Cool strategy guys!

I guess what I want to know is how do they sleep at night? Republicans I mean. Yeah, fine, not all Republicans but for real, if you're still planning to vote a party that's making the case that voter suppression is a valid campaign tactic, then you're the problem. With everything. Yeah, one post about Elizabethan archeology and now I'm back on this again.

This just in: white guy with a blog suddenly notices that racism
exists in America. We'll have more on this as it develops...

What I'm saying is that we've been voting for
two hundred years, so why is it only an ordeal
 when Republicans are in danger of loosing?

Tuesday's primary election in Georgia was a shit show and yeah, corona virus is part of it. People, in general, would rather not die slowly from asphyxiation if they can help it. The solution then was to close and consolidate polling places which is not unreasonable in and of itself, but the fact that these closures disproportionately affected Black voters seems a little suspicious. Sure, coronavirus spreads more easily in densely populated areas and it's true that densely populated areas tend to have a larger Black population, but this is Georgia.

"What? He'll be fine, you can totally trust
me not to play with and then eat this mouse"

-This cat, seen here being

a metaphor for Republicans

Remember that time Brian Kemp was running in a tight race with Democrat Stacy Abrams-who is Black and a voting rights advocate-while at the time he was Georgia's Secretary of State? And remember how it was Kemp's job to make sure that the election was fair...the election he was running in? So he purged the voter rolls ostensibly to combat the zero cases of voter fraud reported every year. And then after disproportionately disenfranchising thousands of African American voters "won" the election by just fifty-five thousand votes and is now Georgia's Governor?

"Thanks Obama..."

-Raffensperger on how

not his fault everything is

Because that kind of makes it sound like Georgia and specifically state Republicans, have a history of systematic and racially biased voter suppression. And with Tuesday's election we add in to the mix broken machines, machines delivered to the wrong location, untrained staff, insufficient provisional ballots and a new Secretary of State, Republican Brad Raffensperger who quickly laid the blame for his state's goat rodeo of a primary at the feet of local officials and you have to wonder if maybe there isn't something up, you know? I'm not being paranoid am I?

Yates, seen here opening his racist word
hole, explained-without a hint of irony-
that systematic racism doesn't exist.

I mean, we're currently tearing ourselves apart as a nation over a debate-a debate! About whether or not institutionalized racism is a problem in America and an official from the Tulsa, Oklahoma police department went on local radio to say that:

"...we're shooting African-Americans about twenty-four percent less that we probably ought to be, based on crimes being committed."

-Major Travis Yates, Tulsa PD,

on how racist his department isn't

I'm not saying that Yate's comments are directly related to the situation in Georgia, but...aren't they though? Like, if it speaks to the underlying racist authoritarian milieux of America, then yeah, it's another symptom of the blind entitlement that makes Republicans in Georgia believe that they're on the side of the angels when they close polling places and drag their feet on voter reform.

"Hey, we're only suppressing voters to make the elections fair. I mean,
with our shitty policies and overt racism, we'd never win otherwise."

-Brian Kemp, the basically

self-elected Governor of Georgia