You have to hand it to Temu Obama, otherwise known as House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. His inability to read a room and grasp reality is practically unrivaled.
There he was, just the other day, proving the claim I just made about him when he said that minorities like him don’t have the wherewithal, gumption, or intelligence to get themselves a gubbermint ID so they can vote.
That’s oppression, you see. Racism with a capital “R.” Just plain wrong for a bunch of other equally bigoted reasons.
Or something like that.
“We know that states are the ones empowered to conduct elections. And every state should be allowed to decide the best way to proceed to ensure that there’s a free and fair election in New York,” he said as he railed against a national voter ID requirement. “What Republicans are trying to do is engage in clear and blatant voter suppression.”
That’s a blatant lie, of course, but then there’s also this big, ol’ fact: The vast majority of all Americans – white, black, Latino, Asian, you name it – from both parties believe our country should step into the 20th century and require an ID to vote:
Hey Hakeem, aren’t you supposed to be representing your constituents? They obviously want this. So you should want this because that’s how this ‘representative republic’ thing works.
But okay, let’s be clear and honest here: It’s not Republicans who thwart the will of the people over voter ID, it’s Democrats, and we know why: They are the ones who use any and all means they can to steal elections.
Voter registration rolls around the country are notoriously (and illegally) out of date, and Democrats know that. So mail-in ballots go out willy nilly to the names on these lists and they are often illegally marked and sent back in, thereby skewing election results. In Democrats’ favor, of course.
Voter ID requirements, along with curbing mail-in ballots, suppress cheating.
By the way, remember that time when Word Salad Kamala claimed that, you know, ‘rural folks’ and stuff ain’t got no way to really comply with voter ID requirements:
“I don’t think that we should underestimate what that could mean, because in some people’s minds, that means, well, you’re going to have to xerox or photocopy your ID to send it in to prove you are who you are. Well, there are a whole lot of people, especially people who live in rural communities, there’s no Kinkos, there’s no OfficeMax near them. People have to understand that when we’re talking about voter ID laws, be clear about who you have in mind and what would be required of them to prove who they are.
“Of course, people have to prove who they are. But not in a way that makes it almost impossible for them to prove who they are.”
In other words, this is the Democrat line: “Of course I believe in voter ID. But I really don’t.”
Not all Democrats are this tone-deaf on the issue:
Thank you for some Democrat sanity, Sen. Fetterman.