Ready to risk your life to stop a Trump dictatorship from destroying the U.S. & life on this planet?

[ElementaryPenguin]

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I am.

I'll put on a mask, gloves, gown, shield - whatever I can get - and stand in as long a line as I have to vote this fascist bastard out!

We need a PPE drive...for voters! (homemade, please)

Wisconsin proved the GOP is willing to KILL PEOPLE to win this election.

Trump is leading a war against a mail-in election - and all red state legislators and the Supreme Court majority will make voting by mail as difficult and limited as possible!

This is our challenge. This is our moment to face the Hitler-like threat of the 21st century.

I'm afraid we're going to have to physically be in the trenches to save this democracy - in awe-inspiring numbers!!

And if we can overcome their hacking and voter suppression and put Biden in the White House, and sweep the Senate, we're going to have to kill the filibuster and pack the Supreme Court with at least 2 extra members!

This illegitimate Putin puppet should never have been allowed to appoint two members, and Moscow Mitch owes us a third.

[SilasSouleII]

1. I will vote

Whatever the circumstances are, I will vote. I usually vore early and plan to do so in November. Enough already.

[OhNo-Really]

19. Yes! Let's invent our PPE

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HomeDepot has 55 gal clear trash bags. Head to toe protection

I invented this Retrofitted hat using a roll of this soft plastic sheeting. Bought my roll last fall at WalMart for a big project). This is the manufacturer

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

Also Converted shower into a steam room using strong sticky backed magnets, painters tape in outside with flap that fits over door to the inside. Steam helpful if infected.

Link to tweet

Lastly I have two wide, long, self adhesive ace bandages to wrap around my nose & mouth to protect others. I cover wit bandana.

So be creative and share you inner McGuiver with us.

Just remember CV19 can permeate breathable materials and enter through your eyes. Example: A Doctor told me I need to cover the straw hat with plastic as well for impermeable protection. This is why we see first responders in other countries wresting hazmat suits with oxygen tanks

But plastic is impermeable!

McGuiver to the rescue

[ElementaryPenguin]

21. That is really awesome, ONR!

[ElementaryPenguin]

42. Enough indeed!!

[OhNo-Really]

58. Yes! Let's invent our PPE

HomeDepot has 55 gal clear trash bags. Head to toe protection

I invented this Retrofitted hat using a roll of this soft plastic sheeting. Bought my roll last fall at WalMart for a big project). This is the manufacturer

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

Also Converted shower into a steam room using strong sticky backed magnets, painters tape in outside with flap that fits over door to the inside. Steam helpful if infected.

Link to tweet

Lastly I have two wide, long, self adhesive ace bandages to wrap around my nose & mouth to protect others. I cover wit bandana.

So be creative and share you inner McGuiver with us.

Just remember CV19 can permeate breathable materials and enter through your eyes. Example: A Doctor told me I need to cover the straw hat with plastic as well for impermeable protection. This is why we see first responders in other countries wresting hazmat suits with oxygen tanks

But plastic is impermeable!

McGuiver to the rescue

[BComplex]

59. Great idea! We need a motto/slogan...something summing this up to go viral and create a movement

This needs to get done! We are definitely going to be in the trenches.

[Trueblue Texan]

2. no matter what, I will vote

[ElementaryPenguin]

49. Exactly!

[Turin_C3PO]

3. I'm in a very high risk group.

I have cystic fibrosis with very low lung function. That said, I’ll risk dying of corona virus if it means voting to stop the fascist threat to our nation.

[ElementaryPenguin]

23. Wow.

Your reply has moved me about as powerfully as anything I've ever read on DU.

[Midnightwalk]

52. +1 thanks. Better than anything i had to say nt

[ffr]

4. I'll truck people to their polling place if I have to.

The Kremlin's GOP must be wiped out in November.

They started are war on Americans. We'll end it.

[liberalmuse]

5. Yes I am.

I've thought about this a lot in the past 3 years because we knew it would come to this, didn't we?

[ElementaryPenguin]

24. Yes.

We did.

[ancianita]

6. There are worse reasons for me to go out, say, waiting to die from a pandemic, so yeah, I'm in.

I'll leave it to my children and grandchildren to tell the cautionary tale and make sure the whole truth of this is written in the history books.

