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. . . but I really have to wonder what is going on behind the scenes that we don't know about that is enabling Republicans to be so cavalier about defying public opinion.
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Chasstev365
(5,715 posts)Blue Full Moon
(2,421 posts)brush
(60,556 posts)
Bernardo de La Paz
(57,015 posts)
durablend
(8,422 posts)Wednesdays
(20,575 posts)
PoindexterOglethorpe
(27,999 posts)The yearly prediction of cancelled elections.
Remind me again how often that has happened?
flashman13
(1,388 posts)BTW, the plan is to cancel local elections in Miami.
sop
(15,156 posts)'It’s official: Miami cancels November election, postpones it to 2026'
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article309065285.html
flashman13
(1,388 posts)
rampartd
(2,183 posts)that trump is a criminal felon who regularly oversteps his authority and there is NOTHING they can do to stop him.
Justice matters.
(8,621 posts)The blondie DOJ has been 'ordered' to look at what they can make up to intimidate Election Officials with. So how about nobody wants to show up at work on Election Day (by fear of getting arrested for who knows what made up accusation, like a 'peaceful' J6 redux), uh? Oh... "sorry, we have to cancel it because, nobody wants to do the job..." gee, we wonder why...
Re: Justice Dept. Explores Using Criminal Charges Against Election Officials
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143489800
The always-plotting-malfeasance convicted idiot said "vote for me, and you will never have to vote ever again, I will FIX it for good, you'll never have to vote" so... this is what is on his criminal mind to do it... 
Cha
(312,968 posts)Traitor gets in charge in '24 and has told the cult that they won't have to vote again. .. and now the Us is Full of the Neo Gestapo masquerading as ICE 
Full Blown Neo Nazism. I can't imagine Patriots just accepting this lying down. 
Cha
(312,968 posts)want to set up their elections for an even year so more will vote.
Chasstev365
(5,715 posts)sop
(15,156 posts)
PatSeg
(50,587 posts)have good reason to anticipate "cancelled elections". We've been heading in the direction of an autocracy for quite some time and many people realize that it is possible, even in the United States. It happens all over the world. We are not immune.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(27,999 posts)Once again, tell me about earlier cancelled elections in this country.
Plus, do you REALLY expect every one of the 50 states would go along with that? You do? Based on what.
Again, the prospect of a cancelled election is a perennial trope here on DU. Elections won't be cancelled. If for no other reason than lots and lots of things and people are elected, not just the President.
UniqueUserName
(366 posts)PatSeg
(50,587 posts)to do the same thing, getting people used to the idea until it becomes nationwide. We've already seen that happen with abortion rights.
PatSeg
(50,587 posts)We are not as unique as we'd like to believe we are. There are so many things that I would have never thought possible in the U.S. until recent years. Now I am prepared for anything.
As someone else mentioned, they've cancelled elections in Miami. Though hardly nationwide, that is how such changes start, on a state or local level.
I'm not saying there will be cancelled elections. Personally, I think republicans are more inclined to just cheat, but I wouldn't be surprised if we saw cancelled elections due to some fabricated national emergency. Trump has implied that before.
Jack Valentino
(2,795 posts)PoindexterOglethorpe
(27,999 posts)Please tell me more.
Jack Valentino
(2,795 posts)PoindexterOglethorpe
(27,999 posts)and keep on questioning them. Meanwhile, what elections have been cancelled?
And changing one from 2025 to 2026 is NOT a cancelled election.
Jack Valentino
(2,795 posts)UniqueUserName
(366 posts)my thinking exactly.
OrangeJoe
(508 posts)Rather than leap to the maximalist position on the 2026 mid-terms (and with this basket of deplorables nothing surprises me) I think a simpler explanation is the fact that the Medicaid cuts don't kick in until after the 2026 election. I can see Fox running pieces interviewing people on Medicaid before that time and pooh-poohing the Democrats as fear mongers because everything is ok.
Irish_Dem
(72,217 posts)Blue Full Moon
(2,421 posts)Who's going to make him?
Ray Bruns
(5,382 posts)
Jack Valentino
(2,795 posts)He *might* try to prevent it, but a midnight rant on "Truth" Social won't do it---
and even if he tried to deploy the military to all 50 states to stop elections,
he doesn't have the logistic capability to do that effectively---
and, such an action would effectively initiate civil war,
and much of the military itself would not be on his side....
