There’s a bill before the Texas state legislature making it a crime to transport more than three people in the same vehicle to the voting polls unless the driver fills out an affidavit verifying that the people they’re transporting are physically disabled so that they can’t get to the polls on their own.
It’s been obvious for a while now: this is the republican oligarch strategy, which is to discourage and harass the average person when they try to vote. Will it get struck down by the courts? Sure, but in the interim, it’s a law. It’s a law that can and will be enforced, and if you’re the unlucky SOB who gets prosecuted, you’ll have to spend a lot of money before having your case cleared, regardless of what the SCOTUS says if they even hear the case.
Nope. Not treason at all; it’s oligarchy dressed up as white christian nationalism. Abortion morality will be used as a smokescreen to divert attention from the naked money grabbing from conservatives in government.
Understand something: whether it’s voting the wrong way or making the wrong decision about your body or something else, understand that conservatives (plutocrats, oligarchs, kleptocrats) want to put you in jail. They want to enslave you.
Yes, yes, I know, Asahi you’re rambling and blithering. But seriously, are you all not noticing the trends here? What else do you call what we’re experiencing? Normal? Do you think all of this is going to be reversed by ‘getting out the vote’ and calling up your senator?
We live in different times. I’m sorry you don’t like what I’m telling you. But I don’t care. Reality doesn’t care about your feelings and it doesn’t respect your desire to be optimistic.
Reminds me of the joke told by one of my psychology profs in college:
The psychologist looks down on the psychiatrist.
The biologist looks down on the psychologist.
The chemist looks down on the biologist.
The physicist looks down on the chemist.
And the psychiatrist? He’s treating the physicist.
Interesting… I worked as an election judge last November. The polling place’s precincts included a fairly large senior citizen housing complex that ran several buses to the polling place. I suspect many if not most of the voters who took the bus voted Republican. I know that the only person who asked how to vote a straight Republican ticket (not possible in my county and I suspect the entire state of Illinois) came by bus from that senior housing complex.
If I didn’t know they’d figure out a way to exempt buses from senior housing places, it’d be pretty funny that they may be preventing their own staunchest supporters from getting to the polls.
I don’t doubt that Massie has a top tier level of smarts within maths and sciences, but I’d bet dollars to donuts that his emotional intelligence is grade school level.
Difficult to see this surviving a challenge, or an end run (“Registration Collectors, Inc. provides trained volunteers for all of your voter registration drive needs. Ask about our low contract rates!”).
Fox News shuts down not one, but two pundits shouting nonsensical conspiracy theories about the Notre Dame fire being some sort of attack on Christianity.
I thought it was great that Trump deigned to tell the professional firefighters how to put out the fire in the cathedral (“Drop water from helicopters”). Uh, no. As the pros responded, doing that would likely destroy what’s left of the building.
So, why do I think it’s great the moron-in-chief pulled that stunt? It’s simple, really. It truly shows why he loves Kim Jong-un so much. Look at what Kim’s actual labor is: he goes all over his country, conducting “inspection and advice” tours for anything and everything. Of course he doesn’t know everything about what he’s “giving advice” on. The only difference between Kim’s and Trump’s advice is that Kim’s people think he knows everything, while in Trump’s case it’s Trump who think he knows everything.