The facts
A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to stop threatening local and state election officials with criminal charges. The ruling by California Judge Trina Thompson stated that the Department of Justice must cease demanding that election officials set aside or not process ballots that the administration alleges may belong to non-citizens. This order came after the Department of Justice sent letters to election officials in California and Washington state demanding they segregate ballots of individuals believed to be non-citizens. The administration also reportedly began a criminal investigation into county election officials. Civil rights groups and unions representing election workers filed a complaint, accusing the department of interfering with their duties. Judge Thompson wrote that the administration's actions were likely to interfere with election administration and disenfranchise lawful voters. President Trump criticized the ruling, questioning why election fraud allegations should be dismissed. The administration's actions are part of a broader effort by Trump to combat alleged widespread voter fraud, despite evidence suggesting it is rare.
Our take
Well, well, well. Some adult supervision finally arrived to tell the Trump administration to stop trying to intimidate election officials like a bunch of mobbed-up thugs. Judge Trina Thompson looked at the DOJ’s pathetic little letters demanding officials set aside ballots and said, essentially, cut the shit. This is what passes for ‘election integrity’ in Trumpworld: sending threatening letters and launching criminal probes to bully civil servants who are just counting votes. What a fucking surprise that the guy who cries ‘rigged!’ at every election he might lose is using the power of the federal government to lean on the people running the show. It’s the political equivalent of a toddler threatening to hold his breath until he gets his way, except this toddler can sic the Department of Justice on you. The ruling points out the obvious: this bullshit is likely to ‘interfere with election administration and disenfranchise lawful voters.’ No shit, Sherlock. That’s the whole fucking point. Trump’s strategy isn’t about finding fraud - it’s about creating enough chaos, fear, and doubt so that if he loses, his cult will scream that the process was ‘compromised’ by the deep-state election officials he spent months threatening. It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy of assholery. And of course, the big baby himself criticized the ruling, questioning why fraud allegations should be dismissed. Maybe because your evidence is thinner than the hair on your fucking head, you paranoid clown. This isn’t ‘combatting fraud’; it’s a desperate, transparent power grab by a scared, petty little man who can’t stand the idea that people might vote for the other guy. The only widespread fraud here is the fraud being perpetrated on the American public by this administration’s constant, grating, undemocratic tantrum. Grow the fuck up and lose like a man, you absolute cunt. Or don’t. The judges are waiting with a ruler for your knuckles. Again. Fuck you. Pay them. Do your job. End of story. God, what a pissbaby. Next, he’ll be demanding criminal investigations into the sun for rising in the east. What a prick. The only thing getting disenfranchised here is our collective patience. Count the votes, you dicks.