Blue Full Moon
(2,421 posts)Has any of the courts actually made him obey the law yet? No they have not. The republicans are not concerned one iota that their constituents don't support them. It's because they are secure.
Jack Valentino
(2,795 posts)that this is their only chance to come close to repealing Obamacare and the New Deal,
which may be quite true
and Mitch McConnell tells them "don't worry, they will forget about it"
while the rest of the choir sings about how great their 'beautiful bill' is for America....
If Trump and the GQP politicians actually tried to go way over the red line
of "cancelling the elections", I believe that a fair number of them
would have a very rude awakening while looking at a great big O pointed at them,
and some of those O's would be wielded by those who had previously been their own supporters
possibly some "red states" might bow down and cancel their elections,
but the blue states will not--- in such a scenario, we win the election...
and if we have to march on Washington DC to enforce the will of the voters,
ala "J6"--- in that instance, we will have RIGHT and NUMBERS
on our side!
I_UndergroundPanther
(13,140 posts)Passes it says in the bill trump can postpone or cancel elections. It could very well happen. These aren’t normal times we have been for the most part couped
617Blue
(1,961 posts)Throw in the other voting suppression laws and techniques the GOP uses and it's not really a mystery.
They are all invulnerable.
markodochartaigh
(3,333 posts)trying to redistrict this year, mid-decade.
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/06/09/texas-redistricting-congress-house-republicans-midterms/
MagickMuffin
(17,805 posts)The election “judge” was the chairman of the Tarrant County republicans.
He is extremely biased and a partisan hack.
Emile
(35,885 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(57,015 posts)* They don't think sentiment is as bad as it is. They read Rasmussen and Trafalgar polls.
* They backloaded the worst cuts to after 2026, so they think they are clever
* They think that the coming deregulation blizzard will boost the economy a lot, enough to reverse dark economic clouds gathering on the horizon.
* They are under the thumb of tRump's primary threats and who knows what else he has on them.
Note: Cancelling the 2026 midterms would provoke a huge revolt from the US public, even from maga and RepubliCons, with lots of violence. Even the orange regime can see that is a bridge too far. Everything would go down, including billionaire safety and net worths, by a lot.
Wuddles440
(1,776 posts)Unlikely based on the relatively tepid response to the ICE abductions, assaults on Democratic politicians, pervasive corruption, and abandonment of the Rule of Law, the MAGATS and their Orange Messiah are projecting a self-assurance that the general public lacks the appetite for such actions and confident that any resistance would be futile, especially with the extent of the 'security' force that they're amassing.
Bernardo de La Paz
(57,015 posts)When 5 to 11 million (estimates vary) come out for No Kings day June 14, cancelling nationwide elections would cause such massive turnout to make that look paltry.
Wuddles440
(1,776 posts)but most Democrats/Progressives/Liberals aren't inclined to "revolt and engage in violence", it's not in their DNA. The MAGATS know this and effectively exploit that vulnerability. Can you imagine a non-MAGAT participating in a coup and assaulting the U.S Capitol? Not likely! However, when they come for me (and based on my background, I know that they eventually will do so), I'm preparing to take a few of them with me.
Mysterian
(5,766 posts)So fascists took over the world and nobody stopped them. I must have missed that part. Liberals will rise up and fight when the time comes. We're just not the type to rise up for some dirtbag shitheel tyrant like Donald fucking Trump and embarrass our nation with a stupid attack on the Capitol. We will fight for our freedom and we will win. Like we have time and time again. Pick up a book.
Wuddles440
(1,776 posts)To do what? Force them to read? Threaten to throw at them if they don't stop being nasty? Hey, but you do you as they say. I'll go with something much more lethal for defense.
Mysterian
(5,766 posts)To learn some history. I thought it was obvious. I guess not.
Wuddles440
(1,776 posts)and graduated with honors, but was is "obvious" to me is that you have absolutely no concept nor understanding of history or our current world. Have a great life.
Mysterian
(5,766 posts)A history major! A regular professor emeritus! Tell us more about how liberals never fight, professor....
