Donald Trump

[SWP's back]

Take US out of Taiwan.
That sounds great...

Yeah can’t have any of the self-determinism where people can opt out of living under an authoritarian regime. Sounds awful.

 

[bluethrunthru]

 

[lightning Rodri]

 

[Elbow beards]

GOP leaders in some states move to block Justice Department election monitors

Federal authorities have deployed monitors for decades. But Republican leaders in some states have begun denying them entry to polling sites.

The Justice Department’s ability to monitor local jurisdictions for voting rights irregularities on Election Day, already curtailed by the Supreme Court, is facing a new hurdle: opposition from Republicans who are seeking to block federal authorities from polling sites.

The U.S. government has regularly dispatched hundreds of monitors to voting locations in blue, red and swing states, aiming to protect ballot access, discourage improper partisan influence and act as a moderating force on political campaigns.

While the Justice Department has the legal right to request access to polling sites, inflamed partisanship and ideological extremism has contributed to greater resistance to such activities in some GOP-controlled states, legal experts said. Those states have attempted to politicize the process and cast federal monitors as partisans from the Biden administration who cannot be trusted.

Republican leaders in Missouri and Florida, which flatly banned federal monitors in the 2022 midterm elections, said in recent interviews that their positions have not changed and that Justice officials likely would be rebuffed again if they request access to voting locations for Tuesday’s presidential election.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/10/30/election-monitors-justice-department-republican-states/

Greatest democracy in the world my arse. Greatest banana republic more like.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

Blimey.

The question that springs to mind is whether it's Trump or Trump's speechwriters (so Miller?) doing that. I could easily understand that Trump doesn't know about the source material.

 

[Elbow beards]

'He looks like half a second after you open up the ark of the covenant'
Brilliant

 

[SWP's back]

And Little Miss Both Sides listens to that, see him reenact the MSG Nazi rally of 1937 and then sees the picture below and wonders why people are connoting Trump/MAGA with Nazis “at the minute”

 

[SebastianBlue]

“People likening Trump and MAGA rhetoric and promised action to the early days of the rise of Nazism are hysterical idiots.” — Both Sides Brigade

 

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[pudge]

The **** can't even open a car door