Ta, Marcie. Very little of this type of fuckery in NYC, but I did check my registration and printed the hours for early voting, which I may or may not do.
Melania *won't* campaign for her husband because she hates him (fair!). Usha Vance *can't* campaign for her husband because she's A Brown, and he REALLY doesn't want The Base reminded he's got an Indian wife and biracial children.
I just hope a lot of college kids aren't getting jerked around over whether they can vote at their colleges or not.
The dipshits who do that keep parsing the meaning of "reside." How about some common sense? If I eat, sleep and shit in a certain place every single day, I reside there, and it doesn't matter what kind of place it is or why I'm there or how I pay my bills.
Been telling folks to check their registration all day, including family in TX and AZ considering those two states would love to "lose" their registrations.
According to Michael McDonald (University of Florida Poly Sci Prof. and Director of theUS Elections Project, not the singer/keyboard player from the Doobie Brothers):
Register or update your registration if you need to, but do it knowing that you have to do this needless busywork because someone doesn’t want you to vote.
We take for granted that registering to vote is a necessary chore in a democracy. But this isn’t true. North Dakota doesn’t have voter registration. A prospective voter simply needs to show acceptable identification before they vote. That’s it.
North Dakota isn’t alone. In countries like the Netherlands, Israel, Hungary, and Chile a state-issued identification card serves as voter registration. Indeed, at American’s founding there was no voter registration. It wasn’t until the mid-1800s that states began piecemeal adopting it, starting in the northeast and continuing to spread across the nation up to the early 1900s.
As late as 2000, Wisconsin only required people living in larger cities to register to vote. It is here we can glean why states adopted voter registration. Much like Wisconsin, when the first northeastern states adopted voter registration it only applied to the larger cities. The anti-immigrant Know-Nothing Party claimed voter registration was needed to prevent immigrants concentrated in the burgeoning coastal cities from illegally voting. Sound familiar?
During the Jim Crow era, Southern conservative Whites found another purpose for voter registration. They could deny African-Americans access to the ballot if they were never registered to begin with. To their shame, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled discriminatory voter registration practices were not a violation of the Fifteen Amendment.
How to register to vote in Australia: fill out the form when you're 18 and forget about it.
There are precisely four ways you can be disenfranchised once you're enrolled.
1. Die. The Australian Electoral Commission will automatically be notified by the Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages in your state. No dead people voting here!
2. Lose your Australian citizenship, usually by taking out citizenship of another country. The AOC is automatically informed by the Federal Dept. Of Foreign Affairs and Trade. No non citizens voting here!
3. Have a doctor certify you have permanently lost legal competency. We did this for my mother because she had dementia.
4. Be convicted of literal treason. I don't think that's ever happened.
And that's it. Nothing else disqualifies me. Not moving, or failing to vote, or not replying to "gotcha" mail from the AEC (because they don't send that bullshit), or committing a crime. People SERVING A JAIL SENTENCE are entitled to vote*. I certainly can't be "purged" because some racist fuck with a conflict of interest thinks my name doesn't sound white enough.
America, you deserve better.
*The sentence has to be less than 3.5 years; but people with longer sentences stay on the roll and are entitled to vote as soon as they're released.
Here in the UK you get sent passive aggressive letters from the local council until you register and after that you're good. They send you an update form in good time before any local or national elections on line, by phone or post to update your details if needed. It's easy and quick. Registering is a piece of piss. My kids are dual registered because students and can vote in either location. The Tory fuckers brought in an ID law which will hopefully get repealed to suppress the youth vote - mainly seemed to hurt their elderly base - the US system of cheat to win and choose your voting pool just seems both egregiously corrupt and weird from over here. The racists origins not withstanding, the leave it to the states system is awful but it's the only way the current Republican party can 'win'. Don't get me wrong, our first past the post system is shit and broken. I know my vote will make no difference in my safe tory seat, but at least I know it will be counted.
