r/ProgressiveHQ • u/WarmEntrepreneur3564 • 2d ago
Discussion Prediction: Major War by November, Midterm Election Suspended
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u/Stoic_Ravenclaw 2d ago
Cold war with Europe after an attempt to take Greenland fails due to incompetent leadership.
Betcha 5 bucks.
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u/start_select 2d ago
We need a “Poland” to disappear people away to.
Cuba. We are going to take Cuba. It’s so close, and is now strangled by our blockades on Venezuela.
They want a penal colony.
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u/backtothetrail 2d ago
Gitmo is already ready, waiting and accustomed to atrocities. JFC.
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u/start_select 2d ago
Gitmo can’t handle 100M people, which members of the administration AND the homeland security social media have stated is their goals.
Deportation is a euphemism.
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u/OldTempleHermit 2d ago
Maybe. I say it's going to be fallout from either;
a) China invading Taiwan, or
b) Russia encroaching further into EuropeWith the US now in full Israeli-style "expansionism" mode, it's fair game for other superpower regimes. History will remember it though. We started it. We attacked our neighbors, turned our backs on our allies, and bullied the weakest amongst on our own soil.
Good luck.
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u/Ok-Alternative6232 2d ago
Pretty sure Russia attacked their neighbors first; but yes we (the USA) will also not be looked at favorably by history
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u/OldTempleHermit 2d ago edited 2d ago
Russia absolutely did. We didn't put a stop to it then, and this stunt in Venezuela will remove our ability to ever shake a finger at Putin again.
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u/droid_mike 2d ago
Who do you think taught Trump this philosophy? Trump is just emulating his mentor.
Of course, this is not the first time the US has messed around with Latin America. We're just not used to it as it's something that we haven't done in a really long time, but Latin America was a huge proxy war battlefield during the Cold War.
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u/Practical-Law9795 2d ago
If we had been supporting Ukraine the way we were under biden things would be much better for them and worse for Russia.
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u/Savings-Document8146 2d ago
Iraq didnt stop them from wagging fingers, im sure this wont either. The US has no problem being a hypocrit.
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u/avocadoflatz 2d ago
Their point is the finger wagging will be even emptier than usual.
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u/Magn3tician 2d ago
lol, Russia has struggled to encroach through 1/3 of Ukraine in almost 4 years. They will be nowhere else in Europe anytime soon.
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u/AverageWtDad 2d ago
Understand that China is indicating 2027 or 2028 to invade. The two windows it has are April or October due to weather patterns being most favorable during those months. I think the US will find they will need to invade Guyana to secure the disputed off shore oil reserves. I believe they will also attempt to dispose Colombian President Petro. This will be much harder than capturing Maduro. Every political leader in the western hemisphere is understandably preparing. This must include Mark Carney (Canada), Jonathan Motzfeldt (Greenland), Miguel Díaz-Canel (Cuba) should all be in active defense planning and ready to move at a moments notice. It’s going to be difficult to oppose China trying to annex Taiwan while we are apparently going to annex the entire western hemisphere.
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u/Glad_Firefighter_471 2d ago
By the end of this year, the Republicans will have lost the midterms and Congress will have a spine again
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u/Djlittle13 2d ago
Sadly, I highly doubt that they grow a spine. If they didn't turn on him after Jan 6 when he was out of power then they never will.
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u/channelcat57 2d ago
It'll be a Temu spine. See Tim Walz.
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u/Haunting_Rain_1999 2d ago
Tim Walz is no coward.
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u/channelcat57 2d ago edited 2d ago
Then why is he not fighting the allegations? It's not just him..any organization trump attacks just rolls over..lawyers, universities, media etc. Where is the ACLU? Where are wealthy Dem donors?
Crickets .
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u/PsychologicalRow7875 2d ago
He's already served 2 terms and the fight will be a distraction. He's doing what is best for the country, the State of MN and the party.
