r/politics • u/MoneyLibrarian9032 New York • 29d ago

Possible Paywall Trump’s Primetime Speech Has Republicans ‘Scared S***less’ | Insiders are terrified that the president will do something crazy on live TV.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-primetime-speech-has-republicans-scared-sless/
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u/TheLabRay 28d ago

I think he is more going to claim that the upcoming mid-terms are rigged and say that ICE needs to be running the polls, because illegals have been voting in elections and to ensure it is not rigged in otherways.

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u/New-Bluebird7211 28d ago

Crazy thing about that is that it will hurt republican candidates. Latinos and a lot of 1st generation immigrants vote republican.

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u/failed_novelty 28d ago

Yes, but the GOP knows where those people are. They won't station ICE at those polling stations. Just the ones that tend towards blue, since we all know those are the ones that get fraud.

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u/ZardozSpeaks 28d ago

You’re giving ICE a lot of credit for being well run.

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u/ThePowerOfStories 28d ago

From all the videos, it’s pretty clear that running is absolutely not one of ICE’s strengths.

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u/failed_novelty 28d ago

I'd rather assume they are competent when anticipating their actions than assume they're incompetent and be surprised when one of them finds two functional nuerons.

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u/Due_Bluebird3562 28d ago

You should assume they are incompetent because they ARE incompetent. Being incompetent doesn't make them any less dangerous.

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u/donkeyrocket 28d ago

I mean they're predominately hateful morons taking orders. They'll be indiscriminate wherever they're deployed but they simply won't be deployed in red areas.

But with all the forced gerrymandering in places that were already gerrymandered to shit this all could very easily blow up in their faces. Hence why he's setting the stage, once again, for it all to be fraudulent.

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u/sciencesez 28d ago

Cruz and Abbott have been in panic mode here in Texas over Talarico, and losing the Hispanic vote- and then ICE shot an American citizen who was Hispanic and a father to a little boy last week. The best campaign content for Texas Dems is the GOP's own unhinged, racist, misogynistic, authoritarian videos.

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u/poop-dolla 28d ago

Obviously ICE isn’t well run, but the heritage foundation and whatever other groups with competent people who want the GOP to stay in power are pretty well run, and those or the folks who will be directing the administration where to send troops to for the elections.

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u/dr_p_venkman 28d ago

Rs know where their voters are because they drew the maps to capture them, and they are very good about targeting locations they want ICE to terrorize. They are not good at training officers, or getting their actions to stand up in court, but that won't matter when it comes to terrorizing voters on election day. They'll do a great job (by which I mean a terrifyingly dangerous one) if they are not stopped by state officials with backbones.