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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsImagine being so wildly unpopular you have to literally dismantle the Post Office to "win"
And, you have to send your failed son-in-law to chase after a man who may have mental health issues to get him to run as some sort of spoiler candidate.
And, you have to count on a conservative supreme court issuing a shadow docket decision upholding what is surely a poll tax on many Florida voters.
Seems this and more is what it takes to get this small, unpopular man a "win". Republicans must be so proud.
Link to tweet
Link to tweet
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/08/supreme-court-shadow-docket.html
prevented potentially hundreds of thousands of eligible voters in Florida from voting this November by refusing to freeze Floridas pay to vote law, which requires felons to clear any claimed outstanding judgments before voting, and which the lower court had struck down as flagrantly unconstitutional
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Imagine being so wildly unpopular you have to literally dismantle the Post Office to "win" (Original Post)
EleanorR
Aug 2020
OP
He's pushing... he wants to watch America struggle because he knows he is hated.
Baked Potato
Aug 2020
#2
exboyfil
(17,865 posts)1. Imagine a Senate that just sits on its hands while this is happening
Imagine 40% of the voting population who don't give a shit.
Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)2. He's pushing... he wants to watch America struggle because he knows he is hated.
RussBLib
(9,036 posts)3. I've decided to vote in person
i was going to go mail-in, but with all the crap Degenerating Don is pulling at the PO, we will vote early, in person.
Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)6. Us too.
malaise
(269,164 posts)4. This is criminal
He can't get away with this
leftyladyfrommo
(18,870 posts)5. Wait until his base realizes there is no mail service.
That move is bound to piss off everyone at the same time. Individuals as well as several million businesses.