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  Let me get this straight 
  -   you don’t like mail-in ballots because the demographic that uses them isn’t your demographic
  -   you knowingly make false claims about fraud though mail-in ballots
  -   people believe those false claims with absolutely zero evidence
  -   because people believe the lies, you want to punish the people who use mail-in ballots?
  To quote Zoolander, “I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.”
context: Republican lawmakers said during debate on the Ohio legislation that even if Trump’s claims aren’t true, the skepticism they have caused among conservatives about the accuracy of election results justifies imposing new limits.
  
  Skepticism that the GQP lawmakers THEMSELVES manufactured and amplified. >
  
  It was a perfectly acceptable solution when it served to get us in to power. 
  Now that same measure threatens to remove us, so we have to take it away before that happens. You get it. >
  
  Bro.... veterans and military are in every single one of those groups you mentioned.
  This military isn't made up of all straight white republicans. >
  
  And you can't forget the vets, and entire families who put those vets on pedestals. 
  And the wannabes who worship them. >
  
  The American fetishism of veterans and people in the military fucking astounds me. I’ve worked with a bunch of vets/reservists and my father is a veteran. They’re normal fucking people. Outside of being drafted and forced to go to war why should I give a shit what someone did for a living? We aren’t going to give medical professionals who went through years of hell over Covid a 10% discount everywhere all the time. I’d wager a majority of people who have been in the service over the last two decades haven’t actually seen combat. >
  
  We should absolutely give medical professionals a 10% discount. Also, teachers. >
  
  I’m not arguing that we shouldn’t, just that it won’t happen. You’ll never see a sizeable push outside of more left leaning circles as medical professionals and teachers are the new villains for the far right crazies. >
  
  The company I work for gives medical professionals and teachers a 15% discount, prompted entirely by COVID. >
  
  That’s great to hear and encouraging. I hope others start to pick that up as well nationally. >
  
  So fucked up how they got here. Republicans used to love mail in voting. Their base has a lot of old people that find it more convenient. For a long time the GOP relied on these voters.
  It wasn’t until Trump’s horrific response to Covid that it changed. And because trump tried to write covid off as not a big deal, anything related to acknowledging it’s reality was therefore an attack on him. So since mail in ballots would help with covid distancing, they became ‘Anti-Trump’ and should be stopped.
  Who knows how much better their votes would be if they didn’t demonize mail in voting. Even 2 years after the loss, they are still continually shooting themselves in the foot just to humor their biggest loser. >
  
  To be fair, they only support in person voting the way they do because it's just so much easier to strategically close polling places where they know their opposition votes, while keeping them open or moving them to places where their own likely voters can easily get to. Like senior centers. Or retirement villas.
  They also know that working people often don't have time during the day to vote, so they make sure that polls close early to stifle the chances people have to vote. While retirees, farmers, self-employed people and the rich all have an easy time getting to the polls because they don't have someone else telling them that no, you cannot leave early or come in late. >
  
  And then throw in their voter id requirements. They know exactly what they’re doing. >
  
  My favorite story is a GOP county chair (or whatever he was) getting an election worker blackballed because they challenged the chair's completely fabricated ID under the law the GOP created to require IDs. >
  
  It wasn’t even a good fabrication either, it was like a library card or some dumb shit like that >
  
  A fake library card?  A real library card is a valid (non-photo) government issued ID.