Fraught For The Day

Electoral Evisceration

January 23, 2022

Ratpublicans are trying to make voting a full-time job…without pay. The 90%-white party, which continues to whole-heartedly support their disgraced, twice-impeached, two-time-popular-vote-loser, one-term, seditious, multiply-subpoenaed, virulently racist ex-president and failed blogger, is doing everything in their power to ensure that they cannot lose another election…at any level of government.

States' Wrongs

A Ratpublican candidate for the Florida House of Representatives lost his election bid by 60%. He has refused to concede and is claiming he has My-Pillow-Guy-like evidence that proves he did not lose. The Pillow Guy, as you may recall, continues to insist he has tremendous evidence proving that Donald Turmp defeated Joe Biden in 2020. He has yet to show a single shred of any such evidence, or any shred of intelligence for that matter. Once a deranged crack-head, always a deranged crack-head I guess.

Also in the COVID-loving state, Gov. Ron DuhSantis (R-COVID) has taken it upon himself to redraw Florida’s redistricting map to ensure that no Democrats can win any districts. Is that really so wrong? One expert described DuhSantis’ twisted treasure map as “the most brutal gerrymander proposed by a Florida Republican yet.”

While we're on the subject of the grating state of Florida, DuhSantis wants to create a 52-white-manned “Office of Election Crimes and Security” to hunt down the millions thousands hundreds dozens two cases per year of voter fraud out of the millions of Florida votes cast (not counting state-sanctioned, illegal voter-roll purges, elimination of polling places in Democratic/black districts and racially-biased gerrymandering, all at the hands of Ratpublicans), which are probably committed by Ratpublican voters. Apparently this idiocy is contagious. Georgia gubernatorial candidate David Perdue decided to add this to his platform of racist lies.

In Texas, the secretary of state claimed that supply chain issues are making it harder and more expensive to get paper, causing them to send out fewer voter registration forms to groups ahead of elections this year. Yeah, right.

There is a reason why states like Florida, Texas, et al were required to check in with their probation officer before implementing new voting laws. That is, until Extreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts declared racism in America over and oversaw the gutting of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 back in 2013 with the Shelby v. Holder decision. The day after that incredibly racist decision, many of the states that could not be trusted with free and fair elections, provided incontrovertible proof why there had been a voting rights act in the first place. A number of southern states immediately hired Jim Crow to oversee their elections. Roberts, as it turned out, had been gunning for the Voting Rights Act since he was a young fuck…I mean, buck. Actually, I meant fuck.

The Big Cheese-Curd

For his Hannibal Lecter-esque part, Mitch McConnell explained everything you need to know about Ratpublicans’ stance on voting rights. After his fellow racists Manchin and Sinema put the final nail in the voting rights coffin by standing up for the filibuster über alles, McConnell told reporters, “if you look at the statistics, African-American voters are voting in just as high a percentage as Americans.” So, McConnell is in favor of those he considers to be Americans voting (Any guess who they might be?), but not so much for African “Americans.” Get it? Got it! Good.

Democrat voters are voting in just as high a percentage as Americans.

By the time McConnell and company are finished, the only votes that will count will be those of white, male landowners. Hmmm, now where have I heard that one before? They need to be stopped before it’s too white.

In case you very reasonably thought and/or hoped I made this up

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