The Beginning of the End

Good morning to all my ‘garbage’ people from the hill overlooking the Puget Sound in West Seattle. How are my ‘basket of deplorables’ this morning? Greetings from “the enemy within”. I’ve just come back from one of our famous abortion parties, where we’ve been plotting the eventual gender-swap for every human being. I’m planning on identifying as a salamander.

So today is “The Day”. In about half the country, most of us have already voted, so many of the states will be starting to process and/or count the ballots that have already come in. The other half of the country will be starting to line up in long-assed lines enduring weather, bad breath, B.O., and most likely obnoxious Trump or Kamala voters all around them. You might have to actually talk to them during the hour(s) that you stand in line. Oh, the humanity!

I live in Washington, where we solved our insane voting issues several years ago by instituting a mail-in ballot system, which has been working quite well since then. I got my ballot a couple of weeks ago, filled it out here at my Hunker-Bunker control desk, and walked it two blocks down the street to the official drop box being monitored 24/7 by security, and emptied every two hours by armored truck. I was notified by email when my ballot arrived at the Elections facility, I was notified that my signature was verified and accepted, and I was notified that my ballot was prepared for counting. I expect that I will get an email when the ballot is actually counted. This is ideal for me because I hate being around people for the most part, and I really like the idea of taking my time to look over the ballot and make a decision without being rushed through it.

Mail-in voting allows more people to vote. Democrats love this, Republicans do not. It’s been the trend over the past seventy years or so that the more people who vote tend to break for Democrats, not Republicans. Like it or not, them’s the facts, and there is empirical data to back that up.

The big question really isn’t who is going to win, but how long it will take for Trump to accept the results of the election. He’s already been claiming election fraud two weeks before the first ballot was ever cast. His lawyers have already filed lawsuits challenging the outcomes. It will be amazing to see him quickly accept the outcomes of every race that breaks in his favor. But remember, it is only fraud if he is losing.

So I’m sure we will be treated to another version of January 6th, should he lose again.

According to the polls, he could win. She could win. Either of them could win. Aggregate polls show a virtual tie in every ‘battleground state’. That’s seven states, to be exact. The other forty-three states haven’t seen hide nor hair of either candidate in the past six months. It seems like Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin are deciding who our Fucknozzle-In-Chief is going to be. The rest of the country is just along for the ride.

I could get into the reason(s) for doing away with the Electoral College, but that’s an argument for another time. The system we have is the system we have, warts and all.

Coping with today

Me? When I am done with typing out this page and posting it, I’m going to stop thinking about it for the rest of the day. Like I said, I’ve placed my vote weeks ago, that there’s nothing more that I need to do on it. I don’t need to glue my nose to the TV for the high-production live news coverage of the election with panels of talking heads bloviating and opinning about speculations and turnout. Who the fuck needs that? I’m sure that by the time I hit the rack this evening, there will be some states called for either/or. But you can count on the fact that NONE of the ‘battleground’ states will be anywhere close to having a tally that will definitively determine which twatwaffle we get for the next four years.

If past is prologue, we may not know for weeks. We will quickly accept a victory for Trump, but a third of the country will never accept a Harris victory, least of all Donald Trump himself. Remember, the only way he can lose is if there was fraud involved… Never admit defeat, even when obvious.

Lawyers, Guns, and Money

This election and its aftermath will bring armies of lawyers and cash. It may even spark civil unrest, depending on the outcome. Or it may turn out that most of us are just too burned out.

But you can be sure the lawyers will be out in force.

If Trump wins, Kamala will accept the loss and move on to fight another day. She could actually leave politics altogether and go out into the private sector giving speeches for large bundles of cash. She’s set for life. She could also come back and run again if she wants. She’s not desperate. She’s still got a lot of time on the clock.

If Trump loses, well, we’ve all seen that movie before. We’re fixin’ to be subjected to the sequel — Trump in Jeopardy.

Which brings me to this underlooked fact:

The reason Trump is running for President (again)

For Trump, It’s Either The White House Or The Big House

For Donald Trump, Tuesday’s election has come to this: It’s either the White House or the Big House.

