Yes, keeping the power is the reason both sides do it. And even if a non partisan group were to approve them, the GOP has been messing with them to suppress minorities and then just dragging their feet in changing them, or changing but in the same bad way and then running out the clock until it's "too close to the election to change the maps now". Then if they change afterwards they already got what they wanted, and then just rinse and repeat next time.
TimLovesTech
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Yep, it's called Gerrymandering.
Edit - The illegal part is when Republicans make less predominantly minority districts than they are required to by the Voting Rights Act.
You do have to look at the merch tables with a grain of salt though, as many of them know Trump is in a dementia spiral and losing his marbles. They also know that his rally goers will buy just about anything and are more than happy to pretend for their $$$.
I fear it starts with messing with vaccinations and we have long dead diseases come back, but then shifts to other things, like "you don't need those meds for depression because I'm not a Dr. but I know better than them and they are trying to poison you". Then they are sending people off to for profit torture "treatment" camps like the rich do for the "troubled kids" now.
In the end you have people in essentially old school psych facilities where they aren't really treated, they are just "out of the way", and when they die they put them in the mass grave out back.
I saw footage of him from his last rally and the contrast of his bright orange face to his tiny bright white hands was alarming.
Except he has more disdain for his supporters than anyone else, even the "radical left" that he puts on a show about disliking. But his cult are the ones he lies to, grifts away all their money on a deluge of just garbage with his "brand" on it, and just thinks they are the dumbest and most useless people. He has made comments about them not having lives and being unstable.
“I saw him when the cameras were off … Trump mocks his supporters. He calls them basement dwellers. On a hospital visit one time when people were dying in the ICU, he was mad that the cameras were not watching him.”
She continued: “He used to tell me: ‘It doesn’t matter what you say, Stephanie, say it enough and people will believe you.’”
-- Stephanie Grisham, Donald Trump’s former press secretary
Source: Trump calls his supporters ‘basement dwellers’, says former press secretary
Yes, the lawsuits are part of their plan, because they know even when all these cases get thrown out because they got nothing (like last time) that the base (Trump's foot soldiers) will believe Trump saying the justice system is being used against him/them.
It also seems to be that every election year now there is at least one state that doesn't have their shit together and we have to wait a week for results.
This has been part of the Republican long game. Like in Georgia when they wanted mandatory hand counts of every district and then try and compare those against the machine numbers to call count differences out as "obvious ballet tampering", when by the very nature of being human, hand counts are less accurate (especially on that scale). Just doing stuff that at a quick glance and no thought could maybe be perceived as "voting integrity" but is really all about voter suppression and disenfranchisement.
Bannon during Trump's term referred to this as "flood the zone with shit". Essentially just putting out such a large volume of nonsense that people just give up, you break their will to vote/argue/oppose you/fight back/correct the record.
Social Security Numbers for Noncitizens Generally, only noncitizens authorized to work in the United States by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) can get an SSN.
Yes, but in getting a SSN the government already knows your citizenship status, and so when the voter registration workers check your information your SSN I would think would allow them to confirm your status (or lack of SSN as a red flag). Again the checks are in place already, this is just Republicans working around the rules to get them what they want. And sure people can reregister, but at least some of these people are going to be disenfranchised now and not see it as "worth the hassle".
Edit - Also the SSN thing matters because of this quote from the article as the basis of this.
The state's plan flagged people for removal if they check a box on a Department of Motor Vehicles form declaring they are not a citizen or if they leave it blank.
From my link @ SSA above.
You don’t need an SSN to get a driver’s license, ...
So they are purposely using a form that means nothing to try and push their bad faith argument, and the Supreme Court just said "sure, why not!" instead of stopping them like the law and lower court said.
Have you learned nothing in the past 9 years? These people have been telling us who they are and what they plan to do, BELIEVE THEM! Giving them the benefit of the doubt or saying they are joking is just allowing them to continue to move the goal posts. We just gave the Presidency to a man that has been telling us he wants Nazi generals, cops to have a "purge day" of American citizens, wants to use the US military and National Guard against citizens and he 100% meant all of it. And we just granted him the power because the media and apologists continue to give these Fascist assholes cover.
/rant