We need to all be eyeing the break glass solution: a general strike. If Trump subverts the elections, then we turn off the economy until fair elections are held.
this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2026
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It's all good in words, but I've got maybe 3 days worth of food at my place. So come day 5 I'm fucked
That's why we're supposed to take care of each other in situations like that. My kitchen is overstocked and I'm a chef who knows how to make the most out of what's available. I share my food and you pitch in however you can.
Respect
I'm well versed in the art of I'm sure this and that will go together lol. I just know I am out of meat and am low on lentils at the moment. Was trying to think of something I could use the lentils for tonight.
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That’s why we plan for mutual aid right now.
Come over to my place. I've got lots of food. Mutual aid is essential in a general strike.
Or ... just bust down the locked door of the grocery store and take some food. Illegalism is also good.
And hopefully at this point people will realize that it was designed to be that way, then do something about it. This is modern slavery.
Sadly, I doubt it, they will still blame trans and brown people while being fucked by psychopaths.
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I feel like fucking with the election could actually be the trigger for more people to actually act and even march in mass on Waahington. Its the one thing I can think of that I would very likely go for.
It would basically be the final break for "Are we permenantly broken as a country."
I don't know. We let an insurrection happen and then re-elected the leader of it. Not sure how many final lines we can have to cross. I think our government has already proven it's completely broken and needs to be replaced.
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Is that right? Because I'm not convinced. Even with data like this the knowledge of Trump's remarks about Elon "knowing computers", his completely lackluster few rallies before the 2024 elections, the bomb threats, the millions of mail-in ballots in ditches, and the various other election interference, we still haven't organized as a nation and removed the cheater.
In fact getting most people to actually look at the data is like pulling teeth.
I think instead we'll just roll over like the livestock we are for our oligarchic masters, as we've done so far.
Would love to be proven wrong though. Please my fellow Americans, prove my doubts wrong. Organize and become Wolves.
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You may need civil war before this is over. If striking is breaking glass, what would civil war be?
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Time to prepare for mass protests. Completely surround the White House if he does that.
These people will rake you down with belt-fed machine guns before they acquiesce to "public pressure" to resign their most powerful office.
But they won't have to, because they just have to ignore you like No Kings and then you'll go home.
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is it time that the UN starts to talk about putting [armed?] observers on the ground to make sute that the elections are not tampered with, like they do for other 3rd world countries?
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“Let me just say stranger things have happened, okay? I’ll leave it at that,” Trump said.
I’d love to hear some specifics. I doesn’t feel like things have ever been this crazy.
Jim Crow only existed because whites were able to threaten and prevent blacks from voting (Thanks, Johnson).
Hitler basically had a coup handed to him but stayed technically "elected" again via fear and fraud.
There's a lot of crazy shit Republicans are doing and courts are allowing that should be unthinkable.
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If Trump tries to invoke national security to take over federal elections, it would shatter precedent and could set off lawsuits and protests across the country
Oh no... not lawsuits and protests! That will spell doom for him. No way he could ever recover from that.
He isn’t ‘mulling’ it or even considering it, it’s already set into motion. They’re going to steal the midterms. Everybody knows except for the American people it seems who will gladly except their already shithole country will become that even more
I think you'll find that many Americans see this as the last bit of faith in the system they have left. If it gets pulled out of their hands, you're going to see a very different type of American.
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This was the plan since day 1. Don’t act surprised now or when there are armed men at polling stations on Election Day.
Would it be common sense to organise against this? Would it not set a good precedent for Americans to encircle the polling stations and make their grudge known?
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Is there any legal precedent for what happens when would-be voters are detained in front of polls by federal agents for bullshit reasons that definitely have nothing to do with their voter registration? If not, I'm sure there will be.
Yep. There will be many such cases. Held for 24 hours, then released without charges. But, oops! They missed the election and couldn't vote!
They can sue, and maybe even get some money out of it months or years later, but the election is already over and they still can't cast their vote.
This is what's most likely to happen imo. And if any single polling station faces "resistance" he'll just use it to lock the whole country down.
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The Antichrist who hates America and is raping children while stealing billions doesn’t want to be held accountable? Crazy!
He can try, states are going to vote though.
America held elections during the literal civil war, we can hold elections while an orange vapor balloon tried to fat on them.
We just need everyone to see what’s going on and overcome fear. Once people hear about this nonsense I expect any remaining people that aren’t awake yet but can be reached will wake up and they won’t tolerate it.
The surest way to turn a +/- 2 Talarico electorate into a 5-6 point Talarico win is to openly try and fuck with the election.
Even in Texas. Even when (some of) the Republicans are as corrupt as god makes politicians, including the candidate and their governor. Turns out, it's a lot harder to propagandize people in the middle of the bullshit you're pulling.
Incidentally, that's why some of your Republican friends and family are at their most reasonable immediate after something happens. They haven't received their lines yet, and the feelings of the story are still their primary decision drivers.
This is also why I think the more immediate goal of Democrats and progressives is to attack the right wing propaganda vectors. If those collapse even if it's just say talk radio, tv, and maybe Facebook it'll destroy a lot of the transmission capabilities and people will more likely make decisions based on their actual baseline personalities.
As for how to destroy them, I say just blow out their business models. Ban their ability to advertise and collect data.
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Newsmax’s Wayne Allen Root interviewed Trump just after midnight Tuesday morning,
Ok first of all, wtf is this?
As a former National Guard officer I am concerned that the Guard will be turned on us and most of the Guardsman will not push back. I live in the South and I know most of the state governors will do nothing. I hope the blue state governors do something. I hope the Guardsman remember their oath. I am not hopeful. Prepare for the worst.
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This isn't shocking and has been floated around the real question how will people respond to it. It doesn't help they gave him that semi king status where anything as a Presidential act is fine to do.
It doesn't matter. This is going to be like 2020, where the outrage was so strong that it overwhelmed all their cheating schemes. That's why he's so fixated on that race. He knows he cheated, and should have won. If Biden won, it can only mean that he must have cheated worse, so if he can find evidence of Dem cheating, it will be end of the Dems, and MAGA will be in power forever.
He can't possibly believe that Biden had that many legal votes, because them he'd have to believe that he's hated that much, and he thinks people love him.
It's how a dumb 9 year-old thinks, but that's Trump.
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I think he'll take action much closer to the actual election. When it's too soon for the courts to say anything about it.
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it would shatter precedent and could set off lawsuits
Lawsuits would be useless at that point, absolute performance theater.
Why doesn't he just pull an Orbán and quit? He's rich and nobody's going to sue him. Why live like this when you don't have to?
Because he is legally protected by the office of the president. Once he leaves, he will be prosecuted, and will go to prison for the rest of his life, for multiple offenses.
LOL. Name one President who ever suffered consequences for his actions. Ever.
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Subway sandwiches on standby.
They want 1940s Germany let’s give them 1730s France
If someone openly talks about plotting to commit crime, something should be done to stop them
News at 6: Trump and his Heritage Foundation pals do more illegal shit with zero repercussions.
Establishment politicians: We fOlLow the LawS, dRasTic mEasUrEs are AntI-aMeRicAn!
Trump and Co.:
we are so lucky this old fart has dementia
He’s just a useful moron used as a mouthpiece.
The real villains are guys like Miller, Netanyahu,, Putin, Murdoch, Musk, Thiel and the trash at the Heritage Foundation. They’re the ones pushing this agenda.
my solace with every crazy scheme is that he always fucks up everything he touches. waiting for spectacular losing. would interfere with his JD blanket pardon scheme, ala nixon. either way he'll screw himself. party of confederacy only knows failure. like to play soldier, fat fuck?
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