5 September 2024 around noon. I’m sitting here at the office. Good old Starbucks. I’m back to Blogging. Before today, I spent my free time (of which I possess an abundance) Binging on Youtube. Specifically, the Donald Trump news. The election updates. The Polls. The commentary. The Troll Olympics. All the Shit that’s fit to print. How long I been wasting my time obsessing over the presidential race? Ever since Old Joe bowed out. Sunday. July 2I. That would be almost seven weeks. Seven fucking weeks I’ve been glued to the Youtube screen. That’s right. But now I’m done. I’m done because I just got it from a reliable source Kamala Harris will be the next President. I can now turn my attention to more pressing concerns, like Blogging worthless shit to my legion of non-readers. Or fitting out my Mini-van for Urban Camping. Or…or what? I don’t know.

I could start a new hobby! Like bird watching. Or sea lion watching.

This is a local bird. He stands in the muck at low tide beyond the edge of my dock. I don’t know what he does all day. Here, he Looks to be drying off. I don’t know what he is, exactly. A big ass Grebe, maybe. That, or a shrimpy Huron. Shit. I’m going with a Huron. The feet are a dead give-away.

This is definitely a Huron. A big-ass Great Grey Huron. He just stands there on the houseboat across from me. Late at night he screams. Like somebody’s knifing his old lady. Nothing like waking up to a screaming Great Grey Heron.

Got a few Seals hanging around. Seals got ear flaps; Sea Lions got no ear flaps. That’s how you tell the difference. Maybe it’s the other way around. Anyway, ears, no ears, who gives a fuck?

This seal (or sea lion) he don’t wanna move. He’s looking at me like, what the fuck, man. Split! Go back to being a human being. Don’t you have a life? You’re missing out on the Donald Trump news. What’s that? You say you’re no longer interested in the Donald Trump news? Why? Cuz Kamala Harris is a shoe-in? She’s gonna be the next President, which will make Donald Trump DOG SHIT. Okay. Fine. No more Donald Trump news. Now if you’ll excuse me…

What you have here is a portrait of Evolutionary Divergence. This seal (or sea lion) and me, we are both mammals. We share a common ancestor. He turned out a little different, though, didn’t he?

Same with you, he’s thinking.

This Evolutionary Divergence. It’s kind of like the difference between me and a Trump Supporter. Wait a minute! I don’t gotta think about Trump no more. He is done. Defeated. Dog Shit. Kamala Harris will be the next President. I got this from a reliable source. I can go back to Bird Watching. As for the Seals (or Sea Lions), watching them is boring.

And not necessarily the result of our Evolutionary Divergence.

Youtube Binging is no way to live

Hey, man! I know that. But I haven’t been able to help myself. I’ve been glued to the tube for going on seven weeks.

Seven weeks! Seven weeks I’ve been reading all the news I can squeeze from Youtube videos, etcetera, following the path to a second Presidency of this man, this caricature of a man, on his way to becoming Emperor Of The Free World. Why have I been obsessing over this demonic figure at the cost of what precious little time I’ve got left on the planet (I turned seventy one recently)?

All I can figure, it’s because events surrounding this dude have been TERRIFIC NEWS.

Gobs of terrific news!

The best news I’ve watched in years.

Why the best? Because I’m a Progressive dude. I’m to the left of Bernie Sanders. Or right next to his left. Between him and A.O.C. I’m right in there with his and her thinking.

And the news…the news lately has been good for Lefties.

Real good news. Ever since the Dems got their shit together.

To mention a single narrative stream: The implosion of Donald Trump’s Presidential Campaign.

Here’s a quote from a Piece that came out a couple days ago.

“The process of removing Biden as the Democratic presidential candidate can’t exactly be said to have worked well, but it worked. And now it’s time for Americans to turn the same self-regulatory instincts to Biden’s 78-year-old former rival. Trump’s campaign is already falling apart – most recently with the shameful attempt to use a ceremony at Arlington Cemetery as an electioneering platform. But there are deeper reasons to inspect Trump’s political credibility now. Because cognitively speaking, Trump is beginning to make Biden look like Oscar Wilde.” Lee Siegel, in the article DONALD TRUMP IS LOSING IT. From the 2nd September 2024 issue of THE NEW STATESMAN. Photo by Emily Elconin.

Every day since the Democratic party rallied around Kamala Harris and soured Trump’s plans for world dominion, he’s performed one fuck-up after another. Poor Old Joe went down hard and I’m sure Trump gloated over it. Then….surprise! The tables turned. Now he’s getting his sad ass kicked…and partly for the same reasons! It’s worth offering another bit from Lee Siegel’s article to emphasize my point:

Biden’s relational skills, his empathy, his moral perception of reality were never the issue. He had been, by all appearances and accounts, a mentally stable man all his life. That is why his cognitive decline became so apparent, once his entourage stopped shielding him. It is harder to discern Trump’s cognitive decline, because his behaviour, ironically, serves the same purpose as Biden’s entourage, obscuring the decline it is a symptom of. But anyone watching him abruptly change subjects in his acceptance speech at the Republican convention, anyone who listened to that speech and watched him disappear into the rabbit hole of his own mind, can see that he is even further along in his deterioration than Biden.

I mean, come on! This shit had me hooked. Hook, Line and Sinker…

And there you have it.

But I’m done now

I don’t gotta plug my ears in day and night living on pins and needles over the ultimate outcome that’s still more than two months away. I know who’s gonna be the next president. And I’m fairly convinced that Donald Trump with go back to his Mara la go hole and spend what time he has left cheating at Golf rather than cheating the American People. Or, he could watch Seals (or Sea Lions) from one of his golden porticoed decks. Or…he could Not Pass Go. He could go straight to Jail!

Just in case you’re interested. I’m counting on this Dude to get it right at least one more time.