The decision not to invite observers from the OSCE puts the U.S. alongside Russia and Belarus, while the Justice Department prepares to deploy its own poll monitors.
The Trump administration declined to invite election observers from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe to witness the midterms, blocking monitors from the regional security group for the first time in more than two decades.
Their absence comes as Democrats and election integrity experts have raised concerns about potential election meddling after the Department of Justice announced plans to send its own monitors.
Washington joins only Russia and Belarus in its decision to exclude OSCE observers.
The OSCE called the U.S. decision “regrettable” and Human Rights Watch said the move “fuels fears of serious human rights concerns around the upcoming elections.”
Shock! Can’t imagine why he’d do that.
Australian here ready to be full of myself.
Kamala Harris 100% won but Elon Musk rigged your election.
Follow me for more information everyone knows
Epstein was all in with Israel and knew everything they were doing… Epstein died to protect Israeli secrets and the pedos
Oh dear… I’ve criticised Israel… I guess I’m about to commit suicide…
Fuck Israel, fuck Israel in every way.
Kamala Harris 100% won but Elon Musk rigged your election.
That’s only if you trust Trump’s words.
“I used to wonder how it was possible that Trump could have won in 2016 and then again in 2024, given how emotionally toxic, morally vacant, and psychologically mangled he is. I do not wonder anymore. He won for that exact reason. He was not a candidate. He was a mirror. If you were a racist, you found your guy. If you were a misogynist, you found your guy. If money was your only religion, you found your guy. If your heart was armoured shut, you found your guy. If you mocked disabled people, you found your guy. If you hated intelligent people, you found your guy. If you were a rapist, you found your guy. If you enjoyed golden showers with Russian sex workers, you found your guy. If you had done absolutely nothing to confront your emotional wreckage, you found your guy. If you were a serial cheater, you found your guy. If you were a perpetual bankrupt, you found your guy. If you stiffed honest workers, you found your guy. If you were a conman, you found your guy. If you mocked people’s appearances, you found your guy. If you longed for a toxic Daddy, you found your guy. If you were dissociated and disembodied, you found your guy. If you were unconscionable in every economic dealing, you found your guy. If you lied as naturally as breathing, you found your guy. If you had never eaten a green vegetable, you found your guy. If you were a white supremacist, you found your guy. If your ego contained a hole so large not even the presidency could fill it, you found your guy. If you were a sociopath who cared not one molecule about other humans, you found your guy. If he had only two of these traits, he never would have won. He won because he had hundreds of them, and millions of people recognized themselves in at least one. This has never been about Trump. It has always been about the people who finally had their worst instincts validated. Trump did not create the cruelty, he licensed it. He handed out permission slips for hate. He is merely a symptom of a far deeper disease: collective toxicity. If there is one sentence that explains Trump’s power, it is this: “He says the things I’m thinking.” That is the part that should chill the spine. Who knew that tens of millions of Americans were thinking such unconscionable things about their fellow citizens? Who knew how many white men felt so threatened by women and challenged by minorities that they were ready to torch democracy to feel big again? Who knew that after decades of apparent progress on race and gender, so many people were living in seething resentment, waiting for a demagogue to legitimize their worst selves and convert their bitterness into political power? We were living in a fool’s paradise. We aren’t anymore." — Michael Jochum
Get ready for a very suspicious winning of the 2/3 of the seats, and immediate move to rewrite the constitution to an undemocratic one, with a very Orwellian definition of “separation of church and state” and “freedom of speech”.
tell me you are going to commit voting fraud without actually telling me you are going to commit voting fraud
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Americans can be bought. Even the Dems. America has been sold to the lowest bidders.
2/3rds saw nothing wrong with it.
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I am scared. I am fearful about the extreme ignorance, simple mindedness and gullibility of some of the electorate. They are completely blind to the effects of neoliberalism, which is the main guiding force behind the bumptious, odious and fascist/racist Republican party who believe that competition is the defining characteristic of human relations. It redefines citizens as consumers, whose democratic choices are best exercised by buying and selling, a process that rewards merit and punishes inefficiency. It maintains that “the market” delivers benefits that could never be achieved by planning. Attempts to limit competition are treated as inimical to liberty. Tax and regulation should be minimised; public services should be privatised. The organisation of labour and collective bargaining by trade unions are portrayed as market distortions that impede the formation of a natural hierarchy of winners and losers. Inequality is recast as virtuous: a reward for utility and a generator of wealth, which trickles down to enrich everyone. Efforts to create a more equal society are both counterproductive and morally corrosive. The market ensures that everyone gets what they deserve. We internalise and reproduce its creeds. The rich persuade themselves that they acquired their wealth through merit, ignoring the advantages – such as education, inheritance, and class – that may have helped to secure it. The poor begin to blame themselves for their failures, even when they can do little to change their circumstances.
Im 1000 miles from the nearest place i could do anything about it. What exactly would you like me to do?
