President Donald Trump stood by his push to change the date of the 2020 election on Friday, but apparently he now wants it moved in the opposite direction.
Wildly contradictory statements suggesting unheard-of changes to fundamental practices in our democracy within what—30 hours or so? There’s only one real news story here and it has nothing to do with election dates or methods. This man is mentally ill and cannot fulfill his duties.
Part of the blatant power grab. F’ing up the USPS, f’ing up mail-in ballot procedures. F’ing up every goddamned soft spot in this country’s government social and operating structure.
Yeah, he’s just losing it. The media should probably resist the temptation to breathlessly report every brain burp he has, particularly since he has no authority – short of launching a coup and suspending the Constitution – to changing the election date.
The actual story is his very real and very dangerous campaign to undermine the legitimacy of the election by claiming it was rigged with mail-in ballots.
Yes, this from the guy who wanted to buy Greenland. My father used to tell to to want in one hand and shit in the other and see which one gets full faster.
“What I really want is for someone to declare me the winner. No election sooner, later, on the appropriate date, with or without early voting, with or without adequate number of polling places in all communities, with or without absentee or mail-in voting. Just make me the winner so I can continue and never be held accountable for my corruption, criminality, grifting, and destruction of the country.”