In Selma, Biden puts spotlight back on "under assault" voting rights

[Scott]

 

President Biden used the searing memories of Selma's "Bloody Sunday" to recommit to a cornerstone of democracy, lionizing a seminal moment from the civil rights movement at a time when he has been unable to push enhanced voting protections through Congress and a conservative Supreme Court has undermined a landmark voting law.

"Selma is a reckoning. The right to vote ... to have your vote counted is the threshold of democracy and liberty. 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/joe-biden-selma-visit-spotlight-voting-rights/

 

[EVENKEEL]

Good job fanning the flames of hatred joe. For someone who campaigned of bringing the country together, he's doing a lousy job. Nothing but anger and hatred comes out of his mouth.

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30 minutes ago, EVENKEEL said:

Good job fanning the flames of hatred joe. For someone who campaigned of bringing the country together, he's doing a lousy job. Nothing but anger and hatred comes out of his mouth.

Sure. It's Biden who is the one claiming that there's widespread voter fraud and that Trump really won the 2020 election.

To be fair, I'm sure you don't believe that widespread voter fraud is a problem or that Trump really won the 2020 election, 

[Tug]

7 hours ago, EVENKEEL said:

Good job fanning the flames of hatred joe. For someone who campaigned of bringing the country together, he's doing a lousy job. Nothing but anger and hatred comes out of his mouth.

Naaa I disagree heck when we all saw on tv George Floyd get murdered by the police old trump straight up fanned the flames of racism then he hid in his bunker after he gassed all those folks for his photo op in front of the black church no sir wrong guy folks have to stand up for what’s right this is a REAL issue not the distractions served up by the gop Joe Biden is representing ALL of America 

[EVENKEEL]

8 hours ago, placeholder said:

Sure. It's Biden who is the one claiming that there's widespread voter fraud and that Trump really won the 2020 election.

To be fair, I'm sure you don't believe that widespread voter fraud is a problem or that Trump really won the 2020 election, 

joe's using the voter rights are under assault whistle. It's the old, if you say it enough times the uneducated will start to believe. 

 

I'd like to remind you this about biden. 

[EVENKEEL]

1 hour ago, Tug said:

Naaa I disagree heck when we all saw on tv George Floyd get murdered by the police old trump straight up fanned the flames of racism then he hid in his bunker after he gassed all those folks for his photo op in front of the black church no sir wrong guy folks have to stand up for what’s right this is a REAL issue not the distractions served up by the gop Joe Biden is representing ALL of America 

Again, this is about biden stirring up trouble about some imaginary assault on voter rights. He just makes stuff up. 

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2 minutes ago, EVENKEEL said:

joe's using the voter rights are under assault whistle. It's the old, if you say it enough times the uneducated will start to believe. 

 

I'd like to remind you this about biden. 

Despite that fact the voter fraud is virtually non-existent, Republicans have repeatedly tried and often succeeded imposing conditions that discriminate against less wealthy voters.

In the 2020 elections the former president made accusations that in cities like Detroit, Milwaukee, and Atlanta there was widespread voter fraud. You think that's not a dog whistle directed against minorities?

[Tug]

6 minutes ago, EVENKEEL said:

Again, this is about biden stirring up trouble about some imaginary assault on voter rights. He just makes stuff up. 

You are mistaken 

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50 minutes ago, EVENKEEL said:

Again, this is about biden stirring up trouble about some imaginary assault on voter rights. He just makes stuff up. 

Really? He's making stuff up?

In Arizona voters passed a referendum to establish an indendent non-partisan commission to create Congressional districts. The Republicans brought a lawsuit to declare the referendum unconstitutional. It failed.

 

In Ohio the voters passed a referendum that dictated how congressional districts should be drawn. The Republicans actually violated the law in creating districts. Because there wasn't enough time to correct this blatant violation, the court allowed the districts  to stand for the 2022 election.

 

In North Carolina, as soon as the right wing supreme court violated their own alleged principle of non-interference in politic issues and voided most of the Voting Rights law, Congressional districts were bizarrely gerrymandered to confine most of the black voters into 3 districts.

 

In Texas, most voters use a driver's license to establish their legibility to vote. But Texas refuses to have motor vehicle registration offices open late to accommodate working people who don't drive but need an identity card to vote. They will allow a fishing license also as an ID. But they won't allow a University ID. 

