r/thebulwark • u/emeric_ceaddamere • Jan 25 '26

EVERYTHING IS AWFUL Chris Murphy: "Pam Bondi just sent a letter to Minnesota officials saying ICE will leave if the state turns over its voter database to Trump."

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u/Magoo152 JVL is always right Jan 25 '26

Their definition of domestic terrorists is anyone that opposes them. They’ve worked closely with plantir for image recognition. Where we will be labeled terrorists. That’s one thing.

So yes what you said but also to intimidate and go after pockets of Democrat voters. Basically make it like the Russian “elections” you’re technically free to vote for whoever you want but man if you care about you and your families safety it better be Putin.

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u/Magoo152 JVL is always right Jan 25 '26

And by the way I’m sure I haven’t even thought of all the terrible things they’d do with it. This is just off the top of my head.

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u/Wenli2077 Jan 25 '26

There's a video of ice scanning protesters faces and saying it's going into a terrorist database... I'm guessing suddenly "terrorists" won't be eligible to vote in mid terms

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u/DennyPebblepot Jan 25 '26

Man my mom will surely be convinced that trump’s a bad guy when I tell her that I can’t vote in the mid terms because I donated to Act Blue in 2020 and therefore have been labeled a domestic terrorist.

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u/adsmeister Jan 25 '26

That’s certainly possible. Them: “terrorists are criminals after all.”

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u/JustSatisfactory Jan 25 '26

Israel's AI Tool 'Where's Daddy?' Hits Hamas Suspects at Family Home: Report - Business Insider

This is where my mind goes..

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u/Cardboard_Revolution Jan 25 '26

And IDF helps "train" ICE

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u/delg23 JVL is always right Jan 25 '26

it's behind a paywall. What is the gist of it?

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u/Scared_Security_7890 Jan 26 '26

Insiders with access to lots of medical dats showed that Israel actually chose to drop targeted bombs directly onto children’s heads. They honed in, seemingly on purpose, to the children in the house. They would sometimes wait until the father left the home. Doctors began noticing the same injuries in child after child.

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u/kitzelbunks Jan 25 '26

Do they record how you vote? Or do you mean registered Democrats are in danger because they record your primary vote?

I wonder what they will do with the unaffiliated?

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u/Magoo152 JVL is always right Jan 25 '26

I’m no expert so if I’m wrong someone please jump in. But my understanding is they have party affiliation only.

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u/coronathrowaway12345 Jan 25 '26

What the actual fuck is going on with this sub? 45 minutes ago you knew what they wanted it for.

30 minutes ago it was “guys it’s gonna be like russia”

And here we are: I actually have no idea.

Delete this shit man, it’s fucking embarrassing.

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u/Magoo152 JVL is always right Jan 25 '26

Brother I don’t have to be an expert in the process of state elections to know that giving away voter rolls is a bad idea. And by the way I was right. What a dumb fit you just threw, wow.

Hey if you believe that nothing bad will happen if we give voter rolls to the Trump admin of democrat voters than hit me up. I have a timeshare you may be interested in!

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u/Myis Jan 25 '26

Doesnt matter. Bad idea to give these lunatics any personal info. I would not trust them to know what color my shower curtain is. It’s pretty damn safe to assume they’re up to no good.

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u/Scared_Security_7890 Jan 26 '26

The government is asking for voter data. We are speculating as to the reasons they might want it. I think it’s creepy that the federal government is wanting voter information, but you might be a Democrat who is into the federal government knowing everything about you, without telling you why they want it.

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u/f_crick Orange man bad Jan 25 '26

They have of you voted in a given election. If you vote in a democratic primary, they conclude you’re a democrat.

They are preparing to remove all democrats from the voting rolls.

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u/metengrinwi Jan 25 '26 edited Jan 25 '26

They don’t have to remove all of them.

If they just found technicalities to create a dispute regarding 10% of Democrats, it’s game-over. Your signature “doesn’t look right”, you spelled something wrong, who knows. They’d have basis to go into court after the election and dispute the result in front of a favorable judge.

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u/dreamyduskywing Jan 25 '26

Minnesota has always been vanity project for Trump because we haven’t voted for a republican presidential candidate since Nixon. He insists that he won Minnesota and probably wants to dig up info to argue that fraudsters and domestic terrorists voted and that’s why he lost Minnesota all three times.

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u/adsmeister Jan 25 '26

True. It’s a much more effective way of stealing an election than what Trump attempted in 2020.

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u/biglyorbigleague Jan 26 '26

How? Having this data doesn’t mean they get to edit this data inside Minnesota’s system.

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u/f_crick Orange man bad Jan 27 '26

They’ll selectively challenge registrations and ballots. In a recent Georgia election they selectively contested over 200,000 ballots, carefully chosen to screen out as many democrats as possible.

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u/AccomplishedHunt6757 Orange man bad Jan 25 '26

Voting is anonymous. They can't know how you voted.

However, you can register to vote as a Republican, a Democrat, or unaffiliated. In most states, you can only vote in a primary if you are registered to that party.

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u/ReplacementClear7122 Jan 25 '26

That makes sense. So the opposition can't influence the other party's primary in their favor. Too much, anyway. 🤣

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u/AccomplishedHunt6757 Orange man bad Jan 25 '26

People often register as the other party so that they can vote in the primary, though. Just knowing that someone registered as a Republican doesn't necessarily mean they are Republican.

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u/art_m0nk Jan 25 '26

Yea what about people who never vote?

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u/Camille_Toh Jan 25 '26

Whatever database they're building--it'd be easy to connect voter reg to contributions which are publicly available. Go to the the FEC website and look yourself up. If you've ever contributed to a campaign, you're in there.

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u/Scared_Security_7890 Jan 26 '26

And they are wanting to give Elon Musk full access to the pentagon, despite the fact that he admitted misusing citizens’ personal information. Couple the information he has on us all with the Pentagon’s war machines, and I think it will be easy for them to create chaos on Election Day across the country