"Trump says Republicans should 'nationalize' elections, take control from states"

 

Remember when Democratic Presidents Obama and Biden told Rachel Maddow on her cable show that the Democrats need  to take over the voting process?

No. Of course not. Because if either of them had ever uttered such insane rubbish, the Republicans in Congress and around the country would have swallowed their tongues in paroxysms of hot red rage.

But Trump just recently suggested that very thing. 

That insane thought sprang from his fatuous, witless brain and then his vocal cords, by vibrating air from his lungs, produced a buzzing tone -- sound waves that were then shaped into words by his throat, mouth, tongue, and lips, which acted as resonators and articulators to produce the words that this senescent fool expelled on the Dan Bongino Show: 

 Trump calls in to the Dan Bongino Show: "The Republicans should say, 'We want to take over. We should take over the voting.'"

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Republicans should "nationalize" the voting process as he continues to level unfounded claims of voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election more than five years after losing to Joe Biden. 

Trump called for Republicans at the federal level to seize control of elections from states during an appearance on the podcast of Dan Bongino, who returned to his show on Feb. 2 after resigning in January as FBI deputy director in the Trump administration.

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Trump, obviously, has never read the Constitution. He's a dull-witted and lazy man who cares nothing for the rule of law; and, apparently, he believes anything that his putrescent mind imagines will be implemented and carried out just because he says so.

 

Article 1, Section 4 of the Constitution explains that the States have the primary authority over election administration, the "times, places, and manner of holding elections".

GUEST POST BY DAVE MILLER

 

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 2026

Stop for a moment and think.

About our country.

In the last 24 hours, a sitting President has alleged, through Truth Social and direct statements that Former President Obama is the ringleader of a group that includes Italy, China, Merrill Lynch, the CIA, Iran and the FBI, of a treasonous plot to install Joe Biden as President in 2020.

According to President Trump, “Barack Hussein Obama is the ringleader…”. The proof he said is “there, he’s guilty. This was treason, this was every word you can think of…”.

“Obama”, Trump said was caught “absolutely cold” trying to “rig” elections, along with former “President Joe Biden, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former FBI director James Comey".

These are words from a sitting US President, not rantings from some supposed conspiracy crank.

But it’s not just our president.

There’s this from a right wing influencer, speaking of the upcoming governor’s election in Minnesota, where the Trump preferred candidate has dropped out because of the ICE involved killings in that state.

Here’s how the influencer responded to another GOP supporter saying there were now no credible GOP candidates in the race.

"There is a credible Republican candidate for governor in Minnesota. Mike Lindell. Ever hear of him?”

An unhinged president and one of his biggest fans loving a guy like Mike “My Pillow Guy” Lindell thinks Lindell’s a credible candidate for Governor of Minnesota.

One person, commenting on the influencer’s words said this… “[I] don’t think his [Lindell’s] background lends itself to an election, [translation: does not have the temperament or chops to be the Governor of Minnesota] BUT I’d vote for him if it was against Klobuchar.”

Amy Klobuchar is a lawyer, has been elected Hennepin County Attorney and to the US Senate. She is more than qualified to assume the role of governor, if elected. But someone would vote for a person she admits is unqualified and does not have the background to be governor. Why?

Skewed politics, plain and simple.

We need qualified people in government, regardless of their political view. Currently we have a president who knows nothing about running a government, has never successfully run a company and does not believe in the rule of law. 

And that president is supported and backstopped by people who think Mike Lindell, a disgraced, often unhinged pillow salesman, is a better candidate to be his state’s governor, simply based on his political party.

What have we come to?

YOUR SUNDAY MOMENT OF ZEN

 

Greg Bovino works for Trump, and Trump's supporters are okay with this:

If he talks like one, dresses like one, and believes in detaining babies, then he is one:

SATURDAY NIGHT MUSIC

 

Bruce Springsteen, "Streets of Minneapolis:"

"WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO OUR COUNTRY?