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Jilly_in_VA

(14,343 posts)
Fri Mar 20, 2026, 11:45 AM 17 hrs ago

MAGA Senator Torched Over Totally Bonkers Claim About Snow

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 City’s 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 don’t 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 can’t rent a home, you can’t go to work, you can’t shovel snow in New York City without an ID,” she said. “So I’m pretty sure as we look to try to achieve the American dream, whether that’s getting insurance, whether that’s getting a car, whether that’s 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.....

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MAGA Senator Torched Over Totally Bonkers Claim About Snow (Original Post) Jilly_in_VA 17 hrs ago OP
Consider their audience Wednesdays 17 hrs ago #1
NYC did require an ID but that's because they were hiring you to shovel snow underpants 17 hrs ago #2
"If markodochartaigh 17 hrs ago #3
Hey stupid ass....we already have voter ID in Alabama. We do not NEED a Save Act. So, please STFU. Ferrets are Cool 16 hrs ago #4
ID is one thing.. Omnipresent 14 hrs ago #5

Wednesdays

(22,505 posts)
1. Consider their audience
Fri Mar 20, 2026, 11:49 AM
17 hrs ago

Fox News-watching Alabamans will just nod their heads and say, "Oh yeah, of course!"

underpants

(196,297 posts)
2. NYC did require an ID but that's because they were hiring you to shovel snow
Fri Mar 20, 2026, 11:57 AM
17 hrs ago

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 hour—a living wage Britt and her fellow Republicans are unfamiliar with. You can shovel all the snow you want in the city without an ID—you just won’t get paid by City Hall.

https://newrepublic.com/post/208010/republican-senator-britt-cant-shovel-snow-nyc-without-id

markodochartaigh

(5,497 posts)
3. "If
Fri Mar 20, 2026, 12:06 PM
17 hrs ago

Americans don’t 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)
4. Hey stupid ass....we already have voter ID in Alabama. We do not NEED a Save Act. So, please STFU.
Fri Mar 20, 2026, 12:55 PM
16 hrs ago

Omnipresent

(7,427 posts)
5. ID is one thing..
Fri Mar 20, 2026, 02:30 PM
14 hrs ago

I just hate having to get permission to any little thing, because it usually involves a fee.
As George Carlin once said, “You can’t back out of your driveway in NJ without some jerk**f wanting you to pay a toll”.

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