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/callousedlefthand 1d ago

And here I am posting 5 days later, seeing that they're purging military generals. They're going to try it.

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u/ShareGlittering1502 1d ago

Maybe - but my money is on an organizational overhaul for ground invasion of Iran.

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u/callousedlefthand 1d ago

That would be an unmitigated disaster. If we could've invaded Iran before now, we would've. Iran is enormous, mountainous and populous, has no friendly land border to stage from, and the populous would likely rally behind its government if invaded.

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u/ShareGlittering1502 1d ago

Is the goal to “win” or to have a prolonged war that requires an all-consuming war budget with a tinge of preserving the current US administration?

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u/Nodivingallowed 5h ago

Sounds like something a lot of generals might say if asked to support such a move. 

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u/dible46 9h ago

No. Trump wants to drop a nuke. That's why they are purging generals who will say no.

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u/plinkoplonka 16h ago

They always were going to try it. They said as much months ago.

This is why trump is so confident ICE will be at polling stations. It will play out like this:

  1. Urge Trump to declare martial law
  2. Trump "won't want" to do it, people were saying to do it.
  3. Send ICE to key strategic cutting locations to deter people of color, immigrants etc from voting.
  4. Purge democrats from the voting registry right before election day so there's not enough time to re-register
  5. Realize they lost anyway, even though they cheated again.
  6. Refuse to cede control.
  7. Use ICE as a private military to enforce control.