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Trump says he plans unconstitutional executive order to mandate ID for voters
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 31 Aug 2025
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Can he just go back to being dead?
that photo is from tuesday. not sure he ain't
He can fuck on off. That’s up to the States.
And admission to the capital is up to the don now.
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I like the way the headline implies that he openly admitted that the order would be unconstitutional.
He'll be dead before the next election.
Bet your house on it.
No thanks, betting against this man hasn't worked out for me yet, and I'm much too poor to spare the roof over my head when reality bends over backwards to appease this man again.
You guys own houses?
I do but only by right of conquest. Or whatever it's called when your parents die and leave you the house they had their parents help them get.
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House owning guys are betting on shit,,get in
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Grant imahara who actually had something to give to this world died in his '50s unexpectedly from an aneurysm.
Don't bet your fucking life on it with how karma doesn't work
Yeah, because there won't be another election while that shit stain is still alive
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Cool, and he also will release the unredacted Epstein files like he promised.
Only if we beat it from him like a pinata.
Why not both?
So sick of just one fucking asshole in this country able to torment millions of us.
The use of executive orders to rule by decree is itself unconstitutional.
Um, so this IS the party of "small government", yes?
Hey Donny, that's great and all, but where are the Epstein files? Inquiring minds need to know!
You don't have to have proof of identity to vote in the US?
In states that do not require an ID, you still need to present a document with your name. It is then compared with the voter registration database. The argument against requiring an ID is that ID's aren't free in the US, which can cause a financial hurdle for many.
Sounds like a solution would be some sort of national ID card provided for free?
Republicans and conservatives, historically, have been the biggest opponents of a national ID because they don't want the federal government tracking them or asserting any control over anything.
Until trump, anyway...
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Yes, but that would actually be a good thing so it's never happened.
And there's additional hurdles for more targeted populations, like access to the place that gives you the ID, and the capacity to prove your ID to that place with specific documents that may ormay not exist. It's on purpose.
Heck, personal ID is not free in my country, either (I paid 43€ for a renewal last week), but it is mandatory, so everyone has it. Americans could do it even cheaper if they wanted.
With so low levels of identity proof in the US, don't complain about identity theft. Here, you simply can't open a bank account with just an SSN drawn from the darknet and a self-printed electricity bill. Having a proper ID has many uses, way beyond identifying for your right to vote.
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EOs arnt laws.. Congress still has to make them into laws.
There's the legal tactic of: do now and ask for forgiveness never. It works really well when there are no legal consequences.
Yup, flood the courts and demand appeals whenever judges block things. The goal is to overwhelm the system in the short term. While judges and lawyers are busy setting court dates that are weeks away, the regime will carry on as if the EO is legal.
But it isn't even a legal tactic. EOs mean nothing. They are not laws.
They obviously mean something until they are stuck down, and even then...
It works really well when there are no legal consequences.
There are other consequences than legal ones.
none so far i would say.
Papers please
Glory to Arstotzka.
I have. Is all good, yes?
I Will Be Doing An Executive Order
President of the United States.
Trump is way too fucking lazy to press the shift key before every word. I just do not believe that he writes his own tweets. I'd like to see just one video of him visibly typing out a tweet that is then published. I'd bet that if you cross-referenced when his tweets are posted with his golf schedule, you'd find that at least some of them are written by somebody else.
Can we 100% confirmed that Donny actually made this statement and that it wasn’t a body double? And also RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES.
This was the plan for the "Real ID" all along
Also there will be underwear inspections and all underwear must now be worn on the outside of pants.
I'm very ill.
He does care fuck if it is "legal" or "constitutional". Those terms do no longer exist as criteria.
I can't see California ever enforcing this
And admission to the capital is up to the don now.
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