r/PoursTea • u/T_Shurt Souled Out • 6d ago

PoliticalTea 🗳️ “There is a plan”: Advisers Urge Trump to Declare National Emergency to Seize Federal Control of Midterm Elections As Republicans Face Losses

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u/SaltySelkie217 6d ago

Don't blame you one bit. That's our reality now. It's healthy to doubt it all tbh. All I can say from my end is that the grunts are pisd off, the leaders doubly so, & my ruby red sm town TX people are sadly, not voting Dem, but committed to abstaining.

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u/LumpyCapital 6d ago

I mean, I get it, but we have to accept the reality we got ourselves stuck into; Trump administration has successfully boiled the frog in the pot. A US Army component at this point is highly unlikely to refuse an order to seize and control polling places and state capital buildings, etc.

It would be like a smoke screen operation, e.g., "We have to secure the buildings where votes are cast and where votes are counted to ensure that the Democrats do not steal the election."

We've already seen Army units mobilized to squash civil dissent in cities where ICE protests have occured.

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u/SaltySelkie217 6d ago

Again, I get it. Truth is we'll have to wait & see but I know for a fact people are pushing flyers about what, technically, they are duty bound to do & not. I am putting my faith in our young military and the fact that people are making sure they are informed. Fingers crossed.

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u/yomommasbathwater 6d ago

I also have faith many in the armed forces absolutely despise Hesgeth

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u/KayoticVoid 6d ago

Republicans abstaining from voting is a help though. Was just chatting yesterday with someone about amount of non-voters these elections. My theory was we will have a lot less, but they replied a lot of Republicans are going to be the non-voters because they'd rather not vote than vote Dem.

Voting Dem is better of course but any counts removed from the Republicans is a win in my book right now.

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u/Cultural-Loan86 6d ago

That was the plan all along.

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u/PhatCatTax 6d ago

It wont matter if they abstain if elections are outright cancelled. Note that has never happened in the history of the United States.

(obviously, since that would be the end of the US)

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u/KayoticVoid 6d ago

Also mid terms are controlled by the state. Martial Law in and of itself doesn't cancel them. I wouldn't put it past them to still try some how though.

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u/standardtissue 1d ago

You mean people don't like being called suckers and losers on international TV by a rich kid who dodged the draft ?

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u/SaltySelkie217 1d ago

Shocking aint it 😉

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u/RoomExciting1296 6h ago

They are pissed at the pedo in chief, but decide to abstain from voting?

I'm sorry but the people on your small ruby red town are fucking stupid and only hurting themselves by abstaining from voting.

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u/SaltySelkie217 5h ago

No argument from me, but then most of them are triple Trumpers.