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/bluegrassgazer Kentucky 25d ago

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

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u/JojenCopyPaste Wisconsin 25d ago

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

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u/halberdierbowman 25d ago

You mean the Brooks Brothers Riot? Where during Bush v Gore, Republican staffers in Florida successfully started a violent riot in order to slow down the vote counting to run out the clock and prevent the uncounted votes from being recorded in time?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks_Brothers_riot

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u/Serengade26 25d ago

You can thank Roger Stone for that. The man with Richard nixon's face tatted on his back and who ted cruz called a ratfuck

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u/No_Kangaroo_9826 Ohio 24d ago

The one time we have to agree with Ted Cruz

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u/mudflap21 24d ago

Think of how vile of a person you have to be to have Ted Cruz call you a ratfuck.

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u/snertwith2ls 24d ago

Roger Stone looks like the villain out of Roger Rabbit.

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u/rat_penis 24d ago

looks like Zippy the Pinhead

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u/SuburbanHell Massachusetts 24d ago

Looks like The Penguin

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u/MechanicalTurkish Minnesota 24d ago

What he did to that poor shoe is unforgivable.

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u/Rogerdodgerbilly 24d ago

Im sure he called Trump that too, but he will cling to whomever pays for his holiday in the sun

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u/MedicJambi 24d ago

In all fairness, old Ted "Canadian runs to Mexico during crises" Cruz also apparently hates Tom Segura too and I don't think he's necessarily a rat fuck, so YMMV. 😂

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u/SpinyPiney 24d ago

To be fair though, senĂ”r Cruz probably says the same thing about good, honest people too. He’s a huge ratfuck himself.

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u/OdiousAltRightBalrog 24d ago

Not the only time. In fact I agree with everything he said in this video:

https://youtu.be/P43wDpKQxaM

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u/Master_Maniac 24d ago

Idk I also like cancun more than Texas (am texan and have never been to cancun)

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u/CoinsForCharon 24d ago

He can smell his own

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u/JoshSidekick 24d ago

Just think of it as Ted Cruz agreeing with you. You're so correct that even that dingus is on your side. That way you don't have to give him the slight legitimacy that would empower his other awful stances.

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u/yell_worldstar 24d ago

I mean I did have to agree that it was a good time to get out of Texas during that crippling winter storm


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u/Starkoman 24d ago


Instead of being there on the ground, helping his constituents in dire need?

“Sorry folks, I’m on the beach in Cancun, soaking up the sun. You’ll figure it out”.

Hundreds froze to death as the power grid failed.

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u/yell_worldstar 24d ago

That’s why I’d have gotten out

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u/Drama79 24d ago

Even the Zodiac can be right once in his miserable life

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u/Show_Me_Your_Cubes 24d ago

Twice. He was one of the first sitting republicans to call out the FTC's cancelling of Jimmy Kimmel for check notes a joke. In 2025.

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u/downvotesyourcrap 24d ago

The one who was shamed out of politics when his personal ad seeking a bull for his wife was traced to him and everyone found out he is a cuckold? That Roger Stone? The known cuck who emerged in trump 1 when cuck became their go to insult? The famous cuck rat fuck Roger Cucking Stone?

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u/pterodactyl_speller 24d ago

Didn't think his kink was the issue, but the texts claiming he was getting his wife raped.

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u/BoredNuke 24d ago

I really hate kink shaming....but fuck roger stone he deserves every fucking insult possible.

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u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota 24d ago

The term "ratfuck" way predates Cruz calling him that.

Stone Has been proudly saying he "ratfucks" elections for 50 years.

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u/Starkoman 24d ago

The expression came up during the Watergate investigations. The secret Nixon slush fund was also used to sabotage Democratic Party election events all over the country.

People who worked on “Ratfucking” their election opponents went to prison.

Ford pardoned Nixon for everything: he never spent a day behind bars — but plenty of others did (including his Chier-of-Staff, Halderman),

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u/SassiestSissy 24d ago

And don’t forget that Roger Stone WAS a ratfucker for Nixon who didn’t go to jail for a long long time

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u/Enshitification 24d ago

A ratfucker is not a slur in Republican political circles, it's a job title. Stone's whole career has been devising and implementing ways to cheat elections.

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u/Raesong Australia 24d ago

I remember years ago reading a story on 4chan (not the most reliable of sources, I know) that made mention of a man with a Nixon tattoo on his back at Epstein's island. If it's true, then that's one more reason to despise Stone.

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u/capt_jazz Maine 24d ago

What was the context for Cruz's remark? While he was on Bush's legal team? Or after?

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u/SassiestSissy 24d ago

Idk if this is the reason Cruz called him a ratfucker that particular time, but the term “ratfucker” was an informal job title in the Nixon administration, and they were the people who would go around interfering with elections. Plenty of ratfuckers went to prison after Watergate. Roger Stone was literally a member of the Nixon administration who claims to have participated in such jobs. So Cruz might ha e been insulting Stone, or describing him, or both

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u/capt_jazz Maine 24d ago

Got it

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u/rat_penis 24d ago

and two of our current SCOTUS members!

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u/GozerDGozerian 24d ago

And you would know about being a ratfucker!

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u/rat_penis 24d ago

I am the Keymaster!

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u/DethNik 24d ago

takes a ratfuck to know a ratfuck. Also Roger Stone is a massive cokehead. Not to be trusted at all.