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Trump fired all three remaining members of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission on Thursday, abruptly disabling the only federal agency devoted solely to election administration at a moment when Trump has sought to reshape federal voting rules.
The two Democratic commissioners, Thomas Hicks and Benjamin Hovland, were notified by email. “On behalf of President Donald J. Trump, I am writing to inform you that your position as Commissioner of the Election Assistance Commission is terminated, effective immediately. Thank you for your service,” the email said. It was signed by Morgan DeWitt Snow, deputy director of presidential personnel in the Executive Office of the President.
The third commissioner, Republican Christy McCormick, was allowed to resign, according to three sources within the agency. McCormick declined to comment when reached by phone. The agency’s fourth commissioner, Republican Donald Palmer, voluntarily departed the agency earlier this year to join the Heritage Foundation.
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I never thought in my lifetime the United States would need “International Observers”.
Welp.
We lived long enough to see America become a 3rd world shithole.
Edit: Don’t care if I get banned. This traitor’s head needs to be on a pike.
Always was.
i think it’s so funny how americans think they live in a democracy while one guy just fires whomever he wants.
Was there always a lack of repercussions to illegal actions or were administrations playing nice for the most part?
I’m guessing like with other actions some federal judge will ask to reinstate them when it’s far too late
Yeah we in the rest of the world call that a “dictatorship” m’dudes.
It was a lot easier to believe the illusion before the Orange Don.
And validated as just fine by the unelected supreme court.
Good times.
i think it’s so funny how americans think they live in a democracy
Not just any 'ol democracy, but the bestest one ever!!1!!
It would be incredible and one hell of a historic moment if the Orange Pedophile’s reign, which has exposed all our system’s flaws, actually resulted in us plugging those holes and updating our political machine to prevent this all from happening again.
But the bottom line is that would require voter action and Americans are dogshit stupid.
i would wholeheartedly wish such a change for you guys.
Plug the holes of centuries of murder and pillage? Can you fix all the countries you’ve invaded or couped since WWII? Can you bring back all the dead fisherman or those 200 little girls trump killed this year? Can you bring back all the Iraqis, Afghanis, Vietnamese or Koreans?
Fuck your country, man.
he’s setting himself up for a coup from a general, at this point it could really happen
Fired the Democrat, but “allowed the Republican to resign”. That is some petty shit. Not that it surprises me coming from Trump and the hairs he has hanging on to his balls like DeWitt.
Can’t wait to see how much phantom voter fraud his administration uncovers exclusively in states run by people Trump personally doesn’t like. With no mention of how they know there is any fraud to begin with since it seems like they have fired everyone on the Federal side that had any direct insight into elections with this announcement.
I’m sure someone in the media will get right on that line of thought when the time comes. /s
Well they haven’t found fraud yet, have they? They need to be replaced with people who will find “fraud”, who will get the necessary votes, and disregard votes where there were “illegal immigrants” …… you can tell because they speak Spanish
Really interested to know why nobody near this guy has any spine whatsoever.
Easy, they’re conservatives/regressives.
Plenty of people near him have a spine. They just aren’t your friends
Doubtful anyone near him has a spine. They all fold faster than superman on laundry day. Even when it harms them.
Dude is trying to steal the next election and install himself as king, amd we’re all just shrugging our shoulders. Let’s see how that works out for us.
So he’d have to overturn the 22nd amendment.
Let’s say he does.
Plot twist: Obama runs against him.
Plot twist: one drop law passed so only 100% white people can run
Plot delay: 1 year lost arguing how white italians and irish are
Plot double cross: everybody is disqualified
Time to buy that popcorn stock.
That will save my 401k!
lets dont see, and get up off the couch to do what it takes to remove him
Any bets on Kalshi about when his arteries call it quits?
Who cares what a bunch of addicts think?
Hey, people have been betting on Kalshi using insider knowledge. I was hoping that somebody in his inner circle is placing bets that gives us any indication on his cardiovascular fitness.
Directly from the authoritarian playbook
“It’s a COOKbook?!?”
Nah the ones with the cookbook are on the opposite side of the political spectrum
Thanks SCOTUS!
This right here is the final straw. Cancelling the independence of federal agencies will turn this nation into a capitalist MAGA shithole faster than anything else he’s done.
I used to believe that we needed to add 4 seats to SCOTUS, but I no longer believe that. Now I believe that we need to add at least 20 seats to SCOTUS, with rolling term limits. The count shouldn’t be so close that one bad faith president can negatively manipulate policy for the next century. It should include rolling term limits, so every president gets to appoint a few, but not enough to steer the direction of the court.
We have to strengthen the independence of the three branches of government, and this is how we do it for SCOTUS.
This right here is the final straw.
LOL.
I’ll believe that when I see the majority of americans stand up and fight back in any meaningful way.
I would be so happy for my cynicism to be proven wrong - to see Trump, his lackeys and his puppeteers stopped.
But I don’t expect that to happen.
I think the nation as a whole should be divided up into four regional blocs, each with their own judiciary, executive, legislative, military branches, and a regional president. They submit personnel to the national body, including National Justices. This keeps any single territory, person, or party from dominating the ideology of the national court.
What I am thinking, is something like…
- 3 executive justices, chosen by the executive without presidential input.
- 3 judiciary justices, required to have served a long time as a judge.
- 3 legislative justices, chosen by the elected representatives.
- 3 military justices, chosen by rank and file soldiers by popular election.
- 1 presidential justice. When the president who picked the justice leaves office, so does their pick.
If we have 4 regions, and including the National President’s single justice…
- 53 national justices, total.
0000
Also, add in…
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10 year term limit total, that can’t be renewed nor extended. Presidential justices also are subjected to this restriction.
