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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: wzambon 🐝 BRONZE
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Subject: Re: Slotkin says it out loud
Date: 07/15/26 9:16 PM
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I'm 100% all for securing elections. Why aren't democrats?

No you're not. You're for fixing a virtually non-existent problem in order to discourage "certain" eligible voters from voting.

Who are those "certain" eligible voters? Anyone who doesn't have all of his or her papers in order.

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Anyone who can jump through these hoops can vote.

But I limp and cannot jump that high.

Well then, you are obviously someone who shouldn't be voting.

But I have my driver's licence with my married name on it.

I need to see the court documents that prove your legal change of name.

<This one will stochastically eliminate a good number of female voters>

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I need proof that you are who you say you are. You don't drive, so I need a birth certificate.

I was born 90 years ago in a county where the court house burned down in 1955.

Well, then, you are obviously someone who shouldn't be voting.

I've been voting here in this precinct for the last 20 elections

Sad. So sad. But you are obviously someone who shouldn't be voting.

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Your I'm 100% all for securing elections. Why aren't democrats? is a bald-faced lie.

How many times have you raised the spectre of hordes of immigrants casting illegal votes?

And yet study after study cannot find any trace of these "hordes"? At best, a couple dozen illegal votes were cast in the last several election by non-citizens.

And when you think of it..... what kind of fool would risk prison or deportation by voting illegally?

These folks only want to keep their heads down and stay out of trouble. Why would they risk that?

But..... you are all for the president's "We're going to throw election officials in jail if illegals vote in their districts"

Great..... now the officials will disallow even more eligible voters.... just to remain safe. Spanish surname? So sorry, but I can't take the chance. You're probably someone who shouldn't be voting.

Which is just how you like it.

You replicate the very crimes perpetrated by Democrats in the old south, and then attempt to dance away from the simple observation that Republicans are heirs of the old segregationists.

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