cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/56508353
Donald Trump threatened on Sunday to withhold his signature from all bills until Congress passes a GOP-led voting bill that implements voter restrictions ahead of the November midterms.
“I, as President, will not sign other Bills until this is passed, AND NOT THE WATERED DOWN VERSION – GO FOR THE GOLD: MUST SHOW VOTER I.D. & PROOF OF CITIZENSHIP: NO MAIL-IN BALLOTS EXCEPT FOR MILITARY – ILLNESS, DISABILITY, TRAVEL,” Trump posted on his social media platform, Truth Social.
The bill, called the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, or SAVE America Act, requires individuals to show citizenship documents to register to vote and strict forms of photo ID to cast a ballot. If passed, the legislation would also administer criminal penalties for election officials who register anyone lacking the required documents.
As my colleague Ari Berman wrote in February, the bill would potentially block tens of millions of Americans from voting. Nine percent of American citizens, or approximately 21 million people, don’t have ready access to citizenship documents. The bill may impact millions of US citizens in other ways: tens of millions of women who took their partner’s last name, for example, may not have a birth certificate that matches their legal name could find it more difficult to register.
They literally wrote and published a playbook about how they were going to it.
This comment gets posted every time Trump does anything at all. WE know. His voter base still hasn’t changed, nor will it.
Likewise, we know.
Propaganda works
“Plus, it’s fine as long as he only does it to restrict Dem votes because then we win, right?”
-Galaxy-Brain voters
I think the knowledge is more widespread on lemmy than imgur, but worth remembering: If he doesn’t sign legislation within 10 days, as long as Congress is in session, it will automatically go into effect. So the Senate doesn’t even have to shut down, they can keep on passing legislation, as long as they’re in session.
I think his implication is that he’ll veto everything, not just let it desk rot.
I hesitate to ascribe any sense of strategy to the guy, but the presidential veto is one of the most direct exercises of power that he has, and this is a guy who salivates at any opportunity to flex whatever power he can.
There’s enough actual evidence of GOP fraud in the 2024 election to call into question some of the swing state results. Regardless if it would have overturn the election, unlike Trumps Big Lie, the GOP actually did commit election fraud.
Americans need to primary both DNC and GOP members in droves.
I don’t understand why confronting election cheating isn’t a made a bigger political issue for the Democratic party. Are they afraid to lose in court? Are they afraid voters wont like addressing it?
Because a lot of the sitting DNC are just lip servicers with corporate lobbyist hands in their pockets grabbing them by the balls.
They’re literally paid to not rock the boat.
“The GOP and the DNC are the sword and shield of the wealthy elites respectively.”
Nothing will get better for America until Americans start primarying incumbents that don’t deliver for the working class.
Both sides are afraid of what might be discovered if they search thoroughly.
GOP wants to use the issue as a wedge to create doubt in the result. Then they have a chance in court if they cherry pick.
Yes, and we’ll see how willing he is to restrict them when the first terrorist/false flag attack happens this year
Given how the GOP’s prospects in the next election are only likely to get worse, this might actually be the thing they end the filibuster for.
It’ll be hilarious if they end the filibuster and then end up with a narrow minority in both chambers.
The ideal outcome would be
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They nuke the filibuster to pass the bill
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It gets held up in courts because it’s obviously unconstitutional and doesn’t get implemented in time for the midterms
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They get blown tf out in the midterms
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The law gets overturned in courts because it’s obviously unconstitutional
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No more filibuster.
The GOP.
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SAVE will disenfranchise an insane number of people. But, ironically, it is expected to disenfranchise significantly more republicans and “low education voters” as college educated voters are much more likely to have an income that makes international travel (and thus passports) viable. And… Brown People™ have been getting their papers in order for years.
But its also very important to understand: We have already seen the plan for January. The chuds just won’t swear in any new democrats (except for platner, of course).
But, ironically, it is expected to disenfranchise significantly more republicans
This seems more like a hypothesis of yours rather than a well-understood expectation. Let me get this straight: you think the SAVE act is going to protect voting rights of previously-disenfranchised voters? That seems unlikely, and i dont think many share your theory.
And… Brown People™ have been getting their papers in order for years.
What do you mean by this? Are you saying people of color are unique positioned to gain from the SAVE act? Why do you think this?
More than 3.8 million adult U.S. citizens lack any form of citizenship documents, such as a birth certificate, passport, or naturalization papers, according to UMD’s Center for Democracy and Civic Engagement.
This is a critical issue among people of color. Three percent said they had no document at all, compared to 1% of white citizens.
Another 11% of people of color, or some 8.4 million people, cannot readily access citizenship documents compared to 8% of white Americans.
The issue cuts across political affiliation, too. Independents were more likely than Democrats and Republicans to lack citizenship documents or not have ready access to them.
Young people, aged 18 to 24, are also less likely to have access. Many young people may not know where their birth certificate is stored or it may be in another location, another state, with parents or other family members, the center’s analysis suggested.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/how-the-save-america-act-would-make-major-changes-to-voting
In short, it seems like youre shrugging off this issue to “they’ll never achieve this” at a time when it is increasingly clear that the right has the power to do pretty much whatever they want - most often successfully.
Lemmy is somehow full of people at opposite ends of the spectrum when it comes to outlook on future elections. It’s either “No one is going to do anything, democracy is over, Trump is king.” or it’s “This is the end of the Republican party, it’s Democrats and the left after this next election and here on out.”
Neither side will stand for the middle class. Either way, I just hope that when we all die that my kids don’t suffer. I don’t have the energy to care anymore. I’ll vote, but I’m so tired.
Duh. election = jail. He knows that.
Yeah like how he went to jail the last two time Dems won elections. Wait…
Who knows if any bills will get to Trump’s desk, before cholesterol gets to his chest.
That most recent speech looked like he was working on his summertime jaundice tan.
