day, 1970, 20 million. Latest No Kings was 8 million. But still, No Kings accounts for 3 of the top 4.
As to starting earlier, you said yourself it’s a logistical nightmare. I would argue people got organised PDQ, all things considered.
Complications to organize are part of the problem too. We need people who devote themselves to enabling protestors, organizing alliances, … people who are able to get online like Anonymous did back in the day, using voice transpositions and face masks, making threats to do some wild shit if need be. Do you guys remember when Anonymous made threats to shut down the internet if a bill got passed?
We barely need people to coordinate explicitly. Anonymous is actually a pretty good example, now that I think about it. They were completely unorganized. You were Anonymous if you claimed to be Anonymous. You made demands from the shadows, executed plans in secrecy, and claimed credit again from the shadows. People see this and catch on, eventually mimicking your framework under the same name “Anonymous.”
Maybe it’s time for you Muricans to stop protesting the Murican way and learn a little bit from 1, your own history circa 250 years ago 2, french history from roughly the same period
Very, very interesting that you’re advocating for civil war. I wonder whose interests that could possibly serve.
When tyrants don’t leave on their own accord, what are you to do? Protest even harder while they laugh from their helicopters and private jets, surrounded by private security, isolating themselves from the people they try to rule? What good will protesting harder do?
The protests have grown by a million people with every event, give or take. They show the people who have a problem with this shit that they’re not alone, and more and more people have a problem with all this. The protests show the people in power right now that we are not going to lay down and take it, like you lot want to keep saying we are.
And, what does protesting actually accomplish? In Nazi Germany, it got 1,800 Jewish prisoners released: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenstrasse_protest
So if you really want these fuckers gone as badly as the rest of us, how about you take your defeatist crap and keep it at home with you? It’s not helping anyone except the fascists.
Not sure the French Revolution is the best example given what happened immediately afterwards
The problem with all your American bullshit is that it leaks out into the rest of the world and fucks it up too.
Yes, collateral damage is to be expected when a superpower gets destabilised. Why are you ignoring the fact that there was documented election interference on a massive scale? Why are you ignoring the total takeover of our government by hostile actors? Are you trying to paper over all of that for some particular purpose?
Moreover, you’re mostly addressing the victims of the fascists here. We’re not actually in charge of the country right now.
Why [am I] ignoring…
Oh, I’ll just post a million word essay enumerating everything wrong with the USA.
Or you could stop doing the work of the fascists, but I think you like the kool-aid too much for that. Feels good talking down to people being killed for resisting, does it? You’re as bad as the people you claim to hate, you just can’t see it.
Don’t worry, most people grow into empathy eventually, we all develop at different rates.
Disobedience is the key, it would have worked back in Germany and it would work today. Teach your children political disobedience, because not enough adults know how anymore.
It turns out the answer, as always, look elsewhere for examples. You want to see how to actually run a great country, look at literally every other developed nation besides the US. Want to see how to counter fascism, look outside the US…oh and open a history book for once in your fucking life, stop being so ignorant and illiterate like all our peers here, our illiteracy rates and comprehension abilities are genuinely some of the worst on the planet.
Hey buddy, are you in the west? Because the last I checked, not a single western nation has actually economically and politically pariahed the United States. You work on your government, many here are doing about all we can short of throwing our lives away and we could use more support.
THANK YOU! I get that, from the outside looking in, it looks like we aren’t doing anything; but short of open rebellion, we don’t have many options that don’t leave us, at best, homeless. And the “at best” scenario is increasingly the least likely outcome. When the GOP gains seats in the house this November, the latter part of this year could get interesting.
In the meantime, everyone watching is repeatedly punching ourselves in the national crotch, needs to be putting as much pressure as they can on their elected representatives not to treat the US as a pariah, but to pressure it to fall back into some semblance of sanity. Treating the US as a pariah will do exactly what nobody except Trump and Putin want - the unholiest of unholy alliances (outside of Bibi & Trump, that is). A New Axis (and they’ll probably call it that because they don’t know what irony is) for the world to deal with.
Thanks for the encouragement. Fuck you too.
Start organizing NOW. Get in touch with your local rapid response groups or other local orgs. Create a poll watch patrol and target high risk polling places. Report any suspicious people/activity, and response with people to protest and video it.
History rarely repeats, but it often rhymes.
So at what point can we consider the USA to be no longer democratic at all? It has already been downgraded from being a liberal democracy.
My biggest fear is the rest of the world bowing down to Trump. I really want the rest of the world to formally recognize the Untied States as a fascist dictatorship that everyone needs to stay away from
Pussy
So, poll watchers? A thing we already have?
No, guys with guns to make sure you vote the right way.
Not at my polling location they won’t. Have you signed up to be an election judge yet?
Why aren’t they going to your location?
The president says yes, you say no. Which one do you think determines whether armed goons show up? Can you tell me why “not at my polling location they won’t”?
Friendly reminder that not everyone on the internet is American, and in fact most aren’t.
Trump says a lot of shit that isn’t true. And he does it with the goal of scaring people.
i want to say “not at my location” and show up armed with a semiautomatic shotgun, but i don’t have a semiautomatic shotgun. also if i showed up with my rhetorical shotty, they’d probably shoot me. i’m visibly disabled, there’s a nontrivial chance i get shot in every police interaction, one with a firearm just increases it.
If you’re not a poll worker and not even American, I’m not gonna listen to you tell me how elections in America work. I and thousands of others like me are the ones who run them.
I’m a poll worker and American. Can you answer that question?
And do you plan on rolling over if anyone tries to interfere with voters at your polling place or do you plan on doing your job?
Yep, I am sure my historical heritage has no relevance in how elections can be suspended.
Good luck!
Arm up people.
Aren’t midterm primaries like next week?
