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[blackjedii]

NC GOP official fired after bragging voter ID law would ‘kick the Democrats’ butt’A North Carolina Republican official has been fired from the state party executive board following an appearance on The Daily Show in which he boasted about the implications of the widely-criticized voting law recently enacted by the GOP-heavy state legislature, but

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[jocelyncs]

From CNN: "what's in that tea, anyway?"
Best. Comment. Ever!

[tigerdreams]

“This mentality will not be supported or propagated within our party.”

That would be the mentality of actually saying out loud what the GOP is thinking, I take it? Kind of like the rules of Fight Club?

[stainedfeathers]

I took it to mean "This mentality will not be propagated within our party because it's hard to propagate something when it's already completely saturated it."

[idemandjustice]

"You know that we can hear you, right?"

I could not believe what I was hearing. He sounded like a parody designed to discredit himself. I'm just speechless.

[moonshaz]

IKR?

The final straw for me was when he played the "one of my best friends is black" card! That one totally blew my mind (or what was left of it by then)!

[devyn_rose]

I'm in NC and this reminds me, I should go vote sometime soon (early voting's going on rn). I didn't know student IDs wouldn't be accepted, though, I guess it's good I updated my other ID recently :/

It's also good the County Board of Elections backpedaled recently and gave us back day-of voting on campus (they were going to have the entire city, students and year-round residents, voting at one place on election day and have very limited early voting. good way to mess with voter turnout, guys (which was the point, really))

[borderline_mary]