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  (R) just pulling all the levers and seeing which shit sticks on the wall.
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. >
  
  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.” >
  
  It's even dumber. Didn't this start with COVID, when these jerkwads decided mail in was pro vaccination, to avoid being around others who might not be wearing masks.
  It was an own the libs move that also stopped old people and military votes. >
  
  
  “While there is certainly more work to do, this new law drastically enhances Ohio’s election security and improves the integrity of our elections, which my constituents and citizens across the state have demanded,” [Republican state Sen. Theresa Gavarone] said.
  
  How? More vague, baseless bullshit. Creating fake problems to disenfranchise people or outright taking their rights away is a core Republican strategy.  It's one of the characteristics of fascism. >
  
  As an Ohio citizen, I did not demand this. >
  
  
  “What kind of society do we call ourselves if we are disenfranchising people from the rights that they are over there protecting?” said Willis Gordon, a Navy veteran
  
  This is something the military families should have extensive first hand knowledge about. 
  It's called "Collateral Damage."
  In order to count fewer Democratic ballots, some other people will get hurt. But how else will the Republicans keep their claws on power if they don't cheat? >
  
  And yet, the large majority of military members and vets supported Trump will still vote R.
  Zero sympathy for those who do so. >
  
  The military used to swing pretty hard to the right but it's changed a lot over the last 15 years or so. The military as a whole now votes slightly more to the left. >
  
  It has definitely moved more to the left compared to past trends, but the military definitely still leans R. >
  
  They (Republicans) only care about the military because of the defense spending and contractors who give money to them. Full stop. When it comes to actually doing anything for the people who are doing the work in the field, they don’t give a shit. Yet the ethos of the military has convinced them that if there’s a R next to their name, you should vote for them. >
  
  Yet another gleaming example to throw on the ever-growing pile of evidence that shows how goddamn stupid much of the population is. 
  It really doesn’t take much effort to discern how the GOP literally doesn’t care about the soldiers they often claim to care about and regularly use as political pawns.
  But many people don’t know how, won’t, or can’t educate themselves on the issues, so they just wait for someone on the tv/internet to tell them what to think and how to feel. 
  We really need to bring back the “knowledge is power” type of mindset into modern society so we can better combat this culture of idiocy.
  It’s something I’ve been trying my damnedest to remedy in whatever small way I can, but it’s a grueling and often thankless ordeal. But I’m gonna keep at it regardless. >
  
  
  The pace of ballot counting after Election Day has become a target of conservatives egged on by former President Donald Trump. He has promoted a false narrative
  
  I can't think of a more sugar-coated way of saying that "he lied about the election results as part of an attempted coup against the US government". >
  
  An easier fix to this is too start counting mail in as they come in...Oh wait we can't do that cause yeah reasons >
  
  I mean, the GOP does not care about military families and constantly does things to show them that they do not care about them, but still many military families will support them. >
  
  Yeah, guys I was deployed with still voted Republican last year, just weeks after Republicans blocked the PACT Act. >
  
  
  PACT Act
  
  That was really frustrating.  Good thing a comedian/tv show host decided to go hard on the super controversial "doing what's right" issue and shame them into passing it. >
  
  Yeah, one guy even told me he supported them blocking it because “the democrats probably put something in the bill to ban guns”. He didn’t read the bill. >
  
  Could he read? >
  
  he’s a republican; he can’t read >
  
  Honestly the biggest problem there is the fact that they can read, but they don’t have the ability to do the due diligence required to understand what they just read and how it fits into the bigger picture. It’s possibly even more damaging than if they simply couldn’t read. >
  
  I recall—a year after enlisting—registering as a Republican because they were the “pro-military party”.
  As I matured thru my military career, and seeing all of the attacks of the GOP’s War on Veterans that I was blinded by their unsupported propaganda. Leaving the party in ‘16 was decades too late. >
  
  Better late than never >
  
  How important are military bases to Ohio's economy? >
  
  It’s not the military bases it’s going to be the service members who claim it for residency.  
  Texas will probably be the most relevant because there are 4 major bases and no state income tax so lots of service members change their residency to there, which doesn’t require being stationed but it’s easier and tempting for those who are >
  
  Florida has a ton of navy folks who use their training base as "last USA address"for tax reasons as well. >
  
  It's amazing to me the number of veterans and active military who support the gop. The GOP has a long history of taking action against the benefits of any military personnel current or veteran. When will they open their eyes and see this. >
  
  As long as it also hurts who they hate, they don't care. I know people like this. >
  
  I was deployed to Iraq in 2020. Mail took an average of 38 days to get to me from the states and 42 days to go from me back to my home address.
  Good luck fellow military members from Ohio. I hope you enjoy watching other people take part in the democratic process while you sit on the sidelines. >
  
  Looking at the last sentence of the quote below, you’ll be lucky to get your ballot more than 10 days before the election, and you won’t have any chance at all in having your ballot get there within 4 days after the election. And that assumes that you vote the same day that you receive the ballot, which almost never happens. 
  “Board of elections data shows that in the state’s most populous county, which includes the capital city of Columbus, 242 absentee ballots from military and overseas voters were received after Election Day last November. Of that, nearly 40% arrived more than four days later and would have been rejected had the new law been in effect.
  In 2020, a federal survey administered by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission found that Ohio rejected just 1% of the 21,600 ballots cast by overseas and military voters with the 10-day time frame in place. That compared with 2.1% nationally, a figure attributed mostly to voters missing state ballot deadlines.
  All states are required to transmit ballots to registered overseas and military voters at least 45 days before an election, or as soon as possible if the request comes in after that date.” >
  
  They are also working to dismantle the VA. They have nothing to replace it, they just want it gone. 
  Stop voting for the people actively working against you. >
  
  Don't interrupt them! >
  
  This law may hurt active duty voters, but who else is it hurting? >
  
  Lots of people. But until it hurts a republican constituency republican voters don't care. >
  
  When they can't win by actually getting more votes, they cheat.  It's been shown time and time and time again.  I sure wish more people actually gave a shit about this country, instead of just caring about "their team" and how well they "own the libz". >
  
