Joe Biden's lead over Donald Trump among registered voters has significantly narrowed since June, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS, even as the former vice president maintains an advantage over the President on several top issues and his choice of California Sen. Kamala Harris as a running mate earns largely positive reviews.
And on the eve of the party conventions, a majority of voters (53%) are "extremely enthusiastic" about voting in this year's election, a new high in CNN polling in presidential election cycles back to 2003.
Overall, 50% of registered voters back the Biden-Harris ticket, while 46% say they support Trump and Pence, right at the poll's margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points. Among the 72% of voters who say they are either extremely or very enthusiastic about voting this fall, Biden's advantage over Trump widens to 53% to 46%. It is narrower, however, among those voters who live in the states that will have the most impact on the electoral college this fall.
Across 15 battleground states, the survey finds Biden has the backing of 49% of registered voters, while Trump lands at 48%.
To be clear, Joe Biden could have picked a table lamp as his running mate and his choice would have gotten largely positive reviews from the media. Even those members of the media who hated both Biden and Harris and listed them at the bottom of their choices, now seem to believe that dumber and hummer are the savior of mankind. Such commentary that attempts to undermine the poll results is just a classic example of liberal media believing it's own hype regarding it's own influence. Reality is that people don't care what the media says about Joe Biden's running mate.
I believe that it is also true that there is likely an increasing amount of voters on the coasts that have become more and more anti-Trump as their Governors continue to blame the President for Covid issues and social unrest (rioting) that they have not been able to get under control. As I have stated before, there will come a time when liberal voters from the large coastal states will pad a Democratic Presidential candidates popular vote lead to the point where it will become necessary for a Democrat to win by 4-5 points in order to garner a Electoral College victory.
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I TOLD YOU NOT TO GET TOO EXCITED ABOUT THAT ONE CNN POLL. :-)
Biden Keeps Double-Digit Lead
August 17, 2020 at 6:29 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
A new ABC News/Washington Post poll finds Joe Biden holds a
12 percentage-point lead over Donald Trump among registered voters,
53% to 41%,
and a similar 10 points among likely voters,
54% to 44%.
Key finding:
Just 14% of Americans say the coronavirus pandemic is under control.
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IT'S STILL THE PANDEMIC, STUPID.
CNN is Fake News!
Biden Heads Into Convention with Advantage
August 17, 2020 at 7:23 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
Politico:
“A spate of new polling conducted just before the back-to-back Democratic and Republican conventions, which kick off on Monday, shows that Biden’s advantage remains significant, though there are signs the race has tightened slightly from earlier in the summer.
“While Biden’s lead has shrunk modestly, Trump has not yet closed the gap enough to markedly improve his underdog odds of winning reelection. Any advantage he holds on the states that make up an Electoral College majority — which allowed him to win the presidency four years ago despite receiving 2.9 million fewer votes than Hillary Clinton — is insufficient to overcome his current deficit.”
The consensus electoral map shows Biden at 320 electoral votes.
Average 8/3 - 8/15 50.2 42.5 Biden +7.7
CNN 8/12 - 8/15 50 46 Biden +4
ABC/WP 8/12 - 8/15 54 44 Biden +10
CBS News 8/12 - 8/14 52 42 Biden +10
NBC/WSJ 8/9 - 8/12 50 41 Biden +9
FOX News 8/9 - 8/12 49 42 Biden +7
The Hill 8/8 - 8/11 44 40 Biden +4
CNBC* 8/7 - 8/9 50 44 Biden +6
Monmouth* 8/6 - 8/10 51 41 Biden +10
Rasmussen 8/5 - 8/11 49 43 Biden +6
NPR/PBS 8/3 - 8/11 53 42 Biden +11
it will become necessary for a Democrat to win by 4-5 points in order to garner a Electoral College victory.
