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I've figured out what's going on with mail-in voting.

That's is to say, @realDonaldTrump figured out what's going on with mail-in voting.

Trump is using the Briar Patch Strategy.

From the Georgia folk tale "Br'er Rabbit and the Tar Baby."

A tar baby is a problem that gets worse the more you involve yourself with it.

Br'er Fox made a tar baby and sat it by the side of the road.

When Br'er Rabbit walked by and greeted the tar baby, of course the tar baby didn't respond.

This made Br'er Rabbit angry.

Talking to the inanimate lump of tar made Br'er Rabbit angrier and angrier until he punched the tar baby and got his paw stuck in it.

Instead of calming down, he punched it with his other front paw and then kicked it with his hind legs.

He ended up immobile.

Br'er Fox emerged and pulled Br'er Rabbit out of the tar.

"Now that I've got you, what should I do with you?" Br'er Fox asked.

"Oh please Brer Fox, whatever you do, please don't throw me into the briar patch!" Br'er Rabbit said.

"Maybe I should roast you over a fire and eat you," said Brer Fox. "No, that's too much trouble. Maybe I'll hang you instead."

"Roast me! Hang me! Do whatever you want," said Brer Rabbit. "Only please, Brer Fox, please don't throw me into the briar patch!"

"If I'm going to hang you, I'll need some string, and I don't have any string handy. But the stream's not far away, so maybe I'll drown you instead."

"Drown me! Roast me! Hang me! Anything! Only please, Br'er Fox, please don't throw me into the briar patch!"

"The briar patch, eh?" said Br'er Fox. "What a wonderful idea! You'll be torn into little pieces!"

He threw Br'er Rabbit into the briar patch and heard a bloodcurdling scream that tapered off into a gurgle and then silence.

Br'er Fox walked away, whistling.

Suddenly he heard his name called from behind.

He turned and saw Br'er Rabbit standing there on the road, waving.

"I told you not to throw me in the briar patch because that's the place where I was born and raised," Br'er Rabbit said. "I lived there all my life."

And Br'er Rabbit skipped away as merry as a cricket while Br'er Fox ground his teeth in rage and went home.

Mail-in voting! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/05/15/voting-by-mail-helps-gop-californias-special-election-proved-that/

The reason is that older voters check their mail every day, while the 18 to 34 age group DON'T EVEN GET DAILY MAIL.

Some of them have never once sent ANYTHING by mail.

They do all their business electronically.

And they don't even vote under the best of circumstances.

Republicans who are vulnerable to COVID-19 will take full advantage of vote by mail.

It's a HUGE blunder on the part of the Democrats.

Here's what Trump had going for him BEFORE universal vote by mail (such as it is):

1. As in 2016, fence sitters will change their minds a week before the election.

2. As in 2016, Trump supporters are not taking part in polls.

3. As in 2016, people who never voted before can't be polled.

Vote by mail benefits the most reliable voting cohort, which will vote for Trump.

AND.

At my polling station, Republicans are sent to a separate booth marked "REPUBLICANS."

And the staffers show surprise and contempt when you state your party preference.

That doesn't bother me, but you can easily see how it would compel closet Trump supporters to not vote for him.

With vote-by-mail, NOBODY CAN SEGREGATE THEM OR SHOW HOSTILITY.

It's perfect.

And FINALLY, we have this:

The Congressional Budget Office--not known for wild overstatement--is now predicting economic growth of 21.5 percent in the third quarter of THIS YEAR.

More than 160 percent greater than the highest growth rate ever measured in American history.

The Democrats have NOTHING.

Remember: They IMPEACHED Trump, and they're going to try it AGAIN...FOR RUSSIAN COLLUSION.

These are not sane people.

As I've said before, this is the last banzai charge, in which everyone dies for no reason at all.

On Okinawa, the Japanese gave civilians sharpened bamboos spears and sent them out against American tanks.

All of Japan had been brainwashed, so the vast majority totally believed that they were told, that the Americans would eat their babies alive.

But.

It was on Okinawa that we had the first mass surrenders of Japanese soldiers.

WE GAVE THEM THE OPPORTUNITY.

We dropped safe-passes in Japanese, and when men weren't killed, they went back and convinced others to surrender.

Tom Hanks projects all his OWN racism onto men and women a million times better than he is. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tom-hanks-wwii-comments-spark-controversy/

As we head into the election, we'll see a frenzy of attacks, insults, hysteria, tantrums, invective, and bizarre accusations not based in reality.

Trump and @PressSec are chopping down the media with scythes.

It's great fun to watch.

"Journalists" can only become more toxic.

They're all like your disgusting ex-girlfriend.

Been there! Done that!

It's a great time to be alive.

The circus came to town, caught on fire, and exploded.

And we applauded and shouted, "MORE! MORE!"

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ADDENDUM:

Apparently people are unaware that in California's 25th District, Republican Mike Garcia had no money and no experience but won by 21 points.

Everyone had mail-in ballots, and the Democrats did ballot harvesting like in 2018.

Why did Garcia crush his opponent?