  And yet they will continue to vote republican. >
  
  A majority of service members vote Democrat, actually >
  
  Especially upon separation/retirement. While Active Duty the trend tends to be to vote R due to history really. And relatively recent history. Reagan's pumping up of military spending after his election really endeared him and the Republican Party to military hawks. They continued to vote R, and showed subordinates that is how they should vote. Then we retired, realized exactly what kind of voting culture we helped grow and set about trying to course correct, in some cases anyway. >
  
  Having Fox News blaring on all the military posts TVs and radios as a default certainly keeps those in active duty voting R, too... Pushed some of them so far right they are even willing to commit sedition now. >
  
  Ya ain't wrong sadly. I will (if it's allowed) get a bit defensive here and state that not everyone puts the uniform on for the same reason. If Smitty was a barely educated, misogynistic and racist dumpster fire while he was on the stoop it's scary easy to find like minded folks in a military of over a million people. There's a reason we don't interact with folks we HAD to serve with as much once we don't have to. >
  
  Fair point. GOOD point. It has been over 30 years since I wore a uniform, so I am certainly out of the loop on what it is like to serve these days. I am only basing my statement on what I have heard from younger relatives that are serving now... It seems like there is a lot more tolerance of propaganda among the rank and file troops than was allowed when I was in, but, to your point, our military is huge and it may be that I merely had the good fortune of serving with folks who were not assholes. >
  
  It's been 7 for me, thanks for setting some blacktop down so I could take the path! Fox News was very prevalent anywhere background noise could be heard, at the Doc's, barbershop, PX/BX/Exchange. Talk around October always centered around the budget, even away from the walls of the Pentagon we wanted to know what kind of "raise" we would be getting. R was good, D was questionable. I rarely go on post now, and the interactions with our brothers and sisters in arms are now framed (for me) as a liaison for student veterans at college or disabled and elder vets. I'm a social worker for Veterans now, using VA funds to keep us at home and not that crooked old folks home. >
  
  Good on you! I sure wish a much bigger chunk of our military budget went towards taking care of our vets!  I can only imagine the logistics involved for you just to get access to your funding, let alone putting it to good use.  I worked with veterans with addiction issues for the first year after I was discharged, and continued to work in human services off and on for the next 12 years.  Tough work, but so very rewarding when you can actually do some good for folks.  So, much respect and thank-you very much for keeping up the good fight. >
  
  “I can’t believe how WOKE our military culture has gotten, expecting to be able to vote.” >
  
  This is like Schrodingers sarcasm. I just can't tell. >
  
  It’s so frustrating watching all these communities be surprised pikachu face every time Republicans do exactly what they promised they would do. >
  
  The GOP is clearly willing to sacrifice the military vote to pander to the lunatics. Military voting for Democrat in the presidential race jumped from 20.6% to 41.3% between 2016-2020. 
  The military vote has become a liability for the GOP. >
  
  The GOP will do anything to support the troops...
  ...except actually supporting the troops. >
  
  But they'll give you a military discount! >
  
  They weren’t already mad about the GOP denying them health benefits?!? >
  
  But will the military stop voting for them? >
  
  Military members who vote Republican are getting what they voted for. >
  
  Glorious Leader even admitted it on camera: if it is easy for citizens to vote, the fascists would not have political power. >
  
  Pretty much no one who isn’t a wealthy, white Christian man should ever vote Republican. >
  
  Why any military votes republican is beyond me. >
  
  And yet many of these same military families vote, and will continue to vote, Republican. Make it make sense.... >
  
  GOP does not now nor have ever cared about soldiers or their families. The military is Slush fund to take from or a cudgel to oppress outside markets. Anyone who thinks otherwise can get their face eaten off by leopards >
  
  But they'll still vote for them. >
  
  Don't forget, this is on top of constantly reducing the post office ability to be reliable.
  My whole life I could count on the USPS to get mail in on time, now my local branch is understaffed, only runs 2-3 times a week, and has lost packages coming to me. >
  
  Military families have been spouting rage at the GOP and even have trump the lowest approval rating the military has ever given, yet they are so brainwashed they vote red in droves. Fucking embarrassing >
  
  I'm sure this won't prompt the heavily conservative military voters to stop voting Republican >
  
  GOP = 
  Gaslight
  Obstruct
  Project >
  
  Add up all the active duty military and retired military and you have numbers far less than all other major racial groups in this country.  You have numbers far less than those indentifying as LBGTQ.  In short, the military is one of the smaller groups in this country.  Republicans attack much larger groups than the military.  They do it all the time.  Was only a matter of time until they began hitting the military. >
  
  Doesn’t the military also vote overwhelmingly in favor of the GOP most of the time too? Seems like shooting themselves in the foot >
  
  Honestly that gives me hope. I was raised in a pretty conservative household, had full intent of joining the military the day I was able to, until I talked to my grandfather. My dad won’t talk about his politics and he never did openly but I’m beginning to think he was more on the blue side of things, the one time I talked to him about joining the military, circa 2006, he said to me, “Do you know why I joined the military?”
  I replied, “Yeah? We got attacked by Japan at Pearl Harbor and had to defend ourselves” and he nodded and said, “Yeah, and entire country made a war declaration, but it wasn’t an easy or light decision to be made. With everything going on right now, are we being attacked by a country, or did something really bad happen because of some awful people and we’re retaliating?”
  And that changed my entire worldview on the military. Others who didn’t have any sort of outlook other than “I was the military, your grandfather was military, you’ll be military” didn’t end up that way >
  
  By that logic, the skepticism about the extent to which the GOP has become an arm of the Russian intelligence services is enough to justify going after it as a foreign terrorist organization.  Even if the claims aren’t true, the skepticism is justification enough. >
  
  And yet most will continue to vote for them.... >
  
  Republicans attack democracy. Every story is the same. Republicans attack democracy, elections, public education, human rights, equality and justice. Every story is the same. The media works tirelessly to keep us from connecting everything the Republicans are doing - because the media is colluding with them. Rise up good people - promote democracy in your home and defend it in your community. Defend democracy! >
  
  When are people going to understand Republicans are now a threat to American freedoms! >
  
