Donny, We Need To Talk

Loser Donny, the losing-ist loser in a family of losers. You don’t have to go home, Don, but you can’t stay here.

Donny, dude, you need an intervention, so let me ‘intervent’.

Donny, all this ‘voter fraud nonsense your pushing, even you know that’s crap, right?  You just come up with a crazy claim out of thin air (or your ass), and then go looking for evidence of your made-up claim, smearing election officials and voters as you go, and encouraging your supporters to continue to harass and threaten them? That doesn't seem to be how that is supposed to work… at all. In a real investigation, you investigate, find out what going on (you know, find evidence, facts, proof) THEN you make your judgement. Right now, you're just spewing nonsense ("I won the election... by a lot!" classic tweet there, Don, but not true).

I know, I hear you, you say I’ve been told ‘Trump is a liar’ over and over (anyone ever tell you this ‘talking about yourself in the 3rd person’ thing is weird? Cause it is). Ya see Donny, I have not 'been told' Trump is a liar, I see you lie ALL THE TIME. I have eyes and ears, almost every time you open that mouth, you lie. Sometimes I think you lie just for the practice. Now you’re claiming your election watchers were not allowed in the counting rooms? Come on, I mean, come on… Your own lawyers admitted in court that the watchers were in there, watching. Didn’t they tell you? You say there were 'massive' irregularities? What evidence is there? Investigate, find evidence, THEN you can make those claims, otherwise dude, you're just spewing. Seriously, if those vile, evil DemoRATS were going to steal elections, why didn't the steal the senate as well? They didn’t think of it? Uh… right.

All this yelling about fraud in the counting is dangerous, you know that, right? You heard about the death threats against the Republican Philadelphia City Commissioner Al Schmidt has been receiving over the ballot counts? From your supporters?

No Donny, the evil 'progressives', ‘socialists’, and AOC are not making death threats in an election they won. You realize that makes zero sense, right? They aren't hiding anything. Seriously, you've bought into this so hard you don't realize you're talking and pushing baseless conspiracies.

Or do you..?

No one stole this election Donny, there is just no evidence of fraud, none, nada, zilch, just a lot of butt-hurt whinny Republicans who didn’t get their way. Even the Republicans in charge of the elections in their districts and states are saying it was a clean election, unless.... OF COURSE!!! They're only pretending to be Republicans! They've spent years undercover, knowing someday Biden would need them to smuggle in millions of ballots, disguised as Fox New camera equipment. Then, when all the aggressive GOP poll watchers' backs are turned... BAM! All those pre-marked ballots are thrown into the sorter. Election... STOLEN!!!

OMG… it’s all true!

Pre-tty nefarious. Really. See what I’m getting at here, Donny? See where it is allllll heading? Nutsy, coo-coo squirrel land. Yes, I'm making fun of the idea, but mine makes as much sense as what you, your family, and the GOP is selling. You do know Biden is up by 7 million right now. All fraudulent, I suppose? Donny, Donny, stop screaming. You want a soda? Press your Diet Coke button, buddy. Use it while you still can.

That better? Good. Where were we… Ah, yes, facts. Did you know that Republicans have struggled to win nationally for decades? Since 1992, only ONE Republican has won the popular vote. No, that wasn’t you pal, you lost by nearly three million votes. Yes, you did. Yes, you did. Donny, there is no evidence three million people voted illegally, none. No, there isn’t, No… Here I’ll press the button this time. It’s true, without the Electoral College saving them, Republicans can't win. You’re running out of angry White people. No Donny, it's not a conspiracy, it’s called ‘demographics’, and you’ve known it was coming for ya for years. And since you refuse to court POC, it's going to be harder and harder to win a national election.

Yes, even you, Don.

Come Donny, you know this nonsense is designed to undermine fair elections, undermine democracy (on the ‘Trump’ brand there), rile the armed far-right up (the ones making anonymous death threats, because classy) and give them a narrative to sell in 2022 (don't let them steal THIS one)…crazy.

You must know you can’t win, but you want to tear the whole place down out of spite. If you can’t have it, then no one can.

Like I said, on brand.

Movers will be here in January. Have your shit ready.

No One Is Coming

Romney has the look most of the country has right now. By Drew Angerer/Getty Images.

Seriously, people, did you expect Mitt Romney to go any other way?

Yes, he took a token stand when it meant nothing, and he knew it. He voted ‘guilty’ on one charge in the impeachment, but he knew it wouldn’t pass. He was already high on Trump’s shit list, he was in a safe seat, he had little to lose. But now? This vote is different and he knows it. So, he’s reminding everyone he’s the same stuffed shirt Republican he always was. No, this vote is different, this isn’t time for a symbolic stand on ‘principle’, this vote is about power, power that could change American life for the next 30 years. No, he's not about to risk everything, including a SCOTUS nominee that will kill the popular Roe v Wade and the ACA, for some silly 'reputation' as a ‘Reasonable’ Republican.

You kidding?

Ha!

It is long past time to get over yourself.

Did I know? I used to be a Mormon, and I know this; his church would not have forgiven him, and he is a sincerely religious man. I had a fleeting hope, but I figured his 'integrity' would go so far and no farther. In that safe vote 'against' Trump he was good, but denying his voters a chance to own the libs on the hated ADA (insuring some 10 million + people, and killing Roe v Wade, popular among a majority of voters) he folds like origami.

