He is not going to let us vote.

[hookaleft]

He will not give up power. His victory on campaign finance can't save him. The country is enraged. He has no choice but to stop or interfere with the midterms.

[TheProle]

1. He will do neither. GOTV.

[Bobstandard]

37. He's certainly trying.

And he’s making a lot of headway. The barriers to voting will get bigger as we get closer to the event.

We need to GOTV like crazy. And we need everyone to be ready to deal whatever Trump through at us. Fight to vote!

[dhol82]

2. That's what I'm afraid of.

He’ll call a national emergency and suspend voting.

[CoopersDad]

3. Yes he will, many are still underestimating his willingess to do anything.

He outdoes himself almost daily.

[Fiendish Thingy]

22. Walk us through how that would happen

Reminder: so far, all the states have ignored his election related EO’s without consequences.

[BannonsLiver]

4. Well i guess we're all cooked. Doomed.

[hookaleft]

5. Who is going to stop him?

[BannonsLiver]

6. No one. We're absolutely screwn.

[mr715]

9. What shall you be doing for our daily grieving?

I'm thinking about gnashing my teeth and rending my garments as normal, but perhaps I shall kneel on rice this time while calling out to the sky in a plaintive wail, "At least I don't have to vote!!"

[Coventina]

12. Don't forget the ashes on the head!

[mr715]

16. Ashes!

I can't believe I forgot.

And such a truly classic, Roman mortification of the flesh.

Obviously I shall dust myself and look like a wraith before sundown.

[BannonsLiver]

13. No way I can top that.

[Coventina]

10. Kudos on "screwn"

I didn’t know if anyone here was still using that!!

Did we ever make that freeper dictionary?

[madinmaryland]

17. I think someone started one years ago. Not sure what ever happened to it.

[Deuxcents]

11. We the People. We fought and won against the most powerful nation 250 years ago. We know how to do it

Hungry just defeated Viktor Orban. It’s very disappointing hearing the defeated comments on this thread and we would still be under a king if we let this attitude prevail.

[mr715]

18. You, for one, when you vote.

[mr715]

7. Stop.

You mentioned in another post you are having an understandably difficult time coping with politics and current events.

Donald Trump is not the immortal God-King of America. He is a petty, thin skinned, DUMB man served by venal, small-minded, avaricious C-team enablers.

He does not have the power to cancel elections.

He does not have ultimate control over your life. All he can do to defeat you is convince you that you are powerless, you should give up because you've already been defeated, and that he, Trump, is more powerful than he actually is.

Stop.

He will not and cannot cancel elections. If he even made a concerted gesture in that direction, he'd lose a lot more than the top of his ear.

Stop.

Breathe.

Touch grass.

[hookaleft]

8. I hope you are right

[mr715]

15. Listen --

He's going to die.

It is going to happen. It might be happening right now!

He is going to be found in his own shit and piss and he'll be dead and gone.

The billionaires aren't much smarter than he. Peter Thiel? He'll die in a botched infusion of stem cells. Elon Musk can't piss without exploding a rocket. Mark Zuckerberg is so damaged and weak that I can't even think of a biting comment for him.

One day, you are going to wake up and Donald Trump will be like a bad dream. Yeah, you'll need to wash your sheets because of the cold sweat. But just as Trump erased the legacy of Biden, we will erase Trump. He will be reduced to the aberration he always was - a symptom of an uncorrected social media addiction and a data environment where information moves faster than education.

The GOP will be left with JD Vance, a man utterly without conviction. A man who couldn't will himself out of a paper bag unless there was a participation trophy nearby.

So, enough.

He isn't cancelling elections. Anyone saying so is feeling into your anxiety either because they want to profit from your attention or because they are as anxious as you are.

You are in control of yourself and your mind. In about 6 months, we are going to control the House of Representatives and we will win seats in the Senate.

It will be better then than it is today.

It will be better in 2029 than it would be then.

