Friday, March 26, 2021

Not pictured: irony.

And another thing, you know who's a garbage human? Governor Brian Kemp of Georgia, because he just signed that horseshit voting restriction bill. 

Oh, sorry, not you-I didn't mean you...you're great. 

Pictured: Stacey Abrams, seen here
not being the Governor of Georgia.
Kemp was himself the beneficiary of shady Georgian election practices that allowed him to run for Governor while being the Secretary of State, you know, the official in charge of running a free and fair election. Which, I mean, he won after baselessly accusing Democrats of trying to hack the voting machines two days before the polls opened so...Cool fact, not only was it later found that there was no such hack but that he knew there was no such hack and was just trying to steal an election. Which he did. And now he's the Governor and just signed a transparently racist, and spiteful new law.

Yeah, spiteful. That's the only word I can come up with for a bill that includes a provision making it a crime, an actual crime, to bring snacks and water to people waiting in the extra long lines crated by the other new rules and restrictions that make up this bill. 

Water and snacks? A crime. A bunch of white good'ol boys,
fully armed and standing around the polling place in their MAGA
hats, intimidating voters? Totally legal. Because Georgia. 
People voting isn't an alarming issue,
it's how democracy works-oh, wait, you
don't suppose this is about racism, do you?
Because I'm pretty sure this is about racism.
Kemp insists that limited ballot drop boxes, ID requirements and criminalizing basic human kindness will help to make the elections more safe and secure. He also said:

"There's no doubt there were many alarming issues with how the election was handled, and those problems led to a crisis of confident in the ballot box here in Georgia."

-Governor Kemp, without a 
hint of irony or shame

Look, I don't know, I'm not a political scholar or anything, but is there any read of all this, any interpretation that isn't summed up by saying that GOP, faced with an increasingly diverse electorate, is opting to simply rig the system in their favor because it's easier than making a case for electing them based on their platform? 
Pictured: Georgia state Democratic Representative Park Cannon
being arrested for knocking on Governor Kemp's door. Which these
officers can't legally do because Cannon is a legislator and they can't
arrest a legislator while the legislature is in session, but here we are.

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