I truly believe that a world run by women would be a much better world. To disenfranchise women, much less keep them from positions of power, would ensure an imbalanced Mars here on Earth. I hope that family privacy, bodily autonomy, and the freaking right to keep voting bring women to the polls to vote for their own self-interests, which are good for us all.
No surprise here that they will try every trick in the book to win the election. But on the upside it means that they are seriously looking at a blue wave this fall. They are like the little Dutch boy with his finger in the dike.
Too often, people forget that right-wing Republicans know they are nowhere near the majority of voters and so cannot win the presidency by getting the majority of votes. So, they have for years used all sorts of subversion to undermine voting by likely democratic voters. Trump and the Republican Party have now arrived at a place of desperation. They have concluded that all they can do now is to sow complete and utter electoral chaos with hundreds of lawsuits challenging voters and voting procedures all around the country — but especially in the swing states — and feverishly trying to provoke local intimidation and violence by their local acolytes and militias.
Trumps and the Republican Party at this point are far more than weird. They are dangerous to our collective life and liberty..
H.R. 8281, the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act (SAVE Act). Introduced by Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX). “Radical progressive Democrats are engaged in a wholesale attack on citizenship and what it means to be an American. Through open borders, lawlessness, and attacks on this nation’s founding principles, the Left is ripping at the very fabric that holds this nation together.
We will only be able to keep this republic as a republic as long as our citizenship as Americans remains meaningful. That’s why I introduced the SAVE Act in the first place, and it's why the People’s House passed it today.
I am grateful for Speaker Johnson's leadership and my Republican colleagues' support for getting this across the finish line. Today's passage is just the beginning, however. We must push forward, pressure the Senate, and keep up the fight for what makes this country great and what it means to be an American citizen.”
Every public official is sworn to defend and protect the Constitution. Every MAGAT public official who supports stuff like this should be questioned to determine whether they violated the oath.
"I, AB, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God." This section does not affect other oaths required by law."
General Ethical Standards Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees; and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people. Henry Clay.
So, as a 78-year-old citizen of the United States, will I be able to vote in Virginia if my birth certificate does not have the same name on it as my passport (which, even though I am divorced, still has my married name on it?)
A passport is all you need, by itself it proves identity and citizenship in one document. The problem here is for women who took their husbands name and DON’T have a passport to prove both. If the picture ID has their married name, it won’t match their birth certificate and they could be refused a ballot in some states
Thank you for clarifying that a passport is all anyone needs to qualify for voting in any state even if the SAVE Act passes. If I use my driver's license (with my married name) as my photo ID, and my birth certificate (with my maiden name), would those two documents suffice, without my passport, under the SAVE ACT?
No. Then you disappear and become one with your husband. This was the case not so very long ago. You were under your Father's name and control, or later on Uncle, Brother or another Male until marriage. At that point you passed into ownership of your husband and everything you owned became his. You were unable to work unless he agreed and he legally got your pay, your children were his, the house, everything. You couldn't open a bank account,get a patent, go to school, or even leave the house without permission and often a male escort. These are the actual Good Old Days that Republicans are aiming for. That's a reason Single Cat Ladies are such a threat. Do you realize what a Loose Woman really means? She's not tied down by a man. She's independent.
Trump’s own election fraud task force disbanded after finding no evidence of systematic illegal voting by non- citizens. And certainly not the millions that delusional Trump alleged.
This is all cynical theater from a Party that knows it has to suppress the vote to have any chance of winning the presidency.
This is an important post clarifying the nefarious rationale for Trump and the Republicans pushing for a law that, on its face, seems unnecessary due to federal law already prohibiting votes by non-citizens. The media hasn't made either the Republican strategy or the downstream opportunity that a new law like this presents for authoritarian misuse clear, so most people will view it only as another sideshow in a dysfunctional Republican house doing the bidding of Trump and dismiss it as noise.
That's a dangerous mistake to make at a time when Republicans could use a law like this to effectively end democracy should they gain the power to use it. It's also a disgraceful failure of our corporate media, who have failed to report on the real gravity of this situation, the reason that Trump and the Republicans are pushing this, and the potential downstream abuse that would deprive millions of US citizens their right to vote.
Recall that Trump’s main claim that the 2020 election was rigged were the accommodations that were made to facilitate voting in light of the Covid pandemic. Now he wants to make new rules just before the 2024 election to ensure “fair voting” which in his view is no voting by anyone who would vote against him. Talk about stealing an election!!
