Literally thousands of places. Some places, such as Trappe, MD they’ve even been without one for a long time.

Hell, some places can’t even get mail delivered, let alone show up st the nearest post office without significant expense for child care and/or risk of getting fired for going during working hours.

The crumbling and mismanaged (due to laws and a postmaster general appointment by the GOP) USPS isn’t who you want in charge of upholding democracy.

Sounds good in theory, but not when you consider that exactly the groups that the GOP want to stop from voting have local post offices that are effectively unusable for the vast majority due to being open only a few hours a year.

obtaining proof of citizenship should be free and simple to obtain from every municipality, state and federal office

If it was, Republicans would just find another way to suppress the vote. This isn’t about citizenship or the integrity of the electoral process. It’s about the GOP knowing that the fewer people vote, the better for their fascist and therefore unpopular party.

whether it’s necessary to have proof of citizenship in order to able to vote. of course you should. everyone should.

That’s already in place, though. When voting, you have to supply your name, address and voter registration.

If no citizen with that name is registered to that address, you don’t get to vote.

It’s a pernicious lie that people in any significant number is able or even attempting to vote without indirectly proving their citizenship and even requiring “free and simple” (which it probably won’t be to some people anyway) direct proof will suppress the vote whether that’s your attention or not.

we spend so much political bandwidth on a loser of an issue, year in, year out, for decades

Because currently there’s no consequences for Republican politicians and their media echo chamber willfully misleading the people with their lies. In fact, the corrupt system encourages it.

Ceding ground to their demagoguery doesn’t make it go away. They’ll just have that more power to suppress the vote in additional ways.

something we should be pushing for too.

Nope. See above.

the poll tax argument no longer holds weight

It VERY much does. Any unnecessary obstacle to voting is undemocratic in the same way as a poll tax is and requiring direct proof of something you’re already indirectly proven is unnecessary.

no matter how much you whine about the smallest percentage of the smallest percentage of people who find themselves disenfranchised by the requirement

You VASTLY underestimate the number of people for whom voting is already unnecessarily difficult and who will be at a greater risk of not being able to justify the cost of voting the more obstacles are thrown in their way.

Especially when you consider that in person voter fraud is so rare as to be statistically nonexistent and is never non eligible people trying to vote.

That you display your ignorance in a supremely condescending way doesn’t help either.

the amount of support republicans get from this, as in issue that makes logical sense, doesn’t add up.

It does when you consider how effective lying their ass off is in the current system.

They aren’t right about any of this. They just have the money and media echo chamber to get their point repeated so much that impressionable people such as yourself are fooled into thinking that they are.

Because a government shutdown could permanently destroy the lives of people who are dependent on the government to function, stave off homelessness, or even survive.

a month or 2 of crappiness is nothing compared to years of a Trump presidency.

On the surface, you’re right.

However, to some people, that month or two of pay could be the difference between having a home or not and, depending on where in the country they live, that could be permanent or even deadly.

I agree with you that Trump and his fascist cult MUST be stopped, but we still need to be careful not to irreparably harm innocents in the process…

…did you just have a stroke in the middle of a strawman argument?

The only way that they’re not right of center is in relation to the GOP. Do you have ANY idea how much farther right than the policy positions of the greater population the media’s Overton window has drifted in recent decades?

One party’s LITERALLY fascist and the other one’s close enough to willingly negotiate with it on everything.

The Dem leadership is DEFINITELY right of center and so is the pro-cop pro-Israel pro- corporate billionaire-owned media.

Just because conservative Democrats are the leftmost option offered in elections where the other candidate is a fascist or an anarcho-capitalist doesn’t mean that they’re left of center.

At first read, I thought that the Trump campaign had flagged the FBI as a major government contractor and thus part of the Deep State 😄

Also, given the state of Twitter now, this is the part I find hardest to believe:

the comment did not go over well

MSNBC, CNN, NYT, WaPo and Politico, to name just a few examples, are usually joined at the hip with the Center Right to Right wing Dem leadership and when they disagree with them, it’s usually to go further right.

I haven’t checked MBFC, the hobby of a right wing Zionist masquerading as an authority i bias and fact checking lately, but I’d be very surprised if it didn’t still pretend that all of those are center Left to Left.

It wasn’t pedantry, it was a (poor) attempt at humor lol

When I get pedantic for real, it’s MUCH more annoying and I usually stop myself before hitting send 😁

That’s what some of us (including FAIR) have been saying FOR NINE FUCKING YEARS!

But do the Enlightened Centrists with their cult of civility towards murderers and rapists listen? Of COURSE not! 🤦🤬

I’m not sure that proto-Elamite and Sumerian civilizations using cylinder seals to certify documents written in clay tablets was that outrageous…

Yes.

That reminds me of how Stephen Fry would stop homophobes from beating him up in school:

He’d use their homophobia to his advantage by loudly saying “stop! Stop! I’m getting an erection!”

The WNBA rookie was the toast of the right-wing media earlier this year after an on-court showdown with her old NCAA nemesis Angel Reese. Clark came out to denounce the likes of Fox News and Barstool Sports’ Dave Portnoy for using her as a pawn in the culture wars, saying it was “unacceptable,” but she has always kept quiet about her political affiliations until now.

Huh, the fascists celebrating a female athlete? Sounds suspicious… I wonder if it’s racism…

Yup! 🤦

Good on her for putting them in their place when it would have been so much easier to betray her principles by keeping quiet! ✊

This is not the face and posture of a happy man who’s confident that he’s chosen the right side 😄

And conservative Democrats, which is most of the ones in Washington.

If they’re going to use the “but what would Republicans do?” excuse for preserving the filibuster and pretending that the word of an unelected clerk is final on raising the minimum wage, you can bet your bottom dollar that they will on impeaching SCOTUS judges.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m 100% on AOC’s side here. I just don’t trust right wing demagogues from both parties to not be in the way of justice like they almost always are.

Ignoring reality doesn’t change it

It doesn’t directly change REAL reality, but it sure as hell changes the political reality.

At which point the tail wags the dog and the lie becomes reality because the billionaire-owned media says so.

That’s how Trump and his fascist sycophants ever got within cheating distance of high public office.

either “great place” or “where fertile land is abundant”

So…first impressions pretty positive?

We now go live to the official reaction of the American Fascist Party: