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I'm way more terrified (way, *way* more terrified) of his USPS fuckery. Things are badly backlogged *now*, how are things going to look when there're three months more of mail ahead of millions of ballots?
What if instead of delaying it, we just extend the voting period from a week before to November 3rd instead of just a single day. That way if people want to vote in-person they can get a ballot and submit it any time during that period (to avoid large crowds) and other people can just mail it in if they want.
I know where you're coming from, but:
Fuck that shit. This is the kind of shit you can't slump your shoulders and back down from. This is the kind of shit people need to rise up against, not sink into defeat.
Who thinks he wasn't going to try? We already saw him building up this narrative since midterms and trying to do things like cutting funding to the USPS.
I believe people saying he's "not able to do it" is referring to how states still run the elections, not the federal government. There are more elections than just the Presidential race, so I personally have doubts this approach is able to pick up much steam.
so what does that say about the states that are extremely pro-Trump?
the problem is that he's not only going to try, but a non-insignificant amount of governments are perfectly happy to sit at the sidelines being like "hey let's see where this goes" because we would be in uncharted territory at that point
From May:
www.newsweek.com
Trump Says He Won't Delay Election Day, Calls Suggestion 'Propaganda'
"I never even thought of changing the date of the election," Trump said. "Why would I do that?"
www.newsweek.com
He thinks the economy will be great and there will be a vaccine if we wait and it will save his chances.
At this point it may well be easier to tear down and rebuild than to continually try for incremental change in a system that allowed Trump to take office in the first place.
Welp, lets see how much our rules(Read: very loose gentlemen agreements with no enforcement, and only loopholes to prevent tyranny), that hes managed to break his entire presidency, are going to hold up to this. Now that hes actively saying he wants to delay the election.
We're going to find out if those youtubers were right about how impossible it would be.
Exactly.
We're going to find out if those youtubers were right about how impossible it would be.
Exactly.
I mean who didn't see this coming? And I wonder what he'll get the Senate to do to make this all fall through. I'm sure they'll relax all Covid restrictions to help it spread even further to justify their cause. I'm sick to my stomach right now
And so he wades in the waters of the rubicon
If he convinces the GOP to go with this - legal or no - don't expect him to vacate in January either. They'll waffle on about unusual circumstances as an excuse
If he convinces the GOP to go with this - legal or no - don't expect him to vacate in January either. They'll waffle on about unusual circumstances as an excuse
They have been doing that and the senators are just flat ignoring them.
If we were actually interested in representative elections, we'd have at least one federal election holiday, we'd increase the voting period from one day to, say, five, and we'd implement universal, no-excuse vote-by-mail. This should have happened decades ago.
who will be the first to say, "I don't approve of the President's wording of the statement but I agree with him"
Back when Donald tweeted about the batshit conspiracy theory about a 75 year old man being antifa after he was assaulted by police:
Burgess Everett @burgessev
Sen. Gardner has not seen the tweet and didn't want to look at it. Says he's focused on his outdoors bill on the Senate floor and was in a rush to get up there
10:56 AM - Jun 9, 2020
Jake Sherman @JakeSherman
Burgess has made it easy. He has the tweet printed for all senators to see. https://twitter.com/burgessev/status/1270369243234738177 …
11:01 AM - Jun 9, 2020
Sen. Gardner has not seen the tweet and didn't want to look at it. Says he's focused on his outdoors bill on the Senate floor and was in a rush to get up there
10:56 AM - Jun 9, 2020
Jake Sherman @JakeSherman
Burgess has made it easy. He has the tweet printed for all senators to see. https://twitter.com/burgessev/status/1270369243234738177 …
11:01 AM - Jun 9, 2020
He always does that, he puts question marks at the end, so he's "just asking questions" but everyone knows he means it.
Trump supporters are arse holes??
Trump supporters are arse holes??
Considering our country has voted during multiple wars, including a Civil War, I have a hard time believing that this could be taken seriously.
Then the states that are extremely pro-Trump won't hold elections and blue states will which Republicans definitely won't want.
And if they think that cities are burning now...
I had to check r/conservative.
There are people there calling it fake news. They were actually down voted though.
There are people there calling it fake news. They were actually down voted though.
LOLing at the people who think that any kind of precedent or the constitution itself matter to this sack of shit or his sycophants.
Dude's going to do all sorts of shit and he's going to get away with it because the rules don't matter anymore. He's not interested in following them, and nobody's interested in enforcing them.
He's already sending in his thugs to harass cities and ignoring Supreme Court orders. Precedent don't mean shit.
Wait till he says that the ballots for the election are being printed in Russia being brought to the States by plane in the middle of the night.
Obvious weather balloon tweet. He's saying it like a question. They want to see what the public thinks of this.
That news about the economy hit so he had to hit the button early.
"Sorry, I don't have time to look at that"
You can't win a war where only side is actually on the field
It's so weird, if Trump actually did his job, acted swiftly with Covid, he would probably be in a semi decent place going into the election or could at least argue he did something.
Maybe make it safer with mail voting, more polling stations etc. but I guess he wouldn't hear any of that!
Maybe make it safer with mail voting, more polling stations etc. but I guess he wouldn't hear any of that!
There it fucking is. We knew he was going to try it. Let's see if he actually does anything other than throw a fit on Twitter over it.
COVID's a "hoax" until it involves him possibly getting voted out. The country is going to be safer once that motherfucker is voted out of office.
COVID's a "hoax" until it involves him possibly getting voted out. The country is going to be safer once that motherfucker is voted out of office.
I'm not 100% sure if you're being sarcastic or not but I'm pretty sure a country at war with itself was pretty uncharted territory.
We held elections during the Civil War when half the nation was in open, militarized revolt. There is no precedence.
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