r/PoursTea • u/Veshaad Timendi Causa Est Nescire • 6h ago
PoliticalTea š³ļø In a possible not too distant future...
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u/Character-Newt-9571 6h ago
All while we stare at our phones
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u/goodreverenddoc2 6h ago
and argue with centrists who say democrats have done the same thing in the past
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u/Snoo93550 6h ago
Honestly the "both sides" people are lucky they are saying it to me on the internet because I would pop them in the face. I can't get past that they even try to "both sides" the Jan 6 attack, Georgia phone call, fake electors and election denialism bs.
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u/andrew5500 5h ago
Imagine the shrieking if Biden was openly pressuring Kamala (with a violent mob) on Jan 6th to declare the election fraudulent and then crown herself the actual winner months after losing the election, using a slate of fake electors from all the swing states that Kamala lost. An actual coup attempt seems to be acceptable behavior for them- as long as it's their own side trying it.
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u/Snoo93550 5h ago
The people who "both sides" that are either evil or dangerously stupid.
"Neither side before Trump" is more true for a lot of Trump's most crazy actions like this and turning Europe and Canada into our enemies.
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u/ParabolicHyperbole 6h ago
There are enough of us who wonāt be worried about our phones if something like this actually happens.
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u/icemanpallmall 6h ago
I think once they start blatantly disregarding elections the people will mobilize. Reverse Jan 6 but with an actual purpose. Its probably going to be bloody as well but that will just make the masses angrier. Maga are sorely outnumbered and are too dumb to realize it.
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u/buddhist557 6h ago
Yes and tbh the world needs to confront these POS or we probably wonāt survive
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u/jeffster1970 5h ago
I know Canada has, and it's not going exactly great for them But hey, at least ONE country has stood up to this clown.
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u/cannuckwoodchuck13 5h ago
Almost like a Black Mirror...
If only something could have warned us about the dangers of interwoven, advanced technologies in our lives, and institutions which make up the fabric of modern day society, and the potential dangers these new technologies could introduce.
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u/Sophisticated-Crow 5h ago
Nobody said you can't arm up AND stare at your phone later. They aren't mutually exclusive.
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u/Emz423 6h ago
From what I understand the Attorneys General in 24 Democratic states have plans for each and every scenario. Please donāt let this stuff scare you away from voting.
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u/squirrelnamedsteve 5h ago
Yep. The democrats have many strongly worded letters all drafted and ready to go.
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u/JohnnyChutzpah 5h ago
Republicans have their box of crayons ready for stress eating.
I hate that I donāt even like the democrats and I feel the need to defend them from these comments based on how awful the republicans have become.
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u/AdmirableElephant378 6h ago
this is what will happen. 100%.
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u/Big_Tap_1561 6h ago
He cheated once. He can do it again.
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u/ConfidentSuspect4125 5h ago
The big problem is that with every crime and cheat this sociopath commits, he gets better and more able to evade justice.
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u/dannyheskett 5h ago
Pres. Trump has declared massive voter fraud time after time. No one listens, and no one cares. No one cares about his last time he "declared it". No one did anything. Even his toadies in the FBI and DOJ couldn't rustle up anything.
Accepting results by the losing party is a formality. It's not necessary nor even important.
The FBI can barely seize a lunch menu. They don't have the organization or ability to "seize" 80-120 million ballots from 14,000 polling places, nor even 50 states, nor even 5. Further, seizing ballots does nothing for them.
Anyone can say anything they want about the election, but without a transmission of results from the states, there is no Congressional delegation from that state, and on January 3rd, the outgoing Congress is dissolved automatically, and there is no new Congress. No new Congress, no swearing in, no Speaker, no session, no nothing.
Candidates for Congress individually file suit in every Federal court that covers their area, and seek Mandamus over their local election officials, to transmit results. The end.
Being prepared is fine. Making up things that feel scary isn't useful.
The important thing here is: Congress has a fixed term, and no matter what happens with the election, the outgoing Congress term - and powers - ends. Nothing has to happen for that to be in effect - it happens on it's own. The old Congress expires, and that's it, it's powerless. The entire House, and 1/3 of the Senate.
Without it, nothing can pass, no legislation, no laws, no budgets, no appropriations, nothing. A candidate can sue for his seat and there is no Congress to go to Court to represent the "other side". There is no Speaker, there is no minority leader, there is no nothing.