Wuddles440
(1,776 posts)It really does help if you've received some advanced education beyond high school (hopefully completed or at least a GED) and actually have read some books. Give it a try, as it may expose you to a whole new world!
Mysterian
(5,766 posts)Not the first fuckin' clue.
DV1
(134 posts)are some dedicated individuals, perhaps around 100, with the training and equipment to spark irreversible fear in the fearmongers with a few quick sorties.
That would definitely change the equation.
BidenRocks
(1,836 posts)When ya got nothin', you've got nothin' to lose.
Remember Chump I?
Vote for me! What do you have to lose?
FREEDOM!
PoindexterOglethorpe
(27,999 posts)Your note: Cancelling the 2026 midterms would provoke a huge revolt from the US public, even from maga and RepubliCons, with lots of violence. Even the orange regime can see that is a bridge too far. Everything would go down, including billionaire safety and net worths, by a lot. is most important.
I get exasperated at all the statements here that the 2026 elections will be cancelled, in no small part because individual states run their own elections, so maybe Texas will cancel theirs, but other state will. Plus, of course, just in case you haven't noticed, we vote for a whole lot more offices than just the president.
Pacifist Patriot
(25,051 posts)about vote suppression through legal, administrative, and borderline illegal tactics.
OldBaldy1701E
(8,339 posts)I am sorry to say it, but you have way more faith in the 'US public' than I do. Of course, that is just my opinion.
If what has already happened has not created a near revolt, then I don't see why that would get it started.
Face facts. He should have been in jail. His cronies should have been in various meetings about their involvement with his actions for the rest of their lives. If the expectation is everyone has to conform to the laws in this country, that should have happened. But...
We seem to be like deer in the headlights. 
walkingman
(9,529 posts)
markpkessinger
(8,798 posts). . . they also want to get re-elected. So narcissism alone doesn't explain it.
walkingman
(9,529 posts)White supremacy, and I could go on and on. I think these attitudes are core values of US history - it is who we are and always have been. Until we teach our children that they are unacceptable it will continue to be generational.
Farmer-Rick
(11,864 posts)American oligarchs won't ever really let your vote count. Not since they stole the election from Gore.
ElementaryPenguin
(7,897 posts)That's when it started. Gore won, Supreme Court stepped in to stop the Florida recount that Bush was losing.
The Republican Party has not been committed to democracy since.
Festivito
(13,752 posts)hamsterjill
(16,098 posts)What exactly HAS NOT happened yet on the Project 2025 agenda that would give ANYONE confidence that the midterms will happen and will be fair?
People who scoff at the very valid and real concern over this issue are either foolish, ignorant or simply not paying attention. We seem to have a few posters on DU who are hell-bent on insisting that things will continue as "normal". Well, "normal" went out the window a long, fucking time ago where Trump is concerned. I've seen nothing stopping him from doing what he damn well pleases, and I live in reality.
These posters remind me of the ones on DU who chastised the rest of us consistently to "give Garland more time". Well, four years later, we see where that got us.
So, don't bother telling me I'm worrying too much, I'm fearmongering, or I'm wrong. You won't change my mind. Because no one knows for sure until we get to the midterms, but something is obviously going on.
BonnieJW
(2,966 posts)And 26 will be the same. Unless 24 can be exposed, 26 can't be prevented.
hamsterjill
(16,098 posts)Well, we KNOW that the 2000 election between Bush and Gore was not fair, and I have my suspicions about 2016. So 2024 is just them honing their talents at manipulating the votes. In 2026, they aren't even going to care if it's obvious and apparent.
StarryNite
(11,656 posts)That's why the rethugs are more concerned about pleasing the orange POS than their voters. They want to be sure they are included and they get to go along for the ride. They know he and his puppeteers are the only ones who can get them on that E ticket ride. Voters mean nothing to them anymore.
hamsterjill
(16,098 posts)They don't need the little people any more. The only thing that will change will be when the little people actually rise up, and I don't know that I think that's going to happen.
I don't condone violence and I hope we can avoid it. But every person on this planet has a breaking point and when people start to see their loved one's dying on the couch because they can't get them medical care, medical equipment, or drugs to lessen the pain - THAT is going to be a breaking point for a lot of people.
CaptainTruth
(7,765 posts)They think they can do whatever they want & they're generally clueless.
