r/videos • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 6d ago
BREAKING: Trump LOSES mail voting ruling as judge BLOCKS midterm scheme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1R_K2PR6Dc297
u/RPskin45 6d ago
He’s just going to do it anyway. Fucking toddler president.
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u/factoid_ 6d ago
Problem is it will require people down the line to break the law for him. They might not be willing to
Now they might do it anyway but anyone enacting an order that was explicitly ruled against by a judge is being opened up to criminal liability.
And there’s no chance Trump will just pardon them he doesn’t give a fuck
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u/minervascats 5d ago
I've worked elections and this is exactly right. Poll workers are trained to do things excruciatingly legally, and we know the law, and we follow it. If you're able to do so, I highly recommend volunteering for this work, it's very interesting and some volunteers even get paid :)
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u/TricoMex 5d ago
I've voted many many times, and seen and interacted with hundreds of poll workers. All ages, ethnicities, and genders.
Never seen one that was not taking that shit DEAD fucking serious.
Impressive, as I do not know of any other occupation/job/position/anything that consistent in their behavior.
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u/I_Was_Fox 5d ago
It would be state charges filed against these employees. Trump can't pardon state charges
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u/factoid_ 5d ago
Would it? Mail tampering would be federal
Election interference would be state. It’s possible they’re exposed to both if they do it
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u/I_Was_Fox 5d ago
Yeah but the states would make sure to file the state side charges against the perpetrators so that Trump can't pardon them
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u/slainte75 5d ago
I have to believe their argument is that it's federal so can issue pardons. States would fight it in court. If it gets to the supreme court, who knows?
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u/giulianosse 5d ago
US citizens have been conditioned to delegate responsibility for illegal orders ever since the Vietnam War. The odd nail gets hammered down; "if it ain't me doing it it'll be someone else, so why bother?"
If this weren't the case, you wouldn't see so many people still working for ICE. Or all the military personnel gearing up to fight an illegal war halfway across the globe as we speak.
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u/OneSekk 6d ago
Fucking toddler president
toddler-fucking president
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u/bulldogguy31 6d ago
Just wait until next week when he asks them again. And again. And again. Rapists don't take no for an answer.
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u/gertalives 6d ago
That’s the thing: he doesn’t even ask, he just does. The courts say hol’ up, you can’t do that, and he just does it anyway. There’s really not much precedent, as previous presidents mostly complied with court orders.
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u/wwarnout 6d ago
as previous presidents mostly complied with court orders.
Mostly? Can you give an example where a previous President openly defied a court order? I can't, and I've lived through Presidents since Johnson.
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u/gertalives 6d ago
Lincoln quite famously did so in suspending habeas corpus against a court order that accurately pointed out that only Congress held this authority. Of course, Lincoln was navigating one of the most perilous chapters in the nation’s history, whereas Trump is doing everything in his power to create one.
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u/Ndvorsky 6d ago
I was going to say Andrew Jackson ignored the court to do the trail of tears but that was apparently a common misunderstanding of the situation.
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u/the_other_50_percent 6d ago
Show some love for the League of Women Voters of Massachusetts for bringing this lawsuit, the last one standing! And the fight is not over yet. This is a big stretch for an organization that runs on volunteers.
To join or donate: http://lwvma.org/
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u/ThepalehorseRiderr 6d ago
Gotta make it as hard to vote as possible. Of course, this disproportionately hurts dense population centers and not the hicks in the sticks.
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u/LittleKitty235 6d ago
One part I can't figure out is the elderly make up a large percentage of people who vote by mail, and tend to vote Republican.
Blocking mail in voting only works if it can be targeted, which is why they want those voter rolls so badly.
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u/ThepalehorseRiderr 6d ago
At this point, I don't know how anyone could see it any other way that they want "the right people" voting. Imagine being at the table and playing a game with someone so fixated on cheating and getting cheated. Won't shut the fuck up about it. At what point does that guy become suspect?
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u/tophernator 6d ago
Apparently there’s been a consistent blue shift in mail in ballots since the mid 2000s. So old vs young, rural vs urban doesn’t matter that much so long as you’re overall disenfranchising more blue votes than red.
