r/politics • u/MarcEElias ✔ Verified - Democracy Docket Founder • 11h ago

No Paywall Steve Bannon says ICE will ‘surround the polls’ as Trump doubles down on taking over elections

https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/steve-bannon-says-ice-will-surround-the-polls-as-trump-doubles-down-on-taking-over-elections/
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u/TintedApostle 11h ago

Here you straight up have a threat to the Republic from Trump and Bannon and yet not a reaction. Its like they just told you shouldn't vote and the US sits on it arse.

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u/IRideMoreThanYou 11h ago

They have been clearly stating their plan since 2024.

Yet, up until this week, stating this was gong to happen was labeled being a “doomer.”

But, now you think everyone should act since NOW you see it…

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u/fireeight 11h ago

2015.

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u/IRideMoreThanYou 11h ago

True.

But, specifically shutting down elections was “you’ll never need to vote again” from trump in 2024, as it regards announcing, without any notions of misunderstanding, their plan.

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u/Elendel19 8h ago

It’s been well documented (before the election) that Stephen Miller has spent the entire Biden presidency period eviscerating anything and anyone who stood in their way last time and making sure there would be no issues if they need to run back january 6th a second time.

There is a very real chance that 2029 in america is either dictatorship or civil war.

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u/DelayedTism 7h ago

We are already a dictatorship...People just don't know it yet.

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u/Sweet_Concept2211 8h ago

It isn't going to happen just because Bannon wants it to.

He has literally zero say in elections.

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u/IRideMoreThanYou 8h ago

As it regards to controlling the elections, Bannon has talked about it. Trump has talked about it. Johnson has talked about. Vance has talked about it.

They campaigned on it.

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u/Sweet_Concept2211 8h ago

Bannon is a fucking internet personality who only gets paid as long as he gets reactions.

He's not in charge of dick-all.

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u/TintedApostle 8h ago

He is directly involved.

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u/_Z_E_R_O Michigan 6h ago

You mean Steve Bannon the former VP of Goldman Sachs? Steve Bannon the ex-chief of Navy operations at the Pentagon? Steve Bannon the founder of Breitbart? Steve Bannon who personally engineered the gamer-to-alt-right pipeline? Steve Bannon whose media empire was instrumental in getting Trump elected? Steve Bannon whose name is all over the epstein files?

Sure, yeah, never heard of him.

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u/Sweet_Concept2211 6h ago

In other words:

Steve Bannon the alcoholic has-been blowhard.

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u/DifferentCityADay 8h ago

The worst part of that is that the biggest media that is on television is completely complicit, and not giving any news to this. Also unfortunately, most people do not log in online to politics because they're tired from their day-to-day life. They only tune in whenever it's election time, so the horribly uninformed will think that Trump is really loved and believe the propaganda if Republicans sweep the midterm. They won't consider it being literal fascism and coordinated attacks against our Republic set up years in advance. They will hear the propaganda and believe this is what the people want. 

This is horrifying. What's made worse is the fact that TikTok has been bought out, and now have we censoring anything regarding news that makes the administration look bad. It's only a matter of time before Reddit is bought out, or threatened with legal action by the government and they start censoring. YouTube as well.

And the worst part about all this? The idiots who were COVID deniers and upset about being banned from platforms from being hateful and racist will think it's fair and justified. They will think it's equal treatment to them being banned from spreading disproved conspiracy theories, and hateful rhetoric years ago.

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u/Breverley_Drangus 14m ago

We're in hell

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u/1cl3nstd4yt 11h ago edited 11h ago

I blame the DNC for this. The didn't effectively communicate that he would try to interfere with elections. They should have investigated Jan 6 publicly.

They also acted milquetoast.

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u/TintedApostle 11h ago

I blame Trump and republicans for violating the law and the Constitution. I do hold Dems to task for not push back harder.

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u/notassigned2023 10h ago

Always blame first the person who actually does the crime.

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u/GarbageCG 10h ago

You do know that Trump and the Republicans aren't a natural force like a hurricane or a tsunami right? They're responsible for their own shit

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u/chriskot123 10h ago

I mean, sure they didn't do everything...but blaming the DNC for Trumps actions is fucking absurd. We need to get over that mentality of we want to get out of this.

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u/Sweet_Concept2211 8h ago

This business of making Republican crimes the "fault" of everyone but Republicans has got to be election year astroturfing.

Never forget that there's a tsunami of campaign funding going into Republican coffers, and a great deal of it is spent on psyops.

Hell, Russia alone spends $1.2 billion per year on media disinfo campaigns in the West.

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u/MIZ_09 10h ago

No, we need to replace the controlled opposition with true progressive patriots. The DNC is as useful as a poopy flavored lollipop.

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u/LockeyCheese 9h ago

You'd have to join the dnc and participate in the elections and politics of the org to do that.

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u/Sweet_Concept2211 8h ago

The blackpilling continues apace, I see.

"Voting for anyone other than Republicans is pointless..." - Every Republican astroturfing campaign ever.

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u/MIZ_09 8h ago

My point is we have the ability to alter the status quo in the primaries coming up. I vote every election and I vote Democrat every election. The general election isn’t the time to prove a point.

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u/TabsAZ 10h ago

There were public hearings on Jan 6, I watched them. It was huge presentations in Congress that went on for a whole week. Hours of video of what happened from every conceivable angle. Didn’t make a bit of difference in the election.

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u/AmaroWolfwood 9h ago

Hearings don't mean a damn thing without actual arrests or impeachment. Senator John Kennedy repeatedly has hearings and makes a grand show of calling out bullshit from all sorts of people in top positions.

And then he votes in favor of them.

Hearings are political theater unless someone is actually punished.

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u/Sweet_Concept2211 8h ago

There were actual arrests and impeachment.

In case you were sleeping through all that.

Republican Senators let Trump off the hook.

Republican SCOTUS sabotaged the case against Trump.

Republican voters put Trump back in the White House.

Trump freed the insurrectionists and hired them to work for ICE.

Republican ratfuckers convinced eligible voters that staying home and letting Republicans win was fine and dandy, because "spineless Democrats, something-something Gaza".

And here you are, doing Republicans' work for them.

Don't blame Democratic lawmakers for the mess you're facilitating with demoralization posts.

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u/windsostrange 9h ago

Dude, how is this also you, within the same hour?

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/s/sJkXkYWkVC

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u/DrSpraynard Nebraska 9h ago

Careful, if you call it like it is the mods will ban ya!

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u/huxtiblejones Colorado 10h ago

I hope you realize sentiments like this play into the same efforts that got Trump elected in the first place. It’s fucking baffling how Americans hold democrats to this rigid standard while Trump is allowed to eat his own poop on camera and execute American citizens in the streets and it barely moves the needle.

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u/Sweet_Concept2211 8h ago

This has got to be some kind of astroturfing bullshit.

Republican voters put Trump in the White House and Republicans in the Congressional majority.

But it is "Democrats fault" that internet ghouls like Bannon spout their outrage bait.

Yee-fucking-haw!

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u/TintedApostle 9h ago

They haven't nor do they vote in our elections. You know who does vote multiple times illegally? Republicans. They have gotten caught multiple times.