GOP slouches into the crazy to be born as MAGA ~ GENERAL

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Duke Mu said:
The House passes an unconstitutional bill to suppress (married) women from voting.The States obviously control voting laws in a national election, but IF it passes the SEnate states like TX, FL, NC could follow suit.

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House passes bill that could make it harder for married women to vote

The SAVE Act will require proof of citizenship documentation, a change that could disproportionately impact married women.
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The federal government controls voting laws for Congress per article 1, section 4. It falls to the states only by default. This bill is likely unconstitutional.
 


“… When Trump at last announced the tariffs—levied on friends and enemies—many of them saw the move less in economic terms than as a moment of redemption: The country had gone astray, and something had to be done. Even something radical.

“He’s the only president who has the balls to do it, whether it pees in your Cheerios or not. I absolutely trust him,” said Kenny Cook, a Trump supporter who runs a gravestone business in Mineral Point, Mo.

… In Cook’s telling, so much damage beset the U.S. before Trump took office that things cannot be expected to change overnight and perhaps not even by the end of his second term. Eventually, though, he trusts that tariffs will bring manufacturing—and a lost way of life—back to America.

… He [Phil Gross] and his wife Donna, who has built up a 401(k) account over 30 years, were reassured by the quality of Trump’s cabinet. The tariffs, he noted, also had the backing of Kevin O’Leary, a personality on “Shark Tank,” the business-themed reality show, who is known for wearing two wristwatches. “These are wonderful minds,” Gross said.

By Wednesday afternoon, Gross was in full football-spiking mode. “Did you see the market today?” he asked, after Trump’s tactical pause. “I think it’s a stroke of genius.”

… Thelen, 53, is an executive assistant at Behlen Manufacturing, a maker of grain-storage systems and other farm equipment. She seems realistic about the dangers of upending the global trading system. She has a 401(k) account and plays the market on the side. Her company is subject to rising steel prices. “It could take a horrible turn. I mean, it could,” she said.

But the one-time Obama voter saw the bigger risk as a return to the status quo and an economy in which her adult children struggle to pay rent, let alone buy a house. “Right now is not good for middle-class or just-starting-out people,” Thelen said. “Things are not good. So somebody has to come in and break things apart a little.”

Now that the breaking has begun, it is no time to abandon the president. As Tom Boal, Behlen Manufacturing’s president and a fellow Trump supporter, put it, “The train’s running pretty fast. It’d be ugly to jump off now.” …”
 
nycfan said:


“… When Trump at last announced the tariffs—levied on friends and enemies—many of them saw the move less in economic terms than as a moment of redemption: The country had gone astray, and something had to be done. Even something radical.

“He’s the only president who has the balls to do it, whether it pees in your Cheerios or not. I absolutely trust him,” said Kenny Cook, a Trump supporter who runs a gravestone business in Mineral Point, Mo.

… In Cook’s telling, so much damage beset the U.S. before Trump took office that things cannot be expected to change overnight and perhaps not even by the end of his second term. Eventually, though, he trusts that tariffs will bring manufacturing—and a lost way of life—back to America.

… He [Phil Gross] and his wife Donna, who has built up a 401(k) account over 30 years, were reassured by the quality of Trump’s cabinet. The tariffs, he noted, also had the backing of Kevin O’Leary, a personality on “Shark Tank,” the business-themed reality show, who is known for wearing two wristwatches. “These are wonderful minds,” Gross said.

By Wednesday afternoon, Gross was in full football-spiking mode. “Did you see the market today?” he asked, after Trump’s tactical pause. “I think it’s a stroke of genius.”

… Thelen, 53, is an executive assistant at Behlen Manufacturing, a maker of grain-storage systems and other farm equipment. She seems realistic about the dangers of upending the global trading system. She has a 401(k) account and plays the market on the side. Her company is subject to rising steel prices. “It could take a horrible turn. I mean, it could,” she said.

But the one-time Obama voter saw the bigger risk as a return to the status quo and an economy in which her adult children struggle to pay rent, let alone buy a house. “Right now is not good for middle-class or just-starting-out people,” Thelen said. “Things are not good. So somebody has to come in and break things apart a little.”

Now that the breaking has begun, it is no time to abandon the president. As Tom Boal, Behlen Manufacturing’s president and a fellow Trump supporter, put it, “The train’s running pretty fast. It’d be ugly to jump off now.” …”
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Oh, Mr. Boal, it's going to get very ugly well before all this is done. While the news that nothing could break Trump's hold on his cult will surprise no one here, it does provide more evidence that many of Trump's white working class supporters have honestly convinced themselves that only Dear Leader can restore their old factory jobs and bring back their "lost way of life". Which isn't happening for various reasons mentioned here, but they cannot be shaken from that delusion. At any rate it just grows harder and harder to have any sympathy for these people.
 
Has St. Donald of Mar-a-Lago taken a single act in his second term that does not in some way benefit Russia? If every move St. Donald makes benefits Russia, then is it too much of a leap to think that Russia is telling St. Donald what moves to make?

In a way this is wishful thinking on my part. If this is merely St. Donald and his acolytes doing what they are told to do or risk the release of embarassing Kompromat, then there is hope that the release will happen and sanity will be restored. But if what is happening is actually the best and highest aspirations of a majority of the voting population of the United States, then I can expect to die alone, in the street, of either starvation or exposure.
 
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