If he wins, the coup-attempting former president, already a convicted criminal, will be able to postpone his Georgia and New York state prosecutions until he is no longer in office. As for his two federal cases, he would be able to make them disappear forever by simply ordering his attorney general to dismiss them.

“Those will be dismissed on Jan. 20. Both of them,” said Ty Cobb, a former Trump White House lawyer and onetime federal prosecutor who thinks his old boss deserves prison time. “There’s a compelling interest for the country to deter this treasonous bullshit and the mishandling of sensitive information.”

Raise your hand if you think Trump is running because he gives a flying fuck about you and/or the country in general.

What evidence do you have of that?

Trump has been telling us over and over again the truth: He could be doing a whole lot of other things in the twilight years of his life, but he is running for president. He said he could be in his favorite place in Scotland (where they hate him) or being on the beach getting a tan (as opposed to whatever orange bondo he is smearing on his mug right now). That, is actually the truth — he would rather be doing all that than being POTUS. He’s done that already, he’s got the title for life.

But Check:

Donald J. Trump is in serious trouble, and he is racing against a clock and a speeding train heading his way. He is facing sentencing in a New York state court a couple of weeks after the election. He may be able to stave off a possible jail/prison sentence by appealing it and posting a release bond, but that is only a stay. Unless he is otherwise occupied as a sitting POTUS at that time, he will find his fat ass in an Ad-Seg cell somewhere.

But wait, there’s more!

Unless Donald John Trump becomes POTUS on January 20, 2025 and is able to pardon himself for all of his outstanding criminal indictments, he’s going to be finding himself in a federal prison within a year. He NEEDS to be president for a day, at the very least. Once he pardons himself, he could resign right there and hand everything over to JD Vance and walk away, if he wanted.

But he wouldn’t just walk away. He’s pretty much convinced himself that he’s God incarnate.

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Sure, some of that is opinion, conjecture, and maybe even fertile imagination. But the criminal charges thing is one hundred percent REAL. He does have a state sentencing case hanging over his head right now, and he does have several federal charges in three other jurisdictions and a case in Georgia still. Unless he is POTUS at the time those cases come up for trial, he’s going to be in for a world of hurt.

That, to me is an awful lot of motivation for him to want to win, don’t you think?

A bit more of the news?

Meet the conservative women who are keeping their votes for Kamala Harris a secret

“No one gets to know how you’re going to vote,” Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin said last week during a campaign stop in Michigan. “No one gets to check it. It’s not available online. Right? Your vote is your choice. You don’t have to tell anyone.” Slotkin, who’s running for Senate, was campaigning with former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney, who’s also crossed the aisle to endorse Harris.

Their message is aimed at conservative-leaning women like T, whom we’re calling by her first initial. T, who is in her 60s and lives in Wisconsin, asked for anonymity to discuss how living in a politically divided household is affecting her marriage of more than 40 years.

“He’s frustrated with me that I won’t listen to him plead his case. I can’t and I won’t,” she explained.

I wonder how much of this is actually going on. Or is this something that Charlie Kirk was losing his mind over for nothing last week?

This sounds pretty comical

North Korean troops ‘gun down their own Russian comrades after shooting in the wrong direction’ in latest frontline humiliation for Putin

North Korean troops sent to aid Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine gunned down their own Russian comrades after shooting in the wrong direction, a captured Russian soldier has claimed.

Video purportedly shows the Russian soldier recalling his experience in the Kursk region with Putin’s newest recruits.

The unnamed soldier says his unit was in a forest with ten North Korean soldiers after having been sent to dig out trenches when they were caught in a crossfire.

‘During the assault, the Koreans started firing at us’, he explained.

‘We tried to explain to them where to aim, but I think they shot two of our own’.

Now THAT is hilarious!

I wish Pete were running…

I stumbled across this last night and decided to watch it.

1 Politician vs 25 Undecided Voters (Feat. Pete Buttigieg) | Surrounded

I had some other crap, but decided I’ve filled up this page enough to hit the “Publish” button.