Trump’s version of Mao’s Cultural Revolution? Different messaging than Mao, of course.
Did you have a passport? Did you get the passport by using your birth certificate?
Wait, weren’t you the person who thought this was easy and everyone should be able to do it, no problem? Am i confusing you with someone else?
Do you really think that’s difficult? Now she has all the documentation she needs, so she’ll just go down to DMV and get the Real ID. Getting your name added to a utility bill isn’t a huge deal.
She was born in a different country, and legally changed her name twice. The only issue she had was that her name wasn’t on the utility bill. IMO, that’s an easy fix.
I just checked the site again, and it appears they didn’t stop allowing appointments, they just get booked extremely quickly because the deadline is coming up where you’ll need it to travel.
If it’s easy for me, it’s easy for everybody else. They should use their PTO (or just leave work while being paid, their employer would probably let them), put gas into their vehicle, drop the kid off at daycare and drive to the DMV if they want to vote.
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Assuming the person who has been paying the bills is okay contacting the utility and asking them to put another name on the bill, and the utility spells it right without too many tries.
Sure, totally trivial. Anyone should be able to jump through those hoops.
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I got it on the first try, because as male born in the US that owns a house and pays all the bills it was incredibly easy for me to get together what I needed.
You literally just pointed out how someone who was not that failed and subsequently relied on you to fix the situation for them.
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I have to say the one time I had to get a name added to a utility bill (can’t remember why, but it was something like getting a passport) it was pretty easy.
Going to the DMV is hit or miss. sometimes it’s a pain, sometimes it’s easy. No need to leave the kid at daycare, they can come along. Make sure to pack some snacks. I could see it being difficult if you literally can’t afford to get off work, though. That can be solved by mandatory time off for voting like in some places. Or by having some opening hours on the weekend like my state is doing.
Seriously, it’s not much to expect people to maintain one or 2 pieces of paper that they need to prove they are a citizen in case they want to do something like voting or working or some such. Obviously there is a point where it gets to be too much effort and expense so we’ll see if it feels like we are getting there. Jim Crow was real. No impossible tests are being set for only minority members of the population yet though.
That said, I don’t think you need a piece of paper to just roam. don’t want policemen getting in the habit of stopping you and saying “papers please” like a hundred years ago in some totalitarian regimes.
If you’re skin is white you’re still good to roam. If it’s brown, watch out for masked ice agents eager to kidnap you to another state for processing…
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I posted this in the ICE thread, but it belongs here too.
https://community.goactuary.com/t/ice-ice-baby/9945/179?u=arthuritas
Not clear if this US attorney was fired for old mean tweets or prosecuting a Trump fan, but he was fired for one of the 2
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The bolded is very much true.
https://www.ft.com/content/15cc7dc7-c78a-42c8-b166-29755836335a?shareType=nongift
Pretty sad when the former president of Doctors Without Borders is viewed negatively.
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The US has effectively turned into a police state.
Reminds me of:
A big difference from the 50s is that Russia is now a friend. The Rosenbergs wouldn’t be fried in 2025.
My FIL was a victim of McCarthyism so am glad he is not around for Trump presidency. He would be apoplectic.
I think that a lot of Americans are under the impression that those things don’t happen here. Only in lesss developed countries
Trump is already indicating that he intends to run for a 3rd time (totally against the Constitution of course)
If Americans don’t wise up fast…they are going to be find themselves trapped in a hellish right-wing police state where freedom of speech is virtually non-existent.
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Until college I’d had the idea drilled into me that - obviously America can’t exist indefinitely for the next 10,000 years, but for my lifetime at least, America will clearly remain a stable and globally cooperative country with a wide network of allies.
We’re watching the US choose to instead become an isolationist, harshly transactional nation.
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I think if I was a foreign national traveling to the US now, I’d get a burner phone
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Definitely leaning towards it.