Months before the midterms, the only federal agency dedicated solely to election administration is now unable to do anything.

Trump fired all three remaining members of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission on Thursday, abruptly disabling the only federal agency devoted solely to election administration at a moment when Trump has sought to reshape federal voting rules.

The two Democratic commissioners, Thomas Hicks and Benjamin Hovland, were notified by email. “On behalf of President Donald J. Trump, I am writing to inform you that your position as Commissioner of the Election Assistance Commission is terminated, effective immediately. Thank you for your service,” the email said. It was signed by Morgan DeWitt Snow, deputy director of presidential personnel in the Executive Office of the President.

The third commissioner, Republican Christy McCormick, was allowed to resign, according to three sources within the agency. McCormick declined to comment when reached by phone. The agency’s fourth commissioner, Republican Donald Palmer, voluntarily departed the agency earlier this year to join the Heritage Foundation.

          • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
            1·
            4 days ago

            No, but I’m not sure how literacy would help me understand a sentence that uses a noun as a verb.

            Also, what does a superpac have to do with demagoguery? Superpacs are kind of the elite that demagogues tend to rile the masses against, no? How does a demagogue fit with the superpac? (Other than the obvious part where the demagogue lies to the masses while taking money from superpacs)?

            Not sure why you’re comparing this to political illiteracy since the meme was quite incomprehensible to begin with…

            • alapakala@quokk.auEnglish
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              3 days ago

              The meme is that the majority of <img src=“https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/6dedb145-206a-4b35-ab5e-c9e41e1130c7.png” alt=“Amerikkka” width=“32” height=“auto”> do NOT know what “leftist politics” even are, as you keep demonstrating. The DNC’s AIPAC is nowhere leftist, so Democrat cannibalizing antifascist action is extremely oxymoronic, as they play the same capitalist demagoguery: lobbying lobbying lobbying. Counter rhetorics is all they ever do, since their interests lie in extraction of wealth. The punch is that “left” is the past tense verb of “leave,” and “political” describes people that are, as in “political [people already] left?”

              So long as your country fiats capitalism, it will always descent to fascism. The funny part of <img src=“https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/6dedb145-206a-4b35-ab5e-c9e41e1130c7.png” alt=“Amerikkka” width=“32” height=“auto”> fascism, is that bigotry & racism is baked in, meaning their fascism is even more stupefying than basic economic fascism.

      • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
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        6 days ago

        I never said that and you’re making assumptions. But have fun bickering over the bullshit you made up in your head, I’m sure that’s not precisely the kind of thing I was referring to

        • almost_genocide@lemmy.world
          11·
          6 days ago

          Oh then do enlighten me. Tell me what you meant when you said:

          And the left continues to cannibalize itself

          Because I guarantee somewhere in your explanation it will amount to “Those fucking leftists need to learn to respect their centerist elders.”

          • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
            1·
            6 days ago

            Dude. You’re doing it now.

            I never said anything about “centrist elders.” You’re making that shit up so you can feel leftier-than-thou.

              • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
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                5 days ago

                Prove you wrong about what? You made baseless assertions. This isn’t worth bickering over, because unlike you I’m not intent on cannibalizing the left.

                  • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
                    1·
                    5 days ago

                    You’re just sealioning now, and this is exactly what I mean by cannibalizing. You make a bunch of assumptions about me so that you can attack because you think I’m not as left as you, and you have no basis for that other than your own self-righteousness. This is not an isolated incident either, there are lots of people like you who are more concerned with arguing with other leftists for not passing your purity tests than you are with actually resisting fascism if it means working with leftists who are slightly differently left than you.