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  • Jun 7, 2021, 01:56 PM
    talaniman
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by paraclete View Post
    so the rage continues, meanwhile the government goes quietly on

    Not quietly but loud and raucus. TV does that.
  • Jun 7, 2021, 07:31 PM
    paraclete
    after Trump this is silence
  • Jan 1, 2022, 04:47 PM
    tomder55
    Time to resurrect this post .

    Cluessless Joe has nominated Nancy Gbana Abudu, the deputy legal director at Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) to be an 11th Circus appellate justice .She is a diversity nominee who checks off the appropriate boxes . She “would be the first African-American woman judge ever "to sit on the Eleventh Circus.

    But that is not my beef . When she was working for the ACLU she said that proof of citizenship and photo ID are indicative of “voter suppression.”
  • Jan 1, 2022, 04:58 PM
    Wondergirl
    Abudu (at the same time in 2011!!!) slammed South Carolina for not permitting students to show campus IDs to vote, calling it “restrictive.”

    What's her stance now, ten years later?
  • Jan 1, 2022, 05:43 PM
    tomder55
    got me . That stance is indicative of her disregard for the integrity of the franchise . Many students from campus are out of state .

    You say it was a decade ago .But her comments about the Georgia law shows that her opinion has not changed . She parroted Clueless' comments that the Georgia law was Jim Crow .
  • Jan 1, 2022, 06:26 PM
    Wondergirl
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by tomder55 View Post
    But her comments about the Georgia law shows that her opinion has not changed . She parroted Clueless' comments that the Georgia law was Jim Crow .

    A date for those comments? And what was meant by "the Georgia law was Jim Crow"?
  • Jan 2, 2022, 03:20 PM
    tomder55
    Defending Democracy: SPLC calls on Senate to swiftly pass John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act | Southern Poverty Law Center (splcenter.org)

    You don't know what Jim Crow laws were ? That is when there was real suppression unlike today .
  • Jan 2, 2022, 04:21 PM
    Wondergirl
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by tomder55 View Post

    Yes, I know about Jim Crow. Was born and raised in the South. I was asking, how is the Georgia law Jim Crow? And...how is it not?
  • Jan 2, 2022, 04:50 PM
    tomder55
    I don't think it is Jim Crow .If voter ID requirements are Jim Crow then most of the country still practices Jim Crow .In fact Georgia's laws are to a large extent mirror Federal laws .
    Georgia provides a free photo ID to anyone who doesn’t already have one. We have more than a decade’s worth of Georgia’s turnout data in election after election that graphically shows that the ID provision does not prevent anyone—including minorities The only addition is that now is ID is required for absentee and mail in ballots. All someone who wants a mail in ballot need do is write the id # on the application. Doesn't even need a drivers license . It can be satisfied with a “copy of a current utility bill, bank statement, government check, paycheck, or other government document that shows the name and address "
  • Jan 2, 2022, 04:54 PM
    Wondergirl
    Illinois doesn't require driver or state ID to vote or to apply for a mail-in application.
  • Jan 2, 2022, 04:58 PM
    tomder55
    good for Illinois one of only 15 states that don't require some form of ID . Did I mention how dysfunctional your state is ?
  • Jan 2, 2022, 05:14 PM
    jlisenbe
    Quote:

    We have more than a decade’s worth of Georgia’s turnout data in election after election that graphically shows that the ID provision does not prevent anyone—including minorities
    Hopefully facts will be persuasive.
  • Jan 2, 2022, 05:49 PM
    Wondergirl
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by tomder55 View Post
    good for Illinois one of only 15 states that don't require some form of ID . Did I mention how dysfunctional your state is ?

    Dysfunctional because Dems win?
  • Jan 2, 2022, 08:19 PM
    tomder55
    What state has the lowest credit rating in the nation ? Yes the Dems and the fact that they are beholden to public service unions are mostly to blame . They got their first credit rating upgrade in 2 decades so I guess there is some good news there . But it is still the worse in the nation.Decades of budgetary mismanagement is the cause . It has $250 billion in obligations and only about 40% of it funded . It's bond ratings border on junk bond status . We here the same old same old tax the rich rhetoric as a solution .But the rich are leaving the state in droves . And yes ;the Dems want to empower the very unions that are sinking the state .
  • Jan 4, 2022, 04:10 AM
    talaniman
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by tomder55 View Post
    good for Illinois one of only 15 states that don't require some form of ID . Did I mention how dysfunctional your state is ?

    You need an ID to register, and vote, just not the specific one you wingers want mandated.
  • Jan 4, 2022, 05:02 AM
    tomder55
    Without requiring a PHOTO ID for VOTING in every election (not registration ,not 1st time voting only),there is almost no chance of detecting fraud.....and that includes providing a copy of the id when applying for absentee ballots . And if absentee ballots are mailed out without specific requests by the voter then you are also inviting fraud .If you allow ballot harvesting you also invite fraud .

    The Dem's claim that photo id is equivalent to Jim Crow poll taxes is absurd . They are offered for free . Further the requirement of a photo id has not been demonstrated to suppress turnout . That is just a phony Dem talking point .

