mcgato:
Where do people get the idea that the voter fraud investigation concluded that there was no voter fraud. After the commission asked for voter data, including voter rolls, from every state, the states told them to pound salt. Enough people figured that the voter fraud commission was just a voter suppression commission, and they refused to play ball with them. Once the true purpose was sufficiently exposed, Trump shut it down.
There was no honest investigation, and there certainly weren’t any honest people on the commission.
Like Burisma-gate, it’s irrelevant whether there was an investigation at all, let alone whether it found any actual fraud (and IIRC, the minuscule amount that did turn up tended to be perpetrated by Republican voters). The object was to talk about “voter fraud” as often and as loudly as possible; eventually the Teeming Millions* will start to think there must be something there, and by golly we oughtta do something about it.
*At least those without the IQ that Og gave mayonnaise, which seems to be a distressingly high segment.
OttoDaFe:
Like Burisma-gate, it’s irrelevant whether there was an investigation at all, let alone whether it found any actual fraud (and IIRC, the minuscule amount that did turn up tended to be perpetrated by Republican voters). The object was to talk about “voter fraud” as often and as loudly as possible; eventually the Teeming Millions* will start to think there must be something there, and by golly we oughtta do something about it.
*At least those without the IQ that Og gave mayonnaise, which seems to be a distressingly high segment.
And use it to justify kicking people off the rolls in droves, which is what is currently happening in places like Wisconsin.
Chronos
January 9, 2020, 9:10pm
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Shortly after the 2016 election, I happened to be sharing a bus with a crazy guy who was continually ranting about Clinton, and why couldn’t she just have used her own computer, she’s got millions, she can afford it, but no, she had to go and use a government computer and get in trouble, and how dare she think she was entitled to do that.
Moral of the story, people don’t care what they’re ranting about. Just keep them ranting about something, anything.
OttoDaFe:
Like Burisma-gate, it’s irrelevant whether there was an investigation at all, let alone whether it found any actual fraud (and IIRC, the minuscule amount that did turn up tended to be perpetrated by Republican voters). The object was to talk about “voter fraud” as often and as loudly as possible; eventually the Teeming Millions* will start to think there must be something there, and by golly we oughtta do something about it.
*At least those without the IQ that Og gave mayonnaise, which seems to be a distressingly high segment.
Point of Order: Teeming Millions, when capitalized, most properly refers to Dopers. The term when used to describe the unwashed masses who are not smart or hip enough (or favored-by-the-vagaries-of-Furtune dipsticks) to be Dopers, should be simply given as “the teeming millions.”
“Contains molecular compounds!”
Oh good, no helium.
Trump supporter writes an editorial for the WSJ supporting Trump’s tariffs. Except the tariffs that affect his business. He needs an exemption to those.
I have no idea how this isn’t satire.
More importantly, no oganesson. That stuff is dangerous.
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And Georgia in 2018, where the Republican gubernatorial candidate, who just happened to also be the incumbent Secretary of State, and didn’t resign or recuse himself before the election, kicked enough people off the rolls to steal the election from Democrat Stacy Abrams, who should have been the country’s first black female governor. She has since formed an organization to fight the continuing process of Republican voter purges.
margin
January 10, 2020, 3:00pm
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commasense:
And Georgia in 2018, where the Republican gubernatorial candidate, who just happened to also be the incumbent Secretary of State, and didn’t resign or recuse himself before the election, kicked enough people off the rolls to steal the election from Democrat Stacy Abrams, who should have been the country’s first black female governor. She has since formed an organization to fight the continuing process of Republican voter purges.
Where are all our brave Republicans to defend this fuckery? Repubs are throwing what they think are Dem voters.
commasense:
And Georgia in 2018, where the Republican gubernatorial candidate, who just happened to also be the incumbent Secretary of State, and didn’t resign or recuse himself before the election, kicked enough people off the rolls to steal the election from Democrat Stacy Abrams, who should have been the country’s first black female governor. She has since formed an organization to fight the continuing process of Republican voter purges.
Wow! That’s pretty damm sick! What an evil Repugnican turd.
If it is legal, then it is a good thing.
To be more precise, if you can’t get a court to reverse it, then it is a good thing.
Actually, if you can ignore a court order to reverse it long enough, then it is a good thing.
Obvious when you think of it a certain way (the “way” being that a vote for a Democrat is a Bad Vote).
All’s fair in stopping the spread of socialism into the west. Democracy will have to wait. Right, pubbies?
margin
January 10, 2020, 4:19pm
43322
Euphonious_Polemic:
If it is legal, then it is a good thing.
To be more precise, if you can’t get a court to reverse it, then it is a good thing.
Slavery was legal.
You’re avoiding addressing this precise, realworld example of Republican evil.
Republicans want to silence Dems forever. Then what? Seriously, they want only white “Christian” Republican men to have the vote. That’s the end game.
Greg Abbott, you S.O.B., you’ve given some of us another reason to be embarrassed to be Texans.
Texas becomes first state to refuse refugees
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said on Friday that the state will not accept any refugees this year, AP reports.
**Why it matters: **Abbott is the first governor to take President Trump up on his executive order allowing state and local governments to block refugee resettlements. Other Republican governors have publicly welcomed refugees.
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You forget the repeal of the Income Tax and the reinstitution of black slavery.
It will be thirteen years this month since there was a Texan of whom to be proud (and she was always good for a laugh, too).
Folacin
January 12, 2020, 4:18am
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Slavery was legal.
You’re avoiding addressing this precise, realworld example of Republican evil.
Republicans want to silence Dems forever. Then what? Seriously, they want only white “Christian” Republican men to have the vote. That’s the end game.
I think you missed the invisible <sarcasm> tag.
eschereal the seriously twisted:
It will be thirteen years this month since there was a Texan of whom to be proud (and she was always good for a laugh, too).
Well, now, Willie Nelson may not have a lot of keen political insight, but Molly couldn’t play a guitar for shit.
Kobal2
January 12, 2020, 5:45am
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Now, now, you’re being unfair, the times they have changed. I think nowadays they’re be OK with Democrat slavery, regardless of race.
