• BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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      It’s nearly impossible to rig Congressional elections. There are over 400, and they are in little districts all over America. The best way to do it is to gerrymander as hard as possible, which is what they were doing when Trump was trying to get all the states to redraw their district maps.

      But that backfired when California passed a law allowing them to redraw their districts, adding several Democratic seats, while most of the MAGA plans got shot down in court.

      He can’t allow the House to flip Democrat, and it’s already super close, within a couple of seats. It won’t take much to flip. In fact, so many MAGAs are retiring, dying, and getting sick, that some are predicting that the House may flip BEFORE the election takes place.

      If the House flips, the Dems will take control of investigative committees with full subpoena and arrest powers. They may not be able to get the DoJ to go after MAGA corruption, but they can just do the job themselves.

      And while we are rightfully disgusted at how feckless Dems have been in the past, they did put Bannon and Ron Varo in jail for defying Congressional subpoenas. They were very short sentences, but nobody wants to spend a single day in prison. IF they get the House back, they are likely to be far more aggressive this time, especially without a sitting President to protect, and a highly righteously indignant voter base.

      If the House flips, then the Dems get two years to demonstrate their new willingness to fight MAGA to the death, and hopefully turn out in enormous numbers in the 2028 Presidential election. It’s the best shot we have to get this country back, and crush MAGA, once and for all.

      If they can take both chambers, they can literally END Trump’s legislative agenda, and pass laws to restrict much of his corruption. MAGAs are already starting to vote against him - enough crossed over to restrict his ability to use the military in Venezuela, and it really pissed him off. Even MAGA is seeing the writing on the wall, and starting to soften a bit, hoping to not die in front of a firing squad.

      And Trump knows all that. He can’t allow the Dems to gain even a single chamber of Congress, or he and his henchmen are screwed, and the consequences are going to be life in prison. He can’t successfully rig the election, and it’s already shaping up to be a historical bloodbath, so his only option left is to just cancel elections for the first time in American history. He HAS to do it, his freedom, and life, and his fortune, depend on it.

      So this isn’t a joke, or trolling, or anything but desperate necessity speaking. He’s definitely going to try it, but suspending elections is a BRIGHT RED LINE, that must not be crossed under ANY circumstances. Without elections, the Constitutional/ Social contract has been broken, America no longer exists, and we are in a Civil War.

      Besides, elections are a state-managed process. What if "suspends"elections, and the Red states honor his demand, but the Blue state go ahead and have their elections anyway? What’s going to happen when all those freshly minted Democratic Congressional Reps show up in DC to take their seats, some of which may be occupied by MAGAs? We’ve already seen Mike Johnson keep a Dem out of her legal office for months, just because her single vote was the deciding vote to release the Epstein Files. What are the chances that Johnson just allows this new crop to be sworn in, and his Speakership removed? Especially when Trump demanded it.

      Buckle up, this is going to be a wild year.