The Save The Children hashtag is a QAnon talking point.
The Netflix movie is about a Black girl, but they wouldn’t know that because they haven’t actually watched it.
A Twitter account that Individual 1 has repeatedly retweeted has been banned by Twitter for its racist posts.
I have no idea which of the $45 threads this belongs in, but we’ll try here:
Trump is saying he’ll try to “negotiate a third term”, because after all, he deserves it given how he was treated.
Has anyone explained to him that he cannot, Constitutionally, server more than 2 terms and it doesn’t matter how he was treated? Or did someone explain to him and he’s choosing to ignore it because it doesn’t fit into the world inside his head?
The tan twerp really seriously must be incredibly afraid of what will happen to him when he leaves office:
President Donald Trump on Saturday once again suggested interest in serving three terms in office, claiming that he was “probably entitled” to an additional four years following a hypothetical second term at a campaign event in Nevada.
“And 52 days from now we’re going to win Nevada, and we’re gonna win four more years in the White House,” Trump told the mostly maskless, non-socially distant crowd of his supporters on Saturday. "And then after that, we’ll negotiate, right? Because we’re probably — based on the way we were treated — we are probably entitled to another four after that.
In Trumpworld, everything can be negotiated, even if it is not strictly legal.
It’s part of his pattern. He tosses an idea out there and unless it is completely batted down, he picks away at it.
It’s irrelevant, anyway. If we have gotten to the point he can “negotiate” a third term, he can just stay in office by fiat instead of dicking around with other shenanigans. If we haven’t gotten to that point, he won’t even show up on the ballots.
USPS is in the process of mailing postcards that contain some voting information to everyone in the country. Nice of them, huh? Problem is that all states don’t have the same rules, so one-size-fits-all information cards will just be confusing. But that’s the point.
The Trump admin just keeps coming up with ways to sow chaos. Some people in states that have only mail-in voting, and automatically get their ballots sent to them, are going to see these cards and make the mistake of thinking they need to request a ballot. It’s easy from there to check with precincts to see how many folks requested ballots when the state had already sent them one. Tried to vote twice - voter fraud!
I don’t think we can even imagine all the ways this election is going to be a shitshow.
But - but - that Democrat FDR got elected FOUR times! A good Republican like Trump should get at least THREE, right? Right? [/sarcasm]
Pretty sure it’s been explained to him, he just doesn’t want to hear it or believe it.
I wonder who exactly he thinks he’s going to negotiate this with.
22nd Amendment: No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice . . .
No problem, he’ll just forego a third election and issue an National Emergency order
Whatever it is, it’ll be done on Twitter.
The local fishwrap ran an article the other day to the effect that the cards can just be ignored, since every registered voter will get a ballot automatically. No mention of the voter fraud angle, but that doesn’t mean it can be dismissed.
(One of the signal accomplishments[?] of this malAdministration is weakening the adage about not ascribing to malevolence that which can be explained by incompetence. It’s as if they ran malevolence and incompetence through the Large Hadron Collider to the point where they’re indistinguishable.)
Should read: “In Trumpworld, everything can be negotiated, even if it is not strictly the tiniest bit close to being legal in anyone’s wildest imagination.”
The fun continues with Giuliani:
TLDR version:
Reporter: why were you talking to that Russian spy?
Giuliani: well, I don’t know him to be a spy so there.
I do not know what the article says, but I have received one of those cards and I looks rather innocuous to me (I don’t live in mail-in only state). Here is how it starts:
Dear Postal Customer,
If you vote by mail, we’re committed to providing you a secure, effective way to deliver your ballot. Use this checklist to prepare:
- Start today. Give yourself and your election officials ample time to complete the process
- Rules and dates vary by state, so contact your election board to confirm. Find links at Redirect to [...]
…etc
From my reading, right there in their second point (my bold) they say it is different in different states. I am not sure how that sows confusion.
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You omitted the third bullet, which says “request your mail-in ballot at least 15 days before Election Day.” That is not necessary in CO (and several other states), where the ballot is mailed automatically. Suggesting people need to do something they don’t actually need to do obviously sows confusion.
ETA: and the fourth bullet says “mail your ballot 7 days before Election Day.” That’s good advice if you are mailing it, but it ignores that most mail-in states have secure drop-off points where you can drop your ballot any time up to and including Election Day.
Right, I know that third item could be confusing, but my point is that it does say that it is different in each state and that you should check with your state board, which is good advice and would possibly make you aware that you aren’t registered to vote yet. Also, you could be living in a mail-in only voting state but not be a resident (or not be one yet), so the check list would be appropriate for you. I see this more of a mass mailing fail rather than purposeful attempt at causing confusion
//i\\And people say trump doesn’t have his priorities straight when it comes to the possiblity of Covid transmission at his rallies. Quote from Las Vegas Review-Journal article:
Trump said in his interview with the Review-Journal that he is not afraid of getting the coronavirus from speaking at the indoor rally.
“I’m on a stage and it’s very far away,” Trump said. “And so I’m not at all concerned.”
I guess the implication of Trump’s statement were so obvious that the interviewer didn’t even feel the need to ask the follow-up: “uh…what about your fans in the audience who aren’t far away from each other? Any concern for them?”
Nah. It’s all about the donald.
Whelp. The Center for Disease Control, which used to be the most respected group of apolitical scientists in their field, now includes a tinfoil-hat-wearing conspiracy theory-espousing loony.
From the NY Times (paywalled, so I’m only including the summary headline)