[ElementaryPenguin]

51. Noble attitude, A!

[ancianita]

54. Yours, too, EP! Not many people entertain such exits for themselves, so you are a true standout.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. PPE for poll workers. Voter meets one or two worker. Workers meet hundreds of voters. . . . nt

[geardaddy]

16. This

[uponit7771]

20. THIS !!! Minimum

[ElementaryPenguin]

25. ABSO-FUCKING-LUTELY!!!

[sarge43]

8. Thankfully NH's primary has come and gone, so not risk there.

If I'm still slutting around 3 Nov, I will vote and, because I love doing it, I'll be at our polling place, suited up if necessary. So will Hubster.

Courageous women and men have fought, died, marched and stood in lines for hours for this right, obligation and privilege. I can at least show up -- for them and my country. I'll do what I can to clean the swamp Moron and his lackeys have made.

Quoting a good man and a great president, "ENOUGH!"

[ElementaryPenguin]

39. EXACTLY!

[sarge43]

56. Thank you

Backatcha

We must have a blue tsunami.

[hot2na]

9. I will wade through a river of hungry crocodiles

I will wade through a river of hungry crocodiles to pull the lever against this scumbag and to vote for Joe Biden. I will do the same to vote against every Republican who enabled this shit show.

[panfluteman]

10. Right Arm - or Right On!

We will be in the lines, in the trenches come November in the epic battle to take our democracy back.

[ElementaryPenguin]

38. You're a patriot, fluteman!

[Nancy Waterman]

11. On MSNBC Claire McCaskill just said

that "people will crawl through glass in order to vote" to get rid of the current White House Maladministration.

[ElementaryPenguin]

26. Let's hope Claire is right.

And I think she is. People were bravely waiting 2 1/2 hours in Wisconsin for a primary!! I think to demonstrate they'll be there in November!

[we can do it]

63. I will.

[Cozmo]

12. I used to be proud to be a Daughter of the American Revolution

I NEVER THOUGHT MY HERITAGE WOULD CAUSE ME SUCH PAIN. I will be proud to participate reclaiming our dignity and our just stand in history.

[ElementaryPenguin]

37. Bravo!

[forgotmylogin]

13. It will end either at the physical voting booth...

...or at the metaphorical guillotine.

No violence advocated, but if I45 isn't un-elected through normal processes, I predict it's going to take some unusual method to make him GTFO, whether it be arresting him, or some kind of deal where he self-exiles from the country in exchange for no charges.

[ElementaryPenguin]

27. So very well stated!

[Sophiedillo]

14. I will risk my life to remove Trump from office

Can you imagine what would happen if he wins the election? It's unspeakable.

[ElementaryPenguin]

28. Right on, S!

[Proud Liberal Dem]

15. I'm voting

Come hell or high water in-person or however I need to vote. Election Day is a holiday and my polling place is usually fairly dead during the daytime (south side Indianapolis), so I'm not extremely concerned, but I do worry about other people.

[ElementaryPenguin]

35. Cool.

[ooky]

17. No. We need a better solution than dying.

We need a nationwide campaign to assure safe voting. If the Republicans are going to oppose it make them own it. Nobody wants to risk dying, their voters and ours alike. This needs a big stage, ads, etc., we need to make it a wedge issue in which we are the good guys.

Trump needs to be challenged every day at his propaganda pressers. Reporters asking him and Pence how he is planning to make sure Americans can vote safely. Make him own it too.

We have seven months to hit this, and hit it hard.

[ElementaryPenguin]

33. I agree with you about needing a huge campaign for safe voting...

But we should be prepared in the event the Trumpists are able to sabotage or greatly limit safe voting.

[ooky]

50. Well, call me pessimistic then because I'm not convinced

that when the day comes that if everybody's still afraid to go out, they won't. The time to have this fight is now, not in November. The Republican-Fascists are definitely going to do everything they can to sabotage this election and turn this country into an authoritarian dictatorship. This is the most important issue we have now.

[Maru Kitteh]

18. I'm a NURSE and I STILL do not have adequate PPE at work!

I've had to spend HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS of my own money to buy what I need to keep myself safe.

You want to start a drive to outfit 153+ MILLION voters, thereby contributing to the conditions of shortage that healthcare endure daily? Who is it you think will take care of you if your PPE fails because of incorrect/untrained use?

On behalf of every nurse, NP, MD, respiratory therapist, housekeeping, kitchen and maintenance staff of every institution serving the sick and dying in this pandemic . . . . . .

