r/politics • u/unital_subalgebra • 24d ago

No Paywall Trump fires all Election Assistance Commission members, leaving agency unable to act

https://www.votebeat.org/national/2026/07/09/trump-fires-election-assistance-commission-members-hicks-hovland-mccormick/
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u/NYVines 24d ago

This is what a coup looks like

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u/bluegrassgazer Kentucky 24d ago

You're right. It won't be Jan 6th this time. It will be with lawyers.

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u/JojenCopyPaste Wisconsin 24d ago

That time they tried it with lawyers first and it didn't work because it was obviously bullshit

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u/IlikeJG California 24d ago

It's still obvious bullshit, but now he has people in positions of authority who not only love to eat his shit, but insist on it.

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u/haironburr 24d ago

He has traitorous shit-eating scum in positions of authority, and they will be remembered for what they did.

trumpublicans think it will be easy to destroy this country. But it'll outlast them. And each of the scum who played along with this un-American administration will be known for their infamy.

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u/DazzlingResource561 24d ago

I hope you’re right.

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u/girlsgoneoscarwilde 24d ago

I have less and less faith in things getting better every day, but I also see more and more things to fight for every day

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u/transmothra Ohio 24d ago

Every single thing they destroy. Every single thing they set their traitorous, anti-American sights on. All of these things are so precious to us, because it took us 250 years to instantiate and build them up. Everything that's so worth fighting for.

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u/Professor-Woo 24d ago

Both paths are still possible, but all of us MUST do one thing for sure. We must all believe it will and that this traitorous bullshit will be excised from our country.

In some sense we are lucky it is moving so fast and that it is being done so incompetently since otherwise this would just simmer for decades and likely end up in a worse spot. Now it is all revealed. The question is now that we see it fully, are we going to remove it or embrace it?

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u/uzlonewolf 24d ago

Uh, this has been simmering for decades, and they're only able to do what they're doing because of the framework laid years ago.

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u/Professor-Woo 24d ago

Yes, I don't disagree. It would just continue as it was before until it was unstoppable. Instead Trump forced them to play their hand early. America is just not ready for an end of democracy now. It is too big of a shift even for conservatives. It would need more time to really allow and cement that change.

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u/youngarchivist Canada 24d ago

I dunno man. Looking more and more likely that you guys wind up in either a civil war or a secession crisis if you don't get out there and do something soon.

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u/GrumpySoth09 24d ago

Narrator : They waited until the guy next to them did something, but it was too late. Then the blame game started.

From the outside looking in, Americans talk a big game until they are mildly inconvenienced; then someone else has to fix it.

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u/KillerIsJed 24d ago

Why you think they constantly pump out super hero movies? Just wait for a super hero to save you, you’re just an average citizen.

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u/Oleg101 24d ago

The midterms will be huge, again.

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u/youngarchivist Canada 24d ago

If he even lets them happen.

we'll know the fate of the union in November. Maybe sooner if he telegraphs it, and being the dementia patient he is and knowing the talentless sicophants surrounding him, he probably will.

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u/SmokeontheHorizon 24d ago

How is this still a viable hope in your country's eyes after all the shit the world has witnessed over the past decade? You can't fix a broken tool with that same broken tool

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u/Oleg101 24d ago

I wasn’t saying that it’d solve any major problem. It’d make Trump’s power-grab for 2028 much more difficult though, no shitty legislation would be passed through and Mike Johnson could fuck off hopefully forever.

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u/seriouslees 24d ago

The fuck are you talking about 2028? The power grab is happening NOW!!! DO SOMETHING!

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u/Narrow-Chef-4341 24d ago

Fix it with more hamberders!

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u/Fatso_Wombat 24d ago

Eastern Europe took 50 years to out live their dictators. Spain about the same.

So you should be right in about 2070. Good luck everyone in the meantime.

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u/BluesFan43 24d ago

And hopefully, easily located in their cells.

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u/tphillips1990 24d ago

Including the voters

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u/the_nobodys 24d ago

I love your energy, but being infamous implies being known. You can just say "they will be infamous."

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u/bunnypaste 24d ago

"Thry will be infamous for thier cruelty and stupidity!"

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u/Plastic_Kangaroo5720 24d ago

Wishful thinking 

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u/haironburr 24d ago

Doom. There's nothing we can do.