Average 8/3 - 8/15 50.2 42.5 Biden +7.7
RCP Average 8/3 - 8/15 50.2 42.5 Biden +7.7
CNN 8/12 - 8/15 50 46 Biden +4
ABC/WP 8/12 - 8/15 54 44 Biden +10
CBS News 8/12 - 8/14 52 42 Biden +10
NBC/WSJ 8/9 - 8/12 50 41 Biden +9
FOX News 8/9 - 8/12 49 42 Biden +7
The Hill 8/8 - 8/11 44 40 Biden +4
CNBC* 8/7 - 8/9 50 44 Biden +6
Monmouth* 8/6 - 8/10 51 41 Biden +10
Rasmussen 8/5 - 8/11 49 43 Biden +6
NPR/PBS 8/3 - 8/11 53 42 Biden +11
A friend of mine says:
it will become necessary for a Democrat to win by 4-5 points in order to garner a Electoral College victory.
Average 8/3 - 8/15 50.2 42.5 Biden +7.7
He has remained silent since I said this!
Harris is a positive person and a great candidate
Blogger Roger Amick said...
Harris is a positive person and a great candidate
she's a lying cunt, a whore, and an all-around piece of shit.
in other words, the perfect democrat.
It’s Forrest Gump
Joe and Jenny,
He’s retarded and she’s a whore
pure class -
In what organizers described as hundreds of boats, people supporting the re-election campaign of President Donald Trump sailed up and down Lake George Sunday flying Trump flags, American flags and Back the Blue flags.
[...]
"Let's make this a parade to be proud of! No badmouthing the opponent, just our pride for our country and DJT PLEASE," a Facebook organizer wrote.
https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Trump-boat-parade-circles-Lake-George-15488164.php
ALBANY — As local elections boards across the state prepare for handling an estimated 8 million absentee ballots in the general election, some officials have warned that the surge in mail-in ballots is a recipe for fraud.
Elections officials say New York does not have a system in place to handle massive mail-in voting like other states and inevitably local boards will run into issues with staffing and resources, said Rachel Bledi, the Albany County Board of Elections Republican commissioner.
“When you don’t have the ability to control the mechanism for voting; you don’t have witnesses to witness the voter voting; and you don’t have safeguards in place to protect the voters’ vote, you always run the risk of fraud,” she said. “There’s always the potential and risk for fraud, and there have been cases around the country where there have been issues regarding fraud. I think for the most part voters are honest people who vote with their ballots and mail them in.”
https://blog.timesunion.com/capitol/archives/290622/capitol-insider-voter-fraud-in-the-capital-region-is-left-to-elected-public-officials/
I just posted a link to your show what as asshole you are
LOL:
M3thods
@M2Madness
This is for the Democrats spreading Post Office conspiracy theories...
https://twitter.com/M2Madness/status/1294773377681563648
TRUMP’S 50% PROBLEM
August 17, 2020 at 9:31 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
First Read:
“The bad news for Trump is that he still has a
50 percent problem in the polls — where half (if not more) of the national electorate is firmly against him. And that’s a tough place for any incumbent to be.”
Consider these numbers:
50% of registered voters support Joe Biden on the ballot
(versus 41 percent for Trump);
52% have a negative view of the president,
including 44 percent of all voters who have a “very negative” view;
53% disapprove of Trump’s overall job,
including 47 percent who do so strongly;
and 58% disapprove of his handling of the coronavirus.
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YEP. Now THAT'S a problem. Many problems, in fact!
Rush
Limbaugh announced the Biden/Harris ticket has a nickname — “Joe and the Ho”.
This has a thousand likes
That dastardly Donald Trump is at it again. He is either the evilest man ever to hold the office of president or the dumbest. He is either a Machiavellian genius manipulating the media and his hypnotized followers or a bumbling know-nothing idiot.
Trump is being accused of sabotaging the November elections because he won’t give the postal unions and incompetent managers in the postal service $25 billion to play with. The money will stave off catastrophe for about a year at the rate the USPS is burning through cash. Without that money, we’re informed by those in the know, thousands — no, tens of thousands — no, millions of voters who wait until the last minute to mail in an absentee ballot might not have their votes counted because, well, Trump.
The procrastinators in America are up in arms and plan a demonstration to show their outrage. But it probably won’t happen until after the election since that’s when they’ll eventually get around to it.
The “crisis” in postal delivery presupposes that, prior to Trump’s shenanigans, the USPS was doing fine — nothing that a few tens of billions of taxpayer dollars couldn’t fix. In fact, that’s what the postal unions are saying. In a statement released on Saturday, the letter carriers and postal workers’ unions assure the public that even without the money, they can do the job.
