So Trump is now the President elect in what appears to be a landslide victory. I will admit that the results made me smile, but I remain cautiously optimistic. This musc video seems to sum it up best for me. RIP to drummer Taylor Hawkins (no relation that I am aware of) who died suddenly in March of 2022. This was attributed to a drug overdose even though he had supposedly been clean for years and his heart was two times the size it should have been. That was back in the days when they sometimes tried to come up with a cause of death that deflected attention away from the jabs. Now people of all ages just up and die and nobody bothers trying to figure out why.
Will there be repurcussions for the last four years?
Democrats are scratching their heads at where the Harris campaign went wrong in its messaging to voters. They didn’t get to cheat this time, for one thing. Scores of poll watchers and legal teams were watching the results. It also makes the 2020 election results stand out for the farce that they were:
I suppose they could have done some Dominion dirty deeds, but I think at some point it was decided to let the chips fall where they would. The last four years have been especially brutal for the people in America and in the rest of the world as well.
So why did “uneducated white women” not vote for their reproductive freedom, as one of the View’s hosts nauseatingly put it? They had to change the messaging from “My Body My Choice” due to the jab mandates that can no longer be mentioned, for one thing. Beyond the condescension of the I hate working class white people subtext of these exchanges, abortion is not that important of an issue to many voters.
Simple demographics reveal that most developed countries are experiencing a fertility crisis. My guess is that there are more women who are trying to have a baby but are having difficulty conceiving than there are women who are pregnant but don’t want to be. Restrictions regarding abortion always relax when there are many babies and young people and tighten when there are few. The legions of young people who were coming of reproductive age when Roe v Wade was finalized are reaching their 70’s and not getting pregnant. It’s the economy, stupid.
I’m just glad it is over. I listened in to two earnings calls today, one for video game maker Take Two and the other for satellite maker ViaSat. They were all down to business with no mention whatsoever of the election results. There was no flowy language regarding their DEI hiring practices either. Corporate might be getting the memo.
Still I am very cautious:
I am sure that behind the scenes the power brokers are negotiating their new deal. The left boot and right boot always march towards tyranny. A hardline stance on immigrants, say, could be used to justify a papers please police state with checkpoints for everyone else. I think the simplest way to handle these matters is to stop subsidizing them. Of course the tenuous legal status of many migrants also creates a pool of quasi slave labor that both parties take advantage of.
They mispelled Belgium in this meme. I’m in editor mode.
If they are still on TV at all that’s a good enough reason to not turn it on.
I’m glad it didn’t turn into this. Then again if Trump really tries to drain the swamp too much there could be other assasination attempts. Or were those last ones just staged to keep us glued to the screens?
The killing machine is in full swing still. Could all of this negative enrgy be affecting the electromagnetic field of the Earth? Is this a cause or an effect? Death spirals carry an energetic power that can take many more down with them.
I hope Trump wrangles in the worst excesses and brings us towards unity and healing, but I suspect that most of the hard work lies within each of us to do. We have to heal ourselves and find a new way forward individually and then collectively. What was clear in the election results was that the current trajectory was untenable.
Still, it feels like a good day for gratitude…
Never doubt your individual power. You are loved. Perhaps that’s all it takes…
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Just to add: the Foo Fighters drummer did NOT want to take the clot shot. His bandmates forced him to.
So basically - manslaughter.
Wonderful to wake up to this. Really fine observations, so appreciate your work💛