Voter suppression is UnAmerican and can not be tolerated. Majority Vets get their meds shipped via USPS -60,000/day
Philadelphia Inquirer 8/14/2020
Trump’s assault on Postal Service and voting is a plot against American democracy | Editorial
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On Thursday morning, after months of attacks on the United States Postal Service and vote-by-mail, President Donald Trump admitted that the two efforts are connected as a part of one voter disenfranchisement effort. In a Fox Business Network interview, Trump said that the sticking point for him in the negotiations over a new coronavirus economic relief package is Post Office funding: “If we don’t make a deal, that means they don’t get the money. That means they can’t have universal mail-in voting. They just can’t have it.”
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7 hours ago, KalipsoRed21 said:
I’m proud to be an American and I want to work hard. Trump is ‘Hitler lite’. He has committed egregious crimes against our independence as a individuals...just because they couldn’t arrest him because he is the current sitting president doesn’t mean that he was innocent! But if you don’t want to believe that here’s a few other things:
1) Grab a *** comment...is NOTHING compared to cheating on your wife with a Mediastar just a few months after she gave birth.
2) He didn’t even do the bare minimum to ASK Putin to quit paying hitmen MURDERING our MILITARY. Like just the bare minimum would have been to ask Putin to stop...formally, but nope. And a BS excuse like ‘insufficient evidence’. Do you need concrete evidence to ASK your neighbor to quit letting their dog *** in your yard?
3) The Postal Service has been serving this country since BEFORE the signing of the Declaration of Independence. They delivered mail in ballots DURING THE CIVIL WAR....but we can’t do it in the middle of a pandemic so my crazy Trump loving grandmother can vote without a significant chance of dying? What?!? Not to mention, you can’t say what a *** job your refrigerator is doing keeping your food cold IF YOU DISMANTLE IT! What, next we are going to dismantle roads and suddenly have to pay to drive from place to place? Letter mailed by USPS = 0.55, mailed by UPS to Fedex = $12. Yeah privatization is sooooo much better.....not. I’m sure all the pig farmers felt promised prices that dropped like a rock when Trump decided to get a trade war was super helpful.
So let’s see, the man has screwed over females, American farmers, the military, and now the postal service....yep sounds like a great American to me.??
I’m sorry, stuck to conservativism all you want, I’m 100% behind you for it, but Trump is NOT a conservative or a Republican. Little mini dictator wannabe does seem to describe him pretty well.
You forgot he also screwed the coal miners.
I was a registered Republican all my life. A moderate. I left the party when the Tea Party extremism took over. Trump is where it lead them.
I honest to goodness can not see how anyone can't see what an evil man he is.
He doesn't pay his debts.
His method of business is based on screwing smaller businesses that make contracts with him.
He has refused to stop doing business while in office.
He refuses to release his tax returns.
He has increased the national debt through irresponsible tax cuts to the wealthy and to corporations, transparently self serving.
He appoints his children and their spouses to important roles, regardless of how unqualified and biased they are.
He ran a fraudulent university. Students that went there are still having to pay on the loans they took out in hopes of improving their lives.
He is a known womanizer.
He literally lies about literally everything.
He has destroyed our standing as a world power and absolutely obliterated our allied relationships the world over.
He has managed to turn neighbor upon neighbor, to sow mistrust, violence, racism and hateful vitriol as part of everyday life. Just look at how his followers are talking about Democrats, even in this very thread.
He makes fun of the disabled.
He is a self admitted sexual predator.
He fires anyone who disagrees with him and installs people into positions of power who have zero qualifications, but are willing to go down shooting on his behalf. The only qualification he values is blind loyalty and adulation.
He is gutting our national parks for profitable gain.
He fails to defend and protect our troops overseas and refuses to hold Putin responsible.
He openly admires and envies places like North Korea and Russia, where the populace has no choice and the media has no voice.
He wants to shut the media down and works hard to bar those who report on his failings from having access to him.
He resists oversight and actively works to go around the checks and balances put in place in the creation of this country. When he can't, he resorts to slandering individuals.
He weaponizes the bible.
He ordered federal troops to violently clear peaceful people in a legal protest for a photo op.
He has yet to express one once of empathy for those who have died so far during this pandemic.
He bungled management of the pandemic on an epic global scale. People are literally dead because of his inability/refusal to govern.
He takes responsibility for nothing. NOTHING.
He has implied he will refuse to leave office. He has openly stated he intends to contest the election pretty much no matter what if he loses and has openly mused that he thinks he should be allowed to serve more than two terms if he were (god forbid) to get re-elected a second time.
He is openly, actively, vocally working to suppress voters, particularly the marginalized and minorities.
