Originally published at: READ: Detroit Responds to DOJ Sending Election Monitors to Three Blue Michigan Cities - TPM – Talking Points Memo
Detroit election officials accused the Justice Department of using “thin gruel” to create a “pretext” to justify sending voting monitors to the city for Michigan’s August 4 primary, letters exclusively obtained by TPM show. That includes what city officials suggested was a false claim about federal monitors during the 2024 election. In the first letter,…
2 Likes
I am getting nervious about this years election. My granddaughter is going to be having our first great grandchild the end of October so my wife and I have planned to remain here until early November. That means I need to vote absentee. If that Trump asshole and his fascist DOJ thugs keep me from voting I will be less than pleased. I imagine there are probably millions of other Americans who are going to want to vote absentee for similar reasons. .
6 Likes
Validity is not a concern in the current DOJ. Dominance and confusion are the game, the claim serves the latter, the demand for compliance the former. This is the corruption of democracy in action.
… a democratic conception of corruption focuses on processes, it also highlights institutionalized corruption. Duplicitous corruption can become …
Consistent with the modern conception, corruption consists in activities by public officials that depart from the norms, laws, and expectations of their offices, from which they realize gains. Government as the trustee and executor of collective purposes is corrupted. Democracy is directly harmed when people lack a collective agent they can trust to execute collective decisions.
– Mark E. Warren
Off topic but WRT duplicity, it appears none of the Republican senators claiming to have spoken with McConnell did so in person (McConnell speaks to Republican leaders as speculation swirls about his health, remains hospitalized). Even assuming their claims are truthful (a dubious assumption), how do they know they were not speaking with an appropriately trained AI (would they have any incentive to speculate if they suspected)?
Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. – Frank Wilhoit
3 Likes
Good pushback by the City Clerk.
3 Likes
Congratulations! No matter what Trump may do, don’t let him interfere with your enjoyment.
1 Like
Well, you know, Detroit is one of those big cities full of, shall we say, “undesirables”, as are Philadelphia, Cleveland, Atlanta and Chicago. And you know how those people are.
1 Like
Gov. Newsom legislative proposal: f@cking with election, seizing ballots, etc = felony.