I'm with you on this one. I saw on my phone that "Trump calls for Liz Cheney to be shot"... that's all the headline said. So I clicked on it and read the story and it's not quite as bad as it seemed, but like, why say that just days before the election? If it's a play to the base to try to squeeze out every possible vote, isn't there a possibility of it being cancelled out by undecideds who just don't want to hear this kind of stuff anymore? I just don't really understand the strategy behind it.

Fair enough. 19 is still young and fairly stupid. I saw it for what it was all along. The one thing I find questionable is the bit about getting drafted. If it's worth asking other young men to put their lives on the line about something, then it would seem to be reasonable to be asked to do so myself. Overall, though, it was pretty simple to me: Saddam Hussein was a total piece of sh*t, but there was exactly zero hard evidence tying him to the 9/11 attacks. By contrast, there was a lot of evidence pointing to a Saudi role, but as usual the incestuous US/Saudi relationship stopped any sort of accountability from happening there. Saudi Arabia is in general a bad actor in the world, and it is way underappreciated in mainstream rhetoric. (And no, you don't have to be an anarchist to appreciate how bad KSA is, just basically a non-Islamic-fundamentalist. But I digress.) Even going to war against the Taliban in retrospect was a bad decision. Eventually, we managed to get Osama bin Laden. He was in Pakistan, not Afghanistan, and it was not necessary to go to war against Pakistan in order to get him. And all the efforts to de-Taliban-ize Afghanistan were for naught; the country promptly re-Taliban-ized the instant the troops departed. It turns out that in retrospect, the one lawmaker most accurate about the whole situation was… drumroll… Representative Barbara Lee from Oakland, CA, at the time one of only two socialists in the house (the other was Bernie Sanders, he served in the House before he became a Senator).

1 month til Christmas lights season, and 27 days til the start of a historic month long regional arctic outbreak!

Been a steady heavy rain for over an hour now. Up to .60” just today. 2.10” this week.

I also don’t understand either. Why track all the polls and get so amped up for Trump if you just think “they” won’t let him win anyways?