“The National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) and the American Postal Workers Union (APWU) know the truth; the members of these unions are the people who actually process and deliver the mail. Postal Workers and Letter Carriers both say, unequivocally, that no matter how much the administration tries to undermine trust in the postal system, the system remains fully capable of delivering every single ballot cast by mail in a secure and timely manner.
“Indeed, the NALC assures that even if every single vote in the November 2020 election were cast by mail, the U.S. Postal Service would have no problem delivering the ballots, whether or not Congress provides the funding included in the HEROES Act.
“The U.S. Postal Service has an entire structure in place to coordinate with state and local election boards to facilitate secure and timely delivery of mail ballots.
So what’s all the hubbub about? The letter carriers say they can deliver the ballots on time. The postal employees claim they don’t need the extra cash. Where, pray tell, is there a “crisis”?
Nancy Pelosi knows. In fact, she’s about to call the members of the House of Representatives off the campaign trail and back to Washington to deal with the “crisis.”
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2020/08/16/the-manufactured-hysteria-over-mail-delivery-n797737
Rush
Limbaugh announced the Biden/Harris ticket has a nickname — “Joe and the Ho”.
This has a thousand likes
only a thousand, alky?
give it time. it'll be in the millions soon.
Why Kasich Is Speaking at the Democratic Convention
(BECAUSE HE'S A GOOD AND DECENT PERSON
WHO WANTS DECENCY IN OUR POLITICS AGAIN)
August 17, 2020 at 9:29 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
Former Gov. John Kasich (R) told BuzzFeed News that it was Democrats who approached him to speak at their convention.
Said Kasich:
“This was not something that I instigated. And when they came and asked, ‘Do you want to do it?’ I had to think about it, right? I had to think about it. And it’s not like I’m gonna be turning around. I’m a Republican. But I just think that at this point in time, my Republican affiliation is outweighed by MY CONCERN ABOUT THE DIRECTION OF THE COUNTRY.”
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You got THAT right! And you ain't the only Republican thinking that, bro!
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YEP. Now THAT'S a problem. Many problems, in fact!
awesome.
LOL.
Slow Joe an da Ho!
San Francisco -- Chalk up another casualty of the digital revolution: the blue corner mailbox.
Because of steeply declining use, the U.S. Postal Service has removed more than 60 percent of the blue boxes, once as common on the American streetscape as lampposts and ice cream trucks.
"Nothing says you're on an American street more than the blue mailbox," said Nancy Pope, postal historian at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. "It's part of a neighborhood identity, it's reassurance, it represents our ability to communicate with one another. When you take this away, something is lost."
In 1985, nearly 400,000 blue mailboxes graced American streets. Now only 160,000 remain, and more are vanishing every day. San Francisco has removed more than 800 in the past few years, dropping the total to 1,700. Dozens, if not hundreds, more are likely to meet the same sad fate, according to the post office.
The chief culprit is the Internet. More people are paying bills, sending invitations and writing personal letters online. The volume of mail dropped into mailboxes has dropped 35 percent since 2006, said Sue Brennan, a U.S. Postal Service spokeswoman.
If a mailbox gets fewer than 25 pieces of mail per day over a six-to-eight-week period, it gets targeted for removal. The Postal Service posts a 30-day warning notice on the box, during which time people can complain to the postmaster, then it's off to the great dead-letter office in the sky.
"To be honest, we don't get a lot of complaints," said James Wigdel, a spokesman for the U.S. Postal Service's San Francisco office. "The younger generation is moving everything online."
The defunct mailboxes are either stored for spare parts or sent to the scrap heap, a humbling fate for something that was the high-speed Internet of its day.
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Mailboxes-disappearing-as-usage-drops-off-2311805.php?utm_campaign=CMS%20Sharing%20Tools%20(Premium)&utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=referral
i just love a good old phony completely made up manufactured crisis.
it smells like...
...democrats.
White House seeks cuts to USPS services in budget
President Obama would allow the cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service to scrap Saturday delivery and delay some required healthcare payments, under proposals in the White House’s 2015 budget.
Obama’s previous budgets have had similar ideas for how to shore up USPS, which lost $5 billion in fiscal 2013. But several of the proposals floated by Obama have also generally been embraced more by Republicans than Democrats and postal unions.
