• zd9@lemmy.world
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    Stephen Miller needs to be treated as a domestic terrorist and traitor to the United States of America.

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      The chances of him facing actual charges after Trump dies is actually very high.

      When the administration shatters and everyone is scrambling to shift blame knowing their free-pass to immunity has disappeared, they will desperately need some high-level cabinet member to point at, and this may come as a shock to everyone… but Stephen Miller is not very likeable.

      Everyone hates this guy, he is as cringe and annoying in real life as he is on camera, everyone says it. The only reason he’s there is because he learned who he can wormtongue to climb in power, and found the ultimate cursed husk to puppeteer in Trump. They will delight in throwing his gangly limbs under the bus.

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        Yeah one can only hope. I have low confidence that anything will happen to anyone when the regime falls because “we must move on with unity and forgiveness” or some shit that Democrats will say.

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          It really depends on how successful the midterms are at flushing out the establishment Dems in power in house and senate, they are sweating right now because the last wave of local elections REALLY ran against the mainstream grain. Dems have been pushing back on electing open socialists and reformists running under the DNC brand, and instead of successfully squashing these runs down, they failed across the board at stopping grassroots movements.

          If Midterms flip the legislative branch significantly AND Trump can’t finish his term, we may see a wild swing back in the other direction.

          The Democrats are just a container, they’re only as strong in obstruction to change as their oldest old-money liches like Schumer and other withered old husks who’ve had their seats and committee positions for like, 3,000 years.

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            I have little faith the regime will allow free and fair elections. They’ve done so much evil to get to this point, they’re wouldn’t dare risk actually letting the will of the people be carried out.

            I expect this summer and fall to be the worst in my lifetime, because things are gonna get heavy.

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              They’re proving over and over again they don’t have control over much, if they did we wouldn’t have seen so many leftists, dems and open socialists take lead of cities and states last cycle. They tried too.

              The problem for them that both they and us often forget about is that the USA isn’t one big country like Iran or Venezuela that can have their entire election system rigged by one small group. USA is 50 individual states. Remember, “State” basically means “nation.”

              We have 50 individual nations with their own security, their own election systems, their own laws and rules. It takes a MASSIVE effort to go everywhere in this landscape, and even if they had the balls to risk something that big, they don’t have the manpower.

              Not saying it’s impossible for them to fuck it all up, they will absolutely try. But I don’t think their success rate is nearly as high as they want you to think it is. They want you say “What good is it” and throw your hands up. They did more to suggest that they’re going to cheat than actual cheating because they want people to feel powerless. We’re not powerless, we still have 50 different nations with different agendas and people.

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                Conservative billionaires own like 70% of the voting and tabulation machines. It’s only 2 companies.

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                  It’s not that simple, the “machines” aren’t like internet apps (until we allow congress to approve some form of Grok-powered voting app) they’re basically just digital printers that each state checks and validates are working on their own terms.

                  They WANT to control the machines and create some system to use that control to rig any election, but again, if they COULD do that yet, they would have already. There is no reason to think they have the power yet to override our will, we are a huge nation with a LOT of people, this isn’t quite yet a banana republic, so please discourage yourself from saying it’s hopeless and pointless to vote, especially around others.

                  People are starving for an excuse to roll over and stop trying. Seriously, I’ve never seen our nation so ready to just give up and cry. Everyone is lost and alone and desperate for the one thing they’re most scared of, which is reaching out to others and connecting and organizing. Be a force that resists this urge.

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    Asked why administration officials like Miller and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem jumped to conclusions “before an investigation had even been conducted,” Leavitt said, “Well, look, this has obviously been a very fluid and fast-moving situation throughout the weekend, as President Trump, whom I speak for, he has said that he wants to let the investigation continue and let the facts lead in this case

    Ok? Why didn’t you do that?

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      “Facts” doesn’t mean the same thing to them as it does to you and me. I can already tell you what the conclusion of their investigation will be.

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    Assholes. All of them. Everything those motherfuckers do to destroy in the name of “patriotism” every fucking day, they only make Putin very fucking happy.