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Existential Voting

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We’re already in the Crossroads of History

The people of the United States of America already stand or sit in the crossroads of history. If you are a citizen and registered to vote, vote. Do not skip it. Vote even if you do not live in one of the so-called battleground states. After all, you have state and local candidates and issues to chose from as well. Sometimes what you vote for in state and local elections will have a great effect on your daily life than who sits in the White House. Except this time. This election, the Election of 2024, has shaped up to be the most consequential election since 1860 back when the USA was descending into all-out civil war. One could argue, no, since 2020, except Donald Trump, who manipulated the Election of 2016 to usurp power, lost to Joe Biden. Now here we are in 2024 upon the eve of Election Day.

The existence of our constitutional democratic republic is at stake. Continue reading →

Statehood for Puerto Rico!

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Let’s make Puerto Rico a State in our Union. It’s long overdue.

Fellow Americans! This includes the people of Puerto Rico including those currently living on the island, and, sadly, unlike Puerto Ricans who live in a US state, cannot vote for their President and Vice-President. We are long overdue to make Puerto Rico a new state in our old Union, or grant it full  independence. The island’s status cannot continue to exist in the colonial twilight of legal purgatory. Yesterday in New York City, a comedian at Republican Donald Trump’s big Manhattan campaign rally made a nasty, ugly, and racist joke at Puerto Rico’s expense. The joke immediately antagonized Puerto Ricans everywhere. It angered numerous other Hispanics and Latinos including those who support Trump for President. Democratic candidate for Vice-President Tim Waltz called out the comedian, who in turn derided the Governor of Minnesota for being unable to take a joke. The vile comedian was defensive and concluded his remarks with an immature, stupid, and sexist joke about women’s periods.

An enormous backlash against the Trump-Vance campaign exploded. Many Republicans were embarrassed, disturbed, and criticized the pro-Trump jokester. Campaign insiders were incensed rally organizers did not properly vet the comedian. Furthermore, Trump’s Manhattan rally was noteworthy for the violence and hatred in Republican campaign rhetoric. Indeed, many considered it as having the most violent rhetoric of any major campaign rally. Another consequence is the hostile, hateful jokes shined a spotlight on the festering identity issues of Puerto Rico. Continue reading →

After the Attempted Assassination of Donald Trump

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The Maelstrom opens wide its Maw. Be alert and don’t fall in.

Americans have leapt closer towards the brink of all-out civil war with the attempted assassination of former president and current Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. Gonna break the wall here and share, yes, I am afraid. You may feel however and whatever you feel along the political and religious spectrum. And I am afraid. You may even loathe your own country for whatever reasons you choose to do so, but you do not want to experience civil war and revolution especially in this postmodern 21st Century empire. Such violence would consume you with the stomach churning malevolence unique to civil wars and revolutions, far worse than usually found in even brutal interstate wars. Have you no idea? Have you no sense of history? No knowledge of what terrible and heinous acts fellow Americans inflicted upon each other in our past? Most citizens, to be sure, did not stoop to such ugliness. More than enough did so, however, to make history. If only people studied the dark side of history as well as the glorious, positive, upbeat side.

The mainstream media as well as alternative, fringe, and social media have all gone deep into telling and retelling the events of Saturday evening on the 13th of July 2024. The drama has infected even the UFO movement. So am not going to report any further on what has already been reported over and over with new pieces still falling in place as investigations continue. Instead I seek to warn my fellow Americans of the dangers we all face, dangers as real as earthquakes, tornadoes, and poisonous spiders. Continue reading →