Johnson Congratulates Himself On The Magical Disappearance Of Non-Citizen Voting

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Originally published at: Johnson Congratulates Himself On The Magical Disappearance Of Non-Citizen Voting - TPM – Talking Points Memo

For months now, Republicans have been setting the stage to cry voter fraud in the event of a possible Donald Trump loss — warning specifically about the supposed dangers of non-citizens voting.  However, unsurprisingly, outrage over non-citizens supposedly voting en masse for Democrats, and general, run-of-the-mill claims of voter fraud, have practically disappeared since Trump’s victory…

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So, yeah, since I’m first… well. Obligatory:

That is, why not just say this magic rock that repels tigers also stopped illegal-immigrant voter fraud while you’re at it, jackass?

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During a press briefing on Tuesday, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) addressed a question from a reporter about how non-citizen voting impacted last week’s election, by crediting Republicans for ostensibly eradicating the issue after states passed legislation “to shore up their systems” and protect against this supposed threat.

This is the flip side of Josh’s latest Backchannel post, where he concludes that understanding why things happened is the first step to addressing them.

You make the best decisions when you start from an accurate understanding of what happened. You don’t gain any psychic points or merit by exaggeration or falsehood. It may feel like that but it’s not the case.

I agree with Josh’s point that that is the best way to move forward, but the GOP tried that briefly in 2013 with their “post-mortem” that was immediately “mortemed” by Trump. You can either stop and reflect and gain a better understanding of the situation, or you can just slam that round peg at that square hole harder, until something breaks. The Democrats are inclined toward the first solution, while the Republicans are completely enthralled by the second one.

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That is, why not just say this magic rock that repels tigers also stopped illegal-immigrant voter fraud while you’re at it, jackass?
… … …
Magic rock makes face eating leopard disappear

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People get ready theres a train a comin’…you dont need a ticket you just get on board…realistically we missed our chance and the train…get ready for blood on the tracks…nothing to stop the lies and malfeasance now…look whose in the mix already merely a week removed from disaster.

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So in MO the state constitutional Amendment was #7. There was three parts to this amendment-

  1. making it state law that only citizens of the US can vote.
  2. prohibit rank choice voting.
  3. require the plurality winner of a political party primary to be the single candidate at the general election.

The third one made me scratch my head. It passed 68.4 % while the amendment to make abortion legal in MO only won with 51.6%.

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During a press briefing on Tuesday, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) addressed a question from a reporter about how non-citizen voting impacted last week’s election, by crediting Republicans for ostensibly eradicating the issue after states passed legislation “to shore up their systems” and protect against this supposed threat.

The number of unlikely causes at work, and transformations to the country (ie, the economy) that will have come to pass in the coming weeks will challenge belief.
The reactionaries are all in on bullshit.
ETA: Plausibly enough to have made an editor at Pravda blanche.

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Reading the headline, I had to first ask myself which Johnson it was talking about. Since it’s Mike Johnson, and the story is about the magical disappearance of noncitizen voting, I guess I’ll have to refer to him here as “Witch Johnson.”

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A total fake Christian moron. But then…watching the ‘appointments’ of his ‘Boss’ …what can I really say?

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I agree with Trump for the first time in my life. The election was rigged.

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And Republicans solved the immigration problem yesterday! Amazing!

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Mike should get out his porn-o-meter.

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I do think it’s interesting though that Johnson was claiming election fraud when Trump was in the White House but no election fraud when a Democrat was in the White House. Hmmm

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I personally know of one illegal vote for Trump and all Republicans. Election officials just winked and allowed this voter to go ahead without the required ID, said official aware of the Republican vote.

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Shouldn’t we all know by now that most of The Vulgar Talking Yam’s claims are baseless? Sadly, he is nominating Matt Gaetz for Attorney General. Shameless.

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Yes. All through the long, long LONGGGG campaign, he insisted the election would be rigged. He yowled endlessly about busloads of illegal immigrants voting. Then he added notes of hope, on how he had the vote counting all sewed up, and “you don’t even need to vote.”

So, there clearly was cheating, and by his own words, the Trump-aligned folks were the ones doing it.

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