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Just curious. How many had "False Flag crisis to suspend voting in 2026" on their Bingo cards? (Original Post) Baitball Blogger Friday OP
Martial (AKA trump) law is certainly a possibility. NoMoreRepugs Friday #1
Fixing that - should be "marshall" erronis Friday #23
Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law NameAlreadyTaken Friday #43
By then may not need a false flag gab13by13 Friday #2
all bets are off, and anything - ANYTHING - is possible during the next 4 years. NewHendoLib Friday #3
I strongly suspect we won't be voting anymore. Think. Again. Friday #4
Fuck that bullshit. I'm voting and will not propaganda obey in advance. Not doing their work. themaguffin Friday #5
Because Free and Fair Elections are a liberal power grab BOSSHOG Friday #6
I've had it on my bingo card since November 5. Lonestarblue Friday #7
On my Bingo card, it was in the place formerly known as "free space" suegeo Friday #8
Clever. littlemissmartypants Friday #32
What are you talkng about? what false flag? obamanut2012 Friday #9
Oh, the Rethugs will come up with something... WinstonSmith4740 Friday #11
Reichstag fire is thought to be 100% staged for Hitler to declare Martial law.... It could be anything uponit7771 Friday #17
They could try a false flag, Linda ladeewolf Friday #10
Protest with our pockets... Spend nothing extra uponit7771 Friday #19
I think Rebl2 Friday #12
What's not on my BINGO card is "no false flag attempts." GoCubsGo Friday #13
Post removed Post removed Friday #14
He's spent... littlemissmartypants Friday #34
Authoritarians don't care about political capital Arazi Friday #40
Did I miss something? sarisataka Friday #15
Nah, just not putting anything beyond Benedict Donald... He tried to violently take over gov and those people rarely uponit7771 Friday #21
It would have to be staggering "crisis" to top some of these: LeftinOH Friday #16
This kind of post is exactly what we don't need right now! do you not realize this is exactly what he wants us to do PortTack Friday #18
Who is giving up? Baitball Blogger Friday #20
Where is that in your post? Good if you are, but it's not printed here PortTack Friday #25
This didn't start out to be a call to arms. Baitball Blogger Friday #27
Be informed and prepared not scared uponit7771 Friday #22
Yes be informed not scared is exactly my point! PortTack Friday #26
I did. Kid Berwyn Friday #24
"BFEE"? TommyT139 Friday #33
Bush Family Evil Empire Kid Berwyn Friday #35
Thanks TommyT139 Friday #37
There will be elections but they'll be rigged rainin Friday #28
We needed more evidence to open that door of inquiry. Baitball Blogger Friday #29
When al franken first came to the senate it was after questionseverything Friday #42
The provocation will center around immigrants and the border Arazi Friday #30
Please Donvict. Please fuck with the cartels. johnnyfins Friday #36
I call them Mexican ISIS Arazi Friday #39
Along with many others I have felt that the moniss Friday #31
Could be. johnnyfins Friday #38
Our bingo cards aren't big enough for all the possibilities. Patton French Friday #41

Think. Again.

(20,794 posts)
4. I strongly suspect we won't be voting anymore.
Fri Jan 24, 2025, 10:06 AM
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We are being run by the American nazi party, there won't be anymore Democracy.

Lonestarblue

(12,163 posts)
7. I've had it on my bingo card since November 5.
Fri Jan 24, 2025, 10:31 AM
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Along with no federal elections in 2026. An exception might be for the House since Republicans are now trying to change the 2020 census (probably for blue states only) to eliminate undocumented people from being counted for representation. Texas and Florida gained House seats, so I’m sure those will not be given up. Their idea is to take seats away from blue states t ensure their majority. Illegal? Yes, but following the law is no longer a requirement for Republicans.

suegeo

(2,871 posts)
8. On my Bingo card, it was in the place formerly known as "free space"
Fri Jan 24, 2025, 10:48 AM
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Since free space we no longer are.

WinstonSmith4740

(3,214 posts)
11. Oh, the Rethugs will come up with something...
Fri Jan 24, 2025, 11:44 AM
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Border crisis, terrorist attack, Dear Leader SAYS we're in a crisis, whatever. That nutcase will use the price of groceries as an excuse. I'm figuring by that time he'll have totally bungled this bird flu thing, so we'll be in an epidemic here. The Post Office will be in shambles by then, if it still exists at all, so mail-in voting won't be possible. I don't know yet how he'll do it, I just know he'll sure as hell try.
As addled brained as he is, his handlers remember what happened in 2018, and they won't let it happen again.

uponit7771

(92,254 posts)
17. Reichstag fire is thought to be 100% staged for Hitler to declare Martial law.... It could be anything
Fri Jan 24, 2025, 11:56 AM
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Linda ladeewolf

(574 posts)
10. They could try a false flag,
Fri Jan 24, 2025, 11:37 AM
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They can try martial law, they can try a lot of things, but they won’t work unless we let them.

Rebl2

(15,344 posts)
12. I think
Fri Jan 24, 2025, 11:48 AM
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by 2026 they will have made so many people right, left, center SO MAD there will be elections.

GoCubsGo

(33,367 posts)
13. What's not on my BINGO card is "no false flag attempts."
Fri Jan 24, 2025, 11:48 AM
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I fully expect them to try to pull something to stop the mid-terms. Whether or not they prevail is another story. But, they damn sure will try.

