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.”
You know why right?
Nothing says “integrity” like evading 3rd-party, external auditors.
Yes, because obviously they are accounting for Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle! Observing the result may change it!
This might be the most apt metaphor. The election is both legitimate and illegitimate until we open it up and take a look at it.
Completely legit just like Tether. Trust me bro.
Washington joins only Russia and Belarus in its decision to exclude OSCE observers.
oh yeah, this isn’t concerning at all; look who we’re joining, absolute bastions of democracy.
Won’t someone rid us of this meddlesome oompa loompa?
Unfortunately he is but a puppet for those who are really running things, namely those who wrote project 2025. Trump is but a symptom of the corruption in the government. He is manipulated to help and basically being told what to say. He is a moron but those who are really in charge are running things
America arms over 80% of actual dictatorships globally, which didn’t start with Trump, making us the most undemocratic nation in the world.
Yet, we only hear about the flaws in countries that don’t give us all their natural resources. 👍
Oh look, its the guy who claims Russia is the victim of the west, not under control of an kleptocracy at all.
Bruh, Russia is a corrupt shithole that makes even Trump look like a saint.
If they cheat we shut it down like COVID. They were calling wage slaves “heroes” after a single week
They need us more than we need them. Shut it down; wait them out
Yes, I love a good call to action.
What’s a likely sign of cheating? I mean, what should we be looking out for, so we know when to shut it down? (My biggest fear is that they can cheat and nobody will know.)
Why can’t states call for OSCE monitors? States are in charge of elections, not the Fed, and certainly not the Fed DOJ.
I suspect if they tried, the OSCE monitors wouldn’t be allowed to enter the US.
Seems worth trying. Facists need pushback.
We’re fucked, right?
You’ll never have to vote again.
Oh we are absolutely fucked. Just wait until they sweep the midterms and have nothing to lose. Martial law if we’re lucky.
Make sure to vote
If they’re going to cheat, force them to
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If everyone who thinks the republicans will cheat doesn’t vote, then the republicans may very well win without cheating. If they’re committed to winning even if they have to cheat to do it, vote anyways so that they only win because they cheat.
Yeah. It’s gonna be a real shitshow.
The dems are expecting an orderly process and just aren’t prepared.
People think Trump has a nice tidy “plan” but the plan is to just try everything.
The “Dems” don’t run the elections.
No. But yes, with our leadership. But if we got new leadership we would win. But we won’t, because even half of you guys trust them and our online spaces are full of chatbots and influence agents bullying us into accepting the next biden or kamala.
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.
tell me you are going to commit voting fraud without actually telling me you are going to commit voting fraud
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Organize for a National labor strike
I would like the American government to enforce its laws and remove Trump from office yesterday
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Seems like it’s up to us, the People, then.
So when are fucking doing something about this shit? And don’t tell me “jOiN yOuR lOcAl MaRcHeS!” because the protests aren’t doing fuck all.
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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.
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Americans can be bought. Even the Dems. America has been sold to the lowest bidders.
2/3rds saw nothing wrong with it.
He outright told people to cheat
“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’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
Conservatism is fascism. Always has been. These fascists need to be erased in a permanent way.
It is immoral to keep any relationship with a conservative. Disown them. Delete them.
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Oh hey, who could’ve seen that one coming from President “Cheat like hell”?
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
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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 CarlinWell, it’s quite fucking obvious that Carlin was wrong.
1.) If voting didn’t matter, the Epstein class wouldn’t spend billions on trying to prevent you from voting. 2.) Mamdani exists.
That’s the electorate, not the elections.
Wonder why this might be… hmmm.
