Just thinking
Has anyone compared the Professional Wrestler/President from Idiocracy
with occasional WWE participant Donald Trump?
Because if I’m going to have a professional wrestler and/or a guy named Dwayne for president, I’d rather have The Rock:
Two minutes that you MUST watch.
Stop saying that Bernie Sanders was for the crime bill. He spoke over and over and over again against it.
Here he is, calling it what it really was, a punishment bill, that came after poor people and Black folk.
When he eventually supported a version of it, he openly stated that he only did so because of the new laws protecting women in the bill, but be clear, he always opposed it, and did so with great passion.
#FeelTheBern #Bernie2016
(Source: http://4mysquad.tumblr.com/)
blah blah, the best minds of our generation, whatever
I will start by providing a brief summary of the ensuing wall of text, in a handful of links:
- canivote.org will tell you if you are all set up to vote!
- NCSL can tell you some stuff about absentee voting and vote by mail!
- Many states offer online voter registration!
- USEAC will help you get registered in a language other than English!
- rockthevote can tell you if you can register to vote even if you’re not quite 18 yet!
- If you’re a legal permanent resident, USCIS might yet be able to help you get citizenship and attendant voting rights before November!
- Encourage other people to vote, either on your own or with a GOTV organization!
- Some arguments on why to vote!
- Some Get Out The Vote techniques and paper printy things you can use to get out the vote with your favorite nonprofit!
- Some sciencey nerd research on what GOTV techniques actually work!
I will paste those again at the end with a little more commentary, but first I would like to go on at some length, as I so frequently do!
I’m a liberal. In fact, I mean, I’m flaming pinko dyke scum, basically: I’ve identified as a socialist since I was fourteen and I read The Grapes of Wrath and then found out that my extremely badass great-grandma, a pre-WWI non-English-speaking Jewish woman, went to college, cut off all her hair, got arrested and then tossed out of her home country for Communist agitation, and then shacked up in New Jersey with an illegal immigrant union activist and raised two children with him in sin. So. I’m a liberal. That seems like a very safe statement to me, like saying “I breathe oxygen” or “I dislike close-toed shoes.”
The first national election I was eligible to vote in occurred in 2000.
It’s Super Tuesday. If you live in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont or Virginia, your primary nominating contest is today for both Democrats and Republicans. If you’re a Democrat in Colorado or American Samoa or a Republican in Alaska, your primary nominating contest is also today [x]. In addition to checking whether or not you’re registered, canivote.org can also help you find your polling place.
Still mildy amused/concerned that one of the 7 pieces of valid ID that Texas accepts is a concealed carry permit. [x]