{"id":45629,"date":"2020-06-14T13:18:29","date_gmt":"2020-06-14T20:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=45629"},"modified":"2020-06-15T02:24:53","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T09:24:53","slug":"trump-supporters-are-burning-their-own-vote-by-mail-applications-to-own-the-libs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=45629","title":{"rendered":"Trump Supporters are Burning Their Own Vote-By-Mail Applications to Own the Libs"},"content":{"rendered":"

There seems to be no outer limit to the magnitude of idiocy achievable by Donald Trump and his legions of glassy-eyed disciples. They have built up an impressive tolerance for humiliation, which serves them well considering how often they subject themselves to it. Just continuing to support Trump amid his endless string of failures and his noxious persona is a feat of Olympic-grade stamina and tunnel-blindness.<\/p>\n

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However, a group of Trump cultists in Michigan are pulling out all the stops in the competition for the gold medal in Trumpian crackpottery. They have embarked on a campaign to eliminate the scourge of election fraud by constraining their own options for voting. As reported by the Detroit News<\/a><\/strong>…<\/p>\n

“People burned letters informing them that they can vote by absentee ballot in future elections during a protest near Grand Rapids.<\/p>\n

“The applications were burned Friday during an event called Operation Incinerator outside the DeltaPlex Arena in Walker. Many people had flags, shirts and signs showing support for President Donald Trump and Republicans.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s right! They received forms permitting them to apply for mail-in voting ballots and gathered to hold a public bonfire into which they cast the offending applications. No one was requiring them to fill out the applications or return them. No one was hindering their freedom to show up at a polling place on election day to cast their vote. But their repulsion of having been given the choice to vote by mail was too much for them to endure.<\/p>\n

The organizers of this pyro-protest called themselves “Operation Incinerator,”<\/em> and they posted the announcement<\/a><\/strong> of their crusade on Facebook saying “Together we will gather and burn all of the taxpayer funded applications, illegally sent to us from [Secretary of State] Benson. When you receive your unsolicited application, \u2018harvest it\u2019 and bring it with you.”<\/em> This demonstration – attended by nearly half a dozen devotees – was inspired by Trump’s repeated and baseless attacks on mail-in voting as being rife with fraud. He specifically singled out Michigan<\/a><\/strong> and issued a tweet threatening the state:<\/p>\n

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Michigan sends absentee ballot applications to 7.7 million people ahead of Primaries and the General Election. This was done illegally and without authorization by a rogue Secretary of State. I will ask to hold up funding to Michigan if they want to go down this Voter Fraud path!<\/p>\n

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 20, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n