Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson on Wednesday night rejected President Donald Trump’s bogus claims in his fit of fury over her decision to send out applications to vote by mail to registered voters in her state.
Jocelyn Benson should be nonplussed by Trump’s tweets. Not enough people are nonplussed about things these days. I think being nonplussed is a lost art.
It’s going to be a loooong slog to November 3 at the rate this administration is going. They are going to hurl so much bullshit and make so many criminal accusations, what’s happening this week will pale in comparison. There is no rule of law any more…their opponents are all criminals and pedophiles. Obamagate! Hunter Biden! Mike Flynn a hero! If you do vote by mail during a pandemic, you should be jailed!* *(unless in a red state).
It’s hard to imagine what else they’ll come up with, but boy, will they. Meanwhile, we’ll probably be at 250,000 dead Americans by then, and they’ll ignore every single one of them. The party of Die for the Dow is in ascension!
“Dumbfounded”
We all find dumb in Trump daily
He puts the “stupid” in “stupify.”
"Figures don’t lie, but liars do figure." – Mark Twain
I know we’ve only known
each other four weeks and three days, but to me it seems like
nine weeks and five days. The first day seemed like a week and
the second day seemed like five days and the third day seemed
like a week again and the fourth day seemed like eight days and
the fifth day you went to see your mother and that seemed just
like a day and then you came back and later on the sixth day, in
then evening, when we saw each other, that started seeming like
two days, so in the evening it seemed like two days spilling over
into the next day and that started seeming like four days, so at
the end of the sixth day on into the seventh day, it seemed like
a total of five days. And the sixth day seemed like a week and a
half. I have it written down, but I can show it to you tomorrow
if you want to see it.
It’ll be interesting to see if Mangolini breaks MI law by not wearing a mask today. It would really be quite the campaign ad where the nation’s chief law executor shits on state law.
Welcome to the rest of us.
Perpetual state of dumbfoundedness not only with his asininity but with the idiots that eat this up as fact every single day.
Even defining “nonplussed” has become a lost art.
They will assert “voter fraud” several times a day between now and November, thus creating a reality in the heads of the sad and violent people whose lives are so empty that they can only find meaning in anger. Planting the idea of a stolen election is their only hope.
They’ve had a lot of practice. They started way back in 2016.
The Michigan AG just noted if he does not wear a mask that the State may have to take action against FORD for letting him in the building.
Game On!
In the US.
Elsewhere, they’re hardly nonplussed by the word.
It’s an inflammable subject.
I have some fool on a local page insisting that all sorts of voter fraud took place in April - thousands of Milwaukee votes, she said. Of course when challenged to back that up, she says the local clerk told her so, but has no verifiable proof.
Folks, I’m preaching to the choir here. But in the case of the several thousand voters being purged from the rolls to prevent fraud, there’s nothing wrong with being registered in a couple of places. Nothing at all. Hell, when I moved to Wisconsin from Connecticut, I was probably temporarily registered in two places for at least one election cycle. Once I didn’t show up after a couple of elections, the rules generally state that I can be removed, legally and without question.
The problem isn’t illegal registration - the problem is when people like my situation above try to actually cast a ballot in both places in the same election. What they cannot seem to prove in this entire argument is that these ‘illegally registered’ people actually committed voter fraud by casting a ballot in multiple districts. The only time that’s ever been recorded to have happened is by GOP voters and those folks have gone to jail.
The GOP’s voter fraud angle is entirely wrong and I am not surprised that the media is too stupid or too craven to point out the difference. Hell, even the Dems aren’t pointing out the stupidity, so how does anyone expect the minions or anyone else to understand the process?
And yes, applications are not ballots. But forget that crap: get on line and take some personal responsibility and file for your own damned ballot. I do it every year, because I’m rarely home for elections. It isn’t that big of a deal and it doesn’t compromise anything - at least at that point, you have a paper trail to prove your registration, making it that much harder to be removed.
When did Americans become so damned dumb (rhetorical question, ok?)?
“I’m dumbfounded this is controversial because there are Democratic and Republican secretaries of state doing what we’re doing here in Michigan,”
My, my, my, she really doesn’t get it, does she?
Controversy comes whenever you put both parties in the same statement, like they’re expected to follow the same rules or something.
They’re different parties for a reason, don’tcha know?
I’ll give him this: Never underestimate the value of a good laugh.
Here’s a good rundown on the etymology:
And? We are not yet to the burn-it-all-down part of the play.
You knew this would come. As far back as Bush II. That at some juncture the voting numbers would turn sideways for Rs. Voter suppression tactics would go from dog-whistle to bullhorn.
Welcome to Act I in a 5 month-long production where no one rehearses or practices their lines.