From missing mail to armed federal agents and sweeping voter investigations, the warning signs suggest a democracy being squeezed before Americans even reach the ballot box…
Eyes wide open everyone. The January 6, 2021 coup is ongoing. It’s never stopped. The Trumpist/Fascist ideology to grab and consolidate all power is far closer to completion than our political “leaders” want to see or admit. So it’s on US to stop and reverse the coup — through the ballot and a sustained mass movement to fulfill the promise of a real democracy and justice for all.
The Bush 2000 coup has never ended. Bush 2000 coup participants such as Roger Stone and John Eastman have also participated in Trump's election stealing activities which are based on the Bush 2000 coup roadmap.
Audrey Long in Astoria, OR needs to take her completed ballot directly to her county courthouse as the preferred official ballot drop site. I live in Oregon and I do that where there is a guard in the lobby and I know it is secure. Since the arrival of Trump neofascism I cannot trust the PO to not screw with our elections. There are other ballot drop sites around my county, but unless there are 24/7 monitors and/or cameras they may be tampered with.
I keep shaking my head - why/how do folks allow him - well he gets others to do his dirty work - keep this farce going - and its hurting the very folks voting for him.
Thanks for this public service announcement .I will check with my county..I live in Washington State it is all mail in ballot. I've been sayiing this for years, you can't trust the system, certainly not the courts and Trump will not abide by any court decision that goes against him.
If you want someone to blame for the abysmal shap of the USPS, blame Biden. The board of governors is the only body, that can fire the Postmaster General and from the beginning of Biden's tour, and Trump 45 to now it is majority Republican. The board has 11 seats. One of which is the {PM and the other the Assistant, that leaves 9 seats to be filled by the President.
Two seats came vacant in Dec 2020, Biden filled them with a Democrat and a REPUBLICAN thus leaving the Republican majority in control. Two more seats came vacant in Dec 2022 and Biden did not fill them, thus leaving the Republicans in control of the USPS, He had two chances and did nothing.
The law was rewritten during a Republican admin, that the only authority that can fire the Postmaster general is the Board of Governors.
The President cannot unilaterally fire members of the USPS Board of Governors (including the chairman) at will, as they can only be removed "for cause" (such as malfeasance or extreme neglect of duty) under the Postal Reorganization Act of 1970.
BTW, the real problem is that Trump is planning a self coup He does have his very own GESTAPO/SA/SS with ICE not to mention his paramilitary forces whether they be a militia or the Proud Boys. or the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Offiers Association.
Correcton to my comment, He is not planning, he is in the process of a self coup, I was oging to say slow moving, but now he has instructed ICE to arrest anyone in California and he is totally ignoring the courts, and his GESTAPO is running unchecked through the streets, shooting people.
They fired seven shots into a vehicle, that contained a 5 year old child, in NYC. And hauled away the victim, who was shot in the neck, before even paramedics could get to them, tell me that is not the tactics of the GESTAPO.
If all the nasty stuff Thom described is indeed going on, it is downright freaky. I voted last week. I wonder where my red-state ballot is right now, and who, if anybody, will count it. Clearly, the only way to counter Trump's corruption hinges on every one of the 76% of voters who disapprove of this government to vote, and vote Blue.
One other thing that Thom achieved today was to force me to accept that there are more sadistic violent fascists in the USA than I was willing to acknowledge - until Trump. Yes, the Devil is real.
This is starting to sound like what is happening in India, where Modi's government has purged about 130 million names from the voter list. Some are undoubtedly duplicates or deceased people, but allegedly there has been a strong bias against Muslims (who comprise 14% of India’s population) and other non-Hindu groups. Also the government is talking about making sure that "foreign illegal immigrants" don't vote. Dictators learn from each other.
Keep banging the drum, please. Here in PA, just outside Pittsburgh proper, Allegheny County has set up a number of places where we who vote by mail can drop off our ballots under safe and secure conditions. I would not, at this point, trust the USPS to deliver them intact and on time. We have our ballots and @ 2 weeks before Nov. 4, will drop them off. To be honest, I have my doubts about digital ballot boxes as well. I think we need to be loud and proud about our choices right up to the eleventh hour, to emphasize our support and stand against any claim that a blue wave did not materialize. This is OUR country. If MAGA and reprobate Republicans and their shadowy and corrupt local and foreign support don't get trounced this November, we will not go down without a fight.
Are we becoming like Russia? It's a legitimate question. Will November 3 be the beginning of the end of a nightmare or mark the further descent into horror?
My mail-in ballot took 19 days. 5 times the normal time.
Reminds me of HAL.
HAL “balking” in 2001: A Space Odyssey is the scene where Dave Bowman orders HAL to open the pod bay doors, and HAL refuses. The line HAL delivers at that moment is:
“I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that."
Paraphrasing;
"I'm sorry, America, I'm afraid Massa Putin says that I can't do free and fair elections."
If he wanted, Trump could go to election sites and see for himself that the elections are honestly run. But since he is married to conspiracy theories, he can't accept reality. This mental construct makes him particularly unfit to lead, and it extends from Trump to the entire Republican party, who accept his patent nonsense as their modus operandi.
