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0 pointskenjackson26d ago0 comments

A plan? Actually there is. This is all part of the backdrop to end US elections. We can’t have elections in the middle of a major war. And if we do have them we must greatly constrain how they are held while we are at war.

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jjk16626d ago

We had elections during WW2, the largest war of all time; we had elections during the civil war when confederate troops were 30 miles from DC. An air campaign in the Middle East is just another tuesday by comparison. This theory falls flat on its face - it is not a reasonable pretext for suspending elections, and this administration does not bother with creating pretexts for its power grabs.

zelphirkalt26d ago

Ah, but whether it is a "reasonable" pretext/excuse for suspending elections is up to the media and how they want to spin it for the masses, to shape their opinion, isn't it? And how practical, that more news outlets are now owned by MAGA people. Furthermore, I will not put it past Trump to use any flimsy excuse to suspend elections, if he thinks he will lose.

ourmandave26d ago

The president has no legal powers over elections, per the constitution. Only states can hold elections.

Of course Trump and the GOP can try all sorts of voter suppression, which is what they're doing now.

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jjk16626d ago

Can you name something which can't be spun by the media or that you could not believe Trump would try to use as an excuse? If something is always true, it is evidence of nothing in particular.

Claiming this strike on Iran is an attempt to suspend US elections is exactly as ridiculous as claiming the last round of strikes on Iran, or the Maduro raid, or any of Trump's other previous military boondoggles were attempts to suspend US elections.

jimt123426d ago

I've been trying to avoid the news for a little over a year now. I needed a detox. ... Is this true? That is, are there legitimate proposals to cancel or constrain the November elections in any significant way? Or, is this all speculation?

bakies26d ago

There's a memo out about nationalizing elections and there's the SAVE America act to require much stricter voting requirements. Both of these unconstitutional obviously because federal government doesn't run elections.

jimt123426d ago

Isn't this essentially what MAGA argued during the fighting over the 2020 election - that the states should be able to run their elections however-the-fvck they want, and the feds have no right tell the states how to run their elections?

petre26d ago

What, is the US Ukraine? Is it under attack?

bakies26d ago

When zelenskyy mentioned elections were suspended by the war to trump, in the Whitehouse while in a room full of media, trump replied something like "now that's a good idea"

idontwantthis26d ago

That's an absurd stretch with no basis in fact or history.

rdiddly26d ago

Unfortunately, you can't dismiss it based on that. Most of what this administration does is an absurd stretch with no basis in fact or history.

avaer26d ago

The president said they should cancel the elections.

skullone26d ago

You must be ignorant - the entire republican leadership is telegraphing the cancel elections

muwtyhg26d ago

> We can’t have elections in the middle of a major war.

Yes we can? Is there any provision in the US Constitution that allows delay of election because of war? We have had elections during most of our recent wars (Iraq, Vietnam, Korea, Afghanistan).

Trump could definitely try. Or pull an emergency card out of his ass. But it doesn't mean there is any provision for cancelling elections because of this 'war' with Iran (which they aren't even calling a war, but a "special combat operation" to get around congress having the war powers)

kenjacksonOP26d ago

That statement was not on my voice, but the coming voice from this administration. IMO there is never a reason to withhold elections.

actionfromafar26d ago

So, I heard Epstein started a war in the middle east...

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jjk16626d ago

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ourmandave26d ago

The president has no legal powers over elections, per the constitution. Only states can hold elections.

Of course Trump and the GOP can try all sorts of voter suppression, which is what they're doing now.

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jjk16626d ago

Can you name something which can't be spun by the media or that you could not believe Trump would try to use as an excuse? If something is always true, it is evidence of nothing in particular.

jimt123426d ago

bakies26d ago

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petre26d ago

What, is the US Ukraine? Is it under attack?

bakies26d ago

When zelenskyy mentioned elections were suspended by the war to trump, in the Whitehouse while in a room full of media, trump replied something like "now that's a good idea"

idontwantthis26d ago

That's an absurd stretch with no basis in fact or history.

rdiddly26d ago

Unfortunately, you can't dismiss it based on that. Most of what this administration does is an absurd stretch with no basis in fact or history.

avaer26d ago

The president said they should cancel the elections.

skullone26d ago

You must be ignorant - the entire republican leadership is telegraphing the cancel elections

muwtyhg26d ago

> We can’t have elections in the middle of a major war.

Yes we can? Is there any provision in the US Constitution that allows delay of election because of war? We have had elections during most of our recent wars (Iraq, Vietnam, Korea, Afghanistan).

kenjacksonOP26d ago

That statement was not on my voice, but the coming voice from this administration. IMO there is never a reason to withhold elections.

actionfromafar26d ago

So, I heard Epstein started a war in the middle east...

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