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The US president just today said that Republicans should "nationalize the voting" in future elections.

by prawn 8mo ago

rootusrootus 8mo ago
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.
- XorNot 8mo ago
  This is what people keep saying until the administration does something and then dares the courts to stop them.
- watwut 8mo ago
  Reality check is that he has actual track record on delivering or trying to deliver on his anti-democratic impulses. In terms of personal monetary gain, he is the most successful president of history. He is also actually successful at making Project 2025 reality. He is on the way to cause very real harm (economic, physical) to blue cities too.
  - rootusrootus 8mo ago
    > In terms of personal monetary gain, he is the most successful president of history. And in terms of legislative impact he is the least successful president in history. I don't like the corruption one bit, but on balance it is probably the less damaging of the two. > He is also actually successful at making Project 2025 reality Not at all, though, on any kind of permanent basis. He is showing that you can make the executive branch do shitty things with executive orders. What he isn't managing to do is codify any of this in law. There's a reason that the universities and other 'elites' knuckle under and cut deals with him -- they know that these deals are informal and temporary, and go away with the next POTUS. If Trump took this agenda to Congress and got it enacted into law it would persist for many more years.
Dylan16807 8mo ago
That sounds like a call to get rid of the electoral college...
- djb_hackernews 8mo ago
  It's a call to have his ICE goons (armed to the teeth and trained to escalate to violence of course) operate voting stations because of all of the "illegal" voters and for DHS to administer elections instead of leaving it to the states.
estearum 8mo ago
Well that's nice (i.e. an impeachable, despicable offense), but it doesn't actually change how elections are run.
SpicyLemonZest 8mo ago
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.

The US president just today said that Republicans should "nationalize the voting" in future elections.

by prawn 8mo ago

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.

XorNot 8mo ago
This is what people keep saying until the administration does something and then dares the courts to stop them.
watwut 8mo ago
Reality check is that he has actual track record on delivering or trying to deliver on his anti-democratic impulses. In terms of personal monetary gain, he is the most successful president of history. He is also actually successful at making Project 2025 reality. He is on the way to cause very real harm (economic, physical) to blue cities too.
- rootusrootus 8mo ago
  > In terms of personal monetary gain, he is the most successful president of history. And in terms of legislative impact he is the least successful president in history. I don't like the corruption one bit, but on balance it is probably the less damaging of the two. > He is also actually successful at making Project 2025 reality Not at all, though, on any kind of permanent basis. He is showing that you can make the executive branch do shitty things with executive orders. What he isn't managing to do is codify any of this in law. There's a reason that the universities and other 'elites' knuckle under and cut deals with him -- they know that these deals are informal and temporary, and go away with the next POTUS. If Trump took this agenda to Congress and got it enacted into law it would persist for many more years.

Dylan16807 8mo ago

That sounds like a call to get rid of the electoral college...

djb_hackernews 8mo ago
It's a call to have his ICE goons (armed to the teeth and trained to escalate to violence of course) operate voting stations because of all of the "illegal" voters and for DHS to administer elections instead of leaving it to the states.

estearum 8mo ago

Well that's nice (i.e. an impeachable, despicable offense), but it doesn't actually change how elections are run.

SpicyLemonZest 8mo ago

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.