Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/12/06/house-passes-voting-rights-adv.html
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My brain is slow this morning – doesn’t this just mean it’ll now go to the Senate, which will kill it? And even if the Senate miraculously passed it, then Trump would veto/kill it?
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Too little, too late.
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It’s a nice gesture, and we need to keep making the gesture, we need to keep forcing the GOP to go on record for what they really stand for.
but @milliefink has the right of it, this bill will never get a vote in the senate.
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One small step forward; can’t give in to defeatism, still gotta keep taking each step.
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Well, Moscow Mitch has been pretty clear that any attempt to make for fair and secure elections are a Democratic power grab, so yeah, nothing gonna happen.
https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/congress/article225225000.html
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White supremacist Jim Crow racists gonna white supremacist Jim Crow racist.
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“Taking” not “talking,” m’dear.
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just reminds me i haven’t said Fuck You Mitch McConnell yet today.
so Fuck You Mitch McConnell!
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Even if y’all are just being understandably realistic, its still disheartening and I can’t bring myself to ‘like’ any of your comments.
Except this one:
Thanks.
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If they do then at least we’ll have them on record against the Voting Rights Act of 1965. We can’t let them off the hook.
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I guess, but it’s not like there’s any shame in their game. They’re already on record for being against it when they recently rescinded it (or whatever the right legislative verb is there).
That said, I am of course all for the Dem-led House of Reps doing the right thing here, however Quixotically, as with impeachment. I just get sick of this extended moment we’re in, where such steps have so little real effect against the ever-bolder fascists/Republicans.
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yes . . . and yes.
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I mentioned on my Mastodon account this morning that Gandalf’s “every day was as long as a life-age of the Earth” line has been getting a lot more play in my head these past few years. This is a big part of why.
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The Senate doesn’t even need to vote on it to kill it. Moscow Mitch is just letting bills sit forever without debate or vote.
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If you are like me and wondering what the bill entails, per the article in the first tweet:
The Voting Rights Advancement Act would, among other things, update the formula used to determine which states must preclear their voter registration practices, require public notice for voting registration changes, and allow the attorney general to send federal observers anywhere in the U.S.
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anybody expecting this to go through the Senate?
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I’m so glad this passed, but that pretty much every single GOP politician voted against it is really upsetting. I wish i could say more but i’d just end up pissing myself off thinking about these corrupt weasels
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Yeah, this will never make it to the floor of the Senate.
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What happens to them all? Do they expire or just sit there waiting for a Democratic Senate?
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