  I mean, most military families vote Republican, right? Feels rather r/LeopardsAteMyFace. >
  
  And yet somehow most military families I know are staunch GOP supporters. You get what you vote for. >
  
  Support the troops! They nobly sacrifice the right to vote so that the GOP can maintain minority rule!
  It’s in the bible. >
  
  But they're still gonna vote majority republican, aren't they?
  I have a hard time finding sympathy for people who vote in favor of their own abuse. >
  
  Q: How does making the timeframe shorter make things more secure, Governor DeWine?
  That question should be getting hammered by the media until it's answered honestly that it does not make voting more secure, it only makes it more difficult for active military serving overseas to vote.
  The lawmakers that voted for it should be getting skewered for disenfranchising active military voters. >
  
  Oh look. Military families voting for a party that limited rights and voting power for segments of the population getting mad when that same party's tactics affect them. Sounds like a conservative mind set to me. >
  
  They’ll still vote for Republicans, however. >
  
  Don't military personnel (especially from certain states) traditionally vote conservative anyway?  Isn't this just going to back fire....? >
  
  Military overwhelmingly votes for the GOP. Stop enabling assholes if they’re working against you. >
  
  The GOP and its bigoted voter base knows it can't win elections, it can only steal them by keeping people from voting. 
  Gaslight, Obstruct, Project. >
  
  Considering the new right wing Republicans that are now in charge want to severely cut our Defense budget, it’s gonna be best for them if military families can’t vote.  Suppress all voters who don’t vote your way. >
  
  Let it be a lesson, the Republicans will only fane support/care for a particular group or demographic as long as it suits their need. Once that changes, Republicans will drop that group or demographic. >
  
  Newsflash military families, the GQP doesn't give a flying fuck about you! >
  
  When are boots going to learn the GOP doesn’t give a fuck about them? >
  
  Over here in Nebraska the GOP are trying to get rid of mail-in ballots. In our new proposed VoterID law require ID, eliminate early voting and severely restrict mail-in ballots to only the military and homebound. >
  
  If you were in the military, a veteran, or family member of military. And your GOP for a fucking asshole hypocrite, fuck head 
  The amount of bullshit the GOP has cut from its actual troops is fucking disgusting. Just like they do with everything else. It wasn't until Democrats were in office till I could even get seen by the veterans affairs office. Let alone get any effective treatment. >
  
  I mean, the GOP is already trying to defund the military. >
  
  True Blue here, but all they're talking about is keeping their budget at last year's level (which I agree with, if not actually bringing it down to a reasonable level). That's after they overwhelmingly voted for the increase, though. >
  
  But but but... Republicans love the troops! >
  
  The fact the gop still exists in 2023 is weird. >
  
  Most GOP actions should anger military families, especially the veterans… >
  
  Apparently GOP market analysis found some Dems in the military, so they want to ease the life of service members and their families by eliminating the stress of actually voting from their lives. Just another way (in addition to decimating funding for base housing and cutting support to PX and Commissary) the GOP deals with our Military so there's more money for the defense contractors. >
  
  What happened to "support the troops?" >
  
  All these conservatives in the military yet every time the gop tries to take benefits away or reduce resources for vets or this shit... Like learn your lesson the first time, they don't care about you >
  
  You want to know how much Republican respect and admire the military? Just look at how they forced the military to repeal the covid-19 vaccine mandate in order to appease their base. They literally removed safety precautions against a plague to get more votes. They wave a military flag but only to feign support so they can feel they have a 'big stick' in their pocket when they want to force their will on others. They don't give a damn about the military, just what they can do with it. >
  
  are they still voting for the GOP? >
  
  Yeah, because the GOP "loves God and the Military". >
  
  It’s not like that will stop them from voting Republican. >
  
  GOP looking to screw over the military voters! >
  
  Hmm, I wonder if the GOP cares about the military? Checks voting history. Only when it makes them money. Otherwise, no. >
  
  Good. Piss off the military. Please gop >
  
  The last GOP president literally called POWs losers and KIAs suckers. 
  Yet republican voters have the gaul to propagate their patriotism and love for the troops lmao. >
  
  
  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.
  
  Republicans admit they lie, but say it doesn't matter because enough of their voters are gullible enough to believe their lies. >
  
  That might be the dumbest thing I've ever heard. "Because Rump lied and some people believed him we need to make voting harder." They litetally look for any excuse to stop people from voting. >
  
  And they will still vote R despite the GQP using them and throwing them away. >
  
  Theyll keep voting red anyway. Even though it means a higher chance of being deployed with nothing but half a kevlar vest for protection. >
  
  I don't think so, actually - I see people saying the military is solidly Republican a lot, but people seem to be completely unaware of the fact that more said they'd vote for Biden than Trump right before the 2020 election. He had a horrible approval rating in the military, with way more saying they had a very unfavorable view of Trump than very favorable. 
  His presidency and the blind allegiance of Republicans to him basically lost their hold on the military vote. >
  
  That's not exactly proof of anything though.
  There are plenty examples of people who usually vote straight Republican tickets who will change a single got to anything else or just not select anything if a Republican Candidate is too toxic.
  They'll refuse to vote for a single specific Republican Candidate but will still blindly check the R Candidate Box for every other positions on the Ballot.
  Refusing to got for Trump doesn't mean that they won't vote for Republican Candidates in every other race.
  Until we have proof that there are across the board genuine political shifts & not just single candidate shifts based on disdain/toxicity, we can't really believe that genuine changes are actually taking place. >
  
  And they will still vote republican >
  
  Yet military members will continue to vote for the death cult… >
  
  They despise people who go into the military now, because they despise poor people >
  
  Really good Republicans, piss off the military families.  /s
  The Republican Party needs to become the party of intelligent conservative reasonable honest leaders. Let the scam artists and yahoos create their own Yahoo Party. >
  