Hey Tom--you left out "malarky"! But seriously, what kind of political party would be so hellbent on constructing barriers to voting, but one that has no interest in how people think and feel? All the more reason to stop them at the polls.
I read research several years ago that swearing is cathartic and relieves symptoms of stress. Nevertheless, it took me two months and several trips retrieving documents to renew my driver's licence although it was the fourth renewal under my married name. My yearly Social Security statement finally sufficed but not my Medicare card. I checked my voter's registration again two weeks ago.
I've had a couple of friends who were married a couple of times and had a Devil of a time getting the new Real ID in California because they had to trace each legal shift with official paperwork back to their birth certificate. Lesson: Get married but DON'T take your husband's name.
But I didn't swear when the young lady refused my marriage license which they accepted for the name change on my license after the marriage which didn't help my blood pressure.
The Republicans are trying to provoke a civil war. They are being directed by Russia - Putin is Russia, and other oligarchs. The Evangelicals associated with them are trying to trigger the Rapture.
The insurrection never stopped.
This is only the birth pains. I went to the Tim Alberta’s church-when his dad was alive. It was nice then. Haven’t been back since.
How many “coincidences” do you need to see that there are messengers.
Kay, I also think the Evangelical Republicans are trying to start a civil war. This morning, I read in the paper USA TODAY NETWORK--Tennessean that " a high-profile group of Christian organizations, including the National Religious Broadcasters, have filed a lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service challenging a key legal precedent that limits the amount of political influence a nonprofit organization can wield."
They call the classification that churches cannot speak about political candidates "discriminatory." They don't want to proceed until after the election, I believe, because they expect Trump to lose but want church members to be angry that their freedom of speech is being violated. The courts have ruled that all the churches must do is change to 501c-4 from 501c-3 to endorse candidates, allowing church members to claim donations on their Federal tax forms. Since the LBJ administration, church pastors can't endorse candidates to be tax-exempt.
I fear this special SCOTUS will change the ruling, but worse is that the members will be angry and protest that Trump lost due to the repression of their free speech.
This is beyond bullshit folks, what the Republicans have started to implement is a full-on SHIT STORM!
Jeremy Strong describes what Trump's mentor Roy Cohn taught him:
1-Attack and keep attacking
2-Deny everything
3-Never admit defeat
Jeremy plays Roy in the up-coming Trump movie "The Apprentice". He gave the list on Colbert last night.
Then Rachel Maddow was on Late Night with Seth Meyers informing the public that this election will not be properly certified by the Republicans. She said to expect turmoil after election night and long after. A fact Thom had already taught HIS audience.
Trump and his cult led by Mike Johnson are desperate losers that will continue to Attack, Deny, and Never Admit Defeat. It is going to take Kamala, an army of women, and some good allies of all genders to fight back. Everyone will have to clean up. Expect no relief from this shit ON election day!
Very, very important point. We need to lean on our senators -- if we're lucky enough to have rational, pro-democracy senators -- to watch out for this. If men adopted their wives' surnames at marriage, we wouldn't have to put up with this crap.
Louder, Thom! We need MANY more pissed off women! Those KristoFascist mother freakers are going to fuck (profanity neccessary) with the men who oppose them too. Gas and fire do not discriminate by sex.
This is very true. Men don't realize that the oppression of women rebounds onto them also and they end up being used as disposable workers and fodder for wars.
The reason the Rethuglicans prefer male voters is that, on average they're dumber than a box of rocks.
Males are raised to be narcissists. Everything that we think and do is right or wrong moral or immoral and it isn't macho to care in America if you are a male! A lack of caring is the root of all evil.
Women are raised to care for the children, while males are supposed to march off to war, any war. When they get back from war, they are supposed to follow orders, work long hours for little pay and impregnate as many women as possible and run off and not pay child support, while being a drug addict.
It is either that or become a religious fanatic who drives people crazy.
I hope I am wrong but the only way the human race is going to survive is if all the children are raised from birth properly where all their needs are met and there is no child abuse and rational thinking is taught. Agnostic growing centers could do all of that. We could end racism, most crime, religious hatred, drug babies... But this is all we got currently and making decisions at the last minute to our voter registration system is corrupt and the Supreme Court will probably go for it. The cult thinks it's dangerous now, they just need to wait until the food stores close down, that is when the fun is really going to begin!
