The Politics Thread

[amybrickwallace]

 

Ask and you shall receive!!

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[marceline]

 

Same. They aren't heroes or saviors but I will take their help as long as they stick to going after Repubs.

[DRW50]

Bill Kristol's son works for Tom Cotton and Kristol has praised Cotton, so you can guess where this is going. If he does pick Cotton (a charisma vacuum with a lot of rumors swirling about him), then that would make sense, given his support for Sarah Palin.

 

Miami-Dade ballots being held up, AKA more Florida rigging, right on cue. 

 

https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/video-of-piles-of-mail-at-miami-dade-post-office-brings-up-concerns-of-ballot-backup/2314409/

[Vee]

 

[DramatistDreamer]

This is why it's ridiculous to assume that any Voters who vote on Election Day is an automatic vote for

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face.

 

[Vee]

Thread and article:

 

 

[sivad40]

 

[Khan]

 

It's a shame we have to put ourselves at risk -- y'know, with COVID-19 and all -- but I think we, more than any other voter bloc in this country, understand what's at stake here.

[Taoboi]

AMEN.

[JaneAusten]

I trust black voters more than any other voting block, particularly black women. It still angers me that 2016 was partially about how black voters did not show up for Hillary. Only when voter suppression starts impacting white people like this year does the media pay attention to it. Nothing in 2016 about the voting machines in Detroit that went bad causing thousands to have to vote provisionally, or the draconian voter ID laws and legal orders that the GOP ignored to prevent black people from getting id's that were acceptable in Wisconsin, or the hundreds of new voting machines in a warehouse in Georgia while the now Gov then sec of state told people they closed polling places due to lack of equipment in 2018. The list goes on.

[I Am A Swede]

Another attack at a church in France. A priest has been shot and seriously injured in Lyon.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54763136

 

This comes only a few days after three people were murdered inside a church in Nice

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54736277

 

 

[DRW50]

 

Get ready for this on Tuesday, and from now on.

[DramatistDreamer]

 

France and Belgium seem to have recurring problems with terrorism, France most of all, with Belgium often seemingly housing sleeper cells that eventually seem to make their way to France. Nice seems to suffer an attack about once a year.

That the French government seems content with ignoring their racism and repeating their well-rehearsed motto of 'French-ness' for all while relegating POCs to the banlieus and expect success is mystifying to me.

[Faulkner]

 

[I Am A Swede]

 

These two incidents are most likely part of the escalating conflict that started with the gruesome murder of teacher Samuel Paty a few weeks ago.