State of Friday: DEAR AMERICA, YOU'RE TOO STUPID
It’s strictly about finding ways to subvert and weaken the process in order to exploit it for the sake of power
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Here we are again, State of the Day, where I strip the euphemism, lies and misdirection of the day’s news and give it to you straight, no ice, no mixer.
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I’ve been keeping count … 47, 48, 49 … America is very close to passing the SAVE Act, federally requiring both proof of citizenship and ID to vote in national elections.
YIKES!
DEAR AMERICA, YOU’RE TOO STUPID
Here’s how ChatGPT characterizes “how hard” it is to get a new birth certificate: “Not hard at all,” “straightforward,” and “an administrative inconvenience” that is “not a major hurdle.”
How about getting a state-issued ID? “Easy” if you have a “stable address” and a W-2, could even be old W-2s, just needs your full name and SSN.
What about the fees? The median fee for both of these is $10. But just in case you are bone-crushingly impoverished, 32 states have fee waivers.
Nevertheless, lone conservative Scott Jennings imploded a CNN panel Thursday night by suggesting that liberals who oppose voter ID often rely on emotive bigotry of low expectations.
It’s a “poll tax,” they shrieked, it’s “Jim Crow 2.0.” What about black people, poor people and rural whites, they yelled at Scott, don’t you care about your own rural whites?!
You can watch the panel for yourself if you’re interested, but we’ve heard all the arguments. People are too poor and too stupid to get on the internet or to go to the DMV and spend an hour getting proper documentation so they can take part in acts of civic duty like voting.
The reality, as we all suspect by now, is none of this is really about people being too poor or too stupid. It’s not about poll taxes or disenfranchisement or any other $2 political cliché.
It’s strictly about finding ways to subvert and weaken the process in order to exploit it for the sake of power.
This guy was elected mayor in Coldwater, Kansas, and voted in multiple national elections. He’s not American. DOGE volunteer, CEO, and one-time Democrat Antonio Gracias made headlines last year when he said DOGE had found “thousands” of illegals on voter rolls.
“We found that in a handful of cooperative states, there were thousands on the voter rolls—and that many of them had voted,” he said.
“Cooperative states” … hmmm, I wonder which ones those are?
What’s driving Democrats mad as Republicans near the 51 mark to pass the SAVE Act isn’t that beloved blacks or poors or rural whites will have new barriers to voting. It’s that pesky birth certificate. While it might take just $10 and 30 minutes online for an average citizen to get a new certificate, it’s another thing entirely to forge one.
On the other hand, the barriers for an illegal in this country to vote are negligible if states and various NGOs do automatic ID and voter registration. You can simply vote and never breathe a word about it afterward.
But forging a birth document, that not only takes unique skills, but a unique motivation. Voting in an election is probably not so high on illegals’ priority list that they’d bother learning how to fake that document and then risk a felony and deportation.
In many cases, we’re talking raised seals, microprinting, watermarks, barcodes. Most illegals will simply opt out.
Cue the shrieking! Jim Crow! Disenfranchisement!
Well, I’m not buying a stitch of it, and neither should you, Dear Reader.
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