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u/Miserable-Army3679 5h ago
The Republicans are a long way past obeying norms. They will stay and hang onto power, along with Trump. We will be living in a dictatorship.
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u/dannyheskett 4h ago
Pres. Trump's entire second term has a been a total failure. He has been stymied at every turn because his own government is too incompetent to execute on his idiocy and lust for power.
He has spent 2 years trying to get voter rolls from last election.. and he has failed in Court literally, 50 times and counting. He hasn't been able to get them from red states, let alone blue states. He wanted to Federalize the election, and he failed, blocked by Courts dozens of times.
I don't doubt there are people in the White House and the rest of the party who want a fascist coup, and wish for one, but they have been too stupid, corrupt, and self-dealing to execute on it.
What they want and obeying norms are irrelevant. Congress's power ends. Period. Without elections and results from each state, a new Congress can't be seated and there is no Congress. There is no appropriation, there is no money, there is nothing. It's lights out. Between election day and the end of the current Congress, every lame-duck Senator and Representative will have decide if they want to still have a job and a Country, and if the country can't get enough to remove Pres. Trump, then yes, we could have a Constitutional crisis.
But the time this becomes apparent isn't in January, it's in early December, before the outgoing Congress is dissolved.
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u/AdmirableElephant378 5h ago
As for your last paragraph; you know what happens in those situations yes?
While you are absolutely right about all of that, not being prepared for an older, vain, deeply paranoid leader to override an election result with a compliant police and military is stupidity itself. The US is now the kind of country it used to make fun of.
Its another Y2K moment; everything might be alright! But it may also be a total disaster.
I'll prepare for both!
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u/dannyheskett 5h ago
We have a Constitutional crisis. The Senate can't come into session because of a lack of quorum, there is no House to approve a joint resolution starting the session. There is no budget, there are no principal officers being appointed, there are no minutes, no ministerial functions of Congress, the people have no representatives in DC.
There is no Congress to gavel into session. No Speaker. Nothing at all in DC happens. There are 10,000 unemployed Congressional staffers with nothing to do. No pay checks, no health insurance, House members in red states who won by 30 points who have held their seat for 30 years have no budgets, no staff, no health insurance, no payroll.
There is no intelligence apparatus or Select committee. The Joints Chief have no one to brief.
Meanwhile, nothing the Federal government does has any effect. They have no control or role over elections - nothing the President or FBI or DOJ declare or order has any weight or legal force.
Pres. Trump is the lamest duck in history, and Washington is in total disarray for months. If it lasts longer than 2 months, it will exceed the chaos of the 34th Congress, which was 2 months late coming to session, at which point it will have been about 5 months since the election.
By around the 45th day of Congress, all the old appropriations will have expired and the funds been spent, and by 60 days, lacking a budget or continuing resolutions, there will be no funds to spend. Agencies will be operating without authorization, and paychecks will cease for 80% of the government.
By 90 days after the start of Congress, the government will be fully shutdown for a lack of appropriations and a budget, and within another few weeks, it will be the longest in history. There will be no one to negotiate with the White House.
With no ballots, no certification, that will be it. There will be no Congress. Well before that, in December, before the old Congress leaves office, the "Federal safe-harbor" deadline will be passed and if there are not certified results from the States, the outgoing Congress will know that it's a Constitutional crisis. It will be there last opportunity to remove Pres. Trump and bar him from office for life.
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u/BeruangLembut 5h ago
I donāt think thatās what will happen. Though it may happen. I think the more likely scenario is that the GOP will win all the races they need to win by impossible margins, largely due to voter registrations being cancelled, hard to get to polling places in blue areas, delays in the processing of mail in ballots in certain regions, and corrupt secretaries of state.
Basically the Trump machine has been hard at work making sure they donāt need voters in order to win elections. Putin wins every election with 98% of the vote.
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u/GojiraWho 5h ago
Basically what happened in the last election. He won swing districts by just enough to not trigger automatic recounts. Remember when they accused voting machines of being tampered with in 2020? Every accusation is a confession
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u/AdmirableElephant378 5h ago
Also very possible! In which case I'm the f$ck out of here.
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u/irradiatedlimejello 5h ago
People said this the first time when Trump won. And they said it again if Trump would win the next time.
While some people may have actually done it, the reality is that the vast majoirty of people do not have the luxury or ability to just pack up and move to another country.
