President Donald Trump issued a foreboding proclamation during a speech in Maryland on Tuesday, just hours after he predicted a āMidterm Surprise!ā in a Truth Social post.
āDirector of the Office of Management and Budget, Russ Vought, whoās fantastic, heās on a job, we have some big surprises coming up in another few weeks. Right, Russ?ā Trump said. āHeās gonna be one of the very important people in the history of our country, in my opinion. Heās got some great things happening.ā
Trump did not expand on what these so-called āsurprisesā would be.
Outside his role in the Trump administration, Vought is the primary architect of Project 2025, the conservative Heritage Foundationās blueprint for a second Trump term.
While not mentioned specifically by Trump, many critics online speculated that Trump was referring to some sort of plan to interfere in the midterm elections.
āBetween this and his āmidterm surprise,ā the time to prepare for him to try to steal an election is now,ā Fox News host Jessica Tarlov wrote on X.
Other commenters suggested that Vought could use his official capacity to interfere with the elections.
āI know nothing about Project 2025ā
-Trump, 2024
I like how Trump canāt help but preemptively throw his sycophants under the bus just in case things go wrong and someone has to be held accountable
Or, he will follow through on Project 2025 and nullify the election.
This is what he will try to do, but we canāt allow Schmuck & Jeffries to just accept it with stern rebuke. We have to SLAM every Representative ad Senator with intense pressure to fight back. Their phones should be ringing non-stop, their email inbox should be full, and they shouldnāt be able to go ANYWHERE without citizens demanding action.
If they still wonāt defend our Democracy, if they just let MAGA walk away with it, then they become as much the enemy as MAGA. The only way theyāll act is if they are afraid of us, so weāll need to be extremely aggressive, and it will get ugly.
Your solution to attempts to illegally coup the nation is phone calls to the side doing it to demand they support you instead?
Everyone knows that if your bpd violent ex is in the middle of setting your car and house on fire you resolve it by waiting patiently for cuffing season to begin again and then text them cordially to ask them to work with you so this behavior can cease and turn into something more productive.
This is the inherit problem with democracy, or at least the American implementation of it.
If the government āgoes rogueā and starts ignoring the pleas and will of the people, it can no longer be fixed within the system itself.
If the only solution is to work outside the system, then what is the point of democracy in the first place?
The Constitution has been overridden by the majority party in Congress that has ABDICATED ITS POWERS and relegated them to the executive.
Stop and think about this for a second.
Trump and his coup NEED the stolen election to be legitimized by Congress, full stop, or it just doesnāt work. The failure to legitimize is what stopped J6.
Addressing the minority Congressional leaders as well as doing all the other things we are already doing is exactly what needs to happen.
At no point did Barney say that was the only thing, everywhere and ever, that any concerned American should ever think about doing.
You brought that.
For myself, I have nothing but contempt for those who clearly have no idea how much all the individual efforts of all sizes by so many Americans to push back has slowed Trumpās roll.
But youād never concede that. Youāre here to shit on anyone who suggests anything other than a magical solution, as though the actual Americans among us have not heard this a billion times through the firehose of propaganda that has been aimed directly at us since 2015.
If you had any interest at all in preventing a coup, youād have written a dramatically different comment. But us actual living Americans who genuinely want this fascism to stop have many things we can each do to put pressure against EVERY PART of this oncoming coup ā including the legislators who will be required to legitimize the outcome should all other efforts fail.
Your solution to attempts to illegally coup the nation is phone calls to the side doing it to demand they support you instead?
And your solution is to be a part of the problem, quietly undermining anyone who suggests anything useful and helpful even as you display your own ignorance of how an American coup MUST work to be successful in the end.
For the rest of us, ABSOLUTELY add contacting your federal representatives to your list of to-do items before the midterms, and make sure you are still registered to vote by contacting your local elections office directly, and beware of fake sites that are data hoovers.
Barneyās right. They need to hear us. And they donāt . . . yet.
wellā¦ talk is cheap but no one has been SLAMMING Trump since he took office.
Itās not enough, wgat you suggested is a lityle temporary annoyance compared to what they planā¦
They are criminals who verifiably attempted to steal every election Trumps been involved with. Thereās a reasonable chance they succeeded, and wouldnāt have won any without the various direct and indirect election fraud tactics (that go by other terms but are just as criminal; some are ālegalā e.g. gerrymandering).
There is literally zero chance they donāt attempt to steal all future elections. Thatās what psychopathic criminals do.
I hope the Democrats find some time to get Vought at a hearing to ask some very pointed questions about his little document there.
