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Miscellaneous Thoughts

 Not feeling so hot today. As you noticed if you looked at the blog archive, I was up and posting much later than usual last night, which probably is part of it. Yesterday I was feeling better, both physically and emotionally. Today, not so much. It’s a pity, since the sun is shining and it’s a very pleasant day, if chilly. Wearing flannel-lined jeans for the first time this season. Well, it is the middle of November.

Still confused and discontented about the election results. Last I heard, late last night, the margin was approx. 52 Trump to approx. 48% Harris. That’s well within the three percent margin of error so, it seems to me, Harris would be justified to request a recount. Recall that Trump demanded seemingly endless recounts in 2020 even though he lost decisively. But much as I love Pres. Biden – and I do love Pres. Biden – I am resigned to his doing nothing about it. He is too busy trying to do as much as he can to help Ukraine and the like. And we know A.G. Garland is useless. I must say, though, I’m fed up to the teeth with the Dems rolling over and playing dead while the Reps get away with murder. Yes, if nothing happens to stop them, they will murder our democracy this time. I don’t have the luxury of leaving the country. At least I’m in a blue state. Our governors and A.G.s will do what they can, but I’m frightened and heartsick.

If it were only Trump, that would be one thing. But it’s not only Trump. He is surrounded this time with people who are intelligent, cunning,  ruthless and prepared. Things change from hour to hour with regard to the House and even the Senate. Last I heard, the Pennsylvania senate race had not been resolved and there were still twelve House seats unresolved. We may, perhaps, still take the House. I probably forgot to post it here, but a few weeks ago UBS, a bank, gave a ten percent probability that Trump would take the White House with Rep control of both Senate and House. By contrast, they gave a sixty-five percent probability of Harris winning the presidency with a divided Congress. UBS aren’t squishy, bleeding heart liberals. They clearly preferred the prospect of a Trump victory, but nonetheless called the election as they pragmatically saw it.

And that brings me to another point that has been niggling at me. If everyone from the kooky YouTube psychic lady who sees flying monkeys to Alan Lichman with his Thirteen Keys and the respected British newspaper The Economist had Harris winning yet, apparently, she didn’t, it doesn’t take a conspiracy theorist to see that something’s wrong.

YouTube is interesting, if sometimes frustrating. Like, how come this channel that I’ve never heard of is at the top of my feed when I can’t find some of the channels I’m subscribed to? Yet, sometimes, those seemingly random channels prove serendipitous. Last night, thanks to my feed, I discovered The Sons of Liberty. At first I was apprehensive that it would turn out to be a MAGA group, since they try to appropriate everything and anything patriotic. But, it is a resistance group. I followed them on YouTube and Threads for now. It’s helpful to follow commentators and even the occasional light worker, but I get the impression The Sons of Liberty mean business; serious nonviolent resistance, protecting the vulnerable, etc.  When you combine such a group with civil society groups like the ACLU, Common Cause and the like working on the legal front, we might, maybe, be able to make it through till the midterms in 2026.

We have a lot of work to do, and a lot of praying.

Democracy Dies in Disbelief

Be careful with your comparisons

Passing Dad's television (showing Fox News) just now, I caught a single phrase:

"the greatest political comeback since Richard Nixon"

I admit it. That made me smirk.

Greatest comeback since Nixon, eh? Well now, you might want to be careful comparing your boy to Tricky Dick. If you'll recall, that second term he won in a massive landslide didn't work out so well for him. Just something to think about. 

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Trump Won

 Donald Trump has won the electoral college, and he looks set to win the popular vote as well. God help us all!

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American CATHOLICS will be SENT to JAIL If this HAPPENS !

Oh dear. Harris has run such a brilliant campaign that for her to be so ham handed here is very upsetting. When asked about a possible compromise, to my way of thinking she should have said:

"By law, all American hospitals must provide emergency care. If that care includes an emergency abortion, even Catholic hospitals are obliged to perform that operation. However, no religiously affiliated hospital is obliged to provide elective abortions."

She's always touting her willingness to compromise, and this seems to me a simple, logical solution to the problem that should be acceptable to most people on both sides. But, she didn't say that, and you can see the hostility of the men in the video. I'm afraid her obdurance may cost her votes.

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Vote Blue

 As many of you know, I live in Massachusetts. My 2024 mail-in ballot arrived on October 7. Mail-in ballots arrived and early in-person voting started even earlier in some states.

Every year, there are reports that some percentage of the eligible electorate did not vote. This always upsets me, just as it upsets me to hear people say that they don’t vote – they feel as though they are not important enough – their vote doesn’t count.

Friends, each and every citizen’s vote matters! Voting is the most precious right, privilege and duty of citizenship. Generations of our fellow Americans have fought and died to secure that right for you and me. And around the world, people are still fighting and dying for that right.

So, be it by mail, by in-person early voting at the city clerk’s office, or in person at the polls on Election Day (Nov. 5), cast your ballot as if our democracy depended upon it. For my friends, my fellow Americans, my brothers and sisters, it does! Our democracy, our country itself, is nothing more nor less than her citizens – you and me. And this year, she needs us more than ever. Donald Trump presents a clear and present danger to our democracy, our national security, to our civil rights – to the very foundation of our nation itself, the Constitution of the United States. It is imperative that Kamala Harris and Tim Walz not merely be elected, but be elected in a landslide.

Finally, remember the adage, “Use it or lose it.” Trump has stated as clearly as he possibly can that, if he is elected this year, we will never vote again.

Be a patriot. Vote!

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