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Deleted User wrote: »

Article about the autism stuff. I'm surprised you missed it.

Katie Rich of ‘S.N.L.’ Is Suspended for Tweet Mocking Barron Trump. That's the one about the homeschool shooter.

There are loads of examples of the left losing it and being worse than the people they hate. And the conversation I made up in my head was on point.. If we bring up anyone you guys like in a negative light, they're irrelevant and we're deflecting.

Let's be fair here, Katie Rich was widely condemned by the "left" and she was suspended because of what she said, personally I think she should be released permanently.

Let's also not forget the absolute trash said against the Obama children and Chelsea Clinton so it's not fair to say they're "worse than the people they hate".

Personally I've always been of the belief that the children of well-known figures are off limits, but sadly there are absolute arseholes on both sides.

Trump said Barron was affected by the stuff people have been saying about him.

RobertKK wrote: »

Is it travel suppression that one needs a passport and maybe other paperwork to travel?
When I was in Texas, I was watching local news on TV as the first day of early voting started, they named a series of different forms of ID one could use at the voting stations, it was nothing different to what you see here in Ireland, I was wondering while watching, why do people call this voter suppression when we have similar rules here in Ireland?
It didn't make sense, it seemed like an excuse to get people to vote who were questionable if they had a right to vote. I am not saying there was voter fraud, just the voter suppression thing is equally a bizarre claim.

It's a combination of rules that affect minorities. Close down voting booths in minority areas. Make them have a driving license. The problem with the making them have a driving permit is that 1) in texas most minority neighbourhoods don't have a DMV office and 2) they open at stupid hours. So if you're one of the 15% of hispanic residents who doesn't drive then getting a license is hard.
In Wisconsin a federal judge rules against the state in voter ID laws because they said the state made it harder to get a license.
Back in 2000 in florida they removed the names of a load of felons from the registry. That's wrong (if you've served your time it's wrong to continue to remove rights) and secondly when they removed them from the list they removed them by first initial and surname. So if your name was J Chavez (a common combination) you ended up being removed from the register because another J Chavez committed a crime. And minorities were more affected than whites by that change. I believe well over 100,000 voters were wrongly disenfranchised in the months before the election. many didn't realise until the election was happening. And that was in an election where Bush won Florida by a few hundred votes.


Here's a short video where republicans admit the whiole point of it is to suppress the democratic vote.



This is a bit more about the segment from the daily show (I can't find the full clip. If anyone knows where it is online could you let me know. The only link I can find is on comedy central and it's blocks if you're not in the US).




And here's a segment from last week tonight where they talk about North Carolina's voting laws which were struck down. When they enacted the laws they specifically asked for voting information based on race and then enacted laws to target black people. The politicians that did this said that although it was a partisan move they weren't racist :rolleyes:

RobertKK wrote: »

Barron at 10 years of age doesn't have children, it is the stuff that is directly targeted at Barron, not his father.

I think you missed the whole point of that joke.

RobertKK wrote: »

Is it travel suppression that one needs a passport and maybe other paperwork to travel?
When I was in Texas, I was watching local news on TV as the first day of early voting started, they named a series of different forms of ID one could use at the voting stations, it was nothing different to what you see here in Ireland, I was wondering while watching, why do people call this voter suppression when we have similar rules here in Ireland?
It didn't make sense, it seemed like an excuse to get people to vote who were questionable if they had a right to vote. I am not saying there was voter fraud, just the voter suppression thing is equally a bizarre claim.

Its always been the case that you could use a utility bill or dss card as id, what some Republicans want is photo id in the form of driving licence or passport.
This was deemed unconstitutional by the federal court in NC as it would overwhelmingly effect people of colour. So you might think it's bizarre but courts didn't.

Grayson wrote: »

It's a combination of rules that affect minorities. Close down voting booths in minority areas. Make them have a driving license. The problem with the making them have a driving permit is that 1) in texas most minority neighbourhoods don't have a DMV office and 2) they open at stupid hours. So if you're one of the 15% of hispanic residents who doesn't drive then getting a license is hard.
In Wisconsin a federal judge rules against the state in voter ID laws because they said the state made it harder to get a license.
Back in 2000 in florida they removed the names of a load of felons from the registry. That's wrong (if you've served your time it's wrong to continue to remove rights) and secondly when they removed them from the list they removed them by first initial and surname. So if your name was J Chavez (a common combination) you ended up being removed from the register because another J Chavez committed a crime. And minorities were more affected than whites by that change. I believe well over 100,000 voters were wrongly disenfranchised in the months before the election. many didn't realise until the election was happening. And that was in an election where Bush won Florida by a few hundred votes.


Here's a short video where republicans admit the whiole point of it is to suppress the democratic vote.

This is a bit more about the segment from the daily show (I can't find the full clip. If anyone knows where it is online could you let me know. The only link I can find is on comedy central and it's blocks if you're not in the US).

And here's a segment from last week tonight where they talk about North Carolina's voting laws which were struck down. When they enacted the laws they specifically asked for voting information based on race and then enacted laws to target black people. The politicians that did this said that although it was a partisan move they weren't racist :rolleyes:

Are they prevented from getting a passport, or travelling to a polling booth?
I live in the countryside and have to travel miles to vote.

snubbleste wrote: »

He should've put Saudi Arabia on the list though

His business interests mean thats a no go

darkpagandeath wrote: »

Ask the poster who used it.

The dictionary works just fine.