Donald Trump announced Sunday that Republicans plan to dispense a large “Election Integrity Army” to every single state for the 2026 midterms – invoking his debunked claims that the United States does not have fair elections. In a message on his Truth Social platform the president appeared to attribute his “Historic Election in 2024” to the fact that the Republican National Committee sent thousands of volunteers across the country to poll watch or assist with election litigation through a volunteer program. “During my Historic Election in 2024, when I won every single Swing State, and decisively won both the Electoral and Popular votes by wide margins, the Republicans had an Election Integrity Army in every single State to preserve the sanctity of each legal vote. We will be doing the same again in 2026, but it will be much bigger and stronger,” Trump wrote. Trump did not elaborate on who would be part of the “Election Integrity Army” or how large it would be.

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      He just assumes that both sides are rigged, and whoever rigs it best is the winner. That’s why he was so pissed in 2020. He knows it was rigged, but so many voted against him that it invalidated whatever he did. He was more successful at rigging the 2024 election.

      He’s going to rig 2028, too. Don’t be surprised if the smoke clears, and he gets more votes than the other candidates, so he has no choice but to honor the will of the people over the Constitution, and remain in office.

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        2016 as well. He even opened multiple investigations into it during his first term and the results were conclusively that the only notable instances of interference were either from or on behalf of the Republican party.

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          If wishes were fishes, something something, like little bitches!

          I forget how the saying goes. Point is, trump is a bitch.

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          We have NEVER cancelled an election in this country, not during WWII, not even during the Civil War. Cancelling an election is a BRIGHT RED LINE, that will not be crossed. If it is, it is INSTANT Civil War.

          I will not recognize an unelected MAGA government.

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            Who is gonna lead a civil war? You? I have trouble believing it will happen because so many lines have been crossed already that should have led to revolution and hasn’t

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              Who is gonna lead a civil war? You?

              Are you in third grade? Is that the depths of your intelligence, that when someone makes a suggestion, the best you can do is shoot it down because the person making the suggestion can’t implement it? That means that the ONLY people who can make suggestions about our future are those who can actually make their suggestions happen, like Sociopathic Oligarchs. That’s what your dumb comment translates as.

              No, I’m not going to lead a Civil War, that’s not my skill set. But that doesn’t mean I can’t identify those who do have that skill set.

              What do you think all those knowledgeable, experienced military leaders that Hegseth and Trump fired are doing?

              Who knows? We haven’t heard a peep from ANY of them. After a lifetime of navigating one of the most difficult career tracks in the world, getting to the highest reaches of power, motivated not by money, but by the personal mission of protecting America from ALL enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC, they seem to have disappeared.

              The greatest domestic national security threat since the Civil War has taken over the nation, and gotten rid of them, so they can’t thwart MAGA’s treasonous plans. Surely, those military leaders have accepted their ignominious firings, which were accompanied by public disparagement of themselves and the jobs they invested their entire lives in doing, and are sitting on the veranda, drinking cocktails, and watching the sun set on the nation that they failed to protect, right?

              I doubt it. Some were probably willing to chuck it all, and get on with retirement, but these are guys who have lived their entire lives literally waiting and planning for the next fight. These are NOT guys who give up easy. I would bet that at least a few of them are talking to each other, and creating some sort of plan if a Civil War breaks out, and we aren’t going to hear a word about it until it happens

              If there’s a Civil War, military leadership will NOT be a problem, we have no end of great military leadership on our side. I suspect the military leadership on their side isn’t as loyal as they assume, and since they’ve fired all the moral competence, much of what is left is corrupt incompetence. Many of them will be able to be just bought off, MAGA’s Achille’s Heel.

              The problem will be Civil Leadership. In a situation like a spontaneous Civil War, rebel leadership will most likely default to the current leadership, which means the MAGA comedy act of Schmuck & Jeffries will be the headliners, and that would be disastrous.

              Weak Civil leadership (and it doesn’t get any weaker than Schmuck & Jeffries), will only lead to a Military takeover, and having a Military Dictator wouldn’t be any better than a Capitalist Dictator. We need to identify and support leadership candidates that we can count on in a Civil War. So far, about the only only ones showing any real leadership strength are the progressives, and those who instructed the military to ignore illegal orders. Those are the kinds of people who should be in charge.

