Thought For The Day

What a Miserable Turd

February 3, 2019

Mitch Fucking McConnell continues to do everything in his power to kill democracy.  I am not referring to the fact that we may be only 12 days away from another Chrump/McConnell government fuck-up/shutdown.  The odds of avoiding this are lower than Chrump’s very, very small IQ.

Uncle Mitch Wants (to screw) You*

On the floor of the Senate, McConnell (R-KY) recently expressed scorn at the idea of making Election Day a federal holiday, which common wisdom contends will help improve voter turnout.  This is important to keep people involved in electing public servants.  Many people cannot devote what is often several hours waiting in line to vote (because Republican’ts continue to make sure there are not enough voting machines or locations).  Democrats have long been in favor of various means of making voting easier, and Republican’ts, as everyone knows, and they are happy to admit, are vigorously opposed to anything that helps people vote.  Unfortunately, this is one case where Republican’ts are firmly aligned with our nation’s founders, who wanted only white, male landowners to vote.  Nobody’s perfect.  To be fair, it only makes sense that today’s Republican’t party, made up of mostly white males, would feel this way.

These machines kill Republican’ts…and they know it

McConnell’s anti-democratic take, “Just what America needs, another paid holiday and a bunch of government workers being paid to go out and work for I assume our folks – our colleagues on the other side, on their campaigns.  This is the Democrat (sic) plan to restore democracy?  A brand-new week of paid vacation for every federal employee who would like to hover around while you cast your ballot?”  There is more bullshit packed into that statement than on all the cattle ranches in Texas combined.

The recently proposed legislation calls for one day off (not a week as McConnell lied) for federal workers, and encourages private employers to follow suit.  Specifically, “the Tuesday next after the first Monday in November in 2020.”

The Election Day proposal is a small part of HR-1, House Democrats’ wide-ranging anti-corruption package, which includes automatic voter registration and measures to prevent partisan gerrymandering.

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*Unless of course, you are a white, (especially wealthy) male Republican’t