@macacator @mikelovesbikes @admin @painting_squirrel @bridgeenjoyer @aho

we've already had some, but we have some more: #primaries

that is where we can make a serious difference by getting real left #candidates

and yet primary turn out is always abysmal

so anyone who says they are on the left and doesn't show up in the primaries: i doubt their authenticity

so much energy whining online, and not voting in the primaries, is gobsmackingly stupid

but also yes: we do shenanigans too as you say

@benroyce @ManyRoads @cascheranno @RegGuy

That depends entirely on what ICE actually does at polling places. Theoretically, ICE is not supposed to have jurisdiction at all over anyone with citizenship, thus there should be nobody at any polling place ICE has probable cause to stop.

In actual practice however, ICE is being sent there to racially profile Latinx-looking voters, who are something like 20% of the total. ICE takes the position that even Real ID drivers licenses are no longer enough for them.

Anyone who takes the position that they are not going to a concentration camp alive and is even remotely Latinx looking is going to think long and hard about going inside if they arrive at a polling place alone and find ICE agents outside staring at them.

I believe ICE is going to have to be stopped by force as in Minneapolis. Deportation flights from that city have plunged to low levels since Jan 14 and are being kept down by the continuing fighting there.

Jan 14 was the day ICE shot someone inside their own home and then tried to lie about it. A neighborhood uprising ensued, and ICE threatened more gunfire. After neighborhood residents threatened to return fire, ICE retreated back to the highway and was pursued. They abandoned their cars, leading to the destruction of the cars, the capture of weapons, and that treasure trove of captured intel including even their challenge coins.

From then on, every time ICE got into a fight in Minneapolis, they had to assume there were guns in the crowd. They are bullies not soldiers, so more and more of their kidnapping attempts after Jn 14 have ended in failure. Often ICE has been chased away and there have been many successful unarrests.

All of this means the door for Trump to cancel the elections is now bolted and barricaded, though he may still seek to batter it down.

If he needs a Reichstag fire he will use the Iran War, as it would trigger less domestic pushback to blame Iran for a blown up refinery that to blame "antifa" for a burned down empty warehouse assuming its used for an excuse to cancel or "secure" an election.

In fact, I think Trump started the Iran War in response to his defeat in Minneapolis. It has mushroomed out of control, threatening to merge with both the civil war here and the war in Europe into a third world war.

Now we have the age of enlistment being boosted to 42 in the US, Volkswagon having to retool a car plant to make air defense systems (which may be needed domestically in Germany the way this is going), and Trump yakking about bringing back the draft (with his bone spurs?)