(#6448) 37 days until election results...trump approval low while turnout is going to be high

      Like with yesterdays post, the mood of the nation is anti trump, Not only anti trump but fiercely determined to do something about it by voting. The enthusiasm behind the electorate is for change from trump policies all the way to blocking trump policies. We the people have had enough of the aim of republicans to destroy democratic principles and undermine the working middle poor class. The deliberate republican oppression of equality, freedom, and justice is not to be borne! We the sleeping giant of democratic values have been awakened and we are not happy about the boot coming down on our necks! So with 36 days until midnight on November 2nd, the rally of the many of us is in motion!
     In all 50 states there is anger at trump and his acolyte republican bootlickers up for election. There is no doubt in my mind that there will be shocking results on the night of November 3rd when votes are counted and published. We the many will be watching everywhere to see how well our democratic wave will be and there is nothing the trumps at this point can do to stop it! I hear talk of martial law and other such strong arm defiance yet there is no constitutional permission explicitly given to a president to enact a pause or cancellation of an election. Nor can a previous congress, after a new election, nullify or alter the results of the latest election. The die has been cast and the results will be forthcoming!
     At this point the only thing that will truly matter is the resolve of we the people to not only vote in such large numbers as could never be mistaken for lethargy nor indifference. By the standing up of the many of us the idea that the 6 republicans on the supreme court would defy us would be too brave even for them! Strength in numbers is incredible and that is our charge. We all live under democracy or we all become pawns to a dictator who would sacrifice us for his pleasure! There is no middle ground here, one or the other! My sense since the first special elections took place last year that the building of our electorate toward this moment was happening with an overwhelming agreement to save our democracy!
     

(#6447) 38 days until we get results...evaluating the national mood

      A short 10 day lull between Illinois starting their early voting and several more states beginning theirs. All eyes are on the polling of races in the senate and house. Traditionally the individual races are used to determine an overall total for control of the house and senate. In just that landscape the majorities for each chamber are not overwhelming for either side. Yet outside the traditional method is the mood of the nation. In that respect the individual races are less an indicator than an either overall satisfaction or dissatisfaction. In this case there is an overall dissatisfaction with republicans and it is deep. Which will likely convert into votes that are either protest votes against republicans or actual republicans too pissed off to actually bother to vote.
     Either way the result is a boon to the democratic party and as such will give each individual democratic candidate more votes to add to their traditional expected tally. As for the republicans there will be less voters giving them their time and vote given the disruptions they and trump have wreaked upon their lives. I don't expect republicans to vote in massive amounts for democrats but I do expect them to not bother voting at all as a protest. I believe they should vote for democrats en masse but republican voters are stubborn even when their vote for a democrat will help them. Regardless though, expect smaller turnout just the same for republican voters.
     As for the non voters who sat out 2024 I don't expect that to be the case this year. They all got a real eye opener as to what not voting can do to them. Still though there will be some who will be unpersuaded to activate their duty to vote and that is sad and unfortunate. But I expect many of those who didn't vote but are registered will get involved this time and find a way to cast a ballot. Also given the national mood the independents who were less than wise about casting votes for trump in 2024 will have broken from that concept this time around and will spend their voting capital on electing democrats. The national mood is less obvious to quantify but it keeps showing up in the national generic polling so don't be surprised if a blue wave is actually to come about!

(#6446) 39 days until the election...a new attempt to purge voters is here

      According to the 6 republican majority supreme court, states are allowed to voluntarily use the trump data base of voters they have compiled if the states so choose. We have already seen many inaccuracies in other lists this trump administration has compiled so we would expect more of the same from them. In this case the necessity of letting trump use these erroneous lists DOES NOT outweigh the good that could come from denying it. So we see that the 6 republican justices who voted for it are not the sharpest tools in the drawer. Which is why when we democrats get the ability back we need to add 4 more justices to our supreme court to balance out the illogic that is currently being demonstrated.
     The greater harm that will come is some states using the lists and then finding out they have purged legal voters is that many of those voters will be disenfranchised. The 6 majority republicans on the supreme court do not think this as bad. Let me say that again. Disenfranchised voters are acceptable to this republican majority on the supreme court and not their rights under our constitution. You cannot explain this any other way. The cowardice of the 6 republicans here along with their arrogance is surely enough for those of us who hold our constitution dear to provoke our anger and determination to nullify them as quickly as possible. They are not our constitution and for them to act above the rights of our citizenry is political blasphemy!
     With 39 days left to go and the 6 republican supreme court justices along with trump again injecting uncertainty into our election is a violation of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993. Where no voting rolls can be purged within 90 days of a federal election. 44 states and Washington DC are covered by this law. So all the supreme court did was give the 6 states that aren't covered by it the license to purge their voter rolls but also will be causing other lawsuits for states that want to purge their voter rolls but must challenge the 1993 act in order to do it. These 6 supreme court justices are a mess that needs to be wiped up and thrown away. No matter which state you reside in make sure to vote and if not on a voter roll, challenge it in court to get your name back on!

