“I think all Americans — Democrat, Republican — should agree that we are the greatest country in the history of the world. We should have the safest and most secure elections in the history of the world,” Leavitt said.
“And what the president will be speaking about tonight will show you that perhaps that is not the case, and we need to make some adjustments moving forward, including the SAVE America Act,” she added, referring to the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE America) Act.
Leavitt pushed back against questions from reporters about why Trump won’t let go of the claims that the 2020 election was stolen and that he views this as more important than the economy and conflict with Iran.
“You’re jumping ahead to a conclusion in the speech before even hearing it yourself,” she said. “I think that everyone should tune in tonight, including the people in this room, and you should report on the president’s speech and the findings that he is going to reveal in the speech with a little bit of honesty and a little bit of integrity because … it will shock you if you have an honest eye listening to the president tonight.”
There are 4 boxes as related to a healthy democracy: the soapbox, ballot box, jury box, and ammo box.
The jury box didn’t work out with Judge Canon protecting him. The soapbox isn’t being healthy with how controlled it is. Now they’re going to fuck with the ballot box; a power reserved to the states. The only things that even allows the feds anywhere near that are the 15th, 19th, and 25th Amendments.
Now they’re trying to go beyibd that and take away the ballot box? That will ultimately leave only 1 box left.
“Everything he says will be backed by evidence.”
Nothing he’s ever said has been backed by evidence. Zero things. There is no reason to believe that this will be different.
He once said he’d bang his daughter, and all the evidence seems to back this.
Seems these days the Republican way is “if we can’t find evidence we’ll create some”
Alternative facts
Exactly. This dumbass lied about something really basic like the reflecting pool, making claims that were almost sure to turn out to be blatantly false.
If the Republicans think the 2020 elections were fraudulent they can give up all the seats it gave them.
We should be executing these fucks for treason on primetime tv.
Probably the best ratings Trump will ever have.
That would be something to tell the kids about!
Cool, so that’s illegal.
You’re jumping ahead to a conclusion in the speech before even hearing it yourself
There’s no jumping going on here. Dude’s a broken af record. He can’t stop lying about his loss. He will continue to lie about his loss.
Cool, so that’s illegal.
He will continue to lie about his loss.
I mean, he’s doing a lot more than just lying. He flubbed 2018 because he wasn’t prepared for the popular backlash to his first two years. But now he’s got a new crew of pencil necked shits who are much more serious about a Permanent Republican Majority than the last gang.
What worries me about 2026 isn’t that Trump’s going to try to steal the election. Time and again, the GOP has demonstrated that they are willing to do whatever it takes to manufacture the appearance of popular approval. What worries me is that the opposition party’s response to each new encroachment is to just roll the fuck over and blame voters for not voting hard enough.
Whether it’s Operation Eagle Eye or EagleAI, J6 or the Brooks Brothers’ Riot, the Democrats only seem to want to take power if its straight up shoved into their laps. And even then, they don’t want to do anything with it, unless the thing is giving more fascists more money to bomb more brown people overseas.
Trump will go into 2026 saying he’s winning. He’ll insist the exit polls are rigged and insist his party won in November. And then he’ll fight tooth and nail to make his bullshit lies a reality. And he’ll have Larry Ellison and Peter Thiel and Marc Andressen and Miriam Adelson and Tilman Fertitta all throwing their considerable wealth and clout right behind him when he does.
I haven’t seen anything to suggest Schumer or Jefferies or Gavin Newsom or Tim Walz or any other national Democrat with a hint of clout will do a damned thing to stop him. We’ll get a 5-4 decision from the SCOTUS saying Trump is Dictator For Life, and they’ll all just shrug and blame Transgender Palestinian Communists for the loss.
LOL it’s so cute how she pretends it’s not going to just be another long rant about the 2020 election, and how they need to rig the 2026 election to ensure it’s “safe” and “secure”, just like they did when they called for gerrymandering.
Where are your bingo cards, folks?
- Need to install ICE at every blue or swing polling station to ensure there are no illegals and totally not to harrass and intimidate voters?
- Need to exercise some sort of emergency power to cancel the election?
States run their own elections. They can and will simply ignore whatever nonsense he says.
Try that with stormtroopers at every polling place, see how it goes.
It’s not gonna stop me, is it gonna stop you?
Why are people so brain dead with their individualism? It’s not about you! I’m gonna assume you’re white and/or don’t have a family that you support.
