WARNING: There are occasional comments containing satire here, and a few blue words about things I write about to show the lies, corruption and stupidity apparent in our political system and I have to drop in a laugh or two or these pages would be filled with tears. This is not an election as we know, this is a circus and T-RUMP is the ringmaster. The press is just like the elephants parading around the ring day after day and doing the same thing to an intelligent animal. The GOP are like the clowns who get out of that little car, ball-less and stupid looking.
Being somewhat of an animal lover and one who rescues animals, I don’t like circuses with animals. But I do like the Circ de Soliel and my favorite in Vegas is “KA”. The most incredible production show I have ever seen.
IMPORTANT NEWS FOR JEWS IF VOTING FOR TRUMP
May you sell everything and retire to Florida just as global warming makes it uninhabitable.
May you live to a hundred and twenty without Social Security or Medicare.
May you make a fortune, and lose it all in one of Sheldon Adelson’s casinos.
May you live to a ripe old age, and may the only people who come visit you be Mormon missionaries.
May your son be elected President, and may you have no idea what you did with his goddamn birth certificate.
May your grandchildren baptize you after you’re dead.
May your insurance company decide constipation is a pre-existing condition.
May you feast every day on chopped liver/onions, chicken soup/matzoh balls, baked carp/ horseradish, braised meat/ vegetables, latkes, and may every bite of it be contaminated with E. Coli, because the government gutted the E.P.A.
IMPORTANT NEWS FOR THE BLACK VOTER THINKING TRUMP
Trump asks: “What the hell have you got to lose?” And went on to describe the Black community beset by crime and gun violence, higher unemployment among Black men 17-34, higher incarceration rates and second class schools and second class teachers. Basically painting all blacks, black.
Donald Trump's invitation to black voters to vote for him because "What have you got to lose?" In Trump's Fox News Channel version of reality, all black people live in an inner city, go to terrible schools and worry about getting shot every time they go outside. And it's all the result of decades of Democratic Party control of the cities.
Trump will not get more than 1 percent of the black vote, if that. This is really a message aimed at suburban whites. It is designed to show Trump wants support from everybody. That's supposed to make it easier for moderate white suburban women to vote for him.
A direct answer to his question of “What the hell do you have to lose?” is: Plenty...
- A black favorable appointment to the United States Supreme Court if TRUMP becomes President”.
- Probably your freedom by the use of gerrymandering will expand.
- Economic slavery will become popular again.
- Any chance in hell of the minimum wage going up
- Women’s medical care under Medicaid will be non-existent with the elimination of Planned parenthood.
- Any chance better schools and facilities gone...
- You have got a lot to lose, a huge amount, scary is not enough a word, TRUMP is not your friend.
THE RNC GESTAPO IS FORMED
After telling an audience in Altoona, Pa., that he would seek their help in policing the polls in November to root out voter fraud Donald Trump’s campaign nationalized the effort on Saturday morning. NOTE : There is no voter fraud, just another scam. Now eager Trump backers can go to Trump’s website and sign up to be “ Trump Election Observer.” Do so, and you get an email thanking you for volunteering and assuring you that the campaign will "do everything we are legally allowed to do to stop crooked Hillary from rigging this election."
There are any number of problems with this, again starting with the fact that the frequency of in-person voter fraud in elections is lower than getting five numbers right in the Powerball. But there’s a potentially bigger legal problem noted by election law expert Rick Hasen of the University of California at Irvine: Trump’s unnecessary effort could be violating a prohibition against voter intimidation that applies to the Republican Party and to all civilized elections in this country.
The RNC also allegedly enlisted the help of off-duty sheriffs and police officers to intimidate voters by standing at polling places in minority precincts during voting with “National Ballot Security Task Force” armbands. Some of the officers allegedly wore firearms in a visible manner.
Trump in Altoona: "We have to call up law enforcement. And we have to have the sheriffs and the police chiefs and everybody watching. ... The only way they can beat it in my opinion — and I mean this 100 percent — if in certain sections of the state they cheat, okay?"
In his blog post, Hasen points specifically to the fifth prohibition in the decree, Part E, which keeps the party from “ Undertaking any ballot security activities in polling places or election districts where the racial or ethnic composition of such districts is a factor in the decision to conduct, or the actual conduct of, such activities there and where a purpose or significant effect of such activities is to deter qualified voters from casting their vote.
Let's step back a bit. Political campaigns often send observers to polling places as part of get-out-the-vote efforts, since states often allow campaigns to track who has and hasn't already voted. Campaigns spend months identifying voters who support their candidates, and checking to make sure they’ve voted on Election Day allows campaigns to then send volunteers to go and encourage those supporters who haven't yet cast a ballot to do so.
To track that information, though, observers have to abide by certain rules that vary in different places. Here are the rules in Los Angeles, for example.
- Observers can see who’s been checked off the already-voted list but may not challenge voters.
- Vote tallying may be observed but not interfered with.
- "The use of force, violence, tactic of coercion or intimidation to compel a person to refrain from voting at any election is a felony punishable by imprisonment in state prison for up to three years."
The consent decree extends the list of prohibitions for the party. But is Trump the same in this regard as the party? That's the agency question Hasen raises. Trump is fundraising with the Republican Party. What's more, Trump has spoken in the past of outsourcing his voter-turnout effort to the Republican Party, though it's not clear the extent to which he will or can.
"If I were the lawyer for the [Democratic National Committee], I would try to make the case that Trump is acting as an agent for the RNC and the RNC is acting as an agent of Trump since they have a joint fundraising committee and they are working together," Hasen said. "I can't tell you how a court would rule on this question, but I certainly think the Democrats could make that case."
If the Democrats challenge this effort, and if Trump is determined to be an agent of the Republican Party, the court could find that Trump's effort violates the consent decree. That could extend the consent decree, which expires in December 2017, for another eight years, Hasen says, and anyone found in knowing violation of it could be held in contempt of court.
That's a lot of ifs — particularly given that we don't really know what Trump's trying to do by enlisting these volunteers.