Questions, Questions
I’ll Ask the Questions Around Here
What if . . . Texas seceded from the Union? I know people who think that would be no great loss. They believe Texas is a vast wasteland full of football-worshipping MAGA morons, and spectacularly buffoonish elected officials. And, perhaps that viewpoint is understandable when the public faces of Texas have been the likes of Ted Cruz, Greg Abbott, Ken Paxton, Louie Gohmert, Rick Perry, and George W Bush.
Texas may be a redder than red state, but I would not paint all Texans with the same red brush. I believe there are many smart, reasonable, proud Americans in Texas who support liberal/progressive policies, and would oppose secession.
And, who are we kidding here, anyway? There’s a Blutarsky’s chance of secession: 0.0%. Texas isn’t going anywhere. If secession ever did become a serious proposal, once Texans realized that their new sovereign government was going to have to tax the living shit out of its residents to pay for their collective defense and their interstate highways and their power grid and their hurricane damage and their thousands of miles of wall construction around its perimeter (got to keep those filthy liberal Americans out), well, I think most Texans would say, “Just kidding, we love being part of America! We are America!”
Who cares . . . if I like to dress up in what are generally understood to be women’s clothes? I don’t (no, really I don’t), but what if I did? I do not understand why anyone would be threatened by that. Who the hell cares, and whose business is it anyway?
In my time working at the library, I had interactions with all kinds of different people, including cross-dressers. (Is it all right to say “cross-dresser”? If not, I apologize for my ignorance.) And, I survived all of those encounters without any psychological or physical damage (more or less). Imagine that!
Now, in all honesty, I may have wondered about a person’s outfit from time to time. But, it wasn’t like, “Why is he wearing that sun dress?” It was more like, “Why is he wearing that sun dress with those awful shoes?”
And, there’s a certain segment of the population who are apparently all worked up over drag shows. I’ve never been to one because I am not particularly interested in that, but for those who are, why shouldn’t they be able to enjoy it without being hassled or judged?
Would I want to live next door to a club featuring drag shows? Well, no. But, I would not want to live next door to a church, or a school, or a McDonald’s, or a pig farm, or an oil refinery, either. I value peace and quiet, clean air, and light traffic in my neighborhood. But, as long as the drag shows are in an entertainment appropriate area, then what’s the problem? Who’s being hurt by men dressing up as women and putting on a show? Christ, why can’t everyone just stay in their lanes and mind their own damn business?
What if . . . Joe Biden came out and said, “If my predecessor admits to what he’s done and pleads guilty to the federal crimes with which he has been charged, I will grant him a full and complete pardon.”? What would the Orange Asshole do? Would he accept the terms and go away, or would he roll the dice in the courts, and continue to torture us for the forseeable future?
I am not advocating for such a pardon. I want to see the bastard do real time. But, if we could end this long national nightmare, might a pardon be worth considering?
There would have to be conditions, of course. If it were up to me, he would have to satsify all monetary judgments that have already been rendered against him (Way to go, Leticia James!), and all his legal bills would have to be paid in full. Which should not be a problem for a supposed billionaire. I would put a stop to the grifting of his gullible followers. And, of course, he would be ineligible to hold any kind of public office.
I am so sick of seeing his orange, puffy, iguana face, that if somehow The King of the Idiots could be made to go far, far away, like to a hovel next door to his good friend, Vlad, I just might be willing to sign off on whatever it takes.
Who cares . . . if a pop music superstar and a well-known NFL player get together? Is there anything less important or interesting to fill up our news feeds than that? I would have to say, “No, there isn’t.”
During football season, there was no getting away from the many breathless reports about Trevor Kelce and Tyler Swift, or whoever the hell they are. (Okay, okay, I actually do know their correct names are Travis and Taylor. I like to minimize the importance of the rich and powerful by screwing up their names.)
Can’t Trav and Tay, two healthy, famous, young Americans, pursue their relationship without the rest of us having to give any thought to it? Some tinfoil-hatted residents of MAGAtown believe that Taylor Swift is some sort of covert operative for Joe Biden, because of course they do. I will not pretend to know why these lemmings believe the things they believe, but is it because she had the temerity to encourage people to vote? Vladimir Putin “encourages” Russians to vote in their “elections”, too! What is she, a goddamn communist? Oh, wait - that is not the epithet it used to be, given the fact the idiot leader of the MAGAs is all cozy with the international thug who rules Russia.
I’d be careful about messing around with the inimitable Ms Swift. As I understand it, she has billions of fans all over the world. If she says the word, hellfire would surely rain down upon any and all who cross her. In fact, in deference to her power, if I were Joe Biden, I would personally scrape dog shit off of her shoe on the stage of the Grand Ole Opry to obtain her endorsement.
What if . . . the Electoral College did not exist? Well, Al Gore and Hillary Clinton each would have spent at least four years in the White House. Instead, because of the anachronistic Electoral College, we got George W and Idiot Orange. What disasters those two turned out to be! Either one would have been reason enough to scrap the Electoral College.
Something seems terribly messed up with an election that does not reward the person who gets the most votes. And, due to the EC, it has happened five times in our nation’s history. Damn. That seems wrong.
Why, then, do we even have it? The founders had their reasons, I guess, but as I understand it, the Electoral College ensures that the smaller, less-populated states have a voice in presidential elections. If our president was elected by popular vote, the candidates would concentrate their efforts in the areas with the most people. They would not waste their time in sparsely populated places. But, with the Electoral College system, in a close election, each Electoral vote is vitally important in order to reach the 270 needed to win. So, candidates have to pay attention to all the states.
The low population states may also derive an indirect benefit from the Electoral College in non-presidential election years. Members of Congress from big states may be a bit more inclined to vote for spreading some government largesse around to the smaller states, when they know their party will need the Electoral College votes of those states a few years down the road.
Looking at it through that lens, the Electoral College does have value, at least to the less populated states. However, any system that sticks us with George W and Idiot Orange is seriously fucked up. That much is painfully obvious.
Who cares . . . what I have to say about anything? Not many, I bet. But, that’s all right. I know at least one person is very happy I have a forum for expressing my opinions - my wife. She used to have to listen to me blather on and on about this and that, but now I do it here on The Storm. By Norm. She couldn’t be happier.
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You were on fire today. I totally agree.
Mr Bill