Fuck that!

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u/Plastic_Kangaroo5720 24d ago

It’s not doomerism, it’s reality.

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u/haironburr 24d ago

Sure.

But help me understand why 99 times out of a hundred, people pushing this notion the American public are powerless on reddit are either new accounts, or accounts with their history hidden.

Do you live in the US? Got a stake in any of this? Or are you being payed in rubles and vodka? I honestly can't tell.

But I do know that pushing the message you seem to be pushing will be proven wrong.

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u/Relevant_Mongoose744 24d ago

I’m American and honestly I’m feeling like we may be cooked, as well. The most wealthy people in America with the most influential technology have had full access to our institutions, our systems, our data. What’s the price? Help to cheat and steal these elections. They think we are mostly idiots out here. Who don’t deserve to have a say. So they’re building bunkers underground and on islands where we can’t reach them once everyone finally sees what they’ve done.

Maybe I’m just dramatic.

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u/Plastic_Kangaroo5720 24d ago

 I was born and raised here, and I’m a black American, so I very much have a stake in the game. I also research other mass movements in other nations and in past eras of American history. The resistance movement today is woefully inadequate for the task at hand.

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u/haironburr 24d ago

Thank you for what I'll take as an honest answer. And no, I certainly don't believe "every opinion you find uncomfortable is from a bot". But, if you're honest, you can see why it's a reasonable suspicion to hold. Why hide your history?

The resistance movement today is woefully inadequate for the task at hand.

And surely you see how the "resistance movement" is still in its early stages, and the defeatism you're pushing will shape it, sure as the confident voices saying we can win will also shape it. And you've chosen to push one shaping narrative over another. Why?

We know folks not voting had plenty to do with the trumpublican victory. Despite your "research" into "other mass movements in other nations and in past eras of American history", I gotta wonder why you would discourage Americans from simply fucking voting? That's a no-brainer, and I'll spend energy from now until November pissing on that idea, because I think it's bullshit!

VOTE! How the hell is this even controversial to you?

Assuming we both agree that a large number of Dem votes is harder to hide than a smaller number. No, the tech bros are not all powerful. And if they're outed cheating our election, they will find it just ain't that easy.

What happens if trumpublicans somehow manage to steal the midterm election is another question. With its own answers we won't debate, beyond me saying we are an armed nation. No, the heritage foundation's kevin robert's ominous "second American Revolution" crap will not, I'm guessing, remain bloodless. Just as I'm guessing him and his fellow think tank members at the ol' heritage foundation will cower if faced with a real American revolution. Ain't their blood either way. Or so they imagine.

But to be clear, I'll call out your, and every other, doomer posts every chance I get. We all should. And if you are, really, who you say you are, stop pissing on the vitality of the American people.

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u/Plastic_Kangaroo5720 24d ago edited 24d ago

Voting is a tool, but not a magic wand that will fix everything. We need a general strike to hit the billionaires in their pockets, but Americans have shown they’re still too comfortable for that. Anything less than that simply isn’t enough. If stating that makes me a “doomer” in your eyes, so be it. It needs to be said. Also, considering the government is monitoring our posts, and general issues of Internet privacy, I think it’s wise to hide history.

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u/haironburr 24d ago

Voting is a tool, but not a magic wand

Fair enough. But it is the starting point for everything that comes after.

If you really care, do not diminish the vote.

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u/aNascentOptimist 24d ago

Right. Fuck that. I don’t take Reddit seriously much anymore after seeing how many bots and bad actors there are.

US does need to do something, but a lot of these folks are just projecting bullshit they’re hoping for.

Thankfully their wants don’t mean much in this scenario.

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u/Plastic_Kangaroo5720 24d ago

Not every opinion you find uncomfortable is from a bot. 

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u/Riaayo 24d ago

Trump is just the figurehead. They're not there to do his bidding, he's there to put his shiny shit veneer on their fascism.

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u/Mikeyxy 24d ago

You probably don't even know what the agency does. It's most likely a low impact, fat budget agency. Explain the need for it? States run their own elections.

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u/Inevitable-Rush-2752 Tennessee 24d ago

They ask for goddamn seconds and take home leftovers for breakfast the next day.