Trump tells voters they won't 'have to vote again' if he's elected

As former President Donald Trump wrapped his nearly 75-minute speech on Friday night at the Turning Point Action's Believers Summit in West Palm Beach Trump said

"In four years, you don't have to vote again, we'll have it fixed so good you're not going to have to vote."

Best thing I've heard all week.

In thinking of the endless hours that I now have to spend researching the candidates and the hour or so that I have to sit at the kitchen table filling in those little circles on the mail-in ballot.... Now all I have to do is vote for Trump and I can 'get all that time back". By God, that will save me a ton of time I can better use to slave away at my job. And as a small token of my appreciation to thank him..... I can then donate that 'extra' money to his website.

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ArishMell · 70-79, M

What did he mean by it, though?

An hour to complete a ballot form? How many questions does it carry?

LordShadowfire · 46-50, M

@ArishMell He and the Heritage Foundation are planning to install so many loyal MAGA devotees in the federal government as to make voting pointless. Imagine every currently unelected, unappointed position in the federal government being occupied by MAGA.

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@LordShadowfire I see. Thankyou.

The question then might be whether so many civil-servants, especially at high level, would find this policy such an attack on their integrity that they would leave, so create serious problems for actually operating, rather than governing, the country.

Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M

@ArishMell There's a similar political theory doing the rounds in the UK by the Conservatives.

A busted flush of a party creates the likes of Nigel Farage and positions him as the ultimate extreme of right-wing thinking.

He attracts the faction that would ultimately give the Conservative Party a majority in both houses and so allow laws to be created or ended that sees an end to freedom of public expression including legal gatherings and public demonstrations etc.

We already have a police force refusing to keep law and order publicly.
They say because they don't have the manpower.
Crimes go ignored. Thefts and violence remain uninvestigared. And law courts could run 24/7 and not clear the backlog. People jailed for minor offences thanks to the Conservatives insistence that even minor offenders should be punished with jail time.
Prisons remain overcrowded, everything grinds to a halt at which point extreme measures are brought in to curtail all rights and reasonable expectations.

Threepio

@ArishMell

An hour to complete a ballot form? How many questions does it carry?

Welcome to Arizona where the ballot is usually several pages worth and filled with referendums, judge keep or can questions, local, county state and federal candidate choices....

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@Threepio Good grief! Why do a simple thing simply, eh?

Here in the UK the Local Government (council) elections and the General Elections are kept separate, which simplifies things a bit, and any referenda (which are rare) are separate again. They are votes for the local or national politicians; and all are voted on an equal footing as Councillors or as Constituency Members of Parliament irrespective of any special office or ministerial role..

The system's a bit more cluttered than it was because the Council elections are accompanied by ones for county police commissioners and in major cites, for mayors. Goodness know why - it may look like extra democracy and these officers do act as overseers, but there is no real practical need for them! Even so, the total number of candidates is still quite small and most are local or national government candidates, not officers..