We should all be snickering up our sleeves. Someone is displeased. Someone feels like he had the rug pulled out from under him when he hasn’t, and no one could do that by themselves anyhow. You’d need a team of rug-pullers. We could make a contest out of it for the Not Great American State Fair. People might come to watch that. With jubilation from Raw Story:
Reactions were rolling in Monday after President Donald Trump and his Republican Party were dealt a serious blow in the Supreme Court‘s ruling on mail-in ballots. Reporters asked Trump for his thoughts during a press conference in the Oval Office after the high court upheld a Mississippi law that allows mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day, rejecting the president’s attacks on the voting practice.
We have to bet he wasn’t expecting that. And it’s hypocritical of him anyhow. Can’t see how anyone could guess that all mail-in ballots would arrive on Election Day, let alone count them. Also consider how many steps it takes to get to the actual ballot and have it submitted. Our household votes in person because of the big screwed-up sorting station that takes *weeks* to get mail *anywhere*, including if it should only take a day or two max.
Trump was asked what comes next for the SAVE America Act, which the president has referred to as a priority. “Because of the mail-in ballot ruling, which was a little bit surprising, it gives people more time to vote illegally,” Trump said. Trump himself has voted by mail — and the internet was quick to point that out.
“If it’s a weekday afternoon in America, reporters are nodding sagely and respectfully and pretending it’s normal for a president to say things your family would put your uncle in a padded room with non-toxic crayons and a ball of string if he said them,” the political commentary account Recovering Journalist wrote on X.
It really does get annoying that we can’t put Trump in a padded room sometimes. Whether he’s being inane or outrageous, we all roll our eyes and wish he would shut up and go away. We know that no matter how “restrained” he may be in public, Trump is anything but away from the cameras. Does he still throw ketchup?
“Yes, the ‘illegal‘ mail-in votes, even though Trump votes by mail. It’s like OJ telling you driving a Ford Bronco should be illegal,” progressive political commentator Chris Robinson wrote on X. //// “Trump’s an idiot. It doesn’t give any more time to vote,” Vince Wilson, liberal political commentator and YouTuber, wrote on X. //// “Adjudicated rapist says what?” Dane Rauschenberg, long-distance runner and author, wrote on X.
Ooooo, that last one. *SCORCH* Actually, all the comments are enjoyable, but isn’t that usually true when we’re discussing Trump? It’s definitely better than listening to him. It’s still, after all this time and repetition, difficult to understand why he is so rabid about mail-in voting. Guess it’s because he thinks that’s why he lost in 2020. Give it up, dude.
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