I don’t know that Trump just can’t see contradictory evidence; rather, I suspect that his narcissism is so great that he has convinced himself that what he believes, wants, never mind perceives is the only reality that matters. Remember, when the first architect of his Ball Room told him that the plans revised by Trump Solent not pass code, his responses was, “I am the code”? He might as well say, “ I am the reality, the only reality that matters.”
Even “normal” human beings have an extraordinary ability to convince themselves of most anything. Think of all the times any one of us we decided to set aside our principles or beliefs, “just this once,” because it seems practical or otherwise more correct that standing firm. (Actually, this may be one of the indicators of a failing society, where the usual values, norms and morals no longer have as much sway over the behavior of members of that society).
Now imagine what a mind like the President’s could conjure up, especially if he is as amoral, perhaps delusional, and too often, asleep in public as some suggest. I think he believes every single thing he says, &/or he believes that what he says is acceptable because it has the impact he wants. Then he forgets what he says, sometimes before the words leave his mouth, which means that from his point of view - the ONLY point of view that is real - he never contradicts himself.
I wonder if the only reason he might choose to escape ( undoubtedly, in the dark of night, or hiding in an airline food truck, his bags packed with as much of what remains in the US Treasury that he could get his hands on, to Argentina or some place without extradition treaties with the US) instead of fight for his political survival leading up to, during or after the mid-term 2026 election would be because he sees the latter as being too risky for himself and his wealth. Wouldn’t that make all of this loyal supporters, apologists and “partners” (including members of his family) really mad, maybe violently so? For that matter, how would his Russian and Israeli buddies respond?
Can a grossly narcissistic, sadistic, delusional person even comprehend the full potential consequences of escaping a self-made disaster, leaving co-conspirators behind to face justice?
Sometimes, one can create a brilliant, enormous and effective trap for themselves, where they are damned no matter which way they go, because they are so distracted trying to trap their opponents.
That last sentence is really all you needed to write. It precisely describes the continual predicament that human civilization puts itself in. And here we go again.
Trump is going full bore subverting our elections doing everything he can legally do and a lot of things which are questionably legal. This is a five-alarm fire.
Eyes wide open everyone. The January 6, 2021 coup is ongoing. It’s never stopped. The Trumpist/Fascist ideology to grab and consolidate all power is far closer to completion than our political “leaders” want to see or admit. So it’s on US to stop and reverse the coup — through the ballot and a sustained mass movement to fulfill the promise of a real democracy and justice for all.
The Bush 2000 coup has never ended. Bush 2000 coup participants such as Roger Stone and John Eastman have also participated in Trump's election stealing activities which are based on the Bush 2000 coup roadmap.
We need honest and fair elections, something the current administration does not want. Read Thom Hartmann's reports and books to learn more.
Audrey Long in Astoria, OR needs to take her completed ballot directly to her county courthouse as the preferred official ballot drop site. I live in Oregon and I do that where there is a guard in the lobby and I know it is secure. Since the arrival of Trump neofascism I cannot trust the PO to not screw with our elections. There are other ballot drop sites around my county, but unless there are 24/7 monitors and/or cameras they may be tampered with.
Fascist subversion may demand a general strike.
I keep shaking my head - why/how do folks allow him - well he gets others to do his dirty work - keep this farce going - and its hurting the very folks voting for him.
Thanks for this public service announcement .I will check with my county..I live in Washington State it is all mail in ballot. I've been sayiing this for years, you can't trust the system, certainly not the courts and Trump will not abide by any court decision that goes against him.
If you want someone to blame for the abysmal shap of the USPS, blame Biden. The board of governors is the only body, that can fire the Postmaster General and from the beginning of Biden's tour, and Trump 45 to now it is majority Republican. The board has 11 seats. One of which is the {PM and the other the Assistant, that leaves 9 seats to be filled by the President.
Two seats came vacant in Dec 2020, Biden filled them with a Democrat and a REPUBLICAN thus leaving the Republican majority in control. Two more seats came vacant in Dec 2022 and Biden did not fill them, thus leaving the Republicans in control of the USPS, He had two chances and did nothing.
Yes, and he could have fired the chairman who is the problem.
The law was rewritten during a Republican admin, that the only authority that can fire the Postmaster general is the Board of Governors.
The President cannot unilaterally fire members of the USPS Board of Governors (including the chairman) at will, as they can only be removed "for cause" (such as malfeasance or extreme neglect of duty) under the Postal Reorganization Act of 1970.
BTW, the real problem is that Trump is planning a self coup He does have his very own GESTAPO/SA/SS with ICE not to mention his paramilitary forces whether they be a militia or the Proud Boys. or the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Offiers Association.
Correcton to my comment, He is not planning, he is in the process of a self coup, I was oging to say slow moving, but now he has instructed ICE to arrest anyone in California and he is totally ignoring the courts, and his GESTAPO is running unchecked through the streets, shooting people.
They fired seven shots into a vehicle, that contained a 5 year old child, in NYC. And hauled away the victim, who was shot in the neck, before even paramedics could get to them, tell me that is not the tactics of the GESTAPO.
