Not one, but TWO major, national newspapers, the LA Times and the Washington Post, have declined to endorse a candidate for President in this election? Since when? Oh, THIS election? Because the owners want Trump, but don’t want to SAY they want Trump, and when the editorial staff decided to endorse Harris, the owners just “decided” not to endorse anybody? Now the Times, at least, is losing subscribers and staff. Why, it’s almost as if the moment a newspaper decides to surrender objectivity, they surrender faith in their product, as well. I used to turn to the LA Times for slightly conservative but solid information, occasionally, but now they’re JUST “conservative” and I won’t trust them anymore…

People really should have paid more attention in History class. Rich people think they’re going to control Trump once he’s in office.
“Hey, isn’t that the same thing the power base in Germany thought about controlling Hitler once HE was in office?”
Yep.
“How’d that work out?”
Mostly? That “power base” did as they were told or suffered the consequences. Hitler couldn’t be controlled. Trump won’t be, either…

Cons won’t want to actually live in the America that will be after Trump seizes power. They just don’t know it, yet. Meanwhile, I think the LA Times and Washington Post have done serious, likely permanent, harm to their credibility…

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Ladies? Um…no pressure, but we’re going to need you to step in and clean up the mess we dudes made. Yes, again. You seem to be the main line of defense against the threat American faces, these days, from Trump and the GOP. Help us, OB/Gyn Kenobi. You’re our only hope…

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Do you know who knows the damage Donald Trump will do if he gets back in power? Everyone! Everyone knows. There IS no mystery. EVERYONE knows! It’s just that some of us think the things he’ll do are bad, and some of us are celebrating the destruction…

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Okay, I need some help from MAGA, here. You’all maintain that Trump never makes mistakes and is the very best at, well, everything, really. Now Trump, himself, has gone on the Joe Rogan podcast and said that the ‘biggest mistake’ of his Presidency was picking ‘bad,’ ‘disloyal people.’ But, at the time, he said he always had the BEST people.

I need you to do some of that voodoo you do and help me understand how he could always have the BEST people, and yet he made the mistake of picking bad people who were disloyal. He had INCREDIBLY high turnover in his time because, apparently, he picked a LOT of bad people. According to him, anyway. It turns out, if they loved their country more than they loved Trump, he considered them bad people. What does THAT say about MAGA?

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Republicans believe that mail in ballots are used more often by Democrats (and other lefties) than by Republicans. I believe that, too, so, hey, an area of agreement, right? In their ongoing effort to disenfranchise as many left-leaning voters as they possibly can – a hat tip to the notion that their ideas have extremely limited appeal – they created a lawsuit regarding a standard practice of mail-in ballots.

Sometimes, people mail their ballots just before election day. The postmark on the envelope made by the US Postal Service proves the date the ballot was mailed. Nationwide, in 18 states and Washington, DC, if the postmark is on or before election day, the ballot will be counted – even if it arrives at the registrar’s office a day or two after the election.

Cons saw an opportunity, there, and filed a lawsuit. If the ballot isn’t received by election day, they argued, it shouldn’t count. They filed this lawsuit in Mississippi because Mississippi allows ballots to be counted after being received and, crucially, is in the US 5th Circuit Court district – where they KNEW they would get a favorable ruling because that court, infamously, is so loyal to Trump, having been packed by Trump.

The District Judge who first heard the case, Louis Guirola Jr., rejected that argument. He pointed out, correctly in my view, that the Constitution specifically lets each state set their own rules for managing elections except where Congress has created Federal law. For MY part, I would argue that when the Founders started this once-great nation, the vast majority of ballots were not received by the the registrar ON election day. (They had to be collected and sent by horse. It took a while.) CLEARLY, they never had that as an intent.

Oh, but the Trump-loyal court has decided, randomly, that, nah, they don’t like that idea. It might allow too many lefties to vote. They just did that thing cons like to do; “The Constitution doesn’t say what it says, it says what we want to hear. Neener, neener.” Of course they didn’t SAY it that way. What they said was that a ballot was not considered “cast” when it was, you know, cast, that is, filled out and dropped into a box of some kind. Instead, that vote can’t be counted as “cast” until it arrives at the Registrar’s Office and if that’s after the date of the election, it’s too late.

Bear in mind, this ruling applies directly to Mississippi but will affect ALL 18 states and DC if it’s allowed to stand. It’s very likely it will disenfranchise most of the overseas military ballots, as well. They often arrive “late,” if that’s how one defines “late.” Their professed love of the military commonly has harmful affects for the military. Weird, that.

At this point, that “ruling” came from a three judge panel (standard practice for Appellate Courts) but can be reviewed by the full panel. It should be, but there’s no guarantee the full panel will make any better decision. It could go up to the Roberts Supremely Corrupt Kangaroo Court of the United States but, of course, “Supremely Corrupt” is right there in the name, these days. So, suddenly, eleven days before the election, a conservative court has handed MAGAGOPCORP just the ruling they need to a) disenfranchise mostly left leaning voters and b) create enough confusion about the election to give their claims of problems legitimacy.

It really irritates me that THEY create the problems, and then use the problems they create as excuses to wreak havoc on the election. Actually, the part that bothers me is that it works. The cons KNOW they can’t appeal to enough people to win an honest election. They KNOW they can’t get any more people to come aboard because their are only so many weak-minded (not stupid, just malleable) individuals to be had. They KNOW that if they can’t win, and they can’t broaden their appeal, the only way to gain power is to stop as many of their opponents from participating as they possibly can and they have sought trick after trick to accomplish that evil goal.

I’ll tell you this: If your ideas suck so badly that you couldn’t possibly win an election, you shouldn’t win the election. Period…