And it will be a damp, dreary day. Maybe. Depending on where you are. Yesterday the forecast called for rain, and we got it on the west side of town. On the east side it was sunny and warm. Until it rained out of the clear blue sky. That happened to me several times as I drove all over town. And most of the rain was fairly light squalls. Some places got plenty and pretty steady, but the high winds kept the weather moving around for most of Houston. I kinda expect today to be similar.
Started the day with my volunteering at the kid’s school. That ate a couple of hours but real progress has been made and I think they have a good starting point to work from. I’ll end up back there a couple more times I’m sure, but I’m not doing much until after they get through this performance.
Did a couple of pickups, but the rain kept me from doing my dropoff. Maybe today if it’s clear. Then it was kid taxi service and leftovers for dinner.
I’m getting tired of writing about not getting my stuff accomplished, I’m sure you guys are getting tired of hearing about it. I’m rationalizing it as a counter to the other prepper blogs where they are always trying a new recipe, doing a gear review, or reporting on homestead life… yeah, that’s it, I’m a counter balance…
I will be voting today. I encourage everyone to vote, no matter their politics. If you are undecided or don’t care, vote for Trump. He’s the only non-politician to run in decades, with a real chance, and that alone should get your vote. Will he be effective? Will he be able or allowed to do the things he’s promised? Dunno. Most of them don’t deliver on any promises (first 100 days to solve the “healthcare crisis” anyone??) but he delivered Supreme Court justices that have a Constitutional orientation and that has a chance to shape the USofA for decades. It’s a needed swing of the pendulum. The body politic has swung too far to the left, and has to swing back toward the middle, or things WILL come apart.
I think they’ll come apart anyway, but maybe this way it won’t be as ugly.
That said, my prediction is the deep state abandons kamel, because someone realizes the cheat will have to be too big, and they can just wait 4 years… and Trump wins. Then the economy gets crashed. Don’t think that’s possible? What if the Federal Reserve, which is NOT a government agency, raises interest rates 2, 3, or even just 4 points? They blame Trump for the resulting problems, blame the right for the Left’s violence, and run a Jesus candidate in ’28. I can make an arguement either way at all of the inflection points in any scenario I can come up with.
Maybe they don’t CARE if everyone knows the fix was in. They didn’t seem to last time. So the cheat is massive, undeniable, and their stance is “suck it, btiches”. — Civil war, cold or hot, results.
Maybe there are enough big money people to keep any financial shenanigans in line, and the economy gets a Trump boost. The left won’t allow that to go unpunished so expect violence. Civil war- or just constant terrorism and insurgency. Bombings, fires, riots. Infrastructure destruction… BLM and antifa were training actions. They are funded and organized, they have training cadre with experience.
I don’t see any scenario where things are better after the election, no matter who “wins”. Heck maybe Kamel is their fall guy, so they can go back to white men when they’re done blaming her for the economic collapse and sectarian violence that erupts. That would be an outcome I don’t think many people have considered…
There will be violence. There will be disruption. There will likely be death and privation. People on both sides have been gearing up and have been drawing lines in the sand. People on both sides are radicalized. All that energy is crying for a release.
And don’t forget that our enemies will work for their own benefit- while US attention turns inward, all hell could break loose internationally, which WILL affect us as supply chain issues… and foreign entanglements. Lots of money to be made in war, and war is a traditional way to reset your currency and repudiate your debts.
Could be I’m just a doomer and it will all be fine. Good luck with that. I’m working to make sure we get through this coming time and emerge safe and sound, and maybe even better. I’ve been encouraging all of you to take whatever steps you think are prudent, and I hope you have. There are still Romans in Rome. Mongols in China. And Brits in the UK. We’ll still be here when it is all in the past. Some of us anyway.
The ship of State doesn’t turn on a dime, and this great country has “a lot of ruin in it”. Timing the collapse is as hard as timing the markets.
Be ready for tomorrow, and one year from now, and 5 years from now, and the rest of your life…
And stack, because that is one thing you can control…
nick
Cut off Janine Turner’s residual streams wherever possible.
