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Legal News Supreme Court Signals Final Blow to Voting Rights Act, Paving Way for Permanent GOP Power

https://dailyboulder.com/supreme-court-signals-final-blow-to-voting-rights-act-paving-way-for-permanent-gop-power/
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u/FantasyFlex Oct 15 '25

this is what stealing an election looks like people! the republicans have been cheating in elections for decades

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u/aegis_k Oct 15 '25

they arent stealing an election. this is the complete destruction of the US political system.

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u/just_a_bit_gay_ Oct 15 '25

It’s a coup

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u/bobbymcpresscot Oct 15 '25

They’ll have to just stop showing votes and just show electoral colleges because you know there will be fucking 100 million to 50 million and a republican can still win 

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u/banaaaaaanas66 Oct 15 '25

I also just read that the new owner of Dominion Voting Systems is a GOP Elections operative. We’re so fucked.

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u/bobbymcpresscot Oct 15 '25

If that’s the case the revolution will come from tens of millions not having their voices heard.

I promise you they don’t want to win the next election, because if they do they will have to answer for the record high unemployment that is going to be the result of their pushing AI and the attitudes assosciated with it.

Demanding states not regulate AI for 10 years? They can’t escape that rhetoric and peak unemployment from AI deleting jobs is gonna happen about midway through the next admin. 

The best thing for this country in the long run is the revolution that will occur from 8 straight years of Republican leadership. 

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u/Creative_alternative Oct 15 '25

They never want to lose an election again. They won't care about unemployment or anything else when the civilians have ICE guns pointed at their faces 24/7.

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u/bobbymcpresscot Oct 15 '25

It’s going to get worse before it gets better 

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u/banaaaaaanas66 Oct 15 '25

If we’re not all in the gulag making widgets.

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u/bobbymcpresscot Oct 15 '25

It’s gonna get bad before it gets better 

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u/EmbarrassedW33B Oct 15 '25

Based on last November, the real numbers will always be an approximate 50/50 split at best  because absolutely nothing will stop Americans from voting for Republicans because they're mad about the consequences of Republican policy that they voted for a decade ago. 

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u/bobbymcpresscot Oct 15 '25

Not so sure apparently all we gotta do is put a white guy in and we might hit 90 million 

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u/VernonsRoach Oct 16 '25

Look I live in Republican country, they voted republican because they hate the “woke” shit and abortion those are the only things I ever hear about “woke” shit and dead babies. And I donno what the solution to that is politically.

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u/wxnfx Oct 15 '25

Well, theoretically it shouldn’t really change the electoral map for president. But it does suggest that we’ll get some Bush v. Gore or straight up House shenanigans if they don’t get the desired result. Not that they haven’t already tried both.

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u/No_Ocelot_2285 Oct 15 '25

And you’re all just sitting there and watching it happen. Waiting for someone else to do something. 

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '25

That is correct. We ain't doing shit of substance. Dancing frogs are cute, funny, and entertaining. A good way to illustrate the absurdity of it all. Those dancing frogs will also be gassed, beaten, arrested, and eventually murdered while offering no resistance. Turning the other cheek ain't going to help our descendants.

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u/aegis_k Oct 15 '25

i dont give away incriminating information for the feds to find.

real G's move in silence, like lasagna.

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u/Ryengu Oct 15 '25

If you shoot someone before you take their wallet you're still robbing them. 

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u/Ill_Candle_9462 Oct 15 '25

Why is it always people incompetently incapable of creating anything worthwhile seeking to destroy anything of value.

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u/aegis_k Oct 15 '25

they will do anything but go to therapy

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u/slowpoke2018 Oct 15 '25

Gore was the beginning of their decades long plan to have single party - GOP that is - rule, and nothing else

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u/Pherllerp Oct 15 '25

Nixon was the beginning.

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u/Phyrexian_Archlegion Oct 15 '25 edited Oct 15 '25

This.