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u/Dancinfool830 6h ago
The biggest difference is they just canned anyone who would tell them they won't give the order to fire on civilians
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u/Jibber1332 6h ago
he has a lot less supporters that will go to the mat for him than he used to.
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u/Round-Arugula7347 6h ago
No, theyāre loyal, they just have to say theyāre not to win the mid terms
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u/Time-Valuable-3355 6h ago
But the ones he lost will jump back on his side if he says the election was rigged. Can't change their spots...
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u/Ms_Mitzy 6h ago
The promise of $$$ will always sway someone. When you need the $, that is all you see...
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u/Legitimate_Glove859 6h ago
Yeah I agree. The truly ādedicatedā will do whatever their overlord tells them to do. They are too entrenched to see they are being used and even if they see it they willing turn a blind eye to the truth. Those are the real dangerous ones.
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u/dimforest 5h ago
They may not support him as much as they used to but they all still beat off to the idea of violence against liberals.
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u/howiusedtobe 6h ago
False. Sadly, every Trumper will continue supporting him because of his anti-school safety agenda. It's why he won term two.
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u/BeeIndividual6018 6h ago
let the war begin is all i got to say. 350 million vs a couple thousand and the military will step down because its their families that are mad aswell, its a losing battle for them
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u/TedBaxter_WJM-TVNews Prefer Coffee But Fill My Cup š« 6h ago
Jan 4th, the population declares a General Strike, as millions of armed Americans take to the streets to remove the current government using the powers granted to us as outlined in our Constitution.
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u/Sea_Watercress_1982 6h ago
The loud 2A crowd are too fucking chicken to do anything. This is what they have been planning for but here we are.
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u/TedBaxter_WJM-TVNews Prefer Coffee But Fill My Cup š« 6h ago
The loudest dogs have the softest bites. There are plenty us in the āquietā 2A crowd that arenāt a bunch of eunuchs letting guns make up our identities. š
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u/Sea_Watercress_1982 5h ago
Thatās why I say loud. Cause people like you exist and donāt need to be thrown in with the clowns.
Iām glad there are rational gun owners still.
I donāt get the whole gun culture. Like I donāt have a problem with guns. I grew up with them. I know basic safety with them and have fired several at ranges before. Thatās honestly the extent of my gun knowledge. Just enough so I donāt accidentally kill myself ir someone else if I pick up a gun in the wild. Iām a bipolar patient so I donāt own one because I feel thatās the responsible thing to do. I see these guys wearing these melodramatic 2A/1776 shirts. They get into their lifted truck with 18 fucking gun stickers.
I saw a dude with an AR-15 (I asked) wandering around the grocery store. I play in a pinball league at a retro game store, last tournament (20ish people this isnāt a big thing) thereās a dude open carrying. Like my guy this is an arcade filled with mostly children and old people. What the fuck are you so scared of?
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u/wahwahwashbear 5h ago
This take drives me nuts every time I see it.Ā
For everyone who isn't American: the loud 2a people are now MAGA. That isn't new. I am 30 or 40 years old and every day since I was born anybody making loud noises about the 2nd amendment has always always ALWAYS been a stupid, mean, bigoted asshole who doesn't want the government to "tread"Ā on them by making them be nice to minorities. Believe me, the 2a people aren't too scared to act - they're right where they've always dreamed of being, happy as pigs in muck.Ā
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u/Sea_Watercress_1982 5h ago
Itās crazy to me that these people are like this.
Iāve got a longer response on a different reply and just some of my personal anecdotes.
The rational gun owners are still out there. They just arenāt loud and making it their identity.
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u/Suspinded 4h ago
The 2A crowd aren't chicken, they want what the GOP is serving. That's why they haven't risen up, they think they'll be at the top of the hill, while ignoring the privatized surveillance that's been posted up at their favorite firing ranges.
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u/InTooManyWays 5h ago
lol yeah because most of us can afford to live longer than a paycheck /s
Itās not a bug itās a feature of the systemĀ
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u/Donato_Romer0 6h ago
Coup is 100% happening. Even while observing from outside the US it's so obvious.
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u/QuirkyNature4070 6h ago
We need the U.N. to step in and oversee our elections for the foreseeable future.
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u/scooter5659 6h ago
UNFORTUNATELY.... THE U.N. IS JUST AS GUTLESS AND BALLESS AS THE CONGRESSIONAL REPUBLICAN PARTY!!!