Bob. Agnostic growth centers won't produce good people. Agnostic may be ok, but orphaned children in assembly line style institutions fail to thrive. Failure to thrive syndrome is also found in homes absent affection and without the formation of human bonding. There is some truth in your observations on how many males were brought up.
Gloria they would have both parents to bond with at the agnostic growing center and all of their relatives on both sides of their family plus everyone else in the commune! There is a lack of Love in this family unit ideology which consists a lot of the times of single women without husbands or fathers! Orphanages are usually ran by A couple of adults and have a bunch of children running around unattended, neglected, abused.
Of course the GOP quest will fail and women will vote against the failure of the GOP to stop women from voting this year. When a group thinks a fantasy is real is when you know that they are trying to escape reality by any means possible. The danger is the reaction afterwards the loss. Maybe a blue wave if large enough will make more not rational action less likely. Be ready for it anyway as top Repubs politicians will not accept the outcome. No doubt violence will be blamed on the groups that have no history of violence by the supporters of hate and past criminal acts.
I've always said that it's a bad idea to vote someone into Government Office who wants Armageddon and the end of the World. I also wonder why they think they have to end the World themselves when they believe their version of God is Omnipotent? Can't he handle that himself if he wants to do so? 🙄
They are following liars, false prophets. Look at 2Peter2. This was “predicted”; aka we were warned 2000 years ago. No one including Jesus Christ knew the timing of the End. These people are being misled. They are following false teachers who only care about power and money
I truly believe that a world run by women would be a much better world. To disenfranchise women, much less keep them from positions of power, would ensure an imbalanced Mars here on Earth. I hope that family privacy, bodily autonomy, and the freaking right to keep voting bring women to the polls to vote for their own self-interests, which are good for us all.
There are millions of women who vote R, which is a sure sign in this country that women can't be trusted, either.
No surprise here that they will try every trick in the book to win the election. But on the upside it means that they are seriously looking at a blue wave this fall. They are like the little Dutch boy with his finger in the dike.
Too often, people forget that right-wing Republicans know they are nowhere near the majority of voters and so cannot win the presidency by getting the majority of votes. So, they have for years used all sorts of subversion to undermine voting by likely democratic voters. Trump and the Republican Party have now arrived at a place of desperation. They have concluded that all they can do now is to sow complete and utter electoral chaos with hundreds of lawsuits challenging voters and voting procedures all around the country — but especially in the swing states — and feverishly trying to provoke local intimidation and violence by their local acolytes and militias.
Trumps and the Republican Party at this point are far more than weird. They are dangerous to our collective life and liberty..
H.R. 8281, the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act (SAVE Act). Introduced by Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX). “Radical progressive Democrats are engaged in a wholesale attack on citizenship and what it means to be an American. Through open borders, lawlessness, and attacks on this nation’s founding principles, the Left is ripping at the very fabric that holds this nation together.
We will only be able to keep this republic as a republic as long as our citizenship as Americans remains meaningful. That’s why I introduced the SAVE Act in the first place, and it's why the People’s House passed it today.
I am grateful for Speaker Johnson's leadership and my Republican colleagues' support for getting this across the finish line. Today's passage is just the beginning, however. We must push forward, pressure the Senate, and keep up the fight for what makes this country great and what it means to be an American citizen.”
Every public official is sworn to defend and protect the Constitution. Every MAGAT public official who supports stuff like this should be questioned to determine whether they violated the oath.
"I, AB, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God." This section does not affect other oaths required by law."
General Ethical Standards Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees; and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people. Henry Clay.
See House Ethics Manual. https://ethics.house.gov/sites/ethics.house.gov/files/documents/Dec%202022%20House%20Ethics%20Manual%20website%20version.pdf
The purpose for the legislation is based on a phony predicate.....for evasive logic.
Every candidate should be asked whether they accept the results of the 2020 election.
So, as a 78-year-old citizen of the United States, will I be able to vote in Virginia if my birth certificate does not have the same name on it as my passport (which, even though I am divorced, still has my married name on it?)
A passport is all you need, by itself it proves identity and citizenship in one document. The problem here is for women who took their husbands name and DON’T have a passport to prove both. If the picture ID has their married name, it won’t match their birth certificate and they could be refused a ballot in some states
Thank you for clarifying that a passport is all anyone needs to qualify for voting in any state even if the SAVE Act passes. If I use my driver's license (with my married name) as my photo ID, and my birth certificate (with my maiden name), would those two documents suffice, without my passport, under the SAVE ACT?
