Monitoring Biden and other Contemporary Events

the entire trump conduct of the election was one massive cheat, trying to throw out millions of valid dem votes, trying to snaffle the usps so it coiuldnt get allk the ballots back, trying to get election officials to phony the coiunts in his favor filing (and lkosing) 60 vapor lawsuits, inciting the insurrectionists who stormed the capitol to stop the count, throw out the balklots, and name him instead as pres. All, al cheating and an attempt to destroy american kdemocracy.

I am finally hearing some sanity being spoken by democrats about going on and getting rid of the filibuster so that we can pass other crucial, major legislation like voting rights (HR1) and infrastructure.
I hope the tide has changed to drag Manchin and Sinema along, instead of the reverse.

The only threat the republicans are brandishing is that they will do their agenda when they reclaim majority. What I’m finally hearing in response is that there’s no guarantee they WILL get it back - especially in 2022.

the entire trump conduct of the election was one massive cheat, trying to throw out millions of valid dem votes,

trying to snaffle the usps so it couldnt get all the ballots back,

trying to get election officials to phony the counts in his favor

filing (and losing) 60 vapor lawsuits,

inciting the insurrectionists who stormed the capitol to stop the count, throw out the ballots, and name him instead as pres.

All, al cheating and an attempt to destroy american democracy.

You just can’t be racist the way you used to.

Monumental legal cases invoking the 14th Amendment, the “equal justice” amendment, have made it unconstitutional to use blunt, explicit racism to suppress and victimize Black people while elevating and advantaging white ones.

To achieve those nefarious ends today, politicians must use a sneakier, less direct mechanism. And very often, that mechanism is to place burdens on the poorest citizens, knowing that poverty heavily afflicts — and can serve as a proxy for — Black people.

That is exactly what is happening now as Republicans, still fuming about the loss of the White House and the Senate, rush to make it harder for people to vote — many of them Black and brown people.

There are two ways to win an election: convince enough voters that you are best suited for the job, or rid the electorate of as many people who would vote against you as possible.

One might be forgiven for assuming that the order of amendments to the Constitution reflects the country’s shifting priorities since its conception. That the First Amendment protects speech and religion probably accurately reflects that these were seen as more important than, say, the amendment preventing homeowners from having to shelter soldiers — but given that this prohibition is the Third Amendment, maybe not.

It is nonetheless the case that the country got around to instantiating the right to own a firearm (Second Amendment) before it decided that the right of non-Whites to vote (Fifteenth Amendment) was important to establish, much less the right of women (Nineteenth) or 18-year-olds (Twenty-Sixth). Whatever asterisks one believes should apply to the Constitution’s provision of a right to bear arms, if any, it’s clear that this right was in existence well before an 18-year-old Black woman had the right to vote.

That alone reflects on the evolution of the United States. Americans needed guns in 1790 in case the British came back (which, of course, they did). It was about preserving power. But so were the limits on who could vote. The White men who had that power similarly wanted to protect it, and did.

Now, more than 200 years after the Constitution was ratified, we still see tensions between how easy it is for people to avail themselves of these two rights. In Georgia this week, we saw a man reportedly purchase a firearm hours before using it to allegedly kill eight people. At the same time, Republicans in the state legislature are pushing to scale back access to voting in the state, a response to unfounded claims of fraud and the election of President Biden.

That contrast between easy gun access and more difficult access to voting prompted a number of questions about the ease with which Georgians can exercise each of those rights. With that in mind, we pulled data on the ease with which one can buy a firearm or vote in each state to show how that contrast looks around the country.
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Pushing for valid votes to be thrown out and overrturn the election is where the cheating is. as usual you have things reversed.

That alone reflects on the evolution of the United States. Americans needed guns in 1790 in case the British came back (which, of course, they did). It was about preserving power.

Hopefully Mr. Putin will help the American people resist and undermine the Biden Administration.