  They did, they're called Republicans lmao >
  
  They hate mail in ballots by the left because it gives those democrats who can't get to the polls or those democrats in urban areas where the GOP has closed so many polling another option. They forced areas across the US in left leaning urban areas to wait in lines for HOURS to vote and they want to force people to vote in person A) because it gives them the opportunity to prevent those (Ds)who don't have a DL from voting and B) conservatives vote on election day and not by mail in ballot so limiting vote my mail/forcing vote in person gives them an advantage through their manipulation of voting laws. Right-wing magas are too intellectually challenged to vote by mail or they already do but are to consumed with sticking it to the libs to realize they're fckn themselves over. Last time I voted I saw multiple elderly white voters in wheelchairs being brought in to vote and immediately I'm like why tf don't they vote by mail. >
  
  Yeah they support our troops >
  
  Trump really wants to commit to doing away with it, but someone must have informed him about key demographics to the GOP, because even is most targeted attack on mail-in voting is followed up with “except out-of-state military and elderly with mobility issues.” >
  
  They will promptly ignore the anger and continue to say they love the military. >
  
  Seems self defeating. I thought most military members generally vote Republican. >
  
  Luckily I live in a pro-democratic state of California. I have 30 days to fill out and return my ballot. Sucks to live in fascist states ran by GOP. Yah, the gun laws suck but who needs 30 rounds magazines to blow through tons of ammo, I get to practice mag changes more often, and you can still own AR-15, they just look dumb. I focus more on pistol now than rifle. >
  
  This belongs on /r/leoaprdsatemyface >
  
  Seems like all Rs want to do is piss more and more people off, even if its their own voters. >
  
  Military service personnel who vote Republican are masochists. >
  
  The most comical part about this is the military vote is typically GOP.  So not only are they clipping their own direct votes of active deployed military they are also pissing off veterans who largely vote GOP. >
  
  It doesn’t seem like a smart political move to disenfranchise your base, make it harder for military members to vote and strip money from Medicare - who is the GOP trying to help (the 1% of course)? >
  
  Just wait until they find out what Republicans do to the VA. >
  
  They’re so angry they’ll continue to vote GOP, just to send a message! >
  
  News flash:
  The GOP does not care about the military except contractors who donate to their campaigns. >
  
  Why do republicans hate military families? >
  
  The quiet part: “We need to keep blacks and browns from voting” thought Newt Gingrich… >
  
  Law enforcement and the military were the GOP's safe votes.  In the last two years they've attacked them several times.  What the hell is their long game? >
  
  (R) just pulling all the levers and seeing which shit sticks on the wall. >
  
  Republicans hateses democracy.  Hates it, hisss. >
  
  The GOP does not believe in citizens voting. That is why they work so hard to prevent it. >
  
  The GQP lawmakers don't give a F about the military and they only use them as a prop when it benefits them. >
  
  That one Republican said her constituents demanded the ridiculously aggressive change, so she HAD to do it. Therefore, I DEMAND gun control. Did it work??? >
  
  What makes anyone think the republicsns won't do anything to HURT our military and think anything of it >
  
  OCONUS folks should have been flipping out about the USPS snafu. >
  
  Always vote early by mail or in person >
  
  Just the GQP's way of trying to win over our military voters.
  Great plan. >
  
  So instead of telling their radical base the truth about election integrity, telling them to educate themselves before believing conspiracy bullshit and to suck it up if they can’t do that the GOP thinks it is better to disenfranchise citizens as a performative act?
  Fuck them. >
  
  America is dead. We lost. Fuck. >
  
  When these issues arise and we see the GOP’s responses, I am glad that I’m retired from the military and no longer am subject to having my rights stripped from me.
  This is another demonstration that the GOP doesn’t really care for or consider the military members themselves. Similar to the banning abortion without considering those service members who have no choice on where they are assigned and having their rights stripped from them. 
  The GOP is more interested in being in power and using a myth that they are looking out for the military. But, in reality, they use the military as a show piece and act as if they care. >
  
  I still remember 1992 when I was in grafenwoehr, Germany for tank qual.  I was up in the morning watching the election count on TV when the mail call guy gave me my absentee ballot. It was the only presidential election I didn't get to vote in.  The county elections clerk thought mailing it out 8 days before the election was enough time for me to get it. >
  
  OH MAN, you do NOT want to fuck with military families...  I have noticed they talk and collaborate and have a tendency of being vindictive as fuck when you mess with their way of life and livelihood.  
  You want to piss off your constituents and have them flip blue, that is how you do it... >
  
  The irony that many of those same military families voted for these very candidates is probably lost upon those voters.... >
  
  They are clearly willing to disenfranchise military families if they can also disenfranchise a very large portion of the Democrat voter base. >
  
  And yet they still vote GOP reliably enough that the GOP isn't worried about losing their support. >
  
  Will that anger translate to action? >
  
  “Support our troops!”
  “Not like that!” >
  
  The only voter fraud is the Republicans lies.
  Attorney General Barr clearly stated, voter fraud is bullshit. >
  
  Republican priority #1: Keeping people from voting. Especially by mail.
  So smart for a party whose base is becoming more immobile by the day. >
  
  I love how the right some how has the pro military narrative…. Despite voting against their health care and voting rights any chance they get. 
  Being pro bombing random brown people doesn’t make you pro military… >
  
  Hey Reddit, it's been almost a week since we first heard Biden held classified information and they literally just keep finding more. Reddit consistently talks about how he wasn't their first choice but "he's better than Trump". If he really isn't your president, why has this never once in almost a week made it to the front page? Especially the fact that they literally found some of this stuff in November and we never once heard about it until now? >
  
  
  why has this never once in almost a week made it to the front page?
  
  Because unlike Trump he is fully cooperating and following procedure on what to do when documents like this are found.  
  But you aren't here to argue in good faith either. >
  
  
  he is fully cooperating and following procedure on what to do when documents like this are found.
  