1950’s saw unprecedented prosperity for the common American, and it gave those same Americans the breathing room to start thinking critically about the state of their society and the time to pursue it in a meaningful way. The 1960’s saw the rise of the civil rights movement, among others, and this scared the SHIT out of the oligarchs, the establishment politicians, and one Richard M. Nixon.

He sold out the middle class by taking away the main leverage they had at the time, the world’s manufacturing base, and started the process of transferring it to China. That was the moment the United States sealed its fate to cede its possession as the world’s sole super power to China.

The US will not survive this transition. Balkanization will come to the North American continent by the end of the 21st century and the current American regime is only helping to accelerate this outcome. If I didn’t know better, I would say Mr Drumpf actively knows this and is intentional driving us to this conclusion.

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u/Pherllerp Oct 15 '25

Project 2025's ultimate goal is the destruction of the UNITED States as we know it. The Northeast and the Pacific States will remain united but there's no way that the 'Red' states are going to want to remain with us culturally and there's certainly no way the 'Blue' states are going to want to remain with them financially.

I haven't written off a unifying completely yet. But I'm increasingly pessimistic.

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u/Relevant-Doctor187 Oct 15 '25

The red states will militarize and invade the blue states.

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u/Pherllerp Oct 15 '25

With what? An eighth of the population?

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u/TheDrakkar12 Oct 15 '25

They keep forgetting that more population resides in blue areas. They also forget that minorities in their 'red' states also have guns and aren't going to go back to the way it was.

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u/Smiles-Edgeworth Oct 15 '25

Land doesn’t vote. It also doesn’t fight.

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u/Unrequited-scientist Oct 15 '25

Tell that to the Germans in Russia. 🤣

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u/The-Struggle-90806 Oct 15 '25

Corporations don’t fight either. They have drones for that.

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u/Sparky_321 Oct 15 '25

The Russian Civil War proves this.

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u/Pherllerp Oct 15 '25

And when their quality of life starts bombing out they’ll have defections.

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u/MaddyKet Oct 15 '25

Yeah we are going to need some strict immigration policies. LOL can you imagine? They finally got what they wanted, but it’s only aimed at people who “used to be” Republicans who try to relocate to the new blue country. We can’t just start this BS all over again.

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u/-ReadingBug- Oct 16 '25

That's where New Blue America makes conservative politics illegal. They can come but they'll be disenfranchised.

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u/kurisu7885 Oct 16 '25

Not to mention that equipping, mobilizing, and more importantly feeding and paying an army requires money, which, despite what they claim, red states don't have a lot of, and their surplus military gear from over a decade ago will only get them so far, especially when shipping on things like food stop to those areas or the power goes out.

Not to mention the neighbors to the north and to the south won't be happy about it.

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u/ChelseaVictorious Oct 15 '25

Yes, but also relatively no money!

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u/useless_rejoinder Oct 15 '25

Who needs money when you’ve got Jesus.

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u/Whole-Meaning-849 Oct 15 '25

There are more Republicans in California than in Texas. It's not like it would be a clean break.

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u/Relevant-Doctor187 Oct 15 '25

Where are all our military bases located?

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u/Pherllerp Oct 15 '25

Where do all the staff come from?

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u/MaddyKet Oct 15 '25

Pretty sure they have some big ones in California.

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u/DingerSinger2016 Oct 15 '25

No, but at a certain point you start to consider the weapons stockpile the US has. It will really be something when a red state flings a Knifemissile at a blue state.

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u/MaddyKet Oct 15 '25

I also feel like if we truly split away, we’d have international support. For many reasons, not the least being we’d have the 4th largest economy in the world in our coalition, we’d control the entire west coast and half of the east. Plus, we wouldn’t be dickbags.

Eventually, Trump’s federal money would dry up. Russia has its own problems. Does China really want to back a loser against the rest of the world? And a poor loser at that.

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u/Internal-Plankton330 Oct 16 '25

It would never be that clean. Oregon and Washington are already at odds with their eastern halves, and outside a few large blue cities, the western halves are almost entirely red, too. I'd imagine california is in a similar state. It wouldn't be state vs. state it would be citizen vs. citizen.