No, not surprised.

So, no, the fact that Mitt is an opportunistic Republican is not news (I followed his career, and that's what he's ALWAYS been) the fact that the ever-hopeful Democratic base thought he'd be anything else disappoints me.

Get over yourselves.

NO Republicans are going to step up and save you.

COME ON.

They have proved over that you can't work/trust with them, that should have been made clear in the past 30 some years, right? Good lord.

Fight.

Democracy is on the line.

The Trump Party will do ANYthing to win/steal this election. They believe they're entitled to do so. They have been gearing up for months to seize power by any means necessary. They can’t do it by ballots, they will do it with the courts, and now they have a bigger court majority than they did in 2000 with a 5-4 split gave the election to George W. Bush, a man who did not win the popular vote.

They have the Supreme Court, that don’t need the popular vote. They will shout ‘FRAUD!’, seize the ballots and throw enough confusion and lawsuits to drive it to the SCOTUS where a 3rd of the judges owe their seat to Trump. They will not recuse themselves.

Fight.

They steal SCOTUS seats? Expand the Court, expand the federal judiciary. Make territories actual states. Get rid of the Electoral College. Don't bother with what the GOP will scream, they will do that regardless. They play hardball, so the Democrats need to play hardball, and have to stop apologizing for it. Just stop.

Fight.

Fight everything. Make the GOP pay for the shit they pull, for a change.

Fight.

Democracy needs you now.

How to Steal an Election, Right in Front of Us

Trump has been railing against the United States Post Office for a while now, mostly as a way to get back at Jeff Bezos. Trump, the Fake billionaire, have a serious case of penis envy over Bezos, and the Bezos-owned Washington Post says mean things about him (except for Trump sycophants Hugh Hewitt and Marc Thiessen, their heads so far up Trump’s backside they know what he had for lunch). But, we figured, let him whine, it’s what he does, constantly. What can he do?

See, we sometimes forget, Trump has no moral compass, Trump is True North and everything points to him, they must point to him. If he can’t benefit from something, it’s of no use to him. He gets bored, and he walks (see: virus, corona, et al) So, he hatches a plan (documents now show he started this months ago). He installs a millionaire Republican donor as Postmaster General (who has millions of dollars invested in USPS competitors, because of course he does), in charge of PO operations. Louis DeJoy (yeah, that’s his name, kinda low-hanging, late-night comedy fruit, eh?) then starts in; DeJoy fires seasoned postal officials (you know, people who know what they’re doing, Trump hates that), and shuffles the rest around. Overtime is forbidden, mail starts to pile up. We get reports of the mails being slowed. Hell, we don’t need ‘reports’, we can see what’s going on as letters and packages are arriving late, if at all. When Congress drags him in to answer for the crap he’s up to (the stuff they know about) DeJoy claims he’s just trying to ‘save money’ and ‘make thing more efficient’. He would never ‘slow the mails’! Not him!

This is, of course, grade ‘A’ bullshit. Not the super fine, processed stuff you get at the big-box for the garden, this is the massive piles designed to hide things. Lies. Simple as that.

 Lies.

Anyone who has been paying attention the last three years should expect nothing else from anyone associated with Trump. Now, we have reports (and photos) of mailboxes being ‘decommissioned’, hundreds of sorting machines being removed from post offices in Michigan, West Virginia, Massachusetts, Maryland, and Texas, and that “more machine removals are planned in the months ahead,” according to documents now coming out. This is not ‘efficiency’.  

 No.

This does NOT 'save money'. This is a flat out attempt to slow the mail ahead of an election. Why? Here in WA, where I’m writing this, ballots just need to be post marked by election day, but in a majority of states, the ballot needs to ARRIVE by election day.

Trump's plan is to slow ballot delivery to the voter, and then slow the ballots getting to the election offices. Thousands, probably millions of ballots could be invalidated, tossed out, uncounted.

Also, the PO used to treat ballots (political mail) as first class, meaning it got priority, now they been ordered to treat it as 'bulk'. First class, has priority, it gets forwarded, they will try to find you and deliver your ballot, Bulk? It gets mulched. This will delay it even further, in fact many may never get their ballots in the first place. It may just get tossed, undelivered 

This is not an accident, this is by plan. Buy why? Why would a US President do this? Why would they destroy the integrity of a US election? Because Trump doesn’t care. He doesn’t care about anyone or anything but Donald J. Trump. Because Trump is scared, he may actually reading some of the polls and he’s decided that the cheating he was doing last time (working with Russia) will not be enough this time: he needs to steal and steal BIG. So he is. Trump is stealing the election before the election can take place and he’s using the United States Post Office to do it for him.

Right in front of us, in the open. And those in power are turning their heads.

Now the Washington Post is reporting that the USPS has told 46 states that their ballots might not be delivered by election day, disenfranchising millions of voters. This means the plan is working. Trump is winning before you can even vote.

What can we do? Congress is on vacation (McConnell is exhausted from denying millions of unemployed help, and from laughing at the 200,000 death toll). Find out where your representative is, call them, email them, make yourself a pest, demand a response to this naked power grab. Call your local newspaper (if you still have one), demand they cover this, respond to this, not lay down while democracy is getting trampled.

And it is.

Demand your voice to be heard.