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If republicans will not allow voting by mail this fall. (Original Post) Ani Yun Wiya Apr 2020 OP
This has been steadily in the works for 15 years. DFW Apr 2020 #1
They will do anything to stop the vote. We had better be prepared for anything. That includes ooky Apr 2020 #2
As COVID-19 starts exploding everywhere including Red States, all Democrats should be... WyattKansas Apr 2020 #3

DFW

(54,291 posts)
1. This has been steadily in the works for 15 years.
Wed Apr 8, 2020, 08:14 AM
Apr 2020

Roberts and Alito both survived their routes to nomination to the Supreme Court by promising Cheney and Rove that they would rule favorably on the measure that came to be known as "Citizens United." They obviously also indicated their willingness to uphold laws that restricted voting rights, and made it easy for Republican governors and legislatures to enact/enforce them.

All Republican politicians with half a brain, plus many with less generous allocations, know that when fair elections are held, Republicans tend to lose. Therefore, ANY measure that will tend to restrict the right of non-Republicans to vote will be viewed favorably by the Supreme Court's Republican-appointed "justices," a title more distant from its original meaning than at any point in the history of the United States.

ooky

(8,908 posts)
2. They will do anything to stop the vote. We had better be prepared for anything. That includes
Wed Apr 8, 2020, 08:39 AM
Apr 2020

Republicans trying to shut down the post office.

I suggest blank ballots be mailed to us or printed on line. We then fill them out and take them to a drop box. We need to get out in front of this shit right fucking now.

WyattKansas

(1,648 posts)
3. As COVID-19 starts exploding everywhere including Red States, all Democrats should be...
Wed Apr 8, 2020, 10:36 AM
Apr 2020

Screaming about the obvious BS tactics by republicans screwing elections, voting, health, and safety.

However, the Democratic Party needs 'fat cat fuckers' (or any other counter to 'rat fuckers' by Nixon) to fuck over the republican candidates behind the scenes. For example now with what republicans forced with voting in person: The 'fat cat fuckers' of the Democratic Party should spread around conservative media and republican districts that a lot of their voting machines were not sanitized after a COVID-19 outbreak, the 'Deep State' (use it against since they fear nonsense) put the infectious virus into the ventilation system at their polls, they are allowing very ill and bringing in hospital patients of COVID-19 infected people vote at polls, etc. etc. etc. Scare the hell out of them with their own nonsense conspiracy theories... If it forces them to act reasonably or to be more fair, then so be it.

Democratic Party and all Democrats: STOP with the 'we cannot stoop to their level' of republicans, because the republican party has been beating you to a pulp with it for decades. Stand up and unload on them with everything, because the future now desperately depends on it. And stop with the 'we have to make sure we are not accused of anything' by republicans, because they will do that anyway. Enough already with taking the extremely civil gentle approach, because you are dealing with a street fighter who does not give a damn about following any laws, norms, rules, or any civil behavior. Republicans have only one goal and that is to win, even it means cheating and killing people to accomplish it. They have already proven that fact! So Democratic Party... FIGHT like it is a death match and nothing is off limits, just like republicans have been doing for decades.

Oh, just be sure not to write any republican damaging messages on any type of currency, because that would be wrong, you know.

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