    HR1 would force states to mail absentee ballots to all voters and allow harvesting.HR1 also compels states to automatically register everyone who signs up for food assistance, unemployment benefits or other government support. That includes noncitizens, unless they declare themselves ineligible. It bans photo-ID requirements. Anyone can show up on Election Day to vote and simply sign a statement claiming to be registered.
  • Jan 4, 2022, 05:08 AM
    jlisenbe
    Dems know that election fraud typically favors them, so they are in favor of virtually anything that allows for it.
  • Jan 4, 2022, 07:10 AM
    talaniman
    No, turnout favors dems, which is why anything that promotes it scares repubs.

    Quote:

    Originally Posted by tomder55 View Post
    Without requiring a PHOTO ID for VOTING in every election (not registration ,not 1st time voting only),there is almost no chance of detecting fraud.....and that includes providing a copy of the id when applying for absentee ballots . And if absentee ballots are mailed out without specific requests by the voter then you are also inviting fraud .If you allow ballot harvesting you also invite fraud .

    The Dem's claim that photo id is equivalent to Jim Crow poll taxes is absurd . They are offered for free . Further the requirement of a photo id has not been demonstrated to suppress turnout . That is just a phony Dem talking point .

    HR1 would force states to mail absentee ballots to all voters and allow harvesting.HR1 also compels states to automatically register everyone who signs up for food assistance, unemployment benefits or other government support. That includes noncitizens, unless they declare themselves ineligible. It bans photo-ID requirements. Anyone can show up on Election Day to vote and simply sign a statement claiming to be registered.

    None of your fears and allegations has ever been proved by repubs in the decades of hollering lies and shenanigans.
  • Jan 4, 2022, 07:17 AM
    tomder55
    As stated without the safeguards there is almost zero chance of "proving " fraud . The Dem fallback is always going to be the charge is unproven and they will be correct because the chaos the Dems favor prevent it .
  • Jan 4, 2022, 11:10 AM
    talaniman
    Take your grievances to court like we do and end the chaos.
  • Jan 4, 2022, 11:20 AM
    tomder55
    When you don't like court rulings you try to jam through legislation by any means necessary ;like Schmucky is trying to do with HR1 .
  • Jan 5, 2022, 11:00 AM
    talaniman
    Not like repubs way of filling SCOTUS at all...yeah right...far right!
  • Jan 5, 2022, 01:31 PM
    tomder55
    I would have to remind you that Harry Reid was the one who broke the cloture rule for confirming justices. Back then it was called the 'nuclear option' .That came back to bite the Dems just like breaking the filibuster to jam through HR1 would . Once the horse is out of the barn don't expect the opposing party to put it back.
  • Jan 5, 2022, 03:21 PM
    talaniman
    Slick Mitch is not above throwing his word out the window to get what he wants, with not a peep from his fellow repubs. Same SCOTUS example from above. Doesn't matter to him.
  • Jan 5, 2022, 04:21 PM
    jlisenbe
    How have the repubs filled the Supreme Court?
  • Jan 5, 2022, 04:27 PM
    Wondergirl
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by jlisenbe View Post
    How have the repubs filled the Supreme Court?

    Which party has the majority of Supremes?
  • Jan 5, 2022, 04:35 PM
    jlisenbe
    Why? Was it OK for the dems to do that, but not for repubs? Why OK for one but not the other?
  • Jan 5, 2022, 05:22 PM
    Wondergirl
    Which party has the majority of Supremes? What's the breakdown of repubs and dems?
  • Jan 5, 2022, 05:56 PM
    tomder55
    this is a non-issue.
    The Repubs have the majority but would've had it with or without the decision to block the Garland nomination . AND Kavanaugh and Barrett have hardly been the partisans that the Dems feared . There are 3 hard line partisan progressive living breathers . Threre are 3 hardline originalists . Kavanaugh Barrett and Chief Justice Roberts stick their fingers in the wind before ruling .
  • Jan 8, 2022, 11:11 AM
    talaniman
    Yeah we know repubs would rob the dems one way or another. More the reason for dems to unite and push the liberal agenda while they have a slim majority.
  • Oct 21, 2022, 04:46 AM
    tomder55
    update on an oldie

    Early voting is under way in Georgia and it is setting records for turnout that surpass 2020. (I think the Repubs got the message)

    This corrects for good the false narrative that says the Georgia voting laws that were passed to suppress turnout . Over 291,700 people have voted ..... 268,050 in person and 23,690 absentee.Will Clueless Joe retract his inflamatory comments that the Georgia law was "Jim Crow 2.0" ?
  • Oct 21, 2022, 04:56 AM
    tomder55
    BTW ,this is a trend in all the GOP states that updated their elections laws. As of yesterday over five million people have already voted in the 2022 general election.

    RPubs - Early Voting 2022 General Election
  • Oct 21, 2022, 09:06 AM
    jlisenbe
    Quote:

    This corrects for good the false narrative that says the Georgia voting laws that were passed to suppress turnout .
    I don't know that even the democrats believed that. It was just a political mantra needed to keep minority voters scared enough to continue to vote democrat. The truth rarely enters into consideration anymore. The media is supposed to be the great arbitrator in that regard, but most of them are now just political advocates for the democrat party.

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