TimLovesTech

Kinda sad to see Katie Porter at #1 with over $10m while the next closest candidate is just under $3m.

Edit - Having only known her for the charts she makes to school Republicans I had no idea she earned her law degree under Professor Warren (when she was teaching at Harvard), and was later given the position of monitor for a nationwide bank mortgage settlement by Harris when she was AG of CA. Small world.

Trump Loopa

I saw footage of him from his last rally and the contrast of his bright orange face to his tiny bright white hands was alarming.

Except he has more disdain for his supporters than anyone else, even the "radical left" that he puts on a show about disliking. But his cult are the ones he lies to, grifts away all their money on a deluge of just garbage with his "brand" on it, and just thinks they are the dumbest and most useless people. He has made comments about them not having lives and being unstable.

“I saw him when the cameras were off … Trump mocks his supporters. He calls them basement dwellers. On a hospital visit one time when people were dying in the ICU, he was mad that the cameras were not watching him.”

She continued: “He used to tell me: ‘It doesn’t matter what you say, Stephanie, say it enough and people will believe you.’”

-- Stephanie Grisham, Donald Trump’s former press secretary

Source: Trump calls his supporters ‘basement dwellers’, says former press secretary

Yes, the lawsuits are part of their plan, because they know even when all these cases get thrown out because they got nothing (like last time) that the base (Trump's foot soldiers) will believe Trump saying the justice system is being used against him/them.

It also seems to be that every election year now there is at least one state that doesn't have their shit together and we have to wait a week for results.

This has been part of the Republican long game. Like in Georgia when they wanted mandatory hand counts of every district and then try and compare those against the machine numbers to call count differences out as "obvious ballet tampering", when by the very nature of being human, hand counts are less accurate (especially on that scale). Just doing stuff that at a quick glance and no thought could maybe be perceived as "voting integrity" but is really all about voter suppression and disenfranchisement.

Bannon during Trump's term referred to this as "flood the zone with shit". Essentially just putting out such a large volume of nonsense that people just give up, you break their will to vote/argue/oppose you/fight back/correct the record.

Social Security Numbers for Noncitizens Generally, only noncitizens authorized to work in the United States by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) can get an SSN.

Yes, but in getting a SSN the government already knows your citizenship status, and so when the voter registration workers check your information your SSN I would think would allow them to confirm your status (or lack of SSN as a red flag). Again the checks are in place already, this is just Republicans working around the rules to get them what they want. And sure people can reregister, but at least some of these people are going to be disenfranchised now and not see it as "worth the hassle".

Edit - Also the SSN thing matters because of this quote from the article as the basis of this.

The state's plan flagged people for removal if they check a box on a Department of Motor Vehicles form declaring they are not a citizen or if they leave it blank.

From my link @ SSA above.

You don’t need an SSN to get a driver’s license, ...

So they are purposely using a form that means nothing to try and push their bad faith argument, and the Supreme Court just said "sure, why not!" instead of stopping them like the law and lower court said.

Note that you must provide your Social Security number, if any, when applying to register to vote in Virginia. Therefore, if you do not provide your Social Security number, your application for voter registration will be denied. State and local voting officials will use your Social Security number as a unique identifier to insure that no person is registered in more than one place.

Again they already have checks in place and this is transparent tampering with voter rolls to help them in the election next week.

But wasn't citizenship checked when registering? This is the part that blows these anti-democratic lawsuits up as purely political and a way to hopefully remove enough people they think are going to vote Democrat. Otherwise what is to stop these people from re-registering on election day?

And I have seen tons of stories about the overworked poll workers needing to deal with these voter role challengers nonsense. They all say there are safe guards built into every layer of the system and this type of stuff does nothing but create more work for election officials and less secure/democratic elections.

Not robotic or Falcons, but Dark Crystal is what I immediately thought of from the picture.

Oh the irony that people he has conned into being his "muscle" are already tried and convicted, yet Trump has managed to delay even having his day(s) in court.