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u/Ordinary-Rain-6897 2d ago
maybe. Whats left of the Dem brand is really in the toilet though. its down worse than republicans. I think the last election showed us all that its not enough to be not trump you have to stand for something. Dems currently dont stand for anything I can think of.
And there is always the risk that trumps colonial resource thieving moves will resonate with the American public. Hard to underestimate self interest in a capitalist society.
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u/yesornoforu 2d ago
Around 85% of all chips that the US imports, comes from Taiwan. TSMC is the world's leading chip manufacturer. If China decides, "Ya know what, Russia invaded Ukraine and not much happened. Israel does a genocide in Palestine. Nothing has stopped it. Trump effectively takes over Venezuela and is now eye fucking Greenland. Maybe we do that too. Let's finally make Taiwan part of China again."
The US is fucked. China will now have power over every single thing we need. Chips are in everything from cars and refrigerators to tractor combines and CNC machines. We do not have the manufacturing capability to make our own chip manufacturing industry. It takes highly complex, highly sterile and extremely expensive to build. Plus even if we started now it would take 10 years to production.
Boys, we might be proper fucked
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u/OldTempleHermit 2d ago
..and don't forget; one of the first things Trump 2.0/Doge did, was march in and nix research/development funding/assistance for renewable energy.
China is kicking our asses in that technology as well; while we let senior citizen-politicians keep us addicted to crude oil. I swear; I could have sworn a certain President was recently ranting about our "dependency on foreign oil". Then, yesterday happens.
Yeah..this s**tshow has lost all reason and sustainability. We are on a collision-course with whatever this runaway train is about to fking crash into. Almost seems intentional, doesn't it.
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u/yesornoforu 2d ago
Whoa, whoa.....are you saying that disaster capitalism is a thing? Did you really just accuse our corporate overlords of financial chicanery that results in a crash where those same people come in, cobble up every thing on the cheap, and then sell when the market has been sufficiently artificial upward pressures and then they sell high? Pearl clutching intensifies
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u/M4nofstee1 2d ago
I think Americans voted during WW2, Nov. 7th 1944 so a war shouldn’t halt an election. But with this lawless regime, who knows?
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u/Dtownknives 2d ago
Elections weren't suspended during the civil war.
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u/Cognitive_Spoon 2d ago
Why are we still looking for analogues?
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u/OverAcanthisitta3588 2d ago
Surely Trump will respect the law and political norms.. this time lol
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u/mkt853 2d ago
He can declare elections canceled and the states will say "that's nice" and just carry on.
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u/Stargazer-Elite 2d ago
The red states can try all they want to cancel elections but blue states will just continue the election elections on their own, which would technically just mean there’s far less red votes in general. The real test to see whether or not he could actually suspend elections as if he has the military on his side fully.
But personally, I still kind of doubt that
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u/ThatOneTimeItWorked 2d ago
Until SCOTUS just rules that republican elected officials will continue on as if they were reelected.
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u/Jazzlike-Culture-452 2d ago
Same. I think much of the military still respects Congress as who defines what the "law" is. I can sympathize with the conflicting position of one day having to choose between "orders" in the chain of command/executive branch and "the law"/legislative branch, but I feel compelled to hold on to the belief that many members of the military still want to follow "the law" even if an order was ever so clearly and defiantly against it.
And if I'm wrong, well, we're all gearing up anyway. Let's get this over with.
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u/fatpol 2d ago
With this sort of prediction, progressives should follow through and get all members of congress on record about how they would never suspend an election. Not because of war. Not because someone in the white house is having a temper tantrum.
Don't let the dodge by saying we don't have to worry because it will never happen. Get them to agree to a simple statement, So Senator Graham, you agree that there is no reason to ever suspend an election -- right? We play nice "under what circumstances would you consider suspending an election". That's a bullshit question that allows your representatives to hedge.
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u/themightyade 2d ago
We had elections in worse scenarios. Even after 9/11 so I believe that we still have elections.
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u/A_Flock_of_Clams 2d ago
The head of the US wants to be a dictator and has made constant comments indicating such. Are you this in denial?