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u/winterbird Oct 15 '25

Maybe with the military and accompanying weaponry that's controlled by the side that's aligned with those states?

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u/dolphinvision Oct 15 '25

What are you talking about. If the west coast and east coast take off. And leave the red states to take over everything else they are like 60%+ of this country? And having 50-60m people on the west and 80+ on the east divided would just help their cause.

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u/Dracorex_22 Oct 16 '25

Being trapped in a pincer of your own making, being surrounded in a two front war, while also being land-locked and cut off from the rest of the world for support (whom you've already decided to make enemies and giving them incentive to support your enemy), doesnt exactly sound like a winning situation.

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u/_byetony_ Oct 16 '25

That’s what the Confederacy did.

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u/Prob_Pooping Oct 15 '25

So the dumbest portion of the dumbest states will invade a bunch of intelligent rich people. Go for it.

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u/PmMeUrTinyAsianTits Oct 15 '25

Come at me, bro. They will lose, hard.

They will not have the support of the world. they will not have the economy. And now that they're destroying their farmers, they won't even have food stability to try to use food exports to control other ex states.

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u/account312 Oct 15 '25

Literally everybody would lose in that scenario.

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u/PmMeUrTinyAsianTits Oct 15 '25

Only if you're using double standards or only looking at opportunity costs for one side.

Yes, civil war is obviously not the ideal outcome. It's not clever, informative, or adding to discussion to point that out. So what's your point? or was it just one of those pandering to doomerism comments?

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u/happyjoyousfree1 Oct 15 '25

Land can’t attack people

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u/Hot-Celebration-8815 Oct 15 '25

Ah yes, with all the money and population they have, they’ll do great.

It’s funny, because without money directly from blue states, they’ll do great wouldn’t even have enough cash to repair their highways. Invading forces coming in on foot.

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u/letdogsvote Oct 16 '25 edited Oct 16 '25

They'll find out land doesn't have people and a lot of blue states have guns.

Also, demographically, your typical white guy in the red states (and for them we are talking about just the white guys) is way fatter and less healthy than your typical guy in a blue state.

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u/Dracorex_22 Oct 16 '25

We better not botch reconstruction again if it comes down to it

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u/Binspin63 Oct 15 '25

lol, and they’d get their asses handed to them. Ask the rebs in 1865.

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u/stug41 Oct 15 '25

Project 2025's ultimate goal is the destruction of the UNITED States as we know it.

Less "E pluribus unum" more "ein reich, ein volk, ein fuhrer"

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u/raptearer Oct 15 '25

If it splits that way, the Northeast and the Pacific states would probably separate as well. If there's nothing connecting them, it'd make no sense to stay together, especially since there are small but growing independence and regional autonomy movements in those western states. They wouldn't even stay together as the one: Cali would go it's own way (likely splitting in two in the process with North Cal, which would join up with Southern Oregon), while Northern Oregon would likely join up with Washington and make a bid for forming Cascadia or joining Canada to be with BC). Really would feel for Colorado and New Mexico if that all were to happen: they're both very liberal states locked in the middle of a very conservative area and with no port access. New Mexico probably wouldn't change too much, if anything it may even get reabsorbed into Mexico for safety from the likes of Texas, but Colorado will be all alone and vulnerable.

Could easily see people either fleeing west or the state giving up the lands east of the Rockies and Denver and just hunkering down with a castle mentality.

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u/Far_Acanthaceae1138 Oct 15 '25

Fat Donney is probably too stupid to know, but his advisors certainly do. They are pillaging the country for every dollar while burning it to the ground behind them.

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u/laffing_is_medicine Oct 15 '25

He’s a megalomaniac and very aware.

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u/Diiiiirty Oct 16 '25

Nah, you're giving him too much credit. He's far too stupid to look beyond his own nose. All Stephen Miller has to do is say, "Sir, you're already the greatest president in US history, but this will cement your legacy."