(#6445) 40 days until the election results...

      The one advantage the republican party can count on in this election is their money. They can flood the airwaves with false and misleading ads to try to sway as many gullible voters as possible. What has been a huge advantage for republicans in the past is not as winning this time around however. Because the ads may be false and misleading but they can't mask the real harm trump is doing to we who they are trying to confuse. We feel the harm in real time so their ads no matter how clever cannot hide from the fact that republicans are the designers of our current misery. Giving them more license to make the harm even worse is a bridge too far even for many of the gullible.
     Yet as the only real advantage republicans have at their disposal expect an onslaught of ads trying to convince we the people that previous presidential administrations are to blame. That the trump administration is only trying to clean up their messes. Except that trump has been in power for most of the last 2 years and trying to make democratic administrations culprits when he has a majority in Congress and a friendly supreme court is logically against his attempt. Plus the fact that he has created most of the mess himself through tariffs, alienating allies, and attacking Iran. The economic footprint he has created for we here at home is abysmal. Cutting programs that keep our industries viable, kicking people off of health care, cuts to social security, food stamps, while unleashing ice agents to terrify our communities.
     The trump administration can and will spin all of this as a necessary harm to our society in order to instill a greater future. Yet the only ones who sense a greater future are the wealthy and their increased ability to manipulate the rest of we the people of the working middle poor class. No matter how the republicans attempt to spin examples like the destruction they caused making our food insecure while raising prices on them is foolhardy. Yet that is their best chance of diverting the most ominous blue wave coming down on their heads in less than 6 weeks. I already know the consequences of this election and therefore don't waste my time watching ads from republicans trying to persuade me otherwise. We all need to keep our minds focused and only make sure our votes are counted!

(#6444) 41 days until the results of our voting start coming in...

      Illinois begins their early voting today. Being the 6th most populated state in the US with about 12.7 million people a huge swath of our electorate will begin filling out and delivering their ballots. As Illinois is a heavy democratic voting state the interest in the early vote counts will be keen by me and others. With Virginia, a majority democratic voting state with about an 8.9 million population, the early vote count there is as well interesting to see. Most states tabulate how many early ballots go out and how many are returned back in. We won't know how anyone voted but we can discern the intensity of the early vote through participation.
     Several smaller states will begin their early voting in the next 10 days but on the 11th day from now California will begin it's early voting. California has an almost 40 million population with about 27 million eligible to vote. So far there are more than 23 million registered voters in California. Just an inkling into my brain, I expect about 70% of California voters to vote democratic. That may seem lofty but given the mess trump has caused and with about 75% of California's eligible voters not being republicans you can see why I may think democrats will triumph by such a high percentage. I sense the turnout this time is going to be amazing because of the threat to the vote the republicans represent.
     Ohio, the 7th most populace state with about 11.9 people, will begin their early voting the same day as California and normally I wouldn't think of them as being too interesting to pay attention to but not this time around. Ohio is showing itself as an almost swing state and that gives me hope that they too will surprise us with some hoped for democratic victories. I received my voter information guide for California yesterday and will give it a good look through for more information. We are in the midst of our midterm election and I couldn't be happier that it isn't tainted with trump illegal rules and demands. I still worry about postal service delivery but here in California it may be less a worry than in some other parts of the states. Make sure your ballot gets to the elections office no matter what the level of the worry though!
     

(#6443) 42 days until the election results begin coming in...

