#Codger Power

The Big Picture –
By Glynn Wilson –

WASHINGTON, D.C. — This is it folks. Another major turning point in our lives in this crazy 21st century hellscape world.

It’s been a strange week since I came down from the mountains and set up camp inside the Beltway again just in time for Halloween and Election Day.

I guess it would be safe to say I suffered a bit of “culture shock.”

But things seem to have stabilized now, and it’s a beautiful fall day in the nation’s capital on Monday, with a high of 76 and sunny, a cobalt blue sky and just a few puffy white clouds blowing by in the breeze out of the northwest.

It may be the last day to enjoy for awhile, as I said on Facebook, since everything could change on Tuesday, Election Day. Dark clouds are forming over American democracy, and planet Earth 🌎 is growing warmer by the day. Enjoy it while you can 🤠

If former fullback Herschel Walker somehow pulls an upset comeback and wins the Senate seat in Georgia, and Nazi sympathizer Dr. Oz wins in Pennsylvania in spite of Oprah Winfrey’s endorsement of Democrat John Fetterman, D.C. will be unbearable for the next two years. They will screw everything up and doom democracy and the planet. We will all be on our own at that point, survival of the fittest.

All things being fair and equal, that should not happen. Walker should be toast with all the abortion scandals, and Oz too with Oprah’s endorsement.

But see this The Washington Post story I shared.

Republican officials and candidates in at least three battleground states are pushing to disqualify thousands of mail ballots after urging their own supporters to vote on Election Day, in what critics are calling a concerted attempt at partisan voter suppression.

“In Pennsylvania, the state Supreme Court has agreed with the Republican National Committee that election officials should not count ballots on which the voter neglected to put a date on the outer envelope — even in cases when the ballots arrive before Election Day. Thousands of ballots have been set aside as a result, enough to swing a close race.”

“In Michigan, Kristina Karamo, the Republican nominee for secretary of state, sued the top election official in Detroit last month, seeking to toss absentee ballots not cast in person with an ID, even though that runs contrary to state requirements. When asked in a recent court hearing, Karamo’s lawyer declined to say why the suit targets Detroit, a heavily Democratic, majority-Black city, and not the entire state.”

“And in Wisconsin, Republicans won a court ruling that will prevent some mail ballots from being counted when the required witness address is not complete.”

As I’ve already reported, we are not going to find out the final results in many key battleground states on Election Night anyway. Squeamish voters may want to go camping somewhere and skip watching cable television news talks shows for a few days. Once the mail in ballots from Democrats are all counted, we should be fine, at least in the Senate — that is unless Trump appointed judges on Republican courts go along with voter suppression lawsuits.

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It will be an interesting day for me, since I will be voting locally in Maryland, just across the border with D.C. The Senate Democrat here, Chris Van Hollen, is a shoe in to win reelection. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer should have no problem winning reelection here, too.

The Democrat running for governor, Wes Moore, is on track to easily accomplish something never before seen in the state of Maryland. He will be the first African American to be elected governor here, only the third Black elected governor in U.S. history, and potentially the only Black sitting governor in the country.

His Republican opponent, a far-right Trump supporter who went all in on the Big Lie, Dan Cox, doesn’t stand a chance in this blue state. If the Republicans had offered up someone more moderate and reasonable like Larry Hogan, they might have had a chance with voters in the rural western part of the state. But inside the Beltway, there is no way the college educated Republicans and independents will support him.

This is the home of the “Deep State,” after all, as the Trump Republicans like to call it. All that means is this is where the people live who work for and run all the federal government agencies. It is no swamp, but could get more done if all the crazy, right-wing Republicans were purged from the government payroll.

President Obama left way too many of the Bush supporters in place, and Biden has done little to purge them from the federal payroll, including Trump appointed Post Master Louis DeJoy, who is still presiding over a gutted U.S. Postal system that is still having trouble delivering the mail. If there is any so-called “voter fraud” to happen in this election, it won’t be on the part of Democrats. If mail in ballots are found dumped in a dumpster somewhere, you will know it was a crazy, right-wing Republican postal worker who did it.

Here’s to hoping we get an honest election and we don’t lose control of both houses of Congress to these brain washed Trump-Putin sleepers. The people of Ukraine are counting on us, and don’t forget our Social Security and Medicare. If the Republicans get elected and gut our social safety net, the left will have no choice but to start visiting their houses to get our money back.

You want a civil war? Tamper with Social Security and Medicare. Then you will see some #CodgerPower, by dog.

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