he’s literally rigging the election and next to nothing’s being done about it what the actual fucking living hell
HE’S LITERALLY TARGETING USPS IN BLUE AREAS WHERE HE LOST THE LAST ELECTION
If you feel unsafe about voting in person (because, y’know, we’re in the middle of a goddam pandemic) but now fear the USPS will be unable to deliver a “mail-in” ballot in a timely fashion….
1. Request a mail-in ballot.
2. Do not mail it.
3. Google your supervisor of elections to see where you can drop off your mail-in ballot. It’s usually NOT THE POLLING PLACE.
All states allow this! Here is what you’re accomplishing by doing this:
1. Your ballot gets in on time no matter what happens to the USPS.
2. You don’t have to worry about standing in long lines and risking infection. You’re just stopping by to drop it off.
3. You voted! Hooray! I have no doubt Trump and his supporters are doing to try to call into question the legitimacy of mail-in voting (which is more enthusiastically embraced by Democratic supporters, especially now.)
Also, when you drop it off, find out how to track it online to make sure it is verified. California, Oregon, Washington, and Colorado have systems that can track your ballot just like tracking a package from Amazon.
All CA vote centers (which are open for weeks to a month before election day) have ballot drop-off boxes too! Many government buildings have them as well, so there’s no need to wait until election day when it’s crowded to drop them off. The list of drop-off sites is always posted on each county’s voter info website.
This is important! This election is crucial! Get out and vote! We! Cannot! Afford! To! Get! Complacent! This year, every vote matters!
FIND A BALLOT BOX 😺👍🏼
Look it up now!
This is going to sound basic, but: Making a plan to vote helps ensure that you actually will.
When I’ve volunteered for campaigns, they’ve empathized asking people, “What is your voting plan?”
My absentee ballots have always said right on them where you can drop them off, if you don’t want to mail them in.
The UNITED STATES, not the confederacy put up those statues. They did it starting about 30 years after the war, in a period between 1890-1930.
1930. 60 years after the southern states committed treason and the rebellion lost the bloodiest war in American history. That they fought over slavery. Against the US government. Who then put up statues in their honor?
To put this into perspective, it would be like if Germany in the early 2000’s was like “you know who were pretty noble? NAZIS. And then put statues of Himmler facing Synogogues.
Because that’s who the statues were for-the victims.
They were there to remind the first generation of black people born out of slavery that confederate ideals were still strong in the south, and they better not get any IDEAS.
And let’s get this straight- the Confederacy was fighting for slavery. The Union was not fighting against slavery. The Union was fighting against rebellion, and to keep the US from breaking apart.
Lincoln, the oh so benevolent freer of slaves, did it out of practicality, and he hesitated a long while.
He famously said, “If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that”
So slavery was never antithetical to the official stance of the US government. And all those confederate soldiers were elected into office by confederate voters.
So did they really lose the war? If we’re still flying their flag and erecting their monuments and enforcing their values?
So long as we allow people to revere them, those monuments aren’t history. They’re current events.
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