  How do you think the documents got there?
  Did a naughty elf put them there and then Biden found them and followed procedure to return them? >
  
  War is coming soon...hope you're storing weapons and water. Less than 10yrs, collapse. Economic, ecological devastation like never before... less than 10yrs. War is coming to our shores. Prepare for a time of zealots and tyrants. Men of force. Take away the rights of the common man and woman. Slowly, the noose is lowered over the neck of democracy. War is coming...free men will not lay down. It's how this nation was built by the blood of men and women willing to sacrifice all for an ideal. Freedom isn't free, and the military understands that best of all. Now you take away their right to be heard... free men will not lay down. Continue down this path, and War will be at your doorstep. Less than 10 years. >
  
  They said that was gonna happen 20 years ago homie.
  Also anyone who talks like you do is certifiable insane. >
  
  20 years ago, most of you had drinking water.  Animals are becoming extinct on a scale not seen since the dinosaurs were wiped off the earth. Earth can not continue to support our way of life. Insane is what they said about Al Gore and his melting ice caps theory. Now, it's not such an insane theory. It is an accurate fact. Scarcity of supplies, especially drinkable water, will usher in the next great war. It's also funny that the War to End All Wars was less than 30 years later, jackbooted into a measly 2nd place when WW2 happened. Now throw in Korea, Vietnam,Iraq, Afghanistan, and soon to be Europe again, and perpetual war is something you should be used to. It's been going on for America since before you were born. It's the  only sport we're #1 at, truly, and a lot more is yet to come. Crazy,  friend is something you're gonna pray for not so long from now. Just wait till the next economic crash, and the real ecological impact that is right around that corner hits us like a runaway freighttrain. Rome lasted 1000 years. As they say in Rome...nothing lasts forever! You can hear the train a comin friend, better steel yourself. >
  
  😂 everyone in Yankee land always getting offended… can you kids just stop being offended for 5 min… that would be just great ☕️ >
  
  
  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. >
  
  Fucking boomers! >
  
  Gaetz, MTJ, Boebert, Ronny Jackson, etc. are not Boomers. Gym is but is right at the edge before Gen-X. Most Freedom Caucus members are Boomers, sure, but be careful to think this creeping fascism is just a phase passing with the previous generation. It's quite alive with the younger members. >
  
  Extremely important point, and one that I feel like not enough people recognize. Look at fucking George Santos. >
  
  George Santos was the first boomer. He said so. >
  
  But I thought he fought on D-Day? >
  
  He did, they made a movie of him "Saving Private Santos" and I recommend it >
  
  That beach scene in Cancun was epic. >
  
  Wait, wasn't the Cancun scene from a Ted Cruz documentary? >
  
  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 >
  
  I trust my libratorium card checks out OK >
  
  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.” >
  
  It's even dumber. Didn't this start with COVID, when these jerkwads decided mail in was pro vaccination, to avoid being around others who might not be wearing masks.
  It was an own the libs move that also stopped old people and military votes. >
  
  
  “While there is certainly more work to do, this new law drastically enhances Ohio’s election security and improves the integrity of our elections, which my constituents and citizens across the state have demanded,” [Republican state Sen. Theresa Gavarone] said.
  
  How? More vague, baseless bullshit. Creating fake problems to disenfranchise people or outright taking their rights away is a core Republican strategy.  It's one of the characteristics of fascism. >
  
  As an Ohio citizen, I did not demand this. >
  
  
  “What kind of society do we call ourselves if we are disenfranchising people from the rights that they are over there protecting?” said Willis Gordon, a Navy veteran
  
  This is something the military families should have extensive first hand knowledge about. 
  It's called "Collateral Damage."
  In order to count fewer Democratic ballots, some other people will get hurt. But how else will the Republicans keep their claws on power if they don't cheat? >
  
  And yet, the large majority of military members and vets supported Trump will still vote R.
  Zero sympathy for those who do so. >
  
  The military used to swing pretty hard to the right but it's changed a lot over the last 15 years or so. The military as a whole now votes slightly more to the left. >
  
  It has definitely moved more to the left compared to past trends, but the military definitely still leans R. >
  
  According to polls from the last two federal elections that's not true anymore. >
  
  They (Republicans) only care about the military because of the defense spending and contractors who give money to them. Full stop. When it comes to actually doing anything for the people who are doing the work in the field, they don’t give a shit. Yet the ethos of the military has convinced them that if there’s a R next to their name, you should vote for them. >
  
  Yet another gleaming example to throw on the ever-growing pile of evidence that shows how goddamn stupid much of the population is. 
  It really doesn’t take much effort to discern how the GOP literally doesn’t care about the soldiers they often claim to care about and regularly use as political pawns.
  But many people don’t know how, won’t, or can’t educate themselves on the issues, so they just wait for someone on the tv/internet to tell them what to think and how to feel. 
  We really need to bring back the “knowledge is power” type of mindset into modern society so we can better combat this culture of idiocy.
  It’s something I’ve been trying my damnedest to remedy in whatever small way I can, but it’s a grueling and often thankless ordeal. But I’m gonna keep at it regardless. >
  
  
  The pace of ballot counting after Election Day has become a target of conservatives egged on by former President Donald Trump. He has promoted a false narrative
  
  I can't think of a more sugar-coated way of saying that "he lied about the election results as part of an attempted coup against the US government". >
  
  An easier fix to this is too start counting mail in as they come in...Oh wait we can't do that cause yeah reasons >
  
  Some states allow it. I'll let you guess which ones allow early counting and which dont...
  Hint: the ones that are complaining about how long it takes are the ones that don't allow it. >
  
  I mean, the GOP does not care about military families and constantly does things to show them that they do not care about them, but still many military families will support them. >
  
  Yeah, guys I was deployed with still voted Republican last year, just weeks after Republicans blocked the PACT Act. >
  
  
  PACT Act
  
  That was really frustrating.  Good thing a comedian/tv show host decided to go hard on the super controversial "doing what's right" issue and shame them into passing it. >
  
  Yeah, one guy even told me he supported them blocking it because “the democrats probably put something in the bill to ban guns”. He didn’t read the bill. >
  
  Could he read? >
  
  he’s a republican; he can’t read >
  
  Honestly the biggest problem there is the fact that they can read, but they don’t have the ability to do the due diligence required to understand what they just read and how it fits into the bigger picture. It’s possibly even more damaging than if they simply couldn’t read. >
  
  I recall—a year after enlisting—registering as a Republican because they were the “pro-military party”.
  As I matured thru my military career, and seeing all of the attacks of the GOP’s War on Veterans that I was blinded by their unsupported propaganda. Leaving the party in ‘16 was decades too late. >
  
