Oh, So NOW Donald Trump Wants People To Vote By Mail

Look, there are a lot of reasons President Donald Trump and the MAGA world are dangerous, as they are dedicated to the avoidance of democracy, the rule of law, education, and the very concepts of truth and living in a shared reality. But only two things make them insufferably obnoxious: they’re willfully ignorant about everything, and, when it comes down to it, they stand for nothing.

Trump has been saying since the 2020 loss to President Joe Biden that he still refuses to accept six years later, that the vote-by-mail system is “inherently corrupt” and vulnerable to fraud, again, without providing a lick of evidence to substantiate the claim. For at least the last year or so, leading up to the midterm elections, Trump has been a roving 24-hour reel of anti-mail-in voting propaganda, and he has tried and failed to restrict it via executive order. But now, because the midterms are a-coming, and the general consensus among journalists, pundits, pollsters, and political analysts is that Republicans are expected to lose big, which means the GOP is in a very desperate “all hands on deck” kind of situation. So, all of that craziness that Trump said about mail-in voting for the last several months and long before then? Yeah, forget about that.

“Vote early. Vote by mail. Or vote in person on Election Day,” Trump said in a video the administration released Saturday, urging Republicans to vote by any hypocritical means necessary.

Well, well, well — it appears somebody just discovered that restricting how people cast a ballot affects voters regardless of which party they vote for. If only someone had SAVEd the president from his own stupidity, he wouldn’t be so tardy to the party of common sense and basic math.

Of course, there’s nothing surprising about Trump doing a complete 180 — I mean, outside of his ability to do it while already standing at that weird-ass angle he stands in — but it’s still annoying as hell, and even more so once you witness how fast right-wing influencers and media outlets turn on a dime right along with him.

Mind you, this has been the Trump playbook all along: he says a thing, they believe it until he stops saying it and says something contradictory, then they believe the contradiction and instantly develop complete MAGAmnesia about the first thing, until he starts saying it again.

It’s a very simple playbook; it probably comes with big pictures and a pack of edible crayons.

I mean, seriously — had you ever heard any of these squirrel dinner-chasing MAGA rubes talk about election security or widespread voter fraud before their messiah began his propaganda campaign-slash-extended temper tantrum, following his loss in November 2020? Of course not. It turns out the so-called “free thinkers” are marching to the rhythm-less drum of someone who doesn’t understand that most people aren’t laughing with him when he dances like this:

Look, these are the same cultists who think Democrats are turning hurricanes on and off with the flip of a switch, so it’s not like Trump ever needed to be a savvy liar in order to keep them perpetually fooled. It’s just — what happened to at least pretending to have integrity? They don’t even bother faking it anymore.

Sad.

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