      The polling leading up to this election to me is always suspect. I am somewhat encouraged that the polls are consistently showing that trump is in trouble because his administration of our government has been abysmal. Not only abysmal but traitorous. So naturally I would suspect him of doing poorly in the polling. However the pre election polls are not trustworthy. There are too many ways errors ameliorate the final voting tallies from the early polling. All I know is that those who want change in our leadership and the power base that fuels it need to have a plan to vote to make sure their vote is counted. That is all I know as the rest of predicting is just noise to me.
     I am one dimensional on this. Vote in a way that secures your vote being counted. In previous elections the movement was to encourage all voters to vote. But now it is even tougher because some who vote may not get their vote counted. Which is why we all need to treat our vote as a deposit in the bank. Get a receipt or have a way to show that the deposit has been accepted. We do the same with our money so why not with our precious vote? If the non voting electorate who sat out 2024 come out to vote then the likelihood of democracy reemerging back into our politics becomes especially real. I cannot stress the necessity of all of us registered voters getting out and securing our vote!
     Each and every registered voter here in America needs to understand that only through voting are we allowed a voice in our politics. Sure we can debate and argue in forums and in public but unless we put our vote in for what we believe is correct and good then we are not making a difference. Who would promote an idea and then not vote for it when the time came? None who are honorable and nobly principled. We the people of America need to see to our obligation to our constitution. We won't have a constitution if we don't vote. There are tremendous forces here in America who would steal our nation from under us and that is not a lie! So to protect our nation and it's invariable freedoms, equalities, and liberties we must vote or the last resort to saving our democracy will require us fighting in the streets!
     

(#6442) 43 days until the election...

      In 2 days Illinois begins it's early voting. Even as trump is still trying to get the Senate majority republicans to eliminate the filibuster. All so they can try to pass the voter suppression save act. The senate is still refusing to listen to him. As we are so knee deep into the election now it is literally impossible to change the rules of voting during an election. But with trump there is no sticking to logic just his obsessions in the form of demands! As we get even closer to when the votes will begin to be counted on November 3rd trump is realizing that he needs  more than luck to win he actually needs an exit plan for when his republican party is defeated all over the nation, not just in congress.
     He did all this to himself. He could have taken this term as a rebuilding his image tour but instead he doubled down on his egregious characteristics and multiplied them with fervor. He is on the threshold of doing irreparable damage to our nation which is why this election is paramount to stopping him and his devious acolytes who rally him on. We the people are ready and able to blunt his ability to harm us further while nullifying his last 2 years in office. Which is why instead of being challenged and defeated for all his next attempts after the election he may want to disappear himself from the disastrous effects he has accumulated. He has a reckoning coming and surely he will run and hide instead of facing it.
     In 6 weeks we will know the emotion of this election and it's most probable outcome. Then the very next day the votes will be counted and show us the majority result. There is no miracle for trump to receive this late in the voting season to change the expected outcome. If he had only relied on being a good steward to our population and our allies he would not be in this situation. But instead he threw all of us under the bus and dived headfirst into the craven abyss. A couple of metaphors there but you get the point. This election is about our past, present, and future, not about the desires of a simpleton who thinks he is a genius. We are not there yet as trump is wildly flailing about so beware we the people to his desperate underhandedness.

(#6441) 44 days until we know and soon the early vote information will start becoming available

      With early voting now we don't know how many votes were cast for any particular candidate or proposition but we do get mostly numerical breakdowns by party. So we can project out the most likely outcome for those specific party votes. We will also see how traditional early voting patterns compare with what is happening this election. Specifically turnout! Which party is the most energized given the previous data for past elections. There is some nuance to consider also with each election because the same patterns are not driven by the same circumstances, but generally we can surmise much from how many votes are being cast and by which party. This year will be no exception.
     What this years vote will be different in is the focus on regular voters and irregular voters. Along with new voters and where they are all casting ballots. In my lifetime there has never been an election like this one. There is no doubt about understanding the two parties for their purpose. Yet there is a massive amount of voter information out there that is suspect and misleading. Yet despite attempts to propagandize falsehoods as truth, the majority of us are living through the truth of things, so the many attempts to propagandize reality is difficult to impossible, while showing republicans for the con men/women that they are!  The majority of us are so worn down from the constant interruptions of our lives with unnecessary and harmful actions and behaviors from the republican party.
     So once data is released by states about their receiving ballots is when we will start to understand the impetus of how this election will begin to formulate. We are too early for that now but within the next several weeks many large population states will be joining the early voting ranks with an expected nearly 50% vote coming directly from this midterm early voting. I have no doubt that this election will be equal with presidential election turnout given it's tremendous importance. There is an anger in our country about how the trump administration takes pride in shooting the rest of us in the foot. We the people on the other hand do not care for the chaos and devaluation of our lives. This election turnout should be incredible!

