Trump/Republicans 2020: Suppressing Votes & Weaponizing the Government.

[twocoach]

The government infrastructure needed some damage and deletion. Im just not sure he's hitting the right parts.

Yes, it does. But I don't feel like Trump's approach of souring the nation on our own government and then napalming entire sections of it so that only corporations and stockholders benefit from the change is the right approach. It appeals to the "Burn It The Fuck Down" crowd, as well as corporate owners and shareholders.

Like Trump's handling of Obamacare, he's just destroying stuff with no real plan to improve anything. Just fattening his wallet, trying to make other rich people happy with him, all while chumming the waters and poisoning the average American figuratively with his rhetoric and literally with his destruction of clean air, clean water and clean earth policies.

The surgical sledgehammer is rarely the best approach.

you forgot to include his obsession to undo anything with Obama’s name attached, actual repercussions be damned

I couldn't even begin to put together a list of all the petty bullshit actions taken by this President. It would be pages long and too nauseating to read through.

[Shirley]

[Deleted User 89]

never was there a bigger flip-flopper

[Shirley]

Fed up Chris Wallace RIPS Trump’s lies about voter fraud ON FOX NEWS

[Shirley]

Today In: "Let Freedom Ring, Despite the Best Efforts of republicans!"

A federal judge on Sunday dismantled Florida’s restrictive felon voting rights law in a ruling that could open the door to hundreds of thousands of new voters being added to rolls just ahead of the 2020 presidential election.

U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle declared key portions of the state’s felon voting law unconstitutional, ordering the state to put in place a new process that would help people register to vote in the state.

Throughout his 125-page ruling, Hinkle chided the state for a “pay-to-vote” system that he said was Byzantine because, in some instances, former felons could not even figure how much money they owed.

“This pay-to-vote system would be universally decried as unconstitutional but for one thing: each citizen at issue was convicted, at some point in the past, of a felony offense,” the judge wrote. “A state may disenfranchise felons and impose conditions on their reenfranchisement. But the conditions must pass constitutional scrutiny.

“Whatever might be said of a rationally constructed system, this one falls short in substantial respects,” he said.

...Hinkle’s ruling could lead to a major addition to the state’s voting rolls just months before the election in the battleground state. President Donald Trump, who narrowly won the state four years ago, has made winning Florida a key part of his reelection strategy.

One study done by Daniel Smith, a University of Florida political professor, found that nearly 775,000 people with felony convictions have some sort of outstanding legal financial obligation.

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[Shirley]

Trump's entire brand is built on grievance, so he can't keep himself from creating one shiny object after another after another to try to distract attention from the ~ 100,000 deaths, and counting, from the pandemic, and the tens of millions of people out of work and losing hope. Because, there always has to be someone to hate.

Today's installment:

[Shirley]

[Shirley]

We spit on Columbia U?

Why Donald?

Why!?

[jfish26]

"This will be a Rigged Election."

It's happening, folks. Right there in the open.

[sdoyel]

Keep popping those bleach pills Trump. As many as you want and then some.

[Shirley]

[Sparko]

Well those of us willing to crawl over glass to stop the GOP from destroying the country will vote no matter what. This is really about riling up "debase." To quote the Wall Street Journal.

[sdoyel]

[Deleted User 62]

Well, now it DOES feel a little more greasy

[sdoyel]

[Deleted User 318]

The United States is the older democracy. Can't we find a better way to vote?

[ousdahl]

In terms of voter turnout, and access to voting in general, aren’t we getting our butts kicked by places like India?

They have voting booths on every street corner and shit

[Deleted User 318]

Wikipedia's entry on India's 2019 General:

"About 911 million people were eligible to vote, and voter turnout was over 67 per cent – the highest ever, as well as the highest ever participation by women voters."

From Wikipedia, 2016 General was 55.7%. Last time US bested 60% was in the 1960s.

[Deleted User 289]

Why do I have a feeling our President isn't going to tweet about it but if there were issues in the northern counties in Georgia he would be tweeting about it like the maniac that he is?

[Sparko]

When you are an office-holder who is not accountable to a majority of the voters, you tend to not give a shit about the public good. You do care about maintaining the corruption that got you there.