              If I had to pick one that I would trust to lead us in a Civil War, one who understands both the political and military sides of the conflict, I think the best choice might be Mark Kelly. He’s got the military experience, is extremely intelligent, not a whiff of corruption in his entire career, and he’s tough enough, and brave enough, to go toe-to-toe with MAGA, and not back down.

              If Mark Kelly emerged as the defacto leader, with a competent military led by MAGA’s cast-off officers, I’d be on board with that Rebellion.

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                Every non Republican since 2016 has been hoping that someone is gonna come somehow and save the US from Trump. We’re in 2026, Trump is still president and nothing seems to push back against him.

                I don’t believe in a sudden revolutionary surge in the US. Shit’s gonna get worse, slowly, irrevocably, unless the general population develop some sense of solidarity and there’s real political involvement from the population at every level. But that’s hard in a population as divided as the United States’.

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                  Americans have been carefully socialized to be polite, and “wait and see.”

                  But we have also been raised since the beginning on tales of underdog Revolutionaries, winning against the mightiest army in human history, and going on to become the mightiest nation in human history. That is a strong thread running through our national DNA.

                  We have put up with a lot, counting on our system of government to get us through this mess, and we only have two more elections to get through, and we will know where we stand. There is an excellent chance that the Dems will prevail, and if can convince our elected leaders to do their jobs (I know, I hear ya), we could actually take back this country, and reconfigure it to reflect the original promises of our Founding Fathers, and our Founding Documents. It will be since in a century opportunity, and we can’t squander it this time, again.

                  But if MAGA cancels elections, that’s a BRIGHT RED LINE that has never been crossed in our history. It literally means the end of American Democracy. If we won’t fight for that, then we deserve to lose it.

                  But it won’t just be the Cancellation of Elections that will motivate people. That would mean that MAGA has finally decided to deploy their final end game, and become a Dictatorship. That will be accompanied by such a brutal crackdown, that nobody will remain polite anymore. All it will take will be one or two serious violent uprisings in which MAGAs are harshly punished, with either little retaliation, or, over the top retaliation, and it will break loose everywhere.

                  It will take a lot before the dam breaks, but it will break eventually, and when it does, it will be really ugly for MAGA.

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                You didn’t make a suggestion, you made a prediction. I’m saying I don’t believe civil war is inevitable if the election is cancelled. So many things have already happened that should have inevitably led to revolution and hasn’t. If these guys are planning one, I want to know what they’re waiting for

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                  We we are waiting for the results of the next two elections, and the MAGA response to those elections. That will determine next steps.

                  Civil War following the cancellation of elections, is NOT a prediction or a suggestion. It is literally the automatic result of the cancellation of elections. If that happens, it invalidates our system of government, which is ENTIRELY built on the concept of elected representation. Cancel elections, and you are unilaterally ending American Democracy, and we are in a Civil War, by default.

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                    No, civil war isn’t the automatic consequence of ending democracy. Civil war requires people willing and able to fight it. The automatic consequence of ending democracy is dictatorship

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          Sure there will. Russia, Myanmar, and Burundi still have elections, why wouldn’t the U.S.?

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        Dingleberry?

        You can do better than that. HERE, let me get you started. A to C.

        A loaded adult diaper of belligerence

        A Man for All Treasons

        Adjudicated Serial Rapist (VOTED MOST ACCURATE)

        Adolf Diddler

        Agent Oratnge

        Agolf Twitler

        All in all, it’s just a little prick with no Wall

        He lives in: Alternative fact land

        Ancient Orange

        Assholini

        Ayatollah Complainy (Thanks Stephen Colbert)

        Baron Von Shitzinpantz

        Benedict Donald

        Blab the Inhaler

        Borderline Junius

        Borderwall Personality Disorder

        Captain Bone Spurs

        Captain Capslock

        Chainsaw-In-Chief

        Chaos in Chief

        Cheat Miser “Whatever I touch, starts to melt in my clutch.”

        Cheddar Cheezus

        Cheeto Brain

        Cheeto Christ, Stupid Czar

        Chettolini

        Coffin dodger

        Combover Caligula

        Commander in Thief

        Commander in Tweet

        Condom Escapee

        Conman-der in chief

        Conquistaorange

        Coppertone Caligulia

        Coup Klux Tan

        Current presidential placeholder

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          Mods, can we sticky this? It’s a lot of useful information! I think we could all find this list useful! Plus we can add to it as time goes on.

