Posted by @lovendures:
The Katie Porter Torcher Chamber of truth and facts.
God bless KP ... and you for making me laugh! ?
I just read that Robert Trump is in a neuro intensive care unit. He may have had a stroke.
All the usual critical illnesses are still going on. The thing is, people wait so long to come to the hospital now because they are afraid of Covid, so they come in twice as sick.
I want to encourage those of us who are able, to sign up to be election workers. Poll workers are desperately needed this fall. Many of our poll workers are elderly and won’t want to risk it this year.
I signed up today and I’m so excited!! Call your county Supervisor of Elections office and they will get you started.
Also, BUY STAMPS! Ship through the USPS if you can. Support your post office. If we all do a little, it will make a difference!
In addition to removing the sorting machines, the USPS has been removing mailboxes in Montana and Oregon. They also planned to do it nationally. Once it started happening, citizens and some politicians really raised a stink, so DeJoy called off the removal.
As Rachel just stated, shaming them doesn't work, nor does hoping for the best. But making noise does -- or as John Lewis would say, making "good trouble"!
I hope someone is paying attention to the fact that Ivanka got a trademark for voting machines.
Snopes on "Ivanka got a trademark for voting machines.":
It is true that in 2018, China granted trademarks for multiple products, potentially including voting machines, under Ivanka Trump's name brand. However she closed her business in 2018.
Please provide a link to a reliable and recent news source if this is something of concern.
You know how T and his fellow Republicans are saying mail voter fraud. Well a Federal Judge in Pennsylvania told the Trump campaign and Republican to pony up that proof. Good luck to them with that.
@lowtide That's a great call out! I also signed up to be a poll worker for the first time a couple of months ago. They gave me the option to work just election day and/or early voting days, so there are options.
This little bit of interesting news really piqued my curiosity... what is Ivanka up to with the voting machines being manufactured in China?
Apparently she was granted multiple trademarks, including some for miscellany like sausage casings, wedding dresses and senior nursing homes, even though her fashion brands were shut down.
According to a Washington Post news source (" China greenlights large batch of Ivanka Trump trademark applications ") :
" These trademarks were sought to broadly protect Ms .Trump's name, and to prevent others from stealing her name and using it to sell her products"
(from a spokesman for Ivanka's 'ethics' attorney per same article)
It's strange that voting machines, rarely used in China, would be slipped into the hodgepodge of trademarks ...???
@lowtide, I bought the coolest Bugs Bunny stamps from the USPS. If you go onto their website, you can see their collections.
@lowtide Buying stamps won't do anything. The problem isn't that the USPS is out of money; it's that they are deliberately dismantling the sorting systems, literally removing drop boxes from cities. They have been told to not deliver political mail, and what isn't delivered gets destroyed. (Could this include ballots?) As soon as you get your absentee ballot, fill it in and hand deliver it to you city or county election board.
This past Tuesday, there was a primary in my state. I had requested a mail-in ballot weeks ago, but got it on Saturday. Monday was a busy day for me, so I knew I would deliver it to the election office on Tuesday. I looked up online to see where to go, and the county election website said to take it to the County Building. I got there and it was all locked ... entrance by appointment only ... but that absentee ballots were to be dropped off at the Public Works office, seven miles away. I got back in the car, drove there ... same thing: locked. There was a sign with a phone number to call for questions. I called, a woman answered, and I asked her where to drop off ballots. She told me to follow the blue voting signs, and I told her that I did ... they point to the front door. She said to look for the "big blue sign." I started to walk around the building to look for a bigger sign, and saw another woman with ballots in her hand, also looking for a drop box or door or blue sign. We eventually found a kid who worked there, asked him where to go, he walkied a supervisor who told him ballots are to get dropped off at the County Building. I said nope ... County Building had a sign that ballots were to come to this place. So he didn't know, his supervisor didn't know, and neither building was open or had drop boxes. So I told the other woman that I gave up and was going to the post office. Once there, I asked the USPS guy if I could still drop off a ballot on election day, and he said yes, as long as it was postmarked that day he would put it in the special "ballot bin." I joked, "Is that the one labeled 'trash'?" and he laughed, then rolled his eyes.
The minute I get my general election ballot in the mail, I will fill it out and call the Election office to make an appointment to hand it directly to them. I am taking zero chances with this election.
Just Wow!
I wonder if they will have the Trump name on them?
This election brought to you by Trump!
Anita... nothing to be 'sorry' about ... you raised a very valid point. Nothing should surprise us with the nefarious web that is the Familia T-rump, and we can expect their convoluted dealings with China to be on the down-low, like their convolutions with Russia, and China's with Russia, and, and, and it boggles the mind ....
"O what a tangled web they weave..."
@saibh I get your point.
https://www.salon.com/2020/08/14/buying-stamps-wont-stop-trump-from-destroying-the-postal-system/
Buying stamps would show tremendous support for the USPS. Only Congress can supply the billions needed to save it.
When enough Americans make enough noise, something will change.
At least it used to.
@anita. Dear sweet Anita, no need to apologize. I simply am trying to get people to provide links to news that gets posted here so we become more grounded and less subject to the many manipulative forces out there.
@jessi1978 posted:
"You know how T and his fellow Republicans are saying mail voter fraud. Well a Federal Judge in Pennsylvania told the Trump campaign and Republican to pony up that proof. Good luck to them with that."
I heard that on the news yesterday and after a crazy busy hard working physically all at home day it was such a good laugh! I howled with delight!
@jeans3head If my mail ballot doesn't arrive then I'm voting in person. And if it does arrive, I am going to deliver it in person. Come Hell or high water, my ballot will be counted.
I wonder whether organizing angry public protests (like BLM) around the country would help stop T's voter suppression efforts with the Post Office? The R's and Rump need to see "angry mobs" (but non-violent). In the spirit of John Lewis' "Good Trouble"...