It’s Coming

 https://www.instagram.com/reel/DfU8DT6PL10/?vrfl=cm00M3VvMTJldTd4

Disappointment

 "Dear GOP,

We’re not voting for you because we trust you. We don’t.

We’re not voting for you because we think you will make it better.

We don’t.

We’re voting against the Democrats. Because although you’re apparently utterly useless at making anything better, they’re absolutely fantastic at making everything worse.

Yours disappointedly,

The American Electorate"



While I think that there have been some good policies that have made certain things better in Trump's first two years of term 2, I'd argue that much of that success has come despite the GOP not because of the GOP.  The GOP has been disappointing of late.  

Thankfully that DFL has been and will continue to be an absolute train wreck.  

Second First

 My first thought about the election last night is how awesome it it to see the second first Native American woman get elected to the senate.  

Seeing the total idiots who've forgotten how they celebrated Fauxahontas for being the first not too long ago, and are now celebrating the second first is hilarious.   

Sauce For The Goose?

 Contemplating having a friend vouch for me so I can vote again…

Kind Of LIke Giving Hitler An Award For Supporting Jews.

 https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/npr-ceo-katherine-maher-harpers-award?r=28q7xt&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer

" Rejoice, comrades! On October 26, Harper’s Magazine will bestow NPR CEO Katherine Maher with its First Amendment Award at a ceremony in NYC. Commissar Katherine should repeat her previous statements about the First Amendment during her acceptance speech:

Our reverence for the truth might be a distraction that’s getting in the way of finding common ground and getting things done…. The number one challenge that we see here is, of course, the First Amendment in the United States. So, you know, in a lot of countries—in Europe, for example—there’s a lot more willingness to pass legislation to restrict certain kinds of content. In the United States, the First Amendment makes it a little bit trickier.

And so what we are looking at is how do we continue to, you know, make sure that we are working with platforms, working with governments, working with civil society to make sure that we are not amplifying bad information, that we are not amplifying the influence peddlers who are trying to, you know, shape narratives in ways that are unhelpful…

We took a very active approach to disinformation and misinformation… The model was around how do we create sort of a clearing house of information that brings the institution of the Wikimedia Foundation with the editing community in order to be able to identify threats early on through conversations with government, of course, as well as other platform operations, to understand sort of what the landscape looks like."

 

Well done. Giving an award celebrating the 1st Amendment to someone who wishes that we could get around it for more censorship seems like a bad idea.   Let alone someone who's getting rich leeching off of taxpayer money.  

Influential/God

 https://open.substack.com/pub/andygbannister/p/jesus-man-myth-prophet-or-more?r=28q7xt&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer

 

" It has been remarked that if you were to make two lists: on one, write the ten most influential people in history, on the other, write people who have claimed to be God, only one name would appear on both those lists: Jesus of Nazareth. Indeed, it would be hard to overstate Jesus’s influence: much of art, politics, ethics, literature, music, and culture—in the West but also in large swathes of the East—has been influenced by his life.

And, of course, Jesus is the central figure of Christianity—making Christianity, uniquely, a historically grounded religion. Consider this: you could remove the founder of any other religion from history and that religion could still stand. Somebody else could have taught the system of thought that became Buddhism. The Qur’an could have been brought by somebody other than Muhammad. But Christianity? Well, it isn’t a system of teaching taught by Jesus. No, in a very real sense, Christianity is Jesus Christ. Jesus’s personality, his character, his identity, are the heart of the Christian faith. Christianity stands or falls on Jesus.

Not least, Christianity claims that “God” is not some mere abstract idea, some vague higher power, something “out there” like the Force in Star Wars, or a distant, remote deity, like the God of Islam, but a God who is very, very real. A God who took on human nature and, in Jesus Christ, walked and talked in history.

Now for some that can be quite unnerving. It’s one thing to believe in a distant, remote God, but Christianity says God is much more real than that—closer, more personal. A God who is deeply interested in who we are. A God who loves us too much to abandon us, but also a God who asks much of us.

That cuts so much against the grain of radical individualism that runs through human nature, that our natural temptation can be to try to dismiss Christianity and the only way to do that is to do away with Jesus. Whilst we may not go so far as Jesus’s first-century enemies, who did away with him by crucifying him, we’re still tempted to relativize Jesus, to cut him down to size so that we can ignore him."

 

For the rest, click the link above.   

What Happens Next?

 There's a narrative out there that goes something like this.  "If Trump/The GOP loses the midterms, then Trump will do something to overthrow the results and impose his will on the nation."   

First, we actually have evidence that tells us what Trump as done when he or the GOP has lost elections.

Second, what happens to all of these conspiracy mongers when their dire predictions don't come True?  

 

I do want to note the reality that questioning results that seem to not make sense (votes counted exceed voters eligible to vote or middle of the night ballot dumps that break 100/0 in favor) and investigation those things are not problems or an attempt to overthrow anything.  Given what we've found out about GA election issues, it seems prudent to work for the most secure elections possible.  It seems unlikely that anything will change the tune of these conspiracy mongers, nor will it stop them from claiming fraud of their side loses.