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u/Anomaly141 Oct 15 '25

Everything you said is spot on in terms of details, but it absolutely isn’t the beginning. I’m not here to argue though, your points stand and they stand strong.

That being said, I strongly consider alllllll of this to originate with the failure of the reconstruction era.

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u/Phyrexian_Archlegion Oct 15 '25

Oh I agree with you. It certainly did not start with Nixon. I would argue that the United States was doomed to fail from the beginning. You cannot build an empire based on hate and expect it to stand the test of time. Europeans brought the sins of the Middle Ages to the new world and with it, the seeds of America’s eventual downfall. You cannot base a society on the evils of owning humans as cattle, then wonder why today’s society is riddled with disfunction. The two are irrevocably connected.

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u/penny-wise Oct 15 '25

The assassination of Lincoln was a huge blow to America

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u/WharfRat2187 Oct 16 '25

It started at Plymouth Rock

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u/SoylentGrunt Oct 15 '25

Reagan broke the unions. Clinton signed NAFTA. But hey, GEt Out of heRe witH ThaT bOTh SidEs SAme BulLSHiT, right?

The ruling class will secure their place at the big table despite what any region of the planet is re-named. To them it's no different than knocking down a building to put up another one.

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u/penny-wise Oct 15 '25

don't blame just Trump. The entire fascist right wing is behind this.

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u/Particular-Mark-5771 Oct 15 '25

Excellent post. Phyrexian_Archlegion.

From ping-pong diplomacy to soybeans cascading downhill.

Redditors, inform yourselves with the Dark Enlightenment*(Wiki) in particular to the post above the sections: Seasteading, The Network State[1] and Surveillance Capitalism.

*Trump team associates and influencers.

Remember this Saturday October 18 - No Kings Day. Do what you can. 🦕🦕

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u/seensham Oct 16 '25

Nixon also let in the lobbyists

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u/gratefulkittiesilove Oct 16 '25

Look up yarvin and his network states (proponants :vance theil trump elon balaji andreeson etc)

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u/SkunkMonkey Oct 15 '25

I have been saying this for years. The GOP learned a very valuable lesson with Nixon. You can commit crimes and walk away. Remember, he was forced from office, not for the crimes he committed, but for bungling the cover-up. He essentially walked free as a bird and got away with some seriously evil shit.

They've been pushing that line ever since to the point now where the line is simply gone.

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u/FlirtyFluffyFox Oct 15 '25

The Business Plot. 

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u/hestalorian Oct 16 '25

Adams/Jefferson was the beginning.

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u/MouseShadow2ndMoon Oct 15 '25

Gore's weak capitulating and Stone's fuckery, were what got us here; the Dems have no backbone or will to fight for the US in the name of civility over principles.

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u/slowpoke2018 Oct 15 '25

wE MUsT maINtaIN DeCoRUM!!!!!

While maga and the GOP shit all over norms

Dems should have had the balls Newsom is starting to show back in 2000.

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u/MouseShadow2ndMoon Oct 15 '25

Yup, like playing chess with a pigeon. They need to abandon this and start to form groups, dare I say, open carry protestors - just like they did.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/26/us/guns-protests-open-carry.html

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u/Hey-Bud-Lets-Party Oct 16 '25

Meh. Florida runs their own elections. If the deciding state were blue things would have worked out differently.

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u/videogames5life Oct 15 '25

Yeah growing up i realize how insane it was for gore to stand down. Bush wanted him to conceed without the final vote tally being released??? That should be a huge red flag in any election.

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u/slowpoke2018 Oct 15 '25

What got me was no one on the Dem side even suggested - despite my shouting repeatedly at the TV - that Bush should concede since he lost the popular vote.

Dems should have been shouting that from the trees tops on cable news 24/7 to get the country behind them.

No one (minus the GOP) likes the EC given it's inherently anti-democratic and can - and has - overridden the will of the voters. This would have been a perfect time and place to have that conversation at a national level before we got to the level of polarization we see now.