I literally cannot figure out how anyone can see him as anything but evil. He is truly an evil, evil man.
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14 minutes ago, Nurse SMS said:
You forgot he also screwed the coal miners.
I was a registered Republican all my life. A moderate. I left the party when the Tea Party extremism took over. Trump is where it lead them.
I honest to goodness can not see how anyone can't see what an evil man he is.
He doesn't pay his debts.
His method of business is based on screwing smaller businesses that make contracts with him.
He has refused to stop doing business while in office.
He refuses to release his tax returns.
He has increased the national debt through irresponsible tax cuts to the wealthy and to corporations, transparently self serving.
He appoints his children and their spouses to important roles, regardless of how unqualified and biased they are.
He ran a fraudulent university. Students that went there are still having to pay on the loans they took out in hopes of improving their lives.
He is a known womanizer.
He literally lies about literally everything.
He has destroyed our standing as a world power and absolutely obliterated our allied relationships the world over.
He has managed to turn neighbor upon neighbor, to sow mistrust, violence, racism and hateful vitriol as part of everyday life. Just look at how his followers are talking about Democrats, even in this very thread.
He makes fun of the disabled.
He is a self admitted sexual predator.
He fires anyone who disagrees with him and installs people into positions of power who have zero qualifications, but are willing to go down shooting on his behalf. The only qualification he values is blind loyalty and adulation.
He is gutting our national parks for profitable gain.
He fails to defend and protect our troops overseas and refuses to hold Putin responsible.
He openly admires and envies places like North Korea and Russia, where the populace has no choice and the media has no voice.
He wants to shut the media down and works hard to bar those who report on his failings from having access to him.
He resists oversight and actively works to go around the checks and balances put in place in the creation of this country. When he can't, he resorts to slandering individuals.
He weaponizes the bible.
He ordered federal troops to violently clear peaceful people in a legal protest for a photo op.
He has yet to express one once of empathy for those who have died so far during this pandemic.
He bungled management of the pandemic on an epic global scale. People are literally dead because of his inability/refusal to govern.
He takes responsibility for nothing. NOTHING.
He has implied he will refuse to leave office. He has openly stated he intends to contest the election pretty much no matter what if he loses and has openly mused that he thinks he should be allowed to serve more than two terms if he were (god forbid) to get re-elected a second time.
He is openly, actively, vocally working to suppress voters, particularly the marginalized and minorities.
I literally cannot figure out how anyone can see him as anything but evil. He is truly an evil, evil man.
How about all the homebound patients like my Oxygen dependent husband, those with Cancer, Imunnocompromised, living with family members over age 65 who are concerned about COVID asymptomatic spread or my 85 yo aunt now in independent living ----who are getting + sending via USPS their MAIL IN ballot. It's still one person one vote.
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I'm lucky that I've never stood more than 15 minutes in line to vote in my 45 years of voting. Since my polling place is just 5 blocks away, despite high risk for virus, I'll vote in person so Donald can see SAME DAY the result of my vote. There is no legal rule that vote count must be completed on day of election. The Electorial College (official vote for President + VP ) meets December 14th. If it takes a month to get Mail In ballots counted, that's OK.
It's never been an issue until this election .I have posted on facebook that anyone in .anyone who needs help getting to the voting station I will provide a free ride there and back . If we all Pitch in there's no need for mail ballots .
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41 minutes ago, LPN Retired said:
It's never been an issue until this election .I have posted on facebook that anyone in .anyone who needs help getting to the voting station I will provide a free ride there and back . If we all Pitch in there's no need for mail ballots .
But it's an issue now, or are you denying that we are in the midst of a dangerous pandemic? You are going to put strangers in your vehicle rather than encourage mailed ballots during a pandemic?
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1 hour ago, LPN Retired said:
It's never been an issue until this election .I have posted on facebook that anyone in .anyone who needs help getting to the voting station I will provide a free ride there and back . If we all Pitch in there's no need for mail ballots .
Notify your local political party office that your available to provide ride to the polls. Thanks for being civic minded. Please be mindful of Pandemic precautions --- virus still circulating moderately in my area.
It's never been an issue until this election .I have posted on facebook that anyone in .anyone who needs help getting to the voting station I will provide a free ride there and back . If we all Pitch in there's no need for mail ballots .
And what about the 5 states that already use voting by mail exclusively? Seems to work just fine.
Per the republican washington state secretary of state - “First and foremost, we've had voter ID at the time of registration since 2006 in our state, so we actually do have an ID check. And beyond that, we did a comparison in 2018 of voting history, and we found that about .004% of our voters did, it appears, try to vote fraudulently. They voted for someone else who had passed away, or they voted more than once. And that was 142 people out of 3.2 million ballots cast.”