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1 hour ago, EVENKEEL said:

Again, this is about biden stirring up trouble about some imaginary assault on voter rights. He just makes stuff up. 

A decade ago, Pennsylvania’s Republican state Senate leader and state party chairman both pointed to the state’s new voter ID law as helping their party win the presidential election in their state. Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.) did the same thing in Wisconsin in both 2016 and in 2012. And after that 2012 election, former Florida Republican Party chairman Jim Greer claimed his party was indeed trying to limit early voting to suppress Democratic votes.

“It’s done for one reason and one reason only,” Greer told the Palm Beach Post, before saying that Republicans essentially believed, “we’ve got to cut down on early voting because early voting is not good for us.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/06/14/gops-increasingly-blunt-argument-it-needs-voting-restrictions-win/

[Credo]

Of course, the Republicans have to deny voting rights to as many as possible.  They haven't won the popular vote in a Presidential election for almost 20 years.  Bush, back in 2004 was the last one.

 

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25 minutes ago, Credo said:

Of course, the Republicans have to deny voting rights to as many as possible.  They haven't won the popular vote in a Presidential election for almost 20 years.  Bush, back in 2004 was the last one.

 

And that was only due to war fever.  

[EVENKEEL]

10 hours ago, placeholder said:

Really? He's making stuff up?

In Arizona voters passed a referendum to establish an indendent non-partisan commission to create Congressional districts. The Republicans brought a lawsuit to declare the referendum unconstitutional. It failed.

 

In Ohio the voters passed a referendum that dictated how congressional districts should be drawn. The Republicans actually violated the law in creating districts. Because there wasn't enough time to correct this blatant violation, the court allowed the districts  to stand for the 2022 election.

 

In North Carolina, as soon as the right wing supreme court violated their own alleged principle of non-interference in politic issues and voided most of the Voting Rights law, Congressional districts were bizarrely gerrymandered to confine most of the black voters into 3 districts.

 

In Texas, most voters use a driver's license to establish their legibility to vote. But Texas refuses to have motor vehicle registration offices open late to accommodate working people who don't drive but need an identity card to vote. They will allow a fishing license also as an ID. But they won't allow a University ID. 

 

10 hours ago, placeholder said:

A decade ago, Pennsylvania’s Republican state Senate leader and state party chairman both pointed to the state’s new voter ID law as helping their party win the presidential election in their state. Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.) did the same thing in Wisconsin in both 2016 and in 2012. And after that 2012 election, former Florida Republican Party chairman Jim Greer claimed his party was indeed trying to limit early voting to suppress Democratic votes.

“It’s done for one reason and one reason only,” Greer told the Palm Beach Post, before saying that Republicans essentially believed, “we’ve got to cut down on early voting because early voting is not good for us.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/06/14/gops-increasingly-blunt-argument-it-needs-voting-restrictions-win/

Just to be clear, nobody is being denied the right to vote. If during the year a person can't find time to obtain an ID then they don't care much about voting.

[Chomper Higgot]

1 minute ago, EVENKEEL said:

 

Just to be clear, nobody is being denied the right to vote. If during the year a person can't find time to obtain an ID then they don't care much about voting.

There’s a great deal more to denying citizens the right to vote than applying ID requirements.

 

Times and days of voter station opening.

Number and location of voter stations.

Under staffing of voter stations.

Intimidation of voters queuing at voter stations.

The list goes on.

[Scott]

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[thaibeachlovers]

Well, given Joe's rather poor record of getting things done, he needs something like this to attempt to get voters to elect him, not that I expect him to win the primaries.

[herfiehandbag]

On 3/6/2023 at 11:20 AM, EVENKEEL said:

Good job fanning the flames of hatred joe. For someone who campaigned of bringing the country together, he's doing a lousy job. Nothing but anger and hatred comes out of his mouth.

The events on the bridge at Selma were absolute manifestations of anger and hatred, which does seem to be resurgent in US politics.

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On 3/7/2023 at 11:35 AM, thaibeachlovers said:

Well, given Joe's rather poor record of getting things done, he needs something like this to attempt to get voters to elect him, not that I expect him to win the primaries.

Poor record of getting things done? He had a huge record of major accomplishments in the first 2 years. You may not approve of them, but that's not relevant to the question of getting things done.