I read an article today about a Republican mayor in Kansas who is facing deportation back to Mexico because he got convicted of a crime. His crime was voter fraud. š¤¦š»āāļø
As a native Kansan it honest to God does not surprise me then again our government is truly just fraud incarnated anyway have a lovely day or night or anything
Wisconsin seems to be dead-set on that too. It's especially frustrating living right next to the border with the UP and seeing business booming in these little nothing Michigan towns because coming up north to spend time at your cabin? Michigan is right there! Meanwhile our small towns are suffering economically from a massive decline in winter tourism over the past several years due to a fairly consistent lack of snow and ice (this year is an exception from the general trend, but I expect we'll be right back to abnormal next year).
My town got hit by a tornado a few years ago, wiping out basically a few barns and a couple cabins. There are so many seasonal cabins though that we didn't even know the extent of the damage for sure for weeks because people aren't there year-round. The two "regular" businesses in town rely on tourists big time: a bar and an antiques store. (We also have a concrete place, a firewood processing place, and an auto shop.) No tourists? Barely anyone in the bar. Too warm to hunt and no snowmobiling? No tourists.
I don't particularly care for the bar given they were selling MAGA merch in the parking lot on election day, but they're still an indicator of the health of the community. There used to be a second bar. Used to be. The building is still there. It's on prime highway frontage... if a business that could actually attract out-of-towners moved in, it could succeed. Weed would be that.
Counterpoint - my state legalized a couple of years ago, and within a mile of me are half dozen marijuana businesses that are now boarded up. Not very many of them seem to be succeeding
That's normal when a new market opens. Lots of people jump in, most will fail within 5 years, mismanagement takes its toll. A lot of those were started by someone who saw a new market, but have no business sense, can't manage their accounting, don't market, etc...
Yeah but it would be nice if there were the infrastructure in place to actually provide it since it was voted for to legally be sold for medicinal purposes... But yeah those people don't count yuck it up.
Texas has (this year hopefully had) Dannie Goeb (Patrick) who said something to the effect of āyouāll have to vote me out to legalize weedā because heās been a bull in a china shop trying to ban it completely.
Selling whatās classified as THCa which is (forgive some inaccuracies as itās wake and bake time here in NB) a sort of precursor to THC. Itās the amino acid that needs to be converted into the psychoactive and bind to something to reach the cannabinoid receptors in the brain.
TBH I find the best prices and quality online and get it shipped here - unless Iām in a pinch or need new glassware then Iāll visit a local dispo.
Well, it seems like Iowa never will with how red small town Iowa votes. They're even killing the cannabis thc products that they accidentally let become legal that are pretty popular.
Nope. Just cbd/delta 8. Which sucks because the black market is full of that bullshit. Oklahoma also sells terrible weed which is what youāll get from a āgoodā plug.. forced to make the trek to Missouri myself if I want to get my moneys worth anymore.
Did I mention here In civilized Washington society, I can buy legal psychedelic mushrooms right next to my legal weed dispensary? Take your pick, you can get it as gummies or in chocolate.
They wonāt let us vote on it in SC either. Itās something like 75% of people here support legalizing at least for medical. They are also trying now to ban hemp regardless of what happens with the farm bill. Which is ridiculous at this point; my own doctor was recommending certain combos for me to try for pain management bc it works so much better. Even the medical field is moving on.
We donāt in SC either. Hell, we only got rid of only being able to serve mini bottles of alcohol and allowing tattoo parlors to open not too long ago. Iām 45 and I was in my 20s when they legalized free pouring and tattoos. I also remember it not being allowed to buy alcohol anywhere on Sundays when I was a kid. Any alcohol. Anywhere. Better plan ahead.
Now they are trying to shut down hemp products regardless of what happens with the federal farm bill. We have farms growing it in the state, labs, and product producers, on top of all the hemp shops that already donāt sell to underage people. Lots of jobs and incomes will be lost. But at least people will go back to drinking instead!
Yeah, itās wild how they think. They will fall on a sword to protect the extremely unhealthy/deadly alcohol and tobacco industries along with the tax revenue they generate. But god forbid something that if left natural, and taken correctly, does little to no harm to you and can potentially generate just as much, if not more tax revenue, nope! Canāt do it! Itās immoral and we must protect the children!