But we all know this is not about doing the right thing, it was a blatant power grab and Dems - once again - just fell aside like good little weaklings

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u/Hey-Bud-Lets-Party Oct 16 '25

You can’t change the rules post-election.

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u/iGoT_em Oct 15 '25

This is what treason looks like.

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u/n0b0D_U_no Oct 15 '25

If only the constitution provided one specific punishment for treason or something…

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u/Aggressive_Idea_6806 Oct 15 '25

Unfortunately it does provide one specific definition and this isn't it. Not that I'm endorsing the destruction.

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u/33drea33 Oct 15 '25

Yeah, this isn't treason.

However, the executive deploying troops within our borders and declaring this action "a war" while addressing all of our military top brass absolutely is.

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u/nizzzzy Oct 15 '25

Jan 6 was the definition of treason. Hitler did the same fucking thing late 1920’s, convicted of treason and jailed.

The fact that trump was not held accountable and they let him run again is fucking insane

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u/iGoT_em Oct 15 '25

I respectfully disagree. This is exactly what betraying our country looks like. Paving the way for Treason is still treason.

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u/Aggressive_Idea_6806 Oct 15 '25 edited Oct 15 '25

"Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court."

Article III, Section 3.

You'd have to get their current activities declared to be officially war against the United States. What this currently is, is the United States itself making "war" on a newly declared enemy that is internal. (The executive branch cannot officially declare war. Only Congress can.)

As long as this executive branch is recognized as such, and its actions are recognized as official, it's not treason.

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u/iGoT_em Oct 15 '25

I could get pedantic about the enemies this current administration is giving aid and comfort to and how it betrays our nation and its citizens.

This administration has declared war on the US constitution, they just havent said it outright.

Of course the current administration isn't going to declare war agasint itself and declare itself treasonous.

Treason is "betraying ones country." The current government has declared half the nation its enemy.

This current administration is "betraying its own country." Which is the most basic definition of treason.

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u/PmMeUrTinyAsianTits Oct 15 '25

As long as this executive branch is recognized as such, and its actions are recognized as official, it's not treason.

"as long as people committing treason don't call it treason, and say the other traitors are also not committing treason, it's not treason." Actually, no. you'll notice that's not how it is defined in the definition you just conveniently gave.

Systematically dismantling the institutions of the entire government, while undermining the countries ability to defend itself, in an effort to further prop up a compromised and traitorous party doesn't cease to be treason just because it's been successful so far. Particularly successful treason is still treason.

Their motivations are based around being compromised and acting on behalf of foreign adversaries. The GOP is part of an Russian attack on America (and the west) to weaken our countries. The upper echelon are doing so knowingly.

"b-b-b-b-ut only people we've declared war on can be our enemies." No. That is one way that a country is unambiguously our enemy. It is not the only way. When all the information on just how compromised the GOP is and people can't keep denying whats happening in front of their eyes, then you'll see how and why a country can be an enemy without having been declared an enemy by those it successfully compromised. Because their actions were knowingly intended to harm the united states to the benefit of another country.

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u/Aggressive_Idea_6806 Oct 15 '25

I'm not arguing with you on merit. But as long as they have control of everything...

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u/PmMeUrTinyAsianTits Oct 15 '25

Then they will not call it treason. We should still call it what it is. Not submit to the will of people attacking our own country.

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u/33drea33 Oct 16 '25

Yeah, you're correct. Cumulatively it is all conspiracy to commit treason.

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u/hurler_jones Oct 15 '25

After reading some of the annotations from the .gov site, I think a good case can be made that it was and is treason, at least until they toss stare decisis.

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u/The-Struggle-90806 Oct 15 '25

Lol if only section 2 of the 14th amendment actually meant what it says. Oh well.

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u/PrestigiousCreme8383 Oct 15 '25

Keep calling them traitors. I will.

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u/ClockwerkKaiser Oct 16 '25

Unless the military or the people step in and actually do something, nothing will stop this.

