So you know that huge terrifying black man we told you about, who is harassing old white ladies by opening the door for them? That’s called “voter intimidation,” and it’s practiced by minorities and the United Nations and tricky Democrats, because they don’t want to play by the rules, they can’t help it, they’re just awful people.
Far more awful, for example, than the upstanding Republicans of Allegheny County, Pa., who are so patriotic they showed up to polling places this morning to enforce laws that don’t even exist!
What’s all this about, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review?
An Allegheny County judge on Tuesday issued an order to halt electioneering outside a polling location in Homestead.
County officials received a complaint shortly before 10 a.m. Tuesday that Republicans outside a polling location on Maple Street in Homestead were stopping people outside the polls and asking for identification.
Wait, you mean strangers can’t just show up places and demand identification from people? I’m sorry, I thought this was America. They’re only trying to help! In Pennsylvania, they need photo IDs to vote, right?
voters need not show identification for this year’s election.
Ohh. So they’re just outside, scaring people away, because they don’t want them to vote, in the name of liberty. Buncha nice folks, they are, over there on Maple Street. WAY nicer than those other people, who show up with their berets and slam-dunking and leather gloves, to make sure people get to vote. Those guys are the worst.
[Tribune-Review via ThinkProgress]
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Always glad to see my hometown make the news!
Go Stillers! (Pittsburgh native here, living in LA now but still loyal to the hometown.)
Also, did you see this gem from the Post-Gazette? Mittens is so confident of getting the PA vote that he is hiding from voters!
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is scheduled to arrive at the Pittsburgh International Airport for his final stop of the campaign this afternoon, but supporters of the former Massachusetts governor hoping to catch a glimpse of him might be disappointed because his appearance will not be public.
Mr. Romney is scheduled to arrive at 3:20 p.m. at Atlantic Aviation Services and his arrival is only open to members of the press. From there, he will be whisked away in a motorcade.
His campaign declined to say where he was going.
http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/local/neighbo…
But they were White, right?
And their shirts: brown.
Why do UPS drivers hate America?
They see a lot of it.
So many parcels… of hate.
Well, that makes sense. Familiarity breeds contempt, right?
Did you mean White is Right? Because, yes.
The voters? Or the votees?
They'd better be careful. Some of those voters they're trying to card may be packing 2nd Amendment remedies with them.
Surveyor's Marks Libel!!!!!!1111111
bra-VO!
Jesus fuck. What's next? Cavity searches?
I assume the Republicans' next move will be to burn the Reichstag…
Except you know what Marx said about repeating history, right?
“History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.”
You know who else quotes Marx?
Too late.
I kid. Sort of.
In Germany, of course. Following in the footsteps of their dear Decider by invading the wrong country.
Bill Kristol libel!
Lindsey Graham might enjoy that.
DENTISTRY IS THEFT!
DON'T give them any ideas… *clenches buttocks*
DNA analysis to prove northern European ancestry.
Thank you for specifying northern. We don't want this country to become like Greece!
Or anywhere around the Mediterranean or, God forbid, the Irish.
Reacharounds for Justice!
This report needs way more tasing and pepper spray from those that were harassed.
And way more arrests of the harassers.
I hope the Dems send Mr T to Fairfax County, VA.
Your move, Arizona.
The Pittsburgh Stealers.
Dear Republicans, We don't want your country back.
Especially after defeating it in 1945…
Republicans are dicks. Republicans are asaholes. You can't explain it
There's a joke in here about dicks going in to assholes, dicks coming out of assholes. Who can explain it?
Sure you can!
The P-E-N-I-S goes in the anus, see, and…
That's going to be one of those things that ranks right up there with Bush getting the shoe thrown at him.
Not enough black panther to go around.
Today, we are all Black Panthers, muthafucka
I looked it up in my official "Whitey Wannabe a Black Panther" manual, and it is "Muhfuckah".
Of course, the GOP has it that Dems tried to de-certify a bunch of kind old ladies…(Rich, check out Memeorandum, specifically Butt Rocket)
Interestingly, those asking for ID were unwilling to provide their own dental records…well, they really didn't need to, since they only had the one tooth and all…
Ver are your papers?
Damn you, sir!
Uh, all I got is this pipe, man.
$10,000 bet they were demanding to see birf certificates.
Probably just a misunderstanding.
Republicans to minorities: "Papers, please!"
Do they not see the irony?
Why do you think they've been screaming voter intimidation/fraud for the last few months. They were just letting us know what they planned to do.
Dangit, now we can't say they didn't warn us.
Has Romney forfeited yet? Has anybody heard anything?
Rumor has it Willard has booked the Ritz Carlton Grand Cayman for his concession speech.
Gasp.
White people intimidating voters? Unpossible!
So this is why Mittens suddenly thinks he has a shot at winning Pennsylvania!