Eff first past the post. We have preferential voting, which rocks. I agree with you about the pain of living in a safe right wing seat. Mine is one of the safest in the country, federal AND state. But yeah, my vote gets counted.
And the boundaries are set by an independent body on straight population, informed by the last census. Not some partisan twister desperately trying to steal seats.
I have a hundred postcards to fill out this week and mail to voters in Georgia encouraging them to be sure they are registered and get out to vote! I've never been so excited to fill out postcards in my life.
Don't mail until October 15th, or whatever date they said... they've done studies, and people need these reminders just before voting begins. I am waiting until the date on my instructions, which is October 15th. Your dates may vary!
I really appreciate the effort, guys. I really do. But the three people in my house who can legally vote are already registered, and the 4th is an international student who legally cannot vote.
"They are talking words and shaking hands like a bunch of real Rory Calhouns."
Can somebody explain the joke to me about Rory Calhoun? I sort of remember him -- he starred in a second-tier cowboy show in the early 60s, and one Saturday afternoon I watched him in a cowboy movie -- if you do crossword puzzles, you'll recognize the word "oater." But what is the Rory Calhoun meme now, 60 years later?
Haha we know Trump "followers" on Tiktok and other social media are mostly robots who don't actually ever express anything, but are there only to pump up the followers number.
Nice 'Pink Pony Girl' reference......
Ta, Marcie. Very little of this type of fuckery in NYC, but I did check my registration and printed the hours for early voting, which I may or may not do.
A+ Simpsons reference
Melania *won't* campaign for her husband because she hates him (fair!). Usha Vance *can't* campaign for her husband because she's A Brown, and he REALLY doesn't want The Base reminded he's got an Indian wife and biracial children.
What a shit show.
I just hope a lot of college kids aren't getting jerked around over whether they can vote at their colleges or not.
The dipshits who do that keep parsing the meaning of "reside." How about some common sense? If I eat, sleep and shit in a certain place every single day, I reside there, and it doesn't matter what kind of place it is or why I'm there or how I pay my bills.
Unless you're at an Airbnb. Hollow laugh.
Been telling folks to check their registration all day, including family in TX and AZ considering those two states would love to "lose" their registrations.
According to Michael McDonald (University of Florida Poly Sci Prof. and Director of theUS Elections Project, not the singer/keyboard player from the Doobie Brothers):
Register or update your registration if you need to, but do it knowing that you have to do this needless busywork because someone doesn’t want you to vote.
We take for granted that registering to vote is a necessary chore in a democracy. But this isn’t true. North Dakota doesn’t have voter registration. A prospective voter simply needs to show acceptable identification before they vote. That’s it.
North Dakota isn’t alone. In countries like the Netherlands, Israel, Hungary, and Chile a state-issued identification card serves as voter registration. Indeed, at American’s founding there was no voter registration. It wasn’t until the mid-1800s that states began piecemeal adopting it, starting in the northeast and continuing to spread across the nation up to the early 1900s.
As late as 2000, Wisconsin only required people living in larger cities to register to vote. It is here we can glean why states adopted voter registration. Much like Wisconsin, when the first northeastern states adopted voter registration it only applied to the larger cities. The anti-immigrant Know-Nothing Party claimed voter registration was needed to prevent immigrants concentrated in the burgeoning coastal cities from illegally voting. Sound familiar?
During the Jim Crow era, Southern conservative Whites found another purpose for voter registration. They could deny African-Americans access to the ballot if they were never registered to begin with. To their shame, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled discriminatory voter registration practices were not a violation of the Fifteen Amendment.
How to register to vote in Australia: fill out the form when you're 18 and forget about it.
There are precisely four ways you can be disenfranchised once you're enrolled.
1. Die. The Australian Electoral Commission will automatically be notified by the Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages in your state. No dead people voting here!
