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Steve Bannon calls for ICE and others to be at every precinct for the midterms: If youre armed or not, that depends upon what your state laws are
While speaking at the Fraud-Fighter Summit, War Room host and former Trump official Steve Bannon urged attendees to be at every precinct during the upcoming midterm elections, suggesting people could even come armed, depend[ing] upon what your state laws are.
At the summit, Bannon also said Immigration and Customs Enforcement has to be there and has to be there to back you up to prevent supposed election fraud, mirroring calls from Bannon and right-wing media for ICE to be present at polling locations during the midterms. Bannon said in February, Youre damn right we're going to have ICE surround the polls come November, and in March podcaster Benny Johnson asked, Can we deploy ICE to every voting booth in America? Would that fix the fraud? Of course, it would.
STEVE BANNON: What you decide coming out of the summit tomorrow because we're essentially 100 days away from early voting. What you decide is the plan of action. Right? In these eight to 12 congressional precincts, congressional districts we have to win we probably have to win eight of them. What happens there in a handful of states, including Texas, is whats going to decide whether we're still in power.
And what they intend to do is to take the House. That's why what you decide over the next 24, 48 hours, in the action plan that you come up with as the leaders of this part of the movement, which is where the rubber meets the road, at these precincts and watching this vote this November. That is what Rachel Maddow's afraid of. That's why they, at the beginning of your two-day summit, they play that last night to intimidate you, to say, Hey. Weve war-gamed this. We know youre vigilantes. We know you're going to come armed, and President Trumps going to do this, this, and this.
Listen. We need to be at every precinct. If youre armed or not, that depends upon what your state laws are. But I will tell you, ICE has to be there and has to be there to back you up, or we're going to have a situation exactly what happened in LA where they sat there and stole the election from Spencer Pratt, who I believe finished first, but no worse than a close second, and should be on the ballot in November. So these people are arrogant. And right now, they're doing very sophisticated war-gaming, very sophisticated, lets say, association with intelligence agencies, and, I think, rogue law enforcement agencies.
https://www.mediamatters.org/steve-bannon/steve-bannon-calls-ice-and-others-be-every-precinct-midterms-if-youre-armed-or-not
Video at link, if you can stomach it.
Norrrm
(6,082 posts)johnnyfins
(4,151 posts)Accusing others of fraud. GFY.
Initech
(109,628 posts)Fuck you and fuck your ICE goons and fuck your absolutely worthless excuse of a president, Bannon!
wnylib
(26,810 posts)to protect voters.
PCIntern
(28,798 posts)He is on a scale of 1 to 10, an AZ: an Absolute Zero.
struggle4progress
(127,164 posts)How Jeffrey Epstein sought to help Steve Bannon build a global populist movement
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Jilly_in_VA
(14,751 posts)-misanthroptimist
(1,943 posts)Or perhaps they prefer to show up in their full tacticool gear, making believe that they are in danger?
2MuchNoise
(963 posts)miyazaki
(2,705 posts)Maybe the FBI needs to pay this ex-con a visit.
I crack myself up.
Fiendish Thingy
(24,451 posts)There are hundreds of thousands of precincts across the US, and simply not enough ICE agents.
In actual elections over the past year, 2024 Trump +20 districts have been swinging 15-30 points towards Dem candidates, in places like TX, FL and GA, destroying the myth that they only need to deploy ICE to certain strategic blue districts to disrupt elections and keep republicans in the majority in the house.
LeftInTX
(34,959 posts)There are 300 in Bexar County. I'm estimating Harris and Dallas will have 500 sites. But they could have more. I'm estimating 200 in Travis.
Whip-poor-will
(628 posts)I ncaceration
C oncentration
E xtermination
ProfessorGAC
(77,672 posts)There are 117,000 polling places in the US.
ICE has 22,000 officers & agents.
Apparently Bannon can't understand that 117,000 >22,000.
LeftInTX
(34,959 posts)GiqueCee
(5,051 posts)... just runs his mouth to try and stay relevant.
TIme's up, Bannon, you worthless turd. No one with a functional brain gives a shit what you say, do, feel, or think. You. Are. IRRELEVANT! Just waddle back into the sewer that spawned you.
mwmisses4289
(5,153 posts)tImes is b mentioned b in the epstein files?
kentuck
(116,029 posts)Armed nuts at the polling places? That should really bring out the voters!
purr-rat beauty
(1,643 posts)Fuck that gluttonous glob of putrid pus.
Who the fuck listens to such bile?
GenThePerservering
(4,078 posts)like they mean it, has long since lost relevancy.
orthoclad
(5,089 posts)milestogo
(23,334 posts)0rganism
(25,764 posts)When voters showing up to the hastily-expanded same-day polling stations in heavily Democratic precincts of former-VBM states are pulled out of the line by ICE agents, that'll really slow everything down and intimidate brown people.
ICE doesn't have enough agents to cover "every precinct", but they can cover a whole lot of them and it's pretty easy to guess which ones will be prioritized.