Wild that a Fox News host is talking about him stealing the election.
Not if you know who she is, she is a jewel in that shit-mire
Say more please. I was confused as well. Will she get fired?
No, if you can stomach the rest of that crew you will be very content with her actions. She is basically paid to be the āotherā view point, the left. She is constantly attacked by the other 4 on that panel, Greg Gutfeld? mostly, and she attacks back. She is fun to watch but I canāt for long due to the others. Check out the show she is on, Iām sure you have seen her if the news people you watch use clips.
I wouldnāt check out the show, unless you do it in a way that doesnāt drive money into their pockets. It doesnāt really matter how good she is if sheās just a vehicle to peddle their bullshit.
I find the clips to be enough. She is on the other side to the rest, outnumbered 4:1 and still gets her points across, hopefully opening some rep voter eyes
Maybe, but still donāt give them views.
Sheās a plant to give the other three morons on that show a platform to spread propaganda.
You are clueless.
What about the multiple allegations or the literal āsteal like hellā quote do you thing clued him in?
Surprise everyone! Women canāt vote anymore, nor can brown people.
And Democrats are terrorists now, so they get deported if they try to vote.
also, no one who can do math without a calculator, and people who read.
Lots of court law demonstrating why we shouldnāt have literacy testsā¦but nobody never done said nothing about no illiteracy tests.
Only property ownersāno renters.
A literal coup, seizing voting machines and denying results, arresting Democratic candidates who won their elections. Weāve already established that the law and the constitution means nothing to this administration so everything is on the table.
Good thing all those second amendment fanatics are politically literate, right?
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Donāt forget banning international voting oversight. I have no confidence in your election results.
Thatās why he did it, because he will question the outcome and international observers wonāt be able to say they didnāt see anything. Our elections are heavily decentralized so itās genuinely hard to mess with them at scale.
Canāt states invite them themselves?
Why would they need OMB for that? To me it sounds much more like theyāre thing to fuck with the FCC, FEC, and/or the post office.
In other words:
Stay tuned for his next totally illegal, but totally allowed grift of whatās left on American democracy.
He raped kids. Lady Justice is not off-limits.
Americans will reward you for raping kids and kill you for defending them
Our legal system is broken. He should have gone to jail in the 90s over his rape cases. 13 times heād been in court well before he was president over rape. Our justice system failed to hold him accountable. He shouldnāt have his wealth either. All the shady real estate deals with with Russia and the blatant money laundering that was. Oh sure he bought properties for a few million and a Russian āinvestorā buys them for 10s of millions a few years later. Not sus at all.
Thatās funny, the midterms are also in a few weeks. What a coincidence. Iām sure itās nothing about that right?
Oh fuck weāre gonna lose, say some more shit. Fuck no one listened, say even more shit but say itās a surprise now.
Lmao you think they are going to lose
Hereās a quick summary of what I think he is gonna do.
- Declare a state of emergency in order to prevent the midterms.
- if step 1 doesnāt happen then he will have armed guards at as many polling stations as possible, especially in blue/poor states.
- when the republicans are hopefully defeated in the midterms he will cry foul and that the democrats cheated. Calling for another January 6th across the nation.
- regardless of the outcome Donny will then invaded Iran.
- going into the Christmas holiday or the beginning of 2027 he will try to get the Supreme Court to give him the right to run a 3rd term.
- when that doesnāt happen (fingers crossed) he will still run for a 3rd term anyway.
Good write up, but you left out the false flag terrorist attack that will allow him to declare a state of emergency.
Or, the speaker of the house appoints a different House Clerk and he/she doesnāt call the newly elected members to order due to " fraudulent elections"
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hmmmmmm I wonder who they are going to frame?
Is this a south park episode
You are correct I forgot that part!
Yeah. Wouldnāt want a foot-gun.
And banned International elections oversight. Oh, ice handed voter rolls to thielā¦ Oh ya. I have Russian levels of trust in your elections.
even beforehand voting machines werenāt audited and their software is very bad. and decades before that people just bought votes. itās a shit mountain built into a different, older, more respectable shit mountain
The important point: Republicans arenāt leaving office regardless of what happens.
Well, not willingly perhaps.
It would make my fuckin year if they donāt.
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Yes definitely, I think he will play a part in step 2.
heās the loser nobody wanted along but heās paying for everything so they let him come too.
Donāt underestimate the power of cholesterol.
Heās gonna live to be at least 102
- Donny diesā¦
I genuinely donāt see him invading Iran. Itās a guaranteed belly-flop. Much more likely he continues pretending the US already won.
