lack of coverage. I once knew some real newsies, today's press would have them in tears and deep deep depression.

be well and have a good one.

anyone would vote for any of the two. Is there a possibility that you choose a younger guy or gal? I mean there are other homes for the elderlies, no? So bring them elderlies there and let some youngish folks have a chance to move in.

Sorry, to be so 'in your face' but I can't listen to any more Biden Trump electoral possibilities.

It's fading in and out of reality,

Neither Party are going to hold real conventions. Joe is going to accept the nomination from his basement. Besides, the police in both host cities have declined to participate.

Plus people know that the Vice President is going to be the Real President, and a vote for Joe is a vote for her. But no one can say that, so now it is a Fake Convention with a bait and switch candidate. That's more "national pretending" the public has to deal with.

And then there are the debates, with some dispirited negotiations going on about the rules and the dates. But that's just more "national pretending" since many people don't believe that a debate between these two unfit candidates inside an empty auditorium will take place. For weeks now, Biden's media surrogates have been concocting all sorts of spurious reasons why Joe should not debate Trump. Fake reasons, but good enough to side-step the potential global exposure of two corrupt and mentally unbalanced old men vying to rule over the "Free World" and wage their ignorant wars.

And then we have the looming election mess, in the midst of a botched Pandemic. Normal nations have actual election laws in their Constitutions that apply to the entire county. They fund their elections from government revenues, thus eliminating the bribery and much of the corruption, And they keep their Constitutions up to date and relevant to the times and technologies they live in.

The Chaos in New York Is a Warning

The first large-scale test of mail-in voting in the pandemic has left one in five New Yorkers with their votes tossed out.

In New York, the election infrastructure was overwhelmed by a massive increase in voters requesting absentee ballots rather than risking voting in person. Ballot-printing firms couldn’t keep up with demand, and the already rickety U.S. Postal Service didn’t move the ballots to and from voters quickly enough.

Among the people who actually received their absentee ballot, thousands made mistakes like not signing in the right spot on the back of the envelope or mistakenly putting the voting instructions in the mail with their ballot. The people who got that far did better than many others. Plenty of New Yorkers never received the ballots they requested, or received them only on Election Day. The summer heat broke the glue on some sealed envelopes; post offices didn’t postmark them properly.

The dysfunction is too inane to be called Kafka-esque.

No information about when the ballots were mailed has been made public, but the two vendors the state hired to print and mail the ballots have told officials they couldn’t keep up with the requests, because the demand was so much higher than normal. Thousands of ballots weren’t returned in time, and thousands more arrived without any postmark; the board ruled that those votes couldn’t be counted.

Every election in the past few months has provided more evidence of a system that isn’t able to keep up with the coronavirus. Wisconsinites waited to vote for hours in the rain wearing makeshift masks. A police officer in Washington, D.C., reportedly tried to disperse a crowd waiting to vote, because the people in line were breaking a curfew established in response to the George Floyd protests. More people than ever are voting by mail, and election officials are invalidating more votes than ever because of technical errors.