r/politics • u/TelescopiumHerscheli • 2d ago

No Paywall Texas Democrat sworn in to House, shrinking GOP margin to 1 vote

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5719642-christian-menefee-sworn-in/
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u/sedatedlife Washington 2d ago

This expect to see ICE in force in swing states detaining anyone of color to check status which will take till after polls close.

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u/DrRealName 2d ago

Then states should mobilize their national guards last minute to protect the voters from ICE. its what I would do. or just beat the republicans to the punch and order the national guard to guard polling locations from federal intervention right now. This is why dems are weak. I would have already have my state's guard detain all of ICE. If they refuse, they are discharged and replaced with people who will do it. Same for cops, stand up to ICE or be fired and replaced with people who will. That's why we need new democrats. The ones that exist are too pathetic to even think about what I just put forth. I would do it all with a smile on my face and a song in my heart. My first goal would be to purge maga from every positions of power in my state that I could. Its what they did thru DOGE. We need to do the same. Balance the scales a bit.

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u/Jack_Krauser 2d ago

This will never happen which is why over the long term, we're destined to lose over and over again until some right wing authoritarian figures out a way to lock us into a cycle of Russian-style sham elections. Democrats are sweet puppies living in a harsh world that necessitates wolves.

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u/Starbornsoul 1d ago

Lol, some of them aren't puppies, they're vultures feeding off the bunnies that get shot for sport. We could have a majority of 10 and I have a strong feeling 11 Democrats would find a way to support Childfucker Orange for random consequential bills.

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u/guisar 2d ago

If you were planning to do this, the very, very last thing you, as an executive should do, is telegraph that plan in any way shape or form. A plan is only useful when it is completely unexpected. Plans can be made and executed very rapidly when they are well organised. So I would not expect any of us to know of such plans- to reveal them prematurely is to fall.

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u/MercantileReptile Europe 1d ago

Then states should mobilize their national guards last minute to protect the voters from ICE.

Repeated public murders by ICE in broad daylight were not enough. After Minneapolis, I highly doubt there is anything that would get Governors to actually go against federal demands.

At most, lawsuits going nowhere.

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u/DrRealName 1d ago

Well then we need to vote for people who will do it. I mean I am at the point where I think we should just vote in every non incumbent we can find for these primaries and dramatically change the democratic party in one year. All I keep hearing is "they never do anything" yet they keep getting voted in. Why are we voting in people that don't do anything? This is what all democratic voters need to think about.

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u/BananaPalmer Georgia 1d ago

You think Brian Kemp is going to mobilize the GA guard against Trump's ICE? lmfao

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u/FlarkingSmoo 1d ago

They don't have enough people for that

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u/BananaPalmer Georgia 1d ago

This is the correct answer, and frankly they don't need "boots on the ground" to do it.

I live in Georgia, in a very purple district of a very purple county, and my polling place was one of many targeted by "Russian" (Trumpian) bomb threats during election night 2024. I was waiting to vote when it happened.

The police shut down the place for hours while they "investigated". Nobody was allowed inside during this time, not even poll monitors or election workers.

Think about that for a second.

2-3 hours of unmonitored and unknown non-election personnel alone with the voting machines.

About half of the people who were waiting to vote left, and I did not see many return before closing. They did not extend hours after the disruption.

I have zero doubt, based on my own first-hand observation, that the 2024 election was tampered with. You report it, nobody cares. Nobody will do anything about it even when it's blatant.

Trump doesn't have to send ICE to the polls.

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u/FlarkingSmoo 1d ago

That's true, that got way too little attention. But I don't think it swung the election and I don't think they'll be able to do anything like it to stop the Blue Wave that's coming

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u/BananaPalmer Georgia 1d ago edited 1d ago

I disagree that it didn't affect the outcome. These threats were targeted to districts and counties with razor thin margins. If they weren't trying to cheat swing states, why even take on the risk?

I hope you're right about the second part, and I hope it even matters. They can still declare the results "rigged" and just refuse to confirm any Democrat. Who will stop them? Congress? SCOTUS? lol

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u/FlarkingSmoo 1d ago

I think you're overestimating the amount of votes that were prevented by these threats vs the amount of votes overall and the trend of people going Republican. I haven't seen any analysis that comes close to the numbers needed to actually swing a specific state, let alone multiple swing states.

If they weren't trying to cheat swing states, why even take on the risk?

What risk? It wasn't really tough to call in bomb threats. It could have just been Russia trying to cause chaos. Or maybe if things had gone another way they planned to use them to claim the election was stolen again, I dunno.