Subj : Re: oh man joe biden
To   : PAULIE420
From : Dumas Walker
Date : Wed Jul 03 2024 08:30 am

>  DW> Problem is that a good politician can frame a lot of what they do as
>  DW> "under their presidential position"... "the dirt that Julian Assange was
>  DW> going to leak (on me) was a 'threat to our democracy' so we had to drone
>  DW> him today."

> You know; I was thinking 'they got it right' in the context of TODAY. Of what
> the left is trying to do to Trump and how I feel about that... the more I thin
> about it, tho, is that in 20-40 years it will be used on the other side [or an
> side] in ways that I'm NOT thinking about right now; in a negative way....

Yeah, I worry about the future of what it could mean.  Trump acted like it
was a victory but, really, I am not 100% sure they didn't just verify that
it was how it always was, and it doesn't really make him as immune as
everyone thinks.  Him acting like it somehow changes things is the worrying
part -- makes one think things did change.

It has been suggested that some of his court cases could require retrials
as some of the evidence used involved things he'd now be considered immune
from, even if the charges themselves were not things he was immune from.

>  DW> Or "The election was being stolen from me (which, in the nearly 4 years

> Its not that the election was stolen - thats just stupid talk. But it was BS
> that they mass-mailin'ed every person in America. (Or, whatever it was...)

They didn't mass mail everyone but apparently some states did decide to
mail every registered voter, which is wrong.  In my state, you had to
request the mail-in ballot.  I only did so for the primary.  I thought the
general was too important not to go in person.

What is wrong with sending to every registered voter?  Well, when they sent
out the info about obtaining a ballot, I got a postcard for me, for a
previous resident who now lives out of state (and had for 10 years), and for
the original resident who had been dead at least 15 years.

Being an honest individual, I sent mine back to get a primary ballot, and
sent the other two back indicating their status.  If I had wanted to, I
could have tried obtaining three ballots because my state does not do a
good job of keeping the rolls clean.

Once COVID was considered "over," my state did away with the expanded
mail-in balloting, resuming the previous requirements for absentee voting.
They also kept the limited, early in-person voting, which I find convienent
and which shuts people up who claim the polls need to be kept open later on
voting day.

> It changed how we do things; you go vote at your local school or church. In
> person - and we know the results within a few hours... I would have more
> respect for some new 'online' thing that we all AGREED on; where you VERIFY
> your ID and vote from a secure device.... but the mailin stuff was BS IMO.

They way they handled the mail-in, especially in some places, was indeed
BS.  There should never, ever be an unmanned polling place, like a drop box
out in the open, where someone can drop off votes.  Too easy to stuff and,
if you don't believe that, there was evidence of them being vandalized or
stolen, which is also very bad.

> What's so CRAZY about (lol) identification to freaking vote - its NEEDED, jesu
> h christ!

I really, really don't understand, or buy, the argument that you should
*not* need ID in order to vote.  That is what is crazy.  If there really
are too many barriers to getting an ID for legit citizens, fix the problem by
making it easier to get the ID.

Because making it easier to *get* an ID is not the part of the issue that
gets targetted, I question the motivation behind the "why do you need an
ID?" crowd.


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