I have no Haiku today. Too much to talk about. Let’s get at it.

 

The Democratic National Convention

I only have four words for the virtual Democratic National Convention:

What a shit show.

I watched it sporadically. I was just really annoyed by it. I didn’t learn anything from it and that is a tragedy. It was a tragedy because it was, like, eight hours long. I am not going to play any clips. That’s because there wasn’t much to play and all the people said the same. I also want to talk about the post office thing.

So here is the skinny:

• There was a lot of push to emotion. No reason. Michelle Obama’s speech showed that more than any other. It’s about empathy and love and lives and blah, blah blah. I was going to have a cut from her speech, but I am going to save it for another podcast.
• There was no platform. it was all that Trump was bad.
• There was no mention of Biden except that he’s better than Trump.
• There was no mention of Kamala Harris except that criticizing her is racist and sexist. Such an old argument.
• It was really staged. Some of these speeches happened two weeks to a month ago.
• The pho-patriotism is just disgusting. The singing of the National Anthem and the reciting of the Pledge of Allegiance was just disgusting considering:
  • Democrats think we should kneel for the National Anthem.
  • Democrats want to eliminate the Pledge of Allegiance from schools.
  • Democrats want to remove the reference to God in the Pledge of Allegiance.

 

And then there was the gas lighting:

• Andrew Cuomo, governor of the state that had the second most COVID-19 deaths because Gov. Cuomo allowed elderly with corona virus were sent back into old folks homes to spread the disease to other old folk. Then lied about the statistics.

 

 

 

 

Post Office Mess

Speaking of Trump saying stupid thing, Trump said that he would be for defunding the postal service so that universal mail in voting cannot be done. Ugh! I wish he would just stop talking and creating controversies and scandals.

Let’s take a look at the postal service thing because, for whatever reason, this seems to be more important.

Mail-In Voting

So what is the story with this mail in balloting thing? What will happen and is happening is states are sending out applications for ballots. You confirm your address and sign it. No other identification and send it back (I did have to add a stamp). In two to three weeks, you will receive your ballot. Fill out the ballot making sure to follow all the instructions or the ballot will not be valid. Put the ballot in the mail and, hopefully, it will get to where it needs to go and be counted.

Republicans do not want mail in balloting and the Democrats want mail in ballots.

Republicans see several problems including:

• Corruption. Ballot harvesting.
• Non-citizens voting.
• Accidental loss of ballots.
• Lack of identification of where the ballots are going.
• Someone voting multiple times.
• Ballots being delivered to the wrong address because of citizen movement.
• Delays in election results.
• Uncounted ballots.
• Speed of the postal system. People needing to vote way before the election.

 

Democrats say:

• No evidence of corruption.
• COVID-19
• Avoids voter suppression. Convenient.
• Absentee ballots work.

 

I think this is a disaster waiting to happen. The Democrats are lying if they say that there is no evidence of corruption. California is completely Democrat including in Red areas such as San Diego, Orange and Riverside counties because they practice mail in voting and ballot harvesting. There is video in New Jersey of a postman throwing ballots in the trash (party affiliation was on the envelope for whatever reason). There is corruption.

I don’t understand why we can’t just go to the voting place (they’re all closed in California so you can only do mail in voting).

The biggest problem here, according to the Democrats, is the post office. They may not have the capacity to handle all those ballots (130-140 million) in such a short period of time.

 

What the Democrats are Doing

The Democrats are doing everything to try to give more funding to the post office which is weird. The post office has a budget and still has plenty of money for the year. Probably more money than the government has to spend. Don’t forget: we have spent almost $8 trillion this year. But money isn’t a thing for Democrats.

• In the Heroes Act, which was meant to replace the expiring Cares Act, the put in $25 billion for the post office.
• This week, they have introduced a separate bill that would only fund the post office $25 billion.
• Both bills were rejected by the Senate and would have been vetoed by Trump

 

Since the post office is not going to get any extra money, the Democrats, of course, are saying that Trump is trying to suppress the vote. Trump, on the other hand, said that the post office needs to be fixed (more on that in a second) and does not need any more money. They still have money. Mitch McConnell, the Senate Majority Leader, said the United States needs to spend money wisely and not waste it.

You know what happens when they don’t get they’re way. They get nasty. They say that not only is Trump trying to weaken the post office but he is physically trying to damage the post office. Some idiot decided to Tweet a picture of a flatbed truck filled with mailboxes being picked up. Another Tweet showed that there were mailboxes with locks on them. All this on Trumps orders to suppress the vote.

Um, there were a couple of problems with these observations. Trump didn’t say this, the post office actually did.

• Mailboxes are moved around according to use.
• Mailboxes are removed and replaced when they get old and need maintenance.
• Locks are put on mailboxes and access is restricted to people of that community. That’s because people steal mail. Only people in that community have the keys. I have that in my community. I have to borrow a key to send mail.
• The post office has been doing this since 2009.

 

So you can see, this is all bullshit. More on that in my closing.

 

Financial and Capacity Problems with the Post Office

The post office is a mess. And they know it.

• The post office has lost $74 billion in the last 10 years. This is because of bad deals with the unions on retirement programs.
• Mail takes an average of five days to get from point A to point B. They believe that, during the election, mail could be delayed by three weeks! They are actually recommending you send in you ballot three weeks before the election.

 

This seems weird that the USPS is having so much trouble making money.

• No company can compete with the USPS.
• No company can make postage cheaper than the USPS.
• No company can undercut the USPS first class postage.
• The USPS is a monopoly but run crappily.

 

The Postmaster General has plans to fix things. This pissed off Democrats. Why fix things before an election when we can just throw money at it?

Well, the Postmaster General made a couple of announcements:

• There will be no changes to the post office until after the election.
• The Postmaster General will appear in front of Congress. Cause he has a lot of time to waste and we need to hear more grandstanding from Democrats.

 

Conclusion

Listen to this:

What a waste of fucking time.

I have a some questions:

• Why is this story more important than the peace deal between Israel and the UAE?
• The USPS has been fucked up for decades. Why is this a thing now?
• Why are we changing the way we vote?
• If you are afraid to vote because of COVID-19, Why not request an absentee ballot?
• Why was this not a thing four month ago?

 

There are reasons:

• Mail in voting is corrupt and Joe Biden has not chance if thing ran fairly.
• The Democrats need to deflect from the accomplishment of the Middle East peace deal which is truly historic.
• Democrats need another made up scandal. The other ones didn’t work.
• They have no platform that will be accepted by the normal person. So make Trump look bad.
• They need to make an excuse just in case Biden loses.