And not for nothing, but can you show an instance where fraudulent voting by mail impacted an election? Every story in the media, regardless of stance, demonstrates that the security systems work because the attempted fraud was detected.
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2 hours ago, LPN Retired said:
It's never been an issue until this election .I have posted on facebook that anyone in .anyone who needs help getting to the voting station I will provide a free ride there and back . If we all Pitch in there's no need for mail ballots .
Actually its been an issue for a long, long time. It is well documented that access to polling places is one way that politicians try to manage the outcome of an election, with polling places being difficult or impossible to get to primarily in minority, marginalized and poverty-stricken areas. They shut them down, they put them far apart, they plan them where public transportation doesn't go and use other odd methods of planning that leaves suspiciously underrepresented individuals without options to get out and vote.
Widespread mail-in voting would literally change election outcomes in a massive way. The current administration has openly stated that letting people who don't usually vote actually have ease in voting via mail-in ballots concerns them. So much so that Trump even floated delaying the election just to see if that might fly as an alternative to the responsible option for the betterment of public health.
There just is zero denying what is going on here, primarily because they have openly stated it. It's hard to argue there's nothing going on when the people doing it say its what they are worried about just before it starts happening.
Sadly, it took this monster of a president to wake me up to this fact. I too am taking a PTO day and volunteering to help people get to the polls. We need every last one of them.
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Peaceful protesters do not loot and riot. Those in D.C. should not have been violently attacked.
Looters and rioters such as those in Portland need to be stopped and arrested.
On 8/17/2020 at 11:26 AM, GordonGekko said:
Peaceful protestors? If Trump needs to be criticized for anything its his horrendous under-response to these rioters. What is going on in Portland every night is inexcusable and for a president not to react to it just blows my mind. These "peaceful" protestors are burnin down police buildings and blocking traffic on the road. To have Mayors encourage lockdowns while also encourage these hate groups to run rampant in the street is an example of the pathetic state of the nation today.
As Trump rages, Republicans plead for calm
GOP senators urged the president to ease tensions — not inflame them.
... Senate Republicans called for a far gentler touch than the president has displayed so far.
Some said they’d like to hear him make a national address, a move Trump had avoided for days despite deepening nationwide angst. Others implored him to empathize with those outraged over the deaths of George Floyd and other black Americans at the hands of police, even as he acted to curb riots and looting in big cities.
“We are obviously in a divisive situation right now that’s escalating, and I think he needs to make more unifying comments,” said Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.VA.).
“The country is looking for healing and calm. And I think the president needs to project that in his tone. He masters that sometimes,” said Senate Majority Whip John Thune of South Dakota. “That’s the tone he needs to strike right now.”
Their pleadings came after a day’s worth of presidential grievances and inflammatory rhetoric that caused many in Trump's own party to fret once again about his divisive form of politics. Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina also spoke with Trump over the weekend and suggested he have conversations with black leaders and law enforcement officials away from the cameras...
... Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) agreed it would be a good idea for Trump to give a national address. But he declined "to comment about the tone of his tweets.”
“Some people love the president, some people don't. And I don't think we're ever going to resolve that,” Cornyn said. “It would be good for him to address the nation.”
“I’m not going to speak for the president, but I just think this is a time we should just show a lot of compassion,” Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) said...
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), a close Trump ally, took to the Senate floor on Monday afternoon and sympathized with peaceful protesters while urging an end to the violence and reading into the Senate record details of Floyd’s death. He said it would be good for the country to hear from Trump but stopped short of urging Trump to deliver an address harmonizing with his own message. “I can only speak for myself. What I think needs to be said is the violence, and the unrest, that does great disservice to [Floyd’s] memory and his cause,” Hawley said.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the country “cannot deafen itself to the anger, pain, or frustration of black Americans,” and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said, “George Floyd deserved better — all black Americans do.”
“Unifying would be a good thing. But … we never really seem to be able to unify around these incidents that have gone on for a long time,” Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) said. “Going back to what happened in Ferguson in 2014, there’s a pattern that we can’t seem to figure out how to break away from.”..
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1 hour ago, Nurse SMS said:
Actually its been an issue for a long, long time. It is well documented that access to polling places is one way that politicians try to manage the outcome of an election, with polling places being difficult or impossible to get to primarily in minority, marginalized and poverty-stricken areas. They shut them down, they put them far apart, they plan them where public transportation doesn't go and use other odd methods of planning that leaves suspiciously underrepresented individuals without options to get out and vote.