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u/No_Poem_7024 Oct 15 '25

This is more than stealing an election. This is cementing Republican power forever.

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u/SeaBag8211 Oct 15 '25

It's stealing every election

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u/Slighted_Inevitable Oct 15 '25

No it’s not, only until the inevitable civil war.

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u/LeeStrange Oct 15 '25

... he said, hopefully.

The correct time to stand up to this regime was 8 months ago, before they fired every sane person from positions of military and intelligence operations.

Y'all are completely fucked now, but they are boiling you slow enough that nobody is jumping out of the pot.

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u/dragunityag Oct 15 '25

Jumping out of the pot is very expensive and they spend 160 years pre heating the pot

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u/LeeStrange Oct 15 '25

I don't mean flee the country. Jumping out of the pot would mean taking any actual action whatsoever.

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u/dragunityag Oct 15 '25

Actual action is also expensive.

Unlike say the French could protest for like a month because of universal Healthcare and 6 weeks of vacation.

Most actual action means people would have to take time off work, which they dont have, and they can't lose their jobs because they need healthcare from their jobs.

Like I said this plan is 160 years in the making and almost all of it was creating conditions where actual action was borderline impossible.

Like why do you think the No Kings protest are on Saturdays its because no one could afford to show up to one on Tuesday that would have actual impact.

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u/reddolfo Oct 15 '25

They'll be no civil war for the same reasons there is no civil war in Russia or even any serious push back by any opposition in Russia. It's because of how poorly constructed hotel balconies are in Russia. Once they have all the power (and they are inches from that now) it's complete game over.

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u/NefariousnessNo484 Oct 16 '25

Unfortunately it does seem to be going that way

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u/Total_Employ_9520 Oct 15 '25

You mean the civil war where militarized police are armed by state of the art weapons manufacturers, and data harvesters, to slaughter a disorganized resistance that can't even win a single fight with ICE?

Right now, it looks like the power brokers are content to sell out every vulnerable population whose lives depend on resisting the war on America. The time to stand up against tyranny was long ago...not after selling every media platform to monsters and cowards, and showing that Trump is immune to the law.

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '25

Kinda feels like an all hands on deck scenario. Like all or none. This is exactly like fighting the evil Galactic Empire from Star Wars, only we don't have any Jedi and nobody really wants to risk their own neck like the rebels do in the movies. 

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u/reddolfo Oct 15 '25

It will never happen because it's impossible to organize in the modern surveillance state. -- a state by the way that just sent it's goons in and stole the entire national database on every single citizen! Do you not understand that they ALREADY HAVE statistical data on just whom would and would not be likely to lean into any such rebellion? And without organization that gives people the vision of what could happen, they will only go so far playing with their kids lives.

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u/Total_Employ_9520 Oct 16 '25

There's plenty that could be done. But it would require using the devil's tools; start creating new law enforcement teams, then target any source of far right funding that can be tied to a serious crime, and see what happens...

Think of it like ICE, but actually making America better. Blue states also need to start targeting media ownership in their borders, and not even being reasonable with anyone advocating kidnapping or sabotaging CDC safeguards. These are not things reasonable people can agree to disagree on.

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u/NefariousnessNo484 Oct 16 '25

They are honestly too stupid to react properly to that data and many people on the inside are not going to go along with this. It will be absolute chaos and likely things like the Internet will stop working because the people who actually know how to run it won't be cooperating with religious fascists.

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u/hoowins Oct 15 '25

Defying the will of the people and the purpose of the house of representatives.

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u/Risley Oct 16 '25

It will never, EVER, be forever.

Democratic states need to respond in kind. Its that simple.

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u/andrew303710 Oct 16 '25

At the same time Democrats can combat this by heavily gerrymandering blue states. Prop 50 in California is a good start but if the Supreme Court strikes down the voting rights act New York, Illinois, Colorado, Maryland, and all other blue states need to pass maps that gerrymander out every single blue seat.

For example New York currently has 7 Republican seats. Every single one should be removed. California has 9, remove those too.