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An age limit of 60. A justice has to have a sound mind, and reasonably modern understanding of the nation’s people and a grasp of technology.
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Elimination of the shadow docket, and limits on the amount of vacation time that justices can have in a year. We want them to do their job.
The whole US government needs term limits.
Including the 4th branch: billionaires and trillionaires
Yup.
We could call that bill “Luigi’s Revenge”.
Seems like a branch that could use the liberal application of an axe.
This is it. His big move. It’s all out in the open now and the endgame is midterms. C’mon citizens of all stripes, choose neighbourhood reps to watch and video all the polling booths on election day. You’ll need that insurance.
Free elections…Russian style
They should still show up to work and do their jobs. I highly doubt they answer directly to the executive branch, or that the president even has the power to terminate them.
How were they selected in the first place? Are they elected, appointed, or hired? By whom? These are the questions that matter.
If they report to Congress, then I’m guessing at a minimum that it would take an act of congress to fire them. Not that republicans wouldn’t do it if trump asks, but there’s a narrow enough majority that a few spoiler votes could block it.
We need to stop letting trump get away with usurping the powers of the other branches of government.
Unfortunately, appointed by the president so firing them may be legit. Another power grab and the foundation for a fixed election but legit
Assuming Congress was willing to use their authority, the check against this is they must be approved by the senate.
There needs to be a quorum of 4 to do anything, so they already couldn’t legally
There’s no mechanism for temporary or acting commissioners, but that has been a common Drump strategy to circumvent Congress. Just declare an acting one, then when the confirmation period expires, declare a new acting one
JFC, you are so behind the times. The fact that you are getting upvotes is scary. Obviously, many people don’t know that American life as they know it, was effectively destroyed a week ago.
Remember the other day, when there was all that talk about Birthright Citizenship being BARELY upheld by SCOTUS? A case that was so obvious that it NEVER should have been brought, to say nothing making it all the way to the SCOTUS, where it inexplicably had 4 votes against it?
That vote was a red herring, a distraction. The important case, the one that got 10% of the coverage of Birthright Citizenship, was the one that struck down the independence of nearly EVERY independent agency (over 2 dozen) that regulates EVERYTHING in our country. Now the president can fire anybody, in any agency, for any reason. ALL government regulation is now in the hands of Donald Trump.
That means pharmaceuticals, food, air, water, transportation safety, roads, buildings, workplace safety, etc. literally EVERYTHING in this country that requires regulations to remain safe, are up to Donald Trump. So if the meat industry wants to pay off Donald Trump to loosen safety standards, he’ll take the bribe, and let them write their own rules, and we’ll be eating horsemeat and dogmeat labelled as beef, and it will be perfectly legal, so don’t bother to sue.
BTW, the ONLY agency that SCOTUS protected was the Federal Reserve, which was the one agency Trump really wanted to get his hands on. But the Sociopathic Oligarchs who make these decisions were smart enough to keep the MONEY out of Trump’s hands. They WANT him to fuck up everything else, and make our lives miserable, but they aren’t going to let him fuck up THEIR money.
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No shit things are bad, but that doesn’t mean we should just fold.
Feel free to smugly insult me though, that’s not going to do anything to stop fascism.
Don’t take it personally it’s better that information get out, it’s shocking how nobody is really talking about how bad this is.
Yeah, it’s bad, but I wouldn’t say no one is talking about it. There are certainly media bubbles where no one talks about it, but that doesn’t seem to be here.
I agree that insulting you was cruel, unnecessary, and detracts from the intended message.
I can respect the self-awareness
I wasn’t the person who insulted you - I just agree that they were needlessly cruel and out of touch.
Oh you’re right, your profile pictures were a similar color and I didn’t check the usernames. My bad!
Ahh, so you are actually a dictatorship now
Civil disobedience is probably one of the best tools of resistance at this point. If he’s doing blatantly antidemocratic stuff, his orders no longer carry democratic legitimacy and should not be followed. They only have weight if people obey. Sure, he might send someone to remove them from office forcibly, but it would contribute to cracks in his image of power.
Hilarious.
Yeah, we only show him that he has the powers he imagines he does when we go along with what he decrees. He’s a despot who derives his power from people’s unwillingness to stand up to him.
Nothing substantial is going to happen until Inauguration Day 2029. If on that day, Donald Trump is still in office, and the government doesn’t do anything to remove him, then the United States of America has officially ended, and it’s ON!
Don’t wait for that to happen. Don’t let him spend another two years strengthening the state apparatus in preparation for just that. You don’t need to (and probably shouldn’t) jump right to violence, but neither should you counsel inaction, endorse defeatism or trust everyone to somehow erupt into spontaneous revolution at some point.
Revolutions need planning and support. If you believe that’s the only way, protesting now is the way to recruit supporters for then.
Didn’t the supreme court just give him power to fire certain people he couldn’t before?
Then someone needs to call the legitimacy of the supreme court into question because at this point they’re ruling against the constitution and there need to be impeachments.
And do what? They are completely illegitimate already. We’re finding out the hard way that it’s far too difficult to oust people at this level of government.
Maybe divert all power to the midterm thrusters so we can get people in office that will actually impeach corrupt officials who betray the constitution in order to advance their personal power?
Americans really aren’t paying attention. They (Supreme Court) just ruled the pedophile in chief can fire anybody now. Irregardless if it’s supposed to be an independent branch. You are all cooked
And the left continues to cannibalize itself instead of mounting any meaningful resistance to fascism…
Who has ‘Americans will do nothing to stop it’ on their bingo card?
Either won’t stop it or actively encourage it.
it’s basically free space in the center of all our cards
Ah and so it begi… ends.
What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.
Thomas Jefferson
their people preserve the spirit of resistance?
That’s the best part: they don’t.
