Originally published at: Bannon Describes Vision for ICE At Polling Places That Dems Have Been Warning About - TPM – Talking Points Memo
Dystopian Hypotheticals? While he was a chief strategist during President Trump’s first term before the two had one of Trump’s classic bro breakups, podcaster and far-right influencer Steve Bannon has no official role in the Trump administration or White House this term. But his authoritarian visions so often are in lockstep with the insidious mind…
Yes, Immigration and Customs Enforcement seem like the perfect fit for poll places where only registered voters are showing up because, you know, they’ve already proven they’re citizens.
…and registered to vote I should add.
because they’re like citizens and shit.
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Two things.
First, ICE has zero authority over any aspect of elections. They have no business hanging at polls, and could reasonably be ejected by the local police based on laws protecting access to those areas, in some cases the same laws that protect access to churches or even abortion clinics.
Secondly, Leavitt’s lies just keep multiplying. The SAVE Act is as far from common sense as can be imagined. It’s a more onerous retread of the many GOP pushes to implement voter ID laws that would disenfranchise lots of minority and low income voters who can’t provide the required documentation, and it also adds language that would prevent people from voting whose name differs from that on their birth certificate - say, many married women. It also targets transgender persons through the same birth certificate ploy. Common sense for the bigots and haters perhaps, but not for me and thee, or anybody else with actual common sense
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Yet some people will continue to advise against dissolving and prosecuting this “agency” that’s nothing more than a bunch of rent-a-thugs.
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RE: SAVE (Safeguard American Voter Eligibility)
“a huge, common-sense piece of legislation”
Is this a typo? Surely it’s just the opposite!
Late date edit: Oh, it’s a Karoline Leave itt quote? I should have known. Sorry!
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I’ve never heard these “Illegals Are Voting!!” screamers explain
- how somebody who is NOT on the voter rolls gets hold of a ballot in the first place
- and what ballot is it? we do know that the offices and issues you get to vote on depend on what precinct you are registered as living in
- how come only Trump’s votes are magically affected, when there may be easily 20-40 other races on that ballot, which should see much higher numbers, too
- and for that matter, if so many millions of “illegals” are crossing the border and being driven from poll to poll to poll to vote repeatedly, how come the percentage of people voting out of the total of registered voters remains so low?
Yeah, very nerdy, right? Faux Nooze would sneer. And never respond to any of these questions.
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They can’t explain it because it isn’t happening. But details like facts are too inconvenient for them.
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Never let any facts get in the way of a good narrative.
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Google AI sez:
- 18 U.S.C. § 592 (“Troops at polls”): Prohibits military or naval personnel from being present at any polling place unless necessary to repel armed enemies of the United States.
- 18 U.S.C. § 593 (“Interference by armed forces”): Further forbids military personnel from interfering with election officers or prescribing different election regulations.
- 18 U.S.C. § 1385 (“Posse Comitatus Act”): Generally bars the use of federal troops for domestic law enforcement, which includes monitoring or policing polling locations.
Now, I’m sure the doomers will say “That won’t stop him!” But with around 100,000 polling places and so many people voting by mail, this isn’t something I’m losing sleep over. Not yet.
ETA:, IIRC, the first statute prohibits civil police like ICE and CBP, not just military.
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He also proposed invoking the Insurrection Act and sending in the Army to monitor election administration.
Finally!
A genius who knows elections are the very definition of insurrection.
Trump may try to take over elections in the upcoming midterms.
Trump won’t. He can’t.
Republicans can. They might.
No, they don’t. But if ICE were there, and committed some misdeed, the State would be at fault.
In this scenario, the state has full responsibility for “elections,” while having no actual authority over the process.
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Why does ANYONE listen to this fat, greasy, ‘tear it all down’ criminal? Come near ME at a polling place and you’ll be singing soprano.
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Why the hell is Bannon still relevant? How can anyone possibly follow him after the Epstein files releases?
The man is skum, and the fact that he still has a podcast that people actually listen to is fucked up.
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The moving parts are breaking.
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ICE at the polls, and a “confession” from the jailed Maduro that he magically stole the 2020 election from Trump, will be used to justify some sort of attempted election takeover by the feds. Venezuela, Italy, space lasers…whatever it takes, says Cleta Mitchell. Both may not happen, but these days you just can’t be too paranoid. Too many things I thought were too crazy to really happen have come true.
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They are dreaming up these strategeries for fucking with elections because they know that they are going to lose.
Oh, and Bannon sucks and should fuck all the way off.
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In my area some polls are in churchs.
This means God will have sent ICE to do her bidding.
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Yes this tumbles about the interwebs like choose your own stories.
OMG The Masked Singer is on!
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That thing on Bannon’s face is getting bigger.
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Why are you referring to ‘Epstein’s Media Advisor’ as ‘Bannon’? Shouldn’t Stevie 3 shirts be famous for his most important, most prominent role? Let’s not let anyone ever forget that this guy was working for the pedophile-in-chief. In fact, I’d guess that the public would like to know more:
How much did Jeffrey Epstein’s media advisor get paid for his services?
In what currency did Jeffrey Epstein Pay for media advisory services?"
Was is necessary to travel to the island in order to advise the pedophile on his media strategy?
If Jeffrey Epstein’s media advisor did not ever travel to the island, then why not?
Etc.
People love the Epstein story, and now that it has a new character, let’s explore it fully….
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