President Trump took his war on vote-by-mail to the next level last week with a pair of tweets Wednesday morning threatening to hold federal funding for Michigan and Nevada hostage due to the states’ moves to expand absentee voting. Both states are mailing out absentee ballot applications to registered voters (Trump, in his initial tweet targeting Michigan, claimed falsely that the state was universally mailing out ballots). The White House refused to provide an explanation for the tweets, nonsensically claiming it was a question for the campaign. If Trump makes good on the threat, he will almost certainly face a legal challenge.
Not to be Debbie Downer, but I don’t why people think that all these former felons are going to vote. I’m sure some will, but doubt it will be in big big numbers. Hope I’m wrong, but you know… come on… they probably didn’t vote before they got locked up.
Pfffft. This is said by the overindulged, overentitled jerks that VOTE BY MAIL because they are ‘so important’. Trump is doing Trump. Threaten, sue, send to court, get past the issue (voting in November) and then shrug, smile and know you got ‘your’ way.
Ah, come on guys. Voting isn’t a right, it’s a privilege…like health care, food, breathable air and being protected from a pandemic by your government.
As the death toll in the coronavirus pandemic neared 100,000 Americans this Memorial Day weekend, President Trump derided and insulted perceived enemies and promoted a baseless conspiracy theory, in between rounds of golf.
In a flurry of tweets and retweets Saturday and Sunday, Trump mocked former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams’s weight, ridiculed the looks of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and called former Democratic presidential rival Hillary Clinton a “skank.”
He revived long-debunked speculation that a television host with whom Trump has feuded may have killed a woman and asserted without evidence that mail-in voting routinely produces ballot stuffing.
He made little mention of the sacrifice Americans honor on Memorial Day or the grim toll of the virus.
If even a small part of you doesn’t wish for him to catch and succumb to the virus, then there’s either something wrong with you, or you’re the second coming of Christ. The man is pure vileness, personified, and there’s literally no good reason to not wish bad things upon him.
And almost no reaction, except from everyday folks like us, on boards like this. Is that good or bad?
If political leaders reacted to such disgusting behavior, would it only serve to make it more prominent and play into his hands? Or would it further harm his approval numbers and reelection chances? It just feels like every time he does this, without an outraged response, our democracy dies a little.
So why is unlawfully attempting to hold up funds authorized by congress just a matter for “legal challenge”? I would hope that the mere announcement should be indictable as election tampering in each of the states threatened.
