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Thread: Many people don't realize how close we came to losing our democracy in the United States.
A career criminal questioned the 1/
A career criminal questioned the 1/
birthplace of Barack Obama for 8 years, knowing full well that he was a natural born citizen. Then, against long odds, and with a Russian 2/
disinformation campaign he won the presidency, even though he lost the popular vote by nearly 3 million. Any hope of him rising to the 3/
occasion was quickly shattered, and most of us discovered that he was worse as president than we could have possibly imagined. He tried 4/
banning Muslims, which was ruled unconstitutional, so as a work around he banned people entering the U.S. from 7 Muslim majority 5/
countries. He instituted a draconian, deliberately cruel immigration policy of separating children from their families, no doubt causing 6/
long- term psychological damage to the children, and untold emotional distress to the parents. Now it has been discovered that the 7/
Trump administration has information of the whereabouts of the parents, has had it all along, and intentionally hid that information from 8/
public. This was an intentional, cruel policy designed to dissuade not only illegal immigrants, which were at a decades long low ebb, but 9/
also to dissuade legitimate asylum seekers, trying to escape violence and oppression in their native countries. I could go on and on 10/
but you know, or should know, the awful things he has done in 4 years, if you take an objective view, an are not willfully blind. Okay, 11/
fast forward to campaign season. Now, Trump relentlessly attacks the U.S. Postal Service, of whose workforce is 25% military veterans, 12/
calling it a "joke" even though the Postal Service approval rating is 90% positive, and Trump's never rose above 45% approval, which is 13/
hard to believe, and could be a separate thread. So, he continued to attack the Postal Service, during a fullblown pandemic, saying that 14/
voting by mail is rife with fraud, knowing full well that many people had no other choice, due to health concerns, than to vote absentee 15/
There is no evidence of widespread fraud in Mail in, or in person voting. Trump himself voted by mail, also claiming Florida was okay 16/
for mail in voting because they had years of experience, and Republicans in charge . So, other states with decades of experience with 17/
allow widespread fraud just for the hell of it? Total BS, and very hypocritical. In essence he's saying it's fine for Republicans to 18/
vote by mail, but not Democrats, oh no, because if we have elections that are on the level, Democrats would win too often and take over. 19/
So, he puts his crony DeJoy in charge of the Postal Service to deliberately slow down the mail, undermining confidence in their ability 20/
to deliver ballots on time, and so many people would just give up. But, they didn't give up. They said we want this sonofabitch out of 21/
office. And we did in spite of all the obstacles. We took his ass to the woodshed. We smoked him. We beat him by 7 million votes. 22/
But was that good enough for him? Nope. He kept on screaming fraud, with no evidence to back it up. He insisted on recounts, filed 23/
