Trump Disgraces America Every Day

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Stephen King
@StephenKing

Let me see if I can do it. It's hard, I'm not at Trump's genius level, but I'll try. Here we go:
Person...woman...man...camera...Biden for President!
How'd I do?

11:28 AM · Jul 24, 2020·Twitter Web App

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Orange Shitstain's tweet about delaying the election is just the beginning of a much more dangerous plan
'We can't simply assume that Trump is as dumb as he seems… this is a setup for something else,' one legal expert told me. A Florida-based Republican told me his colleagues are now prepared 'to do anything' to keep Trump in power

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices...-a9646786.html

“He must know — or even though he's personally very ignorant, his lawyers must know — that three US code chapter one, which sets the date for the election, can be changed only by Congress,” said Harvard Emeritus Professor Laurence Tribe, author of the seminal law school text on the constitution, American Constitutional Law.

Tribe posited that because only Congress can change the date of the election, Trump is positioning himself to blame the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives and Speaker Nancy Pelosi for making it impossible to pass any sort of measure to carry out his demand, and to pressure Republican-controlled state legislatures to nullify the results should he lose in states like Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, or Michigan.

“Once he blames the House, then I think it's his plan… to try to get a red state like Pennsylvania to invoke three USC section two, [which allows state legisatures to appoint electors directly] and claim that the election failed because of fraudulent mail-in ballots, and therefore the state legislature should name its own slate, rather than rely on the results of the popular election,” he said. “That's really what we have to be prepared for. We can't simply assume that the guy [Trump] is as dumb as he seems… this is a setup for something else.”

While Raskin stressed that the President appears to be focusing on many electoral “choke points” in his push to preemptively cast doubt on a losing result, he concurred with his former law professor’s assessment that Trump looks to be angling for GOP-controlled state legislatures “in swing states where the popular vote has clearly moved in a Democratic direction like Wisconsin, Ohio, North Carolina, [and] Pennsylvania” to step in to save him from an embarrassing defeat.

“What they would like to do is to use Republican control over legislative bodies to prevent the appointment of electors for the winner in the popular vote, so the trick will be to create these little electoral Reichstag fires, which they can use to claim election fraud in some trumped up way,” he added.

[RickeyM]

I don't think that's as much as his plan but the ones in the GOP pulling the strings. They are well aware of his desire to stay in office and out of jail. All they had to do was whisper in Donny's ear that is the path to staying in office. There appear to be two groups, one that believes skullduggery will in fact be involved and another that thinks that these efforts are so fantastic that they doubt they will happen.

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Federalist Society Co-founder: Orange Shitstain's tweet floating election delay is grounds for impeachment

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/30/polit...ing/index.html

The co-founder of the conservative Federalist Society said Thursday in a blistering New York Times op-ed that President Donald Trump's tweet musing about a delay to November's presidential election is grounds for impeachment.

Steven Calabresi, a Northwestern University law professor who has offered broad defenses of the President in recent years, wrote, "I am frankly appalled by the president's recent tweet seeking to postpone the November election. Until recently, I had taken as political hyperbole the Democrats' assertion that President Trump is a fascist."

"But this latest tweet is fascistic and is itself grounds for the president's immediate impeachment again by the House of Representatives and his removal from office by the Senate," he said.

It's a significant break from the co-founder of one of the most influential groups in Republican politics. The Federalist Society has emerged as a leading conservative and libertarian voice in recent years, urging a limited role for judges in society's problems.

The Federalist Society is responsible for getting a drunken frat boy rapist on SCOTUS, among many other despicable acts.

An aside to our resident fascists: He, of course, sent his op-ed to this country's paper of record, the NYT, not to some disgusting farce of a conservative "news" source like Breitfart or wherever you clowns get your "news".

[donquixote99]

Lovely if this guy has seen the light, but he has a long record of complicity to atone for. Need a lot more from him.

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Video resurfaces of Orange Shitstain struggling to vote in person in 2004 as he ramps up attacks on mail-in voting

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/31/polit...deo/index.html

Video of then-businessman Donald Trump struggling to vote in-person before declaring he would fill out an absentee ballot in 2004 has resurfaced this week amid a new round of unfounded attacks on mail-in voting from the President.

The "Access Hollywood" segment, filmed as Trump was attempting to vote in the 2004 election, shows Trump alongside TV host Billy Bush visiting multiple New York City polling locations. Trump, however, is blocked from voting at each location because he is not on any of the voter rolls at each stop.

Trump can be seen becoming increasingly frustrated before declaring, "I'm going to fill out the absentee ballot."

The segment ends with Trump filling out what Bush describes as a provisional ballot in his car.

F'ing hypocrite.

[RickeyM]

More and more President Virus is trying with all his might to discredit the 2020 election so he can contest his loss.

“You’re sending out hundreds of millions of universal mail-in ballots. Hundreds of millions.”

This is just the beginning.

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Heather Cox Richardson

July 31, 2020 (Friday)

Everything now coming from the White House is about Trump’s reelection. While all presidential candidates want to win, they are usually able to accept the idea of a loss. Trump, though, has gone so far as to suggest delaying the election, an unprecedented step which would buy him some time in the hope a coronavirus vaccine would help the U.S. crawl out of the hole it’s in and turn his popularity around.

In his quest for reelection, he is attacking the idea of mail-in voting, although he himself has used it often—his distinction between mail-in voting and absentee voting is imaginary. While the Republican Party has traditionally applauded mail-in voting, which enables seniors who tend to vote Republican to cast a ballot more easily, this year it runs the risk of permitting Democrats, who are afraid of catching Covid-19 at a polling place, to vote. Low voter turnout favors Republicans. So Trump is pushing the idea that “Mail-In Ballots will lead to MASSIVE electoral fraud and a RIGGED 2020 Election.” There is no evidence that this is true.

