@diasyy11 @angry_drunk @mattblaze

> "Do you not realize that, if Trump actually sends goons to “seize the election machines" we're in a crisis far worse than “cancelling elections”."

i fully realize this and i don't for a second think trump or anyone in the administration is above doing exactly that.

@mattblaze @diasyy11 p.s. the last thing i heard him say wasn't that he needed to nationalize elections, but that he thought they will need to commandeer the election machinery in just 15 places that he deems problematic. that was a few hours ago.

15 places is well within ICE's budget.

@mattblaze @diasyy11 i'm not freaking out about it and i don't think it's particularly likely but at the same time i think completely ruling it out from a guy who sent his followers to their deaths with lies on january 6th just bc he couldn't handle losing power is foolish.

@mattblaze @diasyy11 i don't have to be an elections expert to understand that if a bunch of guys with guns show up and start beating people up and shutting down the polling station or seizing the machines, that nothing in the law can stop that and in a situation like minneapolis where the cops are outnumbered 5:1 by ICE guys with bigger guns, nothing in local law enforcement can stop it either.

@mattblaze @diasyy11 he may have no legal way to do it but that's never stopped him before...

as far as practical ability, i mean he now has a private army that answers to no one but himself called ICE that's larger and better funded than the marine corps... so i don't think it's correct to say he has no practical ability any more.