I'm so freaked out right now. If I didn't have an exam in Equine nutrition tomorrow I'd take some happy pills wake up Friday to see how things turned out. Instead I find myself freaking out about the fact that Romney is winning this sample size of 3 voters.
I say we institute a rhythm test for the next election. If you can't do the electric slide, you clearly don't deserve to vote.
If you don't say "mayo" is your favorite topping, you can't vote. If you have never shopped at Eddie Bauer, you can't vote. If you are a reasonable dancer, you can't vote.
I hope the patriotic Pennsylvanian voters "stood their ground" – in all possible senses…
This is so unexpected. REPUBLICANS intimidating VOTERS! Unbelievable! I do believe I have the vapors! Someone fetch my smelling salts and fainting couch forthwith!
If I get through today without throwing up (before I drink a shitload of booze after work tonight that is), it will be a fucking Christmas miracle.
My wife is so fired up she was hoping for someone to challenge her right to vote so she could cockpunch them. I told her that living in the Liberaltown neighborhood of Liberal City in the State of Solid Blue that it was probably not going to happen. She'll get over it.
Still, she gets a gold star for the thought… :0)
this is EXACTLY me. (rahm's old district in chicago AND i voted two weeks ago.)
i am going out in a little while just to see if i can find some bagger trouble somewhere.
Give 'em hell!
LOL, I can see you putting on your studded black leather jacket and your boots with the knife that sticks out of the toe.
the Liberaltown neighborhood of Liberal City in the State of Solid Blue
We must be neighbors! The view is lovely from here.
Actually, we're not neighbors because I'm in an all-mail ballot state, so there's simply no outlet for voter suppression or cockpunching voter suppressors.
I'm the same way. Here in Cambridge, MA I will never get to have my Norma Rae moment.
She and I should join up with Dust Bowl and kick some ass!
All of you are reverse racists!!!!11!!
We learned it from Obama!
"I learned it from you dad!! I LEARNED IT FROM YOU!!"
I guess they're protecting democracy the same way they protected marriage — by leaving it to the drooling, incompetent hypocrites.
I guess standing outside the polling areas asking people to pay their poll taxes in cash wasn't exactly legal either.
But at least it makes sense from a criminal perspective–you get some money and it is a lot easier than selling sub-prime mortgages or breaking into houses.
But selling sub-prime mortgages and breaking into houses aren't illegal (for banks).
As long as you studied for your citizenship test, you'll be okay!
They are lucky I am not in PA. I would not have reacted in a civilized manner if someone was doing that outside of my polling place. I'm not above making a grown man cry sad, shameful tears.
Yeah, a broken nose does hurt quite a bit.
A smack to the 'nads would certainly make me tear up
Instead to telling them to get lost they should throw their asses in jail – for a year or two. Why not, we toss people in jail for way less. Send a message of sorts to not screw with the voting process.
Four years and a day … just to be sure they don't do it again.
Homestead? As in the Homestead Strike? Aw, poor rethugs miss their Pinkertons.
Republicans are afraid of non-existent Democratic voter fraud, merely because they know it would get in the way of their elaborate plans to conduct voter fraud and intimidation.
A pretty obvious case of "Guilty speaks first."
Didn't want any Dems horning in on their action
Calm down you bunch of whine babies.
They've already apologised if anyone was offended.
And yep, I've checked the headlines over at a few of the wingnuttiest sites and it's all "NEW BLACK PANTHERS!!". All because of one guy, just standing there. They really are losing their minds.
Snark off: Vote rigging, voting machine tampering, voter intimidatoin ALL should be considered treason as the goal of the tampering process is to install a regime not elected by the people.
Choosing leaders to serve is an essential right and responsibility of citizens in the US. Impeding that right is a violation of civil rights. Anyone making ANY attempt to restrict that right should be arrested and put on trial for treason.
fucking ignorant inbred crackers…
And this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIOPw0Ewj4Q
This is also the reason why the Republicans have be screaming about the commies and the Soviet Union, they're just practicing.
If this stuff happened in Venezuela or Burkina Faso we'd be all superior, tut-tutting about banana republics and Third World dictatorships.
Truly. Once again, the GOP has managed to shame America before the entire world.
The voting machines in Venezuela have a digital thumb print reader and their national IDs serve as voter registration cards. It is us who are backwards when it comes to elections.
Yeah, but Venezuela is a COMMIE DICTATORSHIP because the people elected a Prez that the 1% don't like.
This comment deleted because PsycWench was four minutes faster to the keyboard.
It's always more challenging after the all the low-hanging fruit has been picked. Go for it, you've got a good one in you, I know it.
The exchange between the Rethug harassers and the voters should be:
Rethug: If you are going to vote I need to see some identification.
Voter: Are you a police officer?
Rethug: No, but…
Voter: Fuck You, Asshole.
Followed by, "Officer, please remove this asshole."
