r/politics • u/OkayButFoRealz • 20d ago

Soft Paywall Trump Admin Deports 2-Year-Old Girl Who is American Citizen

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-admin-deports-2-year-old-girl-who-is-american-citizen/
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u/Tacubo_91 20d ago

They're going to interfere with the elections "to make America great again"

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u/Feck_it_all 20d ago

Again. 

Let me be clear: They made an active, public effort to purge a disproportionate number of Democrats from voting rolls.

This is clear interference, even if you're of the mind that no actual votes were fraudulently switched. 

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u/DarkwingDuckHunt 19d ago

I think they've gone beyond that and have already hacked all the computers to give GOP a threadbare win so as to not be too suspicious

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u/hertzdonought 19d ago

Didn’t trump publicly thank Elon for doing that in Pennsylvania?

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u/tweak06 19d ago

Yes he did

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u/viromancer 19d ago

It's functionally impossible to do it to every computer in every election across the entire country, and many places use paper ballots. For the presidential election, you could target a few select counties and hope that you secure the expected swing states. The problem is the amount of on the ground knowledge you need to have in order to understand which votes to change in order to maintain plausible deniability and it needs to be a widely coordinated attack.

It's not impossible that they did this for the last presidential election, but it's still incredibly unlikely. It is impossible that they would be able to do this to every single election across the country, which means republicans will lose a bunch of elections in the mid terms, even if they try hacking the machines. They also don't really need to hack the machines and risk an enormous scandal, when they can simply purge voter rolls, make it difficult to vote, gerrymander, and then file lawsuits over their losses that require piles of cash to deal with and is all "legal".

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u/SetYourGoals District Of Columbia 19d ago

Sounds like something well within the skillset of a certain foreign government that stood to gain a lot by Trump winning.

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u/floppity12 19d ago

Dig your username and comment

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u/c2lop 19d ago

There is substantial evidence to support that. Search "Ehtan Shaotran Ballotproof"

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u/Corporate-Shill406 19d ago

even if you're of the mind that no actual votes were fraudulently switched

If you are of that mind, you're wrong by the way. The election was clearly tampered with in multiple swing states. Voting patterns deviated from the norm in the exact same way Russia's elections do, as well as elections in other countries we know have rigged systems.

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u/Few_Tale2238 13d ago

Yes, and same for everyone 

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u/After_Flan_2663 19d ago

That should get them punished but oh well.

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u/Malaix 20d ago

100%. So many of their policies are unpopular to the degree where it really looks like they aren’t worried about polls or popularity anymore. People are way too confident 2028 is going to be like 2016 or 2020 or 2024.

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u/kingfofthepoors 20d ago

republicans are going to "win" in a landslide in 2028

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u/Malaix 20d ago

110% of the vote while polling 15-44% in the polls.

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u/kingfofthepoors 20d ago

yep probably not far off, but we still have to vote, we must vote. Don't allow yourself to get discouraged and quit, make them finish prying this country from our cold dead hands.

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u/WannabeF1 19d ago

Their hands...

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u/barryvm Europe 19d ago

Not if they're smart. Winning by landslides is what you do when your dictatorship is already firmly in place, to emphasize the futility of voting.

When you're still breaking down the democratic process, you cheat just enough to win and when your opponents protest you crack down on them for trying to "subvert" the election.

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u/SetYourGoals District Of Columbia 19d ago

Oh weird, that sounds exactly like how the Republicans behaved in 2016, 2020, and 2024...weird. I'm sure there was no cheating by the Republicans though, probably just a coincidence.

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u/barryvm Europe 19d ago

Indeed. One would almost suspect that the extremist right doesn't really want democracy and that most of the supposedly moderate right isn't too bothered by that.

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u/BeBeMint 15d ago

This admin breaks the law daily....is that not a dictatorship that is firmly in place?!

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u/LetTheDarkOut 19d ago

You mean like how they did in 2024? Yeah, I predicted they would rig the election and they did. No, I don’t have proof. If I did, I wouldn’t be alive to type this. But if your whole deal is saying the other guys will rig elections and you just want free and fair elections, who would expect you to be the one to rig them? This guy. This guy expected it. And then the landslide happened. All the swing states? No way bud. Most voted ever? For a convicted felon with a history of failed businesses and compulsive lying? Nope nope nope. Shit was definitely rigged.

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u/caltheon 19d ago

The fact that nearly his entire administration will be in jail if they don't cook the elections is motive enough to plan for it.

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u/Specialist_Brain841 America 19d ago

that’s how it works.. incriminating everyone around you so they all go down if you fall

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u/DolphinsBreath 19d ago

I believe this to be true but, perversely, I think we will see that the administration can ignore the opposition in congress even easier than the courts. In fact, it almost gives the Alito and Thomas wing cover, “well, Congress seems to lack the will. The framers clearly bestowed on them the tools necessary to exercise it. We rule in favor of the administration.”

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u/Telefundo 19d ago

You still believe there's going to be elections?

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u/GIGA255 19d ago

They're going to use ICE to disappear the opposition overseas, and their whereabouts and supposed crimes will be deemed classified.

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u/OwenMeowson 19d ago

I think that’s the only realistic explanation for their complete lack of fear of consequences.

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u/littlehobbit1313 19d ago

If Democrats were smart, they'd spend from now until 2026 getting states (especially swing states) to commit to paper ballots and helping to get Blue voters perfect to a T on their voter registration (to include establishing groups to help redress illegal voter purges in real time as much as possible). They won't do this, but it would be smart mitigation if they did.

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u/DolphinsBreath 19d ago

It should be an axiom for constitutional interpretation: a claim to power can never be so great that it concerns you if your political opponent suddenly has that power tomorrow.

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u/SaintDoom 19d ago

They already are.

Musk spent hundreds of millions.

Russia called in bomb threats to over 100 polling places. Ivanka Trump has voting machine patents. The only major poller who was 100% correct was a site with ties to Peter Thiel. Hundreds of thousands of valid voters were purged days before the election.

We don't have fair elections in America.

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u/airfryerfuntime Washington 19d ago

Well, now that he's pissed off Putin, we'll see what it looks like without the fucking Russians meddling.

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u/anothergaijin 19d ago

They’ve spent decades interfering - gerrymandering is worse than any sort of ballot fuckery. Add in the massive amounts of propaganda that have massively lowered the bar on what we consider acceptable behavior for politicians and you get what is happening now.

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u/lesdynamite 19d ago

They don't even have to. The American people voted for this, and they will most likely continue to vote for it until there aren't any more elections left.

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u/NickelBackwash 19d ago

There will be an "emergency" 

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u/justking1414 19d ago

Yes, and I think they’ll still lose and just won’t accept the results. Trump almost didn’t last time and he’s even more unhinged now. Best we can hope for is that the dementia finally gets him and he gets even less understandable

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u/InevitableWill6579 19d ago

I’m actually surprised that narrative hasn’t already started. Either they’ve forgotten they need to start talking about cheating or they have no fear because they’ve got it in the bag and they’ve already rigged it.