(#6440) 45 days until the election results...

      As the Europeans call him, "a belligerent idiot", trump is running out of time. He truly cannot grasp the depth of him being disliked and even hatred by the American voting electorate. It is as if the bubble of narcissism he lives within is unable to process the mountainous vile he has achieved. There will be no escape clause for him. This election isn't about Obama, Clinton, Biden, or Harris. This election is about his record and rightly we are all disgusted by it. He cannot change the reality of his last 2 years with propaganda nazi Germany would have been proud of spreading. All the current failings are his with no other way for him to hide from them.
     Over the next 2 weeks and more, many of the largest states begin their early voting both mail in and in person. My anticipation will be record numbers of early voting all across the country. With voters apprehensive about making sure their ballots are not only cast but recorded with their respective state elections officials. I do not expect too many at all who will procrastinate when it comes to exercising their right to vote. The trump regime has thrown down the gauntlet on our votes and it seems to me that although we Americans can be lazy and ignorant at times we are not generally cowards. So trump fighting to deny our votes is enough to rally the majority of us to tell him to fuck off and then cast our ballots with some genuine anger against him.
     For me the turnout question is less about if it will happen in great numbers; the turnout question for me is how great the turnout numbers will be! There is an anti trump mood in our nation that is undeniable. The republican party has used and abused the trust they were given in 2024. They had 2 years to do right by their trusting voters and instead manipulated that trust into greed and power for themselves. The republicans still have a core of ridiculous followers who will never stop supporting them but that group is tiny compared to those of us who are mad as hell and want to end the theft of our democracy by a wannabe tyrant who cannot stand to tell the truth if it in any way brings him to a place where he has to accept blame for his actions!

(#6439) 46 days until the election results

     Today the early voting starts in Vermont and Virginia according to https://www.vote.org/early-voting-calendar/. I am really getting excited for what should prove to be a large blue wave against the trump forces of tyranny and fascism. The pundits have been playing it close to the vest as to how they are predicting outcomes and that is pretty clear. I believe the outcomes will be even more disastrous for republicans than they are predicting. But it doesn't bother me to be wrong when I am sticking with my gut. Instead I am just gut punched when I am wrong like in 2000, 2016, and 2024. This year is different though. Instead of having previous republican candidates that nuanced their deceptions and never said the quiet part out loud, trump is blasting his demented ideas full blast without a filter.
     Which is why I expect the blue wave to be overwhelming. Beyond the projections, akin to Barack Obama numbers of 2008. Red states voting in democrats where republicans once held sway. Blue states decreasing their republican votes to a surprising minimum. the passion is all on the side of democrats this election along with the policies. There is too much bad happening under this national republican administration to be held in any decent esteem. The worst of our electorate will still be voting with republicans but they will not be joined in numbers like in 2024. Which to me will tip this election wildly toward democrats. Deservedly so since not only is foreign policy in tatters the economy is shrinking and very much unaffordable.
     As to the actual voting the fear is that the trump administration will still try to throttle the ideal of one person one vote. They will not let go of their unproven narrative of mail in vote inconsistencies even though every court in the land is telling them to let go of it. It isn't that the their mail in vote fallacy is proven, it is because it is their only feint possibility to control which legal citizens vote and don't vote and they don't like that. So still be wary of the postal service which is under the control of trump and his acolytes. I will do a mail in ballot but I will look at all options as to how to get that completed ballot to my county elections office. We all should do that as well, be cautious about the dearness of our vote. As to voting in person early I suggest everyone who isn't doing a mail in ballot look hard at voting early in person.

