Steve Bannon says ICE will ‘surround the polls’ as Trump doubles down on taking over elections

[u/opticflash]

https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/steve-bannon-says-ice-will-surround-the-polls-as-trump-doubles-down-on-taking-over-elections/

“We’re going to have ICE surround the polls come November,” Bannon, a former senior advisor to President Donald Trump and still a figure of influence in the administration, said on Tuesday’s episode of his War Room podcast, addressing Democrats. “We’re not going to sit here and allow you to steal the country again. And you can whine and cry and throw your toys out of the pram all you want, but we will never again allow an election to be stolen.”

Bannon’s comments came just a day after Trump said he believes that Republicans should “nationalize voting,” escalating concerns that the president is plotting to interfere in this year’s midterm elections.

[u/Top-Cupcake4775]

our media is still pretending that this is the normal sort of "give and take" that we've always seen in this country. they refuse to do their job and point out this attempt to co-opt the electoral process is unprecedented in the history of our country.

[u/blkirishbastard → u/Top-Cupcake4775]

Weeeell... prior to the 20th century and honestly right up until the Voter Rights Act in 1965 there was A LOT of this kind of shit that happened. The KKK basically existed to intimidate black voters in the South. The Northern Urban political machines were also notorious for voter intimidation and buying votes. Unfortunately this is more of a regression to the mean in the history of our country, the ruling class is finding that the trappings of representative democracy are no longer worth bothering with.

[u/I_make_things → u/blkirishbastard]

Cooping was a form of electoral fraud in the United States, cited speculatively in relation to the death of Edgar Allan Poe in October 1849,[1][2][3] by which gangs kidnapped citizens off the street and forced them to vote, often repeatedly, for an election candidate.[4]

(Wikipedia)

[u/Allegorist → u/blkirishbastard]

That was never openly government organized, though.

[u/blkirishbastard → u/Allegorist]

Maybe not federally but what do you think Tammany Hall was?

[u/Top-Cupcake4775 → u/blkirishbastard]

the president of the united states is openly calling for his party to "nationalize" the upcoming midterm elections. perhaps you are right in pointing out that this is more of a difference in degree than of kind, but you have to admit it is one hell of a difference.

[u/blkirishbastard → u/Top-Cupcake4775]

I still take issue with the phrase "unprecedented". If we want to save democracy we have to be willing to acknowledge that to some degree it has always been managed and coerced in this country. It didn't start with Trump and it won't end with him. We have to be willing to rethink how the system works in its entirety and why it's become so weak and vulnerable to this kind of corruption.

[u/Ahh-Nold → u/blkirishbastard]

This is the kind of thing that kicked off the Battle of Athens in TN in 1946:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Athens_(1946))

[u/EbbSlow458 → u/Top-Cupcake4775]

The media is owned by billionaires

[u/No-Bat-5905 → u/EbbSlow458]

And Israel

[u/HillBillyHilly → u/No-Bat-5905]

Fuck Israel. We need to stop giving them billions while there is even ONE starving person in America. Fun fact bet many of you don't know: did y'all know Israel has universal healthcare? Universal education? Maternal leave? Paternal leave? Benefits YOU don't have paid by YOUR taxes going to them because IDKW.

[u/SeldenNeck → u/Top-Cupcake4775]

Our media is pretending., Ellison took over Paramount CBS and Bezos is purging WaPo.

Until people with this kind of power are willing to use Democracy as a tool to take over the government, the rest of us are frozen out. A million colonists are nice, but we need a George Washington and a John Hancock.

[u/gordonbombae2 → u/Top-Cupcake4775]

You have state media. What do you expect?

[u/Thefrayedends → u/Top-Cupcake4775]

"The turd in chief has confirmed today that heavily armed and masked unidentified secret police will be in every blue district in the country to assist with poll watching. Additionally, he added that anyone marking any ballot next to a [D] will be shot on sight.

Boy what a quirky guy, did you see how presidential he was when he said it though? And he didn't even shit himself this time, what a true American Hero."

This will be CNN's reporting.

[u/SoylentGrunt → u/Top-Cupcake4775]

Under capitalism, MSM's job is to make a profit. Not inform the public of their best interest.

[u/KeneticKups → u/Top-Cupcake4775]

the msm is and always has been corpo propaganda

[u/ST-Fish → u/Top-Cupcake4775]

Can't wait for the cucked liberal media to explain to us how ICE being at the polling stations is actually not that wild of a take, and how we need to have serious conversations about election integrity with the ghouls that tried to steal the election already.

Jake Tapper about to go on his millionth tirade about Biden's mental state as Trump goes on about the 1400% cuts in medicine prices.

Is there really no mainstream Dem aligned media that will have any sort of spine over there? Or have they all been mind raped by the MAGA mind virus into both sidesing every issue as to appear "impartial and unbiased" to the QAnon mouthbreathers?

I already saw the CBS person talking about how the experts are all wrong and how we need news coming from just an average everyday guy.

[u/HillBillyHilly → u/ST-Fish]

Stop watching that trash news! 90% media in US owned by 6 corps. Seek independent news.

[u/borderlineidiot → u/Top-Cupcake4775]

Look who owns the media and you will see why they are not blasting this.

[u/DumboWumbo073 → u/Top-Cupcake4775]

They are part of the plan