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Fiendish Thingy

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2. STOP spreading myths and fomenting panic
Tue Oct 14, 2025, 11:17 AM
Oct 14

Timothy Snyder makes a good argument against spreading the kind of nonsense in your post:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220719691

Here are the facts (as Snyder says, we must fight attempts to sow panic with known facts):

States run elections, the feds cannot cancel or suspend them.

Elections were held during actual wars, including the Civil War, and following 9/11.

Nationwide martial law, or even martial law in just the major blue cities, is a physical impossibility- they couldn’t control LA with 10,000 troops, and the troops in DC ended up on litter patrol Judges have currently blocked deployment of troops in Portland and Chicago.

The facts outweigh and outflank the lies.

They have power, but outside of the executive branch and the MAGA faithful, they have very little actual control.

And don’t forget the most important fact of all:

Trump is not omnipotent, and the states and the people are not powerless

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