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(MSN)   GOP member of the WI Elections board who recently said the GOP "can be especially proud" of lowered turnout in Milwaukee in 2022, "with the major reduction happening in the overwhelming Black and Hispanic areas" can't understand why he should resign   (msn.com) divider line
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mistahtom
2023-01-19 3:29:40 AM  
There will be Republican election fraud in WI, OH, and GA.  Arizona will get all the attention but the GOP's goal is to maintain the House and flip the senate.

They don't need the presidency to implement their agenda, ok, doing nothing with Congressional control is their agenda because they have control of SCOTUS.

They need outrage over the presidency to cover for the congressional races.

As Buttigeig said, it's time to stop treating the presidency as the only race that matters.
 
Mr. Coffee Nerves [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-19 7:18:12 AM  
You know your ideas are the best when implementing them requires as few people as possible to vote.

And this is all about making sure that in November 2024 Republican-controlled state legislatures are there to say "Sure, Biden got the most votes, but we have concerns about fraud in cities, so, just to be safe and because we love democracy so much, we're going to send our own electors to Washington to install Donald Trump as God-King for Life."
 
qorkfiend
2023-01-19 8:10:50 AM  

Mr. Coffee Nerves: You know your ideas are the best when implementing them requires as few people as possible to vote.

And this is all about making sure that in November 2024 Republican-controlled state legislatures are there to say "Sure, Biden got the most votes, but we have concerns about fraud in cities, so, just to be safe and because we love democracy so much, we're going to send our own electors to Washington to install Donald Trump as God-King for Life."


Sounds like another great reason to stop electing Republicans
 
Flowery Twats
2023-01-19 8:12:33 AM  
Not smart enough not to say the quiet part out loud.

Asshole.
 
dracos31
2023-01-19 8:13:22 AM  
He was also one of the fake electors.

He shouldn't resign, he should be:

Arrested
Tried
Convicted, and
Hung in the public square as an object lesson to the other fascists
 
holdmybones
2023-01-19 8:14:53 AM  
The master race
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scanman61
2023-01-19 8:15:24 AM  

holdmybones: The master race
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RasIanI
2023-01-19 8:16:35 AM  
"...claimed he was touting positive efforts by the GOP to counter liberal messaging in the Democratic stronghold of Milwaukee."

Then why didn't the GQP vote count go up commensurate with decline in Democratic votes? If your messaging was effective, these voters would've voted Republican  - instead their vote was suppressed.
 
NM Volunteer [TotalFark]
2023-01-19 8:17:14 AM  

dracos31: He was also one of the fake electors.

He shouldn't resign, he should be:

Arrested
Tried
Convicted, and
Hung in the public square as an object lesson to the other fascists


Hanged, not hung.  If he were packing more than three inches, he wouldn't turn to fascism.
 
qorkfiend
2023-01-19 8:17:37 AM  

RasIanI: "...claimed he was touting positive efforts by the GOP to counter liberal messaging in the Democratic stronghold of Milwaukee."

Then why didn't the GQP vote count go up commensurate with decline in Democratic votes? If your messaging was effective, these voters would've voted Republican  - instead their vote was suppressed.


They didn't say their efforts were in messaging.
 
RasIanI
2023-01-19 8:18:06 AM  

scanman61: holdmybones: The master race
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abb3w [TotalFark]
2023-01-19 8:18:25 AM  
"It Is Difficult to Get a Man to Understand Something When His Salary Depends Upon His Not Understanding It".


/dnrtfa
 
holdmybones
2023-01-19 8:19:34 AM  

scanman61: holdmybones: The master race
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I knew his face looked familiar.

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Jemraine [TotalFark]
2023-01-19 8:21:50 AM  
He shouldn't resign. He should be _____ in the _____ until he's _____!
 
Nick Nostril
2023-01-19 8:22:45 AM  
Proud of lowered turnout in a country with barely 50% turnout for presidential elections. Tell me you don't give two squirts of piss about democracy without telling me you don't give two squirts of piss about democracy.

