Classic republican tactic. F up the Post Office and then complain that the PO is AFU. This is what they've been doing to "the government" for pretty much ever.
This has been going on for a long time and is pervasive. I watched in horror as the Government labs supporting the DoD were systematically gutted, with the hardware contractors given ever increasing free rein. Ditto other agencies. Then, having gutted the regulattors they complain about poor performance and call for further privatization. This is by definition a positive feedback control loop and leads inevitably to a collapse into chaos.
But the speed of the descent is apparently insufficient for them so now the SCOTUS has taken the responsibility for technical interpretation and placed in the hands of the technically incompetent, anti-scientific judiciary.
As Joyce Vance noted today, Trump didn't lose by a whisker, he lost by 7 million votes across the country and 74 electoral college votes. Election results were confirmed by officials in every state, and Trump’s claims to the contrary were rejected in lawsuit after lawsuit, including those where Trump himself had appointed the judge who decided against him. When the delay games stop and these cases get to court, accountability sets in.
Mark Cuban said in an interview with Bryan Taylor Cohen that all these tech bros know they can play trump like a cheap fiddle. This is the real Game of Thrones.
Just to state the obvious, the United States needs to get big, dark money out of politics. Corporations are not people. Billionaires should not be allowed to buy politicians & votes. This would be a good start.
Absolutely 👍 This has to happen but how can it be done now or without a revolution ❓Too many politicians rely on the mega rich (Kamala has shown the way that small donations by many voters can occasionally compete but that doesn’t often happen)
Those words came from someone unstable and nowhere near genius. I agonized over 4 years that those fingers, smeared in ketchup and fast food grease, were a foot from the nuclear football. Mercurial and petty people shouldn't have the authority to launch strikes that raise a city's temperature to 180M° F, and turn it's citizens into ash in under a second.
He's detached from reality, demented, dissociated from fact and easily angered. This is not the behavior profile you want for anyone with nuclear strike authority.
Trump is going to lose and he is going to lose by a lot. He will take a whole lot of Republicans down with him. And yet those that remain will do everything they can to force the election into the Supreme Court where the Roberts Cabal will steal the election for Trump. That is the real danger we face.
We should never be at the mercy of liars and cheats! The lying and cheating Donald Trump knows only this method of living. Revealing the depth of Elon Musk's dishonesty must be ongoing. How about a clever list of the billionaire battalion led by Trump: Elon Musk, Peter Theil, JD Vance and their lying minions, Louis DeJoy, Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, et al ? Exposure of darkness and ads with this are effective.
Just to remind readers - Judd is quite correct about the UK. My wife and I have had postal votes for years now (we live in France part of the time and we are often out of the country at the May local elections) . We had to apply once, all those years ago, and ever since we have received our postal ballot papers automatically, roughly a fortnight before every election. We can send the completed voting slips to arrive by election day, or take them ourselves to the local council offices. We use the normal pillar boxes for Royal Mail. Cases of fraud are vanishingly small, and that remains the case despite a large recent increase in the number of people who vote by post. Our toxic Tories, always ready to borrow someone else's idea to improve their own chances, recently started using the Trumpian narrative of voter fraud to introduce a requirement to bring ID when voting in person but were hoist by their own petard when it was older voters, more likely to vote Conservative, who were the ones most hindered from voting as many of them didn't have acceptable ID (it had been thought that scatty younger voters were more likely to vote on impulse and turn up without driving licences etc.). The Tories even admitted their true reasons for introducing the ID measure after getting savaged in local elections (ie voter suppression). We hope that now they've been kicked out our new Labour government will revert to the old system. I think that having had their fingers burnt the Tories are unlikely to oppose the reversal.
Please quote the British experience when you talk to friends and neighbours who may have been misled by the Republican lies! You can find plenty of backup evidence for what I've said on the Guardian or BBC websites, neither of which is paywalled.
Thank you for this information and for introducing me to the word "scatty" which I will now begin to use; although I'm not quite sure what it means it feels applicable to many situations and persons.
in common British usage, for people who are a bit disconnected, don't remember their keys or cards, scatterbrained, flighty, forgetful or hopping from one subject to another. Looking it up in Wiktionary I find that in Liverpool it has another meaning derived from scat (animal excrement over here) meaning messy or filthy, but you'd be quite safe in the rest of Britain using it in the first sense I gave you (I had never come across the other meaning and I'm quite alert to differences in language use). Enjoy using it!
Thank you! Good to know it backfired on the Tories. Hopefully in our own country, it will all blow up in couch lover Vance's & lie lover trump's faces. I am tired of hearing their names, their voices & their lies & exaggerations; as are many of my friends.
Let's pray for the blue tsunami folks & that these folks like musk & thiel fall by the wayside. Wishful thinking I know, as money talks to too many wannabe power brokers, but I keep hoping America's better angels will prevail this November's election.