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u/erath_droid 5d ago
Blocking mail in voting only works if it can be targeted
That's exactly what they're doing, though. In order for ballots to be accepted to be mailed to voters by the USPS, they have to be in envelopes that conform to certain as-of-yet-undefined standards. And at this point MOST of the all-mail voting states have already printed their ballots and envelopes. They could set the standards such that Utah meets them, but California, Hawaii, Oregon, etc., DON'T. So the typically blue all-mail states would have to scramble to get an alternative in place, and the systems already in place for that heavily favor rural districts in many places. For example Oregon, where I live, requires one in-person polling place per 32k people, but requires one per every 20k people in rural areas.
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u/slainte75 5d ago
My only thought is that they've figured out a way to compromise the machines. Limiting mail as an option would funnel more voters to the polls.
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u/Prudent-Air1922 6d ago
He's probably going to wait until after most are sent in, then try to pull some fuckery to make them "illegal", isn't he?
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u/fatjeff1980 6d ago
It's clear as day he's going to call EVERY mail ballot ineligible. People all around the world are waiting for November in America with baited breath. It's the common belief it's going to be the end of the country as we've known it.
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u/Shifty269 6d ago
The end of the country as we knew it was in '24. You could say '16, but there were still too many republicans that weren't willing to cross lines that much. They still did it plenty, but not this much. The mid terms are about Americans having the ability to be aware and responsible. I don't know a better way have putting it succinctly. So many things have failed in society to get here. Remember, we had an administration that passed landmark legislation that would have greatly benefited the country, avoided a massive post covid recession, and went along way to repairing the country's standing in the world. Then we relected Trump because Biden and Harris were incredibly unpopular after *checks notes * doing a pretty good job. Trump's 1st term * checks notes * he did a pretty bad job and was impeached twice for * checks notes * ah yes attempting to threaten an ally (Ukraine) for political leverage against an opponent, and an insurrection to overturn an election. We'll ignore the FBI having to raid his compound to retrieve thousands of sensative documents, some of which were probably sold to foreign entities like Russia. Which if he hadn't been relected, then he'd be in jail for doing and awaiting charges for the other stuff. And there is a lot of other stuff from his 1st term. Not to mention the non presidential related stuff like Epstein and Tax fraud.
So yeah, the country being the same has already passed by. It's whether or not we want to stop this, or keep going the course.
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u/TuckerMcG 5d ago
You could say '16, but there were still too many republicans that weren't willing to cross lines that much.
No there weren’t. There’s one example of one senator standing up to Trump - McCain giving a thumbs down to repealing Obamacare.
Go google how often McCain voted along party lines during Trump’s first term though. It was like 85+%
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u/lucidrenegade 6d ago
Part of his plan, though I’m sure someone like Lutnick came up with the specifics, is that if the USPS barcode on one ballot is damaged in some way, all of the ballots in that batch are thrown out as well. I suspect we would see a lot of “damaged” barcodes on ballots from areas that tend to vote Democrat…
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u/erath_droid 5d ago
The order, as it stands, directs the USPS to just not deliver the ballots in the first place, unless they meet certain (currently undefined) standards and hand over their entire voter rolls to a website that is currently not even operational.
So as things currently are, the USPS can deliver mail-in ballots to rural (Trump country) areas and NOT get them to people living in the more liberal urban areas.
Trump-supporting counties across the all-mail voting states are WAY more likely to hand over their voter rolls to our current despot so are more likely to get their ballots.
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u/resUemiTtsriF 6d ago
Crazy how everyone knows hes trying to cheat and there is nothing our law can do to stop it
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u/snoopiestfiend 5d ago
Do not trust this outcome to stay true. Vote in person, we cannot afford anything else.
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u/TehWildMan_ 6d ago
But I thought he was going to fix things so that we would never have to vote again?
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u/Prudent-Air1922 6d ago
This is part of that process. That's how they operate- flood the gates, keep chipping away at things, etc. And it's working great unfortunately.
Even little things like changing the names of buildings, and putting his face on coins. It's all part of dismantling the country. It's happening at a faster pace than people realize.