  Better late than never >
  
  How important are military bases to Ohio's economy? >
  
  It’s not the military bases it’s going to be the service members who claim it for residency.  
  Texas will probably be the most relevant because there are 4 major bases and no state income tax so lots of service members change their residency to there, which doesn’t require being stationed but it’s easier and tempting for those who are >
  
  Florida has a ton of navy folks who use their training base as "last USA address"for tax reasons as well. >
  
  It's amazing to me the number of veterans and active military who support the gop. The GOP has a long history of taking action against the benefits of any military personnel current or veteran. When will they open their eyes and see this. >
  
  As long as it also hurts who they hate, they don't care. I know people like this. >
  
  I was deployed to Iraq in 2020. Mail took an average of 38 days to get to me from the states and 42 days to go from me back to my home address.
  Good luck fellow military members from Ohio. I hope you enjoy watching other people take part in the democratic process while you sit on the sidelines. >
  
  Looking at the last sentence of the quote below, you’ll be lucky to get your ballot more than 10 days before the election, and you won’t have any chance at all in having your ballot get there within 4 days after the election. And that assumes that you vote the same day that you receive the ballot, which almost never happens. 
  “Board of elections data shows that in the state’s most populous county, which includes the capital city of Columbus, 242 absentee ballots from military and overseas voters were received after Election Day last November. Of that, nearly 40% arrived more than four days later and would have been rejected had the new law been in effect.
  In 2020, a federal survey administered by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission found that Ohio rejected just 1% of the 21,600 ballots cast by overseas and military voters with the 10-day time frame in place. That compared with 2.1% nationally, a figure attributed mostly to voters missing state ballot deadlines.
  All states are required to transmit ballots to registered overseas and military voters at least 45 days before an election, or as soon as possible if the request comes in after that date.” >
  
  They are also working to dismantle the VA. They have nothing to replace it, they just want it gone. 
  Stop voting for the people actively working against you. >
  
  Don't interrupt them! >
  
  This law may hurt active duty voters, but who else is it hurting? >
  
  Lots of people. But until it hurts a republican constituency republican voters don't care. >
  
  When they can't win by actually getting more votes, they cheat.  It's been shown time and time and time again.  I sure wish more people actually gave a shit about this country, instead of just caring about "their team" and how well they "own the libz". >
  
  “I can’t believe how WOKE our military culture has gotten, expecting to be able to vote.” >
  
  This is like Schrodingers sarcasm. I just can't tell. >
  
  And yet they will continue to vote republican. >
  
  A majority of service members vote Democrat, actually >
  
  Especially upon separation/retirement. While Active Duty the trend tends to be to vote R due to history really. And relatively recent history. Reagan's pumping up of military spending after his election really endeared him and the Republican Party to military hawks. They continued to vote R, and showed subordinates that is how they should vote. Then we retired, realized exactly what kind of voting culture we helped grow and set about trying to course correct, in some cases anyway. >
  
  Having Fox News blaring on all the military posts TVs and radios as a default certainly keeps those in active duty voting R, too... Pushed some of them so far right they are even willing to commit sedition now. >
  
  Ya ain't wrong sadly. I will (if it's allowed) get a bit defensive here and state that not everyone puts the uniform on for the same reason. If Smitty was a barely educated, misogynistic and racist dumpster fire while he was on the stoop it's scary easy to find like minded folks in a military of over a million people. There's a reason we don't interact with folks we HAD to serve with as much once we don't have to. >
  
  Fair point. GOOD point. It has been over 30 years since I wore a uniform, so I am certainly out of the loop on what it is like to serve these days. I am only basing my statement on what I have heard from younger relatives that are serving now... It seems like there is a lot more tolerance of propaganda among the rank and file troops than was allowed when I was in, but, to your point, our military is huge and it may be that I merely had the good fortune of serving with folks who were not assholes. >
  
  It's been 7 for me, thanks for setting some blacktop down so I could take the path! Fox News was very prevalent anywhere background noise could be heard, at the Doc's, barbershop, PX/BX/Exchange. Talk around October always centered around the budget, even away from the walls of the Pentagon we wanted to know what kind of "raise" we would be getting. R was good, D was questionable. I rarely go on post now, and the interactions with our brothers and sisters in arms are now framed (for me) as a liaison for student veterans at college or disabled and elder vets. I'm a social worker for Veterans now, using VA funds to keep us at home and not that crooked old folks home. >
  
  Good on you! I sure wish a much bigger chunk of our military budget went towards taking care of our vets!  I can only imagine the logistics involved for you just to get access to your funding, let alone putting it to good use.  I worked with veterans with addiction issues for the first year after I was discharged, and continued to work in human services off and on for the next 12 years.  Tough work, but so very rewarding when you can actually do some good for folks.  So, much respect and thank-you very much for keeping up the good fight. >
  
  It’s so frustrating watching all these communities be surprised pikachu face every time Republicans do exactly what they promised they would do. >
  
  The GOP is clearly willing to sacrifice the military vote to pander to the lunatics. Military voting for Democrat in the presidential race jumped from 20.6% to 41.3% between 2016-2020. 
  The military vote has become a liability for the GOP. >
  
  The GOP will do anything to support the troops...
  ...except actually supporting the troops. >
  
  But they'll give you a military discount! >
  
  They weren’t already mad about the GOP denying them health benefits?!? >
  
  But will the military stop voting for them? >
  
  Military members who vote Republican are getting what they voted for. >
  
  Glorious Leader even admitted it on camera: if it is easy for citizens to vote, the fascists would not have political power. >
  
  Pretty much no one who isn’t a wealthy, white Christian man should ever vote Republican. >
  
  Why any military votes republican is beyond me. >
  
  And yet many of these same military families vote, and will continue to vote, Republican. Make it make sense.... >
  
  GOP does not now nor have ever cared about soldiers or their families. The military is Slush fund to take from or a cudgel to oppress outside markets. Anyone who thinks otherwise can get their face eaten off by leopards >
  
