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Mary's avatar

Oh my such gloom and I agree with all of it.

I lived just north of Asheville for 14 years and now, of all places I live in central Fla. for 8 years now, with Milton picking up speed and heading my way.

It worries me, but so does right wing politics, greed, violence, social media, AI, climate change and the ignorance and apathy of oh so many of our citizens.

I am just grateful I’m old and have no offspring to worry about. But I cry for the earth and only can hope once man is gone, the earth will heal and life will flourish once more and hopefully, without humans.

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Charles Bastille's avatar

Really enjoyed your analysis, and your previous post, too, about the disappearing Permian basin oil. Also, some gratitude for not taking the position that our broken political system means we should sit out the election. Letting Trump in will be checkmate.

I suspect Kamala is simply playing for votes in Pennsylvania. I learned a very long time ago not to take what a presidential candidate says on the stump seriously. Biden's actual policies have been the closest to FDR's since FDR, but that's not how he campaigned. If he had, he probably would have been clobbered, because Americans, even though they support the majority of the leftish policies he's enacted, don't seem to realize that they do, so they veer hard to the middle every election.

Trump is an anomaly in that regard, of course, as he has no policy other than deranged levels of grief politics.

Kamala spoke out against fracking when she first ran in 2020. She's also young enough to have kids she must be worried about. The door will at least be open to change. I hope so. If not, Trump will in prison and we can safely show her the door in the next primaries.

One minor footnote. The dock strike is over. They reportedly accepted a 61% (or so) pay increase. I would argue that Biden's comments were probably directed at the employers, rather than striking workers, especially given that the longshoreman's union credited Pete Buttigieg with helping push an agreement through that they could sign off on.

The strike is officially postponed until January, after the inauguration, so even if they hit snags tightening up the terms of the contract, it won't affect the election. Frankly, I'm breathing a sigh of relief, because Americans are much more concerned about the cost of their toilet paper than the general welfare of the country. Your readers and readers of similar substacks excepted of course.

So a strike could have done real damage to Kamala's candidacy.

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