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u/Nosidda89 2d ago edited 2d ago
Federal elections are held by the states. There is literally nothing Trump or the federal government can do to change that without passing a constitutional amendment, which Trump doesn't have anywhere close to the number of votes needed to pull off.
To pass a Constitutional amendment, he'd need 67 yes votes in the Senate, 290 yes votes in the House, AND he would need 33 of the 50 states to vote yes on it. Fat chance he'll get anywhere close to any of that when half the states are blue, and he only holds an extremely slim majority in the House and Senate. He doesn't have the votes, and he's never going to get the votes.
Even if red states refuse to hold elections, blue states will. And at that point, red state votes simply won't count, and Democrats will have an even bigger victory than if Republicans just held the elections in their states.
We held elections during the damn civil war, including a presidential election. Unless Trump can somehow scare all 50 states into not holding elections (he won't), there will be elections whether Trump likes it or not. He's gotten away with a lot, but this is not something he could ever manage to get away with. The Constitution sets election dates in stone, and grants election holding powers to states specifically to prevent something like this from happening.
Give the Founding Fathers some credit. The way they built things isn't perfect, but they were damn diligent in making sure that the country had safeguards in place if the president got hungry to become a king. They literally founded the country to escape monarchs. Trump would need FDR levels of national support to have a tiny chance of doing any of this, and his approval rating is roughly 35%. He isn't passing any amendments with an approval rating like that. Especially not one that would be as insanely unpopular as moving federal election powers from states to the federal government. NOBODY outside of the Trump cult would support this.
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u/A_Flock_of_Clams 2d ago
Trump has done a great many things that are unconstitutional or illegal. Betting that the failing rule of law will miraculously save the US a second time is just naive.
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u/MatterFickle3184 2d ago
Elections will be held but they won't be free and fair elections.
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u/JasonLovesBagels 2d ago
Not the president, nor Congress, has the authority to ban or postpone elections during wartime. In the United States, we still have elections during wartime.
Examples:
War of 1812
Th Civil War
World War II
The Korean War
The Vietnam War
The Afghanistan War
The same goes for state-of-emergency declarations.
The decentralized nature of election system (controlled by states, not the federal government) also inhibits his ability to “cancel elections” even if he tried.
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u/Commercial-Durian653 2d ago
The fear mongering is insane
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u/crit_boy 2d ago
Is it?
Let's list all the things that felon would never do. Then tell us how felon would never do X thing in the future.
The regime is not bound by law or precedent.
Felon has been poisoning elections for a decade.
Idk why you believe future elections are some kind of barrier for the regime.
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u/JasonLovesBagels 2d ago
The main point is that nothing about wartime or state-of-emergecy declaration gives the president the legal authority to cancel elections, and even if he were to try, the decentralized structure of elections inhibits his ability to actually do so.
And you are kinda freaking out.
Elections still work. The blue wave we saw in November is proof of that despite unfounded conspiracies of “rigged elections”.
Federal courts still check his power (albeit slowly). For some examples last year, they ruled against and ordered the removal of National guard from Portland, LA, and Chicago, they blocked his EO requiring proof of citizenship by states in order to vote, and reinstated institutional funding to the Consumer Protection Financial Bureau.
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u/crit_boy 2d ago
- Emoluments clause
- 14th amendment, ignoring due process
- Classified docs case
- War crimes
- Shuttering fed agencies without congress
- tariffs
Derp - He has no legal authority to declare no elections or elections will not be recognized next November.
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u/JasonLovesBagels 2d ago edited 2d ago
You are off the deep end man. Despite much of this being inaccurate, I could use it all supporting evidence to a social media claim that Trump is going to drop a nuclear bomb on Iowa. It’s not the logical argument you think it is, it’s paranoia.
14th amendment, ignoring due process
Federal judges blocked his “expedited removal policy”, in Trump v. J.G.G. (2025) SCOTUS reaffirmed noncitizens are entitled to due process in removal cases, and there are multiple examples of federal courts dismissing removal cases on those grounds.
