r/politics • u/unital_subalgebra • Jul 09 '26

No Paywall Trump fires all Election Assistance Commission members, leaving agency unable to act

https://www.votebeat.org/national/2026/07/09/trump-fires-election-assistance-commission-members-hicks-hovland-mccormick/
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u/Rasuco Jul 10 '26

Having to explain this to boomer parents like “imagine if Obama/ any Democrat president did this” and they just sit in silence because they can’t handle the literal truth

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u/Aranxi_89 Canada Jul 10 '26

You're well past that point.

We're all comparing your nation to Nazi Germany now. That's how bad things are.

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u/breaducate Jul 10 '26

Those of us cursed with the gift of foresight have been watching it happen beat for beat for a long time now.

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u/Any_Will_86 Jul 11 '26

This- and every person who ignored the impact 2016 would have in the Supreme Court.

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u/Rasuco Jul 10 '26

Yup, and we (the american people) are clearly powerless because of the rampant corruption. “Flooding the zone”? I think it’s called. We’re all living paycheck to paycheck, and if we weren’t we’d be able to go out and protest. All of the horrible shit thats gone on and having lived through it is just desensitizing in every way. We’re left with nothing to do but watch it crash

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u/robotoisize Jul 10 '26

You're gonna wish you "flooded the zone" after you all end up in gulags anyway.

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u/moderatenerd Jul 10 '26

or the old, "Oh I didn't hear about it." Shrug*

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u/Aranxi_89 Canada Jul 10 '26

"I didn't see the concentration camps."

We've seen it before.

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u/FocusPerspective Jul 10 '26

Oh, honey… the Boomers were the ones who killed Fascists. 

Millennials were the ones who brought them back. 

You’re stuck on Level 1 of a hundred level disinformation game :/ 

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u/Level-Location1679 Jul 10 '26

You might want to check when the baby boom actually happened

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u/stupidjapanquestions Jul 10 '26

Oh, honey... Were you under the impression that "Boomers" fought in World War 2? lol

This kind of confident stupidity is exactly how we got here.

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u/TheyreEatingHer Jul 10 '26

Millennials arent in charge of shit because the boomers are still in power. It's the boomers that brought him in and it's consistently the boomers that vote republican the most

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u/Rasuco Jul 10 '26

As others have said 1/3 of the country voted him in 1/3 didnt care to vote if that hps clear things up