June 10, 2020: Cupcakes and Ballots

 

6/10/20: Several states, including Georgia, held primary elections yesterday. Let’s just say in Georgia, voting did not go smoothly. 

Or maybe you could say – if you wanted to test new ways to suppress minority voting – it went great! In Fulton and DeKalb counties, where half the population is black, some people waited in line five hours to cast ballots. 

If this were to happen in November, and a good percentage of the 1.8 million Georgians in those two counties decided to stay home – well – that would be great for Donald J. Trump & Crew.

 

On the topic of voting, White House Banshee Kellyanne Conway was asked why her boss opposed mail-in balloting. She said, if people wanted to vote, it was like waiting in line for cupcakes. You wait for what you want. 

The only difference? Cupcakes are delicious. Voting is arguably your most important right. No one waits in line five hours for cupcakes.

This is baking.

This is a man protesting for the right to vote in 1965,

You could get killed in some Southern states for this.

 

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SOMETIME Wednesday, the U.S. passed the

 

2,000,000-mark

 

for confirmed cases of COVID-19. Trump was just a little off when he predicted in February that we would soon be headed for zero.

 

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SPEAKING OF PREPOSTEROUS PREDICTIONS, how about Trump’s promise that he would bring fiscal sanity to Washington D.C. and the federal deficit would shrink to nothingness once he took charge. 

He said if he had eight years that he would bring business magic to government. There would be NO DEFICIT! He promised to clean up all the trillions run up by all the other 44 presidents. 

The envelope please: 

The winner is……………not Donald Trump! It has been announced the federal deficit, in just the first eight months of this fiscal year, hit:

 

$1.88 trillion

The red ink tsunami for FY 2021 is the largest ever recorded. Trump has four more months to rack up a colossal debt.