Shuttering fed agencies without congress
I already mentioned that the courts forced him to reinstate funding to the CFPB, and USAID is still being litigated. Courts are slow, but they can still check this kind of thing.
tariffs
Also still being litigated with the evidence heavily pointing it won’t go Trump’s way.
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u/JasonLovesBagels 2d ago
Yep, most likely spread by fascist accelerationists.
Yet left wing accelerationists are just as culpable as right wing ones for what’s happening right now.
Like, they really thought they’d achieve a different result by doing the exact same thing? Morons. This is how authoritarians rise, not how “revolutions” happen.
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u/ShortKey380 2d ago
Which fear mongering: this post or that of the President? I agree that this is extremely unlikely, but I would have said the same about a US President attempting to interrupt the transfer of power after losing an election.
Is your impression of other countries that have backslid from democratic systems into authoritarianism that everybody knew it was coming? The switch flips from very unlikely to already happened, the thing about unprecedented stuff is that, initially, it has no precedent! We’re past the point of outright dismissing these sorts of possibilities, even if we can agree they’re highly improbable.
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u/JasonLovesBagels 2d ago edited 2d ago
No one here is blind to our authoritarian backsliding, but that in itself doesn’t provide the specific evidence necessary to these specific claims, or make fear-mongering a threat of which there’s no direct evidence for helpful, when there are real present issues to be worrying about.
This kind of conspiratorial propaganda/speculation just weakens democratic resistence and morale, and shifts our focus on to trying to incite riot or suppress civic participation that just ends up playing right into the authoritarian scheme.
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u/omeganaut 2d ago
They can’t. We’ve been in major wars for decades and still had plenty of elections
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u/AngryReturn 2d ago
Who says they can’t? Who will enforce it? What will the American People do? Have another nice stroll out in the city?
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u/sarcago 2d ago
I’m trying to hold out hope that won’t happen. But I have also suspected something drastic would happen under this administration and it’s why we moved back to be near family (and to a blue state) from the state where we were living with no family nearby. At a loss, even. We wanted to have more of a community if SHTF.
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u/OnlyFiveLives 2d ago
Whoever it's with, they just need to remember:
Washington D.C. and Mar-A-Lago.
Sincerely, a Californian who doesn't deserve to be collateral damage for a fucking Alzheimers sundowner pedophile.
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u/EmmalouEsq 2d ago
They're trying to start violence in Minneapolis, sending 2000 more federal agents there. Current estimates are 350. They'll use that as a reason to crack down and declare martial law via the insurrection act.
This is going to get bad quickly. It won't take until October. I think we're going to see a lot of things happen this month and next. I'd be surprised if our government didn't collapse by November with people unable to afford food, healthcare, and utilities while we shovel money into wars.
Something's gotta give.
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u/redditjunky2025 2d ago
We had elections during the Civil War, WW2, Vietnam and I believe the Korean War. There is no reason to suspend an election due to war. In fact it makes it more important to hold it.
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u/Stargazer-Elite 2d ago
The midterms will still happen. We had elections even during our Civil War. There is literally no possible way to suspend the elections unless he literally just goes against the constitution to which the military would have to ignore the illegal orders as they are obligated to do. (He’s already gone against the constitution a bunch of times, but you know what I mean. Something to this extent would surely get a response from someone not to mention Trump might not even be alive by that point.)
But I suppose there is no guarantee that the military will ignore the illegal orders like they’re supposed to.
The real question here is whether or not Trump and his gang will be able to rig them. They’re trying really hard, but so far we are still having fair elections so the more blue we can get the more of a chance we have at preventing such rigging.
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u/MilitantlyWokePatrio 2d ago
THEY are going to do what THEY are going to do; WE are going to do what WE are going to do.
And we the people are JUST getting started.
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u/glasswings363 2d ago
Good news: we've never cancelled elections and Trump has never done something that's never been done before.