If anybody’s going to cheat in the election, it’ll be the Republicans. Whenever a case of voter fraud is exposed, 99 times out of a hundred it's a Republican who is the culprit. Plus, these RWNJs have already done quite a lot to make sure there are election officials (in swing states) who are loyal to and still love Trump (for whatever insane reason), and they could make the outcome of the election appear to be suspect—which would give Trump all the fuel he needs to keep bitching and lying about voter fraud.
I live in Chicago. I use mail in voting because we can vote on a number of das before the election. But we have an option, that I always use, to walk it to a “blue box” located in libraries and other convenient locations. The Box is watched by two election judges. I am notified when my registered number is received at the election office, and again when it has been counted! THAT’s how to do elections! We also have a great governor for our state JD Pritzker!
Donald J. Trump appointed Louis DeJoy, the current Post Master General. DeJoy fed into much of the fear around mail-in-ballots early on. Now that he, Dems & Republicans and the unions have been working together a lot of progress has been made. Nobody detests working together & progress like DJT.
The elimination of mail-in, absentee voting would disenfranchise millions of Americans, including US service members, diplomats, their families, and others who live abroad. It would also harm the elderly and many people with disabilities. Most important, there is no evidence of widespread fraud with mail-in ballots!
How even to begin to unpack this story? Louis Dejoy brings a host of problems wherever he goes (he supposedly lives here in Greensboro), but leave it to Trump to throw his own appointee under the bus as his electoral lead slowly fades in NC. There is no more news, only the Trump Show. (Didn’t we used to say that about Jerry Springer?)
I noticed a couple articles about USPS reliability last week in obscure publications on my Apple News feed, and my first thought was “oh, no. Here we go again.”
Classic republican tactic. F up the Post Office and then complain that the PO is AFU. This is what they've been doing to "the government" for pretty much ever.
This has been going on for a long time and is pervasive. I watched in horror as the Government labs supporting the DoD were systematically gutted, with the hardware contractors given ever increasing free rein. Ditto other agencies. Then, having gutted the regulattors they complain about poor performance and call for further privatization. This is by definition a positive feedback control loop and leads inevitably to a collapse into chaos.
But the speed of the descent is apparently insufficient for them so now the SCOTUS has taken the responsibility for technical interpretation and placed in the hands of the technically incompetent, anti-scientific judiciary.
All around the world, conservatives fuck up government then complain and farm out to private suppliers who THEN GIVE POLITICAL DONATIONS
This is the one and only plan they have…and it works for them!
I’ll second that!
As Joyce Vance noted today, Trump didn't lose by a whisker, he lost by 7 million votes across the country and 74 electoral college votes. Election results were confirmed by officials in every state, and Trump’s claims to the contrary were rejected in lawsuit after lawsuit, including those where Trump himself had appointed the judge who decided against him. When the delay games stop and these cases get to court, accountability sets in.
A great moment in last week's presidential debate was when Vice President Harris reminded Trump that 81 million Americans fired him!
Donald Trump, Peter Thiel, and Elon Musk. You covered three of my least favorite people in one piece.
Add Leonard Leo before it's too late
Mark Cuban said in an interview with Bryan Taylor Cohen that all these tech bros know they can play trump like a cheap fiddle. This is the real Game of Thrones.
Just to state the obvious, the United States needs to get big, dark money out of politics. Corporations are not people. Billionaires should not be allowed to buy politicians & votes. This would be a good start.
Absolutely 👍 This has to happen but how can it be done now or without a revolution ❓Too many politicians rely on the mega rich (Kamala has shown the way that small donations by many voters can occasionally compete but that doesn’t often happen)
If the Democrats control the House, Senate, & Presidency, they can pass a law.
Do they not also need big money ❓
The only way I LOSE is if the Election is RIGGED and when I Win I will punish you ALL!!!!!
Theses are not the words of a person who can be trusted to run a country or even apply butter to toast.
But he can apply ketchup to walls.
🤣
Those words came from someone unstable and nowhere near genius. I agonized over 4 years that those fingers, smeared in ketchup and fast food grease, were a foot from the nuclear football. Mercurial and petty people shouldn't have the authority to launch strikes that raise a city's temperature to 180M° F, and turn it's citizens into ash in under a second.
He's detached from reality, demented, dissociated from fact and easily angered. This is not the behavior profile you want for anyone with nuclear strike authority.
Prezactly! Completely unfit for anything but finger painting with catsup.
Trump is going to lose and he is going to lose by a lot. He will take a whole lot of Republicans down with him. And yet those that remain will do everything they can to force the election into the Supreme Court where the Roberts Cabal will steal the election for Trump. That is the real danger we face.
