r/politics • u/tetaniclemur • 5d ago

No Paywall Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Declares a National Emergency to Secure America’s Bulk-Power System

https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2026/08/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-declares-a-national-emergency-to-secure-americas-bulk-power-system/
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u/Odd-Supermarket-3664 5d ago

Trump is stripping our country and MAGA voters love it for some reason

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u/Hates_rollerskates 5d ago

Republican propaganda water boards them everyday with stories about how these mythical people are taking advantage of them and are threatening to attack them imminently. When Republicans get into office, they give their voters relief by telling them everything is okay now and they even attack these threatening people. They essentially turn down the propaganda to make these people feel relief.

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u/JustARegularDeviant 5d ago

Look! A migrant caravan is coming!

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u/CecilFieldersChoice2 5d ago

No, no. That's not due til mid-October, just in time for midterms.

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u/fluffygrimace 5d ago

Apparently it is starting if my Facebook feed is to be believed.

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u/LazyDynamite 5d ago

No grandpa, it's just a Dodge Caravan

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u/Odd-Supermarket-3664 2d ago

MAGA voters in Pennsylvania were worried about caravans from the Mexican border. They are so easily manipulated. Little fearful snowflakes who don't know politicians are dunking on them.

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u/Unable-Confusion-822 5d ago

Around the wall??

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u/aerost0rm 5d ago

They still have plenty of propaganda. It’s literally everything they do wrong or make cuts to, blaming the last administration or anyone else but their in group.

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u/MostlyBored11 Canada 5d ago

its like the only thing Republicans care about is hurting migrants and Trans people. As long as you do that they are happy its so fucked

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u/jemappellejimbo 5d ago

Not “mythical” - black and brown people. Be honest.

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u/Barnacle_B0b 5d ago

Because they're biting at the bit for "The Day of the Rope"

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u/Odd_Cat_5820 5d ago

The White House had advertisements for Rumble at the UFC fight. If you go to Rumble you'll immediately find content from people who advocate for the day of the rope or its equivalent. Rumble is still relatively small when it comes to its viewership, but it's wild that the VP and this admin are promoting it. It's one of the most toxic and anti-American ideologies out there.

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u/mu_zuh_dell 5d ago

It's because they themselves are scamming and grifting at every chance they get. It's just that they're shaking vending machines to get a free 3 oz pack of cookies, while their leader is funneling untold billions into his and his peers' coffers.

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u/underpants-gnome Ohio 5d ago

We're currently on the "definitively prove that public services can't work" step of our super-rich overlords' plans to privatize every basic government service in existence. And of course, to charge us all monthly subscription fees for future access.

After you have allowed a chainsaw-wielding dipshit to dismantle maintenance and oversight for vast array of public programs, every minor threat and blip becomes a national emergency. The "natural" salve for these self-inflicted wounds is to turn everything over to hypercompetent private business geniuses. Like Peter Theil or Eric Trump. What could possibly go wrong?

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u/SensualBeefLoaf 5d ago

fox news tells them it’s mexicans doing it.

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u/HeyCarpy Canada 5d ago

Because it makes the woke blue-haired people mad. That's it, they'll literally burn their country to the ground if it hurts the wokies.

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u/wholetyouinhere 5d ago

Because they're killing liberals and minorities while they do it.

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u/demalo 5d ago

See Jim Jones. He fucked people in the ass and they asked for more, literally.

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u/Zahgi I voted 5d ago

Since Faux News never reports it, they never see nor hear about any of this.

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u/Ill_Technician3936 5d ago

I'm pretty sure MAGA is dead. Idk where the hell the 30% approval is coming from when people who voted for him 3 times are saying how they regret it because he's not doing anything he campaigned on, how inflation is flying up and pay has them forced to pick between feeding their families and getting gas to get back and forth to work. The deaths that ICE has caused and the arrest of full blown American citizens even elected officials, who get out and tell what the conditions are like to hear it's basically worse than prisoners of war get treated and that it's way over the maximum occupancy, so when you have to go you're basically doing it in public if there's not already a line. Out of mats so they get that foil stuff. He wasn't going to prison for at least 4 years IF he doesn't go from natural causes.

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u/LadyduLac1018 5d ago edited 2d ago

Because this administration is filled with lying, cheating, lowlife scumbags but at least they laugh white.

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u/SquareExtra918 5d ago

Because daddy said so. 

There was an article I read today interviewing MAGA supporters about their opinions on the Iraq war. This brilliant lady said she supported it because "he must be doing it for a reason that we don't know about yet." Then she told everyone to suck it up regarding gas prices .

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u/KhloeKendall 4d ago

Because they think they'll be the exception, and live among the elite. MAGA doesn't realize, once the immigrants and libs are gone, they'll be the ones becoming targets and exploited.