Either John Cornyn is an idiot or he thinks you are
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Either John Cornyn is an idiot or he thinks you are
Kerry Eleveld for Daily Kos Daily Kos Staff 2-3 minutes
It doesn't get any more dimwitted than this. Last week, Sen. John Cornyn of Texas claimed that Democrats' focus on protecting the right to vote was in response to a " manufactured crisis ."
To support that claim, he pointed to a Pew Research Center poll conducted just after the November 2020 presidential election that found more than nine in 10 voters said it was easy to vote in the election.
"More than nine-in-ten voters (94%) say that voting in the election this November was either very easy (77%) or somewhat easy (17%), while just 6% say that voting was very or somewhat difficult," Cornyn tweeted , quoting an excerpt from the Pew report.
Several hours later, Cornyn managed to finish his thought.
"Democrats claim there's a nationwide assault on the right to vote, but 94% of voters said voting was easy in 2020. This is a manufactured crisis designed to achieve political gain," tweeted Cornyn .
Seriously, how stupid does this guy think voters are? Sure, the GOP base is living in an alternate universe, but there's no need to convince them using a Pew poll. They'll soak up any old slop they're served.
Instead, the tweet seemed aimed at slightly swingier voters—an attempt to sell them on the idea that Democrats are making stuff up.
Only Pew was talking about 2020, and the GOP's nationwide assault on voting rights began in the wake of 2020, precisely because Joe Biden flipped states that hadn't gone for a Democrat in decades.
So the Pew poll of 2020 holds no relevance whatsoever to the fact that GOP-led states have since passed a tidal wave of bills that seek to subvert the will of the voters.
That means Cornyn is either daft, or he's grown accustomed to the idea that voters are stupid and will believe anything you tell them. That may be true of the GOP base and Trump cultists, but it isn't true for some 60% of the country.
How embarrassing.
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I was thinking the same thing as soon as I heard the Republicans say it was easy to vote in 2020. We arent concerned about 2020, we are concerned about 2022 and beyond.
Cornyn is correct, just a bunch of Chicken Little-like screeching by Democrats, promising to protect voters from something or other undefined.
Of course he's correct. Stop gaslighting
Ah c'mon give John a break! After all "everyone is saying" that he is an Atheistic, Devil worshipping Socialist!
/sarcasm
No wait-- that was actually Double Sarcasm...with a cherry on top!
Sometimes some of the comments on Social Media Sites are are so incredibly stupid that it really difficult to respond to them in a serious way 😳
I'm glad you understand why I so rarely bother responding to you and why you constantly have to reply to yourself because no one else does.
The man is an idiot and so are the people who elected him.
The idiot at least knows what is in the Texas voting law; which makes it a hell of a lot more lenient than Biden's home state.
Democrats need to take care of their own bastions of stupidity in regards to ease of voting. But we all know Democrats are the, "Do what we say, not what we do", party.
Democrats are scared shitless about 2022. They look at the polls and see Republican now have a five point advantage in party identification (largest since a 5 point lead in 1995) and know the chickens are coming to roost after going full wingnut left this year. Knowing their voter base isn't smart, they are laying the groundwork to question the legitimacy of the 2022 elections. The puppet masters hyperventilate about JIm Crow and voter suppression, knowing their base of unthinking parrots and and their friends in the media will push the fake narrative. So when they lose Congress, it wasn't because of their own disastrous choices, its because the election was stolen.
As you've demonstrated, it takes two minutes of comparing state voting laws to realize just how fraudulent this argument is.