Testing the waters ...

President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Thursday. Alex Brandon/AP/File

Well, the first step to killing the 2026 mid terms has begun with Trump getting rid of mail-in ballots and voting machines via executive order, thus attempting to eliminate the states' right to manage voting, something written into the Constitution with Amendment 10 on December 10, 1791.

“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution,
nor prohibited by it to the States,
are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

The gloves are off. Will Steven Miller, the spawn of Goebbels, Peter Thiele or The Heritage Foundation prevail or will the courts and the people? The very existence of America is at stake here without question.

President Donald Trump’s announcement Monday that he will sign an executive order aimed at getting rid of mail-in ballots and voting machines seems unlikely to amount to much. He doesn’t appear to have any such authority, and legal challenges would surely follow.

But it was instructive in one way: It made clear the president elected to lead the party of states’ rights has very little regard for states’ rights.

Indeed, he almost seems to disdain them.

It’s difficult to read his comments any other way, especially as he has spent much of his second term attempting to chip away at states’ rights — or at least, the ones he doesn’t like.

While selling his new pitch to get rid of mail-in voting and voting machines, Trump included this remarkable pair of sentences.

“Remember, the States are merely an ‘agent’ for the Federal Government in counting and tabulating the votes,” the president wrote on Truth Social. “They must do what the Federal Government, as represented by the President of the United States, tells them, FOR THE GOOD OF OUR COUNTRY, to do.”

Trump has described the states as “agents” of the federal government before in this context, but without casting them as subservient to him personally.

This is a rather novel take on the Constitution, to put it mildly.

A man photographs himself depositing his ballot in an official ballot drop box in
Philadelphia on Oct. 27, 2020. Mark Makela/Getty Images

President Trump announced Monday on his social media site, Truth Social, that he plans to "lead a movement" to get rid of mail-in ballots and voting machines in the country ahead of next year's midterm elections.

Part of his plan includes signing an executive order that bars states from using mail ballots and potentially some voting machines. He said, without evidence, that voting machines are "highly inaccurate," as well as more expensive and less reliable than counting paper ballots.

"We're going to start with an executive order that's being written right now by the best lawyers in the country to end mail in ballots because they're corrupt," Trump said during a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House Monday. "And it's time that the Republicans get tough and stop it because the Democrats want it. It's the only way they can get elected."

WTF comes to mind here ... or, lets think about the chaos if Trump's MAGAs decide to take matters into their own hands regarding the voting machines part of the equation or possibly Agent Orange sending in the National Guard or Marines to take care of the "problem". A rather disquieting thought, right?