I look at it this way. I am not putting up a yard sign, or phone banking or anything, but I am going to vote for Trump. Why? Because it will take an hour tops in my rural area, and while I have no confidence Trump won't be a Zionist tool, I do think RFK Jr. could do some real good at FDA or DHS, and Trump is slightly less likely to impose woke tyranny, and perhaps he'll end the Russia proxy war.
But am I going to cheerlead Trump like a cultist? Hell no, I'll vote and then forget it 5 minutes later after 16 years of not voting. Kamala just creeps me out too much to not vote against her, and I am in a swing state.
“I can't move the mountains I can't make the flowers bloom I can't take another night up in my room Waiting on a miracle
I can't heal what's broken Can't control the morning rain or a hurricane Can't keep down the unspoken invisible pain Always waiting on a miracle, a miracle”
At 67 looking back to my 10 or 12 years in antiwar work I must say that my deep political turn was Contra Aid. Then all the theory and all the reality collided. I was forced to admit that politics was always a marginal entity.
Each election is that door-the Lady or the Tiger but astonishingly both doors are Tigers. One disguised as a Lady.
I respect your hope that Trump is a significant difference. I doubt it. Optics look better for sure.
I do not think Mr. Warp Speed vaccine lover is if elected going overcome the Deep State or the D.C. weaponized bureaucracy they own. Nor am IK at all convinced he wants to. Frankly JFK Jr. is an excellent example of propaganda optics.
And I get that too, I haven't voted for 16 years. But I find Harris viscerally creepy. I think there is a 99% chance Trump will stab people with views like mine in the back. But 1% is better than none, shrug.
I agree. I have no faith. I need a sign. A vision on the road to Damascus. I as a realist recognize everything is on the 1% margin. My profound skepticism rests in past performance and the Duo-Poly. Yes if one is beaten we wish fewer broken bones. One assures us our head will not be broken when clubbed like a baby seal. The other denies clubbing. A difference of course is we trust one and deny the other. This seems to me proven false with warp speed. My main thought really is the populace will turn out for their favorite illusion and the machines will decide which mirage ratings prefer. Mencken saw this in his hour and the Sage of Baltimore was not wrong about the public.
If the damned borders can be closed, we might buy a few more years. That's it, folks. No rosy promises. Nothing. Trump promises to deport. We'll see. A hard rain's gonna fall. I watch Country Joe's vid from time to time. "The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity" sums up our current times so exceedingly well. I think it was Horvath today who revisited a column with the apt summation that, unless you love something far more than you fear death, nothing happens except the stalemate. "Women come and go talking of Michelangelo." We might say "For I have known them all already, known them all: Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons..." Or in social media posts. Here's another anti-war song which always rouses my blood. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40JmEj0_aVM
1/3 for dems, 1/3 for repubs, and 1/3 who see through it. (I can dream, can't I?) It's like watching them torch a building with lots of people in it. It's mentally horrific to witness the gullibility of most humans.
I look at it this way. I am not putting up a yard sign, or phone banking or anything, but I am going to vote for Trump. Why? Because it will take an hour tops in my rural area, and while I have no confidence Trump won't be a Zionist tool, I do think RFK Jr. could do some real good at FDA or DHS, and Trump is slightly less likely to impose woke tyranny, and perhaps he'll end the Russia proxy war.
But am I going to cheerlead Trump like a cultist? Hell no, I'll vote and then forget it 5 minutes later after 16 years of not voting. Kamala just creeps me out too much to not vote against her, and I am in a swing state.
I grok. I do.
“I can't move the mountains I can't make the flowers bloom I can't take another night up in my room Waiting on a miracle
I can't heal what's broken Can't control the morning rain or a hurricane Can't keep down the unspoken invisible pain Always waiting on a miracle, a miracle”
At 67 looking back to my 10 or 12 years in antiwar work I must say that my deep political turn was Contra Aid. Then all the theory and all the reality collided. I was forced to admit that politics was always a marginal entity.
Each election is that door-the Lady or the Tiger but astonishingly both doors are Tigers. One disguised as a Lady.
I respect your hope that Trump is a significant difference. I doubt it. Optics look better for sure.
I do not think Mr. Warp Speed vaccine lover is if elected going overcome the Deep State or the D.C. weaponized bureaucracy they own. Nor am IK at all convinced he wants to. Frankly JFK Jr. is an excellent example of propaganda optics.
I stick with Wavy Gravy. Nobody for President.
And I get that too, I haven't voted for 16 years. But I find Harris viscerally creepy. I think there is a 99% chance Trump will stab people with views like mine in the back. But 1% is better than none, shrug.
I agree. I have no faith. I need a sign. A vision on the road to Damascus. I as a realist recognize everything is on the 1% margin. My profound skepticism rests in past performance and the Duo-Poly. Yes if one is beaten we wish fewer broken bones. One assures us our head will not be broken when clubbed like a baby seal. The other denies clubbing. A difference of course is we trust one and deny the other. This seems to me proven false with warp speed. My main thought really is the populace will turn out for their favorite illusion and the machines will decide which mirage ratings prefer. Mencken saw this in his hour and the Sage of Baltimore was not wrong about the public.
If the damned borders can be closed, we might buy a few more years. That's it, folks. No rosy promises. Nothing. Trump promises to deport. We'll see. A hard rain's gonna fall. I watch Country Joe's vid from time to time. "The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity" sums up our current times so exceedingly well. I think it was Horvath today who revisited a column with the apt summation that, unless you love something far more than you fear death, nothing happens except the stalemate. "Women come and go talking of Michelangelo." We might say "For I have known them all already, known them all: Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons..." Or in social media posts. Here's another anti-war song which always rouses my blood. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40JmEj0_aVM
1/3 for dems, 1/3 for repubs, and 1/3 who see through it. (I can dream, can't I?) It's like watching them torch a building with lots of people in it. It's mentally horrific to witness the gullibility of most humans.