President Trump, for weeks, has been laying the groundwork for a November claim that he was cheated out of winning reelection.
He’s been putting out daily Tweets and making statements at the White House lectern that the mail-in ballots will be fraudulent, fake, Made in China, filled out by MS-13 illegal immigrants, and there will be mass voting by dead people. It will be “totally corrupt…a joke”, he predicts.
The President is also preparing the public for a very poor performance by the U.S. Postal Service…which he is responsible for. Basically, he’s implying that “I’m going to do a very poor job processing those absentee ballots in November, folks!” He’s warning us, in advance, that ballots will be lost, ballots will be slow-processed so that they miss deadlines to be counted, etc. “No one will know who won on November 3rd”, he stated yesterday.
This is what we’ve come to expect from this dictator-wannabe; sabotaging an election (and doing it while winking at us) so that he can make some claim to the Presidency…even if voters want him to skedaddle. (Current polling shows him running about ten percent behind Biden nationwide.)
It was reported this week that Trump’s recently appointed Postmaster General has already taken steps to slow postal delivery by cutting costs. Postal workers have reported large backlogs of unprocessed mail at many postal processing centers. So, the voter suppression strategy that the President has boldly and publicly taunted his opponents with (i.e. fuck up mail-in ballot processing) is happening right before our eyes.
The President said yesterday that the election will be the “biggest fiasco of all time”. He ought to know. It is as if a “close-up” magician is showing you, in slow motion, how he does the trick.
Did I mention that the new Postmaster General, Louis DeJoy, who took office six weeks ago, is a big Trump campaign booster who contributed over $1 million to the reelection effort. Not coincidentally, postal service has gone sluggish with DeJoy’s urgent “cost saving” measures.
Both DeJoy and his boss, the President of the United States, have no shame: they will stoop to any level to ensure a Trump victory.
Even stealing an election in plain sight.
When bastards like this have the balls to “shove in your face” the fact that they are going to cheat American voters, then you know that something is very, very wrong with American democracy.
If I didn’t know better, I would think that ex-New Jersey Governor Chris Christie had devised this scheme. You might recall that, because some local government officials wouldn’t endorse his political ambitions back in 2013, he had his flunkies severely throttle down the bridges which those town’s commuters used to get to/from work. It was a shameless, “in your face” political maneuver that he could get away with…so he did it.
Is this part of Trump’s plan to “Make America Great”: disenfranchising opposition voters on a massive scale…because he can do it?
Back in the Jim Crow days, potential Black voters had to prove their literacy by guessing how many jellybeans were in a Mason jar. Then, they were made to drive 30 miles to a polling place. Later, they had to go into a jail to vote. Now, the President has come up with a better idea: have his Postal Service accidentally delay or lose their mailed ballots, which will be found one week after votes are officially tallied.
Let me guess: mail deliveries will be up to snuff in Red states and slow as molasses in Blue states. And, afterward, Trump and DeJoy will blame the slow roll in Blue states on the “locals”, or Hillary Clinton’s server, or Black Lives Matter agitators.
If he goes ahead with this stunt, and he loses, then it will be acceptable, I guess, for the incoming Democratic President to follow suit in 2024 and screw a few million Republican voters in the same way.
Don’t think they won’t consider it.