  But they'll still vote for them. >
  
  Don't forget, this is on top of constantly reducing the post office ability to be reliable.
  My whole life I could count on the USPS to get mail in on time, now my local branch is understaffed, only runs 2-3 times a week, and has lost packages coming to me. >
  
  Military families have been spouting rage at the GOP and even have trump the lowest approval rating the military has ever given, yet they are so brainwashed they vote red in droves. Fucking embarrassing >
  
  I'm sure this won't prompt the heavily conservative military voters to stop voting Republican >
  
  Republican priority #1: Keeping people from voting. Especially by mail.
  So smart for a party whose base is becoming more immobile by the day. >
  
  GOP = 
  Gaslight
  Obstruct
  Project >
  
  Add up all the active duty military and retired military and you have numbers far less than all other major racial groups in this country.  You have numbers far less than those indentifying as LBGTQ.  In short, the military is one of the smaller groups in this country.  Republicans attack much larger groups than the military.  They do it all the time.  Was only a matter of time until they began hitting the military. >
  
  Doesn’t the military also vote overwhelmingly in favor of the GOP most of the time too? Seems like shooting themselves in the foot >
  
  Honestly that gives me hope. I was raised in a pretty conservative household, had full intent of joining the military the day I was able to, until I talked to my grandfather. My dad won’t talk about his politics and he never did openly but I’m beginning to think he was more on the blue side of things, the one time I talked to him about joining the military, circa 2006, he said to me, “Do you know why I joined the military?”
  I replied, “Yeah? We got attacked by Japan at Pearl Harbor and had to defend ourselves” and he nodded and said, “Yeah, and entire country made a war declaration, but it wasn’t an easy or light decision to be made. With everything going on right now, are we being attacked by a country, or did something really bad happen because of some awful people and we’re retaliating?”
  And that changed my entire worldview on the military. Others who didn’t have any sort of outlook other than “I was the military, your grandfather was military, you’ll be military” didn’t end up that way >
  
  By that logic, the skepticism about the extent to which the GOP has become an arm of the Russian intelligence services is enough to justify going after it as a foreign terrorist organization.  Even if the claims aren’t true, the skepticism is justification enough. >
  
  And yet most will continue to vote for them.... >
  
  Republicans attack democracy. Every story is the same. Republicans attack democracy, elections, public education, human rights, equality and justice. Every story is the same. The media works tirelessly to keep us from connecting everything the Republicans are doing - because the media is colluding with them. Rise up good people - promote democracy in your home and defend it in your community. Defend democracy! >
  
  When are people going to understand Republicans are now a threat to American freedoms! >
  
  I mean, most military families vote Republican, right? Feels rather r/LeopardsAteMyFace. >
  
  And yet somehow most military families I know are staunch GOP supporters. You get what you vote for. >
  
  Support the troops! They nobly sacrifice the right to vote so that the GOP can maintain minority rule!
  It’s in the bible. >
  
  But they're still gonna vote majority republican, aren't they?
  I have a hard time finding sympathy for people who vote in favor of their own abuse. >
  
  Q: How does making the timeframe shorter make things more secure, Governor DeWine?
  That question should be getting hammered by the media until it's answered honestly that it does not make voting more secure, it only makes it more difficult for active military serving overseas to vote.
  The lawmakers that voted for it should be getting skewered for disenfranchising active military voters. >
  
  Oh look. Military families voting for a party that limited rights and voting power for segments of the population getting mad when that same party's tactics affect them. Sounds like a conservative mind set to me. >
  
  They’ll still vote for Republicans, however. >
  
  Don't military personnel (especially from certain states) traditionally vote conservative anyway?  Isn't this just going to back fire....? >
  
  Military overwhelmingly votes for the GOP. Stop enabling assholes if they’re working against you. >
  
  
  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.
  
  Republicans admit they lie, but say it doesn't matter because enough of their voters are gullible enough to believe their lies. >
  
  That might be the dumbest thing I've ever heard. "Because Rump lied and some people believed him we need to make voting harder." They litetally look for any excuse to stop people from voting. >
  
  They are clearly willing to disenfranchise military families if they can also disenfranchise a very large portion of the Democrat voter base. >
  
  The only voter fraud is the Republicans lies.
  Attorney General Barr clearly stated, voter fraud is bullshit. >
  
  I love how the right some how has the pro military narrative…. Despite voting against their health care and voting rights any chance they get. 
  Being pro bombing random brown people doesn’t make you pro military… >
  
  And worshipping like a fucking God the man that straight up called dead US soldiers suckers. >
  
  Ooo shit i forgot about that one. He has just done/said so many horrific it’s impossible to remember them all. >
  
  Is this part of the GOP plan to destroy postal ballots because they see it as giving advantage to the democratic party. >
  
  Voting restrictions have no valid reason or moral worth to exist. It is simply a tightening of the choke chain to them. >
  
  The GOP and its bigoted voter base knows it can't win elections, it can only steal them by keeping people from voting. 
  Gaslight, Obstruct, Project. >
  
  Considering the new right wing Republicans that are now in charge want to severely cut our Defense budget, it’s gonna be best for them if military families can’t vote.  Suppress all voters who don’t vote your way. >
  
  Let it be a lesson, the Republicans will only fane support/care for a particular group or demographic as long as it suits their need. Once that changes, Republicans will drop that group or demographic. >
  
  Newsflash military families, the GQP doesn't give a flying fuck about you! >
  
  When are boots going to learn the GOP doesn’t give a fuck about them? >
  
  Over here in Nebraska the GOP are trying to get rid of mail-in ballots. In our new proposed VoterID law require ID, eliminate early voting and severely restrict mail-in ballots to only the military and homebound. >
  
  If you were in the military, a veteran, or family member of military. And your GOP for a fucking asshole hypocrite, fuck head 
  The amount of bullshit the GOP has cut from its actual troops is fucking disgusting. Just like they do with everything else. It wasn't until Democrats were in office till I could even get seen by the veterans affairs office. Let alone get any effective treatment. >
  
  I mean, the GOP is already trying to defund the military. >
  
  True Blue here, but all they're talking about is keeping their budget at last year's level (which I agree with, if not actually bringing it down to a reasonable level). That's after they overwhelmingly voted for the increase, though. >
  
