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The decision not to invite observers from the OSCE puts the U.S. alongside Russia and Belarus, while the Justice Department prepares to deploy its own poll monitors.
The Trump administration declined to invite election observers from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe to witness the midterms, blocking monitors from the regional security group for the first time in more than two decades.
Their absence comes as Democrats and election integrity experts have raised concerns about potential election meddling after the Department of Justice announced plans to send its own monitors.
Washington joins only Russia and Belarus in its decision to exclude OSCE observers.
The OSCE called the U.S. decision “regrettable” and Human Rights Watch said the move “fuels fears of serious human rights concerns around the upcoming elections.”
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Australian here ready to be full of myself.
Kamala Harris 100% won but Elon Musk rigged your election.
Follow me for more information everyone knows
Epstein was all in with Israel and knew everything they were doing… Epstein died to protect Israeli secrets and the pedos
Oh dear… I’ve criticised Israel… I guess I’m about to commit suicide…
Fuck Israel, fuck Israel in every way.
it’s DEFINITELY not because he’s a fine upstanding old gentleman who has no intention of cheating.
2 decades? So they did it 2006?
After checking previous time was in 2002, under Bush.
Republicans also picked up eight seats in the House of Representatives, thereby making this election cycle one of three midterm elections in which the incumbent president’s party did not experience a net loss of seats in either chamber of Congress, the other two being 1934 and 1998.
Interesting…
“I used to wonder how it was possible that Trump could have won in 2016 and then again in 2024, given how emotionally toxic, morally vacant, and psychologically mangled he is. I do not wonder anymore. He won for that exact reason. He was not a candidate. He was a mirror. If you were a racist, you found your guy. If you were a misogynist, you found your guy. If money was your only religion, you found your guy. If your heart was armoured shut, you found your guy. If you mocked disabled people, you found your guy. If you hated intelligent people, you found your guy. If you were a rapist, you found your guy. If you enjoyed golden showers with Russian sex workers, you found your guy. If you had done absolutely nothing to confront your emotional wreckage, you found your guy. If you were a serial cheater, you found your guy. If you were a perpetual bankrupt, you found your guy. If you stiffed honest workers, you found your guy. If you were a conman, you found your guy. If you mocked people’s appearances, you found your guy. If you longed for a toxic Daddy, you found your guy. If you were dissociated and disembodied, you found your guy. If you were unconscionable in every economic dealing, you found your guy. If you lied as naturally as breathing, you found your guy. If you had never eaten a green vegetable, you found your guy. If you were a white supremacist, you found your guy. If your ego contained a hole so large not even the presidency could fill it, you found your guy. If you were a sociopath who cared not one molecule about other humans, you found your guy. If he had only two of these traits, he never would have won. He won because he had hundreds of them, and millions of people recognized themselves in at least one. This has never been about Trump. It has always been about the people who finally had their worst instincts validated. Trump did not create the cruelty, he licensed it. He handed out permission slips for hate. He is merely a symptom of a far deeper disease: collective toxicity. If there is one sentence that explains Trump’s power, it is this: “He says the things I’m thinking.” That is the part that should chill the spine. Who knew that tens of millions of Americans were thinking such unconscionable things about their fellow citizens? Who knew how many white men felt so threatened by women and challenged by minorities that they were ready to torch democracy to feel big again? Who knew that after decades of apparent progress on race and gender, so many people were living in seething resentment, waiting for a demagogue to legitimize their worst selves and convert their bitterness into political power? We were living in a fool’s paradise. We aren’t anymore." — Michael Jochum
Get ready for a very suspicious winning of the 2/3 of the seats, and immediate move to rewrite the constitution to an undemocratic one, with a very Orwellian definition of “separation of church and state” and “freedom of speech”.
My baby needs me… But my country needs me
Wonder why this might be… hmmm.
What’s being done to counter this?
Fuck all.
People are whining about it on the Internet! That counts just a bit more than thoughts and prayers.
Yep
tell me you are going to commit voting fraud without actually telling me you are going to commit voting fraud
They already have and the fucking Democrats sat on their hands and said nothing. Kamela should have never accepted defeat she should have fought it all the way to the supreme Court. He absolutely did not win fairly him and musk said many times that they cheated
Americans can be bought. Even the Dems. America has been sold to the lowest bidders.
2/3rds saw nothing wrong with it.
At this point, they could tell Americans they’re going to commit voter fraud, and Americans wouldn’t do shit about it.
I am scared. I am fearful about the extreme ignorance, simple mindedness and gullibility of some of the electorate. They are completely blind to the effects of neoliberalism, which is the main guiding force behind the bumptious, odious and fascist/racist Republican party who believe that competition is the defining characteristic of human relations. It redefines citizens as consumers, whose democratic choices are best exercised by buying and selling, a process that rewards merit and punishes inefficiency. It maintains that “the market” delivers benefits that could never be achieved by planning. Attempts to limit competition are treated as inimical to liberty. Tax and regulation should be minimised; public services should be privatised. The organisation of labour and collective bargaining by trade unions are portrayed as market distortions that impede the formation of a natural hierarchy of winners and losers. Inequality is recast as virtuous: a reward for utility and a generator of wealth, which trickles down to enrich everyone. Efforts to create a more equal society are both counterproductive and morally corrosive. The market ensures that everyone gets what they deserve. We internalise and reproduce its creeds. The rich persuade themselves that they acquired their wealth through merit, ignoring the advantages – such as education, inheritance, and class – that may have helped to secure it. The poor begin to blame themselves for their failures, even when they can do little to change their circumstances.