Organized labor and many Democrats on Capitol Hill pushed back on the Postal Service’s push to keep only Saturday delivery of packages last year, an idea embraced by the top Republicans working on postal reform.
Obama’s budget would allow USPS to scrap all Saturday delivery – even packages, one of the most rapidly growing parts of the Postal Service’s business. USPS in recent months has shown more interest in expanding when it delivers packages, with Sunday delivery now in limited areas.
The White House budget would also allow USPS to move away from door-to-door delivery to more centralized delivery areas, an idea also panned by Democrats. Plus, USPS could keep a recent temporary increase in the price of stamps – which large mailers loathe – beyond the scheduled two years.
Finally, USPS would be allowed to skip a required prepayment for future retiree healthcare in 2014, and only pay half in 2015 and 2016 – thus saving the agency about $9 billion. Defaults on those required prepayments have caused most of the Postal Service’s red ink over the last two years.
“Together, these reforms would set USPS on a sustainable business path, providing it with over $20 billion in cash relief, operational savings and revenue through 2016,” according to the appendix to the president’s budget.
Much of the president’s budget is essentially a non-starter with Republicans on Capitol Hill, but his postal reform suggestions could play a role if the debate over revamping USPS heats up this midterm election year.
“I also appreciate the president’s continued support for postal reform, and welcome his budget’s inclusion of a number of key principals in the bipartisan Postal Reform Act that was approved by our committee last month, including the more accurate calculation of postal retirement costs, the restructuring of the postal service’s retiree health benefit payments, and the permanent extension of the exigent rate increased authorized by the Postal Regulatory Commission in December 2013,” Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), the chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, said in a statement.
https://thehill.com/policy/finance/199904-white-house-seeks-cuts-to-usps-services-in-budget
About all that the post office delivers on weekends is Amazon but that's something to discus with it's owner and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos. He loves taxpayers funding their delivery costs, and especially their long-haul trucking costs, also often done by USPS.
Sorry, Devious Donald,
you've been President one time too many.
Not gonna happen again.
John Hayward
@Doc_0
Dems: Trump is trying to kill the Post Office to steal the election!
USPS: Actually, we're just carrying on with long-standing procedures that...
Dems: SHUT UP! We need hearings!
USPS: We'd be the ones testifying at the hearings...
Dems: SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP
And I saw dem surrogates are already threatening to dox anybody who testifies from the USPS board and sides with Trump.
Openly.
Mob rule.
Tim Young
@TimRunsHisMouth
Will Bill Clinton's convention speech be live from an undisclosed Island... or nah?
Maybe Bill hanging out with Hunter at some undisclosed strip club ???
wearing a mask
New York Post
@nypost
Toronto strip club worker may have exposed about 550 people to COVID-19 https://trib.al/bcJQ3yC
Hope Bill and Hunter are safe.
We are all in this together.
It's on different pages and each has over 1,000 like
Roger where is the peace in Portland your team promised?
"A motorist was dragged from his car, forced to the ground, and beaten unconscious by Portland rioters on Sunday night, as lawlessness continues to reign with no law enforcement in sight.
The incident was reported and shared by Andy Ngo, editor at-large of the Post Millennial. The scenes are graphic."
Dr. Fauci wanted All of you to wear Goggles or Face shields , are you ?
I have read that if Mr. Biden is elected
No guns
No freedom
Implants to track us
Live abortions
Mandatory all vaccines
No more jobs
Attached your bank accounts
Higher taxes
Jobs all go overseas
President Obama spent 8 years brought us back from the worse recession in history!
None of this happened.
Why do they believe Mr. Biden or any democrat would do any of this?
Smart Lady.
"Black conservative Christian leader Dr. Deborah De Sousa Owens says the Biden campaign’s choice of Kamala Harris as his running mate shows the Democrat Party is still condescending to black voters by assuming they will simply fall for its identity politics that, this time around, amounts to “affirmative action at the highest level.”
Will The Home Depot eclipses NOC Stock this year?
https://m.facebook.com/groups/158302187686347?view=permalink&id=1611576895692195
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MY PLAN FOR HOW TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE AN ELECTION, TRUMP IS REMOVED, AND THE REPUBLICANS ARE GONE FOR GOOD
by Michael Moore
TRUMP HAS DECLARED WAR ON US AND OUR DEMOCRACY.
