President Joe Biden on Tuesday will describe state-level Republican voting restrictions as the greatest threat to Democracy since the Civil War, invoking the Ku Klux Klan and the Jan. 6 Capitol attack during a speech on voting rights, a White House official said.
I like the bold new flavor of Joe! They say keep your powder dry for the fight ahead. Looks like there’s a plan. Hey GQPee, watch Joe spend some political capital between now and September to pass reforms addressing many of the voter suppression bills that passed GOP-majority partisan state houses last spring.
I like it too. Oh, and TPM will live stream the speech for sure and set up a thread for comment. Right?
I would comment on this thread.
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Texas election results suggest that Republican royalty want to make it rougher for Republican riffraff to vote because Republican royalty don’t really want a repeat of The Rump. Republican politicians are more terrified of Republican voters than of BLM and Antifa combined.
I hope Joe gets the message across in words of one syllable that his administration is not going to tolerate voter suppression from anyone.
If he gets too esoteric, too many people won’t know what the hell he’s talking about.
It’s time to get out the sledgehammer on the head of the jackasses that are pulling this suppression nonsense and raise the alarms. Joe can’t be nice about this - he’s gotta come out blazing.
ETA: and it’s a damned shame he decided to do this today, with the All Stars Game to distract - might’ve been better to do it tomorrow with no distractions.
Trump was elected utilizing a total of five adjectives. Good advice.
I wonder if these people have shared these photos with their children and other loved ones.
They must be so proud of their ugliness and bile.
This is going to be a barn burner of a speech, and one I’ll definitely watch. He’s going to name drop the KKK, the insurrection, the confederacy -all Republican institutions- which is going to drive them insane.
I hope John Roberts has a front row seat.
They wear it like a badge of honor.
Oh, I know. I just shake my head in awe and sorrow at how much energy they must consume daily with this.
ETA: the article doesn’t note at what time this speech will take place, other than to say this afternoon. Anyone have anything more specific?
It’s because they know how many of them are nuts.
And packing heat.
And Manchin and Sinema.
Pressure’s on.
This is what Clyburn was asking Biden to do this past weekend, and here we are.
House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn’s (D-SC) call for Biden to endorse a “carve out” to the filibuster that would allow Democrats’ voting rights bills an opportunity to reach Biden’s desk.
To me, this right here is the simple solution that solves everyone’s problems while Manchin and Sinema get to continue stupidly protecting the filibuster that Republicans will immediately get rid of as soon as they control the WH and the Senate again. It really doesn’t matter what excuse they come up with to justify getting it done, they just need to do it. If so, Sinema will more than likely survive any primary challenger in 2024 and go on to be reelected and Manchin will get to retire from office as the keeper of Sen. Byrd’s dying legacy on civil rights. Hell, if he gets this done, he’ll get to leave office as a hero because no one will give a shit about how he held it up along the way.
”Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) recalled a towering Texan who signed crucial civil rights legislation into law — President Lyndon Johnson. The Voting Rights Act, which Johnson made law in 1965, was gutted by the Supreme Court in 2013…”
Yes, there was Vietnam (which, but for Nixon’s – literal – treason via Anna Chennault, would’ve ended thousands of lives sooner), and like those imperfect geniuses among The Founders, he was a…complicated…man – but LBJ may be the most underappreciated President in US history.
The Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, Medicare, Medicaid, Thurgood Marshall’s appointment to the Supreme Court, the Clear Air Act, the Highway Safety Act, warning labels on tobacco, Head Start, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the National Endowment for the Arts, HUD, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, Affirmative Action, the Truth in Lending Act, Guaranteed Student Loans, the Endangered Species Act…
Few have achieved such enduring, towering, everyday legacies that we all take for granted.
And most prophetic of all, his absolute knowledge that – because Democrats did the right thing; the basic, moral, human thing – “We have lost the South for a generation.”
"invoking the Ku Klux Klan "
Oy vey…here comes the “Dems created the KKK!!!” and “Robert Byrd” nonsense from the right wing fuckwad gallery…
