The year has kept up its feverish pace of every week handing me something that makes me shake my head and say, "what planet is this, anyway... and how did I get here?"
This week it's the idea that Orange Man Bad is trying to shut down the Post Office (instead of trying to rescue it, which seems to be something that's actually going on). The evidence? Mail trucks break down while mailboxes get locked overnight in some places and swapped out of service in other places. The first thing I saw posted somewhere was this tweet form Performing Monkey Jamie Lee Curtis (can't call her a singing or dancing monkey):
There's more than one example of stupid here. The easiest one to poke fun at is her conclusion that because the driver of the red truck had a red hat with white letters, Trump's minions are engaged in an "outright attempt at stealing the election by denying access of the @USPS."
I probably don't need to say that I don't know Ms. Curtis, but I'm going to say the evidence says she's a moron. Thankfully, she didn't say that the guy was wearing a MAGA hat, but he was wearing a red hat with white letters, which must be the same thing. It would apparently never cross her tiny little mind that a tow truck with a red cab might just use red as their company colors and the driver might be wearing a uniform with matching red hat. It also appears that JLC apparently thinks that mail trucks are some sort of Alien technology that makes them the only freakin' vehicles on the road in this country that don't break down and need to be towed!!!
Needless to say, JLC is not the only brain-damaged liberal in America. This photo was also tweeted:
It blows my mind that there are grown-ass adults who don't realize that mailboxes might need routine maintenance. It's like they believe mailboxes are the only things in the world made out of some miracle alloy that never rusts out or needs to be serviced. It's alien technology again.
These aren't isolated examples, they're everywhere. In one case, New Jersey Representative Mikie Sherrill tweeted a similar picture which saw more than
5,600 retweets, and she only later noted they were being replaced by
newer mailboxes (which is pretty visible if you actually look at the original photo). I'm sure you've seen other pictures.
Let me stop to note that Rep. Sherrill says in her Twitter "about me" box that she's a former Navy pilot and former Prosecutor, which certainly implies she's a lawyer. Nothing about that background particularly screams "moron" - and doesn't even say she's a Democrat. I always wonder when I see something that idiotic from a politician if they're really that stupid or if they just believe the people following them are so stupid they'll fall for it.
Anyway... there's lots going on here. There's definitely an attempt to get people mad and outraged. There's a layer that has to do with them really wanting access to millions of votes to control. And there's a layer of union workers and Democrat politicians scratching each other's backs (as always). Anyone who has worked in a union shop, especially a government union shop (cough, Kennedy Space Center contractors, cough) has seen situations where work just doesn't get done all week so they can come in and get it done for time and a half on Saturday. The union and Democrats (but I repeat myself) don't like Trump's new Postmaster General appointee who's trying to unscrew the USPS. If you want to read real background information there's the link up in the second paragraph, here's one to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy's article on Fox News. Townhall's Kurt Schlicter writes that "The Post Office Conspiracy is First Class Stupidity." Finally, Legal Insurrection asks, "Does Anyone Really Believe the Trump vs. USPS Hoax?"
Jamie Lee Curtis can indeed dance, for a given value of 'dance'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWyyHqNHWEU That's a John Hiatt tune, with Ryland Cooder on the slide.
ReplyDeleteIt has gotten so pervasive that my county prosecutor weighed in on it at tonight's virus briefing. He is 'demanding' (ever notice the dems never simply ask) that the state AG 'investigate' this attempt by DJT to prevent mail in voting. And if the AG doesn't, he will be 'forced' to do his own investigation.
ReplyDeleteSteve Bannon was arrested at sea by the Postal Inspection Service.
ReplyDeleteI haven't heard that aspect, but I've always heard the Postal Inspectors were very effective. As in "don't mess with those guys."
DeleteIn the bigger cities, the USPS have their own fleet of tow trucks. Common to see them being moved around like that, sometimes multiple jeepnies on one truck.
ReplyDeleteWhich kinda makes it worse. They not only have never been alert enough to their surroundings to notice mailboxes on the trucks, or mail trucks being towed, they're not alert enough to recognize the USPS logo. The New Joisey congress woman's Tweet has a picture with clearly older mailboxes on one side of the bed and newer ones on the other side. Right there on the tailgate, facing the camera, is the USPS logo.
DeleteWhat percentage of the vote is mailed in historically? Absentee ballots are too widely used as is, but there are safeguards, e.g. having to request them individually. Unsolicited mail-in ballots, OTOH, are ripe for fraud. Did I miss something? Are we actually doing this nationally for the election?
ReplyDeleteLet's get back to in person ballots with pencil and paper...like civilized countries. Can't read the print, bring your glasses. Can't read, too bad; no vote for you; you either wasted 13 years worth of public money, or you're simply too stupid to be allowed to vote.
In fact, while we're setting bars, if you're living on public assistance, and not a net taxpayer, you are subject to moral hazard and may not vote. I'll except social security if you've paid into it...but until it's individual private accounts, there's still some moral hazard.
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I'll go a bit farther and say I'm OK with a simple test on what you're voting on. Like a test on current situations or events just to see some level of preparation for going in to vote. We have term limits in Florida, and what happens is the same people stay lifetime politicians, they just move between offices. The name recognition goes with them.
DeleteI'm fine with the original intent that voting only be by people who own real property.
Both of those have as much chance of flying as I do by flapping my arms.
Exactly, and that is the saddest thing. It isn't that hard to "fix our system" (I've long supported the property-owner thing, as that addresses several ills in one swell foop) but it has been long apparent that those in charge don't want the system fixed.
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