A law suit! Excellent. Finally we will have this over with post haste.
this post was submitted on 03 Mar 2025
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At least they're trying something finally. Better than sitting on their hands and complaining in private talks about now progressives want our representatives to do something .
Agreed. I was wondering when we were going to see some action.
Reminder to all that despite its name the FEC does not control elections. Elections are controlled by the states.
The FEC enforces campaign spending laws, but as we've all seen even lawbreakers can be elected president.
Why so quick? I thought they would give him a few more terms before stepping in and trying literally anything...
They were going to send a strongly worded letter.
How many years did I have to put up with hearing about checks and balances, because that was a damn lie.
Right? All you needed was one bully and his friends who don't care about rules to simply do what they want and fuck everything up.
All systems of government are like that. I'm not saying ours is perfect. It is far from it. However, all forms of government rely on specific people following a set of rules that a (usually) different group of people came up with. Once enough people ignore the rules there's no way to fix the problem by attempting to enforce the rules that aren't being followed. That's what we're seeing now.
True, although the number of people that you need to break the rules before the system of government falls apart varies from system to system. In this case my impression is that the US requires relatively few people (once in power) to make those kinds of decisions.
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"And his friends" is the crucial part here. The reason this didn't happen in his first term was a massive amount of institutional pushback. GOP spent the intervening time clearing out those pesky roadblocks, and figured out where they wanted Trump aimed.
Well and like 200 cucks in the Senate and house to not bother checking you.
Turns out when about 70% of everything is just tradition without any laws to prevent people from breaking the assumed laws in place, it's all been a sham and anyone could have broken them for bettering the country instead of tearing it apart.
Common law like in the USA has inherent weaknesses.
A) He’s following China’s playbook. B) there is shit in the Project 2025 document that outlines this sorta play, here is a link to the summary.
https://blog.ucsusa.org/liza-gordon-rogers/how-project-2025-would-endanger-our-elections/
If we get to the point where, “For the safety of America, we won’t have an other election until the Democrats are stopped!”, I won’t be surprised. The GOP Does not plan on turning over control now that they have it.
2026 will be a repeat of 2024. All the dirty tricks will be pulled to ensure they face no consequences.
Worse in my opinion. They can openly manipulate the media and funding easier. The shots at the presses freedoms are going unchecked. If you make money off media/journalism and the offices are allowed to simply tell media outlets they can't attend anymore they are going to fall in line or lose their income and die. Shit even that dumb Epstein document thing was clearly a shot at freedom of the press. They knew most of it was already given to the public previously, yet wanted to control how the media reacted to Trump being tied to it. So they specifically launched it via channels they knew would defend Trump no matter what.
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That's not going to work.
What he's REALLY BEEN doing is changing the power balance, which used to be Legislative, Executive, and Judicial with Judicial having final say in most things by ruling on their constitutionality, and elevating the Executive branch. He will ignore judicial rulings as they "don't apply" to his office.
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Trump’s order feels like Watergate déjà vu—election rules must remain bipartisan and independent. Minus one for focusing solely on one perspective.
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How long is it going to take Bernie, AOC et all to walk out of the Democratic Party and start their own?
That's the only solution. Hopefully some moderate Republicans do the same (create their own party), and finally America will have a democracy...
IMHO we won't have one until we adopt a European style election where we have more than 2 viable parties and the electoral college is abolished.
Yeah, even Trump took over a party and molded it to him rather than created a new one. It's not possible in a FPTP system to have more than two viable parties.
Look at Canada, that's the only reason Conservatives have had any control or power. We have one right wing party(Conservatives), and 3 on the left(liberals, new democrats and green party).
It's usually pretty close to a 35/65 split between right and left, but right wins half the time because of how fractured the left is... (currently there is a right fascist surge in Canada , just like the rest of the world, with Elons funding and Russia's electronic warfare )
It's a garbage system the last government promised to reform and didn't, which hurts them long term.
*We also have a wild card party(BQ) that just represents one province Quebecs interest's , which should be banned from federal politics, they will swap sides just to get the best deal for those specifically in their province and that goes against the spirit of the federal politics for a United nation *
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You had me until you said "moderate republicans".
That's just a standard Democrat like Pelosi.
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Bernie has never been a Democrat, except when he ran for president.
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It'll be nice to see SCOTUS rule against elections and then we can stop the charade.
The founding fathers never intended that general public would participate in presidential elections. Done. No more elections.
Skip the popular vote and have the (unelected) electoral college decide the winner
There's times when it feels like we're already doing that
They should have protected democracy when they had a majority. Protecting the filibuster was more important.
The filibuster that they aren't using against trump's agenda.
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So they win, and give Krasnov a stern warning. Then what? Another lawsuit?
If they win, the FEC won't take directions from Trump.
This does not exclude the chance that Trump will provoke a more pointed confrontation. Or that Trump won't eventually have to be removed by force. It's just a basic thing to do - a road of 1000 steps starts with step 1.
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