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Fiendish Thingy

(22,700 posts)
15. So sorry to hear you have succumbed to defeatist Doomerism
Thu Feb 26, 2026, 02:51 PM
Thursday

Despite acting with lawless impunity on a daily basis, This administration has been stalled, stymied or restrained numerous times over the past year.

No troops were deployed in Chicago or Portland

Kilmer Garcia is free on US soil

Little Liam and his father are free and back in Minnesota.

And those are just the headline grabbers.

He just needs the justification to put armed troops outside every polling station. He just has to do it in such a way that by the time any court gets around to making a decision that the midterm elections will already be over.


You don’t seem to understand the physical logistics of “putting armed troops outside every polling station”. The troops have to be transported, housed, fed etc. It’s not something that can be done quickly and quietly, in secret overnight.

It’s also a physical impossibility to do it outside every polling place, and a strategic impossibility to accurately choose which places would be the most important to disrupt, given that 2024 red Trump districts have been swinging 15-30 points towards the Dems in elections over the past year.

Trump may attempt to defy the laws of the land, but nobody can defy the laws of physics.

To the rest of the folks still in the reality-based community, never forget this one absolute truth:

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

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Russia Russia Russia dweller Thursday #1
Yeah, if he wants Russian interference into elections investigated slightlv Thursday #18
Trump can count on which SCOTUS justices for this? Frasier Balzov Thursday #2
Maybe he alienated enough of them with his recent comments that they're no longer in his back pocket. TheRickles Thursday #6
K & R! poli-junkie Thursday #3
Not unlike Jan 6 he said he would do it and he did. twodogsbarking Thursday #4
And he failed. Nt Fiendish Thingy Thursday #14
Disagree! Wuddles440 13 hrs ago #56
One signature away angrychair Thursday #5
Or he will be ignored Fiendish Thingy Thursday #8
The difference here angrychair Thursday #9
Physically impossible Fiendish Thingy Thursday #13
Check your math dpibel Thursday #33
Seriously. Simple math. dpibel 3 hrs ago #61
He doesn't need to control every polling place in the nation. summer_in_TX 20 min ago #63
Ya know, even though I might agree with a lot of your posts, MarineCombatEngineer Thursday #16
It's not negative, it's awareness angrychair Thursday #21
I get it, but this negativity day after day is not helping at all, we need to concentrate on the positive MarineCombatEngineer Thursday #28
Agreed AverageOldGuy 4 hrs ago #60
With All Due Respect, Unsolicited Advice Ain't Why We're Here. J/S. ColoringFool 20 hrs ago #46
The same could be said of you with this post. MarineCombatEngineer 15 hrs ago #47
and he better not drag his shitty ass out into public view... Jack Valentino Yesterday #43
Declaring a national emergency won't give Trump power over elections Fiendish Thingy Thursday #7
He doesn't need it to be legal angrychair Thursday #10
So sorry to hear you have succumbed to defeatist Doomerism Fiendish Thingy Thursday #15
Lately, that's all this member posts is negative, MarineCombatEngineer Thursday #17
It is possible to acknowledge the daily horrors of this administration without accepting all is lost. Nt Fiendish Thingy Thursday #19
Agreed. nt MarineCombatEngineer Thursday #20
In a nation of 330 million people, he couldn't put armed troops outside every polling station Jack Valentino Yesterday #44
Not necessarily angrychair Yesterday #45
And national and state troops could just refuse to obey illegal orders--- Jack Valentino 1 hr ago #62
Please look at the numbers in Post 33 dpibel 9 hrs ago #58
Can they separate federal offices from the states' and make their rules that way, two ballots? quaint Thursday #29
Nope Fiendish Thingy Thursday #30
Thanks, paranoia strikes deep. quaint Thursday #31
this samsingh Thursday #36
I smell smoke... tonekat Thursday #11
Weird that China would interfere in 2020 but not 2024. Qutzupalotl Thursday #12
Or his pathological lying. AZ8theist Thursday #24
I've never heard of China being involved in U.S. elections Bayard Thursday #32
That was part of the Great Arizona Ballot and Snipe Hunt - "bamboo fibers" muriel_volestrangler Thursday #35
Oh, THAT evidence Bayard 14 hrs ago #50
Bring it orangecrush Thursday #22
i don't believe there is any statute that allows trump to take charge of elections samsingh Thursday #23
When are they going to report how trump/musk/silicon valley hackers BComplex Thursday #25
If he... 2naSalit Thursday #26
Is there a clause in the constitution that overrides article 1 section 4 clause 1 SSJVegeta Thursday #27
"Urged" by a bunch of idiot losers with no official positions who bullshitted about "stolen elections" before muriel_volestrangler Thursday #34
The emergency is in his diapers. NameAlreadyTaken Thursday #37
Bingo! KPN Thursday #40
Holy shit why doesn't he just fucking die already? Orrex Thursday #38
I hope China gets invested enough to produce evidence that Trump is a buffoon. Baitball Blogger Thursday #39
Some shit is coming the USPS way PATRICK Thursday #41
The ONLY 'national emergency' is TRUMP!--- Jack Valentino Yesterday #42
Another fake emergency. These people belong in jail. They are criminals. travelingthrulife 15 hrs ago #48
This is the same Peter Ticktin that's the lawyer for Tina Peters MarineCombatEngineer 15 hrs ago #49
Thanks for the background orangecrush 13 hrs ago #55
Well gee whiz! It sure wasn't an "emergency" when Elon Musk no_hypocrisy 14 hrs ago #51
Kooky CT nonsense Fiendish Thingy 11 hrs ago #57
There's going to be an EMERGENCY in NOVEMBER!!! bucolic_frolic 14 hrs ago #52
But....Musk in 2024 AKwannabe 14 hrs ago #53
Trump dumbass the elections can be rigged angryxyouth 14 hrs ago #54
If China interfered in 2020, successfully, then they would have in 2024; no? Grins 6 hrs ago #59
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