No. Then you disappear and become one with your husband. This was the case not so very long ago. You were under your Father's name and control, or later on Uncle, Brother or another Male until marriage. At that point you passed into ownership of your husband and everything you owned became his. You were unable to work unless he agreed and he legally got your pay, your children were his, the house, everything. You couldn't open a bank account,get a patent, go to school, or even leave the house without permission and often a male escort. These are the actual Good Old Days that Republicans are aiming for. That's a reason Single Cat Ladies are such a threat. Do you realize what a Loose Woman really means? She's not tied down by a man. She's independent.
I got married in 1960, and my wife could not get a credit card in her name. Well there were no credit cards, only Gas cards and Diners Card.
Nope
Trump’s own election fraud task force disbanded after finding no evidence of systematic illegal voting by non- citizens. And certainly not the millions that delusional Trump alleged.
This is all cynical theater from a Party that knows it has to suppress the vote to have any chance of winning the presidency.
This is an important post clarifying the nefarious rationale for Trump and the Republicans pushing for a law that, on its face, seems unnecessary due to federal law already prohibiting votes by non-citizens. The media hasn't made either the Republican strategy or the downstream opportunity that a new law like this presents for authoritarian misuse clear, so most people will view it only as another sideshow in a dysfunctional Republican house doing the bidding of Trump and dismiss it as noise.
That's a dangerous mistake to make at a time when Republicans could use a law like this to effectively end democracy should they gain the power to use it. It's also a disgraceful failure of our corporate media, who have failed to report on the real gravity of this situation, the reason that Trump and the Republicans are pushing this, and the potential downstream abuse that would deprive millions of US citizens their right to vote.
Recall that Trump’s main claim that the 2020 election was rigged were the accommodations that were made to facilitate voting in light of the Covid pandemic. Now he wants to make new rules just before the 2024 election to ensure “fair voting” which in his view is no voting by anyone who would vote against him. Talk about stealing an election!!
Hey Tom--you left out "malarky"! But seriously, what kind of political party would be so hellbent on constructing barriers to voting, but one that has no interest in how people think and feel? All the more reason to stop them at the polls.
A brief glance at Project 2025 will answer your question (and then some)!
Is Trump, convicted of 34 FELONIES, eligible to vote in Florida? DeSantis' "election police" should be all over this!
More swearing! More! In the situation we’re in
I read research several years ago that swearing is cathartic and relieves symptoms of stress. Nevertheless, it took me two months and several trips retrieving documents to renew my driver's licence although it was the fourth renewal under my married name. My yearly Social Security statement finally sufficed but not my Medicare card. I checked my voter's registration again two weeks ago.
I've had a couple of friends who were married a couple of times and had a Devil of a time getting the new Real ID in California because they had to trace each legal shift with official paperwork back to their birth certificate. Lesson: Get married but DON'T take your husband's name.
Yup, keeps my blood pressure down.
But I didn't swear when the young lady refused my marriage license which they accepted for the name change on my license after the marriage which didn't help my blood pressure.
I strongly recommend you get a passport, if there is any question about your name matching
The Republicans are trying to provoke a civil war. They are being directed by Russia - Putin is Russia, and other oligarchs. The Evangelicals associated with them are trying to trigger the Rapture.
The insurrection never stopped.
This is only the birth pains. I went to the Tim Alberta’s church-when his dad was alive. It was nice then. Haven’t been back since.
How many “coincidences” do you need to see that there are messengers.
Appeal to Heaven
You are getting your answer
Lazarus and the Rich man
Reported so in the Guardian today. “Collusion” was and continues to be a real threat.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/19/intelligencer-pro-russia-website-trump?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Kay, I also think the Evangelical Republicans are trying to start a civil war. This morning, I read in the paper USA TODAY NETWORK--Tennessean that " a high-profile group of Christian organizations, including the National Religious Broadcasters, have filed a lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service challenging a key legal precedent that limits the amount of political influence a nonprofit organization can wield."
They call the classification that churches cannot speak about political candidates "discriminatory." They don't want to proceed until after the election, I believe, because they expect Trump to lose but want church members to be angry that their freedom of speech is being violated. The courts have ruled that all the churches must do is change to 501c-4 from 501c-3 to endorse candidates, allowing church members to claim donations on their Federal tax forms. Since the LBJ administration, church pastors can't endorse candidates to be tax-exempt.