IT’S TIME FOR US TO PUT OUR LIVES ON THE LINE, IF NECESSARY, AND TO MAKE HIM THE LAST REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT OF OUR UNITED STATES.
Trump, right now, tonight, is up to some very nasty, scary stuff — stuff we can’t even imagine — and of course we can’t imagine it because we don’t think like Trump. Our brains are wired for love, empathy, solidarity, compassion, freedom, person, woman, man, camera, TV.
You know like I know that Trump has a devious, wicked plan to destroy this Election. We need to declare, immediately, that it is he and the Republican Party who have to go, for the sake of this country’s existence, they must be crushed and removed.
Trump actually has an arsenal of plans already in action to ensure he never leaves office. He has them all in high gear — some visible, some not. If you could see them all you’d be so stunned, you’d have to immediately convince yourself that there’s no way he can pull this off.
We are all caught in Trump’s Matrix, a mad web, the work of a psychopath-in-chief with tricks so devious that fascists of old, if alive today, would marvel at what Trump has accomplished.
For the next 11 weeks — and then for the 12 weeks between the Election and the Inauguration — Trump is planning nothing but anarchy, chaos, a call to arms of his angry white male followers and the complete destruction of our democracy. You think I’m kidding? You think I’m overstating the case? Do you want to take the risk that I might not be wrong? Most of you understandably chose not to listen to me four years ago when I warned you Trump was going to win the Presidency by taking Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. May I please ask that you now give me your serious attention for what I am about to say — because if I’m right again this time, there won’t be a next time. There will be nothing left for me to warn you about. There probably won’t be much left of me.
HERE ARE TRUMP’S 5 PLANS ALREADY IN MOTION:
PLAN #1: Create Chaos. Instill Fear. Fire Up the Base with Racist Vigor. Pandemonium Ensues.
CHECK. DONE.
PLAN #2: Suppress the Vote
•Dismantle the Post Office.
•Create 4-Hour-Long Lines by Drastically Reducing Number of Polling Locations.
•Throw Black and Brown Voters Off the Rolls.
•Stop Those Who’ve Served Time from Voting.
•Place 50,000 “Poll Watchers” at Voting Sites Around the Country to Intimidate Voters.
VOTER SUPPRESSION IN ACTION AS WE SPEAK.
PLAN #3: Postpone the Election. Place the blame on a “legitimate” national tragedy or emergency — massive deaths from the pandemic, a terrorist attack, an assassination, a deadly hurricane, a civil war in the streets, one or both Presidential candidates falling ill to Covid-19 — anything that reasonable people, even people who are opposed to Trump, will agree that “we just can’t hold an election right now! We just need to postpone it for a couple days, a couple weeks (a couple months... a couple years...)” Or perhaps he’ll just cancel the Election outright and see if he can get away with it.
TRUMP READY TO PULL THE TRIGGER.
PLAN #4: His September Surprise.
His October Surprise.
His November Surprise.
His January Surprise.
You think you can guess what it will be, but trust me, it’ll be far worse. We need to be ready. Stay on high alert, my friends. Millions of us will need to act on a moment’s notice. It’s the grim reaper of Democracy at our doorstep. We made the mistake of letting Trump get this far — why wouldn’t he now think he can get away with everything??
THE SURPRISE IS UNKNOWN. THAT’S WHY IT’S A SURPRISE.
PLAN #5: He Will Not Leave.
When Trump loses, he will declare the Election invalid, rigged, stolen — and he will refuse to step down.
HERE IS OUR BATTLE PLAN TO REMOVE TRUMP AND THE REPUBLICANS:
1. Do Not Wait — Biden/Harris Should Start Running the Country Now.
We simply don’t have time to wait until January 20, 2021. Nearly 200,000 of us have already died from Trump’s reckless incompetence with the coronavirus. By Election Day it’s possible another 100,000 to 200,000 of us will have needlessly died. A total of 400,000 dead? That’s the equivalent of one hundred and thirty-three 9/11s! Or 532 planes being flown into 532 buildings. If something that horrific ever happened, and the President not only didn’t do anything about it, but tried to pretend it wasn’t all that bad - “it is what it is” - he would be run out of the White House by an angry mob of millions of Americans, lucky not to have his head put on a spike on the Key Bridge over the Potomac.
