Very appropriate tweet for today's conditions.....

[KY_EnviroGuy]

Link to tweet

Text:

Joe Albanese @AlbaneseJoe
I live in Florida. I am a senior citizen. I want to thank President Trump and Governor DeSantis for not caring whether I live or die. But if I am alive in November I will crawl naked over broken glass smeared with covid virus in order to vote against Trump and every (R) I see.

(chart showing Florida cases skyrocketing to 8,900 case in one day)

11:48 AM · Jun 26, 2020

KY.............

[enid602]

1. swim

I personally will swim in snot to get to the polling place.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. I'll see your snot and raise you

a mile of shark-infested puke. But I expect to vote by mail so I hope none of that is necessary.

[Blue_true]

18. I am set up for vote by mail. But with DeSantis in charge, I don't trust mail in vote.

Plus, we can have another knothead like the magabomber shut down Post Offices.

I plan to go in and in person early vote. I will wear a mask, gloves and goggles. I know that once the scanner counts my vote, that is it, no tricks being played over whether my signature on a mailin ballot is legit. The DNC, Florida Democrats and the Biden campaign must have trained poll watcher in place to insure that every vote is counted.

[littlemissmartypants]

22. I like your plan.

I'm thinking about adding a disposable rain poncho. I don't care if it's 100° I want to be covered. I'm even considering an umbrella like the queen of England uses, the birdcage umbrella. You can use it like a shield over your face and still see where you're going.





To vote by mail in NC you have to be able to print out an application for a ballot, mail the application in and wait. I don't have a way to do that right now and I'm pretty sure that there are several NC voters in the same boat.

Ordinarily, I like the experience of standing in line with my fellow citizens. That was pre covid. It's time for contingency plans.

[Demovictory9]

25. I had a clear bubble umbrella in the 70s as a kid

[KS Toronado]

35. I'm gonna start wearing my full face motorcycle helmet before to much longer

In addition to my normal face mask.

[mnhtnbb]

42. Individuals or groups can distribute blank

requests for absentee ballots in NC. I just looked it up on the NC elections website.

Call your Dem precinct officer and ask for a printed request. The County Dem offices need to make them available for those without printers.

[Blue_true]

48. The issue isn't me getting a mailin ballot, I will get one.

The issue is knowing when I cast it that it was counted. I don't want tea party operatives playing games to invalidate my signature on a mailin ballot at the elections office on Election Day.

[lark]

31. You are right not to trust DeSantis with mail in vote.

Voldemort installed a strict signature matching software which is used on every mail in ballott and the instructions are to discard them if they aren't 100% matches. This caused well over 100,000 votes to be rejected and is why Scott is in DC. If Nelson had retained the seat he actually won, Mike Pence would have voted to break the tie or MAYBE we could have moved the 1 extra Senator? So this really matters. Early voting is the way to go in FL, they don't use the signature matching for that and you can vote at any open polling place which includes all libraries.

Oh, when I was calling the list of Democrats who had sent in ballots which were rejected, not one of them knew about it. Think they are stone cold liars when they say they notify the voters immediately and I don't expect anything different now that mini-me's in charge.

[yellowdogintexas]

33. DAMN Folks can talk about Texas all you want to, but our VBM ballots are

hand verified by a ballot committee, party aligned if primary and bi partisan if a general. Signatures on the security envelope are compared to the voter's registration signature.

I once signed my security envelope improperly - the signature was supposed to be on the flap after it was sealed (so you write across the edge of the flap to show if it has been tampered with) and I signed first and then sealed.

My entire ballot package was returned to me with a new set of envelopes and instructions, to allow me to recast my vote. If there was not enough time for it to arrive by mail, I could drop it off at the Elections Office.

[Blue_true]

49. Very good post.

I am really glad that you posted. A person that has been on the front lines and saw the tricks that are used to invalidate mailin ballots. It wouldn't surprise me if the signature match software us used almost exclusively in heavily democratic precincts.

How many people's signature would pass an exact match? I know that my signature changes based upon the angle of the pen, whether I am in a hurry, the distance that I have to bend over, ect.

At in person early voting, even if my signature is questioned, I have several pieces of ID on the spot to confirm who I am - I can't do that with a mailin ballot.

So, I will do mailin ballots when I am ok with either candidate, as was the case in the local special election (two Dems), but for important elections, it is in person early voting for me.

[wnylib]

47. Take your own pen or pencil

for marking your ballot before putting it into the scanner.

[Blue_true]

50. Since I will have on gloves, I don't need to do that.

I will discard the gloves as soon as my ballot is scanned in.

[raging moderate]

3. Me, too.

I will crawl ten miles over broken glass in a post-nuclear landscape, even if I have to give my last bit of money to bribe a militia for safe conduct, even if I have to agree to be injected with COVID-19 after my ballot is registered.

[mwooldri]

12. Uphill both ways?

[raging moderate]

30. Yes.

If necessary. Who knows? Maybe if an earthquake hits?

[yellowdogintexas]

34. in six feet of snow nt

[hlthe2b]

4. If this is not echoed by nearly all those 65 and older in FL, I can only assume

dementia has overtaken them. The writer of that tweet is absolutely seeing the true light.

[malaise]

6. It will be

No distractions will change what is coming for the Con - he'll wish he had terminal Covid-19

[KY_EnviroGuy]

10. Then there's this (also found on that thread)...

Sorry, I do not know the originating source for this graphic.

KY...........

[LisaL]

15. I am assuming that after shelter in place period ended, mostly young people started acting as if

pandemic was over. And here is the result.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

19. Yes, and opening up all the venues where young people hang out.

But, speaking as an older person, I suspect if we looked at the numbers used to create that chart, the infections in Florida's elderly are still quite shocking. It's just that infections in younger people have gone out the roof.