Who the fuck do these people think they are, freedom fighters in charge of everyone all the time? I hate hate hate people like this, it makes me want to, um, vote all over them. But I already did that, so now I feel like swinging.
I had to show ID twice today, once at the polling place and once to the nice police man who thought I was texting while driving – for once I was not and he let me go.
And I am sure you were the high point of that cops day and he is on the radio now talking about the hottie he pulled over.
"For once"???
Bumper sticker you need to see:
****HONK IF YOU LOVE JESUS****
TEXT IF YOU WANT TO MEET HIM
That's just an excuse to check you out from up close. My girlfriend gets stopped so often for no apparent reason that she's thinking about buying a hijab.
You're prolly lucky that "Driving While Texting" is not an offense.
Heh. It is up here.
Simple rules for voting, if confronted outside a polling place by anyone a simple FUCK YOU is the traditional response.
Meanwhile in Pennsylvania…
http://jezebel.com/5958108/oh-lovely-at-least-one…
What a bunch of acorns.
OT: Free new Walnuts avatar pic :
http://i.imgur.com/CrYSa.jpg
Put 'er there, Lindsey!
When fascism comes to America….&etc.
i bet this was my aunt and uncle.
According to Fox, these people are the real patriots and really, isn't disenfranchising voters what America is all about?
I posted this on an earlier thread but it appears a number of rightards are butt hurt because their 'poll watchers/workers' were ordered away from the poll locations in Philadelphis. Poor butt hurt ass holes.
http://twitchy.com/2012/11/06/gop-inspectors-repo…
That black panther pic is priceless.
It doesn't take too long to get to the racism in the comments. As a former Philly (and now suburban Philly voter) I wonder how many of these identified GOP Poll inspectors are state certified and how many are just loony right-wingers who just showed up to intimidate.
Those would be the ones demanding photo IDs from voters on the sidewalk? Fuck them… you don't need an ID to vote in PA.
Pittsburghers, help me out because it has been many years since I was in your fine city, but is not Homestead a majority-blah neighborhood?
Img & title text Extreme Win, Mr. Abdill.
Isn't this your invitation to drop your pants and offer to dangle your "identification" in the mouth of the tea bagger?
tea bagger : scrotum holster
Those fucking GOP assholes really have turned the vote in PA into a circus. We can only hope that Obama supporters are so pissed off that they'll have more stamina and determination than the teatards who created the mess.
These are the same people who are butthurt about UN election observers.
I saw some scary people outside a polling place in NYC
http://www.flickr.com/photos/13152388@N00/8161693…
You'll want to report that True the Vote. They have real live people waiting for your phone call. Info here:
http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2012/11/06/officer-p…
Those kids were so adorable, I asked them if they were for Mitt Romney and they looked appalled!
The West Village's version of the New Black Panthers. http://www.flickr.com/photos/13152388@N00/8161721…
I see someone in the background ordering a gang hit. That's what gangs do, right? With phones. *whispers* Black gangs.
SCARY!!!!!
Center City Philly aok!!
Oh, how I wanted my commonwealth to not make this kind of news today! I voted first thing this morning, and aside from the fact that only people with last names starting with A through L appear to be voting, everything was fine at my polling place outside Philadelphia.
Thank you, Wonkette, for keeping me sane. While this may be Election Day, my patience is wearing thin. Facebook is a sewer. Already got into an argument about the scary beret wearing Blahhhs and, not surprisingly, those who disagree with the Black Panther Poll Party are the same that want voter ID laws.
The irony hurts oh so much…
Yinz better not ask us for ID 'n'at or I'll make sure yinz get taken dahntahn! Go Stillers!
I remember back in the bad old days when everyone in my town voted in the courthouse. On primary day, both parties had tables in the center foyer, then Democrats went down the left hallway and Republicans down the right hall to mark their ballots (no kidding). The halls were still being traversed by people doing business in the courthouse while all that was going on. Never once did I get out without more than one person walking behind me and commenting "I didn't know we had any Democrats in this county.", or "They still let Democrats in here?" I was never particularly intimidated, just amazed at people's audacity.
How much does the Front of the Line pass cost? Or do you just show your 1040.
There was a gentleman this morning at the polling place asking if he needed to show id to vote. I said, "No, this is still America". people laughed.
I love how it says, ''voters need not show identification for THIS year’s election.'
Just wait, Pennsylvania. Just wait.
Papieren, bitte!
Nein. Scheren!
As a young cop in KCMo I stopped to check out a car with a man sleeping in it on the Highway. When I finally got him awake and out of the vehicle, I asked him for I. D. I guess his name was Dick, 'cause that's what he produced without a word.
Republicans do this and it is deemed that they are only ensuring that the voting process is not tainted by ineligible voters and patriotic or some other hooha, Dems do this and it is voter intimidation, unpatriotic and treasonous.
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