MLB Baseball Opening Day

I do have a friend who said that he's done watching baseball after they pulled the all star game from Atlanta.

One of my brothers has not watched football since all of the kneeling crap began.

I actually thought the kneeling was a show of respect, which kneeling usually is (or used to be).   Silly me. 

I guess the city and fans and merchants and minimum wage workers in Atlanta who depended on income from that event appreciate it, too. 

Candy

Well, the reason Boiler and his ilk disapprove of the kneeling is that it was something done by them uppity darkies. You know, the same racist ideology that caused them to label the BLM marchers "domestic terrorists" and tell stories about the forty trillion dollars in damage they caused.

The loss of the All-Star game isn't that significant to the Atlanta economy. After all, there will still be 81 other home games. If Boiler's buddies don't want to watch baseball any more because of that, well...I rend my garments in grief.

I am in favor of the shunning of Georgia, Texas, Florida, and all other states that pass this voter suppression crap. ALL organizations, not just in sports, should cancel conventions, meetings, events, gatherings, etc. until those awful places stop being so RepubliQ. We should stigmatize them, shame them, and turn them into pariahs. They're not Americans.

I for one would like to resume building Da Wall, but this time, extend it northward so it runs along Texas's northern border. Thence to Arkansas, Mississippi, etc. all the way to the Atlantic, thus walling off the Confederacy. The rest of the US would be much better off.

Candy, people stand during the National Anthem as a show of respect to the flag and the country that it represents.  Those who are kneeling are showing a deliberate disrespect for both.

Kevin believes that any state that requires one to show an ID card during the voting process is voter supression.  I happen to disagree.  I believe that only those who are legally within the United States should be allowed to vote.  Call me crazy.

Boiler I was being sarcastic about the kneeling.  I know they were dissing the flag and country that provided so much to them. 

You aren't crazy. I already said, regarding voter ID...the horror, the horror (again, being sarcastic) of asking someone to prove he IS who he says he is, that he can vote once and not again by simply signing.  Everything else requires ID, why not voting?  Doesn't Kevin want a system that insures fairness, that neither party gets to stuff the ballot box by allowing anyone to enter multiple precincts, or into one precinct multiple times and vote multiple times using only a signature?   Would he want anyone to board a plane without proving he is who he says he is?  Obtain a medical license or nursing license or other professional license without proving they are who they say they are when they take their examinations?   I don't  know about you, but every doctor's office I go to requires I present my ID and insurance card.   They need to know that I am who I say I am.  Right?  Does Kevin believe non-white citizens are so weak in heart and mind that obtaining an ID is just too difficult?  Not these days it isn't.   Somebody is misleading somebody.

Candy 

Boiler doesn't seem to understand that having an identification card is not a necessary requirement for being a citizen. I'm not surprised that he doesn't understand that. He dreams of living in a Trump-ruled fascist state where "show your papers" is a necessity for doing just about anything.

Boiler also appears to believe that US citizens living abroad, including the military, should not be allowed to vote. Again, I'm not surprised.

Furthermore, Boiler makes the idiotic claim that kneeling is a disrespectful act. Funny, I thought he was a churchy person. Of course, he only objects because of the race of the people doing the kneeling.

However, despite all this, I don't call him crazy. Deluded and Trump-loving, definitely.

Candy, you know damn well that the voting restrictions being passed go well beyond ID requirements. Don't distort the truth.

As far as your silly horror fantasy about Black people running from precinct to precinct on voting day and "stuffing the ballot boxes"--please explain to me how that could actually be accomplished. Then, if you come up with something remotely plausible, I'll ask you why you think anyone would do that--commit multiple felonies in order to vote three or four times instead of once. You apparently believe the Fox News fantasies about all them Black folks voting an extra sixty billion times. I thought you had more intellect than to buy that nonsense.

What you don't seem to fathom is that the standard method of signature verification on ballots that has been in use for decades works just fine. The RepubliQs say it's rife with fraud because they lost the election--and per their orange god, any such election must have been fraudulent. QED. I can't imagine why you buy that shit.

Perhaps, just to bleach your mind of all that Trumpism, you should research why it is a practical impossibility to vote more than once and have those additional votes counted as legitimate. Then you should revisit the news stories from a few months ago and try to ferret out actual instances of the voter fraud you and the RepubliQs are so afraid of.

And Candy---"proving you are who you say you are" by affixing a signature to a document has been standard practice, in a myriad of contexts, for centuries. The only reason I can think of for your agreeing with voter suppression is that you don't understand the sophistication and security of modern ballot processing. I know it's standard RepubliQ to scream that it's "rife with fraud." But...based on what evidence, Candy? Was Donald Trump elected fraudulently in 2016?

I'm waiting Kevin to provide us what specific part of the voting law he thinks is horrible.  Is it that absentee voters can't get the battot until 29 days prior to the election.  Is it that absentee voters have to provide a ID number?  Is it that absentee voters can't request a ballot until 78 days before the election?

Exactly how stupid must Keven think the Democrat absentee voters are?  Talk about being racist.

Did I say anything about "Black people" running from precinct to precinct?  Those are your words, Kevin.  Rules and laws are for all of us.  I know they haven't been applied to all fairly through history...I do know that, but how do you make it happen unless, you make it happen?   The world has 'outgrown' the way it used to be.  With progress comes responsibility, which takes time and changes that are painful to some.  

Candy

Obviously, those are my words. But you'd have to be pretty thick, or pretty RepubliQ, to not realize that these voting restrictions are targeted specifically at Black people.

"Rules and laws are for all of us"...yeah, but not all rules and laws are just. But if you want to run to that argument, let me refer you to the Constitution, which says nothing about needing to present identification in order to be able to vote. It disgusts me that RepubliQs bleat about their precious Second Amendment freedumbs values of the Founding Fathers blah blah blah belch grunt snort whenever any kind of gun control initiative is discussed, but they're perfectly happy now with shitting on the Fifteenth Amendment.

And yes, it's fairly easy to get some form of picture identification. But not everyone can. The germane question is, is an identification-less person still a citizen, and still eligible to vote if he meets all the other basic criteria? Is it just to deprive a citizen of his voting rights simply because he can't--or won't--procure picture ID?

I'm still waiting for a justificiation of the asinine argument that if we don't force everyone to present ID, we'll have people (Black, White, Purple, Green) dashing from precinct to precinct casting trillions of fraudulent votes. But I notice that any conservitard asked to prove that contention weasels away from the question.