Sunday, November 1st, 2020
My Dear America:
As we continue to live through the last weekend before the most important Election in our Lifetime it is difficult to fathom what has happened to the Republican Party in the United States Of America in the year 2020. I don't know what is going to happen for sure on Tuesday, November 3rd. I know that we are going to have an Election and I am pretty sure that Joe Biden is going to win that Election despite the Blatant Efforts of Donald Trump and Republicans in my state of Pennsylvania and in almost every other state in the union to suppress the Democratic Vote this time around. I think that despite the Republican Suppression Machine that the Biden-Harris team will still have enough votes to make it across the finish line successfully. But I am worried, not only about this Election but about every future Election to come.
I feel sorry for those Truly Patriotic American Republicans of the past who may be observing this situation from On High. Those Republicans, including John McCain, Barry Goldwater, Dwight Eisenhower, George H.W. Bush, Ronald Reagan and many others, have to be disappointed and quite frankly disgusted by what has happened to their Party and their Country under the Outrageous and Disturbing Leadership of Donald Trump.
It seems as though Donald Trump has genuinely ripped the Guts out of what had always been a Gutsy Political Party. I have never had much love for the Republican Party. In my mind it has always been the Party of Privilege, The Party Of the Rich and Powerful, The Corporate Party, The Right Wing Party. Since those things did not apply to me the Republican Party had little to offer me. When I first signed up to vote I was inspired by John Fitzgerald Kennedy and I proudly voted for him and for every Democratic Party Nominated Candidate for President in every Subsequent Election. I don't regret any of my votes. I have always voted proudly for Democrats and this year is no exception.
Joe Biden has been an Outstanding Democratic Candidate for President in 2020 and I am certain that if he is Elected he will make an Outstanding President. He will be just as capable a President as he was a Vice President. I think his Vice Presidential Choice has also been a Great One. Kamala Harris is a woman of Extraordinary Capabilities. She has the serious leadership experience of a San Francisco District Attorney, A California Attorney General and A United States Senator From California to prepare her for her role as Vice President on the Biden Team.
The main reason that I worry about this upcoming election is because there is something terribly wrong with the Republican Party this time out that I don't believe has ever been this wrong before.
In 2020 Donald Trump has once again chosen to lead his party down the wrong path once again. Instead of recognizing that he deserves to lose the election due to his Foolish and Corrupt Choices over the course of his Administration he has chosen to try to win the 2020 Presidential Election in the same Foolish and Corrupt manner that he has done everything else during his Presidency and during his Lifetime. This time as Trump has chosen the Dark Path to Election Victory it seems as though his Party, The Republican Party, has chosen to join him on that Dark Path to Election Success by any Corrupt Means Necessary in order to keep themselves in power regardless of the effects on The United States of America.
One has to give some meager credit to Donald Trump, the habitual liar, for at times telling the truth about himself with regard to his intentions to hijack the 2020 Election.
On a fairly recent "Fox And Friends" television interview discussing a Democratic led push for Voting Reforms due to the Pandemic, such as Voting by Mail, Same Day Registration and Early Voting Donald Trump said the following:
"The things that they had in there were crazy. They had things, levels of voting that if you'd ever agree to it, you'd never have a Republican elected in this country again.
Yes Donald, Thank You for your Candor.
You are, indeed, telling the truth, for once.
The fact is that whatever happens in this coming election, what is coming in future elections is indicative of what is coming in our country in the relatively near future. Republicans are afraid of Immigration for some very good reasons. The main reason that they fear immigration is because the future and complexion of America is changing faster and faster and the day is coming and not that far away when Blacks, Latinos and other minorities will become the Majority Citizens and Voters in the United States Of America.
Something tells me, however, that many American Citizens are not thinking that far ahead to recognize the future makeup of American Citizenship. I think that the Americans voting for Trump are, to put it mildly, not that well informed.
One of my best friends calls these voters LIJOS, which he says stands for Low Information Jerk Offs. It may be crude but it is certainly true that if Trump voters really looked hard enough at who he is and what he does they would be running away from him rather than gathering together maskless at his Death Rallies.
I would certainly advise these people to "Wake up and Smell the Treason" as Donald Trump prepares to turn over a great deal of the power and influence in this country to his buddy, Vladimir Putin, a man who certainly doesn't have our Best Interests in mind. He doesn't even have Donald Trump's Best Interest in mind but Trump seems to be too mindless to recognize that.
So as the clock ticks along in these last days and hours of our discontent we are seeing just what Donald Trump and his Republican cohorts are willing to do to keep Joe Biden out of the White House and to keep his voters away from the polls.
