NEW Stupid Republican Idea of the Day (Part 2)

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There was apparently another hearing of the “Weaponization” House subcommittee yesterday, featuring more FBI “whistleblowers” to testify about, among other things, how higher-ups were putting too much focus on the poor Jan. 6 patriots.

(Sigh)

I know one of the people interviewed. Not super-well, but he’s been to my house and his wife and mine are fairly close. On a purely social level I like the guy, but the more I hear the less I want to be around him. He almost lost his job back when over refusal to get the COVID vaccine, and it appears that now he’s at least tangentially involved in some document leaks. Holds himself out as libertarian as opposed to a full-on MAGAt, but the overlap between those camps is larger than I’d like it to be. At this point, it wouldn’t surprise me to find out that he’s joined the Oath Keepers, or some similar, “militia.” :roll_eyes:

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NASHVILLE — A top Republican legal strategist told a roomful of GOP donors over the weekend that conservatives must band together to limit voting on college campuses, same-day voter registration and automatic mailing of ballots to registered voters, according to a copy of her presentation reviewed by The Washington Post.

Cleta Mitchell, a longtime GOP lawyer and fundraiser who worked closely with former president Donald Trump to try to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, gave the presentation at a Republican National Committee donor retreat in Nashville on Saturday.

The presentation — which had more than 50 slides and was labeled “A Level Playing Field for 2024” — offered a window into a strategy that seems designed to reduce voter access and turnout among certain groups, including students and those who vote by mail, both of which tend to skew Democratic.
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“What are these college campus locations?” she asked, according to the audio. “What is this young people effort that they do? They basically put the polling place next to the student dorm so they just have to roll out of bed, vote, and go back to bed.”
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Bolding mine. Garbled language in the original.

Sometimes ya donno whether to laugh or cry. Or both.

Make it easy for students to vote?? Hell, NO! They should have to walk to the polling place over hot coals, barefoot naked, uphill, through thorny hedges, with hyenas nipping at their feet! In a rainstorm… no, make that a hailstorm!

The next step, obviously, is that the Republicans need to start issuing licenses to register to vote. A step beyond registration, because voter registration admits too many of the riff-raff. Like car licenses, or dog licenses. You get an inspection or have to meet certain conditions (but never shots), before you can get your license to register.

Of course, registered Pubbies automatically get one. But everyone else, including independents and non-registered people have to pay at least $200 and then walk over hot coals, uphill, etc., to turn the applications in in person, so they can be checked for fraud, misinformation, and wokeness. Local panels will make the final decision. No appeal permitted.

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The only silver lining I can think of is that as they make it harder and harder for young people to vote, they’re doing the same for the older people.
I’m in my 40s, if I have to do a little running around to get my vote counted, I can probably handle it. Someone in their 80s might not care enough to jump through the extra hoops. If they can’t mail in their ballot, maybe they don’t bother voting anymore.

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Speaking as someone who hates almost all beer, Budweiser is notably worse than most other brand I’ve tried. Higher end beers, even though I don’t like them, I can tell there’s a more complicated palette going on. Bud is clearly the junk food of beers, where they’ve taken out any sort of complexity in favor of the most basic “beery” taste, the way cheap candy takes out most flavors other than “sugary.”

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Ha!

Do a google search for “senior center” voting.

I don’t think Cleta Mitchell or those RNC donors will be trying to get rid of voting in places like that any time soon.

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Looks like I was wrong about your username. Are you a flour child?

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Republicans in Montana’s House of Representatives are refusing to let the state’s only transgender legislator speak on the floor.

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I used to do mill and lathe work in a machine shop.

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Larry Elder is running for president, because getting killed in the CA gubernatorial race apparently wasn’t embarrassing enough.

20-odd years ago, when he was a libertarian talk-radio host in LA who wanted to end the war on drugs and the Democrats had some problems with institutionalized racism that needed to be dealt with, I bought his books and thought he had some valid points although I disagreed with his stand on cutting taxes and reducing government services.

It’s sad to see what he has become.

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ISTM that–and I’m not advocating this; I’m just making the observation–form would be low-hanging ripe fruit for quite a number of people opposed to, say, the current crop of Qliban/GQP office holders to list them as the “suspicious people” for investigation. At some point, the state attorney general and district attorney offices will just have to say, “Enough!”

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Seems easy enough to spoof others as well.

I wonder how many entrees they are going to get from House Speaker Dean Plocher about how he set up spy cameras in the his local Junior High girl’s locker room, and he’s seen some suspicious transgender activity. Please contact him for more information.

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I’m sure they would have some kind of “emergency legislative session” so they could pass a law making “knowingly making a malicious statement about a person” to get the state to waste taxpayer money on wild goose chase investigations. A state jail felony with a fine of $500,0000.00 or something similar.

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Every sentence of this article makes me want to hurl.

“King said during a committee hearing earlier this month that the Ten Commandments are part of American heritage and it’s time to bring them back into the classroom.”

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I was just about to post a link to that item. Conservative twitter is celebrating this (one tweet actually says: “ Can we make it anymore obvious… We don’t want you liberal fucks in Texas…!”).

It’s blatantly unconstitutional, and with any other Supreme Court, I’d expect it to be overturned, and quickly. This one makes me afraid.

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I thought that Republicans objected to Sharia law.

Republican logic at work: Kennedy was found to not be in violation of the establishment clause because he was not representing the district, so that clears the way for the district to violate the establishment clause.

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I am not a fan of these types of laws; but I just read the text of the bill and it looks like the parents of the kids have to sign a waiver for their child to be allowed to read/ pray first. Also it doesn’t constrain the type of prayer or the nature of the text/ religious book they want to read… so theoretically if a student is a Muslim they are allowed to pray as needed or if the student is Rosicrucian or any other “religious faith” they are free to pray/ read their texts in school once the parents sign the form…. No where in the law does it say specifically what religious texts are allowed… I see a few creative people that like to engage in culture jamming having a good time with this law.

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Even the Republicans aren’t stupid or brazen enough (yet, anyways) to make this explicitly about Christian prayer. But the devil is in the details of how it’s implemented and enforced.

I’d bet many quatloos that, when a Muslim or other religious minority student starts praying in school, or asking that something of their religion be displayed like the 10 Commandments are displayed, the school officials will find some reason why that can’t be accommodated.

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Here in Austin or the other pockets of liberal democracy in Texas they would allow the Muslin prayer and most likely allow all kinds of religious exemptions just to poke the morons out in the sticks. But you’re right about the hypocrisy and massive pearl clutching that would take place if it happened out in Iraan.

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I knew it! Moses was really an American (a white American at that) and the tablets he brought down from the mountaintop were originally in English. It was those Jews who translated them into that weird squiggly Hebrew (I mean who writes from right to left? Vaguely Satanic IMHO) and tried to claim ownership. Nice try, but Jebus is gonna git y’all for that.
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