Vote Them Out

We’re getting really close to election day. It’s 10:00 here in New England. I think the polls open at 7:00am. You might not hear from me again before then.

I’m stressing out like mad. I’ve got a bunch of songs that are ready for me to record guitar parts. I’m hoping to spend some time working on them tomorrow so that I can do something other than doom scroll the twitters while crying at the destruction of my country’s government.

The temptation to eat my fears is very high but I’m going to try to stick to the intermittent fasting. I need to be good. on top of all the election day stress, it’s also my weigh in day. Who is the add wizard who came up with this campaign?

I’m not freaking out yet. Okay, I am freaking out now, but only a little. Hang in there, America.

Getting Closer

The Monday work day is almost over. I took tomorrow off because I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t be able to concentrate with the election stress. I will sneak in for a meeting in the morning, but otherwise I’m planning to lock myself in my bedroom with my guitar and just strum the open strings while I cry and try not to have a heart attack or twelve.

How many presidential elections have I voted in? I turned 18 in 1989 so I missed the ’88 election by six months.

1992 I voted for Clinton
1996 I voted for Clinton
2000 I voted for Gore
2004 I voted for Kerry
2008 I voted for Obama
2012 I voted for Obama
2016 I voted for the other Clinton
2020 I voted for Biden

This is my eighth presidential election. They were all vitally important. 2016 seemed more important than the others as we had to deal with a fascist across the aisle.

2020 though… 2020 is the first time I have literally felt that the fate of the future of the nation I’ve lived in and loved for 49 years hangs in the balance. 2016 felt like a make or break. 2020 feels like a life or horrible, agonizing, miserable death.

Vote for Biden. Don’t let fascism win again.

One More Day

One more day of worry and uncertainty. One more day of stress and confusion. Tomorrow is a day of action. At least for those who haven’t exercised their right to vote yet.

After that it’s a waiting game. We wait to see if our country is still the country I was raised in, or if it is beyond repair and no longer worth saving.

The lines are clear. One candidate represents democracy by encouraging Americans to vote. The other candidate represents fascism by going out of his way to intimidate the other candidate and stop Americans from voting. In this choice, there is no choice.

Let’s put an end to this idiocy. Vote for Joe Biden.

He’s in the Hospital

Trump was flown to Walter Reed Hospital on Marine One tonight. I am very conflicted about this.

I don’t want him to die. Not because I’m a good person but because I want to see him spend his final years in jail for what he’s done to my country.

At the same time, I want this fascist bullshit over and that’s one way to close the door. I hope there are 208,000 or so ghosts in that hospital room with him. I hope they torment him for the rest of his evil life. I know they won’t because he’s too disgusting to be bothered by anything as human as guilt, but the idea is nice anyway.

I don’t wish him well. I wouldn’t wish any nazi well. I am very curious to see how this plays out. I’m still not 100% convinced it’s real. Every word he’s uttered since Obama took office has been a lie. Why should this be any different?

I’m just going to sit on Twitter with my confirmation bias and wait to see what’s next.

The Pandemic Special

Is it fate? Is it a coincidence?

On the same day the South Park Pandemic Special airs, the nazi in chief tests positive?

I honestly don’t wish illness on anyone, especially someone in their 70’s who is almost as out of shape as I am (no one is actually as out of shape as I am). Still… he did tell us it was going away on it’s own back in February. Maybe if he’d done something to help rather than block efforts at every turn he wouldn’t be in this mess right now. Maybe if he’d taken it seriously rather than imply that injecting bleach was the way to go he wouldn’t be in this mess right now.

Then again… I still think this is a campaign stunt. A shameless, heinous campaign stunt. Prove me wrong, fascist.

Karma Komeback 2020

The president has announced that he has tested positive for COVID-19.

He’s a pathological liar though so it’s probably some (combed over) hair brained campaign stunt. If not, it is the very definition of karmic retribution. I mean… I think it is. I’ve never studied the philosophy behind karma. I’m just going on western pop culture’s “definition” of karma. You know what I mean though, right?

Now we find out what he really thinks of that fish tank cleaner drug crap, or injecting bleach. Those things were good enough for the American people, are they good enough for him?

I’m pretty sure it’s a stunt though. He will be in front of the cameras in two weeks saying it’s not a big deal and we should vote for him because of his superior genes. Something like that.

One Fast Down

Raise your hand if you recently completed your first 16 hour fast and have then rewarded yourself with a nice lunch and some Pringles. Yeah, I dig that isn’t really within the spirit of the thing, but one piece at a time, am I right? I’ve also done a couple of walking-in-place sessions. I’d like to do it for 30 minutes a day (which will close the exercise ring on my Apple Watch), but being as criminally out of shape as I am, I don’t see that happening. I might be able to pull off 15 minutes a day for now. We’ll see.

So the Walking Dead announced today that it is ending after the next season. There will be a couple of spin offs following so it will effectively go on in another form. One show will center on Daryl and Carol. Another will be anthology style and could fill in back story for characters we already know. Interesting, but if it were up to me I’d just follow Judith. Also, will the comic’s end come into play? They’d have to bring a certain local sheriff back for that.

Bob Woodward, of Woodward and Bernstein and Watergate fame, has a new book coming out next week. It’s called Rage and it includes direct interviews with the fascist Cheeto in chief himself. Those interviews include one from February where the American Nazi Impeached prick tells Woodward that COVID-19 is a killer and five times worse than the flu. There’s another from March where he admits to downplaying the severity of the situation. Fuck him. Fuck him right in his pasty orange goo ass.

Nasty

The cheeto in chief wasted no time in insulting Joe Biden’s newly announced running mate, Kamala Harris. He called her phony, which is hysterical given his make up and hair, and he called her nasty.

Nasty.

The nazi in the white house often refers to intelligent women as nasty. I can’t recall him ever calling a man nasty. How long until women across the nation start taking the word nasty as a compliment?

I hope the English language evolves such that nasty becomes the highest compliment you can give a woman. As it stands now, any time a fascist with a rodent on top of his head calls a women nasty, I automatically support her.