/ we already knew
 
FiloBato
2023-01-19 8:25:00 AM  
What happens when you do not arrest criminals for their crimes?
They become empowered and committ more crime.

I hate Biden for not immediately rounding up the leaders of the attempted coup.

In fact, I hope his son gets the book thrown at him just so Biden can die with his son in prison.

I'm a registered democrat..
...The party of sit around and watch Republicans committ crimes can GFItself.
(I will still vote democrat because I'm not a moron or a trader.
 
sniderman
2023-01-19 8:30:57 AM  

Flowery Twats: Not smart enough not to say the quiet part out loud.

Asshole.


Repubs have learned they no longer have to stay quiet. TFG has shown them there is nothing they can shout from the rooftops that will get them kicked out of office. In fact, it endears them to their voters.
 
Coco LaFemme [OhFark]
2023-01-19 8:32:51 AM  

FiloBato: What happens when you do not arrest criminals for their crimes?
They become empowered and committ more crime.

I hate Biden for not immediately rounding up the leaders of the attempted coup.

In fact, I hope his son gets the book thrown at him just so Biden can die with his son in prison.

I'm a registered democrat..
...The party of sit around and watch Republicans committ crimes can GFItself.
(I will still vote democrat because I'm not a moron or a trader.



Pres. Biden should die in prison? For what? Hunter Biden should die in prison? For what?

The next time you have a thought, let it go.
 
dracos31
2023-01-19 8:32:59 AM  

NM Volunteer: dracos31: He was also one of the fake electors.

He shouldn't resign, he should be:

Arrested
Tried
Convicted, and
Hung in the public square as an object lesson to the other fascists

Hanged, not hung.  If he were packing more than three inches, he wouldn't turn to fascism.


Yet amazingly, they are all huge dicks without having one.
 
Elzar
2023-01-19 8:33:15 AM  

holdmybones: The master race
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He who master races, master bates'es

/ punch your local nazi
 
palelizard
2023-01-19 8:33:48 AM  
Commissioner Robert Spindell, who also served as a fake elector for former President Donald Trump, again on Wednesday refused to resign.

That alone, right there, means he shouldn't be commissioner (or on the commission at all) and should be in jail.
 
qorkfiend
2023-01-19 8:38:54 AM  

FiloBato: What happens when you do not arrest criminals for their crimes?
They become empowered and committ more crime.

I hate Biden for not immediately rounding up the leaders of the attempted coup.

In fact, I hope his son gets the book thrown at him just so Biden can die with his son in prison.

I'm a registered democrat..
...The party of sit around and watch Republicans committ crimes can GFItself.
(I will still vote democrat because I'm not a moron or a trader.


This is a great example of making up shiat so you can complain about the Democrats
 
Dr Dreidel
2023-01-19 8:44:56 AM  

Coco LaFemme: FiloBato: What happens when you do not arrest criminals for their crimes?
They become empowered and committ more crime.

I hate Biden for not immediately rounding up the leaders of the attempted coup.

In fact, I hope his son gets the book thrown at him just so Biden can die with his son in prison.

I'm a registered democrat..
...The party of sit around and watch Republicans committ crimes can GFItself.
(I will still vote democrat because I'm not a moron or a trader.


Pres. Biden should die in prison? For what? Hunter Biden should die in prison? For what?

The next time you have a thought, let it go.


I think the point is that Joe being that short-sighted about what Republican fishing trips can do - and the general "*shrug* Republicans gonna Republican" about the goddamn insurrection coming off of his cabinet and law enforcement - "deserves" the punishment of Joe & Hunter sharing a cell.

It's a weird thing to say, for sure; but whistling past this particular graveyard when we have so many object lessons in why that's a bad idea can take us to some pretty dark places.
 
