So like, a plan where people who are sick are prevented from being around people who aren’t sick… wow, that man is a genius. They should make up a name for that, something like quaran… nah, trumpblocking, yeah, something like that.
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In news that will confuse the shit out of conspiracy theorists
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Nowadays, the general understanding in international law is that a passport is less a permission to travel, than it is a promise by the issuing state to repatriate you. It’s required as a travel document because other countries don’t want to be stuck with people whose home countries won’t take them back. Exiling your own unwanted people to other countries can be considered an act of war against them, which is the practical reason that banishment isn’t used a punishment very much any more.
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Alright this is some bullshit right here.
motherf_____
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Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett also told the U.S. Senate Committee on Rules and Administration recently that his state doesn’t allow drop boxes for fear voters might be pressured to vote a certain way.
“If someone knows you’ve got an absentee ballot, they can say, ‘Hey I’ll be glad to take that for you and drop that off for you.’ They can ask to watch you fill that ballot out or they cannot turn it in at all for you,” Hargett said. “We believe it’s a great security measure to have someone returning their own ballot by the United States Postal Service.”
The postal service has the same problems… One is tempted to think that his issue is just with making absentee voting easier.
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Conservative ragegasm incoming
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Like The American Herald per chance?
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Wait…what? You can fill it out and seal the envelope before the person who drops it off collects it from you.
Am I missing something here? Does TN require someone else to be a witness to another’s absentee ballot? And does this mean they must look at your selections? But if they mail their ballot, they don’t need to do this?
I’m so confused, which I’m sure is their end game.
ETA: Still confused after reading the NPR link.
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Yeah, it’s insane how they are pretending that a ballot collection box is anything other than a single purpose mailbox.
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So apparently, the CDC has this power.
oh and also, of course, this is about punishing brown people performatively for the base:
It would likely have the biggest impact on crossings at the heavily-trafficked Mexican border.
According to the Times , the draft regulation specifically references the coronavirus outbreak in Mexico, which Johns Hopkins University says is declining.
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similar in some creepy ways to their “abortion doctors must have admitting privileges” strategy. A pivot away from clear-cut opposition to an attempted damned-if-you-oppose, they-win-if-you-roll-over concern trolling. I’ve certainly seen a lot of Republican Twitter-echoes of “Trump has been trying to secure mail-in ballots! He just wants to have a system that works.” I’m not sure who buys it, but I’m guessing idiots, which we see to have about a million too many of to ignore.
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Some random person at the library?
He might be talking about employers demanding to see employee ballots. Or cops doing “security” at drop-off sites? It would have to be somebody with the power to punish people and lie about why they did it. Otherwise the scenario really doesn’t make any sense at all.
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The demise of 5th Ave?
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Donald Trump had a phone call with conservative billionaire Sheldon Adelson last week, and the call could not have gone worse. Adelson wanted to talk about Coronavirus relief efforts, but Trump only wanted to ask Adelson why he wasn’t personally doing more to help his failing campaign.
Wow, Adelson funds the Republican party up and down the ticket. (Not so much up this time.)
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They don’t even need the idiots to believe in it. They just need plausible deniability. Any excuse will do as long as they have a talking point when challenged about this. Because for some reason it looks bad if you just don’t say anything to the media but it’s perfectly fine to lie through your teeth as long as you’re playing the game of providing news content.
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Makes sense when you think about it really.
I mean what is the point?
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Hey, remember how the Trump administration bypassed Congress and has an “emergency” sale of $8b in arms to SA and UAE way back in 2019? About that…
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Isn’t it interesting that someone with the accessibility of this President, someone who has had almost daily press conferences, tweets constantly, almost always stating his mind… is in such dire need of advertising?
It is almost like the shit flowing out of his mouth isn’t good for his campaign, and they need to spend even more to distract from it.
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As the senior military officer of the United States, the choice between these two options lies with you. In the Constitutional crisis described above, your duty is to give unambiguous orders directing U.S. military forces to support the Constitutional transfer of power. Should you remain silent, you will be complicit in a coup d’état . You were rightly criticized for your prior active complicity in the president’s use of force against peaceful protesters in Lafayette Square. Your passive complicity in an extralegal seizure of political power would be far worse.
For 240 years, the United States has been spared the horror of violent political succession. Imperfect though it may be, our Union has been moving toward greater perfection, from one peaceful transfer of power to the next. The rule of law created by our Constitution has made this miracle possible. However, our Constitutional order is not self-sustaining. Throughout our history, Americans have laid down their lives so that this form of government may endure. Continuing the unfinished work for which these heroes fell now falls to you.
Lest you forget:
“I, Mark A. Milley, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.”
The fate of our Republic may well depend upon your adherence to this oath.
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