President Donald Trump and the Republican Party want their supporters to vote by mail, but they have an odd way of showing it.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1330965
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1330965
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You can just smell the desperation. It reeks.
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This singular obsession with mail in voting just might make one think there’s some hanky panky going on in the pipeline for voting machines without paper trails. Or even with!
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Flailing, falling and failing! That’s Donnie! What a maroon!
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I hate them. I really do. Not just for ratfking the country but for sowing hatred and mistrust in their wake.
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We should all take a tip from Michael Cohen (ha) and keep those voting receipts! Get a mail in ballot and deliver it to your proper drop box, county clerk’s office, what have you. Make a copy of your ballot also too. Especially if you are in one of those swing state / electoral college districts they’re doing algorithms on.
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So the needle they’re trying to thread is to broadcast to the public “Mail in voting is bad” but narrowcast to his base that “Mail in voting is good.”
Seems ripe for messaging chaos.
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My thoughts exactly. They stink of fear. Smells like winning. 
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Republicans would be smart to do the same so that we have the advantage.”
simple quiz: which 3 words don’t jive with reality? lol
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It’s actually pretty simple…the Republican party does not want “government” to provide “vote by mail” to everyone, so that the party can carpet bomb only likely Republican voters. If the party is spending money on GOTV, they don’t want anti-Republican voters getting any help to vote.
So, make it harder for anti-Republican voters, and easier for Republican voters. Win Win
*&^%$#@!
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Reminder -- BIG reminder: Trump will be LEADING on Election Night b/c mail-in ballots won't yet be counted.
— Billy Ray (@BillyRay5229) September 7, 2020
He'll declare victory.
It will be premature. And bullshit.
So repeat after me, a million times:
"This year, Election Day is only HALFTIME"@TheRickWilson @donwinslow https://t.co/g2NfDqmJ2b
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… the state’s Republican Party is sending those same applications to all of its voters, just with Donald Trump’s face on the mailer…
It’s a lenticular image. If you view it from a different angle, it changes to Kanye West.
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Spending cash on opposite messaging is a recipe for chaos.
One might say ot would only benefit a foreign power.
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Makes you think that maybe the point of raising alarms about mail in voting isn’t to discourage mail in voting, but rather to seed the ground for claiming fraud & contesting the result when he loses… 
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Apparently, vote-by-mail IOKIYAAR.
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Attorneys, help me on this. Could the defendants file a Motion asking the court to take judicial notice of what Trump has said about absentee ballots, pro and con? And could that be granted? Could it result in a dismissal of said case?
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How much longer? How many days?
Excuse me. Off Topic.
The U.S. Justice Department is seeking to take over President Donald Trump’s defense in a defamation lawsuit from a writer [E Jean Carroll] who accused him of rape, and federal lawyers asked a court Tuesday to allow a move that could put the American people on the hook for any money she might be awarded.
WHAT???
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WTAF???
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Trump on mailed ballots: his speech to a group over the weekend was on today’s news (KPFA), where he had the temerity to paraprase the wisdom frequently reposted here and elsewhere that [Political Party 1] can only win by cheating. Well, guess what, Trump now says that Democrats can only win by cheating! When in fact it is the case that the only way Democrats can lose is if the Republicans cheat bigly and Democratic turnout is too low.