And for Godssake, if you vote for Trump in a district with a close Senate or House race down ballot, you are accomplishing nothing by “voting your conscience” and opting for a Libertarian to “send a message”.
30,000 Geogria Libertarians did that four years ago, and 11,000 were enough to tip the Senate races into runoffs which delivered the Senate to the Dems.
20 million viewers is a football game, not “Saturday Night Live”, even with a hot guest like The Real Life Tony Stark (TM).
A lot of ISDs (Texas school board) have big bond issues on the ballot today, ahead of the property taxes reverting to normal rates in 2026 after the surplus giveaway runs out.
Sending the kids home is a reminder to the parents about what life would be like if the “planning” days and early release events increased due to budget issues.
Get those stadiums funded now. There is no guarantee that Texas will vote for the income tax ballot initiative coming in three years, but chances are that it will. “For the children.”
In TN the schools have been closed on election day for as far back as I can remember. Several schools are used as polling places and generally only affected one or two schools in the county. That required closing all schools in the county.
And in other news. I have been fighting the VA for 7 years to get my rating for my back injury increased. It had been at 10% initially, then 20% where it sat for years. I appealed that rating back in late 2017. I have been fighting ever since with multiple appeals going up the food chain to a veteran’s law judge. Which got remanded because the VA made several errors.
The VA was going to put me back at the bottom of the long queue. I wrote to my congressman to get that resolved. It turns out I did not need to do that as cases remanded by the judge go back at the top of the queue, something the VA never mentioned in their multiple letters to me.
I finally got what I wanted. The back has been increased to 40%. That along with the hearing loss, tinnitus, and the knee, I got my rating to 70%. Beyond the extra money, the reason I wanted that goal of 70% is that if I need to go into a nursing home the VA will pay 100% of that cost. Based on the senility that runs in my family, that is a very real and significant concern.
I voted early as nothing was going to change my mind. Both candidates are lunatics. Tonight the voting results are on 19 channels on my cable system. Good thing there are other things to watch that will have more intellectual value than idiot reports and the same stuff repeated over and over. Green Acres, The Beverly Hillbillies, Hogan’s Heros all have more intellectual worth than CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC reporting.
Hang in there Mr. Ray. You will not drool. You will not drool. You will not drool. I said it three times.
A Kamel Humper win will take care of that. She will “pen & phone” away those benefits from filthy, deplorable, Veteran’s. Crimmigrants need that money to ensure their Dumbocrat vote.
LOL Dick Van Dyke posts a video tagging the K-H. No surprise there, but how desperate are the Dumbos to get 98-year-old DVD to endorse the K-H? Most of the voters probably never heard of DVD.
From which end?
If I self-identify as an illegal immigrant disabled veteran, I should be safe, maybe. I will leave off the white heterosexual male part as that would be a show stopper.
And more news on the VA front. I now can qualify for TDIU, which is paid at the 100% disability rate without going through a special review. To qualify for TDIU I need 70% or greater rating, and at least one item at 40% or greater. The back is now 40%, knee 30%, tinnitus 10%, hearing loss 10%. If you add those up you get 90% but due to VA funny math, I am only at 66%, which is rounded up to 70%.
I have already applied for TDIU and did it about a year ago. The decision was denied but was in violation of the judge’s order as TDIU and the back rating increase must be decided together according to the judge. The VA violated the judge’s order, and I informed them of this via a letter. That decision is still in limbo.
The real goal was the 70% rating due to the nursing home possibility. TDIU because the VA lied to me in 1969 and shafted me of 20 years of disability benefits. Getting TDIU will just be a bonus.
I really wish the TV stations would be prohibited from showing results of voting on the East Coast before polls on the West Coast (maybe even Hawaii) close. Seeing that one candidate is winning by a large margin may influence late voters to not vote, or change their vote. Either out of spite or because they see no purpose in voting.
Projecting, and reporting, winners with less than 90% of the vote counted should be fully against the law.