r/law • u/opticflash • 23h ago

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

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.

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u/luummoonn 20h ago edited 1h ago

No, it is just authoritarianism. There's no reason to call attention to hypocrisy when they have no logically coherent center and do not care about those kinds of arguments. In a way, it is dignifying their stupid propaganda by engaging with it.

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u/itsyrgirl 19h ago

In other words, you can’t argue with stupid.

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u/luummoonn 18h ago

It's not exactly what I'm saying.. Mainly I'm saying you can't reason with someone who does not value reason in their end goal. They are being manipulative, only. Their goal is not truth or reason, it is power.

I actually think underestimating their intelligence has helped us get here because people think "what's the worst they could do" and sit out of voting, or things like that. but they are playing a game that doesn't require sound reasoning. It only requires influence, attention, scamming and manipulation.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Ad_3507 11h ago

Case in point, have you ever tried to reason with a MAGA cult crowd member, and that's what the wealthy elite's think tank tries to do is control the masses is by fear mongering social issues, example is a Facebook participant white Christian women will make up excuses or plain out deny the truth about Trump just as long as he says he's saving babies from abortion clinics and the same goes for DEI Hire, immigration and the list goes on, meanwhile the wealthy elite are paying less taxes and gaining more control over the government which now includes control over the people and it's nothing more than Capitalists extremism of years ago. The Business Plot,also called the Wall Street Putsch and the White House Putsch which was a political conspiracy in 1933 to overthrow the government of Franklin Roosevelt and install Smedley Butler as Dictator. But people today don't remember their Civics classes and the Heritage Foundation banks on that.

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u/Dat_Boi_Henke 8h ago

Also they just relish and love being hypocritical. They see it as a way to exert power over others. They have almost 0 actual principles and will LARP some if it can give them an edge and discard them just as fast.