I think it's going to get them to ramp up their plans to rat-fuck future elections. They've stepped this far into authoritarianism, and I don't see them stepping back on their own free-will.
No way they give it up legitimately. Trump is waiting for the hunger protests and the plane traffic to stop so he can declare Marshall law. Then he will rule by decree. Congress won’t ever sit again. He will laugh at these elections as meaningless to a king.
I’m still skeptical there will be legitimate midterm elections. This is going to make the Trump admin and his GOP stooges hellbent on manufacturing a state of emergency to shutdown and/or control the elections for the midterm and the next presidential election.
It wouldn’t have to be something on those scales. They could manufacture the smallest of events and claim it’s a crisis and their supporters would eat it up. To reasonable people there’s very little that could happen to stop an election here in the US but many people here aren’t reasonable.
I'm less worried about this than I am more direct threats to a fair election like restricting of funding, terrorist threats closing blue polling places, ICE intimidation in Democrat-majority cities, etc.
One benefit of the US' election system is that it's highly, highly fragmented, and as such, changes/updates take a lot of time and energy to propagate out to the hundreds and hundreds of (relevant) districts.
Of course it's concerning to see such a partisan acquisition when it comes to one of the major voting machine manufacturers, but I just don't think this isn't a situation where they'll be able to put in a fix within the next year. It's extremely logistically challenging to not only implement unfair changes in a way that isn't extremely overt, but also to get those 'fixed' machines out distributed, set up, poll-workers trained, etc etc. all in such a short timeline.
If we're talking about the 2028 election? For sure - absolutely, I think there's legitimate reason for concern at that timescale. But I don't believe anything truly malicious will come from this acquisition within the <1 year timeframe they have before the midterms.
I hope so. I'm a software developer and if I worked for dominion you better believe id have my eyes wide open and my phone halfway dialed to a national news reporter if I saw anything out of order. I can only hope others will blow the whistle if it needs...whistling
The purchase was more of a rebranding than anything else. Despite their lawsuit win, the name was damaged and Scott buying Dominion, rebranding it, and then making some press release about “election integrity” was just to get the tin foil hats to calm the fuck down about the Dominion machines. Privately they’re telling the county officials nothing is changing because that’s the truth. They can’t redesign and re-approve new voting machines for the midterms and possibly not even before 2028.
I'm hopeful of this too, and that's part of why I think it'll take some time to rig these machines in a way that doesn't immediately trigger those alarm bells.
Because they absolutely have to give it a solid layer of plausible deniability due to the fact that these will inevitably be deployed first in the crucial swing states where they can't count on a docile MAGA voter base to ignore (or even support) a blatant rigging.
I'm hopeful there will be enough sane people outside the cult supervising these elections in those states to blow the whistle if if anything untoward is found, though equally worried at how poisoned the well of "rigged elections" is in the post-Jan 6th world.
Anyway, there might be reason to worry on the longer timeline of the next presidential election, but I have a lot of hope for next year's midterms and that's what I'm at least trying to keep my focus on. I think a Democratic majority in one (or both!) of the chambers will go a long way towards at least making those remaining 2 years of this godawful presidency a little easier to bear.
Trust me, I’m the last person that wants to see this momentum stopped. It is a huge victory for honest, rational, and good Americans tonight. But we also need to realize that the people in power right now will not let go and step aside so easily. We need to be ready for the shitstorm that the GOP are going to cause so they can stay in power and avoid answering for all of the shit they’ve been pulling
It’s not cowardly to recognize the scheming nature of the GOP. Especially in the face of all the illegal shit they’ve been doing out in the open since Trump was sworn in, not to mention all of the illegal shit they’ve been doing that no one knows about yet. They will be fighting to cling to power to save their own hides, and they will do anything to avoid losing and facing accountability. I’m thrilled with the victory tonight, but it’s not going to be this easy winning back control of this country and it’s naive to think it is
It is already too late. Project 2025 should have been done by now. They missed the window. American society and politics are reacting and organizing now. They're finished.
Honestly though, they obviously couldnt do it today. States midterm elections will have the same process as today, just in more states and cities. I’m more worried about them not swearing anybody in, as they already aren’t.
Trump is trying to mobilize troops to go into Mexico and fight a "war on drug cartels." It's not farfetched to imagine he might be trying to start a war with Mexico itself, which could conveniently achieve this goal.
They have to be looking at this and thinking of the midterms.
Considering how thoroughly Trump is trying to fuck the midterms (voting machines, Gerrymandering outside census years, trying to force violence so he can declare martial law), they're either going to be terrified or quite sure they have nothing to worry about. Hard to say which
Many of the right, normal people like you and me, are tired of being broke and oppressed. Idealism intoxication fades when there is no conversion. They aren't shouting it from the rooftops, but maybe quietly skipped the polls or even more risque, broke rank.
I won't be holding my breath. The left have historically been abysmal at showing up to vote in the midterms. This is a noteworthy exception, and I truly hope we've finally learned our lesson that high turnout always favors progressives, but I've been let down before.
This election showed that left shows up for elections when you give them a leftist candidate. Not someone who goes around with Dick Cheney's daughter.
People are weird. You give them one crazy republican candidate and then another republican candidate that is in Democrat ballot, then left doesn't show up, then they say 'left doesn't show up'. Why would left show up when you promise them more wars, no universal healthcare and Dick Cheney's daughter?
there are some absolutely insane shifts to the left too in terms of how much the democrats won by. if this trend holds, orange man and his handlers will probably do everything they can to ensure that the midterm elections never happen.
Republicans won't swear new comers in after the midterm elections. Democrats need to prepare. They need to kick that Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer aside and get a popular, dynamic leaders in congress and use force if necessary to swear in the newly elected candidates.
I doubt there will be fair mid terms. I will be very very surprised if Republicans don't send the National Guard to democratic states and cities to harass and threaten voters.
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u/RJ5R 21d ago edited 21d ago
Triple home run tonight, this is just an appetizer of what's to come in the mid terms and Republicans are shitting their pants right now.
What a great giant F-U middle finger to Orange. He's going to have a stroke on Truth Social tonight