Trump blathers all over the map

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And, of course, Donald claimed — totally without evidence —  that any all-mail ballot would be “rigged.”

He said: “The mailmen are gonna get ‘em and people are just gonna grab batches of them, and you talk about China and Russia, they’ll be grabbing plenty of them.” The president concluded, “It’s just common sense.” Common sense? Donald Trump?

Tweet briefs make some of the most interesting responses to such reported remarks on the Internet — to wit: “Listening to Trump on Hannity. What started as a talk about Harris has turned into a discussion of ‘Hillary smashing the phones with hammers’ and the Russia dossier. Sounds, honestly, like he and Hannity got bored talking Harris.”

Or, “Trump, on Hannity to talk Harris, is talking windmills: ‘If you see a windmill and you hear a windmill, your home goes down by half, or less than half. It kills all the birds’."

Or, “Poor Hannity. He just wants ‘Trump to riff on Kamala but the conversation keeps drifting to . . . knife-wielding MS-13 assassins; the rebar inside the Wall; the Pulitzer prizes, and Hillary.“

Last time around, all of the Republican gerrymandering and other forms of Democratic disenfranchisement (disappearing polling places, abbreviated polling hours, etc.) were nicely in place as Donald, his family and friends in high places all voted by mail.

But this time it’s different. Commoners in “swing” electoral states such as Michigan are actually being encouraged to avoid the coronavirus pandemic and vote by mail. This is “fraudulent” in Donald’s opinion as it would encourage more Democratic than Republican votes. The Michigan vote in 2016 was Republican for the first time since 1982, going 2,279,543 for Trump and 2,268,839 for Hillary — for 47.50% to 47.27%.

A true “swing” there would involve 32 electoral votes — Michigan going 16 fewer for Trump and 16 more for Biden than was managed by Hillary.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-postal-service-mail-in-voting-coronavirus-funding-151003445.html

Donald got a splash of publicity last week after his former personal attorney Michael Cohen published an excerpt from an upcoming book. And it’s not the kind of publicity the president typically craves.

Cohen, who eventually turned on Trump and is now serving a 3-year prison sentence in home confinement, wrote in the foreword of “Disloyal: A Memoir”: ‘From golden showers in a sex club in Vegas, to tax fraud, to deals with corrupt officials from the former Soviet Union, to catch and kill conspiracies to silence Trump’s clandestine lovers, I wasn’t just a witness to the president’s rise — I was an active and eager participant.’

In some circles they say these days that actual U.S. coronavirus deaths in the U.S. are around 200,000 and rising rather than the 175,000 or so officially admitted to — with testing at a low ebb (thanks largely to Donald). With the usual flu season fast approaching, many schools considering re-opening and general stupidity continuing in Floridian and other “hot spots.” This figure is estimated merely by subtracting one year’s deaths from another’s — with proper allowances for population, causes of death, etc. And considering the state of the nation and the world with people dying all around the world, read the following or Google a similar site: “The president’s quest for ‘perfect’ hair starts with the shower.”

Yeah, he knows what’s important in today’s world.

Or who ever thought they’d see the day that our historic postal service would be chosen as a convenient scapegoat by a president seeking continued self-glorification?