Organize for a National labor strike
I would like the American government to enforce its laws and remove Trump from office yesterday
lawmen are too worried about people sleeping in cars to send any sort of sentiments up any type of chain
Seems like it’s up to us, the People, then.
So when are fucking doing something about this shit? And don’t tell me “jOiN yOuR lOcAl MaRcHeS!” because the protests aren’t doing fuck all.
He outright told people to cheat
What’s being done to counter this?
Fuck all.
People are whining about it on the Internet! That counts just a bit more than thoughts and prayers.
Yep
You know why right?
Nothing says “integrity” like evading 3rd-party, external auditors.
Yes, because obviously they are accounting for Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle! Observing the result may change it!
This might be the most apt metaphor. The election is both legitimate and illegitimate until we open it up and take a look at it.
I thought integrity was publicly out the window when there was a PSA about getting $5000 if you vote a certain way.
The million dollar check promises during the last one already happened.
Completely legit just like Tether. Trust me bro.
Washington joins only Russia and Belarus in its decision to exclude OSCE observers.
oh yeah, this isn’t concerning at all; look who we’re joining, absolute bastions of democracy.
Won’t someone rid us of this meddlesome oompa loompa?
Unfortunately he is but a puppet for those who are really running things, namely those who wrote project 2025. Trump is but a symptom of the corruption in the government. He is manipulated to help and basically being told what to say. He is a moron but those who are really in charge are running things
America arms over 80% of actual dictatorships globally, which didn’t start with Trump, making us the most undemocratic nation in the world.
Yet, we only hear about the flaws in countries that don’t give us all their natural resources. 👍
Oh look, its the guy who claims Russia is the victim of the west, not under control of an kleptocracy at all.
Bruh, Russia is a corrupt shithole that makes even Trump look like a saint.
“i WoNdEr iF hEs gONnA rIg tHE eLEcTiOn gUys 🤡🤡🤡”
Americans, watching Trump actively rig the election
MAGAs in my family are so far lost in the sauce that they truly believe he’s the most fair and honest president in American history. They are so caught up in the right wing news machine that they don’t know how the regime’s policies are affecting the rest of America, and if they did, I don’t think they’d care because they’re old, rich, and have winning complexions.
2 decades? So they did it 2006?
After checking previous time was in 2002, under Bush.
Republicans also picked up eight seats in the House of Representatives, thereby making this election cycle one of three midterm elections in which the incumbent president’s party did not experience a net loss of seats in either chamber of Congress, the other two being 1934 and 1998.
Interesting…
Wonder why this might be… hmmm.
What boggles the mind is Trump’s followers will not see the glaring hypocrisy here, assuming they hear about this at all.
A conservative is a fascist. That’s why it is not possible for them to see anything wrong with fascist moves. Even never-Trumper conservatives will support this, because all conservatives are fascist by nature.
or rather fascists like to call themselves conservatives, even though they’re not
Yup.
I like how this guy breaks it down, but the evidence starts from how they are raised.
They are going to lose big even with their cheating, they are so far underwater here, they will lose the house, probably the senate.
Their approval rating is hovering around the ebola virus, right behind covid.
The problem is that there isn’t way to enforce the vote anymore. Every institution and agency was allowed to be captured.
Todd Blanche, Tom Homan, and Kash Patel are not going to team up with SCOTUS and bring down Trump or MAGA. The military has been purged and is flying Nazi eagles and just gave the sieg heiling south African immigrant that stole all of our data keys to all of our top secret drone warfare platforms.
The other tech bros are part of this same program, and have been rolled into the military as their own unit, complete with their own ranks.
Once people have that level of clearance and information, the damage is done. The country we knew is dead and dark times are ahead. And it gets darker by the day with everyone playing “election”
I think 2028 is going to be worse, this is just a dry run for them. But if they keep even one house they can refuse to recognize presidential results and throw the election to the states, each state one vote. They control over 30 of them.
Why can’t states call for OSCE monitors? States are in charge of elections, not the Fed, and certainly not the Fed DOJ.
I suspect if they tried, the OSCE monitors wouldn’t be allowed to enter the US.
Seems worth trying. Facists need pushback.
“Refusing election observers is usually something that countries in a position of weakness do, when they know that they have corrupt or unfair elections,” said Dan Baer, a former U.S. ambassador to the OSCE during the Obama administration. “It’s very strange for the United States, which has been historically a standard setter in free and fair elections, to refuse observers.”
Strange? Has this doofus been around for the past 6 years?
If they cheat we shut it down like COVID. They were calling wage slaves “heroes” after a single week
They need us more than we need them. Shut it down; wait them out
Yes, I love a good call to action.
What’s a likely sign of cheating? I mean, what should we be looking out for, so we know when to shut it down? (My biggest fear is that they can cheat and nobody will know.)
You’ll never get a smoking gun, like more votes in an area than people in it. I think a good sign to be looking out for would be making crazy changes to the election process that could only mean that they intend to cheat…
Like refusing international election monitoring… 👀👀👀👀👀