I fear this special SCOTUS will change the ruling, but worse is that the members will be angry and protest that Trump lost due to the repression of their free speech.
This is beyond bullshit folks, what the Republicans have started to implement is a full-on SHIT STORM!
Jeremy Strong describes what Trump's mentor Roy Cohn taught him:
1-Attack and keep attacking
2-Deny everything
3-Never admit defeat
Jeremy plays Roy in the up-coming Trump movie "The Apprentice". He gave the list on Colbert last night.
Then Rachel Maddow was on Late Night with Seth Meyers informing the public that this election will not be properly certified by the Republicans. She said to expect turmoil after election night and long after. A fact Thom had already taught HIS audience.
Trump and his cult led by Mike Johnson are desperate losers that will continue to Attack, Deny, and Never Admit Defeat. It is going to take Kamala, an army of women, and some good allies of all genders to fight back. Everyone will have to clean up. Expect no relief from this shit ON election day!
Very, very important point. We need to lean on our senators -- if we're lucky enough to have rational, pro-democracy senators -- to watch out for this. If men adopted their wives' surnames at marriage, we wouldn't have to put up with this crap.
That's a excellent idea. 💡🎉
Louder, Thom! We need MANY more pissed off women! Those KristoFascist mother freakers are going to fuck (profanity neccessary) with the men who oppose them too. Gas and fire do not discriminate by sex.
This is very true. Men don't realize that the oppression of women rebounds onto them also and they end up being used as disposable workers and fodder for wars.
The reason the Rethuglicans prefer male voters is that, on average they're dumber than a box of rocks.
Males are raised to be narcissists. Everything that we think and do is right or wrong moral or immoral and it isn't macho to care in America if you are a male! A lack of caring is the root of all evil.
Women are raised to care for the children, while males are supposed to march off to war, any war. When they get back from war, they are supposed to follow orders, work long hours for little pay and impregnate as many women as possible and run off and not pay child support, while being a drug addict.
It is either that or become a religious fanatic who drives people crazy.
I hope I am wrong but the only way the human race is going to survive is if all the children are raised from birth properly where all their needs are met and there is no child abuse and rational thinking is taught. Agnostic growing centers could do all of that. We could end racism, most crime, religious hatred, drug babies... But this is all we got currently and making decisions at the last minute to our voter registration system is corrupt and the Supreme Court will probably go for it. The cult thinks it's dangerous now, they just need to wait until the food stores close down, that is when the fun is really going to begin!
Bob. Agnostic growth centers won't produce good people. Agnostic may be ok, but orphaned children in assembly line style institutions fail to thrive. Failure to thrive syndrome is also found in homes absent affection and without the formation of human bonding. There is some truth in your observations on how many males were brought up.
Gloria they would have both parents to bond with at the agnostic growing center and all of their relatives on both sides of their family plus everyone else in the commune! There is a lack of Love in this family unit ideology which consists a lot of the times of single women without husbands or fathers! Orphanages are usually ran by A couple of adults and have a bunch of children running around unattended, neglected, abused.
Write a sci fi script with you're idea.
We must stop this
Of course the GOP quest will fail and women will vote against the failure of the GOP to stop women from voting this year. When a group thinks a fantasy is real is when you know that they are trying to escape reality by any means possible. The danger is the reaction afterwards the loss. Maybe a blue wave if large enough will make more not rational action less likely. Be ready for it anyway as top Repubs politicians will not accept the outcome. No doubt violence will be blamed on the groups that have no history of violence by the supporters of hate and past criminal acts.
There is a picture of the Golan Heights with a brick or cement sign. The top is in Hebrew but the bottom says Trump Heights.
Some Republicans are also tricking Evangelicals into triggering The Rapture.
Instead they will trigger global war😣.
Stop them.
I've always said that it's a bad idea to vote someone into Government Office who wants Armageddon and the end of the World. I also wonder why they think they have to end the World themselves when they believe their version of God is Omnipotent? Can't he handle that himself if he wants to do so? 🙄
They are following liars, false prophets. Look at 2Peter2. This was “predicted”; aka we were warned 2000 years ago. No one including Jesus Christ knew the timing of the End. These people are being misled. They are following false teachers who only care about power and money