Certainly one of Trump's recurring themes in these last days before voting is his objection to "The Ballots," by which he means Mail In Ballots. I watched him at one of his rally's today asking his followers "Who sent in mail in ballots" and a great many of his audience members cheered. He looked shocked and perhaps a bit dumbfounded that his people had already voted by mail. He asked his audience also who was going to vote on November 3rd in person at the polls and many people shouted. It seemed to me, though, that as many people had already voted as were going to vote on election day. So why has Trump been so down on voting by mail? Clearly he has been railing against "The Ballots" because commentators on Television have generally been predicting that many more Biden voters (who recognize the danger of the Coronavirus Pandemic) will vote by mail as opposed to going to the polls. So as a result Trump has probably discouraged some of his voters from voting by mail and as a result may have some fewer voters than he might have had in the first place. Dumb move, Donald
We have seen and are continuing to see Donald Trump's efforts to slow down the mail being delivered by the United States Postal Service in recent months. Trump Donor and Republican businessman and now Postmaster General, Louis DeJoy has proven to be just as arrogant and corrupt as the President and seems to have been unapologetic in his response to criticism that he has needlessly shut down and gotten rid of Postal Sorting machines, as well as mail collection boxes all over the country. He has also cut back on overtime, all in efforts, he says, to save money and improve services. These efforts were exposed in time for efforts to be made to stop DeJoy from continuing these practices. Efforts have been made to go to court to keep DeJoy from further efforts to slow down mail services but reports are as of today that slowed down mail services will probably be preventing mail in ballots from being received in time to be counted in half the states in America. Although Democrats have been strongly opposed to the Postmaster General's voter suppression efforts almost no pushback has been heard from Republican Lawmakers and Party Leaders.
Although the slowed down mail efforts have been brazen they are not the only brazen efforts on the part of the Trump Campaign and the Republican Party to tip the voter suppression efforts in their favor.
In my state of Pennsylvania the Republican Party and the Trump Campaign were not happy with a ruling by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court that gave the state permission to count ballots for three days after the Election Day of November 3rd. The Republicans appealed this decision to the United States Supreme Court, which let stand the lower court hearing.
In a similar case from North Carolina the U.S. Supreme Court also let stand a lower court decision allowing the state Board of Elections to extend the deadline of counting ballots to nine days after election day.
In another decision concerning Wisconsin the Supreme Court ruled that it would not extend Wisconsin's deadline for mailed ballots to be counted.
Also in Pennsylvania a report in The Atlantic magazine revealed that some members of the Republican State Legislature had discussed the prospect of dismissing the votes of State Residents if Biden won in Pennsylvania and instead having the Republican Controlled Legislature appoint Electors who would vote for Donald Trump. Since the Atlantic Article, Republicans seem to have backed off that plan, at least for now.
Voter intimidation has also been an issue that continues to rear its ugly head elsewhere recently. We have seen men with guns on the streets of many of our American cities. Not only have men with guns been seen wandering in the state capital in Michigan but a plot to kidnap and kill the Governor of Michigan because she had the gall to initiate state efforts to save peoples lives due to the pandemic was also discovered. We have seen Donald Trump defending racism and racists over and over.
Yesterday in Texas a Biden-Harris Bus was surrounded by a number of pickup trucks with Trump flags flying. Some inside the bus felt that the Trump Trucks were trying to force them off the road. Instead of condemning this outrageous conduct Donald Trump spent today proudly talking about the incident and falsely claiming that the Trump supporters were trying to protect the Biden-Harris Bus.
Also in Harris County Texas the courts had to get involved in allowing more than one drop box for early voting for this County which has the highest population of any County in the state.
In addition, Republicans have been fighting to have over 127 thousand votes which have been cast at a Drive Through Voting site in Harris County disqualified. The State Supreme court has so far supported the voters who have cast their ballots.
A report just came out today from someone familiar with the Trump Campaign who states that although not all votes will have been counted by Tuesday Night that if he is ahead in the voting on Tuesday that Donald Trump will declare Victory Tuesday night.
Whatever happens Tuesday we are all in for a continuing Shit Show in the coming days weeks and months.
It is time to batten down the hatches and get ready for some stormy weather.
The truth is that we, the voters, have had it easy for a long time and this time around things may not be so easy. We have had it so easy that a lot of voters didn't even bother to vote. That does not seem to be the case this time around, though. With a lot of early voting the number of individuals voting seems to be staggering. What will all these voters mean to all of us. We will hopefully begin to find out on Tuesday.
As the Political Leaders are fond of saying:
God Bless Us All And God Bless The United States Of America.
I pray that the Voters of America will make the Right Choice for all of us.
Sincerely Yours
Jerry Gallagher
tating clearly that
onne of The most blatantly corrupt efforts by Donald Trump in trying to tilt the American election system in his favor and block "The Ballots" from being delivered on time
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