And another day of the President of the United States arguing for suppressing votes and not counting votes comes to a disturbing close. America, this is the proverbial fork in the road. History has shown what happens if we choose the Right path. Choose the Left path and save democracy.
"The Trump administration is a transnational crime syndicate masquerading as a government. The foundation of this edifice was formed not when Trump took office, but decades before." — Sarah Kendzior
“Trump does not care if the United States falls apart, he wants to profit off of that destruction and he is surrounded by disaster capitalists that have the same goal.” — Sarah Kendzior
Deaths
US: 236,471 (+399)
World: 1,205,209 (+5016)
Cases
US: 9,473,911 (+71,321)
World: 46,811,281 (+437,504)
Countdown: 2 days.
President Trump has told confidants he'll declare victory on Tuesday night if it looks like he's "ahead," according to three sources familiar with his private comments...Trump's team is preparing to falsely claim that mail-in ballots counted after Nov. 3 — a legitimate count expected to favor Democrats — are evidence of election fraud.
“We're gonna go in, the night of, as soon as that election's over, we're going in with our lawyers.” -- Donald Trump, November 1, 2020.
Trump denies he will prematurely declare victory, signals election legal challenges. Trump on Sunday denied that he would declare premature victory in the election but signaled that Republicans would mount legal challenges to prevent ballots from being counted after Election Day. -- We can not allow him to destroy another norm of our government and society.
FACT CHECK: Trump Falsely Claims That Votes Shouldn't Be Counted After Election Day.
Seven Pennsylvania counties will wait until after Election Day to process mail-in ballots. Pennsylvania allows for counties to begin processing mail-in ballots the morning of Election Day, but officials in Beaver, Cumberland, Franklin, Greene, Juniata, Mercer and Montour — all counties which voted for Donald Trump in 2016 — said that concerns over staffing and resources led them to delay when they will count mail ballots.
Drive-thru voting is a safe, secure, and convenient way to vote. Texas Election Code allows it, and the Secretary of State approved it. Here are a few other things to know about Drive Thru Voting. — This from the Harris County Clerk’s office.
Texas Supreme Court denies GOP-led petition seeking to invalidate nearly 127,000 votes in Houston area. This is the second time in recent weeks the all-Republican Supreme Court in Texas has blocked attempts to dismantle drive-thru voting there. The court did not issue an opinion with the ruling.
Four ways 'Jim Crow 2.0' is shaping this presidential election. More than 70 years later, it still is hard for many Black people to vote in America -- and the proof can be seen in how this year's presidential election has unfolded, voting rights advocates and historians say. The jelly beans test never quite went away; it's just evolved into more sophisticated ploys. They include allegedly sabotaging the US Postal Service to delay the delivery of mail-in ballots, limiting sprawling counties in Texas to one ballot drop-box location, and passing stricter voter ID laws to combat allegations of widespread voter fraud, even though those claims have been debunked in court and by academic studies. Voting-rights advocates say those are just some of the tactics that President Donald Trump, Republican politicians and Republican-appointed judges are employing to prevent Black people -- and other groups who traditionally align with the Democratic Party -- from voting in 2020. Some of these voter-suppression tactics are so similar to the segregated era of Burroughs' youth that some observers are calling them "Jim Crow 2.0. When it comes to roadblocks to voting, there are at least four unsettling parallels between the Jim Crow era and now.
Laws that prohibit ex-felons from voting
Laws forcing people to pay to vote
Purging voters from rolls
A Supreme Court that has hampered voting rights
Why Maricopa County will choose the next president.
Trump’s Cacophony of Chaos Continues. In the run-up to the election, our White House correspondent takes the pulse of the country on a road trip from the East Coast to the heartland—what he finds might surprise you. But a week on the road in this country shows that what Trump has put asunder in four years may take far longer to heal. He has ripped apart the fabric of the nation, aided and abetted by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who has empowered Trump and supported him so the GOP can have a majority on the U.S. Supreme Court. The win-at-any-cost attitude of Trump, McConnell and the GOP has brought the country to the very brink of dissolution. The babbling, uninformed nonsense of many voters; the continued unhinged ranting of a man who shouldn’t be elected to run a PTA, much less a country; and the greedy power grabs of the party of Lincoln show the United States of America in 2020 to be in the middle of a political Dark Age.
The real Trump Derangement Syndrome is 'Orange Man Good'. By nearly every objective metric Trump's presidency has been a failure, and he has contributed to this country's partisan division perhaps more than any single person over the past decade, from his birther slanders to his idiotic anti-mask posturing. That's why the real Trump Derangement Syndrome is these reluctant Trumpists' knee-jerk defense of Trump just because he "triggers the libs." And the truly mindless response isn't a resistance liberal crying, "Orange Man Bad." It's disingenuous conservatives droning "Orange Man Good."
White House plots possible second-term Cabinet purge. A second-term Trump administration is considering expelling Cabinet members who have crossed the president, refused to mount investigations he has demanded or contradicted him on coronavirus. — Because that’s leadership. Vote Trump and every Republican you can out of office.
Trump supporters shut down a bridge in NY today and blockaded the Garden State Parkway in New Jersey.
President Trump lashes out at the FBI after the agency said it was investigating reports that a caravan of the president's supporters harassed a bus belonging to Joe Biden's campaign.
Fauci: We 'Could Not Be Positioned More Poorly' On COVID-19.
White House attacks Fauci after dire warning about coronavirus pandemic. “It's unacceptable and breaking with all norms for Dr. Fauci, a senior member of the President's Coronavirus Taskforce and someone who has praised President Trump's actions throughout this pandemic, to choose three days before an election to play politics," Deere said in a lengthy statement. "As a member of the Task Force, Dr. Fauci has a duty to express concerns or push for a change in strategy, but he's not done that, instead choosing to criticize the president in the media and make his political leanings known by praising the president's opponent— exactly what the American people have come to expect from The Swamp."
Study: Trump rallies may be responsible for an estimated 700 Covid-19 deaths. A study conducted by four Stanford University economic researchers determined that 18 Trump campaign rallies, the bulk of which took place over the past summer, “ultimately resulted in more than 30,000 incremental confirmed cases of COVID-19” and “likely led to more than 700 deaths.”
Australia records zero local coronavirus cases for first time since June.
Supreme Court threat looms over Obamacare open enrollment. Americans can start signing up on Sunday for Affordable Care Act plans for 2021 -- even as the Supreme Court is poised to potentially invalidate the law at some point during the year.
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Until next time, my friends. Stay safe and stay sane. Good night.
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