Peter, I agree. But we need to turn the House reliably Blue, then prosecutions of corrupt judges can begin!
We should never be at the mercy of liars and cheats! The lying and cheating Donald Trump knows only this method of living. Revealing the depth of Elon Musk's dishonesty must be ongoing. How about a clever list of the billionaire battalion led by Trump: Elon Musk, Peter Theil, JD Vance and their lying minions, Louis DeJoy, Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, et al ? Exposure of darkness and ads with this are effective.
Just to remind readers - Judd is quite correct about the UK. My wife and I have had postal votes for years now (we live in France part of the time and we are often out of the country at the May local elections) . We had to apply once, all those years ago, and ever since we have received our postal ballot papers automatically, roughly a fortnight before every election. We can send the completed voting slips to arrive by election day, or take them ourselves to the local council offices. We use the normal pillar boxes for Royal Mail. Cases of fraud are vanishingly small, and that remains the case despite a large recent increase in the number of people who vote by post. Our toxic Tories, always ready to borrow someone else's idea to improve their own chances, recently started using the Trumpian narrative of voter fraud to introduce a requirement to bring ID when voting in person but were hoist by their own petard when it was older voters, more likely to vote Conservative, who were the ones most hindered from voting as many of them didn't have acceptable ID (it had been thought that scatty younger voters were more likely to vote on impulse and turn up without driving licences etc.). The Tories even admitted their true reasons for introducing the ID measure after getting savaged in local elections (ie voter suppression). We hope that now they've been kicked out our new Labour government will revert to the old system. I think that having had their fingers burnt the Tories are unlikely to oppose the reversal.
Please quote the British experience when you talk to friends and neighbours who may have been misled by the Republican lies! You can find plenty of backup evidence for what I've said on the Guardian or BBC websites, neither of which is paywalled.
Thank you for this information and for introducing me to the word "scatty" which I will now begin to use; although I'm not quite sure what it means it feels applicable to many situations and persons.
in common British usage, for people who are a bit disconnected, don't remember their keys or cards, scatterbrained, flighty, forgetful or hopping from one subject to another. Looking it up in Wiktionary I find that in Liverpool it has another meaning derived from scat (animal excrement over here) meaning messy or filthy, but you'd be quite safe in the rest of Britain using it in the first sense I gave you (I had never come across the other meaning and I'm quite alert to differences in language use). Enjoy using it!
Ah! Just when I thought I was going to use about other people I find myself to be somewhat scatty.
Thank you! Good to know it backfired on the Tories. Hopefully in our own country, it will all blow up in couch lover Vance's & lie lover trump's faces. I am tired of hearing their names, their voices & their lies & exaggerations; as are many of my friends.
Let's pray for the blue tsunami folks & that these folks like musk & thiel fall by the wayside. Wishful thinking I know, as money talks to too many wannabe power brokers, but I keep hoping America's better angels will prevail this November's election.
If anybody’s going to cheat in the election, it’ll be the Republicans. Whenever a case of voter fraud is exposed, 99 times out of a hundred it's a Republican who is the culprit. Plus, these RWNJs have already done quite a lot to make sure there are election officials (in swing states) who are loyal to and still love Trump (for whatever insane reason), and they could make the outcome of the election appear to be suspect—which would give Trump all the fuel he needs to keep bitching and lying about voter fraud.
We need to start arresting these scheming dirtbags who only want to tear U.S. down for that nasty geriatric rapist pedophile.
I live in Chicago. I use mail in voting because we can vote on a number of das before the election. But we have an option, that I always use, to walk it to a “blue box” located in libraries and other convenient locations. The Box is watched by two election judges. I am notified when my registered number is received at the election office, and again when it has been counted! THAT’s how to do elections! We also have a great governor for our state JD Pritzker!
Donald J. Trump appointed Louis DeJoy, the current Post Master General. DeJoy fed into much of the fear around mail-in-ballots early on. Now that he, Dems & Republicans and the unions have been working together a lot of progress has been made. Nobody detests working together & progress like DJT.
Harris/Walz will win because of people power, not billionaire person power
The elimination of mail-in, absentee voting would disenfranchise millions of Americans, including US service members, diplomats, their families, and others who live abroad. It would also harm the elderly and many people with disabilities. Most important, there is no evidence of widespread fraud with mail-in ballots!
How even to begin to unpack this story? Louis Dejoy brings a host of problems wherever he goes (he supposedly lives here in Greensboro), but leave it to Trump to throw his own appointee under the bus as his electoral lead slowly fades in NC. There is no more news, only the Trump Show. (Didn’t we used to say that about Jerry Springer?)
I noticed a couple articles about USPS reliability last week in obscure publications on my Apple News feed, and my first thought was “oh, no. Here we go again.”