Bibi will wave the tape, and then he will.
I donāt think so. Itās not as if longstanding, bipartisan US policy isnāt antagonistic towards Iran for its own reasons. I do think Bibi helped coax Trump into actually bombing Iran by giving him a rosy assessment, but even Trump wonāt fall for that twice.
I hope you are right, ofcourse. But things are getting so unpredictable and illogical that I really donāt know what to expect.
I hear ya. What actually worries me is if Europe decides to involve itself militarily. I think the chance is slim, but thatās the only way I could see any attempted invasion of Iran. They are in a very tight spot with energy, and they seem to be 100% against negotiating with Russia, while also 100% unable (or unwilling) to influence Trump regarding Iran. Hard to imagine they could dedicate any military resources towards Iran though, considering what they already send to Ukraine, or want to deter Russia with. Still, as winter comes and fuel costs rise, something will have to give.
No, Iran invasion is pure fantasy. Europe canāt change that equation, not enough troops to spare and theyāre not really built to fight outside of Europe in large numbers. Iran will need millions of soldiers committed. The US barely has 400,000 combat soldiers.
For instance how are they even going to get the border of Iran? They canāt go in from Pakistan or Central Asia and the US Navy is a hollowed out enshitified joke, so doing a naval invasion is even more absurd.
So theyāll have to invade and secure Iraq just to set the stage for an invasion of Iran. And thatās assuming they could defeat a combined Iran-Iraqi force. But how are they going to build up an invasion force? 2003 Iraq Invasion force took a year to build and that was in peaceful conditions with full control of the gulf and had intact bases.
The most that they can hope for is trying to take and hold the Islands in the strait. Which will fail and fail hard because Iran has had months and months prepare for it where as the US hasnāt committed a single soldier to combat and yet itās logistics are at the breaking point and itās defensive munitions are already spent! Trillion dollars a year well spent!
Militarily, the US is a barely a shadow of what it was just 20 years ago. Itās been thoroughly Russified.
I agree with pretty much everything you say here, but the last sentence.
I think we are safe there, as they will need at least 20 years to decide on that.
For the #1, I think āIranā will attack Los Angeles and San Diego.
Also Republicans will replace the clerk with a MAGA person and he will refuse call new winners in January.
Since this is Vough this is definitively one of things he planned.
He doesnāt need Russ Vought for any of this.
āI donāt know what Project 2025 is.ā
- Donald J. Trump
Vought is a little weasel. I hope he gets to see the inside of a prison.
I hope he sees the inside of a basket
Personally Iām hoping for the woodchopper feeder to get progressively closer to him as he gets ever shorter.
āWell, our Democratic governor took away our plastic grocery bags and last summer, suggested that people in big cities turn their AC down to avoid brown outs, so Iām OK with whatever Republicans can do to fix those things.ā - My low information voting family.
Time to take the kid gloves off and call these idiots out. Being this stupid should have a negative effect of some kind.
It does, just not directly oh them just yet
That is next-level entitlement. Manā¦. Iām sorry.
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Oh, the project 2025 he had no idea about?
The P25 that the current VP wrote the forward to when it was published as a fucking book?
The same P25 he said the only agenda he has is Project 47?
Yes, that exact one that stated they were going to hack n slash Medicare/Medicaid (which they did), install a bunch of āloyalistsā (which they did), eliminate the Dept of Education (which theyāve been slowly doing), eliminate unions and worker protections (which theyve been chipping away at)ā¦
Remember when he claimed he had nothing to do with Project 2025? Yeah I know a mother fucker dumb enough to have believed that
My narcissistic ex, literally. Dumb as a fucking rock.
We all have that uncle.
This is FALSE because Donald Trump TOLD ME he DIDNT know what Project 2025 was!
-LITERALLY Republican Voters!
Dude, I knew āboth sides are the sameā types at my work who fucking bought that. My gasts were flabbered.
Iām fairly confident there wonāt be any midterms this time around.
Trump doesnāt plan on leaving until heās in a pine box.
Iām fairly confident there wonāt be any midterms this time around.
This is just wrong. Iāve already voted in my state, my ballot has been received, and counted. I know my state will not bow to federal pressure on election interference.
Itās entirely possible the administration will work to quell and intimidate in person voting. They might try some post election fuckery like 2020, but the midterm vote will take place.
Spreading the claim that āthere wonāt be any midtermsā will only serve to discourage those who would otherwise vote.
I think he might try and end up triggering a civil war instead when states ignore the order.
Yeah? How do you see that playing out? Can you explain what civil war in that scenario would look like?
