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These people live on manufacturing crisis after crisis in order to exploit the manic status that they generate. Why worry about how the midterms, if you can cre
by toyg 8mo ago
These people live on manufacturing crisis after crisis in order to exploit the manic status that they generate. Why worry about how the midterms, if you can create a situation where elections cannot be held at all...?
Yes, it sounds crazy right now, but a lot of things sounded similarly crazy 10 years ago, and here we are.
- gzread 8mo agoI heard a theory that since someone told Trump that Ukraine wouldn't hold elections until after the war, he thought America had the same law.
- Jtsummers 8mo agoHe has lived through multiple wars where elections were held. I do not think highly of the man, but he would have to be pretty bad off to come to that belief.
- FireBeyond 8mo agoWhich "war"? While there are the current "debates" about whether this is a war, the US hasn't declared war on anybody since WW2. > but he would have to be pretty bad off to come to that belief. Well, did you hear that the dead are walking around with no arms and no legs because they were blown off? Trump said that, a few days ago.
- Marsymars 8mo agoIf you listen to him talk and the things he actually says, it's hard to escape the conclusion that he's losing his grip on reality as he ages. The mainstream media is incredibly generous to him, they parse out the non-crazy from his word salad and report on that.
- MisterTea 8mo agoI would wager that someone as selfish as narcissistic as he is would have been oblivious and unconcerned with the day to day affairs of the plebeians unless it effected his income.
- malfist 8mo agoThere is no crisis in the US that results in canceled elections
- augusto-moura 8mo agoIn the current laws you mean, dictatorships usually start by throwing current laws out of the window. Not that I believe Trump would do that, but it is not unheard of in other parts of the world
- readthenotes1 8mo agoIf they have one, First they start by replacing the Supreme Court with their own minions. Start to worry of the Republicans start talking about expanding the Supreme Court to add their own to it
- NetMageSCW 8mo agoThat play already showed its limits with the tariff decision. They can’t stuff the Supreme Court with followers.
- SideburnsOfDoom 8mo ago> They can’t stuff the Supreme Court with followers. Can't? They already did.
- toyg 8mo agoThey can and they did. What the tariff decision shows is simply that, on very specific topics (in this case, big business), their base is significantly split: on one side the populist masses, on the other the wealthy elites. When the chips are down, the current USSC is connected the latter more than to the former, and will vote accordingly.
- jagged-chisel 8mo agoI’m keeping a link to this comment to see how well it ages
- 1234letshaveatw 8mo agoThe only way you could do something like would be to "appoint" someone as the presidential candidate in a two party system without holding a primary
- margalabargala 8mo agoThe US held elections during the Civil War. There is no crisis that would create a situation where elections "cannot be held". That is to say, if the current admin attempts to suspend elections, the legality of that and the magnitude of the reaction will be the same, crisis or no.
- cotillion 8mo agoSome of the states held presidential elections, not all, but the winners write history so it worked out fine in that case.
- margalabargala 8mo agoEvery non-Confederate state held elections. Two recaptured Confederate states (TN and LA) held elections. The only states which did not are the ones that had seceded, and thus were not US states at the time. That's not precedent for the federal government declining to hold elections in any way.
- miltonlost 8mo agoAccount created Jan 6 2020. Now downplaying the current admin attempts.... hmmm.....
- margalabargala 8mo agoPlease explain how saying "there is no crisis which could justify suspending elections" downplays anything the current admin is doing.
- malfist 8mo agoHow are they downplaying it? Trump can try all he wants, but there is no mechanism in the constitution that allows him to do that. He wasn't successful in 2020 and he won't be successful this time. The GOP won't even kill the fillibuster in the senate because they know change is coming.
- amelius 8mo ago> Why worry about how the midterms, if you can create a situation where elections cannot be held at all...? But they claimed "flawless victory". Both things cannot be true at the same time.
- disqard 8mo agoI think you're failing to recognize that we essentially live in a post-Truth world. Two opposite statements can be uttered by the same person on the same day, and it won't matter.
- toyg 8mo agoThey also claimed Iran's nuclear threat was no more, last year. And still here we are. Their concept of truth lasts only as long as a single news cycle (sometimes even less).
- coffeefirst 8mo agoI really think this gives them too much credit. They keep making the same mistake: underestimating that your adversary gets a vote, whether it's Iran, trade partners, colleges, Colbert, the Kennedy Center's audience, or Minneapolis.