A New Confederacy: Trump and the Republicans have already seceded

[discocrisco01]

You know which ones they are: Nineteen states have enacted 33 laws that make it harder for people to vote, according to the Brennan Center for Justice. Fifteen states made it harder to apply for a mail-in ballot. Four states limited mail-in ballot drop boxes. Four states imposed stricter mail-in ballot signature requirements. Eight states imposed harder voter ID requirements. Seven states made it easier to purge voters from the rolls. Three states reduced the number of polling places and voting hours. Three more states reduced the number of days or hours of early voting. Five states made it harder to vote for people with disabilities and two states made it a crime to hand out water or snacks to voters waiting in long lines to vote.


More at https://www.rawstory.com/a-new-confederacy-trump-and-the-republicans-have-already-seceded/

[FakeNoose]

1. They're daring the Democrats and progressives to pack up and move out

If I lived in any of those states, I'd be thinking about it REALLY hard.

[MiHale]

3. Easy to say, could be impossible to do...nt

[walkingman]

5. I would leave Texas in a heartbeat if not for my age and family. Sucks!!!

[FakeNoose]

6. Well there's actually some hope for Texas

... as long as you can vote out that idiot Governor.

Good luck my friend!

[dchill]

8. "... as long as you can vote ..."

Fixed it!

[PatSeg]

12. I only left Texas one time

It was many years ago and I vowed never to step foot in the state again. It seems to be far worse now than it was then. You have my sympathy. I was young when I left, but at my age now, it probably wouldn't be possible. It is a shame, as I really met a lot of great, generous people in Texas, but the ignorant haters ruined it for everyone and most of the haters were heavily armed.

[CentralMass]

2. As I eye states that are less expensive to retire in I'm finding

that more and more of them aren't worth the price of putting up with the political environment
.

[calimary]

10. Indeed. I've noticed that, too.

For me it’s just another extension of that old post-Watergate-era saying:

“Don’t buy books by crooks.”

[multigraincracker]

11. Find a college town.

Has worked for me.

[PatSeg]

13. Yes, that does make a difference

[CentralMass]

14. Great suggestion.

[KS Toronado]

4. We really need to get For the People Act passed long before the midterms

I doubt if it does, but I wish it outlawed voting machines and required paper ballots everywhere for
everyone. reQublicOns seem fixated on blaming voting machines for how Democrats stole the election
from them. They're currently laying the groundwork to challenge all future elections, and I believe they'll
always use "bad voting machines" to rile their voters into violence against us. So let's take away one of
their excuses. Mail ballots to all registered voters, mail 'em back or hand deliver.

[uponit7771]

7. K&R, Treat Putin's Whore like Spain ***SHOULD HAVE*** treated Franco

[ancianita]

9. So how many states is this confederacy altogether? Nineteen?

Because if it's that many, it's a bigger confederacy.

[scipan]

15. I was interested in which states comprise the 19 so:

[I just added any state for each category that didn’t previously appear.]

omnibus laws that each contain several new restrictive provisions, + criminal penalties for helping voters:
*Florida *Georgia Iowa #Texas

Criminal penalties for helping voters:
+ Kansas

Multiple restrictions:
+ Arkansas Montana *Arizona

mail in voting restrictions:
+ Alabama Kentucky ^New York Oklahoma

Restrictions on drop boxes:
+ Indiana

Tightened signature requirements:
+ Idaho

Increased Voter ID requirements:
+ *New Hampshire Wyoming

Easier Voter purges:
+ Louisiana Utah

Increase number of voters per precinct:
+ *Nevada

* = purple; of these,
GA [16], AZ [11], NH [4], NV [6]were blue in 2020
# = trending purple [TX]
^ = blue [NY]

Info from:
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/voting-laws-roundup-october-2021


Edit to add: please let me know if you see any mistakes. I did not double check. Blue/purple/red designations are from memory.

[traitorsgalore]

16. Yes they have, and I hope they make it official in 2022 with Texas and others seceding

Texas and several other states will deny any democratic wins in 2022 and install their own republican puppets. The seceding states will not allow any legal actions against their coup as they will say they don't believe the U.S. has any authority to do it.

The reason Biden's approval rating is 38% now is because Americans know there's a coup underway and he's not doing anything about it by getting HR4, the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Amendment passed.

Also, the South didn't start the civil war, they seceded. Lincoln started the war by not allowing the filthy slave-owning South the leave. This time, when the filthy, disease-carrying, Qanut, seditious, domestic terrorist, women-hunting bounty hunters, racist, fascist, anti-intellectual traitors secede, PLEASE LET THEM LEAVE and don't let them back into the "United" States ever again.

[marie999]

17. No the South started the Civil War by attacking Fort Sumter.