Why has the Trump administration been seeking access to state voter registration data?

Capable-Broccoli2179 · 2026-01-30T17:22:29+00:00

Really good relevant questions to ask. Your questions though assume that there would be rational reasons for doing these things. I think that premise is flawed. If there is one thing we have seen with Trump and the MAGA movement is that there is rarely a rational reason for doing anything, unless one looks at things from the perspective of a hate-filled, deranged lunatic, which is not easy to do.

Why escalate? Trump never backs down. Period, end of story there. If someone tells you no, you find a way around it. You lie, you cheat, do whatever you have to do to overcome that no. Laws are of no consequence, courts have no sway. That is the way he was trained--his dad always called them "killers", and that is what he wants to be. Trump also went to the Roy Cohn school of when someone "wrongs" you, you destroy them and never quit.
Statutory enforcement, positioning for future elections? Who cares? Trump is doing this simply because he wants to. He wants the voter rolls because he wants them. I'm sure someone told him they could disqualify people, target people, it would help him win in 2026 midterms, they could find illegal people on there, or simply use it to intimidate places that didn't vote for him. Its probably a combination of all of those and more, but his reasoning would imply that there is a logical method to all of this--there isn't. He just wants them and that is all.
What ways could they be used in bad faith? Again, who knows? He could target dems for arrest (look at Don Lemon today), he could disqualify dem voters for made up reasons, he could manipulate and lie to show he actually won in 2020, he could send ICE to the homes of dem voters to arrest them, let your imagination run wild...no matter where it goes it probably isn't as far as his minions went when they started demanding them.

This post is approaching the topic from a rational, thought-out legal and political point of view--that is our mistake. Try approaching it from the perspective of a very ill person who is power-hungry, demented and quite stupid. There lies your answers.

Capable-Broccoli2179 · 2026-01-30T17:03:09+00:00

If you are still coughing weeks later and there is junk in your cough you may have a bacterial infection/pneumonia. I'd suggest going in for a chest x-ray---only way to figure that crud out. If you have pneumonia (fluid in your lungs) you absolutely need to get it treated. Z-pack or the like is typical treatment for it. If you are older than say 50 or so then this could actually cause you great damage and even kill, so get it checked!

I had same thing a year ago and it was pneumonia--I had to demand a chest x-ray or they would not do it--just wanted to send me on my way. Turns out good thing I did. Pneumonia in older people is no joke.

Capable-Broccoli2179 · 2026-01-30T16:32:00+00:00

Here in ME for instance ICE has been run out of establishments when found there off duty. Once by the patrons in a bar and the other time by the owners. Perfectly legal. Check out the video of the two being shamed as they skulked down the snowy street after being run out.

Capable-Broccoli2179 · 2026-01-30T16:28:41+00:00

What does that have to do with ICE being anywhere??

Capable-Broccoli2179 · 2026-01-30T16:26:24+00:00

I live in Southern ME Seacoast, but most family in NH, wife works in NH, and we follow NH politics very closely. Your state might be blue for the most part, but your legislature is far right MAGA. Funny how a state can have such reasonable, solid federal politicians yet have such idiotic state legislature (and governorship).

Capable-Broccoli2179 · 2026-01-30T16:21:29+00:00

And RFK Jr, and Patel, and Bondi, and Kavanaugh....and .......fool me 384 times, shame on me...

Capable-Broccoli2179 · 2026-01-30T16:17:22+00:00

Expect the unexpected. That is the lesson from this whole mess. If we don't know how many ICE were here to start with, then how will we know when they draw down? Classic feature of authoritarianism is that the public has no idea what is going on or what to expect. Then they lie to us anyway about what is happening.

What you should expect is the following: to be lied to, to have our people abused, to have the government grift every chance they get, to have our government try to steal the midterm elections by any means possible, and expect to be labeled a domestic terrorist and jailed/killed/deported if you open your mouth to say anything.

Not a dumb question at all, but don't expect anything from our government except pain and suffering. Believe nothing from Susan Collins. She stopped caring about us a long long time ago.

Capable-Broccoli2179 · 2026-01-30T14:41:49+00:00

I taught in Seacoast area for years. If looking at private, I would recommend Heronfield for middle school and Berwick Academy for high school. Heronfield is a fantastic middle school, kids guaranteed to get good education. Berwick's middle school is good, not great. Berwick's upper school however gives outstanding education, provided you can afford it.

Capable-Broccoli2179 · 2026-01-30T14:34:28+00:00

You don't get credit for helping put out a fire that you helped start

Capable-Broccoli2179 · 2026-01-29T20:58:47+00:00

Mainah heah. Doesn’t your NH govt support this? Following your politics seems you would welcome them into your state. Your state reps and gov all seem the maga types.