(#6438) 47 days until the election

      Minnesota and South Carolina begin their early voting today with Vermont and Virginia beginning theirs tomorrow. This is really getting exciting for those of us who want to see a correction to the debacle that was our 2024 election. Early overseas ballots and some ballots in Pennsylvania are already out there for filling out and returning and they are all important. Just as important are the next round of ballots that are scheduled to be sent out. Our states are finally at the threshold of mailing ballots out to our citizenry in processes designed by each individual state. Some call it mail in balloting and others call it absentee mail in balloting. But regardless the state wide ballots are ready and will start to go out today.
     There is also an in person voting element that will be starting today in South Dakota. We are here folks. Ballots available and voting in person starting tomorrow. Many of us will have to wait a bit longer toward the traditional election day of the first Tuesday of the month, November 3rd, but most of us will have our first option of voting early somewhere between then and now. I am an early voter since around 2000. I don't like the standing in line process since the traditional election day is somehow not a holiday as it should be so mail in voting has been my choice for well over 2 decades. For those of us who work, the idea of standing in line an inordinate amount of time to cast a vote is not efficient. Most of us cannot afford to miss work for any reason, even health concerns, such is the state of our nation.
     However we can change the state of our nation by all of us getting a plan individually to vote. We all have to participate regardless the inconvenience that may follow. Having pride in our constitution and it's duties is as American as we can be so no one can tell any of us that our voting is a detriment in any way! If what I hope will happen and we voting citizens turn out in droves then the nature of our current government administration will have a check on it that will not allow it to continue to harm us for the sake of an ego maniac who has no decency nor noble respect attached to his character. Neither will there be his underlings in power to help him. We the people will be the power and the direction of our nation will change to a level that stabilizes our futures with a greater promise toward being honorable.

(#6437) 48 days of waiting to see if our honor here in America will recover

      This election, while trump is still alive, is about our character. Somehow we managed to let him control our democracy with his greedy motives and so far we haven't lost our democracy yet. I would say the reason is because off his utter incompetence. But like all incompetent people they do evolve from their previous bungling. I expect that if we the people do not find a way through this coming election to put real restraint on trump that he will continue to sledgehammer our democracy into dust! His first 6 years of rule have shown that he is what he is and not capable of becoming a better leader, only a more excessive fiendish one.
     Which is why every citizen of America who is eligible to vote must make sure they are registered and then have a plan to vote. We are hearing that even with trump's executive order creating the postal rule, being defeated by the supreme court, trump still plans to try to force the post office to interrupt postal delivery. As a secondary method of voting by mail it is now suggested to drop ballots off either with the local elections office or one of their sanctioned drop boxes. It is early in the election season so things may get more clarified as to how to deliver our ballots but staying on top of all options is the smartest way to make sure our votes are counted.
     It isn't surprising that the creature trump who says mail in voting is rigged also votes by mail. This creature also is the only one who is "cheating" by directing the postal service to work around the supreme court ruling concerning the delivering of mail in ballots. With trump the obvious is always he blames others for what he is actually doing. He hasn't changed his methods because he thinks we don't get it. If we didn't have such a collusive republican party in power trump would have been removed long ago but with republicans keeping trump in power, because they are not true defenders of democracy, they are complicit in trump retaining power for all his greedy power lusting ambitions!

(#6436) 49 days until we see election results

      If trump were to try to disrupt the election due to his horrible poll numbers the odds of that happening now are slim to none. The reason being is that the less radical forces on the supreme court won't allow it. The 4 republican justices who sided with the 3 democratic justices are clearly not going to allow trump to pull anything unconstitutional at this point. The administrative procedure act is the bedrock that the 7 justices will stand upon to deny trump any attempt to stop or halt our elections. We are already underway in our midterm election so trump will be forced to attempt his calamities in some other form. The next most likely attempt by trump is to declare martial law.
     Yet even this would be in violation of our constitution. Congress has to approve any claim of martial law and there must be a viable reason for it. No constitutional power exists for trump to unilaterally declare martial law. But that wouldn't stop him from trying because we know as the election comes closer to being decided his desperation will increase manifoldly. So if not martial law, what then will trump attempt to deploy as a stopgap in our election? Monitoring with his goons at election polling places to intimidate or challenge voters nonstop. He could challenge every late arriving ballot everywhere. He could intimidate poll workers to delay certification of the votes.
     The trump cabal may even try some parliamentarian moves post election that delays seating of newly elected congressional winners. In order to use the existing majority he has indefinitely beyond the January 3rd swearing in ceremony to make some nefarious declaration about the just concluded election. A coup if you will. Nothing this criminal president does or could do is a surprise to me and many like me. Just know this for those who don't quite understand the depths of the trump depravity. He will stop at nothing to make himself as secure as possible from the deserves he should receive from we the people. His time is coming if we the people stick together and face him down at every turn!

