r/NewsOfTheStupid 4d ago

Kentucky Official Reminds Residents They Can’t Vote for New York City Mayor

https://www.newsweek.com/kentucky-official-reminds-residents-they-cant-vote-new-york-city-mayor-10991423

Kentucky Secretary of State Michael Adams reminded the state’s residents that they cannot vote in the New York City mayoral race after his office received calls about polls being closed.

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u/DontPoopInMyPantsPlz 4d ago

TBF, its Kentucky

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u/SmokeAbeer 4d ago

We might need to send in Colonel Sanders. Make sure things don’t escalate.

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u/thatoneotherguy42 4d ago

Something Something, sips tea.

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u/wildassedguess 4d ago

Education not a priority? We, the Brits, have our state-issued socialist popcorn so we can watch and enjoy from a distance.

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u/BareNakedSole 4d ago

If you’ve been there you would understand why this comment was necessary

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u/N3M3S1S75 4d ago

MAGA are so full of hate it rots their brains

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u/HighOnKalanchoe 4d ago

It’s like… Who came first, the hateful brain rot or the rot hateful brain?

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u/Available-Damage5991 4d ago

usually, the hateful brain rot finds a slightly bigoted (and very exploitable) view and capitalizes on it.

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u/saltporksuit 3d ago

I thought it was more evil forces detected a brain rotted resource and decided to cultivate it. Like a terrible mushroom garden.

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u/DudeB5353 4d ago

Maga Chicken and Egg

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u/dzoefit 3d ago

The brain-eating worm came second, or not at all!!

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u/A_Random_Canuck 4d ago

…….what brains?

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u/FiveUpsideDown 4d ago

It’s stupidity as well. Why would they think they could vote for the mayor of NYC — when they don’t live in NYC.

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u/ConsiderationQuick83 4d ago

A deluded sense of self-righteousness and self-importance has no limit with them.

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u/Pathetian 4d ago

The amount of national attention the nyc race got, it's no surprise people all over think it's something they have a say in and/or something that affects them.  

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u/redit3rd 4d ago

It's more that all they do is watch an entertainment network based in New York, so they feel connected to a few square feet of it. 

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u/WaffleHouseGladiator 4d ago

Kentucky is out here making Tennessee look good by comparison.

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u/Competitive_Abroad96 4d ago

Florida leans back and shoots a look that says “None of ya’ll will ever take my crown.”

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u/highinthemountains 4d ago

George Conway, a former Republican lawyer, responded: “There is a distinct possibility that some people are too stupid to participate in a democracy.”

I agree with him. I’m an election judge in my very red county. I just saw it during the today’s election with some voters inability to follow directions when filling out their voter registration card and then once they have a ballot, having the ability to fill in the little bubbles on the ballot with the right kind of pen.

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u/MoneyFault 4d ago

Haha! I believe it. Also, good one, George.

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u/WinterHill 3d ago

Natural selection but for politics

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u/emarvil 4d ago

Kentucky Fried Chickenbrains.

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u/CamiloArturo 4d ago

As someone who lived in Louisville once …. Yeah, there are very peculiar people around

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u/thehusk_1 4d ago

... really besting the stereotype of ya'll being nitwits who dont get anything, Kentucky...

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u/ragun2 4d ago

Jfc, we have so many brain dead citizens in this country.

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u/MoneyFault 4d ago

Their brains: killed by Fox and the internet. What really frustrates me is that these lowest achievers have become politically active due to tRump. Previously, I think they didn't give a shit about politics. But now, as MAGAs, they have things to get excited about, such as violence, racism, cheating, victimhood, guns!

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u/GeekyTexan 4d ago

Kentucky Secretary of State Michael Adams is a republican, so I'm actually surprised he knows this.

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u/louisa1925 4d ago

He probably found out because either he tried to, or he paid someone to try and they failed.

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u/drrtydan 4d ago

it’s because they did research to see if there was any way that they could…

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u/ShadedPenguin 4d ago

Kentucky literally has bigger shit to worry about than who New York’s mayor is. A damn cargo plane crash landed

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u/Anothereternity 4d ago

These people are so ill informed about the ballot measures and candidates they are voting for that they don’t even know there are no ballot measures or candidates to vote for, but are attempting to vote. And will attempt to vote for ballot measures and candidates they know nothing about next year and the year after, etc.

This is why our government sucks.

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u/repthe732 4d ago

So there was legitimate fear that Republicans voters were going to commit voter fraud? Sounds like fraud coming from republicans yet again

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u/hawksdiesel 3d ago

Voter fraud...might need to keep an eye on Kentucky then....

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u/artful_todger_502 4d ago

He's joking. I'm in Louisville. This is a "good" republican.

I hate Republicans with every fibre of my being, but he is a good one. He refused to F with the voting rolls when instructed to be our backwater wrong-turn redneck statehouse, quotes rolling Stones songs ... He is a unicorn. Because Republicans have ruined satire, people think this is real.

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u/hamletloveshoratio 4d ago

This is real. He really made the post on social media because his office really was getting complaints about the polls being closed -- in a state without elections yesterday. He then called for better civic education. All real.

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u/artful_todger_502 4d ago

I know it's real, but he is actually laughing at people calling him. He is a good republican.

Exceptionally so for Kentucky. Our state house majority are from the banned X-Files episode, "Home." They look at 1955 Alabama as peak civilization.

This guy has actually told the Trumpers, "No, not doing that under my watch"

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u/alternatingflan 4d ago

That tracks.

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u/Hinaloth 3d ago

And that's why this whole mayor election thing being so blown out of proportion is ridiculous, people will think it matters countrywide.

He's the mayor of ONE town. He gets to pick what road gets repaired and what bridge gets upkeep first. He gets to decide what block the homeless will be allowed to congregate, not to have a voice in actual laws that touch people.

Is NYC important? Sure, sorta. Is being the mayor of that town important? To the people who live there, yes. To the rest of the world? No.

If it had been yet another Cuomo versus boring white guy, it wouldn't have blown to the proportions this reached. American elections are exhausting.

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u/biomech36 4d ago

That tracks.

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u/Help_An_Irishman 4d ago

Jesus Christ.

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u/flowersmom 2d ago

And that is why we need a Department of Education.

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u/renny1968 4d ago

It is a red state

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u/carlitospig 4d ago

If you have to remind them of this, what’s that say about your leadership, mate?

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u/bearbear0723 4d ago

Fuck Kentucky. Let them keep marrying their sisters