Incredibly odd. I didn’t have anything in the draft folder for today.
Maybe I was going to write about my brother, and happy birthday to him, but I don’ know.
Obviously, today is Election Day. I did send off my absentee ballot on Saturday before I left.
I don’t know what’s going to happen. I have a hunch, but I’m right there with a lot of the The Fifth Column folks.
The issues the country is facing are incredibly deep. It’s not culture war stuff. It’s some really serious fiscal problems to which neither of the major candidates has an answer.
There is a lot that can be learned from Javier Milei, and Argentina, but neither party is really in doing anything to address the problems.
Bubuhbut Kamala is going to give first-time homebuyers a $25,000 credit!
Which will be a small patch to something that’s still a bubble.
Trump is going to eliminate Income Taxes completely!
Income taxes that the majority of taxpayers don’t pay anyway.
I think there’s a strong argument that your “FICA Taxes” really aren’t taxes.
I guess we’ll see what happens.
From my archives, November 5, 2000:
I really hate mainstream politicians.
I don’t know that I’d throw around hate is readily today. But the overall idea really hasn’t changed.
Perhaps I was a bit more hopeful around 2012ish, but my underlying suspicions continue to ring true — government doesn’t work.
I don’t know what I’m going to do today. Might go do something for lunch/dinner.
We’ll see.
But is there something I can do to switch off the breathless coverage of the election?
I don’t know.
Football might be as much of a disaster as politics.
Will the Saints win another game this year after firing Dennis Allen?
No idea.
Is there someone coming out of college who could be the next Jaden Daniels?
Don’t know that, either.
That’s about all the Good Morning America I can take. So I’m going to move onto something else.