{"id":40743,"date":"2020-08-14T11:37:11","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T18:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=40743"},"modified":"2020-08-14T11:37:11","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T18:37:11","slug":"if-trump-gets-his-way-he-might-kill-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/08\/14\/if-trump-gets-his-way-he-might-kill-me\/","title":{"rendered":"If Trump* Gets His Way, He Might Kill Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I am an amputee in a wheel chair.&nbsp; I have stage four metastatic esophageal cancer, spinal cancer, lung cancer and liver cancer.&nbsp; Virtually everything I need to survive, except my chemotherapy treatments at the hospital, I have to buy online.&nbsp; Most of those things, including several of my meds, come by mail.&nbsp; I need USPS to survive, but criminal Fuhrer Trump and the Republican Reich are sabotaging USPS to interfere with the voting rights if people who need to and have the right to vote by mail.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0814USPSFunding\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0814USPSFunding\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/0814USPSFunding.jpg\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\">  <\/p>\n<p>If Americans think that \u201c<strong>rigged elections<\/strong>\u201d are something that only happens in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/belarus-election-blowout-sees-europes-last-dictator-alexander-lukashenko-clinging-to-power\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">far-off countries like Belarus<\/a>, Trevor Noah had a rude awakening for them. \u201c<strong>It already, it\u2019s already starting to rear its ugly head right here<\/strong>,\u201d he said.  <\/p>\n<p>The Daily Show host was of course talking about President Donald Trump\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/trump-finally-admits-hes-blocking-post-office-aid-to-sabotage-mail-in-voting-for-election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stunning admission<\/a> in a Fox News interview on Thursday morning that <strong>he is actively blocking funding for the U.S. Postal Service to prevent them from being able to accommodate universal mail-in voting<\/strong>.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey need that money in order to have the Post Office work so it can take all of these millions and millions of ballots,\u201d Trump told Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo of two provisions he opposes in the Democrat\u2019s coronavirus relief bill. \u201cBut if they don\u2019t get those two items that means you can\u2019t have universal mail-in voting, because they\u2019re not equipped to have it.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cGoddamn,\u201d Noah replied after playing the clip. \u201cI\u2019ve never seen a villain give away a plan like that without seeing James Bond tied to a chair in front of him.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Inserted From &lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/daily-show-host-trevor-noah-baffled-by-trumps-mail-in-voting-confession\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Daily Beast<\/a>&gt;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here&#8217;s the included video.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?reload=9&amp;time_continue=4&amp;v=P-F83NMMmQg&amp;feature=emb_logo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trump Plainly Admits Plan to Limit Mail-In Voting<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">Barf Bag Alert!!<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/P-F83NMMmQg\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">In short, Trump* and the Republican Reich are trying to steal the votes of millions of Americans.&nbsp; That&#8217;s bad enough.&nbsp; Republicans don&#8217;t care that they are sabotaging a Constitutionally guaranteed service that millions need to survive.&nbsp; I&#8217;m one of them.&nbsp; If Trump* gets his way, he might kill me.<\/font><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font style=\"font-weight: bold\" color=\"#0000ff\">RESIST!!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am an amputee in a wheel chair.&nbsp; I have stage four metastatic esophageal cancer, spinal cancer, lung cancer and liver cancer.&nbsp; Virtually everything I need to survive, except my chemotherapy treatments at the hospital, I have to buy online.&nbsp; Most of those things, including several of my meds, come by mail.&nbsp; I need USPS <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/08\/14\/if-trump-gets-his-way-he-might-kill-me\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3790,3712,3765,3996,3924,4053,3714,3766],"class_list":["post-40743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-bernie-sanders","tag-donald-trump","tag-election-theft","tag-gop-cowards","tag-gop-murder","tag-usps","tag-video","tag-voting-rights","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}