cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/42694823

Trump has no power to “decree” that voters must present ID or to end mail-in balloting. But that doesn’t mean he can’t at least try both. Under the Insurrection Act or some other dusty statute, he can declare a state of emergency. Then he can decide that said state permits, nay requires, him to take extraordinary measures. On October 5, say, that might mean outlawing early voting. By October 13, it might mean no mail-in voting. By October 29, a reminder that all voters must present ID to vote. And by Sunday, November 1, two days before the election—an announcement that all these “reasonable” measures have alas failed, and he is now forced, against his will, to postpone the election.

  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
    65·
    1 day ago

    Yes. We gave the Democrats a straight-forward path to winning. They simply needed to shift their policy on Gaza. We communicated that here, there, everywhere. We got kicked out of the DNC convention saying it. We said it before Biden stepped down, after. We wrote articles about it. We did podcasts. We wrote editorials. We made it so incredibly clear, that there is really no excuse for not knowing that it was a choice on the part of the campaign to maintain an electable position.

    • beelzebum@lemmy.world
      22·
      19 hours ago

      Yeah, dude, you made a lot of people sit at home so that they lost. You have the mentality of an early adolescent - selfish and with little wisdom or perspective.

      • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
        31·
        19 hours ago

        No it’s that I actually wanted to win the election and I appreciate that I don’t control the behavior of others. I have to live in reality, where you need to to motivate voters to show up.

        Instead of you, living in fantastic delusion of your own creation, where you some how expect to just guilt and shame voters into doing what you want them to do. And to be clear, the exact strategy you are advocating for is what the Harris campaign did do in 2024, and what the Clinton campaign did in 2016. They simply expected voters to show up, and tried to use same or guilt as the motivater.

        It. Doesn’t. Work.

        You lose elections doing that.

        Also, if I’m some how so fucking powerful and have such masterful control of millions of voters, why wouldn’t you just listen to me and advocate that the candidate change their policy?

        If you can’t win the election without meeting my demand, shouldn’t that be your priority? This is obvious, since, you won’t win the election without doing so.