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[Carpe Carnim]

Your daily reminder that Clinton was perhaps too generous in describing half of Trump's voters as deplorables.

Slightly more than half of Republicans say they would support postponing the 2020 presidential election if President Trump proposed it to make sure only eligible American citizens can vote, according to a new survey.

According to a poll published by The Washington Post, 52 percent of Republicans said they would back a postponement of the next election if Trump called for it.

If Trump and congressional Republicans proposed postponing the election to ensure only eligible citizens could vote, support from Republicans rises to 56 percent.

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaig...would-back-postponing-2020-election-if-trump#

(Unconstitutionally coup me, if old)

 

[Arkeband]

Was this a thing ever suggested by Republicans/Trump or are we literally giving them evil ideas now?

 

[Transistor]

Unbelievable that the uninformed masses actually want a dictatorship

 

[Jonnax]

Lol. Don't be surprised to hear rhetoric proclaiming the Republican Party the rightful stewards of America.

 

[ponpo]

Even though this is a dreamed scenario by the washington post, is a president even able to do that?

 

[cackhyena]

 

[Haunted]

we need to postpone it until we know whats going on

 

[demosthenes]

Idontwanttoliveonthisplanetanymore.jpg

 

[Pandora012]

All that voter fraud in 2016, and Trump still won. Why are they worried now?

 

[jimmypython]

Unconstitutional?

 

[Tal Shiar Agent]

Unconstitutional. Which if Trump can pack the SC it won't matter.

 

[Shaanyboi]

That is one big pile of shit.

 

[sturgboski]

Republicans are both terrorists and completely ignorant and backward is all I get from this and basically 2016 into 2017.

 

[Lmo911]

Was this a thing ever suggested by Republicans/Trump or are we literally giving them evil ideas now?

Republicans were all about conspiracy theories about Obama postponing elections near the end of his terms to secure power.

Sadly like most of of their crazy, they're actually fine with it as long as it's their guy.

 

[Master Yoshi]

I'm expecting 2020 to be most blatantly rigged US election in history, if Trump isn't impeached before then. The shit Russia pulled in 2016 is going to be dialed up to 11 if Trump and the GOP believe it will fall in their favor.

 

[Gordon Shumway]

Cool!

 

[Lightning_Roller]

Fuck republicans. Bunch of idiots.

 

[SuperBanana]

"For the Republic"

 

[Carpe Carnim]

Even though this is a dreamed scenario by the washington post, is a president even able to do that?

Theoretically, announcing a State Of Emergency would start a process where the Executive could try this. It would probably be thrown out, but at that point we would probably step right into an actual, shooting-civil war

 

[Transistor]

Fuck republicans. Bunch of idiots.

Not all of them. Unfortunately, the ones that are smart are just greedy assholes

 

[Zolo]

For those people, it's about always having your "side" win and in power.

 

[Greigor The Fellhand]

means the rest of the country would grab there rifles

 

[Oriel]

Of course they would the anti-democracy bastards!

 

[tbm24]

I'll enjoy them voting under the fear that I may or may not be a legal citizen.

 

[TheOfficeMut]

I loathe every one of his sympathizers. Every single one of them.

 

[Omegasquash]

For those people, it's about always having your "side" win and in power.

Self satisfaction and the feeling of righteousness are more important to the human mind than pursuing actual truth.

 

[bionic77]

Makes complete sense.

Have to get to the bottom of the 66 million fake votes from the last election.

 

[Lowmelody]

Because republicans are treasonous unamerican trash.

They would absolutely call for this if the election happened to coincide with a war.

 

[RinsFury]

Fuck every single republican scumbag that supports this vile shit.

 

[ahoyhoy]

We've never postponed a federal election, ever.

We were in a damn Civil War and still had an election damnit.

 

[Steejee]

So the GOP is officially anti-American basically.

Sideshow Bob had it nailed.

 

[mcfrank]

When trump got elected, I told my wife we need a plan in place for what threshold he would need to cross for us to leave America. We settled on if it looks like the 2020 elections won't happen in the normal way, we are out.

 

[Brawly Likes to Brawl]

Hillary was 100% right, and I'm glad that to this day they're still mad about it.

Once again, all their fears about the Obama admin is proven to be projection.

 

[Schucky Ducky]

Unconstitutional. Which if Trump can pack the SC it won't matter.

This is so blantantly unconstitutional that I would believe even a conservative court would stop this.

 

[Laevateinn]

No election until Benjamin Ghazi has been avenged!

 

[Oppo]

they care more about "their team staying winning".

these people are stupid. I have no other word for it. they're stupid.

my American friends have pinged me lately to ask if they can "Anne Frank it in my basement" if things get much worse.

 

[Clefargle]

This is some year zero level shit

 

[JustenP88]

Do we really want to go through another nasty campaign while our brave soldiers are fighting in North Korea, folks? Let's put our petty political differences aside and support the troops and our president instead.

 

[Sephzilla]

It's never going to happen, ya'll need to calm down

 

[The Albatross]

This was really depressing to me, even while it would never happen constitutionally, it was still depressing. The willingness of people in a Democracy to turn towards autocracy when it's "their guy" is just... depressing.

 

[Jackpot]

mmmmmm, this is just polling random hypotheticals now.

Also, how they phrase the question is important.

"Would you support delaying the election if there was evidence of mass voter fraud?" would probably get a lot of Ayes.

 

[Cruxist]

Guys, it's an online poll with less than 1,500 respondents.

It's obviously appalling that anyone would agree to that, but I think this past election has shown that we should have healthy skepticism around polling, and that "internet republicans" skew towards trolling for no other reason than to see people freak out.

 

[Krakn3Dfx]

It's never going to happen

Until it does, then we'll have to move the goal posts again on what Trump is and isn't willing to do.

 

[daveo42]

God-King Trump incoming.

Even though this is a dreamed scenario by the washington post, is a president even able to do that?

No.

 

[Sephzilla]

Until it does, then we'll have to move the goal posts again on what Trump is and isn't willing to do.

Trump's base is a minority. Delaying an election would get an unprecedented amount of push-back.

 

[obijkenobi]

More proof that the base of the GOP hates us brown and black people more than they love democracy

 

[JustenP88]

Guys, it's an online poll with less than 1,500 respondents.

It's obviously appalling that anyone would agree to that, but I think this past election has shown that we should have healthy skepticism around polling

What? Not really...

and that "internet republicans" skew towards trolling for no other reason than to see people freak out.

... and to help elect presidents?

 

[Omegasquash]

It's never going to happen

It's a fly ball out of left field that, if caught, would clinch the win for the World Series. Outfielder is right underneath of it, and by all rights this game is now over.

He'd have to fuck up pretty bad to lose the game. But it could happen. And the team has been playing a pretty shitty game so far to even get to this point, so they need to stay sharp, focused, and determined.

And by "fly ball" I mean "Institutions at the very core of our Democracy".

 

[Master Yoshi]

God-King Trump incoming.



No.

I doubt his body could make more than the next 3 years. Guy can barely take a step down to a lower elevation without shitting his pants, and I think the world is in agreement that his mind is facing rapidly.

 

[GoldenEye 007]

This was really depressing to me, even while it would never happen constitutionally, it was still depressing. The willingness of people in a Democracy to turn towards autocracy when it's "their guy" is just... depressing.

Democrats don't really seem to want this. Even if their guy. This is a GOP/conservative issue.