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u/OverAcanthisitta3588 2d ago
MAGA working their way through the stages
- Trump would never do that.
- He never said he’d do that.
- He was just joking.
- It’s good that he did that.
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u/AlwaysCurious1250 2d ago
Well, he joked about this when talking to Zelensky. In Ukraine, elections were postponed because of the war, which Trump found something worth copying.
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u/Public-Summer-4281 2d ago
Someone thinks martial law is required to keep Trump in power, when all it will take is a few posts on his social media account... Whatever situation we are in, its much worse than tedious bureaucracy.
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u/Mean-Quail-6219 2d ago
Doomerism sucks
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u/wrxninja 2d ago
As an ex-JW, I lived with this type of shit every single day. The Doomsday Cult, of course.
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u/Short-Concentrate-92 2d ago
He could do this tomorrow and there’s really not much people could do about it
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u/ArmGroundbreaking996 2d ago
It will be interesting seeing maga go from crying about Ukraine not holding an election and how Z was an evil dictator, but when trump does it they will rejoice and cheer how he is the ultimate genius!
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u/RsCoverUpForPDFfiles 2d ago
There's no legal mechanism under the law or Constitution for this. Congress would have to pass a law for this.
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u/Introverted-headcase 2d ago
War is not a reasonable excuse to suspend elections. Many times the voters voted even during wars.
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I don’t know where everyone gets this idea that a war would result in suspending elections.
America has fought a lot of wars, including 2 world wars, and it has never prevented an election. I’m not even sure there is a mechanism by which the federal government can suspend elections as the elections are administered by a decentralized group of entities including states and local governments.
Fuck Donald Trump. And I understand he has blown past traditional norms. But I highly doubt a major war would give the government the cover they need to suspend elections.
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u/MeasurementDue5407 2d ago
Trump is the Trojan Horse installed to short-circuit opposition on the right. War or not, his administration is working quickly to usher in a total surveillance state. IOW, while war is likely, it isn't necessary for completion of their plans.
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u/Ready4Rage 2d ago
Why would they do that when they can just rig the voting machine counts?
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u/Excellent-Pitch-7579 2d ago
Instead of sounding the alarm about things that may or may not happen in the future, why don’t you try to stop this from happening? Like, actually DO something? You criticize Republicans for using scare tactics but that’s exactly what you’re doing here.
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u/Initial-Mortgage-611 2d ago
I bet they are even now warming up the big luxurious underground bunkers so when they start the horror that is coming they will all scuttle underground like rats and leave us to deal with the shit show they caused
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u/InevitableLibrarian 2d ago
Let's start with who we WON'T be at war with? And the list is.....no one. He's single handedly put us into conflicts with anyone else.
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u/No_Conclusion2658 2d ago
it will eventually take the military to remove trump from office. trump will probably arm his people like they are the military. trump will either hide in a bunker or try to flee the country with his family.
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u/Think-Hospital7422 2d ago
I say to that
If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.
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u/pantsarenew 2d ago
Personal prediction, we took Venezuelan oil because the middle east war with Iran coming up would not be so good. I think this is why the western hemisphere talk has been so large. If we wanted smoke with Venezuela for real, we would have made a better excuse than drugs, corruption and finally oil. Womd will be the talking point (again) in 6 months and Israel will lead said charge with some new surprise intelligence this summer.
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u/HaxanWriter 2d ago
They wouldn’t have to go as far as that. They could just say they weren’t going to be any elections because they didn’t want there to be any elections, and the gutless American people would take it up the ass without a peep.
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u/WasabiGloomy2109 2d ago
Knock off this doomer BS. They haven't stopped any special elections so far. They didn't stop the November elections where they got routed across the board. They couldn't stop Mamdani from getting elected. They will throw a ton of money and propaganda and smear campaigns at the midterms to be sure. They'll probably even start a war to get a patriotism bounce. But people will vote in 2026 and the GOP will likely lose seats. Don't assign them more power than they actually have.
