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Totally not an ominous or fucked up to say when blue states are absolutely recoiling in horror at the fucking disgrace of a president he is /s

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[–] Australis13@fedia.io 160 points 1 day ago (3 children)

So he's planning to rig the mid term elections.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 120 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Same as all the elections since Republicans stole the 2000 election. Voters suppression and misinformation propaganda have kept them in the spotlight.

I am confident that this most recent election was rigged simply based on how nothing has been reported on invetigations of the areas where the election deniers were running the show and Republicans are constantly projecting their worst behavior. The fact that they claim prior elections were stolen is a solid sign they were planning on stealing one and this would be the one because it aligns with Project 2025.

They will absolutely be leaning into more voter suppression and will be emboldened to alter the actual vote counts themselves to make it look like their voting ratio is even higher.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 8 points 16 hours ago

Yes, this will be outright vote manipulation. Russia-style.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 45 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I also strongly believe that the last election was rigged, and am worried that no one really seems to be looking into it. Between Trump's own claims that he would win no matter what and Elon "It's just one line of code" Musk there is enough to be concerned with. Most likely, I think they simply didn't count a bunch of Dem votes.

[–] crusa187@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Wouldn’t it be up to the FBI to investigate such things?

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 8 points 14 hours ago

The FBI that has been is going through constant purging right now and kicking out non-trump ~~fascist zealots~~ loyalists? That FBI?

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 7 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Yes but there needs to be some appetite from politicians, Dems seemed completely unwilling to entertain the idea it may have been rigged, perhaps out of fear they would be compared to Trump in 2020. All the noise about election rigging has been about people voting when they couldn't or dead people voting and the like, no one is really talking about simply not counting votes. Meanwhile, we're told that turnout for 2024 was relatively low, and yet the lines out of the polls that I saw were always heaving.

[–] crusa187@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 hours ago

It’s hard to say without a better system in place for verification, but yeah I agree it’s a pretty suspicious set of circumstances. Republican bleating is almost always projection, making it doubly so.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 34 points 1 day ago (2 children)

So he's planning to ~~rig~~ cancel the mid term elections.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yeah way more likely he's going to use mass protests as a pretext for Martial Law and canceling elections indefinitely.

[–] laurelraven@lemmy.zip 8 points 6 hours ago

He accused Zelenskyy of this, which to me says he'll definitely do it himself

[–] Alenalda@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Tinfoil hat time, but im more concerned that some kind of false flag would happen on a boarder city. Kill a lot of people, blame it on migrants, close the border, declare martial law, cancel elections.

[–] laurelraven@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 hours ago

An American Reichstag fire

[–] Australis13@fedia.io 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe, but I think it's more likely they'll want some pretense of legitimacy and rig them instead of cancelling them altogether.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 3 points 11 hours ago

Learning from putin

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 29 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] PagingDoctorBeat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

It has been for years, especially if all this info about the extremely insecure voting machines, starlink, ballot manipulating code, stingrays, etc is true, which it seems to be.

I cannot for the life of me understand why none of the dems in power are talking about this election being fixed. Other countries have spoken up about the same thing happening to them. At least one has demanded new elections. There seems to be plenty of evidence that this happened in the U.S., so why would they refuse to acknowledge it? Do they think people won't believe them? They keep trying to play by rules that conservatives have long since abandoned. I just don't understand anything anymore.

[–] laurelraven@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 hours ago

Because they spent the last four years with the conservatives falsely claiming it for 2020 and want to look like they're taking the high road by accepting the results and making a big show about doing a peaceful transfer of power

[–] WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago

Starlink will provide the Internet connection!