[B.See]

14. Can't say that he'd succeed, but

he will definitely TRY. Of that I have NO doubt. Which, I think, for some of us, doesn't inspire dispair. Only ANGER.

DON'T dispair. Don't get 'chilled.' Get MAD.

VOTE.

[MineralMan]

19. Nope. The states will shut that down.

Go. Vote.

[Fiendish Thingy]

20. Your defeatist doomerism is duly noted.

For everyone else, never forget this one absolute truth:

Trump is not omnipotent, and the states and the people are not powerless

[onenote]

29. +1

[themaguffin]

21. I'm voting. We are voting.

[RT Atlanta]

23. it's not 'his' (one-single person enabled by many ass-lickers) decision/right to make for me or you

may god damn them all but one, and for that one, baptize him in shit

[PCIntern]

24. No. He's a stupid, ineffective moron who isn't gonna do anything of the sort

We are all going to vote and we are going to oust these motherfuckers.

[hamsterjill]

28. When we do that, can we do one more thing, please?

Can we do whatever is necessary to make it where this shit can't ever happen again? I think about that a lot. It will greatly influence my votes for Dems in primaries, etc. I want representatives who will take steps to stop this crap from ever being able to happen again - whatever those steps may be.

I am much less interested in any "coming together" than I am getting some things done and accomplished. I want Roe v Wade to be codified - or whatever else is needed to give women bodily autonomy. I want people to be able to live and love as they choose, and I do not want religion taught in public schools. I want Social Security and Medicare to be untouchable so that seniors don't have to worry. Universal healthcare to be a reality.

We are going to need STRONG candidates, and not necessarily the same kind as in periods past.

[PCIntern]

30. I've been saying this for years

Right on. Rec.

[Kid Berwyn]

25. It's not like he's an Insurrectionist.

Trump is a traitor.

[mr715]

26. Should've been easy to move the DOJ on him. Oh. Wait. I mean wait. Then wait.

[Kid Berwyn]

27. Aided by fellow traitors in government.

Epstein and his wingman go back to the October Surprise and Iran-Contra.

[D_Master81]

31. I actually think he will

I don’t think he has enough pull to cancel any elections. He will just raise doubt about the results every day and try to nullify the results.

[struggle4progress]

32. We out-number his thugs and they will be unhappily surprised with the results

if they try to stop us from voting

[Bluestocking]

33. Here is the thing about Rump

The Republicans have allowed him to do anything he wants. As a result he has broken so many laws that no court will be able to protect him and his family and his cohorts. It may take 2 years until the Republicans are out of power but when they are. Oh boy. We will not have a repeat of the slow prosecutions of the Biden administration. It will be swift and painful for the criminal Republicans.

When you are feeling down, just remember what I have said.

[Manatee]

34. No one

is going to stop us from voting.

[Baitball Blogger]

35. I can't wait for his term to be over.

If he's still alive, there will be huge money for him if he writes a confessional, like telling us just how far he was willing to go to take over this country by force, and what happened that stopped him. It would be his deathbed confessional and his children will make millions from the proceeds.

[Snarkoleptic]

36. There are likely multiple levels of this scheme.

Laws forbidding distribution of water and food at polling places, many of which are deliberately unequipped for expected volume of votes.
I imagine there are several election officials who will refuse to certify results of any election won by Dems.
That plus vandals burning ballot drop boxes with thermite (happened in Seattle and Portland in 2024).
Federal agents with long guns lurking around polling places in Democratic strongholds.
Caging voters, challenging individuals on election day.
Bomb threats called in to polling places.
Stealing mail from left-leaning areas.
Tampering with voting machines.

All of the above and other reich-wing mischief.

Confirm your registration now and ensure your vote will count!

[Torchlight]

38. Sounds serious

Good luck

[MarineCombatEngineer]

39. Oh well in that case,

I guess we should just give up huh?
Another fucking doom and gloom thread.

[MerryBlooms]

40. When I receive my ballot in Oregon, I will vote

You're all over the map in your post.
Get some rest.
If you're diabetic, check the blood sugar