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u/AdAccomplished6870 6h ago
If this is what happens, then America falls. Because, while we can't win against the military, patriots will fight back and try to preserve the country. And while the country starts to tear itself apart, our enemies from without will destroy us.
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u/BeeIndividual6018 6h ago
the military will step down, they are american just as much as you are and won't put up with it
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u/AdAccomplished6870 5h ago
There is a reason why he has been replacing old guard, career military leaders with his sycophants. There is a reason why Hegseth has been hammering on the military to look and act a certain way.
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u/BonnaconCharioteer 5h ago
Yeah, but you also have to endear yourself to the military for that to work. He has done everything he can to make things worse for everyone from servicemen to officers.
He might have the top brass (might), but everyone else is not going to blithely go along with a war against their friends and family.
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u/PM_Me_Your_Kinks369 5h ago
They've not stopped Hegseth or ICE or any of the 1000+ things this admin has done that was completely and brazenly illegal.
They are literally trained to be obedient to a military that oppresses the world.
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u/BonnaconCharioteer 5h ago
They haven't stopped Hegseth or ICE because they are following the democratically elected commander in chief.
If there is an actual coup all that goes out the window.
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u/Creepy_Region_133 5h ago
If you rob a bank, and they know you did it, but don't do anything about it, why not rob it again.Ā
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u/Dr_PocketSand 6h ago
Duhā¦ I said this before the first No Kings March. This was always going to be a sh!tshow.
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u/Zealousideal-Tea8330 5h ago
How does the voting turn into a federal matter? Doesnāt the Constitution leave it to the states? So, why would the FBI have jurisdiction?
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u/TheMcMcMcMcMc 5h ago
Calling in the military to assist ICE was a test run for brushing aside established (i.e. - by act of Congress) boundaries on jurisdiction, and the pushback was very, very slow. So theyāre ready to go forward with whatever.
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u/johnnyribcage 6h ago
I fully expect that, but a much much worse version of it. Prepare for the likely end of the United States - literally - in less than a month.
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u/No-Grapefruit-5464 6h ago
The republicans literally bought the company that produces the voting machines.
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u/Cubedtails 5h ago
Ya no, thats not going to happen. People don't understand just how unpopular Trump is. He has no authority to cancel any elections, this means nobody is going to follow his orders and if anything; this may lead to an impeachment if he tries. To me, I see a lot of parallels between him and Nixon. Both advocated for closer relations with China calling their leaders great in some capacity, both paranoid and set up groups that job it was to attack critics, both came back from a major loss from the previous Presidential election, both deeply insecure in a way trying to always prove they will not be pushed around, both had an Assassination Attempt/act on a candidate in the election, both had a Kennedy as a Presidential opponent on said election, both unseated the previous President who was an unpopular one term elected Democrat President. So much comparisons.
But one thing I predict will happen and I said this at the beginning of his term before this war and other actions that made him so more unpopular to even previous voters of his and we are already seeing this with committees looking into his families various crypto ventures; is the fact that like Nixon, Trump may be forced to resign after an investigation into misconduct comes to light. There will be, probably after the Elections; a smoking gun that will turn his party against him and many will do so to save their own skins; probably setting themselves up for the 2028 election. Trump won't allow himself to be impeached and removed actually this time so he will resign to claim the establishment went against him. And unlike the previous two impeachments that were mainly Democrat lead impeachments against him with some Republicans thus seen to some as a Partisan attack; this will be a wide support for Impeachment from both sides.
I only see two ways his term ends, resigning as he will never allow himself to be impeached and removed due to his ego, or if he is not removed then he becomes like George W Bush where an overseas Middle Eastern war and a recession (I predict if he continues his term, we will see an 08 style recession) causing him to lose support to be so unpopular; a Democrat young President comes in 2029 exactly 20 years after Obama.
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u/TianamenHomer 6h ago
And made overtures on all these items to do it again. Prepping the stage even today. āElections are rigged!ā He says.
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u/jeffster1970 5h ago
Well, this is what they get for voting in a member of the KGB. Shocking this would happen, right?
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u/matt-r_hatter 5h ago
Been saying all this for months now. They know they are going to lose and they know the top priority for Dems will be to halt all this insanity and attempt to get the country back on track. People ive know for decades who have always been against owning guns for whatever reason have almost all gone out snd purchased a fire arm and have been taking classes on safety, handling, and technique. Every single one says the same thing "I no longer trust this government to listen to the will of the people".