Drank_the_40_water
2023-01-19 8:45:18 AM  
Tell me again how the voting rights act is obsolete?
 
moothemagiccow
2023-01-19 8:47:36 AM  
qorkfiend:
In fact, I hope his son gets the book thrown at him just so Biden can die with his son in prison.

I'm a registered democrat..
...The party of sit around and watch Republicans committ crimes can GFItself.
(I will still vote democrat because I'm not a moron or a trader.

This is a great example of making up shiat so you can complain about the Democrats

I want to hear more about Hunter Biden's laptop. What kind of graphics card did it have? How much RAM? Could it run Forspoken?
 
IndyJohn [recently expired TotalFark]
2023-01-19 8:49:07 AM  
He should resign, because he said the quiet part out loud.

He shouldn't resign because of anything he actually did that may have helped suppress voter turn out.

Rather, by admitting to the intent and effect, and he said, some thing that could be used in court to potentially undo the progress he made for the republican party.

But then, since Republican appointees to the bench, don't care about voting rights. This might be a case of new harm no foul and he should just stick it out.
 
JustSayYo
2023-01-19 8:50:38 AM  
I don't think we should punish the GOP when they actually tell the truth, but how about not allowing voters suppression on the first place, then punishing it when it happens
 
bumfuzzled
2023-01-19 8:57:46 AM  
"...claimed he was touting positive efforts by the GOP to counter liberal messaging in the Democratic stronghold of Milwaukee."

Except that you didn't. You touted suppressing Dem turnout. Nobody would have said a word if your message was "The GOP won because our message was better", but that's not what you said.

To use a sports metaphor: Your statement wasn't "We won because our team played better", your statement was "We won because our team kept the other team from being able to get to the stadium and actually compete."
 
Magorn [TotalFark]
2023-01-19 8:58:33 AM  

FiloBato: What happens when you do not arrest criminals for their crimes?
They become empowered and committ more crime.

I hate Biden for not immediately rounding up the leaders of the attempted coup.

In fact, I hope his son gets the book thrown at him just so Biden can die with his son in prison.

I'm a registered democrat..
...The party of sit around and watch Republicans committ crimes can GFItself.
(I will still vote democrat because I'm not a moron or a trader.


Okay Tulsi, simmer down now
 
cowsaregoodeating
2023-01-19 9:02:36 AM  

JustSayYo: I don't think we should punish the GOP when they actually tell the truth, but how about not allowing voters suppression on the first place, then punishing it when it happens


You keep it from happening by passing and enforcing laws that stop it. The ones that want it to happen are the ones running the state governments. It's hard to pass a law when you don't have a majority and the law you want to pass will get the majority removed from office.
 
Stud Gerbil
2023-01-19 9:10:01 AM  
I agree tho, why should he resign?   They achieved the openly-stated goals of their party.   He should be promoted.  He should be the RNC chair.
 
cowsaregoodeating
2023-01-19 9:10:27 AM  

FiloBato: What happens when you do not arrest criminals for their crimes?
They become empowered and committ more crime.

I hate Biden for not immediately rounding up the leaders of the attempted coup.

In fact, I hope his son gets the book thrown at him just so Biden can die with his son in prison.

I'm a registered democrat..
...The party of sit around and watch Republicans committ crimes can GFItself.
(I will still vote democrat because I'm not a moron or a trader.


I'm going to assume you are telling the truth and are a democrat. What did you want Biden to do? Issue an executive order that everyone on the capitol grounds was to be detained and arrested pending a trial? America doesn't work like that. Even the leaders of the coupe attempt that weren't there can't be sent to prison without any evidence of a crime.
 
Walker [TotalFark]
2023-01-19 9:10:43 AM  
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Jacobin
2023-01-19 9:13:14 AM  
You never say the quiet part out loud
 
DarwiOdrade [TotalFark]
2023-01-19 9:15:57 AM  
The Republican Party must be destroyed for the good of the country.
 
rga184
2023-01-19 9:16:30 AM  

scanman61: holdmybones: The master race
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he looks exactly as much of an asshole as I thought he'd look.  Didn't even look at the caption to see who it was.  If it isn't him, I don't care, because in my mind, that's how he looks.
 
