Remember, everything he and the Republicans (sic) say is a projection. The only voter fraud are Republican state officials suppressing the vote and gerrymandering the voter rolls. The entire NYC current trial is about election tampering not hush money. Projections!
I think I rank as old - I'm 91 - and I've vote by mail since 1992. At first because I was angry with the elections office in the California County where I lived at the time. They moved the voting place from 2 miles from where I lived to 15 miles away.
Once started however, I liked the simplicity, I can sit comfortably, with the voter guide in front of me for the many propositions and mark my ballot leisurely. I usually mail my ballot the next day. Early on we had to pay postage and we hoped our ballot was received and counted.
Now in California, every registered voter receives a ballot in the mail, at least 30 days before election day. Postage is free. And we have Ballot Trax - an online system that tells us when the ballot was mailed to us, when it was received at the County office, AND when it has been counted.
Oh, and I'm liberal progressive. The first thing I did after being sworn in as a Naturalized citizen, was register to vote as a Democrat in February 1967. I also converted both my first and second husbands from Republican to Democrat. All my children were Democrats. And my living grandchildren are Democrats. All my grandchildren vote, because Grandma says so.
“…In 2020, Republicans fell far behind Democrats on those sorts of turnout initiatives, largely because Trump derided them as ripe for fraud. Some 60 percent of Democratic voters chose to vote by mail while only 32 percent of Republicans did so, according to a 2021 report from the MIT Election Data and Science Lab.”
Interestingly, in 2020 Trump himself voted by mail.
By proclaiming that the election is already rigged, Trump may discourage his voters from voting. However, Democrats should not in any way count on that. Rather, assume that he will bring his voters out in droves and respond accordingly. Take nothing for granted.
Trump will never be just satisfied with winning. The goal posts will always be moving- winning by how much; winning which states; who voted for him and who did not. Trump is a caretaker for Putin. He’s marginally invested in being a good president. What he wants to be is a good Putin puppet. He wants to please his Moscow master.
We were given a strong preview of Trump’s mentality when he won in 2016. He complained of not winning by a large enough number; complaining Hillary Clinton could not have won the popular vote. Trump is like a boxer who knocks out his opponent to win the championship but complains his opponent didn’t stay knocked out long enough. He’s a man who’s constantly tainted by the need to be ( perceived as) perfect.
Putin will use Trump. Until he doesn’t. Then, who knows?
"Holocaust denial is explicitly or implicitly illegal in 18 countries"
The Executive Action will authorize the arrest and deportation of all MAGA supporters and sentence them to Hard Labor rebuilding Ukraine and Gaza 🤭🤯😁🙏😇🤣
There are so many negatives facing 45, mostly of his own creation, those pointed out by Professor Reich, money, criminal trials and so on that one would think he will lose 2024 by 12 million votes and get no more than 200 electoral college votes. Yet thanks to the press coverage one would believe 45 is 5% ahead of Biden. Hopefully two realities emerge, 45 voters become apathetic while 46 voters are stimulated to surge and vote enmass.
WE want it to be too big to rig. 13 million unregistered folks trend heavily democratic. FT6 uses data mining, not voter rolls to find them. Expand the base and we win.
That is what gave us AMERICANS such a landslide victory in 2020: so many uneducated trumplicans were ruined by Dear Leader's claims of imminent election theft! "Why spend the time to vote when it's ALREADY rigged?"
I hear what you are saying, Robert and would also feel quite a bit of Schadenfreude should TFG drive his own voters away from performing their civic duty. But one thing this country sorely needs is increased voter participation. Part of the deal in a true democracy is everyone having and using a voice.
Robert. Trump already has a problem with Republican voters. In the primaries he could only achieve roughly 60% support. This from a party that is already no more than 45% of the electorate. 60% of 45% is a recipe for a butt kicking.
There are some people who are just naturally followers. It is apparent that in their formative years they were discouraged from thinking for themselves, and acting on what they should've learned from simply observing what was going on around them. I've gotten used to thinking of Trump's followers, his MAGAhats, as something less than fully qualified citizens because they make no attempt to separate fact from fiction, information from propaganda, and in their own way, have forfeited any claim to self-respect or the regard of others.
