Newly Exposed Russian Disinfo Sites Echoed GOP’s False Narratives About Non-Citizen Voting

There is also a certain degree of friendliness between those two nations, it wouldn’t be surprising.

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I only just happened to stumble upon something that talked about this recently. It was a little surprising because all the coverage I see discusses its other effects, but not the effect on women. It cited a figure of 90% of married women taking the husband’s last name, and rarely going through a legal name change, so that (unless she’s gotten a passport since marriage) her “citizenship-proving” documents’ name field won’t completely match her current ID/voter registration name. They guessed it could be one-third of all women voters.

Whether that will help them win the election or not, it’s appalling to try to mass-disenfranchise female voters. And it’s weird (yet pretty typical) that this aspect of it – in fact, apparently of voting laws that involve ID/proof of citizenship in general – has gotten basically no play. Crickets. Anyway, here’s the thing I saw. It relies on a 2014 NOW report, I’d like to see something more up-to-date.

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It’s being taken by some as recognition by them that, since Dobbs, women voting could be a real threat to them. That’s why DT and Vance [edit: Vance and Moreno? whatever] are up on this site today, trying to spin on abortion in such ludicrous ways that it suggests desperation. All to the good. I’m just saying that under current conditions, it makes more sense than it might have otherwise.

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No, Obama governed as a moderate Republican to the right of Eisenhower and Nixon. I mean, protecting bankers who committed the crime of the century ain’t fucking leadership. It’s convenient cowardice.

I wouldn’t underestimate the hypocrisy of yocal rule-makers or enforcers. There was a sizable minority in the rural community where I grew up. For some mysterious reason they seemed to get “caught” breaking those rules much more often than us white folk. So I wouldn’t be surprised if any white, married gal out there who adopted her husband’s name ever faces any serious obstacles to vote.

Now, women of color who do? Hmmmm …

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If you’re just going to jump straight to the part where local officials don’t let people they don’t like vote, it doesn’t really matter what the law actually provides for, does it?

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Imagine being Charles Koch, watching Putin and now nouveau riche cretin Elon Musk fighting over the scepter you spent decades building.

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Just a side thought: this kind of misinformation may be something that has been made easier by the proliferation of paywalls. Can’t get to the real site, but there’s an address with content that (superficially) looks just like it. I wonder if there are people pushing that idea – you can get around the paywall by going to the misinformation site.

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Vance already thinks the right (white) people should get an extra vote for every kid. Assigning the wife’s vote to the husband is only one more step.

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If believing that (utter bullshit) keeps you warm at night, then more power too ya.

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do you mean this?
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or this?

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They need an excuse they can point to.

Stephen Miller is Putin’s love child.

Go ahead and prove me wrong…

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For part of this utter bullshit we can consult the ultimate expert:

President Obama said his economic policies are “so mainstream” he’d be considered a moderate Republican in the 1980s.

Cat.

So whenever the system tells you this, try adding the following:

‘<’, then ‘br’, then ‘>’ on the next line. (That’s four characters, no spaces.)

This should fool the system into thinking there’s more to your post, so it should stop whinging about your entry.

Hope this helps…

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Example:

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Moronic simple minded programming. It won’t accept anything — even grammatically complete sentences — that are written in all caps.

Idiotic.

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“The closer Nov. 5 gets, the more it becomes clear what base the parties are relying on to achieve victory in the presidential race,” the fake article said.

Yes. Yes, it does.

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