(#6435) 50 days until the election...supreme court finally denies trump postal rule!

      Logical reality in this moment is staying static. Last evening the supreme court denied a stay of the preliminary injunction issued by 2 federal judges. Which in effect stops the postal rule from becoming law. However, the rule may not be completely dead as at least 3 judges think the rule has a chance to pass muster after this election season is concluded. So for the near future like for instance the 2028 presidential election, the rule could well be up for judgement by the supreme court again. Yet for now the rule is dead and will not effect the ongoing midterm election that is currently happening. The postal service may not intervene in any way from collecting and delivering ballots throughout the nation in its normal timely manner.
     We now have certainty that our mail in ballots will be delivered, collected, and delivered. This whole fiasco of an affair has already caused caution on the part of citizens. Many will not trust the postal service and I can understand why since they are controlled by the trump cabal. So drop boxes are still an alternative of choice. Most states, if not all by now have some sort of free ballot tracking system. Check where you live to see if you are eligible to receive ballot updates. Here in California I get to see when my ballot is being mailed to me, when it is in the postal service system, and then when it is received by the county elections office and added to their eventual counting queue. If things go normally from here on out I will likely stick with this system.
     Today Pennsylvania is open to distributing ballots in certain locations. Again, if you live in Pennsylvania check with your county election office to see if you can get your ballot today. In 5 days, Minnesota and South Dakota will start their early voting with Vermont and Virginia starting theirs the very next day. With what is at stake here in America and the feverish need for trump to do everything in his power to keep his majority in Congress, getting our votes to the county elections committee as soon as possible is a requisite. We the people who vote regularly and we the people who don't need to understand that every vote in this coming election is crucial so make sure we vote one and all!

(#6434) 51 days until the election...still nothing from the supreme court

     Although nothing new from the supreme court, last night however another federal judge in Washington D.C. issued his own preliminary injunction on the postal service rule. His reasoning coincides with the earlier federal judge from Massachusetts that the coming midterm election would harm vast amounts of eligible voters if implemented for this election. The contrast here on one level is that both judges were appointed by different presidents. One by Obama and one by trump. It seems that logic can transcend politics at this critical moment. With North Carolina, Delaware, Wisconsin, and Alabama already sending overseas ballots out and Pennsylvania ready to start absentee voting tomorrow the end of the trump postal rule seems imminent.
     In my mind last Friday should have been the day the supreme court lifted the preliminary injunction if they were to allow the postal rule to move forward. They didn't and now we are into Monday with more activity having occurred around the normal mail in ballot procedures. I am no genius nor wizard, but it is getting obvious that the supreme court is going to punt the appeal by trump to allow the postal rule changes. For many reasons the supreme court should nullify the rule but the one glaring reason is that our midterm election process has not only started but it is now roaring along. It would be unimaginable now for the supreme court to interfere with an ongoing election just to break constitutional law as a favor to trump!
     The entirety of the postal rule is unconstitutional in my mind so we should never have gotten this far with it to begin with. But knowing how the supreme court republican majority often bends to trump's will I am not surprised, just again disgusted by their loyalty to him, although this postal rule construction quite possibly was a bridge too far even for them. For some of the 6 republicans on the supreme court it wasn't a bridge too far but not enough to give them a majority agreement and allow the democracy undermining postal rule to become law. It is my sincere hope that at least 6 of the justices on the supreme court will hold that the postal rule is unconstitutional.

