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.
What exactly should random people living paycheck to paycheck do about our entire government being controlled by fascists?
We are already protesting and striking.
Our leaders have failed us. The good ones failed to stand up to the bad ones, and the bad ones are in charge now and control the media, the military, and the Supreme Court.
You want Dave from Burger King and Emmett from Starbucks to resort to guerilla warfare?
Should we be committing harkiri in the streets?
You think you’re angry?
Imagine being here, watching it happen face to face, arguing with a never ending army of brainwashed people who get off on cruelty because they’d rather burn it all down than let immigrants and trans people live in peace.
To be honest, that’s what the American people have always done throughout history. When the elite got out of hand, the people revolted and successfully brought them down. So yes, Dave from Burger King should be there in the streets too. At the biggest anti-Trump protest the US had so far, only 2% of the American people were present. And those who were present waved signs for exactly one day and then went home. That is simply insufficient.
If we don’t purge MAGA from our government and our society, then Dave and Emmett are going to find their jobs replaced by robots, and the jobs they had aspired to beyond that, have been replaced by AI. There are no jobs for them, and never will be. The few human powered jobs left will be done by wealthy Nepo-Babies.
So Dave and Emmett are now part of the 60%+ permanent unemployment rate, which is actually higher, but the government games the stats to make it sound better, as if “only” 60% is acceptable.
So Dave and Emmett won’t have much choice but to fight in some way. Either they’ll fight in the Rebel Army in the Civil War, or they’ll fight to protect their family, but they’ll fight one way or another.
If they don’t, they’ll end up in the extermination camps, where MAGA deals with the lazy chronically unemployed who are dragging down our country.
Apparently lie down and watch facism bloom. Y’all’ve already let it take root and flourish.
It turns out that this second amendment I keep hearing about was not worth the paper it’s written on either.
What did German citizens wish they’d done a hundred years ago?
Right, lay down. That’s what some of the largest protests in united states’ history are. Protests that are getting larger by the month. “Laying down”.
You aren’t in any position to criticise, keyboard warrior.
Not just some of the largest, the largest. No Kings makes up the top three
I think a lot of people don’t realize just how gigantic the US is and how much of a logistical nightmare it is to organize nation wide things, and how relatively little small groups of people can do to the federal government
The criticism of not starting soon enough is valid; this kind of mass action should have happened earlier. But it is happening now and people like the mentioned keyboard warrior dismissing that are hindering not helping
Complications to organize are part of the problem too. We need people who devote themselves to enabling protestors, organizing alliances, … people who are able to get online like Anonymous did back in the day, using voice transpositions and face masks, making threats to do some wild shit if need be. Do you guys remember when Anonymous made threats to shut down the internet if a bill got passed?
We barely need people to coordinate explicitly. Anonymous is actually a pretty good example, now that I think about it. They were completely unorganized. You were Anonymous if you claimed to be Anonymous. You made demands from the shadows, executed plans in secrecy, and claimed credit again from the shadows. People see this and catch on, eventually mimicking your framework under the same name “Anonymous.”
Earth Day, 1970, 20 million. Latest No Kings was 8 million. But still, No Kings accounts for 3 of the top 4.
As to starting earlier, you said yourself it’s a logistical nightmare. I would argue people got organised PDQ, all things considered.
Maybe it’s time for you Muricans to stop protesting the Murican way and learn a little bit from 1, your own history circa 250 years ago 2, french history from roughly the same period
Not sure the French Revolution is the best example given what happened immediately afterwards
No, it’s not time, yet.
What amateur foreign “advisors” don’t understand is that we have at least two important Constutional checkpoints to get through first - the 2026 Midterm Election, and the 2028 Presidential Election. Those are our final two opportunities to turn this nation around, and ALL indications are that they will go the right way, and with courage and decisive action from our elected leaders, we can still save America. We owe our nation, our Constitution, and our history, to do this properly, by the book.
But that’s a big “IF.” MAGA will make sure it doesn’t go smoothly, and cause as much trouble as they can. They will do literally anything to remain in power, including cancelling elections. We have NEVER cancelled an election and n this country, not during WWII, not even during the Civil War. That is a BRIGHT RED LINE that they cannot cross. If they attempt to cancel elections, it’s INSTANT Civil War.
So we will try to do it by the book, and let our elections do the talking, but MAGA is the world’s greatest chaos agent, and they will definitely make it difficult. No matter what they attempt, we must stay on the legal Constutional path until that journey is either completed or forcibly removed.
Very, very interesting that you’re advocating for civil war. I wonder whose interests that could possibly serve.
When tyrants don’t leave on their own accord, what are you to do? Protest even harder while they laugh from their helicopters and private jets, surrounded by private security, isolating themselves from the people they try to rule? What good will protesting harder do?
The protests have grown by a million people with every event, give or take. They show the people who have a problem with this shit that they’re not alone, and more and more people have a problem with all this. The protests show the people in power right now that we are not going to lay down and take it, like you lot want to keep saying we are.
And, what does protesting actually accomplish? In Nazi Germany, it got 1,800 Jewish prisoners released: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenstrasse_protest
So if you really want these fuckers gone as badly as the rest of us, how about you take your defeatist crap and keep it at home with you? It’s not helping anyone except the fascists.
The problem with all your American bullshit is that it leaks out into the rest of the world and fucks it up too.
Yes, collateral damage is to be expected when a superpower gets destabilised. Why are you ignoring the fact that there was documented election interference on a massive scale? Why are you ignoring the total takeover of our government by hostile actors? Are you trying to paper over all of that for some particular purpose?
Moreover, you’re mostly addressing the victims of the fascists here. We’re not actually in charge of the country right now.
Oh, I’ll just post a million word essay enumerating everything wrong with the USA.
Or you could stop doing the work of the fascists, but I think you like the kool-aid too much for that. Feels good talking down to people being killed for resisting, does it? You’re as bad as the people you claim to hate, you just can’t see it.
Don’t worry, most people grow into empathy eventually, we all develop at different rates.
Yawn.
Aw, I understand, you’ve had your warm milk and now it’s nap time. Kiddos need their sleep!
Disobedience is the key, it would have worked back in Germany and it would work today. Teach your children political disobedience, because not enough adults know how anymore.
It turns out the answer, as always, look elsewhere for examples. You want to see how to actually run a great country, look at literally every other developed nation besides the US. Want to see how to counter fascism, look outside the US…oh and open a history book for once in your fucking life, stop being so ignorant and illiterate like all our peers here, our illiteracy rates and comprehension abilities are genuinely some of the worst on the planet.
“Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it” is supposed to be cautionary, but for MAGA, it’s a game plan.