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.”
Wonder why this might be… hmmm.
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
tell me you are going to commit voting fraud without actually telling me you are going to commit voting fraud
They already have and the fucking Democrats sat on their hands and said nothing. Kamela should have never accepted defeat she should have fought it all the way to the supreme Court. He absolutely did not win fairly him and musk said many times that they cheated
Americans can be bought. Even the Dems. America has been sold to the lowest bidders.
2/3rds saw nothing wrong with it.
At this point, they could tell Americans they’re going to commit voter fraud, and Americans wouldn’t do shit about it.
Im 1000 miles from the nearest place i could do anything about it. What exactly would you like me to do?
I would like the American government to enforce its laws and remove Trump from office yesterday
Organize for a National labor strike
He outright told people to cheat
My feeling is that they are trying to increase their ability to (falsely) claim that the elections were stolen (again). I would think having outside observers would be something you’d want to get rid of so that it’s easier to convince people of the lie/scam/coup.
U.S. elections are very robust especially compared to other western democracies’ systems. That won’t stop him from trying or even having some effect.
Robust? I remember when the Supreme Court elected Bush as president.
In an extremely close election, yes
This country has been through worse
I’m starting to think not, record high fuel prices both Diesel and unleaded, food prices for people are unable to even buy basic protein anymore, housing so out of reach most people can’t afford to buy a house, and even used cars are going for $10,000 plus when they should be $2,000. Corporations are squeezing every dime out of us and most Americans are one to two paychecks away from being homeless. But sure let’s elect Trump again he’s doing such a fucking bang-up job of ruining this country, maybe if he gets elected a third term will be completely a third world country by the time he’s done
That’s the electorate, not the elections.
“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.
“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?
Say it with me, America.
We.
Are.
Fucked.
you’re not fucked. just lazy. you know this shit is going to happen yet you sit on your fat american asses anyway.
do something! anything! take a literal page from France and exercise your right to protest! riot! any-fucking-thing
Do what? what exactly would you want us to do? It’s not exactly like I can go up and start killing people in upper echelons of society. I have a family to feed I have a elderly person I have to take care of I have a disabled person I have to take care of. I’m working two jobs. I’m a lesbian, and my wife is a black lesbian. What the fuck exactly do you expect us to do. At this point Americans have absolutely no power except the vote. That’s the only mechanism that we have left to even have any kind of semblance of change. Unfortunately protesting doesn’t absolutely fucking nothing as does having marches and all the other bullshit thing that Democrats think are going to change something. There’s too many people on the left side of center that have too many different ideologies to work together. I’ll say it again Republicans only have to win their base, Democrats have to win, democrats, independence, liberals, leftists, and everybody who’s left over. There is not one strong unified body going against the Republicans that’s why they were able to get away with all the fucking propaganda to brainwash these maga assholes. I saw a sign today it’s a take a back America. Take back America from who? other Americans? It’s a stupidest fucking saying I’ve ever heard. Because all Americans should have a voice and how everything is run not just the fucking loudest bullies.
it’s true what they say americans can’t read for shit. let’s break it down for you, i literally typed out; “anything” “exercise your right to protest” “riot” “any-fucking-thing” 4 fucking things and you ask “do what?”. fucking pathetic. fucking read.
“absolutely no power except the vote” you barely even have that since the fucking republican party has rigged your past 3 elections! and are gearing up for another one. and are actively trying to change the rules of who can actually cote. yet here you are bitching about not being able to do anything on the internet.
you think protesting doesn’t work, yet the literal world protests all the time and gets shit done. your defeatist mentality is right wing propaganda. if protesting doesn’t work, then what’s the next step genius? that’s right riots. france knows this shit, yet americans try and make fun of them being cowardly. your grant grandparents went off to WAR (that’s world war 2 for you slow americans) to fight the far right, and you’re here complaining about fucking going to work while the far right do the exact same shit in your own country.
you want change? you gotta force it! the one thing these fucking republicans know is money. how do you fight that? you shut the fucking city down. the state down. the country down. no one goes to work. no one buys shit. you get out off your ass and into the streets. you shut the fucking roads down. you block infrastructure down. you make the fuckers afraid of you. and as we saw on Jan 6th those fuckers in the government are afraid of large groups of people, even if those people are on their own fucking side.
oh well grampa has to be alone for a couple of hours, let them watch tv. or better yet you and your SO take fucking shifts. one of you are out in the streets rioting about this bullshit, the other stays home. after x hours you funking switch. it’s literally not that fucking hard of a concept to understand. you fucking have 2 jobs that are shift work. you clearly understand fucking how shifts work.
greatest country in the world my fucking ass. “free country” my other fucking ass. in the words of Colonel Walter Hitchcock: “Freedom isn’t free. It costs folks like you and me. And if we don’t all chip in, We’ll never pay that bill. Freedom isn’t free No, there’s a hefty fuckin’ fee. And if you don’t throw in your buck o’ five. Who will?”
the silent generation gave up their lives in world war 2, so this shit didn’t come to america, and you can’t even get off your ass to stop it this time.
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.
You know why right?
Nothing says “integrity” like evading 3rd-party, external auditors.
Completely legit just like Tether. Trust me bro.
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.
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.
“Raised concerns”
That’ll help. Well done.
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.
Conservatism is fascism. Always has been. These fascists need to be erased in a permanent way.
It is immoral to keep any relationship with a conservative. Disown them. Delete them.
