'The American People Did Not Vote for Whatever the Hell This Is,' Warns House Democrat | Common Dreams
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Rep. Jim McGovern said the House GOP's rules package offers "the clearest window yet into their agenda for the next two years."

Summary

The House GOP’s new rules package aims to weaken minority party influence while advancing a pro-corporate agenda.

Key provisions include shielding the House speaker from bipartisan accountability and fast-tracking 12 GOP bills without allowing amendments, including measures to sanction the International Criminal Court (ICC) and protect fracking.

Democrats, led by Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), criticized the package for ignoring economic and social issues like inflation and housing while prioritizing tax cuts for billionaires.

Republicans plan to offset these costs by slashing social programs, sparking warnings of further congressional dysfunction.

  • Nightwingdragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 days ago

    It’s a fact that bomb threats were called into Democrat majority polling places and judges refused to extend polling hours to account for it.

    I’m sure this happened (I actually predicted it to be far worse than it was, and thankfully I was wrong), but I haven’t heard of any examples of this happening at a degree where it would impact election results. Given the magnifying glass that this particular election was under, if there were any significant cases of this happening, the media would have been all over it.

    Further, I’m sure that Harris’ team had a team of lawyers on speed dial looking for scenarios like this. One would assume that her team would have been all over it if they had word this was happening anywhere. If they weren’t, that’s an absolutely catastrophic failure on Harris’ team, her campaign, and Harris herself, and I have no reason to believe that they were that incompetent.

    It’s a fact that Republican states engaged in heavy voter suppression in major metropolitan areas.

    Harris performed significantly worse than Biden in all 50 states. All 50 states shifted to the right to at least some degree. States like California and New Jersey, typically as blue as a Smurf, suddenly looked competitive. The GOP voter suppression that they’ve been setting up for the past 4 years certainly played some role, but at the same time, you can’t blame GOP fuckery for the fact that voters even in the most liberal states opted to either shift right or stay home.

    And it’s extremely suspicious that bullet ballot rates were orderes of magnitude higher than previous elections only in swing states.

    There’s a couple of problems with this.

    First, Trump has a literal cult following that cares about him and only him. I absolutely can see rubes in swing states going to the polls en masse and just voting for Trump and not voting for anything else because they don’t care about anything else. I live in MA. One of the bluest states in the country. And I see people in their MAGA-covered pickup trucks and their MAGA flags wearing their Trump hats. And they still show up to vote even though Trump has no chance in the state. I can absolutely see hordes of Trump zombies showing up to do the same thing especially when their vote actually does matter. Even if only for the chest thumping.

    Second, it implies that our elections aren’t secure at all. Because there’s only two options here. One is that our elections are safe, secure, free, and fair. This means that as fucky as it may look on the surface, hordes of people voting for Trump and only Trump is completely legit. If there was some fuckery going on, this means that Trump’s team, his supporters, foreign agents, aliens from Venus, or whoever was able to hack into voting systems nationwide, change voting results to their liking, and leave absolutely no trace. You are basically saying that our elections are about as legitimate as a pro-wrestling match, with the winners pre-chosen by whatever hackers are able to infiltrate the most networks.

    There’s a very simple way to validate this issue. Check the number of ballots cast in a given precinct. Now compare that to the number of people who physically showed up and checked in. If those numbers are equal, that means that a high number of people simply really did just show up to vote for Trump and nothing more. You can look into why, but it’s irrelevant. If those numbers are off by even a single person, there’s a major problem that needs to be investigated. And again, if Harris wasn’t all over this like flies on shit, that’s a monumental failure of her campaign and her team. If there were some kind of mass fuckery going on, we’d know it by now.