Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Total moron

#Trump said on Monday that he would lead a movement to eliminate #MailinBallots & would sign an #ExecutiveOrder to “help bring HONESTY to the 2026 Midterm Elections.” Trump has long opposed mail-in voting & said it was a source of fraud during the 2020 election, though his AG at that time said that his assertions of widespread fraud couldn’t be proven.

#law#ElectionLaw #access #seniors #military #students #disabled#VoterSuppression#BigLie #idiocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/us/politics/trump-mail-ballots-voting-machines-election.html?smid=url-share
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago
#Trump also wrote that he wanted to get rid of voting machines, which he described as inaccurate & expensive [wrong. Far more accurate than hand counting]. He claimed, incorrectly, that the US was “the only Country in the World that uses Mail-In Voting.”
His post did not elaborate on what the #ExecutiveOrder would say. It was also not immediately clear whether the Trump admin could stop the use of mail-in voting, which is largely entrusted to individual states.

#law#ElectionLaw #access#BigLie
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago
#Trump argued in his post that #states were “merely an agent’ for the #FederalGovernment in counting & tabulating the votes.” [he is so unbelievably ignorant]

“They must do what the Federal Government, as represented by the President of the United States, tells them,” Trump said. [whatever happened to the #StatesRights party?]

#law#ElectionLaw#Constitution #access #seniors #military #students #disabled#VoterSuppression#BigLie #idiocracy
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago
#Trump has maintained his opposition even after #Republicans in the 2024 #election made significant gains in mail voting when the party encouraged its supporters to make use of the practice.

On Truth Social on Monday, Trump posted: “THE MAIL-IN BALLOT HOAX, USING VOTING MACHINES THAT ARE A COMPLETE AND TOTAL DISASTER, MUST END, NOW!!!”

[IOW if people #vote, he & his candidates lose]

#law#ElectionLaw #access #seniors #military #students #disabled#VoterSuppression#BigLie #idiocracy
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago
#Trump also wrote that he wanted to get rid of voting machines, which he described as inaccurate & expensive [wrong. Far more accurate than hand counting]. He claimed, incorrectly, that the US was “the only Country in the World that uses Mail-In Voting.”
His post did not elaborate on what the #ExecutiveOrder would say. It was also not immediately clear whether the Trump admin could stop the use of mail-in voting, which is largely entrusted to individual states.

#law#ElectionLaw #access#BigLie
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Total moron

#Trump said on Monday that he would lead a movement to eliminate #MailinBallots & would sign an #ExecutiveOrder to “help bring HONESTY to the 2026 Midterm Elections.” Trump has long opposed mail-in voting & said it was a source of fraud during the 2020 election, though his AG at that time said that his assertions of widespread fraud couldn’t be proven.

#law#ElectionLaw #access #seniors #military #students #disabled#VoterSuppression#BigLie #idiocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/us/politics/trump-mail-ballots-voting-machines-election.html?smid=url-share
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago
#Trump has maintained his opposition even after #Republicans in the 2024 #election made significant gains in mail voting when the party encouraged its supporters to make use of the practice.

On Truth Social on Monday, Trump posted: “THE MAIL-IN BALLOT HOAX, USING VOTING MACHINES THAT ARE A COMPLETE AND TOTAL DISASTER, MUST END, NOW!!!”

[IOW if people #vote, he & his candidates lose]

#law#ElectionLaw #access #seniors #military #students #disabled#VoterSuppression#BigLie #idiocracy
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Total moron

#Trump said on Monday that he would lead a movement to eliminate #MailinBallots & would sign an #ExecutiveOrder to “help bring HONESTY to the 2026 Midterm Elections.” Trump has long opposed mail-in voting & said it was a source of fraud during the 2020 election, though his AG at that time said that his assertions of widespread fraud couldn’t be proven.

#law#ElectionLaw #access #seniors #military #students #disabled#VoterSuppression#BigLie #idiocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/us/politics/trump-mail-ballots-voting-machines-election.html?smid=url-share
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp 6 months ago

…The NYT has learned new details about how the operation came together after the election, mapped out in a series of closely held meetings in Palm Beach, FL, & through early intelligence-gathering efforts in Washington.
Seasoned conservative operatives like #StephenMiller & #RussVought helped educate #Musk about the workings of the bureaucracy. Soon, he stumbled on an opening. It was a little-known unit with reach across the government: the US Digital Service [#USDS]…

#law#Trump#DOGE#USpol
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 months ago
#Musk & his advisers — including Steve Davis, a cost cutter who worked w/him at X & other companies — did not want to create a commission, as past budget hawks had done. They wanted direct, insider #access to government systems. They realized they could use the #USDS office, whose staff had been focused on helping agencies fix #technology problems, to quickly penetrate the #FederalGovernment — & then decipher how to break it apart.

#law #regulation#Technocracy #kleptocracy#Trump#DOGE#USpol
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp 6 months ago

…#Musk held forth on the patio on a variety of topics: his visit to the US–Mexico border; the war in Ukraine; his frustrations w/govt #regulations hindering his rocket company, #SpaceX; & Ramaswamy’s highest priority, the dismantling of the #FederalBureaucracy.

Musk made clear that he saw the gutting of that bureaucracy as primarily a #technology challenge. He told the party of around 20 that when he overhauled Twitter,…the key was gaining access to the…servers.

#law#Technocracy#Trump#USpol
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 months ago

Wouldn’t it be great, #Musk offered, if he had #access to the #computers of the #FederalGovernment?

Just give him the passwords, he said jocularly, & he would make the govt fit & trim.

What started as musings at a dinner party evolved into a #radical takeover of the #FederalBureaucracy. It was driven with a frenetic focus by Musk, who channeled his #libertarian impulses & resentment of #regulatory #oversight of his vast #business holdings into a singular position of #influence.

#law#Trump
h o ʍ l e t t
@homlett@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 6 months ago

→ DOGE as a National Cyberattack
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/02/doge-as-a-national.html

“This is beyond politics—this is a matter of national security. Foreign national intelligence organizations will be quick to take advantage of both the chaos and the new insecurities to steal US data and install backdoors to allow for future access.”

#DOGE#Cyberattack #politics #security #chaos #insecurities#US #data #backdoors #access