You’re not “brave”. You’re either privileged or stupid if you don’t realize that having ICE agents at polling stations is going to intimidate people. Not because they are “cowards” or whatever you’re trying to imply. But because the average mother or father aren’t going to risk their family being separated or imprisoned.
You’re not brave for going to vote. If you want to be brave, go use your privilege on election day, organize with other privileged people, arm yourselves, and remove ICE from your city.
If you’re not willing to take THAT risk. Then stfu about your heroic act of “going to vote” when you clearly have no worry of consequence.
The federal government and the president control the military. You can’t beat Fascism by pointing to “process”.
Like, how the fuck many times does the “process” need to be violated for people to stop pointing to it as their protection?
Fascist take power by exploiting this exact type of thinking you are showing here. They don’t go “all at once”. They take steps forward and steps back. Pushing forward but keeping the idea of “process” for you to cling to.
“They can’t just do X because Y”
Then they do X, and Y is vaguely or partially pandered to by the “opposition”. Y fails to stop X completely, but “don’t worry” we still have Z and Z is really where they’ll be stopped.
Rinse and repeat. That’s how we got to this point.
They can and will simply ignore whatever nonsense he says.
Yes. On which side of that do you think the national guardsmen will take? What about the Marines or the Navy Seals? What if he has ICE go do his bidding?
I think the national guardsmen will take the side of whatever the courts and/or their home states decide, which is exactly what happened with them after their deployments last year.
I think it’s a possibility that ICE could be hanging around polling places, but there are far too few of them and far too many polling places for it to be a meaningful difference.
My advice is to organize. Be a poll worker. Volunteer to escort people to the polls, especially if you’re a white male. Use your privilege for good. It has to be too big to rig.
The plan isn’t going to merely be ICE intimidating voters.
It’ll be ICE seizing ballot boxes/machines and either
- Destroying them
- Falsifying votes for Republicans until they win
- Some of 1, some of 2
Then, their plan is to fight it in the courts until the stolen “new congress” is sworn in
Then do your part and sign up to be an election judge. Nobody who is a poll worker has ever said that an election was stolen.
especially if you’re a white male. Use your privilege for good.
Yes that worked really well for Alex Pretti.
Can, yes. Will? Not all of them.
I might believe her even less than trump
I’m now convinced they could come out and say “we are running elections now, and by the way Trump is eligible for a 3rd term” and no one would do a goddamn thing.
@HumanOnEarth @Sunflier Democrats would scream and I’d look to leave this idiotic place one way or another. The goal is fear and looking at Levitt and her sugar daddies does that. Get me outta here.
King Pedo decrees “no one can vote fer anyone but me! I’m the bestest! Everyone else is awful. Only me me ME!”
Then he shits himself, drools, and wanders off AND NO ONE BATS A FUCKING EYE AND REMOVES THIS CANCEROUS DODDARD FROM OFFICE.
“Safest and most secure elections in the world”
Note the conspicuous absence of “fair”
Since he’ll say anything to get his way, that’s not relevant. Even if he said “fair,” that would mean nothing.
there are going to be elections in america, in the same way there are elections in NK. the kims get 99% of the “vote”
Spoiler alert!
Spoiler
He’s increasing the distance between “free & fair” and “elections”
Someone should do something.
You’re someone.
🫂
We are not simply going to vote our way out of this
After his “election emergency” thing in a bit, he’s going to ensure there are no more elections. Does this cancer need to be cut out with a guillotine’s blade?
Super awkward that the Trump administration killed the project for fully bootstrapped trusted election systems. Literally preventing world leading experts from actually achieving that goal.
The Chain of Stupid…
“Don’t worry, he’ll not get a third term of office.”
Eh? how’s it going on that front?
They don’t need him to have a third term and they know it. He was always a shithead dumb as rocks figurehead anyways. Refreshingly forthright at first, for some, to be sure. But a dumb figurehead that doesn’t know shit. So now they’ve used him for their political ends and it’s fine that he doesn’t get a third term
The ammo box line is 2A cringe bullshit. Americans. Will. Never. Fight. Back. The bread is too bready and the circuses too circusy.
You don’t jump to the cartridge box when the ballot box is still in place.
There’s a pedophile in the presidents seat and Nazis running our country. People are being abducted off the street and put into concentration camps. Some are being murdered in cold blood on the street while being filmed. AND NO ONE IS DOING ANYTHING!
People are doing stuff, but you don’t start a civil war when you still have the ability to vote.
Photo op, convenience protests aren’t doing something… But I concede.