2. Lose your Australian citizenship, usually by taking out citizenship of another country. The AOC is automatically informed by the Federal Dept. Of Foreign Affairs and Trade. No non citizens voting here!
3. Have a doctor certify you have permanently lost legal competency. We did this for my mother because she had dementia.
4. Be convicted of literal treason. I don't think that's ever happened.
And that's it. Nothing else disqualifies me. Not moving, or failing to vote, or not replying to "gotcha" mail from the AEC (because they don't send that bullshit), or committing a crime. People SERVING A JAIL SENTENCE are entitled to vote*. I certainly can't be "purged" because some racist fuck with a conflict of interest thinks my name doesn't sound white enough.
America, you deserve better.
*The sentence has to be less than 3.5 years; but people with longer sentences stay on the roll and are entitled to vote as soon as they're released.
Here in the UK you get sent passive aggressive letters from the local council until you register and after that you're good. They send you an update form in good time before any local or national elections on line, by phone or post to update your details if needed. It's easy and quick. Registering is a piece of piss. My kids are dual registered because students and can vote in either location. The Tory fuckers brought in an ID law which will hopefully get repealed to suppress the youth vote - mainly seemed to hurt their elderly base - the US system of cheat to win and choose your voting pool just seems both egregiously corrupt and weird from over here. The racists origins not withstanding, the leave it to the states system is awful but it's the only way the current Republican party can 'win'. Don't get me wrong, our first past the post system is shit and broken. I know my vote will make no difference in my safe tory seat, but at least I know it will be counted.
Eff first past the post. We have preferential voting, which rocks. I agree with you about the pain of living in a safe right wing seat. Mine is one of the safest in the country, federal AND state. But yeah, my vote gets counted.
And the boundaries are set by an independent body on straight population, informed by the last census. Not some partisan twister desperately trying to steal seats.
I have a hundred postcards to fill out this week and mail to voters in Georgia encouraging them to be sure they are registered and get out to vote! I've never been so excited to fill out postcards in my life.
Don't mail until October 15th, or whatever date they said... they've done studies, and people need these reminders just before voting begins. I am waiting until the date on my instructions, which is October 15th. Your dates may vary!
I really appreciate the effort, guys. I really do. But the three people in my house who can legally vote are already registered, and the 4th is an international student who legally cannot vote.
I need to put a sign on the front door.
I made calls this morning to make sure young 'uns are registered/can double check their registration, and I'll be texting this afternoon.
All y'all...double check your own registration and share the link with your friends and family:
vote.org
vote.gov
iwillvote.com
"Dems are out there, pounding the dirt"
"Vance isn't out there, he's pounding the couch"
Also David Hogg, who has grown up to be quite the handsome young man.
I've been hearing about the yute vote since I was a yute. They mostly don't show.
I think Dobbs will change that this time.
Many people of childbearing capability really don’t want to have to make custodial arrangements with their rapists for some reason.
“Talk to your friends! Some of them are going to say, look, I’m not that into politics.’ The answer to that is, ‘too damn bad, politics is into you.”
A statement I believe was originally made about war...then again, these days politics is a hair's breath away from war, so...
"politics is into you"
Dear lord, there are going to be SO many jokes on Joe My God tonight.
"They are talking words and shaking hands like a bunch of real Rory Calhouns."
Can somebody explain the joke to me about Rory Calhoun? I sort of remember him -- he starred in a second-tier cowboy show in the early 60s, and one Saturday afternoon I watched him in a cowboy movie -- if you do crossword puzzles, you'll recognize the word "oater." But what is the Rory Calhoun meme now, 60 years later?
We are so old, hard to keep up. But,
a great Cowboy name.
(once worked on a construction site, with Mexicans, who had, just ,jalapenos for breakfast. They offered me some. "Mild ", they said. 6 am.
Said " No thanks, I have a bowl of oatmeal."
