r/politics • u/Nyktophilias • 11h ago

Possible Paywall Whistle-Blower Says Trump Officials Are Defying Court Orders on Voting by Mail

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/us/politics/whistle-blower-voting-by-mail.html?unlocked_article_code=1.91A.taLS.WoZ9faaQGFsY&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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u/PlsSuckMyToes 10h ago

Almost like they know nothing will happen to them and the elections will just happen even if no ballots get sent out. Nothing like this admin has happened before and our democracy is being tested

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u/bazinga_0 Washington 10h ago

This midterm election is going to be a pass/fail exam of our republic. If Trump and his Republicans get their way then it will be a fail and our republic will no longer exist. This is it citizens! What kind of country do you want going forward: a democratic republic or a dictatorship/oligarchy? Pick one.

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u/gelatineous 9h ago

You are failed when gou reelected a coup plotter. Of course you'll have another coup.

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u/rakerber 8h ago

No, we didn't fail then. We failed because the online left fell for the most obvious Russian propaganda campaign to get people not to vote I have ever seen. I called it in November of 2023 that the online left would use Gaza as an excuse to elect Trump and I was right.

Can't wait for the next bullshit reason the left uses to let the Republicans win

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u/CloudTransit 8h ago

The online left? The online left is why Biden stayed in the 2024 race, until it was too late to mount a competitive primary? No way.

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u/HawgChuggins 8h ago

The same left calling him a genocider? That same left? That same left that fell for the "No Primary" (ignoring that if Biden had kicked the bucket, it'd be President Kamala), the same left that gate crashed election events screeching about Gaza, but now they are as silent as the Gazan dead? That left?

The same left that is now doing some very unearned victory laps now that DSA candidates are winning? That left? The same left that repeated the same, "She's a cop"?

Nah, the left was begging to lose 2024. Or even worse they thought Trump would lose and then they could spend the next four years haranguing the new Dem administration.

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u/bdeimen 4h ago

Give me a break. The 2024 election had one of the highest turnouts of the century. The Democrats have run bad campaign after bad campaign. Blaming the left is copium.

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u/HawgChuggins 4h ago

4 million leftists sat at home in 2024. So no. Blaming the left is not copium. But I digress.

What is Gaza saying these days? Let's listen, I'll admit that translation may be a little off, seeing as how I can't speak with the dead. What about the VRA, that's safe right? What about food security, and reproductive rights? Those are still the law of the land right?

Leftists keep asking for shit, but then don't show the fuck up when it counts. Leftists are not the stars when it comes to getting Trump elected again, but they certainly have a co-starring role.

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u/bdeimen 3h ago

4 million leftists sat at home in 2024

Got a citation for that number?

Because if not, this:

What is Gaza saying these days? Let's listen, I'll admit that translation may be a little off, seeing as how I can't speak with the dead. What about the VRA, that's safe right? What about food security, and reproductive rights? Those are still the law of the land right? Leftists keep asking for shit, but then don't show the fuck up when it counts. Leftists are not the stars when it comes to getting Trump elected again, but they certainly have a co-starring role.

is irrelevant garbage.

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u/HawgChuggins 2h ago

I mean you can just compare the numbers your damn self. Trump's numbers didn't move, but Kamala has 4 million less.

Strange, didn't you just say there was no significant loss of leftists? 4 million seems to be a MASSIVE fucking number. Especially when four years before Biden got 81 million as opposed to Kamala's 77 million. It's simple math, 81-77= 4 million. You lot keep trying to avoid the blame you share with child rapist worshipping MAGAts.

What were your weak excuses? Her support of genocide? When she had already stopped taking AIPAC donations, had stopped speaking at AIPAC events, was openly calling Gaza a genocide, and was spearheading the pier to get supplies to the Palestinians.

No primary? You mean we had no primary for the incumbent president, and if he had kicked the bucket it would still be Kamala?

She was a cop? You just completely ignore any context of her prosecutions and the cases she prosecuted.

I did what I was supposed to, I voted for Kamala because she was the best path forward. You lot were fooled by propaganda that didn't hold up to the lowest level of scrutiny. You got duped by divide and conquer and you haven't learned. That's why you called everything that we've lost as Americans and the world as a whole, irrelevant.

TLDR: You spoiled children have a co-starring role in re-electing the child raping con man.

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u/jimothee 1h ago

Making every other sentence a patronizing question is quite the charm hack, not to mention how sane it makes someone sound.

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u/HawgChuggins 1h ago

You gonna provide anything of substance or are you just another walk away leftist who is too cowardly to admit the role they played?

I'm not holding my breath. I know it's option two. The only reason you lot are not even higher on my shit list is because MAGAts worship a literal child rapist. You made everyone's life harder because when staring down the barrel of theocratic Fascism, you thought a tantrum was in order.

And now you lot are doing victory laps because DSA candidates are winning, and more leftists are winning. And we haven't gotten to midterms yet. Do you really think the child raping con men are going to follow the law and give up power willingly? No. We are looking at a fucking fight, that's liable to see multitudes of Americans hurt or killed.

And I'm sure you're gonna fuck that up too.

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u/bdeimen 1h ago

And you attribute that entire number to leftists? Get help.

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u/HawgChuggins 58m ago

Well we know you were part of the problem. What lie did you believe that made you think a tantrum was in order when staring at the possibility of Trump 2, theocratic Fascism, and all that pain it brought with it.

Go to the black community and tell them the loss of the VRA was worth it.

Go to the multitudes of women and tell them their loss of reproductive rights was worth it.

Go tell the pits of corpses in Gaza your tantrum was worth it.

Say it loudly, and proudly. Because I don't want you lot getting away with your failures. Thankfully youre about as subtle as a brick to the face, and you idjits just can't help but run your mouth.

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u/rakerber 8h ago

Do you spend any time here? People STILL talk about Gaza as the most important issue. AIPAC is going to be used as an excuse to let Republicans win in races they shouldn't this election.

Biden made a lot of mistakes, but the online left decided that Trump was preferable to someone who wasn't perfect. This is exactly how we got Trump both times. We need to stop pretending this isn't a huge issue and actually acknowledge that the left is more okay with fascism than they want to admit.

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u/bdeimen 4h ago

No, we got Trump the first time because Hillary took for granted and completely ignored critical states. We got Trump the second time because we switched candidates most of the way through the race and Biden's campaign restricted Kamala's control meaning she barely got to run a campaign at all. The Dems have repeatedly screwed up their campaigns all on their own. Blaming the left is just ignorance.

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u/Ayotte 8h ago

The "online left" is Russian bots. The people who read the astroturfing and were swayed by it are not the people whose comments you read.

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u/rakerber 7h ago edited 7h ago

It's awfully convenient that anything that makes your position look bad is just bots.

If it's convincing enough people to sit out, then it's a problem that needs to be addressed. The outcome is what matters and it worked. Accept responsibility and learn

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u/Ayotte 7h ago

Idk why you think I'm saying they make my position look bad. I didnt skip any voting. I agree that it's a problem that needs addressed and that the outcome is what matters. My point is that it's not just people on the left whose comments you see. There are others acting in bad faith who are trying to push an opinion that would not have taken hold without them.

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u/bdeimen 4h ago

Yup. The fact that there were tons of Russian bots pushing discord on the left is well documented.