It doesn’t have to come to that. Biden and Harris should present to America a simple nationwide plan to end the pandemic — and then act on it immediately.
They should call a meeting of all the Governors and ask them what help do they need — and then find a way to get them that help, going around Trump and just making it happen. They should ask industry, in lieu of campaign contributions, to produce hundreds of millions of instant-result tests. They should call their Heads of State friends overseas and ask them to send all the PPE they can spare. They should get 250 million Americans to take the “Face Mask Pledge.” And they should promise the scientists in our top universities all the money and help they need once they’re in office. Ignore Trump. Treat him as if he’s irrelevant and get the job done.
2. The Republican Party Must Be Crushed and Destroyed. Trump Must Become the Last Republican President.
In the Michigan county where I live, the August primary this month set a record turnout for a presidential-year primary. In fact, more people this year voted by mail-in ballot than ALL those who voted in 2016 — by mail-in AND in-person combined. This is a highly encouraging sign for what we now need to do:
• We must create an historic massive turnout between now and November 3rd — a tsunami of voters the likes of which have never been seen, and may never be seen again. In 2016, 66 million Americans voted for Hillary Clinton. This time, though, we have to WALLOP Trump with an electoral concussion, a blow so profound he won’t know what hit him. This must be a defeat so crushing, so humiliating, a whooping of such epic proportions that he will be forced to leave 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue with his tail between his legs on January 20th. This mammoth landslide must not only ensure that no president ever behaves this way again, we need to see to it that Trump is the last Republican president. The Election Day Uprising must put an end to this party of Trump enablers and traitors. They had a choice. They chose Trump over Democracy. They chose Putin and Netanyahu over fair elections and freedom for all. They chose the 1% over the 160 million working Americans. They chose the NRA over the massacred children of Sandy Hook. They chose to rig our elections, our textbooks, our economy. Democrats helped them along the way, and we’ll take the stick to them and fix that. The Republicans, though, chose to let hundreds of thousands of their fellow citizens perish from Covid-19 because loyalty to Party and to Trump was greater than their duty to the American people. For that alone, the Republican Party must be put out of business for good. Vote out every last one of them. Conservatives will have to form a new party, much like when the Whigs were sent packing in the 1800s. The Republicans must pay for their crimes.
3. Who Would Be Willing To, If Need Be, Put Their Life on the Line To Ensure This Election Is Held and EVERYONE Gets to Vote? I Would. Would You?
These steps must be taken immediately:
• The Secret Service, the FBI, the Capitol Police and the Joint Chiefs of Staff must be called before Congress and swear under oath that they will guarantee that the election will be held, they will enforce the Constitution they swore to uphold, and if he’s defeated but refuses to leave, they will escort the former President of the United States out of the White House.
• Biden and Harris must put Trump on notice that if he does one more thing to interfere with the Election or issues one more threat to suppress the vote, they will turn him and his crime family over to the new Justice Department for prosecution.
• Every single one of us must be strong in our publicly-stated resolve that there is ABSOLUTELY NO REASON ON EARTH TO POSTPONE OR CANCEL THE ELECTION. That’s our unmovable and intractable position. No national tragedy, disease, threat or the melting of all of Greenland will cause us not to vote on or before November 3rd. Even if, God forbid, either candidate passes in their sleep between now and Election Day, the Election will continue — and the winner’s VP - or Nancy Pelosi - will become President on Inauguration Day.
• Let’s all pledge that, if Trump tries to cancel the election or if he refuses to accept its results, millions of us will go to DC and encircle the White House, a thousand deep, until he backs down, resigns or is removed.
• And, if you can, quietly make this commitment to yourself: “There are only a very few things I’d be willing to give my life for. This is one of them.” I know. That’s dark. And heavy. And awfully sad because it shouldn’t have come to this. But if we can’t even say that, then what good are we? If we aren’t willing to make that sacrifice, then America is already over and we might as well just fold our tent and see if Canada will take the non-racist, non-homophobic, non war-mongering ones of us who have manners and get satire.