They say, "WHAT ARE YOU, a HORSE?
It's a Simpsons reference to dog that only walked on its hind legs.
" ... like a regular Rory Calhoun."
- which is exactly why I burst into laughter to the bewildered stares of my coworkers! 🤣🤣🤣 I love a good classic Simpson’s reference!
tx
“See my vest, see my vest
Made from real gorilla chest…”
Isn’t it a Simpsons joke?
This guy.
https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.1271195185.7495/bg,f8f8f8-flat,750x,075,f-pad,750x1000,f8f8f8.jpg
That is cromulent.
Or, Cofeveye?
The kids are alright.
𝗧𝗵𝗲 ‘𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝟮𝟱-𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿-𝗼𝗹𝗱𝘀’ 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗞𝗮𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗮 𝗛𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗶𝘀 𝗴𝗼 𝘃𝗶𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗼𝗻 𝗧𝗶𝗸𝗧𝗼𝗸
𝘏𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘴’𝘴 “𝘥𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘪𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘦” 𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘭𝘭-𝘎𝘦𝘯-𝘡 𝘛𝘪𝘬𝘛𝘰𝘬 𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘮 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘳𝘩𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘮𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘵 𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘢𝘯 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵’𝘴 𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘲𝘶𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘴.
𝘈𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘛𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘯𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵’𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘣𝘢𝘵𝘦, 𝘢𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘦𝘳 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘋𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘥 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘯 𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘮 𝘪𝘯 𝘗𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘭𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘢, 𝘝𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘒𝘢𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘢 𝘏𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘴’𝘴 𝘛𝘪𝘬𝘛𝘰𝘬 𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘮 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘣𝘶𝘴𝘺 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘢 𝘥𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘥.
𝘐𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭 “𝘸𝘢𝘳 𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘮” 𝘢𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘞𝘪𝘭𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘵𝘰𝘯, 𝘋𝘦𝘭., 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘩𝘪𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘶𝘵𝘵𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘱𝘪𝘦̀𝘤𝘦 𝘥𝘦 𝘳𝘦́𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘮𝘪𝘥𝘯𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵: 𝘈 𝘴𝘪𝘹-𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥 𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱’𝘴 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘣𝘺 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘪𝘯𝘩𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘢 𝘭𝘢𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘺 𝘥𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘤 “𝘋𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘔𝘰𝘮𝘴” 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳. “𝘐 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬. 𝘐 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘰𝘣𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘭𝘺 𝘐’𝘮 𝘯𝘰𝘵,” 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥. “𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘢 𝘨𝘰 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦.”
𝘝𝘪𝘦𝘸𝘦𝘥 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 7 𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘰 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘢 𝘴𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘛𝘪𝘬𝘛𝘰𝘬 𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘮 — 𝘢𝘭𝘭 25 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳, 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘫𝘰𝘣𝘴 — 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘶𝘯𝘧𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘨𝘰 𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘢𝘭. 𝘖𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘦𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘬𝘴, 𝘏𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘴’𝘴 𝘴𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘢 𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘮 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘱𝘦𝘥 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘨𝘯, 𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘩𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘮𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘣𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘵 𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘨𝘦𝘵-𝘰𝘶𝘵-𝘵𝘩𝘦-𝘷𝘰𝘵𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘮𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘴.
𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘮𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘧𝘧. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘏𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘨𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘯 100 𝙢𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙫𝙞𝙚𝙬𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙣 𝙏𝙧𝙪𝙢𝙥 𝙤𝙣 𝙏𝙞𝙠𝙏𝙤𝙠, 𝙙𝙚𝙨𝙥𝙞𝙩𝙚 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙝𝙖𝙡𝙛 𝙖𝙨 𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙮 𝙛𝙤𝙡𝙡𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙧𝙨, 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘺𝘴𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘢 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘡𝘦𝘭𝘧, 𝘢𝘯 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘮.
It's not just TikTok. They are everywhere.
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Haha we know Trump "followers" on Tiktok and other social media are mostly robots who don't actually ever express anything, but are there only to pump up the followers number.