Ken VeryBigLiar
2023-01-19 9:20:05 AM  

palelizard: Commissioner Robert Spindell, who also served as a fake elector for former President Donald Trump, again on Wednesday refused to resign.

That alone, right there, means he shouldn't be commissioner (or on the commission at all) and should be in jail.


Our Election Commission is a mess, literally 3 Democrats and 3 Republicans so nothing really happens. Originally they were just a box to check off when elections came and went but now with a gerrymandered Assembly and Senate they're not going to have more filth like this guy.
 
rga184
2023-01-19 9:21:11 AM  

Dr Dreidel: Coco LaFemme: FiloBato: What happens when you do not arrest criminals for their crimes?
They become empowered and committ more crime.

I hate Biden for not immediately rounding up the leaders of the attempted coup.

In fact, I hope his son gets the book thrown at him just so Biden can die with his son in prison.

I'm a registered democrat..
...The party of sit around and watch Republicans committ crimes can GFItself.
(I will still vote democrat because I'm not a moron or a trader.


Pres. Biden should die in prison? For what? Hunter Biden should die in prison? For what?

The next time you have a thought, let it go.

I think the point is that Joe being that short-sighted about what Republican fishing trips can do - and the general "*shrug* Republicans gonna Republican" about the goddamn insurrection coming off of his cabinet and law enforcement - "deserves" the punishment of Joe & Hunter sharing a cell.

It's a weird thing to say, for sure; but whistling past this particular graveyard when we have so many object lessons in why that's a bad idea can take us to some pretty dark places.


I think it's frustration talking there.

Sometimes it feels like we're in a fight with an opponent that is right now hitting below the belt and throwing sand in your face, and  you're waiting for the referee to ring the bell so the boxing match can start.

We're in a bare-knuckle fight and it feels like the only person who knows it is the opponent.

That's why I like people like AOC and Fetterman so much, they took off their gloves and are doing god's work out there.
 
killershark
2023-01-19 9:24:27 AM  

dracos31: He was also one of the fake electors.

He shouldn't resign, he should be:

Arrested
Tried
Convicted, and
Hung in the public square as an object lesson to the other fascists


I'm going to be the Eeyore that reminds everyone that if Garland was actually taking the insurrection seriously, this guy would've been arrested before he could've hurt Wisconsin voters -- again.
 
BeansNfranks
2023-01-19 9:24:28 AM  

scanman61: holdmybones: The master race
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Of course he looks like a full blown leader of the KKK.
 
qorkfiend
2023-01-19 9:29:41 AM  

Dr Dreidel: Coco LaFemme: FiloBato: What happens when you do not arrest criminals for their crimes?
They become empowered and committ more crime.

I hate Biden for not immediately rounding up the leaders of the attempted coup.

In fact, I hope his son gets the book thrown at him just so Biden can die with his son in prison.

I'm a registered democrat..
...The party of sit around and watch Republicans committ crimes can GFItself.
(I will still vote democrat because I'm not a moron or a trader.


Pres. Biden should die in prison? For what? Hunter Biden should die in prison? For what?

The next time you have a thought, let it go.

I think the point is that Joe being that short-sighted about what Republican fishing trips can do - and the general "*shrug* Republicans gonna Republican" about the goddamn insurrection coming off of his cabinet and law enforcement - "deserves" the punishment of Joe & Hunter sharing a cell.

It's a weird thing to say, for sure; but whistling past this particular graveyard when we have so many object lessons in why that's a bad idea can take us to some pretty dark places.


It has nothing to do with short-sightedness and everything to do with the fact that the Administration can't stop them from forming this committee or undertaking whatever investigations they desire, so they're going to treat it with the level of seriousness it deserves, namely "zero".