States that either ignore or block Donald attempts rig or cheat the voting system vs thos the unilateral back him and the federal gov. He seems to be indicating that heās going to interfere with the system.
Whole states are going to go to war with other states, eh? People are just blindly going to engage in violent conflict because their elected officials tell them too? Are they going to war using line infantry too?
I encourage you to really think through your original statement and the actual likelihood of that outcome. Unless your goal was to just make a bombastic doomer comment that really means nothing.
He has all four branches of our military in his pocket. Dude. Downplaying a threat like this is dangerous. People need to be prepared.
If that were true it still wouldnāt be a civil war, it would be a military coup.
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We still voted during the last Civil War.
Iām fairly confident there wonāt be any midterms this time around.
Thatās what people voted for after J6.
Trump doesnāt plan on leaving until heās in a pine box.
Hopefully sooner rather than later.
The midterms are literally already happening.
Pine is tooā¦ Porous. Heās so toxic, we need concrete walls
Nah, put the fucker on a stick to rot in the sun. We need to be sure itās over. Preferably while still breathing.
Given gas prices, the Mussolini treatment might be the most culturally relevant.
Iām not a fan of giving him the Jesus treatment. He might pull a McConnell and come back after a few months
Lol I donāt think Iāve seen a man so universally hated in my life time.
Naah. Launch him into the sun. We donāt need that cancer here.
Give him the spent neclear waste treatment, 50 gallon drum filled with concrete then entombed in more concrete and lead.
Weāll get to vote. He just wonāt accept the results.
Mark my words. There will be an attack on a city in California in the next 3 weeks. Iran will āclaim responsibilityā. Elections will be cancelled and martial law will be set in place. Trump will remain president until he dies. His regime will remain in power permanently. The United States as we know it will end by the end of next year. There will be a gas shortage with no plan to help anyone since the rich already have what they need. There will be massive food shortages due to this. Millions will die in the next 2 years from disease, hunger, and war within our borders.
The rich will come out on top and we all lose. Enjoy your last few weeks or normalcy. It gets dark from here.
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Regardless of what I said being wrong or right, why are you being so rude? Your comment history speaks volumes.
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Not a word of what they said is out of bounds bud. Itās all a very real threat we all face. If you like optimistic sugar-coated feelgood takes, maybe you should avoid discussing American politics.
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Do you honestly not know what an opinion is?
Look, Iāll make this easier for you so you donāt have to get so upset at others for what they think:
You go ahead and create a community and list in the rules, how everyone should think and what they should say. And then you can require everyone to memorize a list of things you find irritating and off-limits, and then test them on it before theyāre ever allowed to post- we will all join it- and promptly never post.
But there, you can have everything exactly as you want it and no one will ever disagree or say things that upset you.
Mkay? Sound fun? Super!
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Trump said that he would sacrifice San Diego or LA. He canāt keep his mouth shut and has likely spoken with conspirators about it. He wonāt say that he wonāt call martial law. Do you remember Jan. 6th? Do you remember when he was āshot atā during the election. Heās done this shit before.
Do you think Iām the first person in history who thinks something like this could happen?
You can contest someoneās point without being rude. Or can you?
I wouldnāt put it past this administration to perform a false-flag if things look dire enough.
Weāre talking about an actual insurrectionist here. A treacherous person in every definition of the word.
More likely, they will take some minor protest or something, and use their propaganda network to wag-the-dog and make half the country think that the liberal cities are now effectively Mad Max (again).
There doesnāt need to be another 9/11, they just need to make enough people believe there was.
You havenāt debated any of what I said either, just that Iām wrong
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The evidence is in Trumpās words and actions. Heās talking about missiles hitting San Diego and you arenāt in the lease bit worried? Do you think itās just some plausible deniability? The evidence is there
Two day old doomer account. Blocked.
Noooooooo!
I feel the same way, and I appreciate that you said what you said.
This āitās all shit from here so you should just roll over and dieā comment four weeks out from the midterms is not accidental, and surprise, surprise, itās a two day old account demanding that we all āmark its wordsā of doom and destruction, lol.
Hell no. Keep the faith, brother. I appreciate you, and every one of us like you.
Fuck the doomers and vote: if your vote werenāt so important, they wouldnāt be working this hard to discourage you from doing it.
I wish you and all of us every success.
rich already have what they need.
Thereās a big fail in your assumption
How?
The financially obese are never sated.
Nah, if the ship goes down, everyone goes with it. The rich will not escape.
Iāll mark your words with a big giant red X because itās some doomerist bullshit.
Why?
Consider your words marked.
