Posted on 04/02/2021 5:37:33 AM PDT by Red Badger
By The First Thu, Apr 1, 2021 Joe Biden this week continued repeating an outright lie that even The Washington Post has debunked. It all centers on the new voting law in Georgia.
During an interview with ESPN, in which Biden said he would support moving the MLB All-Star Game out of Georgia, Biden said that
“This is Jim Crow on steroids what they’re doing in Georgia,” he said. “Imagine passing a law saying you cannot provide water or food for someone standing in line to vote. Can’t do that? Come on! Or you’re going to close a polling place at 5 o’clock when working people just get off. This is all about keeping working folks and ordinary folks that I grew up with from being able to vote.”
Biden in ESPN interview says he would strongly support MLB relocating the all-star game from Atlanta over the Georgia law.pic.twitter.com/xGBzsFoD6e
— Christopher Cadelago (@ccadelago) April 1, 2021 The Post’s fact checker, though, sets the record straight:
In this interview, Biden repeats a Four-Pinocchio claim about the new Georgia law: "You are going to close a polling place at 5 o’clock when working folks just get off." Nope, that's not in the law. Fact check here –> https://t.co/3OIweLxvQz https://t.co/yZwGnHJQQa
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) April 1, 2021
From The Post:
On Election Day in Georgia, polling places are open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., and if you are in line by 7 p.m., you are allowed to cast your ballot. Nothing in the new law changes those rules.
However, the law did make some changes to early voting. But experts say the net effect was to expand the opportunities to vote for most Georgians, not limit them.ADADVERTISING
“You can criticize the bill for many things, but I don’t think you can criticize it for reducing the hours you can vote,” said University of Georgia political scientist Charles S. Bullock III. He speculated that Biden may have been briefed on an early version of the bill — “there were 25 versions floating around” — and he did not get an update on the final version.
And what about the food and water part? That’s a complete mischaracterization. The law only makes it so that people passing out food and water have to be set up outside the 150ft distance that all people engaging in electioneering have to abide by. In fact, they can get even closer:
“Outside the 150 feet, you can have food trucks, bands, and whatever else you want so long as they stay 25 feet from the actual voter line. Voters will be allowed to leave the line and come back into the line without penalty so they can get food and drink.”https://t.co/M20JPF33Oi
— Ari Fleischer (@AriFleischer) March 29, 2021 That makes sense, because people touting a certain candidate could easily skirt the rules under the guise of “helping” those in line.
Slo Joe just says what he’s told to say. He doesn’t have a clue about what he says. “Leader” of the Free World. Sheesh!
The media will reinforce his lies. They repeat the lie day after day. Soon the public is repeating the lie.
Certainly different from President Trump...who personally inspected the prototypes for the Mex/USA wall...yes it's a wall...a barrier...and while visiting, he also held round tables with all parties involved. Probably the greatest double plus tasker in the country.
Biden is like watching an 8th grader.
How many times does he refer to his note cards in his jacket? They literally have headshots of the people he is going to talk to.
What did Biden mean when he said it’s not Jim Crow, it’s Jim Eagle? What does that even mean?
Meaning that it’s worse, because an eagle is bigger than a crow.................
Come on man, what kind of question is that!!!!?
"Jim Eagle" is much weaker than Jim Crow.
Jim Crow was a real system of racism put in place by the democratic party.
Jim Eagle is something Joe Biden's mush-brain created out of thin air.
(No, I don't know what the heck Biden meant.)
Too bad we don't have a media in this country.
I'd love to ask him about "Jim Eagle".
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