Or do you think the Administration should be publicly fretting about it?
 
qorkfiend
2023-01-19 9:30:10 AM  

cowsaregoodeating: FiloBato: What happens when you do not arrest criminals for their crimes?
They become empowered and committ more crime.

I hate Biden for not immediately rounding up the leaders of the attempted coup.

In fact, I hope his son gets the book thrown at him just so Biden can die with his son in prison.

I'm a registered democrat..
...The party of sit around and watch Republicans committ crimes can GFItself.
(I will still vote democrat because I'm not a moron or a trader.

I'm going to assume you are telling the truth and are a democrat. What did you want Biden to do? Issue an executive order that everyone on the capitol grounds was to be detained and arrested pending a trial? America doesn't work like that. Even the leaders of the coupe attempt that weren't there can't be sent to prison without any evidence of a crime.


Don't forget the part where Biden wasn't President at the time
 
MikeyFuccon
2023-01-19 9:30:59 AM  

bumfuzzled: "...claimed he was touting positive efforts by the GOP to counter liberal messaging in the Democratic stronghold of Milwaukee."

Except that you didn't. You touted suppressing Dem turnout. Nobody would have said a word if your message was "The GOP won because our message was better", but that's not what you said.

To use a sports metaphor: Your statement wasn't "We won because our team played better", your statement was "We won because our team kept the other team from being able to get to the stadium and actually compete."


Or, to extend the metaphor a bit, Team Red know their team aren't good enough to score many goals in an honest game, so they'll do their damnedest to make sure Team Blue can't score in regular time---even if that means occasionally using unnecessary roughness to force the benching of top players early in the game.

So invest in a top-notch goalie, try to fight to a no-score draw, and hope you can get in enough goals in the penalty-kick tie-breaker.

(I'll leave it to sports buffs to explain what sanctions a real pro team would face if they did this consistently.)

In other words, there are many ways to win a game if you're desperate or unscrupulous enough.
 
qorkfiend
2023-01-19 9:31:03 AM  

killershark: dracos31: He was also one of the fake electors.

He shouldn't resign, he should be:

Arrested
Tried
Convicted, and
Hung in the public square as an object lesson to the other fascists

I'm going to be the Eeyore that reminds everyone that if Garland was actually taking the insurrection seriously, this guy would've been arrested before he could've hurt Wisconsin voters -- again.


Was this dude at the Capitol on Jan 6?
 
eagles95
2023-01-19 9:32:33 AM  
Racists in Wisconsin? I'm shocked. When I lived there people would joke that crime goes down in Green Bay after the football season ends because  the Packers leave town and take their families with them. Oh wait...they did that on my FB page a couple weeks ago.

My goddaughters are both in college now and actively making plans to leave the state when they graduate or move to Milwaukee or Madison  to help make the state less shiatty. I told them to move to red districts in those areas just to take away 1 vote.
 
qorkfiend
2023-01-19 9:34:19 AM  

rga184: Dr Dreidel: Coco LaFemme: FiloBato: What happens when you do not arrest criminals for their crimes?
They become empowered and committ more crime.

I hate Biden for not immediately rounding up the leaders of the attempted coup.

In fact, I hope his son gets the book thrown at him just so Biden can die with his son in prison.

I'm a registered democrat..
...The party of sit around and watch Republicans committ crimes can GFItself.
(I will still vote democrat because I'm not a moron or a trader.


Pres. Biden should die in prison? For what? Hunter Biden should die in prison? For what?

The next time you have a thought, let it go.

I think the point is that Joe being that short-sighted about what Republican fishing trips can do - and the general "*shrug* Republicans gonna Republican" about the goddamn insurrection coming off of his cabinet and law enforcement - "deserves" the punishment of Joe & Hunter sharing a cell.

It's a weird thing to say, for sure; but whistling past this particular graveyard when we have so many object lessons in why that's a bad idea can take us to some pretty dark places.

