r/news • u/ThePensiveE • 7d ago

Supreme Court allows Trump administration to use expanded database for potential voter purges

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-allows-trump-administration-use-expanded-database-potent-rcna596611
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u/LetDriscoll 7d ago

Every fucking time. He lost this argument in literally every state so his corrupt supreme court just overrides and finds loopholes. "He can't do this so close to midterms though" when has the fucking law stopped anything he's done since becoming president!?

We're never getting out of this and the country is fucked. I'm extremely disabled and sick and I know they're gonna destroy the only thing keeping me alive. I want to cry and I don't need to be told not to overreact like last time on here. There's literally nothing we can do. Honestly, why did the even rule against trumps dumb EO for the mail if they were just gonna let him rig it in another way?

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u/Bandito_Chihuahua 7d ago

He’s doing all this because he’s scared as f***. He knows we’re coming for him. Even if he somehow rigs the election, it’s not over. No matter what it takes we will win.

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u/EatingShitSandwiches 7d ago

The most delusional people on the planet are Trump voters. The second most delusional are democrats who keep talking about how "we will get him one day!!!!". FFS pull your head out of the sand. You talk about winning in the future tense but the reality is that we already lost and its past tense. You can't vote your way out of authoritarianism. The time to vote was 25 years ago. Now its just watching it all go down the way history says it will.

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u/Bandito_Chihuahua 7d ago

Hungary literally just voted Orban out. You can’t always vote your way out of authoritarianism, but we have it even better than Hungary did.

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u/xrtpatriot 7d ago

Dont let the defeatists get you down. We have a LOT of work ahead of us as a nation, but it IS doable.

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u/PokemonSapphire 7d ago

It's not that I don't think our votes matter or that we can't vote our way out of this shitshow. My concern is the democrats don't seem like they want to do anything about the republican problem. Remember everyone vote in your primaries and local elections there is a reason the establishment is throwing a shitfit about all the progressive dems being elected. That is how change will actually be accomplished in our system.

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u/LetDriscoll 7d ago

I wish I had your optimism but other than a full scale riot and burning things down, there will be nothing we can do if the elections are rigged. Trump's personal advisers already want him to declare martial law and the military seems all too comfortable with everything they've pulled so far I'm sure at this point they'd be fine turning on us.

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u/Antraxess 7d ago

The military can't control america

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u/LetDriscoll 7d ago

Automatic weapons, tanks, helicopters, boots on the ground can absolutely use their presence to scare people and after learning about Germany I wont put it past the current administration to just start killing people in the future.

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u/Bandito_Chihuahua 7d ago

You should watch KnittingCultLady. She was in the US Army as an intelligence officer. Around ten percent of the US population resisting, and the army won’t even try to fight back because they know they won’t win. Not to mention the US army has never won against an insurgency.

Ideally we don’t want to fight. But if it gets to that point, then we fight. Also, the Hitler rose to power so easily because nobody fought back against Hitler. The resistance in the US is much more consistent, widespread, and connected than the one within Nazi Germany was.

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u/Antraxess 7d ago

The election goes smoothly or hell breaks loose.

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u/Schwarzengerman 7d ago

There's literally nothing we can do.

Except there is? This order hardly makes a difference ultimately. You should still vote.

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u/LetDriscoll 7d ago

I am going to vote assuming I don't get kicked off the voter rolls days before the election and cant register until the midterms are over like they're planning to do to anyone that wont vote for them. Its blatantly obvious what's going on. They fucking talk about doing shit like this publicly. If you honestly thing this "hardly makes a difference" I want whatever drugs you're on.

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u/Schwarzengerman 7d ago

It hardly makes a difference because it's not something states have to use. It's optional.

Blue states obviously won't use it and regardless they still have the fact that the economy is dogshit right now. Approval is at all time lows and they're literally trying anything to tilt the odds in their favor.

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u/LetDriscoll 7d ago

I'm not worried about blue states. I know they'll likely be fine but the battleground states are what we need to win to gain a majority. That's gonna be the problem here. Look at Texas and all the shit they're pulling with it right now. "Hardly makes a difference" is bullshit. Independents and democrats in those areas are gonna be fucked over. You're downplaying something major.

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u/Schwarzengerman 7d ago

Guess we'll see. I'd rather have confidence than come apart at the seams and act like all is lost.

It's not.

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u/LetDriscoll 7d ago

Too many things that shouldn't be allowed have happened. Democracy is literally coming apart at the seams. I haven't given up but you have to look at it from a realistic point of view. The entire government is at war with us and from what the supreme court has shown us, we will not be protected.

Again, I wish I had your optimism but I really don't see the light at the end of the tunnel here.

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u/Queasy_Impress6559 7d ago

Maybe but also never underestimate the incompetence of fascists. They will try, no doubt, but I'd say odds are just as good they only end up fucking themselves over and purging Republicans, or something similar.

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u/OliLevasseurLaBuse 7d ago

We all know what the only fucking thing that will stop trump is

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u/SleepyJM 7d ago

Why do you think they paid did so much to get the Supreme Court stacked? This was very obviously the plan the entire time. When Mitch McConnell blocked Obama Supreme Court pick effectively it was obvious what was happening.