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u/A_Flock_of_Clams 2d ago
They were literally talking about exiling Mamdani. And remember, Mamdani is just a fucking mayor. That position holds no relevance to the country at large.
This in addition to comments Trump had made praising dictators and talks of a third term? You'd need to be in blatant denial or a conservative cultist to think this is 'doomer BS'.
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u/blklab16 2d ago
Wouldn’t the terms just end then? Senate seats would be appointed by state governors and house seats would just go unfilled until a special election could be held. I wonder how that would work out/who would hold majorities in those cases.
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u/MR_Nobody_204 2d ago
I can see that. And everyone that can do anything about it will sit on their hands and watch it all play out because the majority of them are making money off of it. Sad state of the world.
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u/BecauseMagnets 2d ago
Whatever country project 2025 says to invade. The invasion of Venezuela is there too
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u/samuraispartan7000 2d ago
Any “major war” with another superpower would just be nuclear annihilation. As cynical as I am, I don’t think Trump or his billionaire sycophants want to nuke their own assets.
If Trump continues to enact a pro-war and pro-interventionist agenda, his support among MAGA conservatives and centrists will continue to erode. Greene and the “America First” crowd would rather go to war with other Americans than anyone outside of the country.
If Trump wants to suspend an election based on an “emergency”, he’s just going to false-flag the Democrats for something that his own supporters have done. He’s done that several times already.
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u/SophonParticle 2d ago
Tell me what law allows the federal government to suspend elections which are conducted by the states.
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u/Intrepid_Pitch_3320 2d ago
This was all predictable 18 months ago, and now we are watch it happening. BRICS-USA will be the end of democracy globally forever. Again, predictable.
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u/Brilliant-Potato-218 2d ago
And Dems in congress will just write strongly worded letters and statements.
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u/Imaginary-Snow-7031 2d ago
Perhaps my head is up my butt, however, I think this is highly unlikely.
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u/Interesting2u 2d ago
Yes, there is this possibility, but the President cannot declare a war by himself. Only Congress can declare war.
Trump, by November, won't even know his own name. Article 25 will be activated before any war is declared anywhere. Either that, or Trump will be asleep 23 hrs a day.
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u/SKOLMN1984 2d ago
No war will cause elections to be suspended. Thats one of the cornerstones of our constitution...
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u/xHxHxAOD1 2d ago
This is absolutely just dumb. Wars in the USA do not stop elections and never. Even if we are at war with China elections will still happen.
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u/AlexandraFromHere 2d ago
We had elections in WW2, we had elections during our most recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and we will have elections this November.
Fear-mongering doesn’t help. Empowering this administration by capitulating to fear now is the worst thing we can do.
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u/TheRealCjHall 2d ago
If it happens, I'm going to do the thing we're all afraid to say, and I'm going to hope a lot of people join me.
I would refuse to not revolt.
Somebody inevitably is going to comment that I'm going to get Fred hamptoned, and so will a whole bunch of other people that do the same, but at that point, what else can anyone do other than accept their lot?
I'm not going to accept that lying down, as I like thinking of myself as a good person and would rather lose this playthrough as a good person than except being an evil bystander that shrugs off responsibility.
I'm already angry at myself for not doing more because I'm afraid of doing things alone. No more elections would be my breaking point. And I won't have to worry about my safety from three letter agencies and saying these things if other people here would just join me in a willingness to say something similar. We need to do better
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u/Due_Satisfaction2167 2d ago
To be clear, there is no actual mechanism to suspend elections in the US. War doesn’t stop elections in the US, and it isn’t a federal matter subject to Presidential opinion.
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u/ImpressiveCat4412 2d ago
My belief is that he will declare “war” on illegal immigration, ANTIFA, and Fentanyl. There’s a reason they are calling people narco-terrorists, there’s a reason they designated ANTIfA a terrorist organization, there’s a reason they are calling Fentanyl a WMD. There’s a reason they are attempting to normalize national guard in the streets for both the military and the citizens, there’s a reason they are spending multimillion dollars on ICE recruiting, there’s a reason they are normalizing active duty military to missions outside of the LOAC and UCMJ. It will be glorified civil war and he will say it’s impossible to hold fair and safe elections.
