Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: moviePig Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Biden Says the Quiet Part Out Loud Date: Fri, 17 May 2024 18:15:35 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 54 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: nobody@nowhere.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sat, 18 May 2024 00:15:36 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="7632b231e5147245b88ee3cb2ceca6e7"; logging-data="2529921"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+yjqsWMK2eg2f4FDG8NDprPAhIviDojCE=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:iqpevGnDoWxCibMWo/bcVa8YlWg= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 3994 On 5/17/2024 5:44 PM, BTR1701 wrote: > On May 17, 2024 at 1:17:43 PM PDT, "shawn" > wrote: > >> On Fri, 17 May 2024 19:25:05 +0000, BTR1701 wrote: >> >>> On May 17, 2024 at 12:28:31 AM PDT, "The Horny Goat" wrote: >>> >>>> On Thu, 16 May 2024 15:37:28 -0400, Ubiquitous >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) told The Daily Mail, ?Without the verification >>>>> measures >>>>> in the SAVE Act, we?re basically asking people who are already breaking the >>>>> law by coming to the US illegally to abide by the honor system. No way; >>>>> American elections should belong to American citizens, period.? >>>>> >>>> Why is it unjust to insist on ID when one is registering to vote? >>> >>> Because-- and the racist Democrats actually said this out loud-- black people >>> aren't smart enough to find the DMV and obtain an ID like the rest of us do. >> >> I haven't seen that be suggested, but I do recall people bringing up >> places like South Dakota where the nearest DMV may be hours away. > > One wonders, then, if black people are uniquely unable to go to that far-flung > DMV, how it is that driver licenses can be required to drive a vehicle in > South Dakota in the first place? > > If it's racist to ask for an ID to vote because black people can't easily get > the ID, then it would be equally racist to require a license to drive if it > disproportionately affects blacks to such a degree. > > Based on federal civil rights law and the Court cases that have followed from > them, there's no way a state could legally even require a license to drive if > doing so resulted in virtually barring an entire class of people from > something as essential to modern life as the ability to drive a car, based on > nothing but their race. > >>>> When I voted in the last election (remember I'm a Canadian) I brought >>>> my voter card showing where to vote + my drivers' licence. I saw other >>>> people with various other kinds of ID - they were flexible on what ID >>>> they would accept but they DID require some sort of ID. >>>> >>>> After I voted I asked how many people were registered to vote from my >>>> address - then explained that my wife had passed away since the last >>>> election... (they seemed unhelpful until I mentioned that and said >>>> "are there two or three? there WERE three in the last election, now >>>> only two" and they did say two so I thanked them and went on my way. They had to travel once. You're repeating whatever inconvenience that entailed. Moreover, you're doing it because you think they won't...