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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US Dept of Education needs to require 6th grade History class and High School Civics+ Government class to graduate so everyone understands how our democracy and government functions. Add automatic voter registration for all 18 y.o.
US Dept of Education needs to require 6th grade History class and High School Government class to graduate so everyone understands how our democracy and government functions. Add automatic voter registration for all 18 y.o.
History class and US Government/Civics classes are already mandatory for graduation. Well, in the states I've lived in they were.
For all the left's virtue signaling, name calling and ostracizing those who disagree with them as "bigots", "racists" and whatever -we know who the REAL nazis are. They are those who claim to be anti-fascist but yet behave like the Brown Shirts during Kristallnacht.
The hate words you are spewing are coming out even more forcefully that projectile vomiting. So much hate for such a crisis time in our country. Such nasty namecalling does not foster any meaningful dialogue but maybe that is the point - meaningful dialogue - no, hate gushing out of every sentence - yes
This thread has become little more than an echo chamber for self-righteous communists, socialists and supporters of deviancy and lawlessness to virtue signal and opine. And of course, to personally attack and ostracize those who disagree with them. Irony: while the progressives rail against "rich old white men" -they want to elect a filthy rich old white man who has been in politics for 50 years. The one whose VP pick essentially accused of him racism in the Democrat primary debates, and also said his accusers (of sexual harassment) should be believed. Not to mention his questionable creepy behavior around children. It shows how unprincipled, desperate and power hungry democrats are. If you want higher taxes, more government regulation, poor healthcare, bad trade deals, endless wars and a weaker country -fine, vote Biden/Harris. The people will decide the outcome and if you don't like it, well, that's too bad. We are a republic, not some communist dictatorship that you dream of. Maybe you should move to Cuba since they have such a wonderful healthcare system or Venezuela since they have done away with all economic inequality. The argument is not "won" because you got the last word in; the issue will soon be settled when the votes are counted. I know a lot of unlikely voters who are voting Republican for the first time in their lives because they can see through the nonsense, corruption, hate, and lies. My vote has been cast and I voted for individual liberty, lower taxes, healthcare, jobs, prosperity and peace.
Trump's biggest success is grifting his supporters into believing it's the other guy who trying to be a communist dictator and weakening the strength of our democracy.
The most common form of Communist and Communist-derived government these days is an authoritarian oligarchy, ie Russia and China.
What defines these types of governments is an authoritarian leader who opposes any form of oversight, whether from the media or check-and-balance systems within the government. Trump has repeatedly referred to the media as the "enemy of the people, a practice that helped define Stalinism and which even Nikita Khrushchev found too communist to support. He's complained when the US department of Justice, who are not his personal lawyers and by definition are to maintain separation from the President, don't do his bidding for him and the same goes for the entire Judicial Branch.
The 'oligarchical' part of that is that these authoritarian governments utilize oligarchical capitalism, which is a system that works to consolidate the countries wealth in a very small portion of the population, often by giving token benefits to the general populace to distract from their looting of the economy. Trump's tax cuts are a prime example. As much as 83% of the total funds from the cuts go to just 1% of the population. And they did this by adding to everyone's share the debt. Imagine if someone made a cash withdrawl on your credit card of $1000, and then gave you $100 of it, would you think you were getting a good deal? Biden's tax credit plan on the other hand would lower taxes for everyone making less than $400k per year without simultaneously adding to everyone's share of the debt.
On healthcare, Trump is correct that we need to continue to take steps to keep our healthcare system from imploding, which it's still on course to do, but despite repeatedly promising a comprehensive plan he has yet to produce one, and the steps he has taken only accelerate the looming death spiral.
In terms of trade, he gets credit where credit is due, the USMCA was a good trade deal, but unfortunately it's overshadowed by a number of other disastrous trade actions from an isolationist stance on every other trade deal and self-harming tariff wars.
In terms of "endless wars", Trump has not altered the force reduction and withdrawl timelines he inherited, so I'm not sure what you're referring to.
There haven't actually been any "communist" or even "socialist" movements within the democratic party. Their has been a push for Democratic Socialism, which isn't Cuban or Venezuelan socialism but rather is the type of governments found in Northern Europe, which have far better economies, healthcare, etc than we do. And this isn't new, Ronald Reagan was in many ways arguably a democratic socialist, and FDR was a fairly standard example of democratic socialism.
What are the "individual liberty" issues you think Biden would get rid of?
NurseBlaq you are so righteous and virtuous for "calling out" the "ill behaviors of the right".
But, did you have anything to say about Biden being one of the framers of the Federal Three Strikes law. Or him calling a former klansman his mentor. Or, all the ugly racist statements he has made in his nearly 50 year political career like him not wanting his "kids to go to school in a racial jungle". Kamala Harris even called out Biden's racism in the primary debate.
The left will just rewrite inconvenient truths from history and move on living in progressive fairy tale land.
Last year Bernie Sanders supporters said cities would burn if Bernie did not get the nomination. Fast forward to Summer 2020 -cities are burning because of the hate filled left. Oh sure, any excuse will do; police brutality, "fighting fascism" or whatever.
The entire country was united against police brutality after George Floyd's death. but the left blew that chance to make meaningful change. And after months of riots police, prosecutors, and judges still have Qualified Immunity and nothing has changed- that is why they get away with murder. Why didn't Obama/Biden do anything about Qualified Immunity for the police?
In preparation for election night 2020, business in major cities are boarded up and the Nation Guard is deployed -that ain't for Trump supporters. Harris/Biden (yes Harris/Biden because Joe has dementia and will be forced to step down) supporters have already said the riots will ne much worse if Trump gets reelected.
