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Apparently, some of the four wheel warriors involved in the ambush of the Malarkey Wagon the other day have said they were trying to ‘protect’ the bus, not run it off the road, when they surrounded it, forced it to a crawl, and rammed into the side of it.
This is ridiculous. But, they’ll get away with it.
Also, I saw another story (just glancing, I don’t swear by this source, but there was a picture, and it looked real) of Trump supporters using vehicles to block up New York bridges to stop people from getting to the polling places, which is also pretty ridiculous. Are there a lot of people who live in Brooklyn but vote in Manhattan, or vice versa? I think mostly what they were doing was stopping people from getting home from work, stop people who were going into Manhattan for dinner and dancing, whatever.
The thing is, Biden supporters, and most people who are not but believe in electoral fairness and some degree of civility, look on these incidents with horror.
Trump supporters look on these incidents and say haha, fuck you!
And by canceling the event in Texas, Democrats come off looking like big weenies. Given the choice between a stupid, belligerent candidate with stupid, belligerent followers, and a candidate who is powerless to do anything about them, a lot of American voters, a lot of Texan voters will pick stupid and belligerent.
I’m not saying that’s what’s right. But that’s what I see happening.

I’m still not a supporter of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, and never will be, but Trump supporters reached a new kind of low today in Texas. Not an all time low for them, I’d say that has to be the time Kyle Rittenhouse, with the strongly implied blessing of the Kenosha, Wisconsin police, murdered two people at a peaceful protest, but a low of a new sort. I mean, they are touching bottom all over the place.
But trying to run a bus off the road is attempted vehicular murder (not manslaughter, they were trying to do it) and they were doing it in broad daylight, while carrying guns, with cameras on them.
One of the gun nuts’ main arguments against gun control is that people could just use other things as weapons, which is kind of a bullshit argument because you’re not going to be able to shoot up an elementary school with a baseball bat. But, one weapon the right is definitely starting to use more and more is the automobile.
I would humble suggest that anybody using their vehicle as a weapon have their license revoked. Permanently. It might not be jail, but I’m sure it would cost these fuckers a great deal of serious pain and mental anguish to be forced to ride the bus.

I saw a different sort of video on Facebook this morning. I can’t find it again or I’d link to it. It was just a bit of nature, shot as if from a drone, I guess it was all computer graphics, but the thing was the sound track. Scientists, having catalogued the wild life of the area (birds. lots and lots of birds), presented a very realistic view of life in the Somerset Marsh in about 2,000 B.C.
Now that this is out there, if the idea catches on (which I doubt that it will – most people are not particularly bothered about how things really looked 4,000 years ago), this could be done for every region of the world.
It might provide us with a guide of what we need to get back to, a reminder of what we lost. Probably not.
But, I thought it was kind of cool. If you run across it, open it up. It’s 9 minutes well spent.

This whole Hunter Biden thing, which nobody understands and most people aren’t paying that much attention to, isn’t just going to go away. If his father is elected president, it will linger, like a long fart in a slow elevator, throughout his presidency.
Of course all the VBNMW people, the ones who have forced the people of the United States into this bad remake of Sophie’s Choice, are quick to point out that Trump’s children have also profited from their father’s position, in even more blatant and provable ways, and there are more of them. I’m not denying any of that.
But look how far we have fallen. In 1988, Joe Biden was forced from the presidential race for plagiarizing a speech. In the same primary campaign, Gary Hart was forced out of the race for having sex with someone who wasn’t his wife and John Edwards, twenty years later, was forced out for the same reason.
In 2004, Howard Dean was forced out of the race for speaking too enthusiastically, so the Democrats went with, and lost with, John Kerry. (in view of what Howard Dean’s doing currently, he probably would have been a shitty president anyway, but that’s not the point)
These might have been terrible standards, and completely irrelevant, but once upon a time there were standards. Now, apparently, there are none.

As the election draws near, a lot of people are posting that they voted, and showing their stickers, and telling the story of their polling place, and I suppose that’s great. Everybody’s sharing an experience, and it’s a more positive one than just wearing a mask.
But, come right down to it, I don’t see voting itself as a virtue. If somebody is voting against the things I believe in, and for things which I don’t, I’d be perfectly happy if they stayed home. If somebody is completely uninformed about the issues, and is likely to vote on the basis of how their friends and family are voting, or on some totally superficial criteria (look! he has a dog!), I don’t see any point in haranguing them about the ‘moral imperative’ to vote.
In fact, after it’s all over, it’s not a point on which we will be judged. If you meet a hot girl, or a hot guy, at a bar sometime in the middle of November, ‘Did you vote?’ is not likely to be your first question and, if it is, ‘No, I never vote’ is not likely to be an answer that would prevent you going home with them.
The way I see it, not voting is as much a choice as voting, and people should have just as much right to it.