We're Screwed

 Again.

Election Day 2024

I wrote two essays for this Election Day — one for each outcome.

One is very short: “Weʼre screwed. Again.”

This is the other essay.

Whatever the outcome, Donald Trump will most likely have lost the popular vote for the third straight election.

How must that make him feel?

Hillary Clinton won the popular vote in 2016 by nearly 2.9 million votes. 65,844,954 votes for Clinton, and 62,979,879 for Trump.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2016/12/21/politics/donald-trump-hillary-clinton- popular-vote-final-count

Thatʼs a difference of 2,865,075 votes.

Imagine a football stadium filled with 75,000 people, all of whom did not vote for Trump.

Now imagine THIRTY-EIGHT football stadiums, each one filled with 75,000 people who did not vote for Trump, plus an additional 15,075 people all milling around outside — all non-Trump voters, every single one.

Thatʼs gotta get under Donald Trumpʼs skin, all those people who preferred Hillary Clinton for POTUS.

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Now the 2020 election, that wasnʼt nearly so close. 158,429,631 people voted in 2020.

There were more than 81 million votes for Joe Biden and 74.2 million votes for Donald Trump.

Biden won the popular vote by 6.8 million votes, more than twice the margin that Clinton beat Trump.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/10/25/how-many- people-voted-2020-election/75838131007/

Think 90 football stadiums filled with people who didnʼt vote for Trump. Ninety!

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By how many (million) votes will Trump lose the popular vote in 2024?  Who knows.

(And to a woman of color, no less.)

Weʼll have to wait and see.

Contractors at Avalon Acton Standing Around

Note:  this is only the last 15 seconds of the leaf-blower guy just standing around with his smelly blower running; he stood there for about 3 minutes before this video; i wish i had captured more.

#LowBidContract.

#AvalonActon

New Meaning for “Reagan Republican”

Ronald Reagan, it turns out, was willing to lie & cheat in order to win the 1980 election:  with the cooperation of Iran, the release of the hostages was delayed until after the election, making the Carter administration look bad and influence the outcome of the election.

That kind of deception is what Republicans stand for.

In a scheme worthy of Richard Nixon, Reagan ripped off the American people — but there wasn’t much direct evidence, until now.

This new development makes Donald Trump the ultimate Reagan Republican.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/03/19/ronald-reagan-allies-sabotaged-jimmy-carters-re-election-telling/

What Happened To U1LIB.ORG???

On or around Friday 04 November 2022, the website u1lib.org (aka book4you.org) was apparently seized by the FBI/DOJ.  The site was a large repository of ebooks, presumably available for academic use.  No more.

COVID-19 Vaccinations & God

Conservatives in the 1980s promoted the idea that AIDS was a judgement from God visited upon the gay community.  (And that told me all i needed to know about those Conservatives.)

So what are we Liberals to think of people now— in 2021 — who refuse the COVID-19 vaccination?

(And i'm not talking about people whose doctors have told them that they cannot take the vaccine for medical reasons.) 

If vaccine-refusers die from COVID-19 now, is it a judgement from God visited upon the willfully stupid?

Doesn't sound so far-fetched to me.

Get vaccinated; don't be an idiot.

My 30 Seconds of Fame!

 They read my letter on Naked News recently!

Here's the video.

Ciao!