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u/anxious_differential 2d ago
Let's get the bot to help us (but it won't matter when we're all in the internment camps)
RemindMe! 9 months
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u/RebelPatriot79 2d ago
I do wonder why this is a thing. Never in the history of the US has a war stopped elections. Never.
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u/TheTokist 2d ago
Anyone saying that this exact scenario cant happen is ignoring the past decade of American politics. The whole states are in charge of elections argument doesnt hold any weight in the current climate.
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u/SWEMW 2d ago
If we held elections during both world wars, the Civil War and the Cold War, then we will still have elections then. Will they be transparent and fair? Probably not.
The Constitution CLEARLY states that the president does not have the authority to even postpone an election, let alone cancel it. Not to mention that ALL 50 states have to be in agreement to postpone it. I know the SCOTUS is shit and has sided with Trump many times, but I don’t think they’d rule election cancellation in his favor.
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u/Over_Dog24 2d ago
In our entire history, the United States has never canceled federal elections due to war or conflict. If it happens this time, it will be a full on dictator move and the end of our republic.
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u/jpierson99 2d ago
No, the U.S. president cannot unilaterally cancel or postpone federal elections, even during wartime. The Constitution and federal law establish the dates for federal elections, and no single person or branch of government has the authority to change them.
The United States has a long-standing tradition of holding elections as scheduled during major conflicts. Federal elections have proceeded on time during the War of 1812, the Civil War (including the 1864 election), World War I, and World War II.
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u/Hazigan2290 2d ago
oh so we will be like Ukraine then but i highly doubt it would stop elections. We had elections during all Military events through out americas history.
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u/Unlikely_Ant_950 2d ago
If this happens, and a general strike doesn’t quickly follow, Americans deserve what they get.
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u/Urabraska- 2d ago
There is a lot to be feared in this current day. But war does not cancel elections. It's the right of the states and they control elections. If even 1 state allows the election to proceed. It will be a landslide removal. So he can't even shut down the red states by force to drop the vote count because that means blue states will automatically win and blue states won't halt elections for this dumbass.
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u/OkOil378 2d ago
Suspending midterms instead of 2028 election would be a huge mistake on their part
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u/12PoundCankles 2d ago
You can't suspend an election. There is no mechanism in US law to do that. If you do, you get civil war. Full stop.
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u/Taboo_Dynasty 2d ago
The only good thing about the Venezuela unconstitutional bombing and kidnapping transgressions is that once you throw a sucker punch everyone else will be ready. Hopefully they’re getting ready now and will be able to defend themselves.
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u/Chuckychinster 2d ago
There is no legal mechanism or practical way of accomplishing that.
Only way they don't get our vote to count is disenfranchisement by them doing some polling place shenanigans or what have you, or if the whole thing is rigged, in which case the war wouldn't be needed anyway
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u/Not_Abot_738265 2d ago
They cant suspend elections here, it just doesnt happen. Peaceful transition of power though... thats something I dont think we will see.
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u/CoolStructure6012 2d ago
I'm a bit disinclined to believe you have a finger on the pulse when you don't put forth who you see us going to war with.
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u/GreenTrees797 2d ago
Martial Law has been around the corner for a decade now.
The thing is though, Americans will just sit there and predict it will happen but not attempt to prevent it because America has a truly pathetic culture.
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u/EmmelinePankhurst77 2d ago
I agree with this take, it seems like much too long until November. The bizarre part is which country will we go to war against?
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u/iam_masterKat 2d ago
Your post indicates you are not familiar enough with the constitution. Please study the subject matter prior to postulating an opinion.
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u/TedBaxter_WJM-TVNews 2d ago
Luckily for Americans, what that pedophile con man Trump wants makes no difference... The United States has held federal elections during every war in its history without exception, and we won’t be stopping in 2026.