If you don’t want to read my introductory rant just skip down to “Anyway, back to Trump.”
I voted early. For Trump/Vance. Never have I felt more sure of a vote than this. I expect very little. Still, I’m content. I guess that’s why I’m watching the insanity and psy-ops with detached calm.
I notice there are a lot of “I was a never-Trumper and I went Trump this time because…” posts on Xitter and Substack. Here’s my background.
I have never been a never-Trumper. I was, from the start, a “what the fuck am I doing even thinking of voting for this maniac yet I am thinking of voting for this maniac?” voter.
In other words, I immediately grokked to his message but I thought the whole thing was next-level crazy.
But I agreed with his basic 2016 platform (immigration and the threat of China) so I gritted my teeth and I voted for him, saying to myself, “How can you do this?” I also thought, “He’ll never win anyway” which influenced my decision. No one was more shocked than I was when he won. I was truly torn.
And here we are. I am still what I’ve always been: “I’d rather vote for a better candidate with the same ideas.” I was for Ron De Santis.
But that ship has sailed and “a vote is a chess move, not a Valentine.” (My my, I’m full of cliches today.)
There were some bumps on the road:
I was well and truly shaken by the J.D. Vance-Tucker Carlson-Darryl Cooper thing. No need to relive that. But I got over it. Chess move, you see. And for the record: I DID NOT LIKE THAT DUMB JOKE ABOUT PUERTO RICO because I do not like dumb, unforced errors. I don’t like getting into stupid backs-and-forths with adolescent males. It brought back the horrid Covid missteps, the way Trump simply does not apprehend basic things about leadership…
But again, that ship has sailed — and sunk. Chess moves. Onward.
And then there’s this:
Kamala.
Kamala, Kamala, Kamala, Kamala, Kamala, Kamala, Kamala, Kamala, Kamala, Kamala, Kamala, Kamala, Kamala, Kamala, Kamala, Kamala, Kamala, Kamala, Kamala, Kamala, Kamala, Kamala, Kamala, Kamala, Kamala, Kamala, Kamala, Kamala, Kamala, Kamala —-
Have I made my point?
Kamala of the fake homilies about coconut trees, Kamala the cackler, Kamala the candidate who didn’t win one vote, Kamala the backstabbing schemer who cruelly participated in a palace coup1 and lied about it and every other thing in her CV shamelessly, Kamala whose name MUST be pronounced idiosyncratically or you are a racist, Kamala who fucked her way to prominence, Kamala who passes herself of as a “Momala” to another woman’s children, Kamala who is married to a hot-shot legal shark who impregnated one girlfriend and punched another pretending to be a sensitive-guy male feminist…
That Kamala. Notice I haven’t even mentioned Israel or Gaza. I’ll get to that.
I was quite seriously thinking of writing a defense of Kamala a few weeks back in the J.S. Millian spirit of invoking the best of the other side’s case
I kept putting it off. At some point I said to myself, “I can’t do this. I could write ‘The Case For Yahyah Sinwar’ more easily than I could write ‘The Case For Kamala Harris.”
I mean that. I can put myself in the shoes of a fervent proponent of “The Palestinian Cause” and write a sincere tribute to the late Mr. Sinwar. I cannot do the same from the perspective of an honest Democrat defending Kamala Harris — there is no positive case for Kamala Harris. The only reason to vote Kamala is that you want The Party to stay in power.
Anyway, back to Trump. I could have started here but I needed to rant.
I’m not sure whether I voted for Trump before or after this latest atrocity but it really doesn’t matter, other than to solidify my conviction that I did the right thing:
Sidi Mohamed Abdallahi, the 22-year-old Muslim man suspected of shooting a 39-year-old Jewish man who was on his way to synagogue last weekend in Chicago, is a Mauritanian illegal immigrant who was caught and released in San Diego, Ca., in March of last year.
Illegal, Islamo-maniac, low-IQ escapee from a trash can of a country — is a perfect storm of modern Democratic party madness. How on earth does the United States benefit from this junk infesting our society? (In their thousands, I might remind you.)
I’ve been against letting people like this into the country for 30 years — even legally although obviously illegally is far worse — but certainly the fact that one of them would like to blow my brains out adds injury to insult, no?
I will not waste further words on this.
Onto another no less important factor: Gaza and Lebanon.
I want these wars to end. Gaza has gone on too long and Lebanon is a blood bath for Israel’s reservists.
Some pro-Israel people think the Israelis will now be able to show up at the White House and the DoD with a shopping list and all will be granted. (It’s almost as if they agree with Max Blumenthal when it comes to Israel, except that they think it’s great and he bemoans it.)
Think again. It’s not that simple.
That said, Trump is leagues better for anyone who wants sanity to prevail in the Middle East because only he understands that the hostages must be freed (or in the case of dead ones, accounted for) and how to free them: he understands that Hamas/Qatar aren’t legitimate negotiating partners. He understands H/Q must be pressured — as in, forced — to cough up.
Only Trump is willing to do this. There are many levers (financial and military) that the US could use to force Hamas/Qatar into playing nice. Not one of them as (to my knowledge) been used.
In addition, only Trump actually gets on a gut level that the UN is a stacked snake pit, that it was outrageous for UNIFIL to occupy Southern Lebanon in the name of peace while enabling Hezbollah to rule the place and menace Israel. The entire Democrat establishment (and many Republicans) is in on the game. Politely avert your gaze and let the situation fester.
Look where that got us.
There are other reasons why I voted for Trump, but those are the two that pushed me into the category of affirming a candidate rather than grudgingly voting for the least bad option. I expect little — the institutional barriers to positive change are massive.
I did what I could. I voted.
Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy, but still.
Agree A - Z
And yet - with two honorable exceptions - all my music colleagues, boomer friends (a retired judge, a retired doctor plus some lesser mortals haha) have voted or will vote Kamala because Orange Heydrich
Her stupidity, her cackle, her disastrous underperformance in every endeavor she's been involved - doesn't matter because Orange Himmler
If she was a snail, or a mollusk or an amoeba they'd vote for her - because Orange Hitler
Roughly 70 million Americans will do the same. Let's hope the other 70 + 1 actually have a functioning neocortex and will vote for Trump = vote for the America I have loved and dreamt of becoming a citizen of all my life. The last best hope. At least for our generation
I've been a Trump supporter since 2015, unapologetic. I believe NO ONE on the planet has a skin thick enough to have withstood all the slings, arrows, garbage, spit... thrown at him by Major Media players, especially that big one, ABC/NBC/FBI/CBS/NSA/CNN/ATF/NYT/CIA/IRS and ETC. And the ANTI-Trump people with their talking points garnered at the above mentioned 'nooz' outlet, who are like pesky 7th Day Adventists or Hari Krishas, always PROUDLY ready with a canned democrat talking point.
I could talk about how my feelings AND logic formed over who to pick, going back to the 2015 primaries, but I won't. But... how these democrats can IGNORE the last 3.5 years and what has been done to us, watering down the nation with phony citizens who are lavished with money and care because, yes, they will have jobs. Their jobs are to vote democrat for the next 100 years, ensuring the cementing of the democrat/socialist/communist state in America, this election being their last battle.
I pray that God will step in. I believe whole-heartedly that Trump has the votes. But we all know that the votes don't count, but rather, who counts them. We will likely need some Heavenly help on that account. And, on the devilish mayhem planned for the aftermath of the election, if that's what you can call it.
Buckle up and watch your backs over the next three to six months.