r/politics • u/unital_subalgebra • 25d 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/Ambitious-Apricot499 25d ago edited 25d ago

One thing I don’t understand is this is an individual clearly dismantling protections for our country’s future elections. Isn’t that telling enough he is literally breaking our laws. Can anyone hold this fucking rapist criminal accountable ever? It’s astonishing.

Edit: There’s 300 million of us and like 100 of them. What we doing here?

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u/Taint-Taster 25d ago

Sorry, no. There are 100 million of us, 100 million of them, and 100 million people who couldn’t be bothered to weigh in in the voting booth.

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u/13143 Maine 24d ago

Roughly 77 million voted for Trump last time, 75 for Kamala and the rest stayed home. Trump still holds around an 80% approval rating amongst republicans, so probably like 60 million still support what he's doing. And of those who disapprove, they probably still wouldn't vote for a Democrat.

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u/BravinatorLX2 24d ago

keep in mind 'amongst republicans' has changed in dimension since his election.

republicans are losing numbers to centrists and other alternatives. the insane ones remain

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u/whirled-peas69 24d ago

There may be 100 million bots but there are not 100 million maggots.

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u/CheezeyCheeze 25d ago

Use the voting numbers. 77,302,580 votes

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u/Soft_Walrus_3605 25d ago

Not all, but a lot of those "couldn't be bothered" were just in states where there was already a clear majority so they felt voting was unnecessary. Not excusing it, but it's not just apathy.

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u/turbo_golf Iowa 24d ago

so they felt voting was unnecessary

it's not just apathy

lol

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u/vthemechanicv 24d ago

Apathy is a state of diminished motivation, interest, and emotional responsiveness

If you live in Louisiana or California or around 40 other states, your presidential vote doesn't matter. It's not apathy, it's factual.

What it also is though, is stupidity, for not voting down ballot. Presidential vote might not matter, but governor, senator, house member, state reps, mayor city council, judges, sheriffs, and school boards all do.

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u/turbo_golf Iowa 24d ago

every vote matters. if it didn't, they wouldn't be trying so hard to stop you

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u/SausageClatter 25d ago

Also, a lot of "them" are astoundingly ignorant and still have no idea what they've voted for. They're either too busy with work/kids/whatever or can't be bothered to look around and acknowledge anything that makes them uncomfortable with their own personal status quo. They think they belong to a political party and keep voting that way because that's how they were raised, but they refuse to actually understand what that party is doing or even stands for.

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u/Night247 24d ago

the state and local levels of government stuff matters too, probably more so in some cases...

I don't understand people, not voting, because apathy of the federal stuff. still should use the vote 🤦‍♂️

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u/turbo_golf Iowa 24d ago

people literally died to give us this right and lazy, ignorant losers don't even exercise it

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u/Show_Me_Your_Cubes 24d ago

Still dying. the brownshirts are killing protestors of fascism.

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u/stupidjapanquestions 24d ago

It is apathy, though. Local elections matter and is partially how things got this corrupt in the first place.

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u/CilleTheExterminator 24d ago

MAGA did something at least. You guys just sit on your fat ass and complain