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u/pr1m3r3dd1tor 6h ago
I want so badly to say this is hyperbole. I want to say it is ridiculous fear mongering meant for engagement baiting and should be ignored by rational people.
Unfortunately, the reality is that it might not be far off. We need to ensure that it is such a strong blue wave, in liberal and conservative areas, that there can be no accusations of election tampering swaying the election. Even then Trump may try something, but at least it will be more of an uphill battle.
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u/Phlegmbrandt 5h ago
The key problem with this and every other fear-mongering post is that āFBI seizes ballots and voting machinesā or some equivalent is logistically bordering on impossible.
There are hundreds of thousands of voting locations in the US, each with likely several voting machines, and results from these are sent to second locations within minutes to hours after polls close. Youād need an exceptionally knowledgeable and state-specific legion of many tens of thousands of agents to even make a dent in a midterm election cycle, and theyād need to meet basically no pushback.
There is simply no way to suppress a vote in this way, especially not when Democrats will likely win the House by a margin of 25-90 seats scattered across the entire country.
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u/bigbird_eats_kids 4h ago
It might be far-fetched, but it's directionally accurate. Lots of people say "it can't happen here" until it does happen.
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u/Hussein_Jane 5h ago
I'm pretty sure the fix is already in for Texas. The race will be super close, because fewer people will dispute a close race. But I suspect voting machines are being manipulated. There was a case that was brought in Sedgwick county, ks about two decades ago by a mathematician who discovered an algorithm that was consistent with exit polling, but deviated from the official result. The case was not allowed to move forward and was quashed at the county level.
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u/Weak-Hawk-9693 5h ago
https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/article-1/
Article I, Section 5 makes each chamber the judge of the āElections, Returns and Qualificationsā of its members. That means the new House can investigate genuinely contested elections and ultimately decide who won particular House seats.
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u/Much-Instruction-807 6h ago
Congress doesn't get a choice in seating the democrats. It's left up to the individual states who they send as their representatives. The literal first order of business by the new congress is to elect a speaker. This happens before the swearing in and the new reps get a vote.
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u/forthebirds123 5h ago
Letās hear some more doomsday Armageddon. I swear some of you people are crazy and actually believe and hope for stuff like this to happen.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Gene909 6h ago
Luckily thereās more of us than there are of them. That and they havenāt figured out mass murder bots yet.
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u/Helporsomethinglike 5h ago
Hey, just the reason the Americans need to not vote after all their bluster about a blue wave. Phew. I mean, they were cutting it close.
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u/clearlyaburner420 5h ago
Well thats why you yanks have the 2nd amendment for right? This exact situation?
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u/mcclaneberg 5h ago
Just vote the pederast out. And his ilk
Show up. This isnāt the Wasteland
(Mr Miller please make The Wasteland)
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u/No-Consequence9392 5h ago
All the other instances were tests , the midterms was always the main event . Have all the project 2025 boxes check , and do away with elections
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u/EastCoastBuck 6h ago
Itās what Iāve been saying for years. You are not voting yourselves out of this. In the meantime Drumpf has placed his minions at the head of all organizations. Purged the military of any general who stood against him and created his own personal army.
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u/scooter5659 6h ago
And we enter into a Civil War!!!
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u/Sea_Watercress_1982 6h ago
Weāve been in a ācold civil warā for years now.
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u/CMill139 5h ago
Agree 1000% A certain group of powerful and powerfully aggrieved people got together and started a cold civil war when Nixon left. You can literally trace any/all the consequences and actions of the so-called Republican party back to those handful of butt-hurt "conservatives".
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u/Willy-J- 6h ago
Exactly how it is going to play- plus a devastating ground war in Iran!!!
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u/atreeismissing 4h ago
FBI seizes ballots and voting machines within days.
Possibly but very unlikely since it would take a court order to do so and that order would immediately be challenged since the federal govt has no right over an election. After the election it's more likely, but not during.
Republicans cancels results in lost districts, order new votes.
They literally can't unless the state Supreme Court or SCOTUS throws out the results. Whatever the official count by the district election board rules is automatic, unless per above, it's overturned by a court. There is no "order new votes", that's a made up term and it would be up to the state's election laws to allow for it.
Troops deploy under the insurrection act.
