MAGA is already preparing to lose the next two elections. Ask me how I know.

1. The thing they actually want - funding a Gestapo big enough to pull the trigger on their genocide plans, kicks in immediately.

2. The things they say they want but actually just want to blame on Democrats - no tax on tips or overtime, kicking millions off Medicaid, huge tax hikes on the poor and middle class, etc, don't kick in until days after the next midterm election, and weeks after the next presidential election.

That's suspicious as fuck.

@Lana they will invoke martial law and not hold the midterm elections
@UlrikNyman @Lana The midterm elections present no threat, thus there is no motive to stop them.
@weyoun6 @Lana But, if both the house and the senate flip to being Democrat controlled then they could impeach Trump, right?

@weyoun6 @Lana BTW, I do not think that all republicans have the same plan.

I think Trump might not have a plan, and I suspect that Stephen Miller wants to not hold the midterm elections.

@Lana alexa, how would you manufacture public support for a coup

@Lana

Serious question:

What makes you think you will have elections next time around?

I have said it before, but Iran could offer Trump an easy way out:

https://mastodon.sdf.org/@ParadeGrotesque/114727959222138443

Either that, or Trump will declare himself President for life and be done with it. There are no checks and balances any more.

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@ParadeGrotesque @Lana I’m fairly confident we’ll have elections, not having them at all is giving away the game

I’m not sure how free and fair they’ll be though

@scm

If elections are not free and fair, are they still elections in the proper sense of the term?

A little bit like a government that would not respect multiple justice decisions, telling it to stop deporting people to remote locations, is not a law abiding government anymore.

Oh, wait...

@Lana

@ParadeGrotesque @Lana elections in America haven’t been free and fair in decades. It’s mostly Republican voter suppression efforts: deregistering people, making it harder to vote, etc. It’s not a binary thing, more like degrees of corruption.

Biden won in 2020 in a not totally free and fair election

I doubt any county’s elections are 100% free of any corruption, so its a question of how much

@scm @Lana

To be honest, there are ways and methods to ensure elections remain (mostly) free from corruption and interference.

Of course, most of the USA do not use them. Gerrymandering is a national sport on your side of the pond.

@Lana What elections? Don't you believe the "you'll never have to vote again" promise?
@Lana Those cuts are a deadman’s switch that goes off on the next administration if the MAGAts cannot hold onto power.

@Lana

Many ā€˜Big Beautiful’ Losses Won’t Be Felt Til After Midterms, And That’s Intentional

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/many-big-beautiful-losses-wont-be-felt-til-after-midterms-and-thats-intentional

Many ā€˜Big Beautiful’ Losses Won’t Be Felt Til After Midterms, And That’s Intentional

House Democrats have shifted to a new messaging strategy now that their...

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