Midnight Meme Of The Day!

by Noah

Well, the big day is tomorrow, Election Day, Tuesday, November 6, 2018. Will it be a day that lives in infamy?

Having trouble winning on the issues in many districts, and coming up short on the issues in semi-meaningless nationwide generic polls, the Republican Party has made its best efforts in scaring their ignorant, hate-prone, delusional membership with tales of invasions of plague-carrying and crime-carrying brown people and making voting either impossible or nearly impossible for millions of fellow American citizens that they look down upon and fear. Herr Trump is only one thin little line from also claiming that the so-called "caravan" of Latinos and Middle Easterners of every kind also consists of Martians and Amazon jungle women armed with poison blow darts The only thing Republicans haven't tried in their dark efforts to win, yet, is armed MAGA hat-wearing militia blocking people from voting. Maybe they'll turn fire hoses on would-be voters, partying like it's 1965 in Selma, Alabama. Maybe something even worse. Give that time. The more we let Republicans get away with, the more they will attempt in future elections.

This time, in addition to the usual tactics of telling people they need a voter ID and then making that ID virtually impossible to obtain, republicans have come up with some new wrinkles. In North Dakota, where incumbent conservadem Senator Heidi Heitkamp needs the votes of democratic voting Native Americans, the Repug Party run state legislature has decided to require an ID that has a street address, knowing full well that Native Americans who live on reservations don't have street addresses. Neat trick, eh? Heitkamp is no prize when it comes to where she stands on the political spectrum but her winning or losing could be the fulcrum on which control of the Senate turns. That in turn could affect the future of Herr Trump's policies and personal future, but only if a Democratic majority decides to stand up for Americans and the Constitution rather than continue to be appeasers and enablers of fascism for a change. Something similar goes for the House of course. But, as FDR said, the public has to make politicians act, to make their jobs untenable in reality.

In the proud pantheon of racist voter profiling, the North Dakota chicanery has to be near the top but I still think Wisconsin's Neo-Nazi Governor Walker and his far right minions in the Wisconsin legislature beat that when they required citizens in their state to get their voter ID at motor vehicle agency offices and then went on a jihad of closing such offices in locations that are heavily populated by democratic voters, especially African-Americans in both urban and rural areas. Gov. Walker slyly pointed out that In some heavily Democratic areas, motor vehicle offices weren't fully closed but opened for obtaining voter registration IDs on every 5th Wednesday of the month. That almost sounds semi-reasonable until you look at that calendar and see that the typical year has only 3 months with a 5th Wednesday. And, of course, the open hours are limited. Personally, I envision myself driving to one of those rarely opened MVA's, removing the tied and gagged governor from the trunk of my car, jimmying open the door and dumping him inside on one of the best winter Thursdays Wisconsin has to offer. Of course, I will make sure the heat is off. But, I will tell him to rest assured that someone will find him when the 5th Wednesday of the month comes around.

In Confederate Georgia, white supremacists are protecting their Jim Crow heritage not only by saving their birdshit-encrusted statues but by doing the usual purging of the voter rolls of what today's republicans call "undesirable" citizens, over 53,000 to date, mostly African-Americans. That is after already removing 670,000 Georgia citizens off of the voting rolls in 2017 alone. What makes republicans even more sadistically gleeful is that the guy they have doing all of this purging is also their candidate for governor of the state. Stalin would be so proud!

There's also the legendary goings on in Prairie View Texas but, hey, what do you expect from Texas? This one is too complicated and too long-winded to detail in this post but you can just check this link I'm providing.

Saving the worst for last though, is Dodge City, Kansas. Yes, something is always the matter with Kansas. Hell, just the name Kansas is now synonymous with governmental evil, but, in Dodge City, a majority Latino and African-American city, Ford Country Clerk Debbie Cox, knowing that most of the locals don't drive, decided to just move the traditional polling location not only completely out of town but to a location that sits about a mile from the nearest bus stop; hence the inspiration for the cartoon I'm using as tonight's meme. Like Georgia, it's the Secretary of State (her boss) who is running for Governor in a tight election.

Nationwide, Republicans have managed to close over 15,000 voting locations that used to serve minority voters since the Obama years. The only feasible antidote is to remove republicans from their jobs. Now if we can just get through the election without Trump's allies, foreign and domestic, hacking the voting machines or bringing the power grid down and make some headway in that task.