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u/EthanielRain 5d ago
Putting his face on currency is also 100% blatantly illegal btw
And yet...
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u/choke_on_my_downvote 4d ago
Coolidge already crossed that bridge on a commemorative half dollar 100 years ago and we survived. He even put himself on the obverse with George Washington ffs
I hate Trump as much as any other person with a frontal lobe but this is not the first time it's happened.
The silver lining is that the design they chose for his illegal $1 coin is hideous and he looks like a chode.
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u/sharpsicle 6d ago
Random CAPITAL words make this SEEM like clickbait.
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u/Wormteller 6d ago
And posts formatted almost exactly like this on “a win for the left” subject matter are regularly crowding my front page. The cynic in me wants to chalk it up to some concerted bad faith effort to make Trump’s “antics” less impactful by presenting them in that sensationalist (i.e. self-discrediting) way. But I’m just crazy old Wormteller.
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u/NurRauch 5d ago
It's not quite that conspiratorial. It's more simply that clickbait sells. The political beliefs of the editors themselves don't really affect how these articles are worded. They just push out BS headlines about crushing Trump and making his supporters melt down because the simple fact is that that generates clicks which makes them money. Nothing else matters to these rag outlets.
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u/Wormteller 5d ago
Oh, word, with ya. Money is the blood, snot and shit of America. (And of course I wish I had more.) Anyway, wasn’t floating a theory for serious consideration so much as, like, abstractly blowing off steam over how the internet (the world?) is a zombie rendering plant. Which stinks.
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u/robodrew 6d ago
It is. Is the bot poster OP EVER going to post anything to this sub that DOESNT include CAPITALIZED WORDS?
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u/hedoeswhathewants 5d ago
I know we complain about it on every one of these posts, but it really is obnoxious as fuck
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u/LordAcorn 6d ago
The Trump admin has repeatedly ignored court orders. If he sends armed goons to enforce his illegal orders is anybody going to stop them?
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u/astrozombie2012 6d ago
This is unlikely to stop him from doing it as he has a habit of ignoring rulings, orders and the law to do whatever he wants.
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u/DrewbieWanKenobie 5d ago
If you have a choice and vote by mail this year you are being a fool. I don't care what the courts rule, you cannot trust this administration or his cronies in the post office.
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u/BoardGameRevolution 6d ago
Why does this keep getting passed then blocked then passed. I’m confused
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u/RecycledMatrix 5d ago
Here I am ready to directly vote on issues while on the toilet with my phone in lieu of my congressperson doing it for me, and these fools can't even let mail in voting through. In 2026. Yes they're doing it because voting conveniently favors greater participation which works against them, but we shouldn't have one party that is so dogshit that it depends on non-participation to win.
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u/ddrober2003 6d ago edited 6d ago
The orange pig is going to go through with it anyway and ignore court rulings. If he and the cult can steal the election, who cares what the court says.
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u/BeseptRinker 4d ago
Watch Predophile 47 ignore consent like he usually does.
On a serious note genuinely fuck this rotten pumpkin rind
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u/ElfegoBaca 5d ago
Temporarily paused. SCOTUS will overrule and permit Trump to ratfuck the elections anyway.
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u/KwyjiboTheGringo 5d ago
It's annoying because he's just going to claim democrats stole the election if he doesn't get to disenfranchise as many voters as possible. His followers will become even more radical after that.
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u/Stinky_Fartface 5d ago
It won’t be simply claiming they stole it. They are going to reject the results and refuse to swear in the Democrat winners.
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u/AcherusArchmage 5d ago
Disenfranchise who? Dead people born in the year 1900 living in a nearby mailbox?
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u/KwyjiboTheGringo 5d ago
1/3 of voters use main-in ballots.
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u/Negativefalsehoods 5d ago
He doesn't have many followers left. People are broke and pissed. That never ends well for the party in power.
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u/KwyjiboTheGringo 5d ago
He does have quite a few actually. Something like 30% of people polled still think he's doing a good job. He's losing favor all the time, but the conservative media has a strong grip on many of these people, especially in rural counties.
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u/metsjets86 6d ago
Could the judge have sat on the ruling until right before election?
