Originally published at: Dem Senator Pushes Ice Director To Admit His Officers Have No Place at Polling Stations
Democrats have been warning for some time that there is a potential near future in which President Trump takes his army of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and floods polling places in areas that tend to not vote for Republicans during the midterm elections, an election-meddling rerun of what he has already done in blue…
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Karoline Leavitt said last week that she “can’t guarantee” ICE agents wouldn’t be near voting places.
After judges found no evidence and rejected the claims of this this wanna be dictator 63 times previously, and still, this is the official word from the White House, you know the country is in deep dictator trouble.
I don’t think that it would be prudent to wait until August or September to initiate impeachment proceedings.
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The gall of these Trumpers…. She will lose this case too.
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It is interesting that Bannon has been in the shadows again. But now seems to be present and alert once again. The Epstein mention may be one thing. But it feels like something else is causing the increased presence. It might be tied to the frenetic attitude of the administration and Miller’s pet cause.
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I think it was 10 years ago that MO require voter to present a photo ID to cast vote. I just looked at the latest rules on acceptable ID one can present at the polls.
ACCEPTABLE FORMS OF VOTER ID
Show one of the forms of acceptable identification and sign the poll book to obtain your ballot:
- A nonexpired Missouri driver or non-driver license;
- A nonexpired military ID, including a veteran’s ID card;
- A nonexpired United States passport; or
- Another photo ID issued by the United States or the state of Missouri which is either not expired or expired after the date of the most recent general election.
*If the driver or non-driver license has expired after the most recent general election, it is an acceptable form of voter ID.
If you do not possess any of these forms of identification, but are a registered voter, you may cast a provisional ballot.
Your provisional ballot will count if: (1) you return to your polling place on Election Day with a photo ID; or (2) the signature on your provisional ballot envelope is determined by your local election authority to match the signature on your voter registration record.
It just occurred to me that in each case a registered voter must provide photo ID that has not expired. This costs the voter money to keep being allowed to vote. There does seem to be path that a person can get a free NDID=Non Driver ID, but one has to go through the MO Sect of State and a MO DL Office.
I still think this a poll tax.
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In reality ICE and CBP will be largely unaffected since they already have tens of billions of dollars in funding that they received from the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act.”
Do they still have money left? The way puppy killer has been spending it, I don’t think there is much left.
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She can walk? Yeah, but maybe not chew gum at the same time. The thing she tripped over was not in the pedestrian walk way - in the middle of the street?
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Republicans aren’t dominant everywhere. In New Mexico, the Grungy Old Pedo Party could not even field a candidate for US Senator. Well, one tried, but couldn’t collect enough signatures to get on the ballot.
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In New Mexico, “voter identification” consists of stating your name.
They may ask for further clarification, like address. You only have to do the document thing when you first register, and many more forms of ID are permissible, along with some proof of residency, like a utility bill, paycheck, or government check.
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Well there have been reporting that those huge sign on bonuses never materialized.
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Epstein. And the elite
Free Article.
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What a putz. And she has time for this as the U.S. Attorney out of DC?
Puts me in mind… When I was maybe 10 or 12, my father broke his hand while boarding a train from NJ which (via what we then called the Tubes) would make its way to NYC, and he would land at 14 Irving Pl. (starts north of 14th St.), where he worked for ConEd (a different company then, but the name survives). He had slipped on some ice on a stair to the train. Was it icy? Well, probably. Anyway, he’d slipped. A number of people around him, well-heeled business types, urged him to sue. Sue! A thought that had not occurred to him, and he didn’t act on the suggestion. Maybe he would have, out of desperation, if ConEd hadn’t provided many of the costs of his medical care, but even then, I doubt he would have. Not just because he’d grown up in Montana, where winter really happens, but probably because he realized he should have been more careful when stepping onto an icy stair.
It’s not just about taking responsibility for one’s own decisions. It’s about a communal sense of taking care of one another while taking on personal responsibility. A concept beyond Pirro’s comprehension. She’s so horrible. (Is her ex-husband still in prison?)
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This is a stunner. Maybe some here will have to get over their NYT phobia.
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Hmmm. I wonder what her blood alcohol was?
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Okay, Judge Juicer, let’s see your BAC results.
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Yes, it is. I have voted from MN, MI, and MA and never provided proof of citizenship in any way shape or form. Here in MA I hope I won’t have to.
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In MA, too.
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The term “Epstein class” was new to me. How does it work? I guess a good start would be Epstein client Ronald Lauder, the billionaire who got Trump on his Greenland jag. Lauder has two Greenland ventures. He was instrumental in getting PayPal founder and billionaire, Ken Howery, appointed as US ambassador to Denmark in November. Howery earlier joined another PayPal alumnus Peter Thiel in creating the venture capital Founders Fund and acting as its CFO. Lauder also pushed for appointment of his son-in-law, Kevin Warsh, as Fed chair. There was some resistance to Warsh, an inflation hawk, as he is not all in on the Trump approach of financial repression (the most likely alternative to austerity). I think the Senate Committee on Banking should explore Lauder’s disproportionate influence on Trump, because it is really screwing up the world. Also are Warsh and Howery somehow jointly aware of Lauder’s plans? Howery, who served as US ambassador to Sweden in the final year’s of Trump 1.0 (2019 to 2021), presented his credentials to the Danish king last November, soon after Trump named him. Denmark has been one of the strongest supporters of Ukraine, while Howery supports the Putin view. There is some confusion about the Silicon Valley company Praxis’ proposal to build a “libertarian utopia” with minimal corporate regulations, environmental laws, or labor protections. Greenland would get some AI cities with autonomous vehicles, space launches, micro-nuclear reactors and high-speed rail. Praxis founder Dryden Brown, a colleague of Howery, visited Greenland in 2023 to discuss building a “Terminus” prototype (a reference to Musk’s Mars city concept). Real bro shit. And maybe it’s nothing more than billionaires trying to avoid taxes.
Their goal is to mine sovereignty like any other extractive resource and, over time, promote capital flight from existing nation states into green-field tax advantaged jurisdictions.
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“Terminus”, eh? That brings to mind Isaac Asimov’s “Foundation” series, where the planet “Terminus” was the distant site chosen for the location of the Foundation, supposedly an archive of knowledge and located at the edges of the galaxy, which would preserve the seeds of civilization while the rest of the galaxy collapsed into barbarism and a dark age.
Apropos of nothing, that’s why I like the sf genre. It’s always encouraged thinking big and long term. Unlike what “litrichure” seems to have collapsed into, where the writer wastes 10,000 words contemplating a cookie.
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