
Keep Calm and Load Sabot
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Keep Calm and Load Sabot
@FoggyBottomLine
Politics, Economics, and Other Silly Things. Old Army photo does not mean the US Army or Department of Defense endorses the opinions expressed here.





Trump approval is now below where he was in his first term. But views of Dems are worse than they were in 2018; definite need to try to come up with ways to do a "new look." natesilver.net/p/trump-approv…


The reality is there's mass amounts of cheating in our elections. Just because there's an engineered lack of data, does not mean there isn't data to the contrary. The new CBS/YouGov poll shows that 80% of Americans support Voter ID including 80% of black Americans & 77% of Hispanic Americans. Yet why is it that Congress seems so intractable to wanting to pass a such a popular policy?











The Top 1% of U.S. earners now have more wealth than the entire middle class


Why are zero women in the top 10 chess players ever? Why are ~95% of inventors, founders, and Nobel Prize winners men? Why are ~90% of prisoners and ~75% of homeless men? Same reason: men have greater variability in everything - IQ, aggression, risk appetite, ambition, trust, occupational interest, etc. Chart: @DavidMaywald







LET'S SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT If you value facts, pay attention. 1) As of January 2026, 35 states require voters to present an ID containing a photograph in order to vote **AT THE POLLS** on Election Day. The remaining states do not require voters to present ID in order to vote **AT THE POLLS** on Election Day. But EVERY STATE requires some form of verification to vote **DURING REGISTRATION.** EVERY State has voter registration processes that establish a voter's identity and eligibility before Election Day either through presenting an ID during registration, or through the DMV, or through the Social Security Administration, or some other method like passports. 2) BOTH the Illegal Immigration Reform & Immigrant Responsibility Act and 18 U.S.Code § 611 state that it is unlawful for a NONCITIZEN to vote in federal elections. According to the Brennan Center For Justice: Voter fraud, and fraud incident rates, are between 0.0003% and 0.0025%. Non-citizen voter fraud accounted for 0.0001%. 3) There's a federal resource data base implemented in 1987 administered by U.S Citizenship and Immigration Services, called the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (or SAVE) for the purposes of verifying that voter registration applicants are citizens. SAVE was originally intended to verify eligibility for government benefits, such as Medicaid. SAVE is not a database of people who are U.S. citizens, but it will show a person's immigration or citizenship status. 4) According to the Heritage Foundation regarding election conduct, as of October 2024, their data shows only 77 confirmed cases of noncitizens voting from 1999-2023 (about 3 per year on average). That's 77 noncitizens voting in the span of 24 years. A study conducted by the Brennan Center for Justice found that out of 23.5 million votes cast across 42 jurisdictions in the 2016 general election - there were approximately only 30 instances of noncitizens casting votes. 5) The National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) of 1993 ordered states to register voters at the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) and agencies where Americans apply for public benefits — and those offices are REQUIRED BY FEDERAL LAW to hand over registration forms along with application papers. Meaning, a noncitizen cannot simply register to vote without going through the process and being discovered and vetted. 6) This NVRA system automatically registers eligible U.S. citizens to vote or updates their existing registration when they apply for or renew a driver's license, instruction permit, or state-issued ID card through the Department of Motor Vehicle (DMV). NVRA registration *ONLY* occurs if the applicant provides DMV with documentation affirming U.S. citizenship (U.S. birth certificate, passport, or naturalization certificate) during the license application or renewal. DMV reviews the documents from current and previous transactions to verify this. If no such proof is provided, the applicant's information is NOT forwarded to the Secretary of State's office for voter registration. _________________________________ ALL OF THIS to simply say — voter fraud is extremely rare and non-citizen voter fraud is practically non-existent. That's not to say it never happens. But that IS TO SAY that it happens on such a minuscule scale that it would never effect the outcome of ANY election. With that said.... The SAVE Act is just Trump's and Republicans attempt to influence upcoming elections with their scare tactics and immigrant boogeyman. It's a voter suppression bill and voter intimidation/influence attempt. And the very fact that they are trying to pass the SAVE Act before the November midterms only proves this point.