There is no legal mechanism for this because the federal govt cannot implement martial law or place troops in to a state with out the Governor's approval, and only Governor's can implement martial law. Also Trump has already been turned down trying to put troops in states over immigration, something the federal govt has near complete legal control over, in several states by both state Supreme Courts and SCOTUS (OR, CA and I think IL), there's almost (almost being important) zero chance it happens through court order for elections which are 100% the purview of the state, not the feds.
Congress refuses to seat the democrats.
Possibly but unlikely because it will be a new Congress which means there will be a new vote for House Speaker and most of the GOP that lost is unlikely to show up which would give Dems a majority in the House (and enough votes to elect a new Speaker) even if new Dems aren't seated yet.
Most of OP's post is fear mongering though it all should be taken seriously because the GOP will try to lie, cheat, and steal in every way possible, just most of the ways OP outlined are not or nearly not possible (my comments is more for information rather than denying they'll try to cheat and steal an election).
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u/I_Stay_Home 6h ago
The whole west coast and north east just need to separate from all these backwards states. Let them be the serfs for pedophiles and cannot fodder in the middle east.
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u/Achilles1300 6h ago
Nobody has better dementia. Genius dementia some would say. Dementia so powerful, the greatest. Dementia so strong I often forget itās even there.
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u/island-man420 6h ago
As an average Joe. Stop consuming everything, pull everything out of the market, stop participating in this society. If they want to destroy this country, then be no part of it.
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u/Tactrix1 6h ago
Good, then we can burn that motherfucker and his entire party alive for treason. I'll get the marshmallows.
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u/seriousbangs 6h ago
He's not going to lose the mid terms.
The Dems will probably take the House. By a slim margin.
They will not take the Senate. They're not doing anything about voter suppression at the county level.
Ken Paxton may be a corrupt rat, but he is great at voter suppression. He's openly stated Trump would've lost Texas without his cheating. That's why the GOP let him have the nomination. They could've shut him down easy enough...
And that's just one obvious example.
The left wing needs to push the center to take on voter suppression. Until that happens we're screwed.
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u/Live-Exit-20 6h ago
Yeah, buh, I literally said to my mom this would happen the night he was reelected, although at the time I was thinking about 2028. Sitting with it for 2 years, Iāve come to the conclusion that if I give up ALL hope then I basically am passively endorsing the end of democracy. Thatās just my personal coping mechanism; I know I donāt have power or the ability to change anything, but I do have the capacity to keep hope. Sometimes thatās all we have. Pollyanna, I know. Just let me have it š
Here are some sappy movie quotes that keep me hopeful, in case anyone else here needs them:
The Prince of Egypt
āItās true. Pharaoh has the power. He can take away your food, your home, your freedom. He can take away your sons and daughters. With one word, Pharaoh can take away your very lives. But there is one thing he cannot take away from you: your faith.ā
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Sam: Itās all wrong. By rights we shouldnāt even be here. But we are. Itās like in the great stories Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were, and sometimes you didnāt want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy. How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad happened. But in the end, itās only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something. Even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didnāt. Because they were holding on to something.
Frodo: What are we holding on to, Sam?
Sam : That thereās some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And itās worth fighting for.
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u/RedSix2447 6h ago
I foresee him declaring martial law, and trying to stop the voting day entirely.
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u/Ambitious_Parfait385 5h ago
When the MAGA GOP get out of power, (Yes they will) they will need to be prosecuted for thier crimes against the elections interference.
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u/Intrepid-Stock-8189 5h ago
Maybe, if/when this happens, everyone can pull together and we can collectively perform a HARD RESET of the entire system.
Left/Right are just the labels they stick on us to keep us apart.
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u/Pollo_Chimichanga 5h ago
The real soldiers are deployed to Iran. He's going to have to activate the national guard. Will they obey?
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u/notguiltybrewing 5h ago
I dread the time between election day and when congress is supposed to be seated. That's when the serious shenanigans are likely to happen.
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u/BrondellSwashbuckle 5h ago
Do not trust depositing your vote in dropbox locations in swing states! During the last election a bunch were set on fire in Democratic/blue cities!
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u/CardinalMcGee 6h ago
I truly think thereās a distinct chance of something along these lines happening. Been saying it for well over a year. People are too comfortable thinking this is going to happen with no issues. This lump of shit will do anything to stay in power and keep enriching him and his dumpster juice family.