Stop Suffering. Start Suffraging.
Hello.
This is my No Kings reminder to vote like your life depends on it. Because it just might.
The gloriously rude illustration above is by my friend Trevor Stone Irvin, who published it in his Substack newsletter a couple of days ago.
Donald Trump is going to do whatever he can to steal the midterms, and we know that because he is already doing whatever he can to kill our rule of law in preparation for stealing the midterms. It is not hyperbole to call him a traitor — not just to this country, but to democracies worldwide. His methods are simultaneously transparent and occult.
There is much to learn from his latest abomination alone.
Simplifying:
He knows he is going to lose the midterm elections because diesel prices are wildly out of control because of a doomed, unpopular war he idiotically started and a precarious international economy he caused through tariffs he moronically scatter-shotted all over the globe. So …
To minimize the electoral losses and save his political ass, he feels he has to lower diesel prices right away! And he knows just how to do it. Russia has diesel out the wazoo! He can buy it! But …
That would mean flagrantly betraying Ukraine, a vulnerable democracy led by a good man who has become a hero to freedom lovers the world over. That country is engaged in a war for its survival against a cruel and ruthless Russian tyrant, so …
So, nothing. Trump actually has no problem with that. But …
It turns out he has a different problem, which is that he just last month signed a bill into law basically preventing him from betraying Ukraine! Everyone loved that bill! It got huge bipartisan support. It was named in memory of Trump’s dear, dear friend Lindsey O. Graham, who deeply and wisely mistrusted Russia. The bill Trump signed into law deprived cash-starved Russia of money to finance its war against Ukraine by imposing sanctions on Russian officials, Russian banks, and the Russian oil industry, levying huge tariffs on Russian goods, and extending those tariffs to countries that continued buying Russian energy. It was set to go into effect today! It would have strangled Putin’s war effort. It was for the good of the world. But… But…
Trump was Trump. So …
Screw that, Trump said. Screw Ukraine. Screw his dear, dear friend Lindsey O. Graham. He had put an escape clause in that silly-ass Lindsey Graham Law, and so he exercised it more vigorously than he has ever exercised any part of his body in his life, and now we get to gift Putin with millions and millions of extra dollars to pulverize the people of Ukraine, and Trump gets millions and millions of gallons of diesel oil to persuade his dimwitted but vanishing “base” that he is doing something.
He IS doing something. He is trashing the free world and is trying to steal the midterms in whatever way he can.
Just keep all of that in mind. And vote like your life depends on it.
Today’s Gene Pool Gene Poll:
We’re done for the day.
I could use a break. Or a handout.