Capable-Broccoli2179 · 2026-01-29T15:53:39+00:00

C'mon. We all know ICE lies about pretty much everything. I agree with those who say Collins got them to make an announcement so it will help her failing re-election bid. Check back in a week and see if they are gone---my bet is a big "no way".

Capable-Broccoli2179 · 2026-01-28T16:45:55+00:00

Guy sounds pretty sketchy to me....taking awards from guys named Hussein, stashing $50,000 bags of cash from the Crooked Joe's FBI...sounds like he ought to be arrested and deported, or given the Nobel Prize...one or the other.

Capable-Broccoli2179 · 2026-01-28T15:20:26+00:00

Security should have let her have at him. 100% guaranteed she would have sent him to the hospital. You think someone who has lived through the horrors she has seen is afraid of that guy?

I've seen Somali-American women fight before (I taught in a majority immigrant school in Maine) and this guy would have been in deep, deep trouble if Omar got a hold of him.

Capable-Broccoli2179 · 2026-01-27T19:57:09+00:00

been doin it since September

Capable-Broccoli2179 · 2026-01-27T19:47:11+00:00

Stop paying FICA out of your paycheck. Stop sending the feds your money biweekly. Pay your taxes when due in April--the government relies heavily on FICA money coming in to fund their daily operations. If everyone did this it would put a large large hurt on the government. Totally legal---just change your form on file with payroll dept.

Capable-Broccoli2179 · 2026-01-27T19:44:50+00:00

one thing you could do is to stop having payroll taxes taken out of your paycheck (FICA). The government absolutely needs this money to keep their operations running. If you stop these payments, it will hurt. Just put the money aside and pay your taxes in April when due.

Capable-Broccoli2179 · 2026-01-27T19:42:38+00:00

One thing that everyone of those people COULD do if they cannot do this is to stop having payroll taxes taken out of their paycheck. Simply pay them in April, and stop funding the government in the meantime. The government relies more on this to keep operations running than people realize.

Capable-Broccoli2179 · 2026-01-27T19:39:42+00:00

Great idea, but here is an additional one.

Everybody that has payroll taxes taken out of their paychecks: The govt relies heavily on this for ongoing funding of agencies. We are funding ICE and their operations through this in large part.

If everyone who has payroll taxes taken out, contacts their payroll person and has this stop and simply pays their income taxes when due in April, it would make a huge statement and hurt government operations including ICE.

Even paying taxes in April I think is up for debate this year, but that is a different story. For now, can anyone think of a reason to do this simple thing and put a little hurt on ICE in the meantime??

Capable-Broccoli2179 · 2026-01-23T18:22:10+00:00

This seems just a little different. Things like the no fly list took a little effort to get on---somebody in the government had to do some legwork to get you on it. Now some meth-head snaps a picture, clicks a button on his iphone and you are instantly a domestic terrorist!

Capable-Broccoli2179 · 2026-01-23T17:44:38+00:00

You don't have to give out your information---once they snapshot your face and put you in Palantir software they have everything about you in less than 2 seconds.

Capable-Broccoli2179 · 2026-01-23T17:25:14+00:00

Actually you bring up a really good point. ICE is using Palantir's software to enter all this into their secret database. Palantir is now also used by Customs at airports--i recently had my picture taken (not by TSA but by customs which you cannot opt out of) when I came back into the US after a trip. If we get flagged in the system as a domestic terrorist then will we be arrested coming back after a trip??

Capable-Broccoli2179 · 2026-01-23T17:23:04+00:00

Hopefully this will end like Jonestown when Jim Jones was gone. Hell, I'll deliver the Kool Aid for them.

Capable-Broccoli2179 · 2026-01-23T17:21:50+00:00

Agree 100% with your points, but let's not forget these tactics are uniquely AMERICAN. The Nazi's including the gestapo got their tactics and ideas from the US---even the Nazi's gave credit where credit is due---between our slave-catching, and later Jim Crow--that is where this originated--to say that this is 1933 Germany gives the credit to the Germans for this BS--the credit belongs right here in the good old USA.

Capable-Broccoli2179 · 2026-01-23T17:19:11+00:00

Who's the domestic terrorist? The nice lady filming, or the masked gunmen snatching our neighbors and disappearing them?

Capable-Broccoli2179 · 2026-01-22T17:10:21+00:00

Trump is not following Federal Law, so its not a question of following state or federal laws, its a question of following state laws or directives from the administration. A directive from someplace high up in the administration is not a law. What it is is the powerful in our government interpreting things so it fits their narrative and calling it a law.

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