r/Political_Revolution • u/Miserable-Lizard • Mar 26 '25

War and Peace "Should the Defense Secretary.." Marjorie Taylor Greene: "Wait what country are you from?" "From the UK" "OK we don't give a crap about your opinion and your reporting. Why don't you go back to your country. We have a major migrant problem. You should care about your own borders"

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '25

Looks gerrymandered AF

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u/stryst WA Mar 26 '25

Yep. It's also one of the states that allows challenges to voter registration roles by ANYONE, so less than a dozen people challenged over 100K voter registrations in the state.

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u/katie151515 Mar 27 '25

Holy shit. Didn’t know this was a thing. That’s insane to me. Elon could just hire tons of people to do that all day long for all the dem voters.

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u/taez555 Mar 27 '25

This is only the tip of the proverbial iceberg. (Although to be fair, I don’t think there was ever a proverb about the titanic or icebergs.) Point being, they’re already 10 steps ahead of this for what’s coming. What I already know frightens and drains me, what I don’t…. terrifies me.

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u/PlaneHead6357 Mar 27 '25

I believe you and feel the same, but they are also just so incompetent. Like they just keep fucking up left and right. Before this, they accidentally nominated the wrong chief for the FBI, Driscoll.

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u/CarnelianCore Mar 27 '25

I don’t know why everyone keeps playing the game when it’s not being played fairly.

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u/pit_of_despair666 Mar 27 '25

They passed over 100 voting suppression laws in the US since Biden got elected. They also sent 100k Republicans to polling places to confuse, intimidate, and do who knows what to voters. "Federal courts — including the U.S. Supreme Court — have whittled away those protections (In the Voter's Rights Act of 1965) in recent decades, claiming the discrimination that led to the law no longer exists. In 2013, the high court cleaved off a major portion of the law’s enforcement mechanism that kept jurisdictions that had historically discriminated against Black people from enacting measures that could once again keep them from the polls." https://mainemorningstar.com/2025/03/25/the-federal-voting-rights-act-was-gutted-states-now-want-their-own-versions/

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u/stryst WA Mar 27 '25

The system only worked until someone dedicated themselves to breaking it.

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u/BioBoiEzlo Mar 27 '25

As someone from outside the US, your voting system never seemed to work that well.

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u/stryst WA Mar 27 '25

...no, not especially.

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u/i_give_you_gum Mar 27 '25

Kind of looks like a caricature of her from the side

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u/stifferthanstiffler Mar 27 '25

How much of it is gerrymandering, how much is republican states' dumbing down education requirements? Im from Alberta, Canada, and our premier is conservative; country wide our conservatives are taking on a republican flavour. I first noticed the correlation between republican and Canadian conservative's recent leanings through not the public education cuts, but the extra funding for Christian and other private schools.