🚨 At least 9 precincts in Hinds County—Mississippi's most populous county and the home of the 83%-Black capital city of Jackson—have run out of ballots in the statewide election.
@skykiss Reminder, that in April and December 1869, Congress passed Reconstruction bills mandating that Virginia, Mississippi, Texas and Georgia ratify the Fifteenth Amendment as a precondition to regaining congressional representation; all four states did so.
If they decide to continue to act against the stipulations of the Fifteenth Amendment, there should be impressive consequences concerning the congressional representation of those still-rebellious states.
The Fifteenth Amendment demands:
"Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
Section 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation."
@DemocracyMattersALot The "Republican" proposal to slash IRS funding alone constitutes a corrupt act & underlying bribery by the "GOP's" richest donors, to the disadvantage of low- & medium-income Americans.
Connecting that proposal with the alternative to stop aid to Israel is an act of illoyalty & corruption in favor of America's richest tax evaders, which can hardly be outperformed.
@marcelias Replacements should have to undergo security clearance procedures & tests scrutinizing loyalty & adherence to the U.S. Constitution.
And neutralization of/accountability of terrorists attacking election officials verbally or physically, to disrupt the electoral process as fair & free as it should be.
@marcelias "Republicans" brazenly want to sow public distrust towards the electoral system & process they themselves are rigging (per voter suppression & -intimidation, gerrymandering & disenfranchisement & other instruments of fraud).
@marcelias Most of today's "GOP" is an anti-constitutional, un-American, anti-American lawless entity & national security threat, puppeteered by Putin to weaken America.
Disqualify all of Trump's co-conspirators inciting & engaging in insurrection against the authority of the United States & the laws thereof, and giving aid & comfort thereto.
@retrohondajunki@GW Of course Mike Johnson was one of 147 insurrectionary congressional "Republicans", who criminally voted to overturn the 2020 election, an expression of their approval of crime, as incorporated by Donald Trump, the major beneficiary of their unconstitutional & rebellious turpitude.
@marcelias An election subverter is elected speaker of the House by a majority of other election subverters. What a disgrace.
"The 126 Republican Members that signed onto this lawsuit brought dishonor to the House. Instead of upholding their oath to support and defend the Constitution, they chose to subvert the Constitution and undermine public trust in our sacred democratic institutions."
— Nancy Pelosi on House "GOPers", who signed amicus brief supporting TX v. PA —
@marcelias Every single one of those 126 House "Republicans", who signed the amicus brief in support of Texas v. Pennsylvania before SCOTUS in 2020 should already be disqualified to hold any office under the United States, for election subversion (<= Nancy Pelosi).
@marcelias The obsessively voter-defrauding so-called "Republican party" needs to be taken off the ballots as they would be in any properly working free democratically governed country intent to ensure free & fair elections on behalf of all voters, whose voices deserve to be indiscriminately heard & counted.
Time to stop today's Confederate "GOP" from going on to sh*t on Abraham Lincoln's grave & legacy.
@marcelias A slate of 9 supporters of electoral fraud is running for the 3rd-most important office of U.S. government.
In any normal country you'd call the cops.
Suppression of voters is an act of insurrection against the authority of the United States & their Constitution, especially the Reconstruction Amendments.
@marcelias You cannot achieve long-term "bipartisan" agreements with an entity committed to eradicate pluralism & democracy from a country's & nation's vocabulary — and parliaments.
@BigAngBlack Xu's ancestry is not hazardous to Americans' resilience against excessive nitrate levels, other than governor Pillen's obvious recklessness & depraved indifference to his fellow-Americans' health & wellbeing.
@flexghost Americans must not pay the price for "Republican" chaos & incapability to act, sabotaging congressional legislation & national defense & security for the benefit of Russia's Putin & China's Xi.
@StillIRise1963 Why's Donald Trump still walking fucking free in the United States?
Why are his legal & congressional co-conspirators still walking free almost 3 fuckin years after
Jan 6?
@marcelias Certain notoriously fraudulent organizations obviously deem it more appropriate to deter voters from voting than to keep an impeached insurrection inciter off the ballots.
Lawless dudes of a feather.
Known voter suppressors get to determine the course of elections as much as convicted felons get to determine their sentence.
@marcelias A racist anti-voter entity like today's "GOP" is an inadmissible anti-democratic, anti-constitutional criminal organization, the right place of which is definitely not on the ballots.
@marcelias Anti-democratic "Republican" adversaries of the Constitution already spread the subversive plague of vigilantism at the time of the midterms.
One of them: Cleta Mitchell, still unindicted in Georgia, despite having been on Trump's infamous "Find-me-votes"-call with Brad Raffensperger.
If you’re going to interview Donald Trump, you had better be prepared to fact check him in real time. Our media does a terrible job of allowing him to spew falsehoods and spread conspiracies without calling him out on them. This is not the time to platform Trump like he is some regular politician. He is an existential threat to our democracy, including to institutions such as the free press. Do better.
@georgetakei True. Trump is neither a politician nor "normal".
He's a criminal, sociopathic anti-constitutional power- & puy-grabber, whose only interest in politics is how to be protected against accountability, justice & the laws within the borders of the United States.
If a criminal, sociopathic anti-constitutional mobster like Trump can be the "frontrunner" of an entity, that calls itself "GOP", piing on the pillars of Lincoln Memorial, what does that say about the legitimacy & eligibility of that entity to have members of its organization sent to the to-be-honored United States Congress?
@marcelias Disruption of the right to vote is not a First Amendment right.
It's organized crime, perpetrated by criminal organizations, not normal "parties".
It's criminal abuse of the freedoms & liberties of democracy for the sake of destroying democracy.
It's exactly, what Hitler & his Nazis did in Germany to destroy democracy & establish a mass-murderous, racist dictatorship, leading to near-total devastation of a whole continent & tens of millions of dead.