I'm very lucky at 72 to still be quite mobile. I feel heartbreak for those helpless ones in nursing homes.

KY.........

[Jillgirl]

21. This could be the result of nursing homes getting hit hard before anyone else was.

As the virus spread out into the general population, the median age of those affected went down.

[soldierant]

43. I tracked it back to a blog which credits the Wall Street Journal,

Daily Shot, 6/24/20,

[wnylib]

45. Looks like the most vulnerable

caught it first. Now it is moving on to the rest. Does this mean that it has mutated to be more successful with younger people?

Or, having infected so many older folks, the younger ones are now more available.

Or, older folks have learned to be more cautious now, while younger ones fooloshly are not since they think only old folks are vulnerable?

[TheCowsCameHome]

5. K&R

[Doreen]

7. Hell, if I was working and the only way to vote was to quit I would.

A coma or death are the only things that would keep me from voting.

I am lucky to live in Washington state.

[scarletlib]

8. Yes to that.

If I have to crawl to the polls to vote those asswipes out of office, I will.

[TreasonousBastard]

9. Joe's got a lot of fans in that thread!

[KY_EnviroGuy]

11. I enjoyed the hell out of this one......

Link to tweet

Text:

Kenneth P. Vogel @kenvogel

One of the biggest donors to the super PAC devoted to helping Democrats retake the Senate, @MajorityPAC, last month was ...

RUPERT MURDOCH'S daughter-in-law, KATHRYN MURDOCH.

She donated $1 million, per new @FEC report.

+++++
TRUMP's super PAC @AmericaFirstPAC raised only* $2.4M last month, most of which came from 2 people he appointed to administration posts:

• @Linda_McMahon (ex-@SBAgov head): $1M
• @WoodyJohnson4 (@USAmbUK): $1M

* BIDEN's main super PAC @prioritiesUSA raised $7.5M last month.

KY...........

[eppur_se_muova]

23. Uh, wait ... there's actually a guy named "Woody Johnson" ??

And he doesn't do porn flicks ?

[KY_EnviroGuy]

26. Speaking of privileged characters in Trump's administration...

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_Johnson

Woody Johnson
United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom

Robert Wood "Woody" Johnson IV (born April 12, 1947) is an American businessman and diplomat who is currently United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom. He is a great-grandson of Robert Wood Johnson I (co-founder of Johnson & Johnson). With his brother, Christopher, he is the owner of the New York Jets of the National Football League.

Johnson was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States. He is the son of Betty (Wold) and Robert Wood Johnson III, president of Johnson & Johnson for four years. Johnson grew up with four siblings, Keith Johnson, Billy Johnson, Elizabeth "Libet" Johnson, and Christopher Wold Johnson, in affluent areas of northern New Jersey, and attended the Millbrook School. He graduated from the University of Arizona. Johnson then worked menial summer jobs at Johnson & Johnson with the expectation of ascending to the top of the family business.

Typical Trump sycophant. People like Johnson simply use tRump to retain right-wing power for the wealthy.

KY

[Mr.Bill]

44. It's a double phallic name.

Like Peter O'Toole.

[yellowdogintexas]

36. Anne Bass!!!! RIP she helped so many very worthy causes in Fort Worth and Tarrant County

and now this.

Thank you Mrs Bass

[betsuni]

41. She loved ballet!

I remember seeing an article about her house in Texas and the bookshelves in her bedroom were filled with books about dance. She was a great patron of the arts.

[smirkymonkey]

13. Hear, hear!

[bronxiteforever]

14. Kick and recommend.

[warmfeet]

16. Only two things can stop me from voting for Joe Biden.

I die, or he dies, before November 3rd, 2020. I sincerely hope neither of those things happen. If it comes down to a choice between the two of us, however, I hope it is I who winds up dead and not him.

[Danmel]

17. I'll crawl over broken glass, lava and snakes to vote for Joe Biden

Thankfully I'm in NY and have Democratic senators and a Democratic congressman. My state reps, otoh 😱

[wnylib]

46. Lucky you. I have a

Tea Party congressman. But he's up for election this year. Schumer, of course, has endorsed his opponent.

Beware his name, Tom Reed. He plans on running for governor in '22. Trying to ditch the Tea Party label and present himself as a moderate. Brags about being a member of the Congressional problem solvers. Votes with Trump agenda over 95% of the time. Said Trump committed no impeachable offense. Votes against health care and Social Security every time.

Flashes a big smile and plays up a nice guy public image. Very smooth at presenting negatives as if they were positives.

I want to see him not just defeated this year, but totally crushed so he can never run again for anything.

[hay rick]

20. Broken glass...

I live in Florida. I volunteer with the local Democratic Party and help with phone banks. On one of my calls an elderly lady said she would "crawl over broken glass" to vote against Trump. I guess she was too lady-like to throw in "naked."

[Demovictory9]

24. crawl naked through glass then lemon juice to vote!! vote blue no matter who

[yellowdogintexas]

37. don't forget the salt!!!! nt

[Demovictory9]

38. Yep!!

[Upthevibe]

27. Kick....n/t

[live love laugh]

28. Hell yeah!

[Joinfortmill]

29. Amen, brother. I'm with you.

[BlueJac]

32. Same here!

The failure of leadership is epic!

[orleans]

39. then why is he thanking them? n/t

[CrispyQ]

40. We have vote-by-mail,

but I would sit in line all day, in the cold, masked & with a trash bag over my head if I had to, just to vote the orange menace out.

[TeamPooka]

51. That is Trump and DeSantis's actual plan: to make voters crawl over infested broken glass to vote.