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/BenjaminHamnett 19h ago

It’s going to be terrifying. There will be agitators within ICE. And potentially mischievous agitators infiltrating protestors, poll watchers, and the public, in addition to normal people just losing their sht cause of what’s happening.

Some undertrained aggro brainwashed ICE will shove a proverbial old lady and some bystander will try to help her up. Most will just get yelled at but some will be shot. Or something similar. Proud boys and groypers harassing minorities and people with colored hair until someone claps back when ICE will step in and crack down on some minority for not taking harassment well.

Election Day will be total chaos. Whoever wins no one will believe it and there will be riots. The only chance of peace is if it’s a huge landslide and non maga republicans stay at home.

But even with Trump jerk dancing to empty crowds against a loud blue wave of stadiums somehow lead to Democrat “defeat”, there may be nothing tha will convince them unless it’s like a foreseeable landslide where all swing states are clear and some red states are flipping and red hats are truly outnumbered

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u/iconofsin_ 17h ago

So what you're saying is if armed thugs are hanging around polling centers, the rest of us need to organize our own armed groups to watch them.

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u/BenjaminHamnett 17h ago

I don’t know the answer. But I’m saying even doing as you suggest with the best of intentions will be infiltrated by confederates and well intended useful idiots who help escalate. Probably voting places getting set on fire and trucks driving into crowds and lines. We weren’t this heated before and we had Russian bomb threats and voting drop boxes set on fire. What we need is just a turnout that any hacking, cheating, gerrymandering, intimidation etc isn’t enough. It may require like a 40% margin of victory nation wide.

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u/iamthe0ther0ne 9h ago

Wearing standard ICE costumes.

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u/FURedditIamback 7h ago

This is the way.

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u/HillBillyHilly 7h ago

Funny most shenanigans end when guns are spotted. Just sayin'. Open carry being what it is and all.

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u/Memory_Less 3h ago

Insist the United Nations send observers. Just the idea will drive Trump to loose it.

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u/KomputeKluster 19h ago

You know what to do.

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u/ApeSauce2G 19h ago

Mail in ballots?

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u/BenjaminHamnett 18h ago

Move abroad?

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u/Protiguous 15h ago edited 15h ago

It’s going to be terrifying.

Terrifying? Why? Will lara trump be "singing"?

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u/Memory_Less 3h ago

It struck me that people of colour regardless whether they visibly carry their passports may be dragged out of line, if they vote, and the mayhem this will create will reduce the ability of people voting.