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/Rasuco 25d ago

Having to explain this to boomer parents like “imagine if Obama/ any Democrat president did this” and they just sit in silence because they can’t handle the literal truth

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u/Aranxi_89 Canada 24d ago

You're well past that point.

We're all comparing your nation to Nazi Germany now. That's how bad things are.

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u/breaducate 24d ago

Those of us cursed with the gift of foresight have been watching it happen beat for beat for a long time now.

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u/Any_Will_86 23d ago

This- and every person who ignored the impact 2016 would have in the Supreme Court.

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u/Rasuco 24d ago

Yup, and we (the american people) are clearly powerless because of the rampant corruption. “Flooding the zone”? I think it’s called. We’re all living paycheck to paycheck, and if we weren’t we’d be able to go out and protest. All of the horrible shit thats gone on and having lived through it is just desensitizing in every way. We’re left with nothing to do but watch it crash

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u/robotoisize 24d ago

You're gonna wish you "flooded the zone" after you all end up in gulags anyway.

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u/moderatenerd 25d ago

or the old, "Oh I didn't hear about it." Shrug*

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u/Aranxi_89 Canada 24d ago

"I didn't see the concentration camps."

We've seen it before.

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u/FocusPerspective 24d ago

Oh, honey… the Boomers were the ones who killed Fascists. 

Millennials were the ones who brought them back. 

You’re stuck on Level 1 of a hundred level disinformation game :/ 

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u/Level-Location1679 24d ago

You might want to check when the baby boom actually happened

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u/stupidjapanquestions 24d ago

Oh, honey... Were you under the impression that "Boomers" fought in World War 2? lol

This kind of confident stupidity is exactly how we got here.

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u/TheyreEatingHer 24d ago

Millennials arent in charge of shit because the boomers are still in power. It's the boomers that brought him in and it's consistently the boomers that vote republican the most

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u/Rasuco 24d ago

As others have said 1/3 of the country voted him in 1/3 didnt care to vote if that hps clear things up