I was actually very agitated when I received a text from the Republican Party, endorsed by Senator Risch, encouraging me to request my mail-in ballot. I responded, “STOP.” All of this nonsense about mail-in voting fraud and the federal government requesting or demanding Idaho’s registered voter rolls is just part of the plan. The regime and its policies have earned a vote of no confidence, even from their own base.
Eleven Democratic states and Washington, D.C., have sued to block the proposed rule, and both lower and appellate courts have rejected it. The disenfranchisement concerns include calls for the Postal Service to deny delivery of election mail entirely if states do not turn over voter data. The Republican Party must truly believe that the only way to retain its power base in the states and at the national level is to confuse and limit voters. It now appears that even the constitutional prohibition against the federal government engaging in state elections may be tested despite Supreme Court support for state authority.
Stay tuned, and please let your elected officials know how you feel about protecting every citizen’s right to vote.
My response to the mail-in ballot reminder was brief. After typing “STOP,” I added, “You bunch of hypocrites.”
By Google’s definition, “a hypocrite is a person who pretends to have moral standards, beliefs, or virtues that they do not actually possess, or whose actions completely contradict what they say.” The word comes from the ancient Greek word hypokritēs, which meant a stage actor or a person wearing a mask. Over many years, that theatrical meaning became synonymous with people who “play a role” in real life by pretending to be good or virtuous.
The Orange Wanker and his minions would like us to believe they have our best interests at heart. It is obvious that their loyalty lies only with themselves and those who help keep the grift going.
At the convention this week, we get a daily hypocritical update. The Tangerine Tantrum assured the crowd that the Iran war would be over right after the midterm elections and that gas would soon be under $2 per gallon. He went on to promise that if the Republican Party kept both the House and Senate, he would personally authorize a $5,000 payment to every voting-age American.
The cost of that proposal would be a bit more than our annual defense budget, roughly $1.3 trillion. I am still waiting for my DOGE dividend and for the national debt to be paid off through tariff revenue. Apparently, it is possible to be both a liar and a hypocrite simultaneously.
If you recall the Popeye cartoons, J. Wellington Wimpy was known for his signature phrase: “I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.”
Not unlike the Mango Felon, Wimpy wore a suit and tie and occupied the upper levels of obesity. I find Wimpy to be someone I can feel sorry for, or at least tolerate, because I would like to think his intentions are honorable. In contrast, it is difficult to identify any praiseworthy attributes in POTUS.
Lying about his 9/11 experiences, his involvement in the January 6 insurrection, his treatment of the immigrant population, his disregard for the Emoluments Clause, the impacts of dismantling USAID, alienating Canada, the EU, and NATO, and his climate denialism… ad nauseam.
Is Iran with a nuclear threat any more dangerous than Kim Jong Un? Since when was Russia our ally? Other than racially motivated support, it is difficult to understand how anyone could view #47 as their brown-haired savior.
Speaking of con artists, in 1860 a lobbyist named George M. Willing proposed the name “Idaho” to Congress. He falsely claimed it was a Native American word meaning “Gem of the Mountains.”
Willing told lawmakers that the poetic phrase came from the Shoshone language. It later turned out that he had invented the word himself. Congress discovered the deception and declined to use the name for a region in Colorado. However, the name remained popular and was adopted by several towns, a mining steamboat, and a county. In 1863, when the new territory was created, it was officially named Idaho.
Ironically, it is one of the few things we truly did not steal from Native Americans.
Enjoy the end of summer. The picture shows an undisturbed Payette Lake as the boats go into storage for another winter.
Mike