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LaMouffette

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August 24, 2020

Top Secret Security Clearances? Still?!

So Don Jr., Jared, and Ivanka weren't supposed to get security clearances in the first place, but Daddy Trump "fixed it" so that his kids got top secret security clearances anyway. Now, according to the Senate Intelligence Committee Report, Don Jr. and Jared were found to have, indeed, worked with Russia to get Trump elected in 2016 and were given criminal referrals (that won't be acted on until Trump is pried out of the White House). And it was recently reported that Ivanka pushed the Trump campaign to release tweets promoting the Wikileaks emails prior to their release and she helped arrange the Trump Tower meeting.

And these three traitors still have top secret security clearances? And Trump, too?!

And, yes, I know, nothing will be done to take away their clearances until William Barr is pried from his position as AG. So this is really just a rant, but my God. I hope once Dems are back in control that they institute a rule that anyone seeking office must FIRST as a candidate, be able to pass a security clearance. And stronger nepotism laws, not guidelines, laws, and, and . . .

Okay, rant over!

August 23, 2020

"No Child Left Without Covid"

I wrote that in an earlier post this morning, wondering if demanding schools to reopen might be Trump and DeVos and ALL Republican politicians' grand, evil scheme to destroy public schools once and for all, while simultaneously killing off the children and families of everyone who cannot afford to send their kids to a private school. Biological class warfare.

I don't think anyone's kids should go back to school until Barron goes back—to a PUBLIC school, and one that is experiencing the kind of ill-preparedness that has been reported from teachers as of late.

August 18, 2020

Why couldn't we have the option of downloading our ballot from the internet right now?

And then delivering it in person to our local election board? When we deliver our ballot in person, an official there would check our name off their list of registered voters. This would be a way around all the postal service sabotage that the Mango Menace is trying to pull off.

Plus, I think ALL of us are ready to vote NOW. We don't need to see a presidential debate. We don't need to see another political ad on TV or online.

Anyway, I just thought of this and thought I'd throw it out there. I'm probably not thinking of some large loophole that the Republicans would use to cheat anyway if ballots were downloadable.

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