Originally published at: Election Officials Gird For Unprecedented Federal Interference in the Midterms
Preparing for the Unthinkable President Trump’s concerted assault on free and fair elections is happening on so many fronts that it’s hard for a casual observer to keep track of it all, so I want to pull back briefly and offer a lens through which to assess the threat: election officials on the ground. Even…
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Natalie gets paycheck!
And FRIST!
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I try to get through the day without letting outrage be my dominant emotion. Then I read something like this and the meter goes to 10. Gifted link:
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He knows icebergs because he is a distant cousin, a fatberg.
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Just to state the obvious:
The idea that the President, any President, can unilaterally make fundamental changes to the manner in which elections are conducted is Nazi bullshit. Damn SCROTUS to hell if they give that fuckwit a pass on this.
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On the tariff side of the front.
https://apnews.com/article/canada-carney-trump-tariffs-trade-war-a5fbb50d1c30327ae813482556a37ac3
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Just think how much more effective Bushnell’s invention would have been had he thought to fully enclose it, and not leave one side entirely open for water to flood in.
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There was a sandwich shop in Iowa City named Bushnell’s Turtle. Closed a few decades ago but I still miss it.
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Heather & Paul & Tim:
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You need a bigger meter.
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Silly me, despite my degree in political science, I always thought that Congress had to declare war and that the states administered federal and local elections. Next he’ll be claiming he rescued the survivors of the General Slocumb disaster. He’s out of his frigging mind! 86 47
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Is it too early to form a fascist ‘International (maybe we could devote resources to figure out a work around from the extreme nationalism – like “whiteness.”)’
You know, with support from the parties of the vanguard nations leading us towards a brighter future of social and ‘genetic’ homogeneity?
And, always on guard against the ideas and institutions of communism?
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