Closing Thought–03Nov20
Today in history….
1868–Ulysses Grant elected president
1896–William McKinley elected president
1964–Lyndon Johnson elected president
1992–Bill Clinton elected president
Onward……
I will be cruising the Coast to check on different polling stations to see if there is anything to report.
Today is the Big Day….time to make up your mind go to the polls and cast your worthless vote……worthless because all we will do is change who sits on the Golden Toilet in the White House.
“The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action in mind.” ~ Frank Herbert
Policies will remain similar as those today…..the rich will get richer and the poor will go hungry….but at least were tried to rid the nation of the gutless wonders that control our very lives.
Regardless we need to vote our feelings and hopes…..
Then there are those creepy little piss ants that think they are tough by dressing like soldiers (something they are too cowardly to do in real life) and the DA of Philly has the right idea on the treatment of these small minded douche bags….
Philadelphia’s Democratic district attorney Larry Krasner is warning armed, so-called “poll watchers” to stay away from the city’s voting precincts unless they want to find themselves explaining to a jury why they “thought it was okay to come to Philly and steal our votes.”
“If you want to dress up like a G.I. Joe and claim you are protecting the polls when we all know what you’re really doing is intimidating voters,” Krasner told CNN on Friday, “you’re getting locked up.”
“Wannabe fascists stay home,” he added. “If your idea of how to have a democratic election is to steal it, then I’ve got something for you. I’ve got a jail cell, and I’ve got criminal charges.”
That should be law and enforced.
One final thought from Daniel Ellsberg (look him up)….
‘Tis the season for some progressives to argue that the best way to build a progressive political movement in America is to stick it to the centrist Democrats—who have rejected progressive nominees and platforms—by voting for a third party, even in swing states.
If that helps elect what many regard as a “greater evil” Republican, some third party supporters argue, it will radicalize significant parts of the electorate, help the third party grow, and gradually increase the prospect of victory for genuinely progressive politics.
As die-hard progressives, we strongly disagree. Few beliefs among progressives have been so thoroughly tested in empirical reality over the last twenty years—and few have been so thoroughly discredited—than the idea that running third party candidates in swing states during close elections is a good way to build a progressive voting bloc.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/11/02/dear-fellow-progressives-please-vote-biden
“All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.” ~ Frank Herbert
“Governments can be useful to the governed only so long as inherent tendencies toward tyranny are restrained.” ~ Frank Herbert
VOTE!
“lego ergo scribo”
The BBC reported that over half the elgible voters had already voted by post before today. I can imagine the hoo-hah once they start to get counted.
Best wishes, Pete.
We will see what is what…..all we can do is wait chuq
More people have voted early/absentee than the entirety who voted in 2016. That makes me proud
IT should and sadly it took a Trump for voters to do their duty. chuq
And we wake up to the beginnings of a mess.
A big mess indeed chuq
Biden just pulled ahead in Michigan and the remaining counties left to be count skew Democratic.
Still what happened to that Blue Wave that polls were showing. chuq
I was never a believer in that big blue wave.
Me either chuq