(#6433) 52 days until the election...still nothing from the supreme court on mail in ballots

     We are another day closer to our elections and all seems to have calmed down. With both the district judge and appeals court keeping things as they are the supreme court seems in no hurry to do anything to change the status quo. Which for we the people that is welcome. We know our elections work properly and the insinuation from only the trump camp that it doesn't hasn't been logical. It is trump's word that there is mass cheating and no other proof has been presented. He bases his claim off the results he doesn't like not actual proof. So far the courts still operate under the truth of things not the desires of trump outside of logic!
     North Carolina and Delaware are already sending out overseas mail ballots, in 2 days, on this coming Tuesday Pennsylvania will begin early voting. 5 days later Minnesota and South Dakota begin theirs and then the very next day, Vermont and Virginia start their early voting. If the trump postal rule was going to be initiated by the supreme court they have had 3 days since the appellate court affirmed the temporary injunction of the federal judge to stop the postal rule from moving forward, to make a ruling But the supreme court has been silent so far. With the elections underway what else are we to determine about the fate of the postal rule if not that it will remain overruled since time is an imperative?
     Right now is the best time of the season for elections. When anticipations are high and emotions are strong. It makes absolutely no sense to change the rules during an actual election and that seems to be the case with the postal rule fate. Free and unencumbered voting is what our Constitution demands and that appears to be what we will get. The will of the people is the foundation of our democracy and voting with the one person one vote ideal we will still have it. There has been no final word from the supreme court yet but as each minute passes into hours and days the only outcome they could summarize at this juncture for this disruptive postal rule is that it doesn't pass constitutional muster by affirming the federal judge and appellate court decision.

(#6432) 53 days until the election. I don't expect the supreme court will side with trump on mail in voting

      The midterm election window has begun and the trump mail in voting postal rule's window has closed, at least in my perspective. Sure the supreme court could do something totally irrational since they have a republican majority on the court, but no, since they would have done it yesterday if they were to side with trump. My logic on that is that the 1st circuit court of appeals has ruled and the appeal to the supreme court by trump officials has already been made. Yet nothing from the supreme court yesterday. If they were to rule in trump's favor then they most likely would have done it yesterday. They didn't which signals to me that they are not for the trump postal rule and are slow walking an affirmation with the federal judge and the 1st circuit court of appeals.
     The preliminary injunction issued by the Massachusetts federal judge is still in effect while it could have been lifted by the supreme court yesterday, if the supreme court was going to allow trump's nefarious postal rule to come about. By not lifting the preliminary injunction mail in balloting will continue in its normal process. As ballots are already being mailed out from the states of Delaware and North Carolina, they can continue to proceed with growing confidence that they will not be ordered to stop mailing or retrieve their ballots and redesign them along with a few other provisions to meet the underhanded postal rule requirements. In 3 days Pennsylvania will begin voting by mail. So the longer it takes the supreme court to rule on the trump appeal the more like it will be that they will deny the trump appeal.
     In my mind the postal rule is now beyond salvation. Which makes we the people 2 for 2 in defeating trump attempts to use pernicious avenues to dissuade and/or deny voters their franchise to vote. Other than any cheating musk may try to do to help trump, the rest of his agenda to upend the will of we the people is thwarted. Officially though the postal rule demise has not been thorough like the nefarious trump save act but by my reckoning it is just a matter of time now. To the credit of the supreme court it appears they were not ready to overthrow our constitution for the sake of trump. However to their disgrace, they should have made known their disgust with his attempt and not allowed it to get this far. Regardless though doing the correct thing in the end is a value they can claim as just!

(#6431) 54 days until the election...

     Today is turning into a massively important day as to what will happen with mail in voting as the supreme court now has the ball in it's court so to say. The 1st circuit court of appeals yesterday sided with the federal judge and left the preliminary injunction active against the postal service from enacting their rule. With North Carolina and Delaware already sending out mail in ballots the midterm election is literally in the process of voting. In 4 days Pennsylvania will begin it's early voting window as well. with Minnesota and South Carolina following in just 9 days. If there is any chance that the mail in voting rule will survive to become effective it will most likely happen today or this evening.
     If there is no decision after this day has passed then the likelihood it will pass becomes very unlikely. Hence the importance of today. Because the further we go into this election the more difficult it becomes to imagine the high court will abruptly halt things when they could have ruled sooner for the rule. To me the time has already dictated the looming outcome. I suspect the 6 republican justices on the supreme court are not stuck with trying to figure out a logic for agreeing with the trump postal rule. Instead they are trying to figure out how to let trump down softly so as not to anger him toward some retribution he may have in reserve over the 6 republicans on the supreme court.
     So today is critical to the mail in voting decision. I will be paying attention all day to see if anything surprising occurs. If the court does not rule today then I will be nearly certain the trump executive order postal rule will fail. Even if they rule today it could come as just an affirmation of the lower courts rulings. In all logic that should be the only statement made, an affirmation that the rule through the trump executive order is unconstitutional. At every turn trump seeks to usurp constitutionally designated powers given explicitly to congress and make them his own. Even though this supreme court is heavily republican they must know that supporting this out of control wannabe dictator will cost them more than personal outrage, it will shred what is left of their dignity while shit staining them forever!

