IT: ⛔️ Texas' controversial new voting law, and... How do you feel about the Taliban’s government?
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Welcome to Thursday, September 9th, checkers and chess,
Texas Gov. Abbott has signed an election reform bill into law that creates strict new voting rules in the state.
Abbott released the following statement about the enactment of S.B.1:
"Senate Bill 1 ensures trust and confidence in our elections system — and most importantly, it makes it easier to vote and harder to cheat... No one who is eligible to vote will be denied the opportunity to vote. It does, however, make it harder for cheaters to cast an illegal ballot.”
Texas Democratic Party Chair Gilberto Hinojosa (D) criticized the law as a
“[R]acist, anti-democracy bill that will cement Texas’s ranking as the hardest state in the country to vote in. Abbott has signed into law a bill that will make it harder to vote by mail, embolden partisan poll watchers and pave the way for voter intimidation, put up additional barriers to voting for Texans with disabilities, limit voting options by banning drive-thru voting — overwhelmingly used by working people and voters of color — and slashing the early voting window, and make election workers vulnerable to lawsuits.”
Texas is one of more than a dozen states to enact bills restricting voting access this year--despite no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election.
Do you support or oppose the Texas voting bill?
The Taliban announced the names of individuals who will serve in leadership positions within its government, including four of the “Taliban Five” who were released in 2014 from Guantanamo Bay by the Obama administration in a prisoner swap.
The BBC asked the Taliban why no women were given leadership posts in the new government and were told the cabinet wasn’t finalized. This announcement comes as the Taliban has beaten female protesters calling for an inclusive society, and fired warning shots to disperse protests in Kabul and elsewhere.
How do you feel about the Taliban’s new government for Afghanistan?
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Taliban & Texas Both: Start with T Savor theocracy Violate women’s rights Oppress anyone who is not like them
Think the Taliban government is alive and thriving in Texas.
Funny how Texas is exemplifying the Taliban’s course of action on Afghanistan. The Republicans’ Diarrhea law will be equal to the Taliban’s Shaka law. I’m waiting to hear, “There’s only one President and Donald Trump is his name.” Their purported goal is a lie; their real goal is to oppress people so they can feel superior.
https://theintercept.com/2021/09/09/forever-wars-911-militias/ Good but lengthy article
Let’s face the facts, Texas under Gov Abbot is about power for the rich! Let’s remember last February the results of Abbot came front and center when the electrical grid failed because Abbot chose to ignore engineering recommendations to winterize critical components of the grid and support for generating power! People’s homes froze, pipes burst, people lost huge sums of money! Then Abbot passes laws to restrict poor and brown people from voting! Abbot restricts local governments from protecting the local residents from Covid19! Just Remember when Texas was it’s darkest hours in February where was Ted Cruze? What was Ted doing in Mexico? Remember when Republicans were against big government ! Why are they restricting local governments from protecting their people!
Tired of both Time to leave the Taliban to their business and take the fight to Texas They have to grow up and act like adults
Afghanistan exit strategy appears to be a failure. Texas appears to have strong survival instincts. And, it is never too late for left leaning states to change their mind and come back under the wings of the US Constitution, ‘cause I bet you they can smell the stench of communism creeping into their hearts and souls
I see no difference between Texas and the taliban. Both hate women and only want cheap or free laborers.
The Taliban are like TX republicans, stripping away human rights.
Right wing give you lies, deceit, misinformation, deficit, racist bigotry, unvaccinated, over follow in hospitals, the exposure of corona virus to underage children, treasonous attack on the constitution January 6, slowing the recovery, infringe on women rights, vote suppression with no justification, bounties on women, this is just a few thing under their right wing. They talk about family and the right to choose, except if you are a woman! The left is inclusive with, the right to choose, bare arms with responsibility, belief in the constitution and a democracy for all people, men and women, even trying to meet the right haft way, which seem not going to happen. The right beliefs is no and hell no, block everything, cut taxes to a point there is no government, but a fasces authoritarian dictatorship form of government. If you notice Texassssss and Taliban both start with a “T” and could be one in the same government? The right to choose is your right, but others have the right to choose also and deny access or infringement on others rights. Religionists groups say God will protect you and God does, but God does not protect stupid or people testing God. If you want to jump of a cliff, this is your choice and you know the out come.
