Election Day/Month/Year

Election Day! The day (or week or month) we find out whether we’ll continue to be led by Obama and thugs or if we get a 4-year sabbatical. 

I think it says a lot when we think about who Obama has chosen or favored. Everyone he does is braindead-stupid, which suggests they would need to lean on him for his power and influence. First there was Biden as the VP pick back in ’08. In ’20 he favored Kamala in the primaries. Then this year he wanted Walz to be picked as VP over a guy who actually has an IQ above 100 (Shapiro). It can’t be accidental that he picks figureheads, “empty suits”. 

Political analyst Mark Halperin is center-left but even he can see it. Halperin is furious at his media for covering up Biden’s senility and letting Kamala be the candidate, saying it was very counterproductive. 

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We went to the polls after, we thought, the pre-work crowds but around 9:30 to 10am it was jam packed. Never seen our voting station that crowded. Usually we’re out in 2-5 minutes and this time it took over 30. Not bad, of course, compared to places like Arizona. 

Meanwhile, this news is kind of surreal. ICE agents told they can’t wear uniforms or badges to vote today, per internal email obtained by journalist Ben Bergquam.  Seems they don’t want to intimidate all the illegal aliens voting.

I suspect Trump will win the American citizen vote but that might not be enough for him. 

It's almost sort of a catch-22: if the country was healthy enough to elect Trump this time then we wouldn't need him.  

For all our famed American “rugged individualism” we are incredibly interdependent and not just with regard to economics. Our freedoms depend on other people and certainly not on the Constitution or law.  If we’ve learned nothing over the past decade or two it’s that the government feels comfortable censoring our speech and limiting freedom via either third parties or direct edicts. We’re only an executive order or two away from tyranny so the Constitution can’t save us and neither can Trump --but he can at least delay the inevitable. 

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The common thread of the past two decades can be summed up in one phrase: the weaponization of previously neutral instruments. Anything that can be weaponized/politicized has been, including the dollar, the judicial system, search engines, voting and medical systems. 

It’s hard to think of a single public-facing entity that hasn’t been weaponized. 

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Quotable: 

"A time could come when, whether we want it or not, we'll have to live without churches, just as Christians lived without them in the first three centuries. May God preserve us from living to that time! But our task right now, for modern  Christians, is to think through and work out a form of life in the Church under any conditions, even when they take our churches away from us. After all, this could happen, sooner or later."

—Archbishop Theodosius (Snigirev)