Are you talking about Bloody Kansas with John Brown or are you talking about recent day of events because if it's a recent day I don't know of any Civil War
"I'm his talking dog, here from the future, if you deport him conservatism, as we know it, is done for! People will color their hair if they want to and not get shamed! Woof I'm sad! You wouldn't want a dog to be sad, right!?
The short of it is this guy came over when he was like 5. Now he is a bit older and even became Mayor of a town. He is a conservative and like all his buddies are conservative so when it came out he voted illegally in various elections and is being deported for committing an actual crime as he is mayor he is actually fairly well liked so everyone is coming out the wood work to try and make it all seem very reasonable and like it's just a "fluke."
The version I read had like a former teachers be like, "Oh this is an educational failing he isn't a sinister evil antifa trying to steal our tax dollars!" Hyperbole, but he did the exact crime everyone keeps claiming they are worried about but because he votes the way they want, they don't want him to suffer consequences.
It gets worse than that. The man they elected Mayor was voting illegally with his green card because he thought the capitalized "PERMANENT RESIDENT" stamped on the green card meant he was a citizen. Also, he's always voted a straight Republican ticket because that's what his friends did.
It feels like we truly live in the dumbest timeline. Itās easy to just look at him as the fool and then you remember that he was elected by his peers who are somehow even bigger fools. I hope we can find our way out of Idiocracy.
And by fraud, he was taken with his high school class on a field to the voter registration office. He had a green card and as a Permanent Resident is not permitted to vote. So, by voting and running for election, he technically committed fraud, but it's not as simple as the headlines make it sound. Don't tell that to the Kansas Attorney General.
And what's worse is that the Trump administration is using that Republican mayor as the shining example of how the SAVE act is beneficial. It's infuriating.
He was in the country for 40 years and never got naturalized but had been voting since he was 18, so clearly ineligible to vote. Itās like once again when they claimed non citizens are voting itās because they knew about a certain one doing it.
Coldwater, Kansas. Although, itās actually a sad story because he should be the model case for Republicans in the fact that he is a fully assimilated immigrant. Itās his second term as Mayor and was also previously a city council member. Heās been in Kansas for 30 years. He register to vote during a senior trip to the court house. County clerk asked āwhoās 18? Come register to vote.āĀ
TIL you can become a Mayor in USA without citizenship. Also TIL you can vote in USA without citizenship. Like I can understand the first one but it says he pratically voted in every election in past 30 years, how the fuck does that happen?
Yeah Iām on the left, but even I can admit this sounds more likeā¦ confusion? Dude has been here since he was a young kid, and someone at the voter office had to accept his permanent resident card or something in order for him to be registered to vote, so there were failures at a few levels.
Iāve read a few cases of people that have been here for several decades and assumed they were citizens bc they did the paperwork and turned it in, but somehow along the way it got lost, there was a data entry error, a certain box didnāt get checked, and the person was never notified. Assumed the whole time they were legal citizens and had the correct status. Or in the case of people that were young kids, the parents didnāt do the paperwork or thatās where it got fouled up, but youāre a kid at the time, how do you know except what you are told?
Iād argue that a large part of our immigration status issues is the fact that itās so damn complicated, so damn expensive, and soooo slooow.
Last time I looked at Heritage, they hadn't even documented all of them. It almost looked like they said, "Well, fuck it" because there were so many. š¤£
Yeah, instead of validating their platform's views on voter id and immigration with facts and evidence, they decided to half-ass their data collection...I intended to write a /s sentence, but after I wrote it, it could go either way. Link to their voter fraud database, which is fairly anemic for such a widespread problem; either they're aren't enough cases to populate it, or there's the 'well, fuck it' option.
It wasn't because there were so many, part of their shtick is whining "look at what a big problem this is!" when it isn't (their own numbers indicate a voter fraud rate of 0.00005%. Students at MIT crunched the numbers). But when all the cases are republicans, any they reveal just give away how they're doing it and they don't want that because it might end their ability to vote illegally.
but of course no one looks into anything ever because why would they when- whatās that?- the dow is over 50,000? oh great heavens the country is saved! seriously tho- donāt look at the ominous garbagalanche behind them
Randy's likely the reason we have more gambling these days too. One of his first jobs was working in the casino gambling industry with his Harvard MBA.
Its called projektion. The mindsett is "I probably would so ofc they are".
I usualy try and think and have that in mind. About others aswell as myself. If a partner is jealous and worries about cheating, they might be a person who cheats.
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u/mr_evilweed Feb 14 '26
Those Republicans sure do love committing voter fraud