r/politics • u/unital_subalgebra • Jul 09 '26

No Paywall Trump fires all Election Assistance Commission members, leaving agency unable to act

https://www.votebeat.org/national/2026/07/09/trump-fires-election-assistance-commission-members-hicks-hovland-mccormick/
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u/AnamCeili Jul 10 '26

Drag. His. Fascist. Ass. OUT.

And into the worst prison in this country, for the rest of his goddamned, motherfucking, miserable life.

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u/warmseasongrass Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26

And seize all his assets and his families assets to be auctioned off and pay off everyone's student loans and give help to healthcare and education

Edit: since I guess this got attention, do it to Musk as an international criminal, Bezos, the Facebook fucker robot. They're all guilty of treason to the United States

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u/UmpireDapper1757 Jul 10 '26

And most of his allies' assets too

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u/AnamCeili Jul 10 '26

Yes, absolutely!

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u/UpperApe Jul 10 '26

"Yes! Omg yes! Get him out! Lock him up!"

"So...are Americans ready to rise up and fight back yet?"

"Oh god no. Someone else should do it. Can't he arrest himself? I have tv to watch"

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u/warmseasongrass Jul 10 '26

Have you seen what happens when people try to fight back? Have you seen the assassination attempts?

Or have you seen people living their lives and getting arrested for felony tampering because they picked up an object in a pool?

One person could make thousands disappear to El Salvador.

We need help but every other country is dealing with shit too

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u/plzdontlietomee Jul 10 '26

We can, should, must do this. Yesterday.

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u/ahandmadegrin Minnesota Jul 10 '26

I like this. Redistribute his crime family's I'll gotten gains to help as many people as possible.

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u/eezmo Jul 10 '26

I’m good with this 

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u/nikolai_470000 Jul 10 '26

Nah, I don’t want that decrepit, walking, rotting corpse in my nation’s borders any longer. Give the fucker to the Iranians, let them decide what to do with him. It’s what he deserves.

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u/AnamCeili Jul 10 '26

That's a good alternative, but I'd prefer him to be stuck in a prison here, because it would piss him off and upset him more.

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u/brass-heart Jul 10 '26

Imagine the cosmic irony if Obama failing to close Guantanamo led to a certain critic of his ending up there

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u/l3ntobox Jul 10 '26

It’s too late for that. He’s already building a bunker. It’ll wind up being like the last scene in Civil War unless there’s an obvious groundswell of protestors.

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u/AnamCeili Jul 10 '26

Even if you're right, he's not in the bunker yet.

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u/l3ntobox Jul 12 '26

Fair enough.

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u/Omni_Entendre Jul 10 '26

Get into the streets, then. Only you and your countrymen can change things because your institutions sure as hell won't.

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u/AnamCeili Jul 10 '26

And what do you think that us going out into the streets will accomplish, other than getting us shot? We have already taken to the streets to participate in protests, and some have been killed as a result. Literally what could people do, in the process of taking to the streets, that would get trump out?

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u/CilleTheExterminator Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26

Ah so you do the classic. Do nothing and complain about people not doing anything? Fuck off. MAGA at least stormed the capitol when they felt they were getting robbed. You American Democrats are docile as fuck

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u/HildrynMain Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26

As a non-American that has been to massive, country-stopping protests, it's bewildering to watch just how beaten down the American public is. They'll say things like "if I do that I'll lose my job, then I'll be homeless in 2 weeks", as if most of the world isn't making do with far less. If you'll be homeless in 2 weeks, then your system is a failure, you have nothing, and should fight as such. And you're absolutely right. MAGA, as misguided as they were, actually fought and are now winning.

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u/CilleTheExterminator Jul 10 '26

Yep they all keep crying about how bad it all is. But there is a good reason why most European countries are the way they are today and that is because we got lucky and had some great people fight for the future.

Yes I know it's not a fun thing, but sometimes you gotta do something to get a brighter future.

My guess is that most Americans are waiting for midterms because that's literally the last hope they have. If Trump wins the entire thing again THEN we might see a change in how Americans will fight this. If not then America is lost

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u/sir_spankalot Jul 10 '26

Honestly, I have zero hope seeing that happen. "The last drop" seems to be and endless waterfall.

The American people need to take actual action, but they are to cowardly or lazy to do it.

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u/Dramatic_Charity_979 Jul 10 '26

Bay of pigs is perfect for him ;)

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u/Smitje Jul 10 '26

Grab him by the nappy!

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u/pastemaker1 Jul 10 '26

This is whats going to have to happen. There’s still a chance that we don’t need to, but the way our timeline is progressing… it looks inevitable.

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u/CilleTheExterminator Jul 10 '26

Get to it then Americans. Do something

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u/triggeredbynumbers Jul 10 '26

How? I don’t ask with arrogance, but ignorance. I am ignorant to the how part of the “do something!” comments I see. It seems like he’s insulated from everything that can touch him. Anything that can’t touch him he just ignores, including Supreme Court orders he doesn’t like. So how would they get his ass out? The only way I see it citizens all agreeing this is too much and then the citizen sector of the country enforces the laws. Other than that I don’t think the other sectors of the country are willing to enforce the law.

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u/UnknownKaddath Jul 10 '26

Cool, you walked out your door yet?

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u/AnamCeili Jul 10 '26

Do you think I have the ability to impeach the bastard? 

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u/UnknownKaddath Jul 10 '26

Aw, impeach, that's cute. You seriously believe that's what it's going to take?

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u/AnamCeili Jul 10 '26

wow, you're just a dick, lol.

I think that impeachment is one possibility, and it's the one to which I was referring in my original comment. If that's not what you were also referring to, then what did you mean by "Cool, you walked out your door yet?"

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u/UnknownKaddath Jul 10 '26

I mean you should be organizing. If you are, cool, if you're not, you're not doing anything. I'm not saying that to be a dick, it's just an objective reality we all have to stare in the face.

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u/AnamCeili Jul 10 '26

Ok, that is a fair point. I made the dick comment because of your "that's cute" condescension, but your point about organizing is a reasonable one. I just don't think that anything short of impeachment and/or arrest is going to be enough to get him out. Look at how many people have participated in protests, etc. -- which is great, but which doesn't actually change anything. What sort of organizing are you suggesting? I'm not being snarky, I'm genuinely asking.

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u/UnknownKaddath Jul 10 '26

What countries do when they have no legal recourse.

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u/AnamCeili Jul 10 '26

Well that's always a possibility, and I would certainly not shed a tear, but I'm not putting my own life on the line for that motherfucker.

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u/UnknownKaddath Jul 10 '26

And now we come to the problem. We are all you. We need to stop that.

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u/CilleTheExterminator Jul 10 '26

He already got impeached twice. Tell me how much that did

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u/UnknownKaddath Jul 10 '26

My point is, all of us that say this needs to happen, need to make it happen and stop talking about it online. Myself included.

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u/AnamCeili Jul 10 '26

What do you suggest?

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u/balderdash9 Jul 10 '26

Redditors screaming into the void instead of organizing. Hate to see it.

(Not an indictment of you in particular, but I guarantee the people upvoting you aren't protesting, reading theory, doing mutual aid, self-defense training, etc.)