Widespread mail-in voting would literally change election outcomes in a massive way. The current administration has openly stated that letting people who don't usually vote actually have ease in voting via mail-in ballots concerns them. So much so that Trump even floated delaying the election just to see if that might fly as an alternative to the responsible option for the betterment of public health.
There just is zero denying what is going on here, primarily because they have openly stated it. It's hard to argue there's nothing going on when the people doing it say its what they are worried about just before it starts happening.
Sadly, it took this monster of a president to wake me up to this fact. I too am taking a PTO day and volunteering to help people get to the polls. We need every last one of them.
Insinuating that minorities don’t have the capacity to obtain a voter ID or make it to the polls is an incredibly racist statement against them and you should be ashamed of yourself. I really hope you don’t base your patient care around the patients race as well. You also need to stop perpetuating the myth of “marginalized” populations as policies which oppress certain races have not been in existence in almost 60 years. That is unless you are talking about the marginalization or the top income earners in America who face tremendous tax inequality which Trunp has helped try to combat through his tax cuts.
Monster of a President? Get a life. Where were you when Bush was attacking Iraq or when Obama was praising the life of a terrorist who bombed children and set people on fire because they were a certain race. Trump is a hard working capitalist and has fought for America as a whole which upsets people like you for some reason. The left needs to be ashamed of themselves through their promotion of policies which support voter fraud, weaponization of conspiracy theories, and promotion of groups that are currently destroying America each and every night.
get that TDS treated, Obama began locking kids in cages in 2014. Schools and businesses are closed because of their governors. Does Trump live rent free in your brain?
If you even read my post, I didn't vote for Obama. Just because Obama did it doesn't make it right. That sounds like an argument a teenager would make. The TDS label is just deflection on your part and avoiding the issues I listed. Are you capable of writing thoughts down in sentences or can you only hurl juvenile epithets? States were closed long before we had to deal with governors too stupid not to leave medicine to the professionals. Perhaps if we had national leadership who didn't throw the hot potatoe into someone else lap, instead of doing the job, we wouldn't even be in the position of mentally defective governors making defective decisions prolonging the return of a more normal economy. He's make us a laughing stock of the world where we aren't permitted to travel to much of the world. No one wants us because we come from a place that hasn't abated the threat like almost every other country has except India and Brazil. These are our "equals" now in handling the virus.
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You forgot he also screwed the coal miners.
I was a registered Republican all my life. A moderate. I left the party when the Tea Party extremism took over. Trump is where it lead them.
I honest to goodness can not see how anyone can't see what an evil man he is.
He doesn't pay his debts.
His method of business is based on screwing smaller businesses that make contracts with him.
He has refused to stop doing business while in office.
He refuses to release his tax returns.
He has increased the national debt through irresponsible tax cuts to the wealthy and to corporations, transparently self serving.
He appoints his children and their spouses to important roles, regardless of how unqualified and biased they are.
He ran a fraudulent university. Students that went there are still having to pay on the loans they took out in hopes of improving their lives.
He is a known womanizer.
He literally lies about literally everything.
He has destroyed our standing as a world power and absolutely obliterated our allied relationships the world over.
He has managed to turn neighbor upon neighbor, to sow mistrust, violence, racism and hateful vitriol as part of everyday life. Just look at how his followers are talking about Democrats, even in this very thread.
He makes fun of the disabled.
He is a self admitted sexual predator.
He fires anyone who disagrees with him and installs people into positions of power who have zero qualifications, but are willing to go down shooting on his behalf. The only qualification he values is blind loyalty and adulation.
He is gutting our national parks for profitable gain.
He fails to defend and protect our troops overseas and refuses to hold Putin responsible.
He openly admires and envies places like North Korea and Russia, where the populace has no choice and the media has no voice.
He wants to shut the media down and works hard to bar those who report on his failings from having access to him.
He resists oversight and actively works to go around the checks and balances put in place in the creation of this country. When he can't, he resorts to slandering individuals.
He weaponizes the bible.
He ordered federal troops to violently clear peaceful people in a legal protest for a photo op.
He has yet to express one once of empathy for those who have died so far during this pandemic.
He bungled management of the pandemic on an epic global scale. People are literally dead because of his inability/refusal to govern.
He takes responsibility for nothing. NOTHING.
He has implied he will refuse to leave office. He has openly stated he intends to contest the election pretty much no matter what if he loses and has openly mused that he thinks he should be allowed to serve more than two terms if he were (god forbid) to get re-elected a second time.
He is openly, actively, vocally working to suppress voters, particularly the marginalized and minorities.
I literally cannot figure out how anyone can see him as anything but evil. He is truly an evil, evil man.