I CAN'T say what I want to say - so I will say this instead

WEAR YOUR COTTON MASK AND WASH YOUR GODDAMN HANDS.


btw, anyone needing a cotton mask without the means to make one can pick a few up pretty cheap now on Etsy. US-based sellers, many who may have lost their primary employment are cranking them out in every pattern and configuration possible.

[ElementaryPenguin]

29. No. I'm suggesting home made things - not competing with your needs.

I should have emphasized HOMEMADE PPE.

My bad.

See OH NO Really's post above.

They've got the right idea.

P.S. My wife is a respiratory therapist working on the front lines of this!

[Maru Kitteh]

57. Thank you! Thank you SO much for editing your OP.

As you know firsthand then, we're terrified out here. Every single thing our government could do wrong, to endanger us, to treat us an expendable resource of pandemic war profiteer's enrichment - they have.

Thank you, again. May your wife and yourself remain well and healthy throughout this living nightmare.

[ElementaryPenguin]

60. Thank YOU for pointing out that flaw!

It was really an oversight on my part, and I'm sorry to have upset you.

I WORRY LIKE CRAZY ABOUT MY WIFE EVERY DAY!! She's at work now - in the ER!

First time I've ever heard her admit she's been afraid to go to work. (she says everyone there is)

I suggested she retire now - we could get by alright - but she won't. She says they need her now. And heaven knows they do.



Thank you so much for your service to the country - and to humanity! You guys are the true heroes of this age!!!

[The Wizard]

22. My application to vote by mail

was just returned by the post office. Some weird shit is going on. I may hand deliver it to the County Clerk.

[ElementaryPenguin]

31. I think this why the idea of shutting down the postal service altogether

Has been floated out there.

[33taw]

30. I voted absentee. I had to drop it off yesterday at a very small precinct.

A national guardsmen took my ballot outside and delivered it to the poll worker.

[captain queeg]

32. I'll vote. It will be a real joke when the rethugs try to delay elections for people's safety.

Like they give a flying fuck about regular people.

[ElementaryPenguin]

53. They only give a flying fuck about protecting Trump and their rich donors!!

The rest of us and our lives they care NOTHING about!

[mtngirl47]

34. I will vote. I will canvas by phone. I will stand on the side of the road

waving signs. I WANT THEM GONE!

*Yes to 11 Supreme Court Justices

[ElementaryPenguin]

36. Right on, Mgirl!

[CrispyQ]

40. My state has vote by mail for all elections.

I signed up with my county to get notification when my ballot has been mailed & when it has been received back at the elections office. We have ballot drop off boxes outside the public library and at the county clerk's office.

People who still support the GOP also support the silencing of voices they disagree with, like mine and yours. Here's a good article & if you scroll down, a list of states that have full or partial vote by mail.

https://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/all-mail-elections.aspx

[ElementaryPenguin]

61. Thanks for that info! Only 5 states have voting by mail for everything

We need to get that up to 50!! (good for your state!!!)

[ck4829]

41. So close... if you're ready to risk your life to vote, then what else are you ready to risk it for?

[Ad Infinitum]

43. Ditto

If we do not vote or can not vote.
They are taking advantage of our desire
to keep ourselves healthy enough to
remind the "public" what the truth actually see
this shitstorm unfolding before their eyes.



We must increase our individual "in" groups.
Conservatives have an extreme need to roll
over any different point of view.

[sarcasmo]

44. I will bring a lawn chair because the voting line will be around the corner.

[shanti]

45. Absolutely

AND if you do vote by mail already, double check to make sure you haven't been dropped off the voting rolls in your county! This is going to take ALL of us.

[ElementaryPenguin]

47. Excellent point.

[sdfernando]

46. Nothing will keep me from exercising my right to vote! /nt

Nothing will keep me from exercising my right to vote!

[ElementaryPenguin]

48. Right on, sdf!

[Jeebo]

55. I will do whatever is necessary to vote against the orange raccoon.

If I have to walk barefoot over a bed of nails and broken glass and through a thick cloud of coronavirus-infested droplets, I will do it. That's how bad I want to vote that crooked arrogant con man out of office. I hope I'll be able to vote by mail, but if I have to go to the polling place, I will do it.

-- Ron

[ElementaryPenguin]

64. Hard to top the strength of your statement, Jeebo!

[BigDemVoter]

62. Exactly-- thank you!

[ElementaryPenguin]

65. Right on, BD!