And Let's not forget about the other Deplorables

[rareboy]

You know what I love? It is clear that Trump isn't really enjoying this any more. He is more visibly impatient and his laziness and unwillingness to come up with anything other than his rote list of grievances and lies is a clear indication that he sees all this as a waste of his time in getting to the White House again.

 

[KaraBulut]

Remember the "soft-on-crime" accusations against Democrats? Remember the Willie Horton ads against Mike Dukkakis? Remember the pay-for-play accusations in the Marc Rich pardon by Bill Clinton?

Somehow no one ever investigated the cash-for-pardons in the last few days of the Trump Administration.

Trump-tied lobbyists paid massive sums to push pardons

Trump-tied lobbyists were paid lucrative sums by clients angling for last-minute pardons from the president.

www.opensecrets.org

Did Donald Trump Seriously Sell Pardons?

The sexual assault lawsuit against Rudy Giuliani is chock-full of other shocking allegations.

newrepublic.com

Well, now one of the guys who got a pardon from Trump has been arrested for beating up his wife and father-in-law. Jonathan Braun was not properly vetted by the DOJ. And he's the second Trump person who pardoned who has been arrested for domestic violence since being released from prison.

Jonathan Braun, convicted NY loan shark pardoned by Trump, is arrested for assaulting wife, father-in-law

A notorious New York loan shark and drug dealer who was sprung from federal prison through a pardon from former President Donald Trump was arrested for allegedly slugging his wife and his 75-year-o…

nypost.com

A notorious New York drug dealer who was pardoned by President Donald Trump has been arrested for allegedly slugging his wife and his 75-year-old father-in-law, court records show.

Jonathan Braun, 41, was busted on Long Island Tuesday after an argument with his wife at their Atlantic Beach home allegedly turned violent.

Court documents say he was chasing her down the stairs when his father-in-law tried to intervene and Braun punched the senior citizen twice in the head.

Braun’s wife told investigators he had thrown her to the floor on two separate occasions, once in July and again on Aug. 12, after which he “punched her in the head multiple times, causing her substantial pain, bruising and dizziness to her arms, legs, and head,” records show.

 

[rareboy]

No question that Trump was selling pardons, probably with Jarhead dealing with the actual transactions.

 

[rareboy]

Because they don't cost anything.

 

[TX-Beau]

Because they don't cost anything.


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There is quite literally nothing left to say.

 

[rareboy]

Which is exactly where the NRA and the far right want people to be.

With nothing left to say.

Just acceptance.

 

[KaraBulut]

Which is exactly where the NRA and the far right want people to be.

With nothing left to say.

Just acceptance.

These kids who survived these school shootings are well into their 20s and they're more motivated to vote than the 20-something of the past. They are why Democrats won in 2020. They reduced Republican control of the House in 2022.

Manchin and Sinema are gone in 2025.

When these Gen Z kids who grew up with shooter drills get into power, they're not going to be accepting the NRA's bullshit. And the generation born after 2000 don't care about history and tradition. They care about change.

 

[TX-Beau]

Which is exactly where the NRA and the far right want people to be.

With nothing left to say.

Just acceptance.

That's not acceptance,


it's literally all been said over and over [Text: Removed]..


I'm also going to quibble that this was the strategy. We ended up here because of corrupt, racist right wingers who want people TERRIFIED, arming for a race war, not complacent about child murders. The child murders are just a side effect of scaring Cletus into voting for them as they pretend that they are "solving" the "problem.", and none of the people responsible care much what any of us think about dead children as long as some redneck fucks are turrified of the N***** a 'Comin to rape their women!!!!

 

[TX-Beau]

These kids who survived these school shootings are well into their 20s and they're more motivated to vote than the 20-something of the past. They are why Democrats won in 2020. They reduced Republican control of the House in 2022.

Manchin and Sinema are gone in 2025.

When these Gen Z kids who grew up with shooter drills get into power, they're not going to be accepting the NRA's bullshit. And the generation born after 2000 don't care about history and tradition. They care about change.

