Louisiana has postponed its presidential primary.
I’m about to vomit with anxiety. Louisiana’s presidential primary just got postponed two months. It was in April, now in June. Setting aside the fact that it basically means I’ll have no chance of actually voting in a primary with people competing, the fact that we jumped here instead of trying to get mail-in ballots done, or opening early voting early, or something…I’m so worried the GOP will use this to do what they’ve always dreamed of.
Trump about 25 minutes ago: “Wait, you can do that?!”
I know 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁
I don’t trust anything the GOP does. Now that their gerrymandering is out in the open they are looking for new ways to cheat and suppress votes. Did you see this story VulcansAreHeartbreakers posted on GT last night?
No I hadn’t seen that. Oh god.
…at least they aren’t saying the primaries should be next year?
Coronavirus: English local elections postponed for a year – https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-51876269
It’s extremely worrying. Even if the elections go as planned, if the situation is even slightly worse in November, this will suppress turnout.
We keep coming back to it but the crazies were positive that Obama was going to declare martial law in 2016 to stop the election. It is entirely within the realm of possibility that Trump will suspend the election.
I was assuming that was the plan all along.
Yep.
This is part of what I’ve been thinking & worrying about, as folks have been asking Trump to declare a state of emergency–that he just might *do* that, except use it to decide *not* to hold the election.
Or to only hold it in rich, white, Republican areas…
Between that, and a closing of ALL of our borders,** and then the dude who was saying “With ammo, you can get *anything*” while in my store last night, I’m starting to get fearful, guys.
Not so much worried about the damn virus (worried a bit about that, but science, germ-theory, and logic keep me rational there😉), but worried about mob-mentality, lack of good governance, and what can happen when societies are hanging to decency & order on by a thread, and are helmed by one of these guys;
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-couch/201608/why-its-so-hard-end-relationship-narcissist
http://www.drgeorgesimon.com/malignant-narcissism/
**eta, I forgot to type some words here!! I meant to say, “a possibility of Trumpco closing all of our borders”–you know, “for security!”🙄
Oh right…that national emergency thing.
Well you can’t vote for Biden when you’re “quarantined” in a dedicated “medical” facility for “your own health and safety”
Yikes!
I thought about you, Hello America, the minute I saw the news alert about this yesterday.