Democracy Dies In Darkness with a little help from the far right.
Itās so cute the guy doesnāt realize his whole basis for existing as a public person in our society is fraudulent from the ground up. Cute but in a profoundly terrifying way.
He anonymously seems nice.
āTrump named Hans von Spakovsky, manager of the Heritage Foundationās Election Law Reform Initiative and a a senior legal fellow in its Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, to the panel in June.ā
Didnāt the Ark of the Covenant melt von Spakovskyās face off his skull?
Well, thatās an interesting attitudeā¦the commission will be a āfailureā if anyone who might not be onboard with restricting voting is allowed to sit on it. That, right there, tells you that the intent behind this commission has always been to make sure the result is that we need more voting restrictions, it was never meant to investigate voting in the US and how to make it work better. Heritage has the inside line, they know what Kobach and Pence are aiming for, so someone screwed up and sent an email complaining about the other members when they should have called instead.
This entire charade should not be happening, but itās the only way the Republicans can guarantee winning elections going forward. Well, aside from not having them, which is quite likely considering how many Republicans would be just fine cancelling elections if Trump says they should. Yes, there is polling reflecting that, sadly.
āBipartisanā is such a dirty word Democrats arenāt even wanted as cover for a voter suppression operation.
Wanted : People for elections panel. Must be certifiably insane. Belief in conspiracy theories a must. No Democrats, moderate Republicans, or others with brains that have functioning logic.
You just canāt keep a good asshole down.
Didnāt you forget that to get on the commission one must have a soul to sell to our Orange Overlord?
A staffer for the conservative Heritage Foundation came out in very strident terms against the appointment of any Democrats or āmainstreamā Republicans to President Donald Trumpās bogus āvoter fraudā panel, according to an email the Department of Justice released Tuesday.
Iāll just bet your sweet bippy you didnāt want this to happen. The faster you can muster up a solid voter suppression plan the better. Oh those pesky little things called principles and THE LAW. Iām getting the distinct impression, they donāt hold the SCOTUS in high esteem.
The sender cited concerns that the commission was ābeing organized in a way that will guarantee its failureā and claimed āthere isnāt a single Democratic official that will do anything other than obstruct any investigationā by the commission.
The sender also warned Sessions against āpicking mainstream Republican officials and/or academicsā for the panel.
āEverybody knows exactly what weāre trying to do here and who weāre trying to do it to. So, letās not complicate things or screw it up by putting anyone on the black/brown/young/democrat soon-to-be-ex-voters suppression panel except those who are 1000% with us.ā
This is the kind of story that really makes you despair in an existential way. There is simply no way in hell that our country is going to be brought together. It has been sold to the highest corporate interests and everyone is too stupid to know it. What makes American captains of industry so uniquely greedy and supremely selfish ā¦ as, say, compared to the Danes or Germans? What the hell happened here? Is it really all about race? Just askingā¦
Righteousness is a wide path. Self-righteousness (the Heritage Foundation) is a bullhorn and a blind fold.
I agreeā¦ butā¦ I have spent some time fretting this very issue, for the same reasons as you seem to be worrying, and I find a little comfort in looking back in History. I think we went through a period, around the time of the Spanish American War, (Is there any major nation on the planet we have not been at war with at one time or another?), when Yellow Journalism was a big thing, so I think Faux News is the same thing, showing up again. We got over it once, with the nation mostly intact, perhaps weāll manage that, again.
There are other parallels to that time available to be examined as wellā¦ consider the labor movement, voting rights, and even the creation of the USDA in response to Upton Sinclairās fictionalized account of the meat-packing industry, so the start, against significant resistance, of consumer protection. All these things under siege, again, because the motivations of the wealthy have never changed. This doesnāt mean we have to see the wealthy as evil, just that you have to recognize that their motivation is to become more wealthy.
So basically this as-yet-unnamed person was conspiring with the Attorney general to subvert the government of the united states. How interesting.
Why do Republicans hate democracy?
I didnāt either.
Because they are pretty certain that:
- They are a shrinking minority.
- They have the ONE TRUE WAY, and all other ways of thinking and acting are intellectually and morally inferior.
Such things can not be left to the vagaries of democracy; thereās too much at stake. This is the āgood intentionā which has often paved the road to tyranny.
I saw an article to today, just the headline, that many trump supporters are not much bothered if it turns out he ācheatedā to win; they are just happy heās in office. For myself, I wonder how Iād feel if it turned out Hillary or Bernie had won, and theyād been colluding with some foreign power.
It sounds Pollyanna, I suppose, but we really need to get back to a place where we Americans can disagree without seeing the other side, (whichever āother sideā), as the embodiment of evil. Itād be easier for me if the other side wasnāt the Lying Orange Shit-Stain and the KKKeebler Elf, because I am out of my league trying to see them as fellow humans, with valid opinions.
āListen, Selma, if we invite any chickens to be on the planning committee then weāre definitely not going to have Buffalo wings on the buffet and I really want some Buffalo wings!ā