Tom Toles for October 05, 2020

Right idea, but I’d have preferred an image with a regular looking ballot and a slot that is too small (in a box that’s miles away and up on a pole or inside a locked building).

Since it’s just after Halloween, the ballot box is just a disguise for a paper shredder.

The Election is Moot – {limerick}

Trump’ll be slyly adroit

in devising ways to exploit

a kooky connection

of virus to election,

so that democracy’s further [destroyed] destroyt.

… Coda: – {4 beats/line}

“My Covid has made the election moot,

so votes for Joe will be held in dispute

as I stay in office and continue to loot.”

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{Off-topic:}

Rightwing re Covid – {4 beats/line}

Boy, they’re bizarre: // – the Rightwing’s factions

with brains under par // in their doltish reactions

to Covid’s effect // as it spreads unchecked

because of neglect // by Trump and his sect.

… Examples of such bizarreness:

{1] https://www.alternet.org/2020/10/trumps-base-stands-firm-on-covid-19-being-a-hoax-theres-no-pandemic/

{2} https://www.alternet.org/2020/10/matt-gaetz-argues-trump-catching-covid-after-ignoring-cdc-guidance-means-coronavirus-rules-dont-work/ .

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The Republicans are having a field day, have been ever since our beloved Supreme Court said we didn’t need The Voting Rights Act.

Snug as a plug from a thug who is smug.

Recent news says Trump didn’t disclose he had Covid-19 until AFTER testing positive a 2nd time. He went on Fox for a interview with Hannity to say Hope Hicks had tested positive, but failed to mention he had also. Sounds like a coverup doesn’t it. It is what it is?

The Republicans KNOW that they are GOING DOWN IN FLAMES IN NOVEMBER, so they will do ANYTHING to try to disrupt and STEAL the election! It’s the ONLY WAY they can “win”!

A round peg in a rectangular hole? That gambit seldom works.

The Republicans know in their hearts and souls (those left with one) that their agendas are anathema. They are crystal clear on the fact that the only way they can continue to push those agendas into reality is through anti-democratic means. The proof that they have near zero patriotic principles lies in that self-assessment.

In Texas, our illustrious governor decreed only one ballot box per county for absentee ballots. Harris County, where Houston is located, planned on 12 ballot boxes. Fortunately, he was unaware that Bexar County, we are San Antonio is located, is having their elections office open on weekends to receive absentee ballots. I dropped mine off yesterday, [Sunday,] before he found out.

I’m waiting for an “executive order” for US marshals to seize all the public ballot boxes people may use in lieu of the jiggered USPS because he doesn’t “trust” them.

Vicious selfish disease spreading Republicans lie cheat and steal, its all they know how to do.

   Mr. Prosser said, “You were quite entitled to make any suggestions or protests at the appropriate time, you know.”

   "Appropriate time?" hooted Arthur. “Appropriate time? The first I knew about it was when a workman arrived at my home yesterday. I asked him if he’d come to clean the windows and he said no, he’d come to demolish the house. He didn’t tell me straight away of course. Oh no. First he wiped a couple of windows and charged me a fiver. Then he told me.”

   "But Mr. Dent, the plans have been available in the local planning office for the last nine months."

   "Oh yes, well, as soon as I heard I went straight round to see them, yesterday afternoon. You hadn’t exactly gone out of your way to call attention to them, had you? I mean, like actually telling anybody or anything."

   "But the plans were on display…"

   "On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them."

   "That’s the display department."

   "With a flashlight."

   "Ah, well, the lights had probably gone."

   "So had the stairs."

   "But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?"

   "Yes," said Arthur, “yes, I did. It was on display on the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.’”

— Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

While the Republican’ts see the glass as half-full — and good enough for a win with surgically precise, computer-aided gerrymandering, plus voting restrictions — , the Democrats see the glass as half-empty and want ideally, a 100% turnout for a fair, reality-based administration

Hammering home the verdict is, indeed, what is required.

Election observers from the US no matter how eminent shouldn’t be allowed to monitor any country’s national elections until American elections at least at the national level are free and fair, and this would include not only voter suppression by the two parties (the Dems admittedly only at the primary level) and fraud (in the rare cases that happens), but also gerrymandering and exclusion of third parties. I’d be tempted to include a requirement to simplify registration of voters as a right (which Trump’s SCOTUS nominee doesn’t recognize), count every vote and punishment of election officials found guilty of any of the aforementioned offences but I suppose that would be demanding too much.

‘What’s left of Trump’s campaign is now in tatters’ after COVID-19 idles president and aides

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/10/whats-left-of-trumps-campaign-is-now-in-tatters-after-19-idles-president-and-aides-columnist/

Republicans will do anything to win an election except get more votes.

Inspired.

Round peg in rectangular hole.

Well, looks like we’re picking up pointers from Balka State dictators on how to run a sham election!!

Mr. Toles, women pass large objects through small openings every time they give birth, often after long periods without food, sleep or pain medication. We just need to push for a little bit longer. We can do this!

Cylindrical peg, rectangular hole….