I think it's frustration talking there.

Sometimes it feels like we're in a fight with an opponent that is right now hitting below the belt and throwing sand in your face, and  you're waiting for the referee to ring the bell so the boxing match can start.

We're in a bare-knuckle fight and it feels like the only person who knows it is the opponent.

That's why I like people like AOC and Fetterman so much, they took off their gloves and are doing god's work out there.


That's a problem with you and your interpretation of what's happening.

You're desperately looking for some "referee" who can stop what you perceive as unfairness and completely ignoring the fact that there is no referee. There is no singular set of official rules handed down from on high to be enforced. There is no entity with the authority to enforce them or conduct a post hoc review.
 
MLWS
2023-01-19 9:39:06 AM  
Scumbag.
 
Barricaded Gunman
2023-01-19 9:59:01 AM  

FiloBato: I will still vote democrat because I'm not a moron or a trader.


We're gonna need to get a ruling on that first one.
 
Dr Dreidel
2023-01-19 10:03:07 AM  

qorkfiend: Or do you think the Administration should be publicly fretting about it?


Fretting about Republican fishing trips in Congress? Maybe not publicly, no. But also, with this new Biden document shiat (which wasn't even uncovered by Congress), there's a real danger of losing the "momentum". Whatever trivial bullshiat Republicans uncover has more power because Biden's already on his back foot with that damaging reveal.

I also think that February 2021 was the time to start making some aggressive moves like high-profile arrests in the fake elector case(s) - I know DoJ has something like 1,000 cases against insurrectionists going since then, but ZERO against the fake electors. Who knows, maybe moving more aggressively then might have meant saving a handful of Democratic seats last year...

// the Select Committee was formed almost six months after the actual attack, which seems like a few months wasted
 
HighOnCraic
2023-01-19 10:28:37 AM  

Jacobin: You never say the quiet part out loud


The central question that emerges . . . is whether the White community in the South is entitled to take such measures as are necessary to prevail, politically and culturally, in areas in which it does not prevail numerically? The sobering answer is Yes - the White community is so entitled because, for the time being, it is the advanced race. It is not easy, and it is unpleasant, to adduce statistics evidencing the cultural superiority of White over Negro: but it is a fact that obtrudes, one that cannot be hidden by ever-so-busy egalitarians and anthropologists.

National Review believes that the South's premises are correct . . . It is more important for the community, anywhere in the world, to affirm and live by civilized standards, than to bow to the demands of the numerical majority.

*****

Mr. Kilpatrick also took aim at the 1965 Voting Rights Act in the April 20, 1965 issue. "Must We Repeal the Constitution to Give the Negro the Vote?" he asked, accusing the bill's supporters of "perverting the Constitution." He thought certain blacks should be given the right to vote but notes, "Over most of this century, the great bulk of Southern Negroes have been genuinely unqualified for the franchise." He also defended segregation as rational for Southerners. "Segregation is a fact, and more than a fact; it is a state of mind. It lies in the Southern subconscious next to man's most elementary instincts, for self-preservation, for survival, for the untroubled continuation of a not intolerable way of life."

*****

In a column written five months before the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act and called "The Issue at Selma," he called for giving blacks the vote but perhaps restricting the franchise to high school graduates. He sympathized with the Southern position writing, "In much of the South, what is so greatly feared is irresponsible, mobocratic rule, and it is a fear not easily dissipated, because it is well-grounded that if the entire Negro population in the South were suddenly given the vote, and were to use it as a bloc, and pursuant to directives handed down by some of the more demagogic leaders, chaos would ensue." He also warned of "a suddenly enfranchised, violently embittered Negro population which will take the vote and wield it as an instrument of vengeance, shaking down the walls of Jericho even to their foundations, and reawakening the terrible genocidal antagonisms that scarred the Southern psyche during the days of Reconstruction."

/There was a time when Republicans actually took credit for Reconstruction.
//Weird, ain't it?
 
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