Taliban's New Government: The worst part of the new Taliban Government is the conditions that the Afghan people will have to live under.
Along with millions of other Americans, I do not trust the Taliban. Simply put, they are a terrorist group, and it is no other way to describe them. Full stop!
Is there a difference between Texas and the Taliban with regards to misogyny and owning women’s rights ?
Voting Rules: I love it when I read "despite no evidence of widespread voter fraud" whether it be the 2020 elections or other. This is just not about 2020. For years, voter fraud has been an issue and complained about from both parties. The goal should be no voter fraud and measures should be put in place to accomplish same.
Well, since Minds inside Women’s Bodies no longer have Full Texas Civil Rights, wonder which ‘Right’, they will strip from ONLY Texas Women next? Salary seems first, Greedy always value money. Piecemeal Slavery, a slippery slope, for those born into Female Bodies, which in Texas, makes all females, INFERIOR! Hey, not Me, Greg Abbot & the Q-publicans! Tell your Legislator, and the Supreme Court ‘Judges’.
Mindset of Original Proponents of preventing abortion, are those males hating a woman HE impregnated, be allowed to abort life from a person she no longer wants association with, in other words, Rejection, which some males cannot abide, especially one who has the Audicity to Believe, She is Equal to HIM! That Mindset. We have witnessed how ‘wanna be's’ accumulate to often rediculous concepts, Obvious Deceptions, add the docile, and yet-hopeful women believing they can change the barbarian in 'him', eventually adopting, in Survival-mode, echoing her overbearing mate, to stop the Mind-chatter about living a lie. With that liklihood in mind, lets talk about a woman's Body preventing the Mind Inside, from Having EQUAL RIGHTS? Make it easy, you Boob-Enamoured; take BODY out of this conversation about the MIND Inside's, RIGHTS. Exactly What is, the Selection process that Selects Only Some MINDs, from experiencing Equal Rights Other MINDS unthinkingly enjoy, with little risk of losing those Rights, without Socially Accepted Agreement -Incarceration. So, Why have Some MINDS been selected to NOT HAVE FULL CIVIL RIGHTS FROM BIRTH? Their Bodies, the ONLY True Reason, and now we recognize the abortion question in sunlight, lets set the Governmental Records Right: Ninteenth Constitutional Amendment. Pass It! First Proposed by Rational Minds to Congress in 1923. Properly shamed yet? I am. Now is the Time, Opportunity right now, is an open funnel, directly to Legislators. The Reason the Supreme Court did Not take up the Texas law, was the SUPREMES WANTED TO GAGUE YOUR REACTION . IF NO REACTION, NO CIVIL RIGHTS
FUCK TEXAS AND ALL THE MEN IN IT‼️
Someone let Texas know that women still have HIPPA rights …. Or do they ?
I notice that of the five terrorist released by Comrade Obama for the Army deserter in Afghanistan that four of them are now in high ranking officials in the new Afghan government. I also note that the Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan (born September 8, 1970) is a former American Army Major convicted of killing 13 people and injuring more than 30 others in the Fort Hood mass shooting on November 5, 2009. ... Hasan is incarcerated at the United States Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas awaiting execution. That of course will never happen. It was the Comrade Obama’s administration declared it not terrorism but work place violence has wrote a letter to the new Afghan government and how proud he is that they won the war and back in power. Maybe it is time to release him from prison and send his ass to Afghanistan after removing his American citizenship from him. We could then trade him to the Afghan government for five plane full of American citizens and SIV AFGHAN’s
All of you criticizing how we got out of this 20 year war I say there was no good way. And remember who got us in this war, Republican Bush and Trump signed an agreement with the Taliban and wanted to bring the Taliban to camp David. So before you criticize, look in the mirror. We are out now. Thanks Biden. As for the voting law, I don’t think you will ever get anything that is fair for the masses. Look at what he has done for women’s rights! Don’t want an abortion? Don’t get one. I have never gotten one! But I believe it’s up to the woman and her doctor.