Category: Politics

now is the time to get to work for biden, and put some serious shoulder into it

whbeebe

I watched the Democratic National Convention two weeks ago, and then last week I read some of the summaries of the Republican National Convention. I refused to watch the propaganda fest with Trump because I can’t stand the man, nor any of his mewling sycophants. Instead, I read various reports and summaries from sources I’ve come to trust (more or less) over the past four years, and even longer in a number of instances. I damn sure didn’t get my intel from either Twitter nor Facebook. As for news web sites, I’ve cut out quite a few since 2016, most notably Huffpost, Slate, and Salon.

And I’m pretty much done with Michael Moore. Michael Moore got lucky and predicted Trump’s surprising upset in 2016. Since then he’s taken himself so seriously, ignoring all the predictions he’s gotten wrong about Trump, such as Trump would either get impeached or resign before four years. Trump did get impeached, but it went nowhere in the Senate, so you might give that to Moore, except Moore argued in November 2016 Trump would leave like Nixon did. Except, after four years, Trump’s still around, worse than ever, and emboldened by the fact it appears nothing can stop him. So when Moore now predicts that Trump may win again in 2020 like he did in 2016, I find I’ve had more than enough of him. If Moore really wants to help Biden and Harris, then he needs to work to support them, rather than stand around predicting more gloom and doom, go to those areas where he believes more work needs to be done in support of the Democratic nominees and help the effort. Otherwise Moore can kindly shut the fuck up.

I’ve been more than ready for this since the last presidential election in 2016. As they say down here in the South, it’s time to root, hog, or die.

i have no more illusions about the stakes of this election

whbeebe1 Comment

This election is about getting rid of Trump. Period.

There is no other greater reason, no other stronger motivation to vote this year, than to make him a one-term president. He should have never been nominated, let alone elected in the first place, but he was, by very slim margins, by goosing the electoral college with help from fellow Republicans.

His latest abuse concerns the US Post Office. He won’t properly fund it because he doesn’t want it used, during a pandemic, to allow ballots to be mailed out and returned, especially for 3 November.

My wife and I already use mailed out ballots to vote, and have for years. We have another election cycle for local officials this Tuesday, and for the past two weeks leading up to election day we’ve also had early elections. Long before coronavirus we were having the ballots mailed to us, where we’d fill them out at home, then seal them up in their envelop and drop them off at an early polling station. We did the same thing Saturday, and when November arrives, we’ll do the same thing again. In all the years we’ve participated in this form of voting we’ve never had any problems, or threats of problems — until now.

We need to vote him out of office, along with every other Republican who has enabled him. There’s quite a few targets here in Florida, starting with our governor and our two current senators. I have high confidence that unless something truly monstrous is tried by Trump, we will persevere. We have got to get him out and clean up mess he’s made over the last four years her in America and around the world.