Sorry, images only at this point (no text, even on sos.ky.gov).
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Some thoughts on Kobach’s voter file request /1
First big takeaway: while many states cannot respond in full, enough will to give him enough of what he needs /2
Kobach will have enuf voter file data to claim many people on voter rolls who no longer live at registered address /3
Kobach’s findings will be used by Republicans to justify roll back of federal voting rights protections, states will follow /6
So, while many states cannot give Kobach requested data because literally doesn’t exist or in public form, that won’t stop him /7
States won’t be able to respond in full because data often not public, not in requested format, need extraordinary programming, etc. /8
Can imagine that resisting states will be called out as protecting fraud, even if they could never respond to request /9
Long advocated for Baker-Carter commission solution to problem: have giv’t issue •everyone* photo ID, let that be voter registration /10
But real solutions to problems with voter reg will not be implemented since we know this is really about vote suppression /11
and here I thought this was about expanding Cambridge Analytica’s database.
Most of the folks I know who were NRA members have quit over the past few years because of the NRA going far-right.
I just assumed Kobach was making noise, but those Elect Project Tweets are pretty chilling.
I never thought I’d write these words after those words, but: well said!
-Tom
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“It’s actually an example of propaganda when it’s most sinister,” Mark Crispin Miller of NYU told TPM. “It’s extremely hostile, takes a dark view of dissonance and protest and lauds the police as our only protection against this unprecedented threat.”
The advertisement takes on the classic method of creating a “they” mentality, he said, while saluting police power.
“What it basically does is create this nightmarish image of an all-powerful ‘they,’ which would be protesters, it would be Democrats and liberals and Hollywood, the media. They’re all the same, one big monolithic entity and the goal of that entity is to destroy not just the Trump presidency, but the whole country,” he said. “The images suggest chaos and violence and brutality by an undifferentiated mass of malicious actors. … It’s aimed at resentful denizens of ‘fly-over states.’ It suggests that there’s a kind of malevolent group that’s in control of everything and trying to destroy the rest of us, the good people and our president.”
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On the Kobach Voter Suppression Commision, CA SoS weighs in (of course unless all states do this, it’s still trouble)
Good job by Lee, she’s been doing this for the past 10 years (? at least.)
Agreed. Of all people, the NRA should be well aware of the futility of bringing a clenched fist to a gun fight.
Typos and missed opportunities for wordplay aside, the message itself shows once again how secure the far right is in the misguided belief that it is only they who posses guns and the strength of character needed to use them for defense of home and country. For over a decade now the NRA has drifted further and further right, paralleling the Republican party as a whole and the masses that feed daily at the sludge-filled troughs of Fox News, Breitbart , Alex Jones, Limbaugh, Hannity, etc…
What they all seem to have forgotten is that being a military veteran, police officer, federal agent or other person trained in the use of firearms doesn’t make you an instant Conservative, or even a Republican for that matter. Neither does being a private citizen that owns and uses guns. Conservatives are pushing this false narrative that “Liberals” (which means anyone that doesn’t agree with them) are all cowardly lions who will shout and threaten through protests and the media, but can’t actually stand up to real Americans who know which end of a gun is which. If push ever does come to shove, most Conservatives are going to be in for a very nasty wake up call.
In the meantime, the NRA can continue to believe their message comes across as veiled threats made form a position of power, while everyone else recognizes their message as the false bravado it truly is.
I was never a member, my father was. I’m very outside their agenda, however. I’ve hunted in the distant past, I own rifles and multiple handguns. But I am ALL FOR better gun laws, more stringent checks, and even making some types of firearms Illegal (but don’t get me started on this whole assault weapons ban and how most of them are not assault weapons.)
The NRA to me has always represented what I consider the overzealous gun owner types. Those who hide behind their guns just waiting for feds to spring out of the bushes and take them.
Timex
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The NRA doesn’t actually do anything useful regarding guns any more. They are purely a political advocacy group… and they honestly don’t really care about gun rights.
They care about using fear of losing your guns to deliver a block of votes for their donors. That’s their entire existence at this point.
Well, to be fair, a lot more than just the NRA preys on the fears of specific voting blocks. What we need is an organization of sufficient size to put a check on the NRA as a counter voting block.
If recent history has shown us anything, it’s that Conservatives are cowards. They’ll surrender their rights to the government because they’re afraid a Muslim is going to blow them up. They worship militarized police officers that abuse minorities and regularly break the law themselves, just because they saw a black guy on their street once and had to lock all their doors. They’ll advocate spending trillions of dollars on wars against make believe enemies that they’re afraid are going to… I don’t know what, say mean things about America halfway around the world. They hoard guns and ammo because they’re afraid of gays and liberal snowflakes, who they simultaneously cast as weak and whiny.
They’re the real snowflakes to me.
Absolutely – a bunch of thin-skinned drama queens who can’t stand other lifestyles and points of view.
Broflakes is the name I’ve heard lately.
Scuzz
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I remember it wasn’t to long ago when the GOP would have screamed to the heavens that national ID cards were an evil plot by the socialists. Now it would be the easy answer to their claim of voter fraud. It amazes me how the GOP has flipped on some things over the last 25 years.
Russia…is now harmless.
National IDs…a way to protect the integrity of the vote.
Also, funny how the whole ‘states’ rights’ things evaporates when individual Secretaries of State come out against the voter info request.
Quaro
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The Joe and Mika story is creepier than I realized. The National Enquirer was following around her kids and staking out their house, at the same time official White House aids were calling them and telling them they had grovel to Trump and it would all go away. Like… WTFFFFFFFFFF.
