Recognizing that the conspiracy theories Donald Trump pushed in 2020 to anticipate and then fight his election loss mostly suppressed Republican turnout at the polls, the Republican Party has been trying since the midterms to do some shameless about-facing and embrace early voting and vote-by-mail practices. The main thing standing in the way of their 180 has been Donald Trump.
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“he’s suspicious of the postal workers, of anyone who could touch the ballot.”
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Transl: he assumes all postal and election workers are Black, brown, or women, and he doesn’t believe they can be trusted. He’s a fraudulent Adderall-addled fatassed old white racist scumbag.
Trump now has DeJoy running the USPS so now that the fix is in Vote-By-Mail vote early and often Repubs.
The postal service is the largest employer of veterans, particularly Black and Brown veterans. Most are unionized and have little respect for someone like Trump who wants to dismantle not only the postal system but improvements to representative democracy like vote by mail.
… … … … (((GUFFAW AND BELLY LAUGHTER)))
Plus, he smells bad, so people say.
Blathering Buffoon Bombs!
Next step: GOP-run states mandate the envelopes for Vote-By-Mail ballots be different colors: 1 Color for Republican voters and a different color for everyone else. That way DeJoy’s people can give priority handling to one and conveniently delay the others.
There are so many awesome anomalies in this campaign - even ‘campaign’, the word itself, is a subterfuge. Trump is running for his life and gunning for power. His campaign is insane, because he’s insane.
His believers will be carrying his cross for him through endless stations unto November.
Counting on that man keeping quiet is like expecting the Sun to rise in the West. Ain’t gonna happen.
How can you say the vote was suppressed when he got 10 million more voters in 2020 than he did in 2016? That’s the anomaly. The fact that we never investigated where those votes came from is a product of him pointing at Dems so hard.
These people are motivated by hatred that is inspired by and justified by their tax-free religion. Are we meant to believe those people wouldn’t fuck the vote for Jesus? Nobody will look because…what exactly.
I think it’s more projection. If he would cheat that way, he expects everyone else to be okay with cheating.
Trump said it. I heard him.
“Voting by mail is bad. People shouldn’t do it.” As the article confirms, Donald doesn’t trust mailmen.
That’s because the mailman only brings him bills, and not greenbacks, but amounts due.
I just hope Republican voters in the rural areas can get the word before they go to all that wasted trouble : - )
In February 2023, the Trump campaign first signaled the Republican Party’s revised thinking on the issue of early voting with a fundraising email letting supporters know that Trump was going to start looking into “harvesting ballots in every state we can.”
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Harvesting eh?
Sounds like ballot box stuffing to me
Lotta bsmboo paper ballots in gold lettering saying “poke here for donald trump and get $20 off on a new bible!!!”
And he will be carrying his favorite book the Bible.
Which he will be willing to sell you for way too much.
Good luck with that.
‘A person close to Trump said the hope is that Trump will largely leave the topic alone publicly and not sabotage the efforts.’
He should have kept his mouth shut.
—J Kimmel