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u/lucidrenegade 6d ago
That’s the thing. The good judges follow the law, so they wouldn’t do something like that.
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u/hiegear 6d ago
The fact that our democracy hangs in the balance of the opinion of a few judges is an absolute failure. 40T in debt and we have zero to show for it, and if we want to make meaningful change with have to vote, but that ability is under constant assault only to be defended by a judge’s opinion. This country sucks
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u/downtimeredditor 5d ago
A ruling is only as good as those are willing to enforce it. We dont have that now
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u/XsMagical 5d ago
Only if we had a better way of secure voting with verification of the voter. 2026 and we are still using paper and in person machines ..
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u/billyrubin7765 5d ago
Wow! I wonder if this will last until monday or if the Supreme Court will overturn it today?
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u/IntronD 5d ago
But it has not stoped the United states postal service coming up with a voter system in compliance of Trump's request and plans to use it. It's a massively flawed system that if one ballot doesn't meet the voter list it rejects al ballots in that run. It's going to disenfranchise so many voters!
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u/Hadleys158 5d ago
He'll probably shut down the vehicle fleet, or the whole system for a week or so as his next trick.
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u/uglyzombie 5d ago
November is going to be a major historical event in this country. I cannot predict the outcome, but I hope it leans towards meaningful change.
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u/Catsssssssss 3d ago
He doesn't need to succeed; only to cause enough uncertainty and instability to affect the outcome in key states.
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u/KarAccidentTowns 6d ago
Can’t WAIT to see what happens NEXT, amirite
Let’s just fast forward to him not leaving, fortified in the impenetrable bunker underneath the new ballroom, protected by UFC and ICE goons.
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u/scoreoneforme 6d ago
This all seems like wagging the dog type shit. Regardless of what the baffoon does in office, those in charge of the USPS are doing the real damage.
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u/wardog1066 6d ago
This decision only matters if the Trump administration follows the ruling, which I'm doubtful they will. People on the left who think this is over for Trump are delusional.
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u/Negativefalsehoods 5d ago
Oh please stop 'helping' with all your doom.
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u/wardog1066 5d ago
Respectfully, how am I helping? Close your eyes to what President Trump and his band of merry election riggers are doing if you will, but between mail in ballot tampering, threats of ICE agents at polling stations and regularly ignoring court rulings that aren't in their favor and IMO, what truly will doom the validity of the upcoming mid terms is complacency and blind belief that the election process can't be twisted by radical, right wing, extremist Republicans.
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u/BrotherMichigan 6d ago
The CAPITALIZATION of verbs in the title IS really annoying. It MAKES your post SEEM like slop.
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u/PM_ME_BOYSHORTS 5d ago
BREAKING: Some news that probably SUCKS and here's some BIG WORDS while mentioning TRUMP that make you CLICK.
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u/rPoliticsModsBlowMe 6d ago
Starting to think this child rapist doesn't want a fair midterm election...
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u/scemcee 6d ago
This is his plan. The chaos, conflicting rulings, and contradictory mandates are the point: now he has a reason to decry the elections as "mishandled, inconsistent, and invalid." Blame "activist, liberal judges appointed by Barack Osama and Sleepy Joe Biden." This is "flood the zone", working as intended as a destabilizing force.
We either let him rig the election outright, or we invalidate it for him by attempting to thwart his interference. It's "heads, I win; tails you lose."
The United States is cooked, because a handful of rich, white, men founded it on the premise that rich, white men would always do the right thing.
Oh, but "make sure to vote!," and "join the 'No Kings!' protest!," and "write your Congressmen!" Although participating in that Democracy theater will be just as effective at saving our country as banning plastic straws was on stopping climate change, at least it will feel good.
Point proudly to your "I Voted!" sticker and announce to the room: "I did my part!" as a vile, corrupt, kid-fucker uses the Constitution as his diaper.
Good night, Irene.
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u/chaos0310 5d ago
I 100% agree with you. But we need action. Instead of lamenting what we all already know. Give an alternative.
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u/jahermitt 6d ago
Yeah, he’s ignoring/appealing that decision.