Ross: Do not base your vote on some strange email
Oct 22, 2020, 6:52 AM | Updated: 8:52 am
Residents vote at a polling place in the Midtown neighborhood on Oct. 20, 2020 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
(Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
It’s the latest Internet Bit Storm – this time an email blast ordering Democratic voters to vote FOR Trump – or else.
The Director of National Intelligence quickly called reporters together to say those emails are absolutely NOT from the Proud Boys – as they appeared to be – and that in fact they are actually an attempt by Iranians and Russians to HURT Donald Trump’s chances, not help … which I guess would mean the whole thing was intended to backfire by actually making Democrats more likely to vote AGAINST Trump!
How clever these foreigners are.
But I have to ask once again why anybody would base their vote on some strange email, or for that matter, the latest Giuliani scandal that miraculously appears in the last two weeks of a campaign.
Those of us who are registered voters must know by now that we are targets – which is an honor, actually, because it’s an indication of how much power we hold.
But it means we have to protect ourselves. So, I treat a last-minute political email as an attempted vote-jacking – a desperate thief trying to snatch my ballot, fill it out, and get me to cast it. And I defend myself by open-carrying my delete key.
I’ve pressed that delete key so many times all it says now is “-lete.”
“But Dave,” you say, “what if it’s just somebody sharing a banana bread recipe?” HA! I’m not going to trust even a banana bread recipe until after the election.
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