Then, last week, I saw the HBO series on Synanon, which began as a self-help group in Santa Monica in 1958, but later moved to the Marin County environs of the San Francisco Bay Area in the early 1970s for people strung out on hallucinogens and opioids. It was a short matter of time before the group's charismatic leader Charles (Chuck) Diedrich began to push the group into deeper and deeper levels of ideological and behavioral conformity, finally resorting to physical assault and social isolation for those in the group who refused his demands. At least in the beginning, Diedrich's methods were a healthy antidote to those who could not get through the day without resorting to mind altering drugs. He introduced a strict regimen of self-help behaviors that included personal hygiene, cleanliness, and housekeeping. It wasn't too long afterwards that is compound in Marin County began to look like a military barracks, and his orders were expected to be obeyed without question. He also introduced a group dynamic which in some circles is known as the "hot seat", where individuals who could not conform to the regimen were criticized brutally, and thus were faced with either conforming to the routine, or being forced out. Unfortunately, Diedrich's methods turned authoritarian and fetishistic, forcing his followers to shave their heads, indoor forced vasectomies, and the breaking up of existing marital relationships. George Orwell's cautionary tale, 1984, represents a failure of imagination compared with the methods that Chuck Diedrich introduced, forced marching and calisthenics, strict regimentation, in fact, all of the things that the Chinese Communist Party has been accused of doing to break down individual will and personality. Finally Diedrich authorized and encouraged physical violence against members who resisted his indoctrination, or who reported his activities to outside public authorities. Children were separated from their parents to be raised by the community, and legal marriages were broken up simply because they represented a social and familial barrier to Diedrich's domination of Synanon as his personal fiefdom. He was Lord and Master of everyone and everything within his reach.
That is the way that Donald Trump behaves, and the kind of loyalty that he demands of his followers. The problem is that Trump himself is to ill-disciplined and peripatetic to follow through on managing his following. In his heart and soul, Trump is the equal of Chuck Diedrich, but because he lacks self-discipline and a sense of his own self, he fails at the task of fulfilling his role as the charismatic dictator. Diedrich understood that his followers were desperate for community and authenticity in their quest for interpersonal relationships, and that is what made him effective. Donald Trump, on the other hand, simply wants to milk his followers of whatever money or other earthly goods that they have to enrich himself. Comparing the results each of them achieved, we are fortunate that Charles Diedrich chose not to engage himself in electoral politics.
From a benign, self-help "nonprofit" beginnings, the organization acquired more than $30 million in assets, according to the filmmakers, including communial properties and farms.
Remember, everything he and the Republicans (sic) say is a projection. The only voter fraud are Republican state officials suppressing the vote and gerrymandering the voter rolls. The entire NYC current trial is about election tampering not hush money. Projections!
I think I rank as old - I'm 91 - and I've vote by mail since 1992. At first because I was angry with the elections office in the California County where I lived at the time. They moved the voting place from 2 miles from where I lived to 15 miles away.
Once started however, I liked the simplicity, I can sit comfortably, with the voter guide in front of me for the many propositions and mark my ballot leisurely. I usually mail my ballot the next day. Early on we had to pay postage and we hoped our ballot was received and counted.
Now in California, every registered voter receives a ballot in the mail, at least 30 days before election day. Postage is free. And we have Ballot Trax - an online system that tells us when the ballot was mailed to us, when it was received at the County office, AND when it has been counted.
Oh, and I'm liberal progressive. The first thing I did after being sworn in as a Naturalized citizen, was register to vote as a Democrat in February 1967. I also converted both my first and second husbands from Republican to Democrat. All my children were Democrats. And my living grandchildren are Democrats. All my grandchildren vote, because Grandma says so.
“…In 2020, Republicans fell far behind Democrats on those sorts of turnout initiatives, largely because Trump derided them as ripe for fraud. Some 60 percent of Democratic voters chose to vote by mail while only 32 percent of Republicans did so, according to a 2021 report from the MIT Election Data and Science Lab.”
Interestingly, in 2020 Trump himself voted by mail.
Trump is simply insane.
By proclaiming that the election is already rigged, Trump may discourage his voters from voting. However, Democrats should not in any way count on that. Rather, assume that he will bring his voters out in droves and respond accordingly. Take nothing for granted.
When someone keeps shooting himself in the foot, he will soon have nothing to stand on.
Trump will never be just satisfied with winning. The goal posts will always be moving- winning by how much; winning which states; who voted for him and who did not. Trump is a caretaker for Putin. He’s marginally invested in being a good president. What he wants to be is a good Putin puppet. He wants to please his Moscow master.
We were given a strong preview of Trump’s mentality when he won in 2016. He complained of not winning by a large enough number; complaining Hillary Clinton could not have won the popular vote. Trump is like a boxer who knocks out his opponent to win the championship but complains his opponent didn’t stay knocked out long enough. He’s a man who’s constantly tainted by the need to be ( perceived as) perfect.
Putin will use Trump. Until he doesn’t. Then, who knows?
