- cross-posted to:
- politics@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- politics@lemmy.world
Trump fired all three remaining members of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission on Thursday, abruptly disabling the only federal agency devoted solely to election administration at a moment when Trump has sought to reshape federal voting rules.
The two Democratic commissioners, Thomas Hicks and Benjamin Hovland, were notified by email. “On behalf of President Donald J. Trump, I am writing to inform you that your position as Commissioner of the Election Assistance Commission is terminated, effective immediately. Thank you for your service,” the email said. It was signed by Morgan DeWitt Snow, deputy director of presidential personnel in the Executive Office of the President.
The third commissioner, Republican Christy McCormick, was allowed to resign, according to three sources within the agency. McCormick declined to comment when reached by phone. The agency’s fourth commissioner, Republican Donald Palmer, voluntarily departed the agency earlier this year to join the Heritage Foundation.
Nothing substantial is going to happen until Inauguration Day 2029. If on that day, Donald Trump is still in office, and the government doesn’t do anything to remove him, then the United States of America has officially ended, and it’s ON!
Don’t wait for that to happen. Don’t let him spend another two years strengthening the state apparatus in preparation for just that. You don’t need to (and probably shouldn’t) jump right to violence, but neither should you counsel inaction, endorse defeatism or trust everyone to somehow erupt into spontaneous revolution at some point.
Revolutions need planning and support. If you believe that’s the only way, protesting now is the way to recruit supporters for then.
We have to spend the next two years knocking their legs out from under them over and over. We have to force them to spend significant amounts of personal time and money on defense lawyers, instead of plotting their next scam. They need to be playing PERSONAL defense, trying to keep their own asses out of prison, so they don’t have time to defend MAGA.
And keeping them tied up in legal trouble will shut them up, too. Their lawyers will be telling them to not make comments to the press, which will reduce their ability to spew propaganda, and maybe even suppress their campaign speech. You can’t make wild allegations if you know you may have to defend them in court, under oath.
We can’t do anything about Donald Trump being in office over the next 2 years, but we can make that time miserable for him, and everybody around him.
I saw you insult someone else in this thread for no reason - “You and your comment are stupid because I know what’s really important to comment about.” It’s clear that you’re angry and impotent, and spreading the former paradoxically makes you feel a little less of the latter. You’re not helping anyone or anything, including yourself. And giving yourself an arbitrary 2.5 year deadline to pretend that you’ll ever do more than insult and complain and regurgitate the same articles we’re all reading in this same bubble like you’re the one who really gets it is sad. You complain and insult online today, and that’s what you’ll do every day up to, including, and after Inauguration Day 2029. It’s as ON as it’s ever going to be for you.
You’re one of those weak minded people who can’t argue the merits of an issue, so you INVENT a quote that I never said, and try to force me to defend it. Not gonna happen.
You don’t know me at all. I have vulnerable people in my life that depend on me, and if MAGA were to do anything to them, I would have nothing to lose, and I would become very dangerous. I am not alone in this. Maybe YOU can’t envision a potential future America that isn’t a Nazi America, but I can see it very clearly, and I don’t intend to be a bystander, like you.