Hermetically Sealed

It's too soon to breathe easy, but it looks like the voter-suppressing SAVE Act will not pass the U.S. Senate. 

I wrote about it a few days ago, and Jamelle Bouie gave it a trouncing a few days later (gift link), including something I had omitted: that it also would kill voting by mail. In addition, he made it even clearer that it allows specifically for the return of Jim Crow voter suppression.

Meanwhile, my MAGA relative continues to insist that it's no big deal since it only affects people have to register or re-register. 

I couldn't resist taking a screen shot of a recent post, with the responses from their like-minded friends:

(Click to better see the post and comments in all their SAVE-supporting glory.)

The fact that no one replies who disagrees reinforces the relative's perspective, of course, but there's a reason no one posts who disagrees. If you do, you get swarmed with illogical and sometimes hateful responses, and they never stop responding. They have to have the last word, and their answers devolve further and further. 

I checked out the profiles of the people who had commented. One woman had a picture of Jesus Christ walking on a beach as her cover photo, while a one guy had this:

So that was a bit of divergence. At least he didn't add Jesus to his list. 

Locally, we had some good news recently: long-time political cartoonist Steve Sack has returned to the drawing board recently. Find out the whole story here. One of his recent cartoons is about the SAVE Act:

That's the truth of it, as Trump himself has said. I'm glad to have Sack back in the action.