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The notion that any aspect of a presidential election can be regulated through executive orders by the current sitting president would be laughed out of the room in any halfway functional democracy.
Might as well do away with the charade and call them royal decrees
The actual details are bonkers
According to the Daily Caller, the executive order would require the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security to compile a list of verified U.S. citizens in each state who are eligible to vote. DHS would undertake the effort with the Social Security Administration, the Daily Caller wrote, citing a White House fact sheet.
The U.S. Postal Service would then be required under the order to only send mail-in ballots to voters who appear on the list, according to the Daily Caller. Election authorities in each state typically send out mail ballots to voters, not the Postal Service.
Aside from being blatantly illegal, I bet if you dig into this you will find that the contracts have been given to all of Musk's friends, using all the SSA data they stole
Oops a "technical glitch" accidentally removed all Democrats. Can't redo the election though, sorry. We'll do better Next Time™©®
“Get absolutely fucked”
-the good people of Oregon
Though highly contested, a Supreme Court ruling sidesteps the electoral process, disqualifying popular presidential candidates from several states.
100% this is all Musk/Russia
Isn’t USPS set to collapse very soon? I was surprised when I got a flyer in the mail they were hiring. I live in a state that ONLY does mail in voting too so I’m double confused/worried about this
My local usps has had a broken front window for about 6 months. It’s covered with plywood with no signs of planned repair.
The building was broken into about 2 months ago and a number of PO Boxes were severely damaged.
They want to kill off everything except police enforcement.
Bitch, YOU just voted by mail!
To be fair, Trump voting at all is super sketchy.
He’s a felon, but they allow felons to vote in Florida.
What? Felons should be allowed to vote, they are still citizens ..
They do, after an onerous and capricious process that can end in an "I don't feel like giving you that right back".
And his excuse was because work was important. Which is exactly why everyone else wants this.
I wish golf was my work.
Not really.
And his wife, and his son, and probably his entire family…
Trump has told Republicans that they will lose the November midterm elections if they don't pass the bill and crack down on mail-in voting.
You know, any normal person might take such confidence that they'll lose an election as a sign that maybe they're doing the wrong things.
It’s about power.
He needs his throat slit
Congratulations! Welcome to... The List
If everybody is on the list, nobody is on the list.
Well at least its not the epstein list.
It's times like these I'm glad I'm not on Reddit anymore.
Yeah they’d be modded and banned for sure. That’s how I found this place! Here people can express their true opinions. I’m definitely on some lists myself haha. But seriously, it’s an opinion. He’s not actively calling for violence or anyone to actually do it, but I also agree he deserves to have his throat slit. He’s caused much more pain and suffering needlessly upon an innumerable amount of people. Those Epstein files, fucking disgusting. Throat slitting is the least of which he deserves. His crimes are beyond atrocious and treasonous.
I still hold the belief that prion disease (like CJD) is the best way for him to go. It has several advantages over getting his throat slit:
Trump no doubt has so much security that someone going for the throat is impossible.
Unless it's the security who does it...
when Trump dies of prion disease, his brain could be donated to science, so that scientists can research more on how prions work. I’m sure Trump would hate that.
Couldn't be donated without his consent, so no.
Oh, you never know. I can see a conservatorship donating his brain.
Not until after the midterms
No, right this second. Every delay is another life lost.
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How 'bout them states rights? And small government? Lol
Good thing the constitution leaves it the states to conduct elections, not the federal government.
Ah yes, the constitution has such a good track record stopping Trump.
Yeah. That’s not how Executive Orders work.
Hasn't stopped agencies from enforcing or following them, states from following them, or law enforcement from adhering to them.
He is given the power the other branches of the government and states give him, and they all give him everything.
Lots of the executive orders have no legal standing, where he has no authority over what they change. Yet here we are.
It's comforting in some ways to see Trump make these desperate moves. It really shows the pressure is taking a toll on him and Republicans know it too.
desperate moves
These aren't "desperate moves." These are just... the moves. Like, this was the plan. This was always the plan. It's not out of desperation, it's out of design.
His desperation makes me wonder if he'll do a big family annihilator thing before he's removed from power.
"I won the 2028 election! It was ME! But those Radical Left judges in the SCOTUS said I'm ineligible! Therefore, I'm going to do what I was planning for my next term in only the next few months! Every living thing in Iran will be DEAD before the week is out! Same with the Radical Left cities like Chicago and Los Angeles! No survivors, no prisoners! Thank you for your attention to this matter!"
The ballot drop boxes are not affected and can be used instead.
Sure, but also fuck this noise:
the executive order would require the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security to compile a list of verified U.S. citizens in each state who are eligible to vote.
And The Orange King just voted by mail himself.
Makes a person wonder what they really intend to do with that list…
Oh yeah, I didn't mean to imply that it was good.. but states could just have drop boxes instead and not give that info at all.
An EO that's worth less, legally, than the paper it's written on. If the states fight it.
Whoops delay delay delay delay, would you look at that it's already midterms! Can't go change it now!
-Courts
Struck down by a court in 5... 4... 3...
Mark my words: this will go to SCOTUS just slowly enough that they'll use it as an excuse to decide it after the election, or at least that it'll be "too close" to the election for the ruling to apply.