I don’t care at all but it’s been at the top of Google News headlines for weeks. I saw a story today with the headline that the police chief said someone somewhere knows the perpetrator. A completely worthless statement making headline news because the victim is white and related to someone on TV.

We’re literally in the pre-primary process. Critiquing the candidates with supporting information is how it’s actually supposed to work.

He’s not literally Satan, but he’s not a particularly good Senator and his big fight with the administration was a very limited statement and he wouldn’t say any current acts were illegal orders. Just sort of the say nothing and seek bipartisanship politics that’s lead us here.

He’s got a great backstory though.

Yeah, I peg his politics as Biden 2.0. Don’t change anything, let bygones be bygones, and then after 4 years we get a fresh fascist “outsider” telling people they can fix all the problems that weren’t addressed.

I think it should actually be moved to Wednesday if made a holiday. It should be pushed as far as possible from being an opportunity for a long weekend where people choose leisure over civic participation.

He was only firing toward the man who was murdered. Which is also apparently not a crime (if the target is Palestinian). Only murders that are captured from beginning to end on camera can be prosecuted. Maybe. If the Palestinian victim is famous and the story doesn’t go away.

You replied to me motherfucker, and said “you” said things, and now you’re posting screenshots of other people’s comments to pretend this wasn’t just you having the argument you wanted to have?

Maybe if that argument was being made by other people you should have fucking made it to them.

Or get arrested at a protest and your ID was “misplaced” at the jailhouse or “fell out of your pocket” during the arrest. It doesn’t need to be gone for good, just missing long enough to disenfranchise you.

Which is really covering the greater risk of illegal voting. Way more illegal votes cast by people who move and vote in their former home (possibly in addition to their new home) than non-citizens trying to vote.

Cool straw man you built that’s completely unrelated to anything said in the comment you replied to. No idea where you even pulled slavery from but I bet you’re having an epic takedown in your head.

Laws require compliance and enforcement. Him being fascist and declaring it doesn’t make it the new rule. He’d need to send loyal soldiers to take over polling places for this to work. And there are a lot more polling places than he has brown shirts to take over and the public is agitated and motivated to stop it.

Fascism isn’t a yes or no question. Nazi Germany still had agents of the state who would only follow the law (as defined by the “process”) and not simple dictates by Hitler. And Trump’s level of control is much much much smaller than Hitler’s. He can’t even pass votes in the legislature controlled by his own party.

It’s useful to call out fascism in no uncertain terms when it’s used to wake up the sleepwalkers, but overstating its power out inevitability just seems to be encouraging surrender.

And these hardships are not accidental and will be even less accidental if they’re the barrier to voting. How many DMV offices exist in different locations or how strict the documentation requirements are is a lever for bad faith actors to selectively suppress votes.

“States rights” on who should have the authority to ban weed or abortion is a categorically different situation from a question on who decides control of the very system itself when that answer is defined in the Constitution. Turns out things that are different are different.

I really thought this comment was satire, then I got to the end and the satire turn never happened. Turns out it was just stupid.

Not really. If Trump issues an executive order and an executive employee says “I won’t do that”, they can be fired whether or not the EO is ultimately determined to be legal. If a non-executive employee starts demanding birth certificates in order to vote, you can call the police and another less insane poll worker can give you your ballot without any personal risk, just the same as without an EO.

These news stories are treating this like a real legal issue, but Trump’s EOs have as much jurisdiction on voting procedures as they have in deciding what I’m going to have for dinner. It doesn’t need a legal challenge because it doesn’t apply to anyone who actually decides what IDs are required.

It should be reported, but as authoritarian ravings completely inconsistent with our voting systems rather than a looming legal clash where we need the Supreme Court to decide what’s right.

They’ve been systematically deconstructing all the excuses used by corporate Democrats to justify why they need to keep the system moving even though they totally oppose [insert current controversial spending].

I think there are figures for the number of new working age adults per year that would probably be the denominator you’re interested in. That would account for both babies not needing jobs and old folks retiring. It’ll all be roughly correlated with total population though. There are generational bulges and unusual rates of retirement, but it’s not going to be a drastic change when comparing year to year stats.

The math for 2024 seems to be incorrect.

TSA is a worthless self-inflicted wound to the country. If I could fly on “I’ll Take My Chances” Air, I absolutely would just to reclaim my time from the security theater.