🚨 BREAKING — IT’S OFFICIAL: President Trump has SIGNED an executive order RESTRICTING the use of mail-in ballots nationwide
This SHOULD go into effect before the 2026 midterm elections
A temporary measure until the SAVE America Act is passed! 🇺🇸🔥
@CenterLefty13@Eman_8282 The Trump supporter in this case would be the coworker that is doing the driving with his or her own car without asking their coworker to pay anything for the fuel.
@Garyhelms55@Eman_8282 In my world, it’s the opposite. The liberals wouldn’t get in the car without paying for gas and the MAGAts would light a cigarette without asking if it’s ok.
Yesterday's Pentagon prayer service was held during the workday, live-streamed on Pentagon TV. Hegseth entered with his wife and sat with their children sat in the front row. Other families were in attendance.
The invited pastor also brought his family. Hegseth greeted the pastor's wife by name from the podium and noted the pastor's kids in the room.
This is the U.S. Secretary of Defense hosting what appears to be a family church gathering in a federal building on a Wednesday morning.
Let's talk about dental insurance for a minute.
Medicare doesn't cover dental, which is completely insane. I can go in for a medical procedure tomorrow that costs $120,000, and they'll cover it, but they don't cover a tooth extraction?
That aside, I looked into private insurance for dental.
They wanted $33 a month, with a $35 down payment, and then a $150 deductible for $1,000 in coverage a year.
So that means they want me to pay them $500 a year for $1,000 in coverage.
I mean, that's completely insane. You can't get any serious dental work done for $1,000!
Why would anyone in their right mind do that?
This video breaks my heart.
Kids used to walk home from school.
Without fear. Without phones. Without trackers.
They walked to the grocery store and carried groceries home.
Rode bikes and played.
They left in the morning and came home when the streetlights came on.
Nobody called. Nobody texted. Nobody pinged a location.
Mom knew they were alive because they walked in the door starving at 6PM.
They built forts out of scrap wood in the woods behind the house.
They dug holes.
They climbed trees.
They fell out of trees.
They got stitches and learned something.
They played baseball in the cul-de-sac until somebody broke a window. Then they ran. Then they came back and knocked on the door. Then they worked it off mowing the neighbor's lawn.
They walked to the corner store with a dollar. Bought a Coke, a bag of chips, and a pack of baseball cards.
They knew every neighbor on the block.
The mean one.
The nice one.
The one who baked.
The one whose porch you didn't cut across.
They had paper routes at 10.
They babysat at 12.
They worked summers at 14.
They bought their first car with their own money at 16.
They read books.
They wrote letters (in cursive!!!)
They memorized phone numbers.
They knew how to read a map.
They were bored sometimes, maybe even bored a lot, actually.
And out of that boredom came imagination, invention, mischief, and a whole life of knowing how to entertain themselves.
They ate dinner at a table.
With their family.
At the same time.
Every night.
Phones weren't there because phones were on the wall.
They watched 3 channels.
They watched them TOGETHER.
They argued about what to watch, and then they watched whatever Dad picked.
They went to church on Sunday.
They lost games and didn't get a trophy.
They failed tests and didn't get a retake.
They got cut from the team and went home and got better.
They had chores.
Mow the lawn.
Take out the trash.
Feed the dog.
Not for an allowance. Because they lived there.
They respected their teachers.
They stood when an adult walked in the room.
They said sir.
They said ma'am.
They meant it.
They had one best friend and five good ones and a whole neighborhood of kids who could knock on the door.
Not a thousand followers. Not a group chat.
A door.
They grew up.
And somewhere along the way, we decided all of that was unsafe.
So we took it away.
While not ok, there's now a 12% gross, 29% net difference between Democrat vote percentage and house reps in Texas. Meaning that 7 out of every 10 Democrats get a Democrat representative.
In Virginia, there's now a 38% gross, 80% net difference in Republican vote percentage. Meaning only 2 out if every 10 Republicans get a Republican representative.
These aren't even close to apples to apples.
Can conservatives from the US explain to me why the VA gerrymander (which was approved by voters) is not OK, while the one in TX and others in the South are? Please make a serious, good-faith effort. No German random posters please.
PS: I think all gerrymandering is bad.
@MeghanMcCain After Republicans rigged the election in Texas so poor people and democrat’s voices don’t count, this is defending democracy.
Can you be intellectually honest?
How is it "defending democracy" when you're cutting up a state to rig elections so poor people and republicans voices don't count?
This is literally the kind of thing that starts civil wars - EXPLAIN TO ME HOW IT IS "DEFENDING DEMOCRACY"?!?
The Virginia Redistricting Ballot Initiative ended up being closer than predicted, but having Scott Presler in town campaigning against it helped push Democrats over the top. Thank you Scott!