BREAKING NEWS: Biden signs extradition treaty with 18 countries that jail conspiracy theorists.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_denial
"Holocaust denial is explicitly or implicitly illegal in 18 countries"
The Executive Action will authorize the arrest and deportation of all MAGA supporters and sentence them to Hard Labor rebuilding Ukraine and Gaza 🤭🤯😁🙏😇🤣
There are so many negatives facing 45, mostly of his own creation, those pointed out by Professor Reich, money, criminal trials and so on that one would think he will lose 2024 by 12 million votes and get no more than 200 electoral college votes. Yet thanks to the press coverage one would believe 45 is 5% ahead of Biden. Hopefully two realities emerge, 45 voters become apathetic while 46 voters are stimulated to surge and vote enmass.
Time will tell.
WE want it to be too big to rig. 13 million unregistered folks trend heavily democratic. FT6 uses data mining, not voter rolls to find them. Expand the base and we win.
https://www.fieldteam6.org/
That is what gave us AMERICANS such a landslide victory in 2020: so many uneducated trumplicans were ruined by Dear Leader's claims of imminent election theft! "Why spend the time to vote when it's ALREADY rigged?"
Yet again: donny is in his own way. Sad!
anti-mail in voting = anti-military
I hear what you are saying, Robert and would also feel quite a bit of Schadenfreude should TFG drive his own voters away from performing their civic duty. But one thing this country sorely needs is increased voter participation. Part of the deal in a true democracy is everyone having and using a voice.
Robert. Trump already has a problem with Republican voters. In the primaries he could only achieve roughly 60% support. This from a party that is already no more than 45% of the electorate. 60% of 45% is a recipe for a butt kicking.
Donnie is a both a projection and a reflection of that older GOP minded voter. Hope he continues getting it all very wrong for his base.
Glad that you made a positive out of Trump’s negative. Bravo! Thank you!
There are some people who are just naturally followers. It is apparent that in their formative years they were discouraged from thinking for themselves, and acting on what they should've learned from simply observing what was going on around them. I've gotten used to thinking of Trump's followers, his MAGAhats, as something less than fully qualified citizens because they make no attempt to separate fact from fiction, information from propaganda, and in their own way, have forfeited any claim to self-respect or the regard of others.
Then, last week, I saw the HBO series on Synanon, which began as a self-help group in Santa Monica in 1958, but later moved to the Marin County environs of the San Francisco Bay Area in the early 1970s for people strung out on hallucinogens and opioids. It was a short matter of time before the group's charismatic leader Charles (Chuck) Diedrich began to push the group into deeper and deeper levels of ideological and behavioral conformity, finally resorting to physical assault and social isolation for those in the group who refused his demands. At least in the beginning, Diedrich's methods were a healthy antidote to those who could not get through the day without resorting to mind altering drugs. He introduced a strict regimen of self-help behaviors that included personal hygiene, cleanliness, and housekeeping. It wasn't too long afterwards that is compound in Marin County began to look like a military barracks, and his orders were expected to be obeyed without question. He also introduced a group dynamic which in some circles is known as the "hot seat", where individuals who could not conform to the regimen were criticized brutally, and thus were faced with either conforming to the routine, or being forced out. Unfortunately, Diedrich's methods turned authoritarian and fetishistic, forcing his followers to shave their heads, indoor forced vasectomies, and the breaking up of existing marital relationships. George Orwell's cautionary tale, 1984, represents a failure of imagination compared with the methods that Chuck Diedrich introduced, forced marching and calisthenics, strict regimentation, in fact, all of the things that the Chinese Communist Party has been accused of doing to break down individual will and personality. Finally Diedrich authorized and encouraged physical violence against members who resisted his indoctrination, or who reported his activities to outside public authorities. Children were separated from their parents to be raised by the community, and legal marriages were broken up simply because they represented a social and familial barrier to Diedrich's domination of Synanon as his personal fiefdom. He was Lord and Master of everyone and everything within his reach.
That is the way that Donald Trump behaves, and the kind of loyalty that he demands of his followers. The problem is that Trump himself is to ill-disciplined and peripatetic to follow through on managing his following. In his heart and soul, Trump is the equal of Chuck Diedrich, but because he lacks self-discipline and a sense of his own self, he fails at the task of fulfilling his role as the charismatic dictator. Diedrich understood that his followers were desperate for community and authenticity in their quest for interpersonal relationships, and that is what made him effective. Donald Trump, on the other hand, simply wants to milk his followers of whatever money or other earthly goods that they have to enrich himself. Comparing the results each of them achieved, we are fortunate that Charles Diedrich chose not to engage himself in electoral politics.
From a benign, self-help "nonprofit" beginnings, the organization acquired more than $30 million in assets, according to the filmmakers, including communial properties and farms.