For all the left's virtue signaling, name calling and ostracizing those who disagree with them as "bigots", "racists" and whatever -we know who the REAL nazis are. They are those who claim to be anti-fascist but yet behave like the Brown Shirts during Kristallnacht.
Oh BTW, since mail in voting is so safe and fraud free how is that another 300,000 ballots are unaccounted for. The next fraud will be perpetrated by the ballot counters no doubt.
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Upon PA Supreme Court permitted mail-in ballots postmarked by 11/3/20 to be accepted and counted thru receipt today 11/6/20 5PM (due to US mail delay) , PA Secretary of State (in charges of PA Elections) then ordered county election offices to segregate + count these ballots.
Ballots currently being counted + announced today are those received by 11/3. Trump campaign went to Court stating some counties not following order .
Justice Samuel Alito has ordered all county boards in Pennsylvania to segregate ballots received after Election Day and said that if the ballots are counted, they be counted separately. ...
This order is in line with the guidance that secretary of state of Pennsylvania had already issued.
Earlier today, Pennsylvania Republicans asked the court to issue the order, suggesting – without evidence — that some counties are not following state guidance....
Election offices have moved onto validating and processing provisional ballots , then will process the late arriving ballots. In PA ballot count running Biden ~75% ; Trump 25%. ---- related to Pres. Trump stating mail in ballots = fraud.. Nevada vote count is about the same.
I expect a recount!
Under Pennsylvania state law, an automatic recount is triggered if one candidate wins by a half of a percentage point or less.
V.P. Biden is waiting for AP/major TV stations decision desks to announce he won 270 Electorial College prior to addressing the nation as President Elect.
Upon PA Supreme Court permitted mail-in ballots postmarked by 11/3/20 to be accepted and counted thru receipt today 11/6/20 5PM (due to US mail delay) , PA Secretary of State (in charges of PA Elections) then ordered county election offices to segregate + count these ballots.
Ballots currently being counted + announced today are those received by 11/3. Trump campaign went to Court stating some counties not following order .
Election offices have moved onto validating and processing provisional ballots , then will process the late arriving ballots. In PA ballot count running Biden ~75% ; Trump 25%. ---- related to Pres. Trump stating mail in ballots = fraud.. Nevada vote count is about the same.
I expect a recount!
Under Pennsylvania state law, an automatic recount is triggered if one candidate wins by a half of a percentage point or less.
V.P. Biden is waiting for AP/major TV stations decision desks to announce he won 270 Electorial College prior to addressing the nation as President Elect.
And, why was the PA Supreme court making such a decision? That's supposed to be the job of the state legislature.
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1 hour ago, Beerman said:
why was the PA Supreme court making such a decision? That's supposed to be the job of the state legislature.
Republican controlled state legislature unwilling to allow for change to election ballot processing despite 2020 being first year state law permits no excuse absentee mail in ballots --- 3 million requested during a pandemic. Compare that to 266,208 absentee ballots in 2016, and 248,561 in 2012 processed.
Due to ongoing mail delays in PA, state Democratic Party sued for a deadline extension; they won in push to allow additional time to count ballots as the pandemic continues.
The Supreme Court able to grant the new mail-in measures because of language in Pennsylvania’s Election Code, which states that courts have the “authority to provide relief when there is a natural disaster or emergency,” in order to allow residents to exercise their right to vote.
Eighteen states + D.C already have a grace period permitting counting votes after the polls close.
Pennsylvania set another record for new COVID-19 positive cases today 11/7 = 3,384. Philadelphia's positivity rate jumped to 14% (prior <5 %). PA COVID hospitalizations: 1,599 with 351 in ICU. Seems appropriate that citizens permitted to vote by mail.
Website Ballotpedia has info on how elections are administered in the U.S. They track election results, election disputes, lawsuits and recounts.
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Now it's clear that the post office nonsense was nothing more than an attempt to keep Trump in power. We now know that the election fraud language promoted by Trump and spread in these threads was part of the plan for seizing power after he lost...using the power of angry and indoctrinated supporters.
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Erie mail carrier in an interview with federal agents, "revised his initial claims, eventually stating that he had not heard a conversation about ballots at all — rather he saw the Postmaster and Supervisor having a discussion and assumed it was about fraudulent ballot backdating
WASHINGTON — U.S. Postal Service investigators found no evidence to support a Pennsylvania postal worker’s claims that his supervisors had tampered with mail-in ballots, according to an inspector general report — allegations cited by top Republicans to press baseless claims of election fraud.
Richard Hopkins, a mail carrier in Erie, alleged in November that he overheard the local postmaster discussing plans to backdate ballots received after the Nov. 3 vote and pass them off to election officials as legitimate. Working with Project Veritas, a nonprofit that seeks to expose what it says is bias in mainstream media, Hopkins publicly released a sworn affidavit recounting those allegations.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., cited Hopkins' claims in a letter to the U.S. Justice Department in November calling for a federal investigation into election results in Pennsylvania, where President Joe Biden beat then-president Donald Trump by more than 81,000 votes, and Democratic candidates outperformed GOP challengers in votes submitted by mail.
Graham and scores of other congressional Republicans refused to accept the outcome of the election for weeks, even after states audited and certified election results.
Then-Attorney General William Barr subsequently authorized federal prosecutors to open investigations into credible allegations of voting irregularities and fraud before results were certified, a reversal of long-standing Justice Department policy....
...Inspector General agents visited the Erie County Courthouse to interview election officials and review ballots processed at the local post office. "Both the interview of the Erie County Election Supervisor and the physical examination of ballots produced no evidence of any backdated presidential election ballots at the Erie, PA Post Office," the report states.
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US Dept of Education needs to require 6th grade History class and High School Civics+ Government class to graduate so everyone understands how our democracy and government functions. Add automatic voter registration for all 18 y.o.