Trump's War Against America

In today's earlier post, I wrote about Donald Trump's war against Iran.

Added note about that: 

Trump has said that Iran's military is "obliterated".

Then he asked for other nations to help defend the Strait of Hormuz from attacks by Iran's military.

You know, the one Trump said was obliterated? 

Meanwhile the response from other nations has been 1 of the following:

1. Silence
2. A cautious "we'll have to think about it"
3. A firm NO!

Basically, Trump broke this thing, he needs to buy it.

So that's what's going on with Trump's war against Iran.

But what about that other country Li'l Donnie is at war with?

How goes Trump's war against America?

Well, it's kinda scary.

Der Führer latest attack on the world's leading alleged democracy is the SAVE Act.

Well, what fresh hell is this latest fuckery?

The SAVE Act a.k.a., the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act (H.R. 8281/H.R. 7296) is a proposed federal law requiring individuals to provide official written proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote in federal elections.

Now what pray tell would be allowed as "official written proof of U.S. citizenship"?

Don't think you're gonna saunter up to your local elections board office and register to vote with your driver's license or your student I.D. or your honorary Justice League membership card. 

What you need to prove your citizenship is your birth certificate.

God help you if you've lost the damn thing cause it takes time and money to replace it.

And God help you if it doesn't have the same name you have now because that's a real deal breaker. 

So if my wife Andrea needed to register to vote, the current Mrs. Long may have some difficulty in that is NOT her last name on her birth certificate. 

Thankfully she doesn't need to register to vote but Li'l Donnie would just love to extend the proof of citizenship requirement to actually showing up to cast  a ballot.

And besides married ladies who took their husband's last name, guess who else the SAVE Act fucks over?

Every MAGA head's favorite enemy of America, them thar dang transgenders.

Dadgum transgenders ruin everything! I think I saw one at a Cracker Barrel last week and my chicken 'n' dumplings tasted funny! 

Where was I? Oh yeah...

Need an alternative to providing a birth certificate? Well, the SAVE Act helpfully provides another option: your passport.

About half of Americans do not have a passport.

Count me among them.

And if you do want to get a passport, it takes time (approximately 3 to 4 weeks) and money (last I check, around $186) to get one.

Along with proving your citizenship to register to vote, the SAVE Act severely curtails mail in voting. 

Former President Jimmy Carter was against mail in voting.

It's true because Donald Trump said so.

OK, sarcasm alert! 

Of course it's a lie because Li'l Donnie's lips were moving.

Carter was a proponent of mail in voting and voted that way in the last years of his life.

Do you know who else has voted via a mailed in ballot?

His name rhymes with Fonald K. Grump.

By the way, once signed into law the SAVE Act would go into effect immediately.

So fuck you if you haven't registered to vote in time for the 2026 midterms. 

Anyway, der Führer is doing a full course press on Congress passing the SAVE Act NOW above all other considerations.  The House passed the measure along party lines but the Senate is not eager to take it up.

 Republicans need some Democrats to cross party lines to vote for this piece of shit legislation to pass with 60 votes and that ain't gonna happen.

So Trump is yelling at Senate Republicans to get rid of the filibuster so Republicans can pass this damn thing with a simple majority.

Which is great for Li'l Donnie's short term gain to fuck over Democrat voters but Senate Repubicans know their majority hold on the Senate is not forever and they worry what terrible things Democrats might push through without worrying about a 60 votes threshhold.

God forbid they might push through universal health care or some other awful thing.

About the SAVE Act....

May I play Devil's Advocate for a moment?

OK, that was fun.

Where was I? Oh yeah....

Isn't making sure non citizens are NOT voting a good thing?

Well, yes it is.

And guess what? It's ALREADY against the law for non citizens to vote.

AND it is NOT a problem that is actually a problem.

There is no evidence that this is some kind of widespread epidemic of fraud.

A non-citizen trying to vote has happened. There was one case of it in Florida where someone from Canada tried to vote.  

We know this because the system works: the guy was identified and caught. 

Studies by the very conservative, very right wing Heritage Foundation have concluded there is very little actual fraud happening in our election system.

So why the big push for the SAVE Act?

The only reason why modern Republicans get into a tizzy of a snit over anything these days: Donald Trump's ego.

Widdle Donnie Trump got his feelings hurt in 2020 when he lost the election.  Because der Führer sees himself as the best President ever in the history of Presidents, he cannot conceive of a nation that saw him as a lying, petulant, bullying, unintelligent, sociopathic, dishonorable, treasonous, gutless, moronic, heartless, soulless, slimy, loathsome, vile, incompetent, psychotic, crooked, disgusting, reprehensible, revolting, horrible, malicious, obnoxious, hateful, small minded, despicable god damn, motherfucking piece of shit! 

So the only answer has to be the election was stolen. 

And he will NOT let go of that lie.

And he has enough snivelling syncophants in Congress and in his administration to take action on all his whims.

And Donald Trump's assault on how we vote is not the only attack he's making on America.

OK, this post is going on too damn long so just link here to Li'l Donnie's boast about reshaping the media to fit his narcissistic  propoganda.  

der Führer is trying to control not just how we vote but how we think. 

And that is the state of Trump's war against America. 

And unlike his war against Iran, Li'l Donnie has willing supplicants to help him.