  But but but... Republicans love the troops! >
  
  The fact the gop still exists in 2023 is weird. >
  
  Most GOP actions should anger military families, especially the veterans… >
  
  Apparently GOP market analysis found some Dems in the military, so they want to ease the life of service members and their families by eliminating the stress of actually voting from their lives. Just another way (in addition to decimating funding for base housing and cutting support to PX and Commissary) the GOP deals with our Military so there's more money for the defense contractors. >
  
  What happened to "support the troops?" >
  
  All these conservatives in the military yet every time the gop tries to take benefits away or reduce resources for vets or this shit... Like learn your lesson the first time, they don't care about you >
  
  You want to know how much Republican respect and admire the military? Just look at how they forced the military to repeal the covid-19 vaccine mandate in order to appease their base. They literally removed safety precautions against a plague to get more votes. They wave a military flag but only to feign support so they can feel they have a 'big stick' in their pocket when they want to force their will on others. They don't give a damn about the military, just what they can do with it. >
  
  are they still voting for the GOP? >
  
  Yeah, because the GOP "loves God and the Military". >
  
  It’s not like that will stop them from voting Republican. >
  
  GOP looking to screw over the military voters! >
  
  Hmm, I wonder if the GOP cares about the military? Checks voting history. Only when it makes them money. Otherwise, no. >
  
  Good. Piss off the military. Please gop >
  
  The last GOP president literally called POWs losers and KIAs suckers. 
  Yet republican voters have the gaul to propagate their patriotism and love for the troops lmao. >
  
  The irony that many of those same military families voted for these very candidates is probably lost upon those voters.... >
  
  And yet they still vote GOP reliably enough that the GOP isn't worried about losing their support. >
  
  “Support our troops!”
  “Not like that!” >
  
  Since it's been shown repeatedly that only Republicans commit election fraud or voting fraud, how about we set a limit of 4 days after the election for receipt of ballots from registered Republicans, and 10 days for everyone else? >
  
  The first presidential election I ever voted in was via mail from Fort Benning.
  Republicans are NOT real patriots, they are sad little hypocrites. >
  
  Republicans are not as pro military as pretend. >
  
  And they will still vote R despite the GQP using them and throwing them away. >
  
  Theyll keep voting red anyway. Even though it means a higher chance of being deployed with nothing but half a kevlar vest for protection. >
  
  I don't think so, actually - I see people saying the military is solidly Republican a lot, but people seem to be completely unaware of the fact that more said they'd vote for Biden than Trump right before the 2020 election. He had a horrible approval rating in the military, with way more saying they had a very unfavorable view of Trump than very favorable. 
  His presidency and the blind allegiance of Republicans to him basically lost their hold on the military vote. >
  
  That's not exactly proof of anything though.
  There are plenty examples of people who usually vote straight Republican tickets who will change a single got to anything else or just not select anything if a Republican Candidate is too toxic.
  They'll refuse to vote for a single specific Republican Candidate but will still blindly check the R Candidate Box for every other positions on the Ballot.
  Refusing to got for Trump doesn't mean that they won't vote for Republican Candidates in every other race.
  Until we have proof that there are across the board genuine political shifts & not just single candidate shifts based on disdain/toxicity, we can't really believe that genuine changes are actually taking place. >
  
  And they will still vote republican >
  
  Yet military members will continue to vote for the death cult… >
  
  They despise people who go into the military now, because they despise poor people >
  
  They hate mail in ballots by the left because it gives those democrats who can't get to the polls or those democrats in urban areas where the GOP has closed so many polling another option. They forced areas across the US in left leaning urban areas to wait in lines for HOURS to vote and they want to force people to vote in person A) because it gives them the opportunity to prevent those (Ds)who don't have a DL from voting and B) conservatives vote on election day and not by mail in ballot so limiting vote my mail/forcing vote in person gives them an advantage through their manipulation of voting laws. Right-wing magas are too intellectually challenged to vote by mail or they already do but are to consumed with sticking it to the libs to realize they're fckn themselves over. Last time I voted I saw multiple elderly white voters in wheelchairs being brought in to vote and immediately I'm like why tf don't they vote by mail. >
  
  Really good Republicans, piss off the military families.  /s
  The Republican Party needs to become the party of intelligent conservative reasonable honest leaders. Let the scam artists and yahoos create their own Yahoo Party. >
  
  They did, they're called Republicans lmao >
  
  Yeah they support our troops >
  
  Trump really wants to commit to doing away with it, but someone must have informed him about key demographics to the GOP, because even is most targeted attack on mail-in voting is followed up with “except out-of-state military and elderly with mobility issues.” >
  
  They will promptly ignore the anger and continue to say they love the military. >
  
  Seems self defeating. I thought most military members generally vote Republican. >
  
  Luckily I live in a pro-democratic state of California. I have 30 days to fill out and return my ballot. Sucks to live in fascist states ran by GOP. Yah, the gun laws suck but who needs 30 rounds magazines to blow through tons of ammo, I get to practice mag changes more often, and you can still own AR-15, they just look dumb. I focus more on pistol now than rifle. >
  
  This belongs on /r/leoaprdsatemyface >
  
  Seems like all Rs want to do is piss more and more people off, even if its their own voters. >
  
  Military service personnel who vote Republican are masochists. >
  
  The most comical part about this is the military vote is typically GOP.  So not only are they clipping their own direct votes of active deployed military they are also pissing off veterans who largely vote GOP. >
  
  It doesn’t seem like a smart political move to disenfranchise your base, make it harder for military members to vote and strip money from Medicare - who is the GOP trying to help (the 1% of course)? >
  
  Just wait until they find out what Republicans do to the VA. >
  
  They’re so angry they’ll continue to vote GOP, just to send a message! >
  
  News flash:
  The GOP does not care about the military except contractors who donate to their campaigns. >
  
  Why do republicans hate military families? >
  
  The quiet part: “We need to keep blacks and browns from voting” thought Newt Gingrich… >
  
  Law enforcement and the military were the GOP's safe votes.  In the last two years they've attacked them several times.  What the hell is their long game?