IF they ever get the right to vote. Right now, in Texas, when you turn 18 your provisional driver's license - the ID you HAVE to have to vote expires on your 18th birthday, and on your 21st birthday, and you have to make an appointment to get it renewed IN PERSON, and there aren't any available for MONTHS. You can't vote from college. you have to go back to your parents' precinct, you can't use a Student ID - even a State Provided one, and you have to have an ORIGINAL Birth Certificate and other documentation such as car insurance, registration documentation for the vehicle you passed your test in - WHETER OR NOT YOU EVEN OWN A CAR. If Toad wins, all of America gets to know the joys of that! We've been waiting for the "youth" to save us all for decades.


BUT, you can always just show your Hunting license with no picture at all and that will do just fine.

 

[KaraBulut]

IF they ever get the right to vote. Right now, in Texas, when you turn 18 your provisional driver's license - the ID you HAVE to have to vote expires on your 18th birthday, and on your 21st birthday, and you have to make an appointment to get it renewed IN PERSON, and there aren't any available for MONTHS. You can't vote from college. you have to go back to your parents' precinct, you can't use a Student ID - even a State Provided one, and you have to have an ORIGINAL Birth Certificate and other documentation such as car insurance, registration documentation for the vehicle you passed your test in - WHETER OR NOT YOU EVEN OWN A CAR. If Toad wins, all of America gets to know the joys of that! We've been waiting for the "youth" to save us all for decades.


BUT, you can always just show your Hunting license with no picture at all and that will do just fine.

Texas is rated as one of the most difficult States in the US for voting.

If I remember correctly, Texas is one of the states that flips to the perspective on underage drivers licenses to portrait, so underage kids have to return to get a new drivers license in landscape perspective when they reach a certain age (18? 21?)?

A drivers license isn't the only option for voting. I think Texas is a state that doesn't accept university IDs for voting but they do accept gun permits? And it's probably a hellavulot easier to get a concealed weapons permit in Texas than it is to get a drivers license even if you just need it for voting.

The "must vote from your home district" rule has been fought in other States. These days, with electronic voting, polling places can pull the ballot for any precinct and county and load it into the voting machine. What I don't understand is why this stuff hasn't been litigated. Your State Attorney General seems to love to spend your tax money suing and harassing blue counties. What I don't understand why no one is fighting back?

 

[KaraBulut]

Since this is the deplorables thread...

The representative for Barrow County which is where the school-mass-shooting-of-the-day is located, is represented in the US Congress by someone with a 92% score from the NRA and 100% from the more radical GOA.

Mike Collins (R-GA) routinely carries the district with numbers over 60%.

Mike Collins (politician) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

He's running again in November. He has a Democratic opponent: https://www.lexydoherty.com/

 

[rareboy]

These kids who survived these school shootings are well into their 20s and they're more motivated to vote than the 20-something of the past. They are why Democrats won in 2020. They reduced Republican control of the House in 2022.

Manchin and Sinema are gone in 2025.

When these Gen Z kids who grew up with shooter drills get into power, they're not going to be accepting the NRA's bullshit. And the generation born after 2000 don't care about history and tradition. They care about change.

My hope...but will they swarm the polls in the states with more cattle than people?

 

[rareboy]

Since this is the deplorables thread...

The representative for Barrow County which is where the school-mass-shooting-of-the-day is located, is represented in the US Congress by someone with a 92% score from the NRA and 100% from the more radical GOA.

Mike Collins (R-GA) routinely carries the district with numbers over 60%.

Mike Collins (politician) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

He's running again in November. He has a Democratic opponent: https://www.lexydoherty.com/

Total garbage human being...but he is only looking for votes from his most powerful and numerous constituency.

Apalachee high school shooting: student charged with murder after four people killed in Georgia

Authorities say 14-year-old killed two classmates and two teachers and wounded nine others at school

www.theguardian.com

Meanwhile let's see ahow the Dems ride the edge of this mammoth knife.

 

[rareboy]

 

[KaraBulut]

Same State, Different Deplorable.

 

[TX-Beau]

Same State, Different Deplorable.

This is why people hate clowns.

 

[rareboy]

This really is an election related issue, but this shows just how fucking out of touch this clown is. Families end up being spread out all over a country. The idea that every family might have some grandparents able to provide child care is ridiculous now.

In fact, many of the grandparents are likely still working to make ends meet.

 

[Norri]

He’s living in the wrong century.

 

[rareboy]

The wholesome crew who got busted this week for taking 400K per week from the Kremlin to spread false information and influence the US election.

 

[rareboy]