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Democratic leadership is sleepwalking us into a permanent state of authoritarian rule.
That's not fair. They are still working super hard to disarm the people in blue states.
I think it's open jealousy about how you can get away with practically anything from undermining constitutional amendments to profit personally - all without seemingly being held accountable.
When Obama ran, local organizations rented vans and escorted people to and from polls.
We can do it again if needed.
Alright fuck it I'll be the one to take the blame. If any federal agent steps into a voting zone for your state they are illegally manipulating voting as they have no rights to be there. If you see a federal agent heckling or trying to sway people trying to vote, it is a matter of national security and you should be covered by your civic duties to shoot and kill the theat to your country. Period.
The law strictly states that the federal government has no jurisdiction at a poll, it is state run. If one shows up it is an attack on your states rights, and interferening with your election, thus defined as an insurrection attempt. Every member involved should be tried for treason, punishable by death, or life in prison. (Maybe less, but let them find out)
Edit: also if you think this is a threat, let me carry a gun into the voting house of every Republican and submit their ballot for them. If that sounds "threatening" that's exactly what he suggested
The very act of floating this idea is election fraud. Even if they don't do it, threatening to do it could discourage voters.
We can offer no guarantee that democrat voters won't be harmed, detained or even murdered while voting.
Let everyone you know that mail-in ballots are still an option... but educate them that they must bring the ballot to the post office IN PERSON, and ask the postal staff to post-mark it IN FRONT OF THEM. I have read (please correct me if I'm wrong!) that works around the recent regulation change that allows dropped-off post to be stamped when it's delivered, instead of when it's first dropped off, which is a rat-fucking tactic to increase the likelihood of ballots being marked late, knowing they'll probably take many days from drop-off to delivery.
Well I guess we’re going to be exercising our second amendment rights because that’s tyranny.
Can you imagine getting abducted when you try to vote? Now you don't have to!
I am sure this will help the voter turnout and is definitely not a thinly veiled threat meant to cause voter suppression.
This is dicey. If it happens, there will be a lot of problems around the polling areas. The fascists will use that as an excuse to invalidate the results.
They will have 100 different reasons to invalidate the results anyway.
I don't know what the conditions will be for my blue city in a red state come November. My plan is to vote early and spend election day seeking out ICE at any polling locations to film and heckle them. If they want to arrest me, my vote is already in and it will take them out of play for their role threatening voters. MN is showing us how we massively outnumber them and can stymie their tactics.
Why is she so obsessed with getting ICE agents killed?
So they can escalate.
Escalate how? They don't hold the flyover sovereign and they are actively losing control of territory. Their navy is spent and overspending, the national guard has its fucking jugular hanging open in every small town, and they're about to commit the army to Iran. If all they have is ICE and CPB they are going to have a very bad time.
Republicans have stolen every presidential election they've won since 2000. There haven't been consequences yet, and the future won't be any different unless we stand up.
They tried damn hard to steal the ones they lost as well, and know that because of the last year they may not get voted for, for another couple decades. They know they can't win, so they are abandoning democracy.
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Thats not a warning intended to keep the public safe, it's a threat intended to get the public to give up on democracy
How the fuck did we get to a point where it's normal for the government to say these things?
Capitalism
Conservatives stopped respecting our Constitution and our nation as a whole.
But they're pretty good at showing up to vote, unlike many other Americans. That, combined with our electoral system being a joke and designed to allow a minority to have control, and you've got our current situation.
Fucking brown shirts
Every voter come armed.
"Can't guarantee we won't continue to violate the law with impunity."
We the People of the United States can.
Honest question: there’s not that many of them to cover a substantial number of polling stations, are there? If memory serves, there like 16k agents.
Seems like the WH is on its bullshit again.
The threat of appearance will be enough for a not insignificant number of people. But also, they can use historical voting numbers to selectively target certain locations. No need to send anyone to the R+17 or the D+22 districts.
Imagine the optics of these rabid dogs pepper spraying people in line to vote
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It can't be guaranteed that an ICE jackass won't be shipped to the local junkyard.
I'll believe it when I see it
Obviously.
This is obviously where it was going.
From day one, from the first lie, to the arming of his own private army, this has been the goal. Obviously.
Americans will be surprised, of course. As always.
"Back when it was step 3, all the alarmists were warning me about how bad step 10 will be. Now that we're at step 7, the logical thing to do is continue to accuse people of being alarmist."
- 9 out of 10 Americans (real Americans)
Can't guarantee I won't communicate with my community to show up to the polling stations with a large group of armed citizens to ensure we can vote safely without the interference of terrorists.
Doesn't stop them from ratfucking the votes after they're submitted, but hey, gotta do what we can.
I hear ya, but consider that will make a VERY tense situation that will likely deter voters from engaging.
Gear up, the hopefools will learn too late.
Sounds like a good reason to pretend to support their bullshit and go vote against it anyway.....register independent then vote however
The declaration of party only helps metrics not the actual outcome of the vote
If you register independent that prevents you from participating in the large party primaries in many (most/all?) states. You can only vote in the primary for your registered party. So that also locks you out of at least attempting to prevent the Democrats from incessantly fielding dumbass GOP-lite candidates like they've been doing.
Theoretically if you register as Republican that also allows you to surreptitiously torpedo their worst candidates in their primaries, but it's unlikely we'll get enough trolls on board to swing the needle meaningfully with that strategy.
Weird. I didn't realise all the American polling stations are located so near the borders with other countries.
I read somewhere that anywhere within 250 mile (I think this was the number) of an airport counts as a boarder
100 miles.
https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/border-zone
This one is older, but has the great image showing just how many cities are in that 100 miles:
https://www.southernborder.org/100_mile_border_enforcement_zone
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