4. Become an Election Defender.
Each of you should form an urgent action group - a rapid response team - in your neighborhood or town and do the following:
• Hold a daily protest at your local post office
• Picket the home of your local Postmaster (he/she may be on your side, so bring them some baked goods)
• Chain yourself to a local blue USPS dropbox if you can find one. Or chain it to something that won’t move.
• Sign up with the city clerk to be a poll worker on Election Day - especially if you’re young. Because of the pandemic, polls will be very short of poll workers. If you’re told they have enough help, then call the local Democratic Party and offer to be a “poll watcher”, the group of people from each party who get to oversee the voting to make sure there are no irregularities.
• Demand your city create more voting locations. Convince owners of arenas, theaters, ball parks, malls - places with large open spaces - to offer their facilities as polling places so that everyone gets a chance to vote.
• Canvas your neighborhoods over the next month to get people to fill out the form you’ll have them sign to get a mail-in ballot — and if they want to vote in person, let them know when the first day is so they can do that. Make a list of who needs a Covid-safe ride. The earlier the better!
5. The Uprising We’re In Is Only Getting Bigger. The People Will Now Call the Shots.
Why wait for the politicians to fix the mess of a country we’re in when they helped orchestrate the mess in the first place? Why don’t we just declare how we want to live — a new way to govern and function as a country — and we will finally fulfill the promise of the American Dream that has never been realized. Life, liberty, true equality, a sharing of the wealth, being good citizens of this world and kind stewards of a fragile Earth.
What have we learned from this pandemic? What we already knew: That employer-based health insurance can evaporate in an instant. Health care is a human right.
That being told “we can’t afford that!” (free college, free child care, free medical care - the things most advanced nations have) is total BS — the government CAN afford anything we decide we need!
We’ve learned that teachers, nurses, the mailwoman, farm workers, mass transit drivers and the minimum wage workers stocking the grocery shelves at 3 in the morning are our most important citizens and they need the respect and income they deserve immediately. 74% of the country now believes a guaranteed annual income is a great idea — fifty percentage points higher than when Andrew Yang proposed it 7 months ago!
We’ve learned to slow down, consume less — and that is what may be the path to saving the planet (when the 4% of its inhabitants [US] is no longer sucking up 25% of its resources and hoarding more than half its wealth).
We’re about to go elect more women than ever before — a time to turn the reins over to the gender that stands a better chance of getting us through the deadly viruses of Covid, Capitalism and Republicans(R.I.P.).
None of this will be launched by politicians. It will only come about through you and me taking action as part of the largest protest movement in our history — still growing, still going strong! — to end the racism, the abuse of the police state, the disgusting income inequality and the hateful misogyny that is going to come to an end in our lifetime.
America, post-pandemic, must become a very different place. Let’s make this happen. Doing the above will be the best cure for the trauma of these past four years.
Commit to being the change.
Organize your friends and family today.
Make your plan to campaign in a swing state Sept. or Oct.
VOTE AS EARLY AS YOU CAN—and take 5 people along with you!
We can do this. Trump - we’re coming for you. I’ll be in the first U-Haul truck that pulls up to your door.
Will The Home Depot eclipses NOC Stock this year?
WHO GIVES A FLYING FUCK GOAT FUCKER??????? I SURE DON'T CARE THAT HD HAS NO VALUE ADDED TO THE COUNTRY WHILE NOC PROTECTS YOUR FUCKIJNG ASS WITH THE PRODUCTS THEY BUILD IN THE USA WITH AMERICAN WORKERS!!!!!!
Roger's Anus triggered.
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Roger supports and defends the rioters.This his favorite group.
,"Police in Portland, Ore., declared that a protest outside a law enforcement building Saturday evening had become a riot and made numerous arrests after officers and police vehicles were allegedly hit with rocks and other objects."
Quote of the Day
“Donald Trump is the wrong president for our country. He has had more than enough time to prove that he can do the job, but he is clearly in over his head. He cannot meet this moment. He simply cannot be who we need him to be for us. It is what it is.”
— Michelle Obama, quoted by the Associated Press.
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Another Convention Quote of the Day
“My dad was a healthy 65-year-old. His only preexisting condition was trusting Donald Trump, and for that, he paid with his life.”
— Kristen Urquiza, who lost her father to COVID-19, quoted by ABC News
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