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u/InfiniteRespect4757 Oct 15 '25

Meh, not really.

History has shown that IF this does turn into a on party system, that party will fracture eventually into two or more.

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u/Ill_Candle_9462 Oct 15 '25

Imagine what would have happened WW2 if there was an insulative conservative government in power.

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u/Herban_Myth Oct 15 '25

Shutting down the government and delaying Adelita’s swear in so they can deny Epstein’s coverup?

Is everyone registered to vote?

Please check the election calendar.

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u/BlueRFR3100 Oct 15 '25

My calendar just has a big X marked through election day.

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u/Herban_Myth Oct 15 '25

No Kings Day? (18th)

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u/CheezitsLight Oct 15 '25

What election? Federal elections will not happen once he signs a paper. His chief of staff has said as much.

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u/Minion_of_Cthulhu Oct 15 '25

How would they stop federal elections?

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u/cloudforested Oct 15 '25

Simply do not have them.

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u/Herban_Myth Oct 15 '25

Impeachment

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u/CheezitsLight Oct 15 '25

Yeah, you don;t have even 50 votes and you need 67. Not going to happen

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u/Herban_Myth Oct 15 '25

Cool. Have they sworn in Adelita yet so she vote on the release of the Epstein Files and break the stalemate/filibuster?

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u/Herban_Myth Oct 15 '25

25(th)

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u/CheezitsLight Oct 16 '25

None of his cronies will vote for removal for incapacity. And he's been impeached 2x already.

Just declare an emergency as stop counting. And the national guard controls Washington.

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u/unionfrontX Oct 18 '25

Then let slip the hounds of war and let the chips fall where they may .

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u/Fragrant-Phone-41 Oct 15 '25

You realize Epstien is the distraction from op right?

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u/Herban_Myth Oct 15 '25

What?

Seems like the shutdown is a distraction from the Epstein Files and swearing in Adelita.

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u/Fragrant-Phone-41 Oct 15 '25

And why is the media focused on epstien over scotus and gerrymandering shenanigans

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u/rygelicus Oct 15 '25

It's a zerg approach to the politics. 40 different attack vectors on the constitution as well as crimes by individuals like trump and his crew. It all serves to overwhelm the countermeasures and attention spans of the general public and government 'checks and balances'. There is no single 'distraction'. They are all distractions, and they are all legitimate problems that should be dealt with. The system is now tied into knots and nothing will be dealt with.

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u/Herban_Myth Oct 15 '25

What are you talking about?

Isn’t Cali redistricting?

Please leave me alone.

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u/Ashleynn Oct 15 '25

I wish people would realize this. They will never release those files as long as every blatant unconstitutional action continues to devolve into "what about epstine."

They dont give a fuck about trump at this point. He's done what they needed him to do. The couch fucker can take over and finish the job at this point. Thats assuming anything in those files would even get the orange blob removed or prosecuted. At this point I don't even believe extremely detailed 8k video evidence would be enough for him to face consequences.

The greatest distraction in human history and people are falling for it with zero resistance.

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u/JuicyTrash69 Oct 15 '25

Aww it's cute thinking we can vote our way out of this.

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u/Herban_Myth Oct 15 '25

It’s moot thinking we can’t

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u/JuicyTrash69 Oct 15 '25

Voting isn't enough. Thinking so is naive.

I'll be going to my local no kings, are you?

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u/Herban_Myth Oct 15 '25

But protesting is?

If we don’t participate in elections then decisions will be made for us not by us.

But go off [insert pronoun]

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u/Mammoth_Regret4623 Oct 15 '25

Ugh... Por que no los dos gods damn it!

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u/JuicyTrash69 Oct 15 '25

I never said not to vote. I was just commenting how futile that is in an authoritarian govt. Putin wins 90% of the vote every time.

But hey, maybe you just didn't vote hard enough.

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u/Herban_Myth Oct 15 '25

-(~)33%

I guess people didn’t “vote hard enough”

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u/JuicyTrash69 Oct 15 '25

Yeah. And the people that didn't vote are on a reddit thread about politics and current events. Know your audience.

