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38. "I have no inclination whatsoever that they will try to take any guns."

The killing of Alex Pretti, the nurse protestor in MN, amongst all the atrocities that have been carried out by this regime, has apparently been forgotten that quickly. The manufactured justifications used by DHS and the FBI for that happening were literally the first step and their pretext to the removal of guns -

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So, let's say that Trump cancels the election.

Ironically, the one thing that the SCOTUS has so far been pretty consistent with is "states rights". "Canceling elections" would be struck down just like those tariffs were struck down.

Using a "national emergency" where none existed, to justify those tariffs is what caused the SCOTUS to strike them down and would most likely result in the same result with any bogus "national emergency" before an election. The U.S. has been voting through literal declared wars (including the Civil War, which took place on American soil) for centuries.

The first step isn't going to be for normal citizens to immediately take to the streets and start shooting people. It will take some time. Yes, I think we would see plenty of protestors and violence, and ICE, National Guard and in my own case, local police would be trying to quell those protests because the local police are definitely ALL MAGA. They have the law on their side (or at least they'd still be insisting that they do, just like ICE does now) and they'd be using whatever force they need in order to get rid of any opposition.

You are describing a "worst case scenario" and although I am also one to consider that, having monitored and posted so much news about what they have and have not pursued to the SCOTUS, there are many many times when they have backed off (it just happened today with their idiocy going after those law firms).

What they probably will do is a billion "challenges" in court. What that would then do is effectively the same thing as a near "cancel" - it delays the results and possibly the seating of any new members of Congress in those challenged districts.

Congress isn't going to do anything, obviously, and the Supreme Court isn't going to do anything - so WHO IS????

This current Congress won't but I expect the SCOTUS will. But their "consolation prize" for their GOP minions, will be to torpedo what is left of the VRA - Section 2. That will eliminate many of the blue seats currently in place in red states.

As an example, the Republicans desperately want Crockett to win the nomination because they KNOW that most of the people in Texas - minority or not - are NOT going to vote for a Black woman. Now, that's not me, so don't start accusing me of racism. But that IS how things work down here. You can get these people all riled up all that you want, and you can show me poll after poll after poll. But I would believe it only if it were to happen and it's not going to. The safe route (think what you will) is for Talarico to win and keep the excitement going through the General and HOPE that the Crockett voters understanding things well enough to all come out and support him. Again - not my thinking; just the reality that IS Texas.

Personally, I don't think TX is ready for a (D) Senator and it's going to come down to the criminal Paxton and the Tim Scott act-alike Hunt. And just like they did in SC, they might just pick Hunt over Cornyn and Paxton, hoping to grab some minority votes. I think Cornyn might be toast.

I don't know about your BIL's brother having lived in Texas. But I was born here and I've lived here my whole considerable years. Texas IS ground zero for the Trump dictatorship. It's their proving ground, etc. It's been their way of testing the waters to see what works and how much they can get away with. The path to where we are now has been being placed piece by piece for the last forty years. It is NOT going to be that easy to stop it at this point.

I think if TX had put in term limits for governors like other states, things would be different. But with Abbott there, he has entrenched the ugly. In order to start to turn that state around, somehow Abbott needs to go (and take Paxton AND Patrick with him). From where I am, I had financially supported and watched both O'Rourke AND Allred fail.

Now, my purpose is not to bust your chops. So if you have any insight into making me feel more hopeful about what could save us from Trump, I would love to hear it. I desperately want to have some real hope but I don't want to have false hopes. Blue states could, I would hope, expect a better outcome. But then Greg Abbott will just invade them one at a time, and here we'll go. So, bottom line is who would stop Trump if he decides to call off an election?

It's going to take awhile to "break" TX. I have heard little or nothing about that gubernatorial race and IMHO, THAT is where the focus and money needs to go - to remove Abbott and begin to "change the culture of evil" there.