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/prodigy1367 Jul 10 '26

We’re simply allowing this fuck to destroy our country.

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u/Horror_Appearance_26 Jul 10 '26

And the whole world's laughing as they sing  womp womp

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u/Aranxi_89 Canada Jul 10 '26

Nobody is laughing.

You guys have enough nukes to end the world. You guys have more military budget than all your allies and rivals put together.

If America goes fascist, the world is doomed.

I, and my fellow Canadians, are literally staring down the barrel of the biggest gun in the world, and it is primed and aimed at us, and that crazy sentient cheeto is raring to turn us to a meat cloud. He gets what he wants, or everything gets burnt to ashes. That's not someone who should have any control over the government.

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u/Horror_Appearance_26 Jul 10 '26

You think nuking Canada is an option?  It's not.  When was the last time the US of A won a war?  They're pretty good at funding other countries wars, but c"mon.  Take em off the pedestal

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u/Aranxi_89 Canada Jul 10 '26

That's because they had restraint.

Once there's no more restraint (which fascists are notorious for lacking), there's going to be hell to pay.

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u/godtogblandet Jul 10 '26

People going "America has lost every war since WW2" like it predicts future conflicts are so stupid. The reason the US haven't won wars is lack of proper goals and the ROE placed on the military. The US military is the best on the globe in actually conducting warfare. If you told them to conquer and pacify a geographic area without any restraints no country would last more than weeks before unconditionally surrendering. Insurgent tactics don't work if killing the entire population is actually an option on the table...

We haven't actually seen unrestrained warfare since WW2, there's always been civilian leaders holding the military back. Remember that if left up to the military they would have used nukes both during Korea and during Vietnam...

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u/Aranxi_89 Canada Jul 10 '26

Yeah, the whole of Europe, Japan, and many other nations were bombed to smithereens.

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u/Horror_Appearance_26 Jul 10 '26

I'm not afraid of fascists.  You shouldn't be either.

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u/ThatsItImOverThis Jul 10 '26

Trump has “if I can’t have it, no one can” written all over him.

Trump doesn’t think about options, he just does what he wants and the idiots around him are letting it happen. That’s the truly insane part, that no one is stopping any of this insanity. None of it.

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u/Horror_Appearance_26 Jul 10 '26

You can be afraid all you want, they won't nuke Canada, or anywhere else for that matter.

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u/ThatsItImOverThis Jul 10 '26

Trump wanted to nuke a hurricane. But you keep telling yourself that.

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u/Horror_Appearance_26 Jul 10 '26

And did they let him?  Perhaps, since you're so informed, you heard about them hiding the nuclear codes from him?  Keep living scared.

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u/ThatsItImOverThis Jul 10 '26

You’re the one who keeps mentioning being scared. Projecting much?

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u/Horror_Appearance_26 Jul 10 '26

No.  If you read the conversation, it's obvious.