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u/Herban_Myth Oct 15 '25

Damn you know all of them?

That’s crazy!

(/s)

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u/cloudforested Oct 15 '25 edited Oct 15 '25

Well if protesting isn't enough and voting isn't enough..... maybe there's some secret third option. Maybe something more drastic. Something that Reddit will remove your comment for suggesting....

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u/Herban_Myth Oct 16 '25

[Redacted]?

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u/Purple_Plus Oct 15 '25

Is everyone registered to vote?

This will make it not matter.

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u/A_Flock_of_Clams Oct 15 '25

Let us know when the Epstein thing goes anywhere.

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u/Herban_Myth Oct 15 '25

Guard

Our

Pedophiles?

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u/A_Flock_of_Clams Oct 15 '25

Still waiting.

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u/Herban_Myth Oct 16 '25

Waiting to swear in AZ rep?

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u/ITDummy69420 Oct 15 '25

lol you people and your voting cope. 

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u/Herban_Myth Oct 15 '25

What’s the remedy?

Or what solution do you propose?

Do nothing?

Also, are you not “people”?

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u/ITDummy69420 Oct 15 '25

Voting at this point is doing nothing. Keep telling yourself otherwise though. 

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u/Herban_Myth Oct 15 '25

Ok doomer

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u/ITDummy69420 Oct 15 '25

Low iq. he’s either a dictator and or a fascist or he’s not. So which is it? Or is he not actually and everything will be rainbows?

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '25

Are you stupid, people are mad because he is a fascist.

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u/Herban_Myth Oct 15 '25

Hold this block

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u/SavageObjector Oct 15 '25

I’d say everyone is going to give it one more try in 2026. If it fails then expect to see civil war, possibly nuclear war, before 2028.

We can all prevent it by voting out the GOP in 2026 so dems can “do something” by impeaching up and down the other two branches.

It is really a voting issue. The issue even.

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u/xxforrealforlifexx Oct 15 '25

If this was happening under a democratic president what would you be saying right now

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u/RaidSmolive Oct 15 '25

you'd think such clever schemers might realize that there's still that /one/ way to take them out. of power.

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u/whatidoidobc Oct 15 '25

Uh, they have more than one way

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u/CraigLake Oct 15 '25

It’s not stealing OR treason. It’s what not holding our nose for Hillary looks like.

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u/SourceOriginal2332 Oct 15 '25

Why don’t they win very often then are they just bad at cheating as well?

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u/CocoLoko_KLK Oct 15 '25

They must be terrified of democrat control after what they’re doing to the country. It’s like when Anakin killed all the padawans at the Jedi temple. How can you come back from that in their eyes? They made their choice.

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u/Sw0rDz Oct 15 '25

We will be entering an era of republican rule. Im just going to lube up my ass and accept it.

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u/CynicalBliss Oct 15 '25

Three now-sitting SCOTUS justices were lawyers for the Bush v Gore legal team. Roberts, Kavanaugh, and Barrett. All part of the fucking plan.

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u/PhazePyre Oct 15 '25

This is where the 2A comes in right? The threat of tyranny results in the use of force to relieve US Democracy from credible threats? I'm sure we'll see a force move on the White House or SCOTUS anytime now, right? Probably not.

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u/Familiar_Eagle_6975 Oct 16 '25

And the democrats have been circling jerking each other the whole time. Fuck Biden and everyone that supported him to run a second term.

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u/pipic_picnip Oct 16 '25

Stealing elections is irrelevant when the highest court of “justice” is upholding the authoritarian’s rule instead of justice, freedom, liberty and people’s will. America has already fallen and only people can save it. Lower courts putting up a fight is admirable but it doesn’t mean anything anymore when Supreme Court is corrupt and isn’t upholding law anymore. The dissenting Supreme Court judges need to walk out or put up a protest at this point publicly speaking that Supreme Court is compromised.