Do you think Hegseth wants the live-streamed, firing-squad execution to mostly intimidate the military that may not be thrilled with Hegseth?
Worse than that to intimidate everyone in the country.
Can we get the press to NOT cover this?
If all the nasty stuff Thom described is indeed going on, it is downright freaky. I voted last week. I wonder where my red-state ballot is right now, and who, if anybody, will count it. Clearly, the only way to counter Trump's corruption hinges on every one of the 76% of voters who disapprove of this government to vote, and vote Blue.
One other thing that Thom achieved today was to force me to accept that there are more sadistic violent fascists in the USA than I was willing to acknowledge - until Trump. Yes, the Devil is real.
This is starting to sound like what is happening in India, where Modi's government has purged about 130 million names from the voter list. Some are undoubtedly duplicates or deceased people, but allegedly there has been a strong bias against Muslims (who comprise 14% of India’s population) and other non-Hindu groups. Also the government is talking about making sure that "foreign illegal immigrants" don't vote. Dictators learn from each other.
https://www.thetimes.com/world/asia/article/india-cockroach-protests-gyanesh-kumar-pxdk3kgqw
Keep banging the drum, please. Here in PA, just outside Pittsburgh proper, Allegheny County has set up a number of places where we who vote by mail can drop off our ballots under safe and secure conditions. I would not, at this point, trust the USPS to deliver them intact and on time. We have our ballots and @ 2 weeks before Nov. 4, will drop them off. To be honest, I have my doubts about digital ballot boxes as well. I think we need to be loud and proud about our choices right up to the eleventh hour, to emphasize our support and stand against any claim that a blue wave did not materialize. This is OUR country. If MAGA and reprobate Republicans and their shadowy and corrupt local and foreign support don't get trounced this November, we will not go down without a fight.
We delivered our mail-in ballots to the official drop box in front of the clerk's office.
Are we becoming like Russia? It's a legitimate question. Will November 3 be the beginning of the end of a nightmare or mark the further descent into horror?
My mail-in ballot took 19 days. 5 times the normal time.
Reminds me of HAL.
HAL “balking” in 2001: A Space Odyssey is the scene where Dave Bowman orders HAL to open the pod bay doors, and HAL refuses. The line HAL delivers at that moment is:
“I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that."
Paraphrasing;
"I'm sorry, America, I'm afraid Massa Putin says that I can't do free and fair elections."
The Fix is in. Thank YOU, Mr. Garland.
#VOTE to Overwhelm the Ted Cruz-esque Scum
#SOMEONE please pay Greek-Tart Kimberly G's AMEX [$100,000]
If he wanted, Trump could go to election sites and see for himself that the elections are honestly run. But since he is married to conspiracy theories, he can't accept reality. This mental construct makes him particularly unfit to lead, and it extends from Trump to the entire Republican party, who accept his patent nonsense as their modus operandi.
I don’t know that Trump just can’t see contradictory evidence; rather, I suspect that his narcissism is so great that he has convinced himself that what he believes, wants, never mind perceives is the only reality that matters. Remember, when the first architect of his Ball Room told him that the plans revised by Trump Solent not pass code, his responses was, “I am the code”? He might as well say, “ I am the reality, the only reality that matters.”
Even “normal” human beings have an extraordinary ability to convince themselves of most anything. Think of all the times any one of us we decided to set aside our principles or beliefs, “just this once,” because it seems practical or otherwise more correct that standing firm. (Actually, this may be one of the indicators of a failing society, where the usual values, norms and morals no longer have as much sway over the behavior of members of that society).
Now imagine what a mind like the President’s could conjure up, especially if he is as amoral, perhaps delusional, and too often, asleep in public as some suggest. I think he believes every single thing he says, &/or he believes that what he says is acceptable because it has the impact he wants. Then he forgets what he says, sometimes before the words leave his mouth, which means that from his point of view - the ONLY point of view that is real - he never contradicts himself.
I wonder if the only reason he might choose to escape ( undoubtedly, in the dark of night, or hiding in an airline food truck, his bags packed with as much of what remains in the US Treasury that he could get his hands on, to Argentina or some place without extradition treaties with the US) instead of fight for his political survival leading up to, during or after the mid-term 2026 election would be because he sees the latter as being too risky for himself and his wealth. Wouldn’t that make all of this loyal supporters, apologists and “partners” (including members of his family) really mad, maybe violently so? For that matter, how would his Russian and Israeli buddies respond?
Can a grossly narcissistic, sadistic, delusional person even comprehend the full potential consequences of escaping a self-made disaster, leaving co-conspirators behind to face justice?
Sometimes, one can create a brilliant, enormous and effective trap for themselves, where they are damned no matter which way they go, because they are so distracted trying to trap their opponents.
That last sentence is really all you needed to write. It precisely describes the continual predicament that human civilization puts itself in. And here we go again.
Trump is going full bore subverting our elections doing everything he can legally do and a lot of things which are questionably legal. This is a five-alarm fire.
I recently read that the Post Office has been letting personnel go... this could disrupt the mail service even further for election-related mail.