Donald Trump announced Sunday that Republicans plan to dispense a large “Election Integrity Army” to every single state for the 2026 midterms – invoking his debunked claims that the United States does not have fair elections. In a message on his Truth Social platform the president appeared to attribute his “Historic Election in 2024” to the fact that the Republican National Committee sent thousands of volunteers across the country to poll watch or assist with election litigation through a volunteer program. “During my Historic Election in 2024, when I won every single Swing State, and decisively won both the Electoral and Popular votes by wide margins, the Republicans had an Election Integrity Army in every single State to preserve the sanctity of each legal vote. We will be doing the same again in 2026, but it will be much bigger and stronger,” Trump wrote. Trump did not elaborate on who would be part of the “Election Integrity Army” or how large it would be.

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    How are you guys who stayed home feeling? You could have helped prevent this bullshit from happening, and you did nothing.

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        Yes, and they would have had less support from the US, given that she supports a 2-state solution vs wanting to bulldoze the entirety of Gaza.

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      Something something Kamala bad

      Something something Zionist-Hitler “dems are as bad as real nazis” generic tankie cope, etc

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      They are still insisting that they are in the right.

      I say that a movement that can’t be bothered to vote, or even spoil its ballot, is not credible in doing the higher order civil disobedience.

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        They literally expect people to fight a civil war against the Republicans, then they expect to have a seat at the table in the restructuring of the government.

        They are literally the reason this shit is happening. Fuck the Idle Left. They do nothing but complain.

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          You are very good at typing not-particularly-true-things that divide those who should be opposed to the current regime. Also using vague language where you’re talking about a tiny fraction of the population but you make it sound so much grander while retaining deniability. Does the GOP pay you, or do you do it for love of the game?

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            Spare me that nonsense. You see people on her all the damned time talking about not voting (proud of this fact), and they refuse to participate in our democracy. This same exact group of people think that somehow, they will be part of the conversation in recreating the country after a conflict happens.

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        They are still insisting that they are in the right.

        Of course they are. They’re petulant children.

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        And she was a GENOCIDER. She was actually GENOCIDING.

        GENOCIDE GENOCIDE GENOCIDE…oh fuck Donald Trump is president again. Uh…GENOCIDE.

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        ‘The democrats didn’t run a primary 4 months before the general election, so I’m going to sit out because the VP of the current president stood down because I was mad that he had a debate and did poorly whilst being sick and being jet lagged. The democrats also said I couldn’t be a member of the Pink Pony Club and I didn’t like that.’

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          'That’ll show ‘em! We owned the libs harder than the actual conservatives! And since I’m in no way a lib, this all has zero repercussions for me!’

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      They’re as bad or worse than MAGAts.

      But “something something genocide blah blah blah”.

      Anyone that thinks genocide in another part of the world is worth sacrificing democracy in their own country is a fool not worth speaking to.

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        They are worse in my mind.

        They know trump is bad. They know the actions of the republican party are bad.

        They, in their ‘wisdom’ are too stubborn, entitled, or lazy, to actually do something against these forces. Instead, they’d rather spend their time online evangelizing their own pet causes and attacking anyone who actually does anything against these people.

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          Yep. Fuck these types and their moralizing and their purity tests and their little gotcha games they think they are winning. Infuriating.

          They act like some perfect candidate/party will just emerge if they stamp their feet hard enough.

          Sure, the redcaps are dangerous and annoying in their own way - I would imagine a lot of them are functionally illiterate - ~20% of American adults are functionally illiterate.

          But focusing only on 2023, 28% of adult Americans are at level 1 or below in literacy and 34% in numeracy. And only 44% and 38%, respectively, are at or above level 3 in these domains.

          ^ From Patheos. I’ve seen others claiming about 21%. I’ll say 20% just to be conservative. In any case, it is bad and I bet a sizeable amount of people are terrible at critical thinking and/or spotting logical fallacies, as well. Not to mention those with overactive amygdalas creating far too much emotionalism and a thirst of simple “solutions” driving them into the arms of Republicans. It’s hard to get them to accept basic reality, never mind actually having some understanding.

          But a whole lot of these often overly-online people don’t seem to fall into this nexus per se. They seem to have galaxy-brained their way into thinking they are this rare breed of the truly morally superior creatures and no one else has ever noticed the flaws of the Democratic party/certain candidates. 🙄

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            You’re spot on man. One side has the illiterate, and the other side has people who agree with stuff ‘in principle’ but refuse to actually vote.

            It’s literally no wonder Democrats move to the center, because rational republicans have joined the party. And what’s more is those rational republicans generally adapt to the party, and they don’t pull them to the right.

            The other fucking issue that infuriates me is that not every district is in NY where you can elect AOC. I love AOC, but she’s flat out not electable in a lot of the country. Guys like Talrico are just as valuable as her, because they’ll probably agree on 70% of the platform.

            The terminally online Left refuses to vote for anyone unless they agree with every single point they make. And this is only exacerbated by countries like Israel and Russia who want Republicans in office and not Democrats.

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              The terminally online Left refuses to vote for anyone unless they agree with every single point they make. And this is only exacerbated by countries like Israel and Russia who want Republicans in office and not Democrats.

              This is such a key point. Foreign actors are likely to benefit from having the country run by idiot Republicans. And if you consider billionaires to be part of that group - foreign actors (and they do, since they will surely pull up stakes, take all their money and go somewhere else if they must) they have a lot of the same motivation to have an inept government.

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                Exactly. That’s why people are downvoting this uncomfortable truth. The ‘left’ doesn’t believe they also are targets for the bullshit Russia and Israel do to this country.