Plus, they generally don't pay attention to things outside of their bubble.
LeftinOH
(5,554 posts)that most of their hubris is sustained by the inward-focused narratives that they've been using for years amongst each other.. They're barely cognizant of how people outside of the MAGA bubble perceive things.
DENVERPOPS
(12,987 posts)a month before the 2024 election, like they had the election in the bag already...........they didn't disappoint.....
Whatever they are doing to corrupt the elections is obviously in place......they don't have to worry about winning the vote ever again......
Was it Goebells? (sp) who was a major henchman of Hitler that said:
We don't worry about the votes, we focus on who is COUNTING the votes........Just as it is in Russia and other Dictatorships....
unblock
(55,377 posts)Not to mention a Supreme Court that is wiling to step in and help republicans win close elections, they know their party will maintain power. So they're more worried about being primaried than losing the general election.
The media will likely make sure this odious bill is long forgotten by November 2026 anyway. They'll throw the masses a tiny bone two month before the election and it will dominate news.
surfered
(7,862 posts)
dlilafae
(241 posts)Do you really think our vote will count again? Nothing at all happened to them for cheating. So, why wouldn't they continue on? Do you really think tRump is going to risk going to jail after this?
IrishAfricanAmerican
(4,272 posts)
mucholderthandirt
(1,604 posts)Even if we got enough people off their asses, we won't win against the military. I used to think the rank and file members wouldn't face off against their family and friends, but after seeing stuff the last couple of decades, I no longer believe that.
The Project 2025 folks have spent decades infiltrating everything. Police, military, education, local governments. It was a long, drawn-out plan to make any opposition fail. Some of us tried to warn others, to make sure we put up good people to win and maybe thwart these plans, but it has been in vain. The politicians know where their money comes from. They take it gladly, and to hell with the rest of us. Just peons in some fantasy medieval video game. Welcome to the future, it won't be good for us.
Nigrum Cattus
(729 posts)they don't have musk, and he will be working against
them. Also, they think that because the cuts don't
kick in until after the 2026 elections
angrychair
(10,858 posts)Americans are, in general, ignorant cowards. Its not our fault to be fair. We have literally been trained since birth to be this way. We are told since childhood to not question authority, obey the rules and do as we are told.
We are trained to sit in a desk, face forward and obey authority for 8 hours a day for 12 years.
To do what?
sit in a desk, face forward and obey authority for 8 hours a day for 40+ years
So that then, for about an average of 5-7 years of retirement you can do a little of what you want but many adventures are way beyond most people due to age and declining health and limited income.
ThornSurf91
(6 posts)I have participated in many Indivisible calls. Many have raised the question about lack of confidence in the 2026 elections. Same with writing our congress people. It makes no sense to carry through on such unpopular legislation unless you knew the election will not matter. BLUF: it’s not just you.
markie
(23,495 posts)and insisted that there is no reason to vote Yes on this bill... I said, if he votes yes, I will do everything in my power to help elect someone who could better represent this community!!!
Skittles
(165,954 posts)they somehow know that what WE THE PEOPLE think means absolutely NOTHING
Autumn
(48,150 posts)Skittles
(165,954 posts)but these days it's waiting for a jury verdict 
betsuni
(28,108 posts)It's a religion, their identity. May as well ask them if they'd vote for Satan. Legislation is written by right-wing think tanks and organizations funded with obscene amounts of money, Republicans don't have to govern or do anything at all. The actual public has nothing to do with it. Democrats have nothing to do with it. Another reason why Both Sides is so incredibly stupid.
pat_k
(11,420 posts)Manipulated data to "match" and purge non-MAGA voters in the millions across the county.
pansypoo53219
(22,389 posts)
Tree Lady
(12,534 posts)Than us. Republicans may say a lot of things and some may seem to agree with us but in the end when it comes to voting they always vote R.
spanone
(139,605 posts)Martial law is one of their weaopns.
Why worry?
Figarosmom
(6,828 posts)It's because illegals vote for them. So they are also SURE that once they are all gone, Dems will lose every election.
It's all part of their replacement theory. That we bring in or allow in so many immigrants is for control of the vote.
PikaBlue
(360 posts)but they may refuse to certify the results based on (you know) "fraud and corruption".
malaise
(286,475 posts)Scary times