The entire game for Republicans is to slow the counting of early votes in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin-- then pretend that counting these legal votes is somehow cheating because they take a long time to count.
Most of you know this by now, but IF Trump holds Florida, NC and GA:
1. When we go to bed on Nov 3rd he'll be AHEAD in PA and MI by 10-15%.
2. Early votes are counted LAST in these states and lean heavily Dem.
3. Trump will claim that COUNTING these legal votes is cheating.
To be clear, it's more likely than not Dems will pick off GA, NC or FL -- and that's probably the whole ballgame.
But if that does not happen, the Republican game is to try to discount as many LEGAL MAIL-IN BALLOTS as possible thru courts, disenfranchising MILLIONS of people.
One final note:
It is at least as likely that the polls are underestimating Biden's support and this thing becomes an historic blowout for Democrats.
All we can do now is organize, volunteer, canvas, get people to polls and to VOTE.
Do Republicans respect the democratic process?
No.
But has the national media learned the lesson of the past two decades that Republicans don't respect the democratic process?
Also no.
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If Trump loses and tries to hold onto power, would you take to the streets for a General strike?
That’s a yes for me, by the way.
I don't think people understand how likely it is that Trump will be ahead on election night, proclaim himself the victor and take it to the courts to find various pretenses by which to invalidate votes in different states.
Between 2008 and 2016, Republicans BLOCKED the appointment of *105* (you read that right) federal judgeships nominated by Obama including a Supreme Court pick which the Constitution GUARANTEED and Republicans DENIED.
MEDIA: "But DEMOCRATS want to pack the court."
It was always the Republican plan to undo very popular laws through the corruption of US courts:
75% of Americans support safe, legal abortion.
79% support protections for pre-existing conditions.
Since Republicans can't legislate these away, they're trying to cheat instead.
The constitution DOES NOT STIPULATE how many justices serve on the Supreme Court but it clearly gave power to Obama to appoint Garland.
So, if Republicans are going to try to change laws by VIOLATING the constitution, the least Democrats can do is protect laws by ENFORCING it.
The LA Times called our record, HOLLYWOOD PARK, by the Airborne Toxic Event:
"Jesus of Suburbia meets Darkness at the Edge of town."
And the Telegraph said it was "The National channeling Bruce Springsteen."
I wrote it when my dad died and honestly I'm so proud of this record.
My father left prison at 27 and went to a drug rehab community to deal with a heroin addiction. It turned into a cult, where I was born. I lived in an orphanage there. When we escaped, I finally got to know him. He was my best friend.
When he died I wrote HOLLYWOOD PARK for him.
"The references to heroin, religion and parole act as an impressionistic reflection of a tumultuous life, building on the grandiosity that made their single 'Sometime Around Midnight' so revelatory. It's an hour of sheer roar-along brilliance. Stupendous." loudersound.com/reviews/the-ai…
NOW THAT THE PRESIDENT HAS IT, it's called the "coronavirus" not the "China-virus."
NOW THAT THE PRESIDENT HAS IT, it's a non-partisan issue, not a "hoax invented by Democrats."
NOW THAT THE PRESIDENT HAS IT, we must follow the advice of experts?
200,000 Americans are dead.
NOW THAT THE PRESIDENT HAS IT, it's a serious condition worthy of the best health care in the world, not "a mild flu."
NOW THAT THE PRESIDENT HAS IT, we are "one" America, not an America in which the covid mortality rate for Black people is THREE TIMES that of white people.
Honestly, I'm glad the Republican Party has finally decided to take this seriously, my only question is:
Where the fuck have you been?
Because a lot of us have been locked indoors, no school for kids, all while you have been holding superspreader events and calling this a HOAX.
This is Louis DeJoy. He is the huge Trump DONOR who Trump made the Postmaster General of the United States. He is trying to DESTROY the US Postal Service to help Trump steal an election.
We need to make him famous.
Louis DeJoy gave $2,000,000 to the Republican Party under Trump who rewarded him by making him the head of the Postal Service DESPITE NO EXPERIENCE AT THE POST OFFICE.
“The cardinal rule is, ‘don’t delay the mail,’ and we’re in a 180-degree switch where we’re delaying mail every day,” adding that if the system is not fixed before election season, “it’s going to be a catastrophe.”