When his tweet yesterday about delaying the election backfired, he turned to another angle of attack on mail-in voting, insisting that the election must be decided on Election Day itself, November 3. He tweeted: “Must know Election results on the night of the Election, not days, months, or even years later!”
In fact, there is no law that says election results must come the same day as the election. Historically, they used to take days. Votes need to be counted carefully. Some states permit any ballots that are postmarked by Election Day, and they take time to arrive. Provisional ballots need to be examined. Modern media channels like to see results quickly because it makes for good television, but that opens up the problem of vote tallies changing after an election result is called. This year, since significant numbers of ballots might come in after Election Day, it is reasonable to expect a final tally might come days after November 3.

What appears to be going on in Trump’s tweets is an attempt to rig the mechanics of the election to enable him to win by manipulating the ballots and counting. This, in turn, is leading to an attack on the United States Postal Service in order to delay or prevent the delivery of ballots.
Here’s the story:

On May 6, the board of governors of the United States Postal Service appointed Louis DeJoy to the position of Postmaster General. The board of governors consists entirely of Trump appointees, since the Senate stopped confirming appointees to it during President Barack Obama’s term, and began to confirm them again in 2018. DeJoy was a top donor to President Trump and the Republican National Committee, giving more than $2 million since 2016. For two decades the Postmaster General has risen from within the ranks of the agency, but DeJoy has no experience with the USPS. He was appointed after the vice chair of the board of governors, Democrat David Williams, resigned, citing the attempts of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to politicize the traditionally non-political USPS.

The pandemic is crippling the revenue of the agency since most mail is sent by businesses, which suddenly shut down in March. The USPS is projecting a $13 billion revenue shortfall by the end of September. In an early coronavirus relief bill, Congress allowed the agency to borrow $10 billion from the Treasury Department to help stem the bleeding. But Mnuchin refused to loan the money without terms that would turn over much of the operation of the USPS to the Treasury Department. Williams and the other Democrat on the board refused, but the three Republicans on the board were open to at least some of Mnuchin’s terms.

On July 14, DeJoy put major changes in place. These, he said, were intended to cut costs in order to keep the USPS afloat, but this explanation is suspicious since as soon as Trump was sworn in, his Office of Management and Budget produced a report that called for privatizing the USPS.

The emphasis on DeJoy's changes is significantly less time spent managing the mail. For example, letter carriers must now leave mail behind at distribution centers if it would delay the completion of their routes according to new, tight, schedules. Traditionally, letter carriers make multiple delivery trips to ensure letters and packages are delivered on time; now the materials will wait for the next day. There will no longer be any overtime, and postal hours are being cut. Already, post offices are seeing a growing backlog of mail.

Trump has long criticized the USPS, apparently both because he blames it for the financial success of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who owns the Washington Post, which is highly critical of Trump, and because he would like to privatize the agency’s highly valuable assets.

The USPS is self-funding; it does not receive support from tax dollars, and it is required to serve the entire country. It employs more than 630,000 workers, including a large proportion of people of color, women, and more than 100,000 military veterans. It has a valuable fleet of vans and real estate, but more than that, it has proprietary information highly sought after by private mail carriers. It does not, in fact, undercharge Amazon or any other large customer; by law it cannot do so.

On Wednesday, the USPS took a step toward Trump's demands when it agreed to give Mnuchin the agency’s proprietary information on its ten largest service contracts, including that of Amazon, FedEx, and UPS, in exchange for getting the $10 billion loan it needs to survive.

Trump’s war on the agency has been helped by a longstanding crisis in the USPS, stemming from a provision in the 2006 overhaul of the agency that required it to prepay the health benefits of its retirees, beginning with ten years of payments of about $5 billion a year. This requirement was pushed hard by Republicans, and it is unusual for any company.

Under it, the agency immediately began to lose money, especially as the recession hit, and then as Americans increasingly began to use electronic communications. Since 2012, the USPS has not been able to meet its prefunding requirement, but without it, the agency would have made a modest operating profit every year since 2013. The huge prefunding burden has also meant the USPS has not been able to invest in modernizing and upgrading its facilities.

In February, the House of Representatives voted to eliminate the prefunding requirement, but a companion Senate bill was referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, where Chair Ron Johnson (R-WI) is focused not on the USPS, but on his investigation of Hunter Biden.

The USPS is popular. Ninety percent of Americans have a favorable view of it. If Congress allows the USPS to collapse and private companies take over the mail business, we can expect what we have seen with private internet providers: thorough service in urban areas that will turn a healthy profit, either none or very expensive service in rural areas.

Knowing how their constituents will react to the end of the mail system that was established in our Constitution, congress members have, in the past, been reluctant to destroy it. But now, the 2020 election might well hinge on mail-in ballots.

It is interesting to note that, for all the Republican Senators who spoke up to reject Trump’s call for a delayed election, not one of them is speaking up at this crucial moment for protecting the United States Postal Service, the agency on which many of us will depend to deliver our vote to election officials in November.

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If Biden Gets Mail-In Vote Advantage, Majority of Orange Shitstain Voters Say They Won't Accept His Win: Poll

https://www.newsweek.com/if-biden-ge...n-poll-1522061

...and they say it's not a cult...

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Alienated by Orange Shitstain, Suburban Voters Sour on G.O.P. in Battle for the House
House Republicans are on the defensive in suburban strongholds as voters reject President* Trump’s handling of the coronavirus and calls for racial justice.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/01/u...ans-house.html