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            D to M

            Darth Cheetoh

            Dementia Don

            Der Gropenführer

            Diaper Don

            Dick a l’Orange

            Diet Dr. Putin

            Dingus Con

            Dipshit Donnie

            Disaster in Chief

            Dodgin Donny

            Dollar Tree Dictator

            Don Feloni

            Don Poorleone, The Fraudfather

            Don the con

            Donald “putinsremoved” Trump

            Donica Lewinski

            Donnie Dumpo

            Donnie Thin Skin

            Donorrhea of the mouth. A Republican ailment.

            Dorito Mussolini

            Dr. President McDonald J Christ

            Droolius Geezer

            Dumbo Donnie

            Dunning-Kruger Overdrive

            E Pluribus Dumbdumb

            Epstein associate

            Everlasting Jobstopper

            F Elon

            Felon47

            Faux prez

            Felon (DO NOT USE by order of inmate #P01135809)

            Facsimile Fuehrer

            Fanta Fascist

            Fanta Fuhrer

            Fart face von shit stick

            Felon 47

            Felonious Dump

            Fibbernazi  Revenger

            First lady Donald J. Musk

            Forrest Trump? “Tariffs are like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re going to get.”

            Fraudfather

            Grifty McGrifterson

            Grifty McGriftface

            GropenFührer

            Gulf Of Idiot. Middle name of Of

            Hair Farce One

            Half off Adolf

            He Who Must Not Be Named

            Herr Combover

            His Royal Heelspur

            Historic Embarrassment

            Hocus POTUS

            Individual One

            Inmate # P01135809 Thursday, August 24 2023 at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta, Georgia.

            Insulting and frankly appalling ( Sir Keir Rodney Starmer )

            King Georange

            King of Dumbfuckistan

            Klanned Karenhood

            Lil’ Donny Two-Scoops

            Lord Feltersnatch

            Lord Repugnant of the Fourth Reich

            MAGA Teresa

            Maga-Lardo

            Manchild McTinyhands

            Manchurian Cantaloupe

            Mango Moron

            Mango Mussilini

            Mango Unchained

            Marmalade Maggot

            Marmalade Messiah

            Melon Felon

            Moscow Marionette

            Mrs Donald Putin

            MyPillow guy low-budget stunt double

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              N to Z

              Nectarine Nazi

              Ol’ Smeller

              Old Wack Donald

              Old white and needy

              Orange Caligula

              Orange Foolius

              Orange Hitler

              Orange Judas

              Orange King George

              Orange Tufted Shit Gibbon

              Orange Von Fat Fuck

              Orangesama bin G’olfin

              Orangutan

              Papaya Pinochet

              Payless Putin

              Pee Wee German (Thanks Stephen Miller)

              Pedoführer

              PeDonald

              Pervert Hoover

              President Quid Pro Quo

              President Pudding Cup (thanks Jeff Tiedrich)

              President Stumblefuck

              Preznit Fuckwit

              Pumpkin pol pot

              Pumpkin Pustule

              Pumpkin Spice Palpatine

              Putin’s Puppet

              Satan’s Little Helper

              Scammer in Chief

              Sleepy Donzales

              Super Callous Fragile Ego Extra Douchey Rapist

              Super Callous Fragile Racist Sexist NAZI POTUS

              T-Bag

              Tang the Conqueror

              Tangerine Palpatine "Let the hate flow through you. Feel the power of the covfefe side of the farce!”

              Tangerine Palpatine

              Tangerine Skidmark

              Tangerine Turd

              Tangerine Tyrant

              The Billionaire Saint of Perpetual Grevience

              The Count of Mostly Crisco

              The Fanta Menace

              The Melon Felon

              The Quicker, Thicker F***er Upper

              The Slob Father

              The Village People’s Idiot

              Theme song: I Shot the Tariff

              Theme song: Tsar Spangled Banner

              Toxic Revenger

              Trumpaloompa

              Trumplethinskin

              Trumppopotamus

              Trumpty Dumpty

              Unfathomably ignorant

              Unredeemable piece of shit

              Velveeta Voldemort

              X‘s Diaper