Im 1000 miles from the nearest place i could do anything about it. What exactly would you like me to do?
I would like the American government to enforce its laws and remove Trump from office yesterday
lawmen are too worried about people sleeping in cars to send any sort of sentiments up any type of chain
Organize for a National labor strike
He outright told people to cheat
My feeling is that they are trying to increase their ability to (falsely) claim that the elections were stolen (again). I would think having outside observers would be something you’d want to get rid of so that it’s easier to convince people of the lie/scam/coup.
U.S. elections are very robust especially compared to other western democracies’ systems. That won’t stop him from trying or even having some effect.
Robust? I remember when the Supreme Court elected Bush as president.
In an extremely close election, yes
This country has been through worse
I’m starting to think not, record high fuel prices both Diesel and unleaded, food prices for people are unable to even buy basic protein anymore, housing so out of reach most people can’t afford to buy a house, and even used cars are going for $10,000 plus when they should be $2,000. Corporations are squeezing every dime out of us and most Americans are one to two paychecks away from being homeless. But sure let’s elect Trump again he’s doing such a fucking bang-up job of ruining this country, maybe if he gets elected a third term will be completely a third world country by the time he’s done
Old but still true.“But there’s a reason. There’s a reason. There’s a reason for this, there’s a reason education SUCKS, and it’s the same reason it will never, ever, EVER be fixed. It’s never going to get any better, don’t look for it, be happy with what you’ve got. Because the owners, the owners of this country don’t want that. I’m talking about the real owners now, the BIG owners! The Wealthy… the REAL owners! The big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians. They are irrelevant. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don’t. You have no choice! You have OWNERS! They OWN YOU. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They’ve long since bought, and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. They got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying, lobbying, to get what they want. Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else, but I’ll tell you what they don’t want: They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. Thats against their interests. Thats right. They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table and think about how badly they’re getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago. They don’t want that! You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. And just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shitty jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it, and now they’re coming for your Social Security money. They want your retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street, and you know something? They’ll get it. They’ll get it all from you sooner or later cause they own this fucking place! It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it! You, and I, are not in the big club. By the way, it’s the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe. All day long beating you over the head with their media telling you what to believe, what to think and what to buy. The table has tilted folks. The game is rigged and nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care! Good honest hard-working people; white collar, blue collar it doesn’t matter what color shirt you have on. Good honest hard-working people continue, these are people of modest means, continue to elect these rich cock suckers who don’t give a fuck about you….they don’t give a fuck about you… they don’t give a FUCK about you. They don’t care about you at all… at all… AT ALL. And nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care. That’s what the owners count on. The fact that Americans will probably remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick that’s being jammed up their assholes everyday, because the owners of this country know the truth. It’s called the American Dream,because you have to be asleep to believe it.
George CarlinThat’s the electorate, not the elections.
“i WoNdEr iF hEs gONnA rIg tHE eLEcTiOn gUys 🤡🤡🤡”
Americans, watching Trump actively rig the election
MAGAs in my family are so far lost in the sauce that they truly believe he’s the most fair and honest president in American history. They are so caught up in the right wing news machine that they don’t know how the regime’s policies are affecting the rest of America, and if they did, I don’t think they’d care because they’re old, rich, and have winning complexions.
“Refusing election observers is usually something that countries in a position of weakness do, when they know that they have corrupt or unfair elections,” said Dan Baer, a former U.S. ambassador to the OSCE during the Obama administration. “It’s very strange for the United States, which has been historically a standard setter in free and fair elections, to refuse observers.”
Strange? Has this doofus been around for the past 6 years?
What boggles the mind is Trump’s followers will not see the glaring hypocrisy here, assuming they hear about this at all.
A conservative is a fascist. That’s why it is not possible for them to see anything wrong with fascist moves. Even never-Trumper conservatives will support this, because all conservatives are fascist by nature.
or rather fascists like to call themselves conservatives, even though they’re not
Yup.
I like how this guy breaks it down, but the evidence starts from how they are raised.
They are going to lose big even with their cheating, they are so far underwater here, they will lose the house, probably the senate.
Their approval rating is hovering around the ebola virus, right behind covid.
The problem is that there isn’t way to enforce the vote anymore. Every institution and agency was allowed to be captured.
Todd Blanche, Tom Homan, and Kash Patel are not going to team up with SCOTUS and bring down Trump or MAGA. The military has been purged and is flying Nazi eagles and just gave the sieg heiling south African immigrant that stole all of our data keys to all of our top secret drone warfare platforms.
The other tech bros are part of this same program, and have been rolled into the military as their own unit, complete with their own ranks.
Once people have that level of clearance and information, the damage is done. The country we knew is dead and dark times are ahead. And it gets darker by the day with everyone playing “election”
I think 2028 is going to be worse, this is just a dry run for them. But if they keep even one house they can refuse to recognize presidential results and throw the election to the states, each state one vote. They control over 30 of them.
