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Trump says he plans unconstitutional executive order to mandate ID for voters
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 31 Aug 2025
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Can he just go back to being dead?
that photo is from tuesday. not sure he ain't
He can fuck on off. That’s up to the States.
And admission to the capital is up to the don now.
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I like the way the headline implies that he openly admitted that the order would be unconstitutional.
He'll be dead before the next election.
Bet your house on it.
No thanks, betting against this man hasn't worked out for me yet, and I'm much too poor to spare the roof over my head when reality bends over backwards to appease this man again.
You guys own houses?
I do but only by right of conquest. Or whatever it's called when your parents die and leave you the house they had their parents help them get.
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House owning guys are betting on shit,,get in
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Grant imahara who actually had something to give to this world died in his '50s unexpectedly from an aneurysm.
Don't bet your fucking life on it with how karma doesn't work
Yeah, because there won't be another election while that shit stain is still alive
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So sick of just one fucking asshole in this country able to torment millions of us.
Cool, and he also will release the unredacted Epstein files like he promised.
The use of executive orders to rule by decree is itself unconstitutional.
Hey Donny, that's great and all, but where are the Epstein files? Inquiring minds need to know!
EOs arnt laws.. Congress still has to make them into laws.
There's the legal tactic of: do now and ask for forgiveness never. It works really well when there are no legal consequences.
It works really well when there are no legal consequences.
There are other consequences than legal ones.
none so far i would say.
But it isn't even a legal tactic. EOs mean nothing. They are not laws.
They obviously mean something until they are stuck down, and even then...
Yup, flood the courts and demand appeals whenever judges block things. The goal is to overwhelm the system in the short term. While judges and lawyers are busy setting court dates that are weeks away, the regime will carry on as if the EO is legal.
You don't have to have proof of identity to vote in the US?
In states that do not require an ID, you still need to present a document with your name. It is then compared with the voter registration database. The argument against requiring an ID is that ID's aren't free in the US, which can cause a financial hurdle for many.
Sounds like a solution would be some sort of national ID card provided for free?
Republicans and conservatives, historically, have been the biggest opponents of a national ID because they don't want the federal government tracking them or asserting any control over anything.
Until trump, anyway...
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Yes, but that would actually be a good thing so it's never happened.
And there's additional hurdles for more targeted populations, like access to the place that gives you the ID, and the capacity to prove your ID to that place with specific documents that may ormay not exist. It's on purpose.
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Papers please
Glory to Arstotzka.
I have. Is all good, yes?
I Will Be Doing An Executive Order
President of the United States.
Trump is way too fucking lazy to press the shift key before every word. I just do not believe that he writes his own tweets. I'd like to see just one video of him visibly typing out a tweet that is then published. I'd bet that if you cross-referenced when his tweets are posted with his golf schedule, you'd find that at least some of them are written by somebody else.
Can we 100% confirmed that Donny actually made this statement and that it wasn’t a body double? And also RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES.
Fucking hell I hate to even say this, but this might be the first thing he has ever done that I might agree with. But hear me out before you crucify me.
There isn't rampant voter fraud near to the level MAGA claims. They imply it's 50% fraudulent. It's really like 1% or less, and most of that gets caught anyway already.
I do think it is important to validate that the person casting the vote is registered and is the correct person casting the vote. But I would balance that requirement with common sense and I'd make getting any/all valid IDs easy and free (fully tax funded). From DL to Real ID to Military or whatever else. All free. All simple to get. All accessible to do. And I'd also make all elections a national holiday and expand mail in and online voting and early voting. Give people as much margin to get their vote in as possible.
Elections do need security, hell, I'm still not entirely convinced that Elon didn't do SOMETHING nefarious in this last one. He at very least was paying people which is illegal. But we need better encryptions and processes and forms of certifying that the ballots cast were indeed the correct intended vote and ways to go back and validate your own vote in a secure way. Make a portal where you can log in like your bank and see your vote history or something.
While we're at it. Abolish the damn college. Just make it all RCV and be done with all this shit with gerrymandering and arguing over the "least worst' candidate every cycle.
Much less than 1%. Voter Fraud is so rare that it has no impact on elections. However the Republicans have been trying to pass a federal voter ID law (the SAVE act) which creates substantial barriers for married women who changed their last name from voting. The additional barriers will destroy democracy.
Republicans would never win if they did all that, and Democrats would immediately be seriously challenged by Progressive candidates, so they aren't interested either.
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He does care fuck if it is "legal" or "constitutional". Those terms do no longer exist as criteria.
This was the plan for the "Real ID" all along
Also there will be underwear inspections and all underwear must now be worn on the outside of pants.
I'm very ill.
I can't see California ever enforcing this
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