(#6430) 1.5 million Russian soldiers dead or injured from putin's invasion of Ukraine!

      If you think one man is worth more than 1.5 million souls then you are a piece of shit! The parents of those young men are to me the worst of what parents can be or at least the most cowardly. To let putin continue even after half a million or a million was ghastly then but now another half a million more souls damaged or lost forever is so inhuman that I see why Russia is referred to as the horde! They don't care about life just consuming like a horde of locusts. Their children are just an expendable resource toward that cause. Make no doubt about it too many of the Russian people support the murder of Ukrainians in order to gain their land and resources.
     I, for the first few years of this Ukrainian invasion, felt sorry for those parents of the now damaged or dead Russian soldiers but I have come to realize they don't deserve my sympathy. They only deserve my disgust. How they are not rising up in the many ways they could to stop putin is the proof of their allegiance to putin over the lives of their lost sons. The barbarians at the gate is the perfect concept to describe the Russian people and their craven intensity to devour that which isn't theirs. Not all Russians are of this ilk but apparently not enough to stop the creatures the kremlin produces. Instead they have chosen to stay quiet and shake in their boots while more than a thousand young men die in putin's invasion!
     The Russian myth of them being barbarians is just that. They are only subservient cannon fodder willing to remain so. The few who truly are barbarous sit in the shelters, bunkers, and protected enclaves ordering others Russians to die for nothing more that dirt that isn't theirs. I have long ago given up hope that the Russian people would end their leaders madness with force. Because they don't have the courage to break free from their fear while more sons keep dying daily. How must their minds and hearts work when they look in the mirror and see such disappointment when measured against what they could do to stop the death machine they currently accept as inevitable.

(#6429) 56 days left until the election...We see this postal rule for what it is!

     I and others' know what this postal rule is all about. It isn't about making our elections safer or more perfect, it is about controlling which party gets to vote by mail easily and which party doesn't. Trying to get this rule passed at this time within the window of an election already in progress is a desperate attempt to avoid the inevitable will of the people. The trump administration has been very clear that they will stay in power regardless of the means. Take them for their word, they mean it. This flagrant attempt to run an end around our constitution is perfectly an example. The only question now is will the supreme court allow this nefarious postal rule to advance while we are already within the bounds of an election?
     From my and others' viewpoint this postal rule is an atomic bomb attempt cure in search of a problem that is essentially nonexistent.. In other words, there is no problem here to correct, only a devilish way to disenfranchise voters of their right to vote through embellished fear tactics. With only trump and a few of his sycophants claiming voter fraud, even though his party won the presidency, both chambers of congress, and hold a significant majority on the supreme court, the idea coming from republicans that there is widespread voter fraud is head scratching difficult to comprehend. Unless of course republicans are secretly blaming republicans for electing themselves, but are publicly saying that democrats are voting illegally, which is still absurd!
     In 6 days Pennsylvania will begin its early voting so between then and now the 1st circuit court of appeals and the supreme court will be making some statements as to how all of us are to proceed on this rule. I don't know how the verdict will come but if the preliminary injunction stay is not lifted then the rule will be circumvented. If the stay is lifted then the likelihood of the rule passing will be most probable. The 1st circuit court will not affirm the postal rule verdict as final unless the supreme court refuses to hear the appeal, so likely that will have to come from the supreme court and its biased 6 majority republican members. Not based upon precedence nor sound constitutional adjudication but upon twisted strategy. I am still thinking the supreme court will not change the law and allow the postal rule to come into effect, at least not for this election.