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I dont think they have any sort of plan. They are winging it day by day and always keep doubling down on whatever the dumbest solution is....
Hard to admit, but I had high hopes for Trump admin. The only solution I really see is for Trump to throw everyone under the bus and claim his advisors lied to him....then simply withdraw from the region and let Israel deal with consequences. I'd rate that outcome as pretty low though....
I guess I don't mean it's a coordinated plan, more that they are less concerned than you'd expect because they know there will be fewer eligible Democrat voters.
Restricting voting to actual citizens and ending the whole "mail in ballots" facade would be good in general, but I don't really think thats enough.
I think Trump voters are now split into 3 camps: (a) See this as a disaster, sizable portion will sit out election, (b) Will actively vote democrat, (c) MAGA truth social hardcores will still vote R, but numbers aren't enough.
The A and B camps have been exaggerated by doomers and the opposition since he came down the escalater. Literally every week for the past 10 years Trump has said or done something to annoy those people. And what happened when the anti-Trump crowd won out? Russia invaded Ukraine and we got 4 years of open borders, vaccine mandates, welfare fraud, and all the usual blue team shit. For nothing.
Political game theory predicts that the most extreme wing of the party accomplishes the most for the platform. That's just how the numbers play out. Democrats don't differentiate between C and moderates. They'd throw all of us in jail. So everyone has to line up with C for the time being or the country becomes California, a second Europe, a failed state.
I see it the same way
This isn’t random or “winging it.” The mechanism is explicit.
The SAVE Act shifts registration from eligibility → documentary proof at registration (no document — including mismatches like maiden names — → no processed registration)
Then the draft EO extends it using its own words:
“unusual and extraordinary threat”
→ trigger national emergency powers
“supersede any conflicting provisions of federal law”
→ shift control from statutes → executive assertion
Now layer the system:
Federal data (DHS/SSA) → DOJ enforcement → USPS ballot control
Full chain:
Eligibility → Documents → Registration constraint →
Federal data → Enforcement → Ballot pipeline control
You don’t need to “restrict voting” at the ballot box
if you control who exists in the system upstream.
Same mechanism already tested (Kansas blocked ~31k registrations before courts shut it down)
This isn’t turnout.
It’s control of inputs + asserted authority to override constraints.
Links (receipts):
https://stacker.news/items/1463160/r/Yermin
https://stacker.news/items/1459768/r/Yermin
https://stacker.news/items/1457923/r/Yermin
https://stacker.news/items/1454203/r/Yermin
https://stacker.news/items/1444926/r/Yermin
Yeah, the lack of concern for public opinion makes me wonder if they have something planned for the elections along the lines of restricting voting dramatically compared to the recent past.