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A MAGA senator got relentlessly mocked on social media for making a bizarre claim about shoveling snow in a deep-blue city.
Alabama Sen. Katie Britt, 44, used New York Citys snow as an example of why Americans should support the SAVE Act, a controversial measure that would require proof of citizenship for voter registration and largely scrap mail-in ballots in elections.
We want to make sure that Americans have faith in their elections, she said on Capitol Hill on Thursday. We want to make sure that they are free, fair, and secure. If Americans dont have faith, it undermines the very pillars that hold up our democracy. And we know the best way to do that is to require ID.
She went on to list examples of situations where Americans would need an ID, which, according to her, includes shoveling snow in New York City.
You cant rent a home, you cant go to work, you cant shovel snow in New York City without an ID, she said. So Im pretty sure as we look to try to achieve the American dream, whether thats getting insurance, whether thats getting a car, whether thats signing your kid up for school, you need an ID.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-senator-katie-britt-torched-over-totally-bonkers-claim-about-id-mandate-for-new-york-city-snow-shovelers/
Southern senators ond congresscritters writing the book on stupid.....
Wednesdays
(22,505 posts)Fox News-watching Alabamans will just nod their heads and say, "Oh yeah, of course!"
underpants
(196,297 posts)That program hired temporary snow shovelers in severe weather, and, thanks to federal employment laws, required two forms of identification as the job pays up to $30 an houra living wage Britt and her fellow Republicans are unfamiliar with. You can shovel all the snow you want in the city without an IDyou just wont get paid by City Hall.
https://newrepublic.com/post/208010/republican-senator-britt-cant-shovel-snow-nyc-without-id
markodochartaigh
(5,497 posts)Americans dont have faith, it undermines the very pillars that hold up our democracy."
And that is why the Republicans have been working for decades to undermine faith in democracy here in the US.
Ferrets are Cool
(22,918 posts)Omnipresent
(7,427 posts)I just hate having to get permission to any little thing, because it usually involves a fee.
As George Carlin once said, You cant back out of your driveway in NJ without some jerk**f wanting you to pay a toll.