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Republican Voter Suppression Efforts

Seems like they want to punish businesses that go against their interests.
 
PhDeac said:
DeacPop, do you think Democrats could get 10 votes Republican votes in the Senate for their voting rights bill if they added a National ID program that updates residency, a process to get everyone an ID by 2028, and a voter ID requirement standard in every state by the 2028 election?
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I would hope so but obviously you think not. And you might be right. And there would be no charge to update the ID to eliminate the poll tax argument.
What I'm hearing is we're not caving into the asshole Pubs on this one cause its not a problem. Despite a vast % of Americans who believe it is and support enacting a national ID system.
Just trying to find a middle ground here. Sounds like most of you believe there is none.
 
DeacsPop said:
I would hope so but obviously you think not. And you might be right. And there would be no charge to update the ID to eliminate the poll tax argument.
What I'm hearing is we're not caving into the asshole Pubs on this one cause its not a problem. Despite a vast % of Americans who believe it is and support enacting a national ID system.
Just trying to find a middle ground here. Sounds like most of you believe there is none.
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And if IDs were given away, the same lying bastards would create another BS conspiracy to racist laws.

The "vast % of Americans" do not believe the elections was stolen or that there is rampant fraud.
 
Where do you see that a vast % of Americans want a national ID?

Republicans want to require select state issued IDs for voting. That’s completely different than a national ID.
 
 
DeacsPop said:
I would hope so but obviously you think not. And you might be right. And there would be no charge to update the ID to eliminate the poll tax argument.
What I'm hearing is we're not caving into the asshole Pubs on this one cause its not a problem. Despite a vast % of Americans who believe it is and support enacting a national ID system.
Just trying to find a middle ground here. Sounds like most of you believe there is none.
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If a percentage of Americans believed the moon was made of cheese and most of us believed it was not, would you feel compelled to find a middle ground? Of course not.

And if that’s too ridiculous then replace that with any of the imbecilic things a significant percentage of Americans believe (earth is flat, psychics are real, Trump is a man’s man, moon landing was faked)
 
DeacDiggler said:

I've read in numerous articles that the real issue conservatives are facing with these corporate boycotts and other corporate protests against what they're doing is that they are no longer the primary consumers and buyers of the products of most of these companies - mostly older, white working-class people in rural areas and suburbs are steadily being replaced by college-educated, younger, urban and inner suburban, and racially diverse groups as the nation's main consumers. And these people are mostly culturally and socially liberal in many areas. Put simply, conservatives may like to imagine that they pay most of the nation's bills and buy most of the products, but they don't. And of course corporations are going to follow the lead of these groups that purchase most of their products, which means they're going to support social and cultural liberalism and other policies that most of their consumer base supports.
 
RJKarl said:
I said I wouldn't respond, but I will this one last time.

"My point is that the tone of your posts is always authoritative, even if someone else knows more about something than you do. Have you ever opened a post with "my opinion" or "I think"? Try it, it will really change the way people respond to you."

You are using the exact terminology towards me that you allege I use.

I have no interest in dealing with you as you have neglected LITERALLY 1000s of my post that don't fit this above preconceived concept.
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Yeah, wakephan owes you a huge apology for not addressing your thousands of failed attempts at humor.
 
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See it's cancel culture when AOC stops buying Goya products, but it's not cancel culture when a Republican stops buying Coke products. In fact, Coke was trying to cancel him and he just got revenge.
 
You know that BLM just stole their name from another fascist, marxist, communist organization, the BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT
 
I don't think this has been posted yet: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/03/upshot/georgia-election-law-turnout.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage Worth a read. The TLDR is that the Georgia law is unlikely to have a large impact on turnout or Democratic voters, and that the actually dangerous parts of the bill are the ones getting the least attention (namely, the parts giving the Georgia legislature the right to take over elections in Fulton County and other Democratic strongholds if they decide something those Dems are cheatin'). The gerrymandered Georgia legislature is run by some of the most reactionary people in the US and they could easily throw an election into chaos or worse, with national implications.

I agree that this bill and others like it are based on a false premise of nonexistent voter fraud, and I understand the historic basis of the reaction against them. That said, I think calling this particular law "the new Jim Crow" is more than a little overblown.
 
One aspect of Jim Crow was white mobs nullifying the results of elections that included legal Black voters.
 
good article. Colorado, which now has the all-star game, has voter ID laws already. Perhaps if Georgians wanted everyone to believe that this wasn't a partisan vote grab, they could've waited a little while after claiming the election was stolen to pass this law. (I also don't think that was an option - I think their legislative session ended last week - so if they wanted to act, they had to do so when they did.)

In any event, the election was fine and there has been no evidence of fraud produced, so the law was still unnecessary.
 
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