President Donald Trump is promising to reveal “really big news” on election security. Many Republicans wish he wouldn’t.

The president’s speech, expected to be delivered in prime time Thursday from the White House, comes amid renewed hostilities with Iran, which are once again driving up fuel prices ahead of an election that most strategists still expect to turn on cost-of-living issues.

“The people I talk to are scared shitless,” said a former Trump administration official, granted anonymity to speak candidly. “It’s not scared shitless about the text of what he’s going to say, it’s, what does he add to the text?”

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[–] [S] 99 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Let's put our 80 year old dotard with severe dementia on national television! What could possibly go wrong?

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  • [–] 53 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    Meh, his base will love it.

    At this point, the only thing that would be legitimately shocking for the audience would be if he had an actual aneurysm or heart attack mid-speech and died. Anything else he says or does won't move the shock needle much at all.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    If he walked out on stage with no pants, sang badly for 20 minutes, fell over, and crawled away he would be greeted with thunderous applause and rabid acclaim.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago* (1 child)

    So back in 2016, I tried this thing to explain why Trump was so unpresidential.

    I found a picture of him, on stage, wearing tan suit pants.

    I pixelated the lower half of his body. Showed it to my very-Christian aunt. she freaked out about him not wearing pants and how it was wrong of me, how it was an attack on him, how it was out of context. Everything except “hang on a second! That never happened!”

    People started talking about what context was it appropriate to be pantless on stage, etc.

    Which was my entire point. It never happened, but he is such a fucking creep she didn’t think twice about it. No one even questioned that he was letting it all hang out.

    The “well, here’s the thing…” didn’t go over too well.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    If he dies on TV that would probably become the most watched video of the decade.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 child)

    If they are so scared, why don't they stop him? They are literally the only one with the power to do it.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 child)

    He's going to start an election security department to oversee elections and have it be part of the executive branch and hence (according to his supreme court, and unitary executive theory) it will be under the control Trump officials.

    That'll be the end of it.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    And their first order of business will be to cancel the mid-terms to "save money" and "safeguard against voter fraud". Then when the lawsuits come, he'll slip Roberts another $20 and get the court to say that Prez can do that because the Constitution doesn't explicitly say the words, "POTUS cannot cancel elections".

    That or he's going to issue an EO for a federal poll tax to be paid directly to him, as a means of ensuring voter integrity.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago

    That or he’s going to issue an EO for a federal poll tax to be paid directly to him, as a means of ensuring voter integrity.

    So he would be checking off the 24th amendment to the Constitution as yet another amendment to violate. trump is going for the Pokemon method of fascism "Gotta violate them all".

    Can't wait until I have to shelter ICE agents in my house under the penalty of law in violation of the 3rd amendment. /s

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  • [–] 15 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    They’re not scared about what he’s going to do, they’re scared he’s going to say something stupid and embarrass them.

    Did I read that right?

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  • [–] 13 points 1 week ago

    We're all scared shitless. Some of us are just slower on the uptake.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    Someone out ol yeller out to pasture for good. Fuck this mango Mussolini piece of shit.

    Come on America, do the 2nd amendment thing you all feel so strongly about.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 week ago

    Not nearly scared enough.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago

    We will guarantee free and fair election by pointing a gun to voter's heads and ensuring they vote MAGA

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago

    The Grim Reaper came for the wrong guy.

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  • All the announcements I care about are the TRUMP-EPSTEIN FILES (TM)

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    The networks think Trump can stuff it

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