In wake of Donald Trump’s call for Republicans to ‘take over’ voting, senator Ruben Gallego urges citizens to take a stand and give the ‘ultimate response’

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/58550623

The Democratic senator Ruben Gallego has proposed that, should Donald Trump try to sabotage the midterm elections, Americans should respond with a general strike that would “grind the country to a halt”.

Earlier this week the US president called for Republicans to “take over” and “nationalise” voting in at least 15 unspecified locations, repeating his false claims that elections are plagued by widespread fraud.

On Thursday Gallego, a senator for Arizona and an Iraq war veteran, warned that Trump could seek to interfere with the November midterms that will determine control of Congress – and urged citizens to fight fire with fire.

  • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    4 days ago

    You do know that by taking such a stance on politics and being active about it, you’re pretty much a politician yourself?

    I’m not a politician, and in that circumstance I wouldn’t be a bourgeois politician. My goal is to abolish politics.

    I mean, where do you draw the line? After you burned Bernie and aoc on the stake, each for being too much of a politician, who’s next?

    Everybody responsible for the genocide

    Anybody who’s willing to take political responsibility in any way? Anybody who ever had a public office? You’d burn the middle management of NASA next? Or do you need to have been voted for, do you’ll just kill anybody who ever participated in some stupid school board?

    No lol to the rest of those

    whatever, you’re obviously unhinged and insane

    True and based. It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

    You know that there’s someone like you left of you doing the same thing about you, right?

    Good I hope so, then at least I’d die happy knowing that the masses rose up.