Response to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

littlemissmartypants

(26,369 posts)
34. He's spent...
Fri Jan 24, 2025, 12:47 PM
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A good portion of his political capital in five days. It should be a thrill to see the balance by day 100.

Arazi

(7,328 posts)
40. Authoritarians don't care about political capital
Fri Jan 24, 2025, 01:28 PM
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Remember it only took Hitler 53 days to dismantle Germany’s democracy. We’re on roughly the same trajectory…

uponit7771

(92,254 posts)
21. Nah, just not putting anything beyond Benedict Donald... He tried to violently take over gov and those people rarely
Fri Jan 24, 2025, 11:59 AM
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... give up stolen power

LeftinOH

(5,441 posts)
16. It would have to be staggering "crisis" to top some of these:
Fri Jan 24, 2025, 11:56 AM
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If the political process could continue during these, then whatever disruption the GOP manufactures will have to be bigger than:

1862 Mid-term election - during the Civil War
1862 Presidential election - during the Civil War
1918 Mid-term election - during the 2nd wave of the influenza epidemic
1930 Mid-Term election - the first major election of the Great Depression
1932 Presidential election - Great Depression
1942 Mid-term election - U.S. involved in WW2 in both theaters
1944 Presidential election - as above
2002 Mid-term election - US involved in "War on Terror"
2004 Presidential election - as above
2008 Presidential election- the Great Recession

PortTack

(35,111 posts)
18. This kind of post is exactly what we don't need right now! do you not realize this is exactly what he wants us to do
Fri Jan 24, 2025, 11:57 AM
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Give up, start speculating that there will be no elections. Geez….

Until Marc Elias, or other Democratic leaders tell us there will be no elections in ‘26 we ALL need to stand up and resist no whimpy did you have this or that on your bingo card? Keerist!

This is simply awful!

Baitball Blogger

(48,888 posts)
20. Who is giving up?
Fri Jan 24, 2025, 11:59 AM
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I am saying to be prepared to call him on his bullshit. Much like how the S. Koreans did when their president called martial law under false pretenses.

Baitball Blogger

(48,888 posts)
27. This didn't start out to be a call to arms.
Fri Jan 24, 2025, 12:24 PM
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Last edited Fri Jan 24, 2025, 01:26 PM - Edit history (1)

It was just a cast-off remark.

Kid Berwyn

(18,907 posts)
24. I did.
Fri Jan 24, 2025, 12:09 PM
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Logical extension of where all this NAZI is going. Goes back to World War II.

Know your BFEE: Nazis couldn’t win WWII, so they backed Bushes.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1547206

Know your BFEE: Like a NAZI

https://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x133897

Trump should be in jail. Instead, he's on TV 24/7/366 selling out democracy for "donations" to his Swiss bank account.

Kid Berwyn

(18,907 posts)
35. Bush Family Evil Empire
Fri Jan 24, 2025, 12:49 PM
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Stretches from the time Smedley Butler met Gerald C. MacGuire to the day John Roberts figured out Insurrection doesn’t mean what the Constitution says it means.

An Illustrated History

https://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7898953

rainin

(3,204 posts)
28. There will be elections but they'll be rigged
Fri Jan 24, 2025, 12:30 PM
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Just like this one. I'm surprised so few can see what's so obvious. This election was stolen. Full stop. When trump promised that this was the last election, he meant it. We can go through the motions if we want to make ourselves feel better, but the reality is that our democracy is gone. If we're going to get it back it won't be by pretending we never lost it in the first place. We have to get our heads out of the sand first and accept what's happened already.

Baitball Blogger

(48,888 posts)
29. We needed more evidence to open that door of inquiry.
Fri Jan 24, 2025, 12:32 PM
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Usually, someone squeals. The only thing we have so far as a smoking gun is Trump pointing the finger at Elon Musk.

I know a Democrat has called for an investigation, but what we really need is a white hat to come out and show us how he did it. If he can prove it and tie it to Elon Musk, then Trump's reign would be over.

questionseverything

(10,381 posts)
42. When al franken first came to the senate it was after
Fri Jan 24, 2025, 07:25 PM
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More than 8 months of recount, by hand but franken stuck with it battling both the repubs and some Democrats for an honest vote count

He eventually won the repubs victory was over turned

That was the real reason republicans worked so hard to get rid of him, he had taken the time to actually hand count the votes and reversed a repub steal…. They couldn’t have that catching on

Now supposed Democratic allies demand evidence first and no hand counting, just running ballots through the same machine

👀

Arazi

(7,328 posts)
30. The provocation will center around immigrants and the border
Fri Jan 24, 2025, 12:36 PM
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His cult is already primed with lies and propaganda about the undocumented , along with lies that we’re being “invaded” and that fentanyl, disease and terrorists are coming across an “open border”.

He’s already sending (more) armed military to the border. I predict he’s going to start shit with the cartels.

Hegseth agrees that SOF should be sent into Mexico after the cartels who won’t take that lying down.

It’s either going to be protests over the botched deportations and penal camps or a deliberate provocation at the border.

I 100% agree he’s going to give it a try…

moniss

(6,397 posts)
31. Along with many others I have felt that the
Fri Jan 24, 2025, 12:39 PM
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game-plan may be to claim that things are "out of control" and so holding elections would be "unfair" until they can "straighten it out". Of course any date certain for the resumption of elections would be illusory. Many said we're crazy and the courts won't let it happen. That of course assumes they would abide by a court ruling. The world is full of unenforced and unheeded court rulings.

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