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    The problem is that a 54-year old Kansas mayor is somehow technically not a citizen, after living here for decades.

    That makes no sense.

    He shouldn’t have voted, and should have known not to, but he didn’t expect this because he’s stuck in a system that’s been screwed up for decades. One that Congress won’t reform precisely to leverage it as a wedge issue like this. And now that debt has come due.

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    “I haven’t seen Mexico since I was four,” Ceballos said. “I don’t speak Spanish anymore. If I get deported, it would wreck my life.”

    Oh no!.. hahahahahahahaha get fucked your racist piece of shit

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    Ceballos also acknowledged that he “probably” voted for Kobach and former president Donald Trump several times because he automatically selects the candidates with an “R” beside their names.

    Absolute fucking numpty here.

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        Yes. Voting straight ticket is for lazy people who can’t be bothered to look up who their voting for. Or for cult members of either side. Unfortunately many states (like the one I’m in) only allow you to vote for one party in the primaries, when most normal people would want to vote different people for different positions based on their individual policies. We should vote for people, not parties.

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    I read the comments. Its hard to spot but you can just make out the republicans. /s

    I know you’re a democrat and thus don’t care about holding dems to account, but don’t think that republicans are equally lawless.

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      Fuckin ridiculous trash, Dems are the only ones who resign in shame after almost any scandal. Republicans have no shame it’s why they never resign after a scandal, unless they’re caught with a dead girl or a live boy.

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        Only time Republicans resign is when they see the shit heading for the fan, and they step out of the way to stay out of the spray.

        Which is why you see so many Republicans quitting leading up to the midterms.

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        A little-known fact is that Hitler’s purge of Ernst Roehm and other brownshirts acquired the name “Night of the Long Knives” because Hitler used the phrase (which dates to medieval times) to describe what Roehm allegedly had planned for Hitler in a speech shortly after the event. Hitler never intended his own actions to be called that.

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        US already has the Gestapo, now they just need the SS

        Bernie won’t die of old age, Trump himself will kill him

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          Okay this is just a me, as a german with autism and history focus, thing, mixed with a pinch of macaber humor. But i always dislike when they are compared to the gestapo. ICE are villains alright, but not SUPER VILLAINS like anything the Nazis produced. The difference: PRESENTATION!!

          ICE is rediculouse, just some fat low life looser thughs that a motion-disabled person could outrun

          But yes i get why we compare them, brings the point across, both are fascists/nazis and SS is on a waaayy different level.

          If ICE is that pathetic, how pathetic will be their attempt at an SS!?

          Different note: i HOPE bernie outlives trump. I DO NOT want to witness what trump does when he gets this into his sausage pedo fingers

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            I don’t know what your news filter is like, but these guys are far from comical. Yes, the first wave to arrive were a bunch of tubby Texans, but now they’re going door to door in gangs of 'roided-up wannabe Rambos with full tactical gear and long guns, busting down doors and storming in like it’s Iraq.

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              If you dont have a gun and you are outnumbered by a group with guns, ofc they are scary. They arent trained. They dont use tactics. Put them in a combat situation, an ambush, they wouldnt survive at all. The gestapo were trained in combat hand to hand, tech and fire arms. And that properly.

              Take their armor and guns away and you once again only have “hubert your friendly neighborhood fascist”

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                Most of them are clowns, but a number are former military. And even then that’s ignoring some of the real fucked up nazis who live in deep country

                Edit: let me put it this way: you say if we took their guns away they would be nothing? Well, go take their guns away.

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            I disagree, the early Nazis had plenty of fucked up thugs to confront the communists and whoever else disagreed with them.

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            You say that as if they don’t manage to still catch plenty of people and their fate afterwards isn’t so great

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            I see your point, the Nazis were meticulous, organized, disciplined…ICE are ridiculous untrained goons

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              If you know anything about Germany and the US, it makes sense that Germany would produce fewer, more refined Nazis while the US mass-produces cheap Nazis.

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                Seeing this would make Donald Pedo Trump have another baby meltdown

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      I guess this question supports the theory that he never knew the difference between the two.

      It’s depressing to think someone could be so misinformed.

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        Apparently he’s been illegally voting the whole time, so it never made a difference to him.

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          I’m receiving word that according to a lot of people this guy isn’t even an American so he can’t use that excuse.

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            He wanted to be though.

            Does wanting to be American when you’re not make you more stupid? Like… You’re choosing to be American. That must come with some low level of mental intelligence…

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              It’s wild, dude is an “illegal immigrant” who came here as a child and ended up mayor of a small town in KS.

              He might be proof the American dream is alive and well if he wasn’t facing a bunch of felonies and deportation.

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      I doubt he had a green card. SS number, driver’s licence, just assuming he has citizenship without asking.

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    The sheer stupidity of this guy. He wants position, image and power, at the expense of (checking notes), people just like him.

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    How did he get a ballot if he’s not eligible to vote? At least in my state, you have to sign the voter register that has your name pre-printed. I suppose Kansas is different.

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      I suspect he registered to vote, and for whatever reason, the county/state failed to discover that he’s not a citizen and approved his registration.

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        This seems to be the exact scenario that MAGA is screaming over. Lol every accusation is an admission.

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      Right, that’s what these crazies always forget - register to vote is where your eligibility to vote should be verified, and there are ways to do that without suppressing votes

      Interesting, apparently it’s only since 1996 that non-citizens voting became a crime, and that only applies to federal elections …. Then there’s whatever citizenship law Kansas tried to pass was ruled unconstitutional

      Historically people in his situation were treated like human beings and immigration enforcement of a contributing member of society was civil, compassionate, and had due process routes to legality or at least to transitioning your life without hardship

      So this guy was not committing a crime assuming he registered to vote more than 30 years ago, the state failed in their duty to check eligibility, and he might still be able to legitimately vote for himself