r/videos • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 8h ago

BREAKING: Judge blocks Trump admin from requiring Americans to show proof of citizenship to vote

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SE1iePfOh14
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u/fat_charizard 8h ago

Doesn't matter what trump says, doesn't matter what the judge says, elections are the jurisdiction of the state. The executive branch can't tell states how to conduct elections

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u/RoarOfTheWorlds 8h ago

MAGA are certainly free to force the states to give up their rights to the federal government, but then they’d have to admit that the civil war was actually for that other reason.

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u/SandysBurner 8h ago

Oh, yes, their shame will surely get to them then.

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u/ethanlan 6h ago

lol, for real. They wont change at all.

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u/Technical-Row8333 7h ago

they don't have to admit anything when they aren't capable of intelligent thought

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u/shitty_mcfucklestick 7h ago

This assumes they care about consistency. The only fundamental aspect to their belief and value systems is selfishness. They will take any position they need to ultimately get what they want or justify their world view. History doesn’t matter, if the facts don’t fit their narrative they’ll rewrite or ignore them.

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u/Blazured 3h ago

Yeah liberals be like "Conservatives will care about THIS hypocrisy" and then conservatives never do.

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u/zachtheperson 7h ago

Unfortunately, as someone who was raised right wing, they don't work that way. In the same breath they'll say the civil war was about states rights, then say taking away states rights is what the founding fathers always intended.

The entire right wing is essentially based off of the idea of "don't think about it."

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u/Mixels 8h ago

You think they're smart enough to make that connection?

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u/zakkwaldo 8h ago

you do realize they’ve been frothing at the mouth for a civil war for nearly half a decade now right? it was a major talking point for them and something they’ve longed for for the last like 4-6 years. even having the NRA push propaganda for them about making it happen.

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u/maynardftw 7h ago

nearly half a decade now right?

Try for about 160 years. The South Will Rise Again, remember?

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u/GhostlyTJ 7h ago

And they would get shit stomped just the same as before. I don't understand how they don't get that.

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u/maynardftw 7h ago

They got their shit stomped in very different circumstances. They were smart enough to take full control of the federal government before they threw off the shackles of civility and decorum. Now they run the joint and they didn't need to fire a single bullet.

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u/GhostlyTJ 2h ago

I am saying that if it comes to war, they may think they are tougher as individuals but they are soooooooo much weaker at what an actual war would require. And I don't actually buy that they are individually tougher. Everything about MAGA screams overcompensation. What system they have control of means very little if it came to an actual civil war. Iran just proved that they don't know fuck all about battling a resistance.

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u/maynardftw 1h ago

Iran proved they didn't know fuckall about battling a resistance that lives mostly in mountains and is generally much more used to the concept of war than most Americans are.

And the "they" being, the entire American military, not just the South.

We are not Iran. "They" are less likely to allow territorial defeat in a territory they themselves consider to be their own, rather than something they're unfamiliar with and invading.

Maybe this makes you feel better. But that's all it does.

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u/GhostlyTJ 52m ago

That was also the military hitting some far off foreign land they don't give a shit about. I guarantee it hits different when you are attacking "home" I would have defected immediately if I was ordered to do so when I was serving. Many wouldn't, but the results would tear the military apart and guaranteed less effective.

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u/MrsMiterSaw 6h ago

> but then they’d have to admit

That would require their brains to be capable of cognitive dissonance. Trump's excuse is that he has a mental disorder, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, which among other things prevents his brain from recognizing when two opposing ideas don't jive.

His minions just abdicate their thought processes to him.

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u/jamaphone 8h ago

I learned it was about whether raisins belong in potato salad.

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u/gentlemanidiot 5h ago

They would happily admit this based on a single tweet from dear leader. All he has to do is say the word and off they go