Am I a Nazi, Garbage, or Nazi Garbage?

You pick.

My first reaction when I heard Joe Biden was calling Donald Trump supporters “garbage” is that he (Biden) wanted to sabotage, consciously or unconsciously, Kamala Harris’ campaign. 

I could be wrong, but, as the Zen Buddhists say, “First thought, best thought.” 

There are other possible explanations, such as he was desperate to stay relevant in the final hours of his presidency and just happened to make his dopey comment at the moment Ms. Harris was making her supposed “important closing argument,” such as it was. 

Or he is just so terminally gaga that he doesn’t know where he is or what he’s doing?  But there’s nothing new in that.

His handlers (what a job they have) are off trying to convince everyone the president was just referring to comic Tony Hinchcliffe who provided the fulminating media with the one gotcha moment they could find in the endless hours of Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally.  They were dying to call the event Hitlerite but the inconvenient prevalence of numerous Israeli flags in the audience made that awkward.

Trump, his sense of humor always at the ready, took advantage of Biden’s mumbling idiocy by arranging to be met at a Wisconsin airport by a “big, beautiful MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN Garbage Truck.” He wore an outfit to match.  When it comes to trolling. Trump wins the Nobel Prize.  (He should have won it for the Abraham Accords.)

Real Clear Politics’ Tom Bevan, a man I have known for years and respect about as much as anyone for his level-headed political analysis, summed things up saying Biden’s “garbage” comment “couldn’t come at a worse time for Harris.”

Does this mean Trump wins?  Who knows, but it’s looking good, especially if you believe the prediction markets, though they are tightening a whisker.

Whatever the case, we are approaching the conclusion of an American presidential election for which the cliché goes the country has been driven apart as never before.  And in this case, it’s probably true, possibly since the Civil War.

Putting it together will be difficult because a fair percentage of us, me included, do not trust our elections.  They could be classified as an American shame.

Knowing who won in close elections or even relatively close ones is often anybody’s guess.  The system is rigged against the truth.  And many people think that’s fine, just part of the game to be expected.  Live with it.

Voting machines that are virtually ubiquitous are permeable to hacking in a variety of ways.  I have seen it myself during the 2020 Fulton County recount at Atlanta’s State Farm Arena that I will discuss at some point, but I bow to someone who knows many millions of times more about computers, Elon Musk. Musk has been saying substantially the same thing repeatedly on the hustings.

It's amusing to read the snotty response of three NBC News reporters to the man whose company just demonstrated the astonishing ability actually to catch a rocket booster returning from space, something no nation has been able to do.  These legacy mediacrats insist however “Billionaire Elon Musk promoted debunked conspiracy theories” about the machines

Whenever I see the word “debunked,” my eyebrows shoot up with suspicion, especially in an article that quotes in its defense the now genuinely debunked data about crime supposedly dropping.  (This was the same lie that was used on Trump by David Muir of ABC during the debate. How embarrassing. The networks have much in common.) 

Further to the machines, and of course not appearing in the article, was that the French banned voting machines in 2008 fearing their vulnerability to cheating. They use venerable paper ballots instead. Nevertheless they are able to come up with a definitive result in one day compared to our endless litigious nightmares.

Beyond the machines there’s the mail-in and drop box voting designed, so they claim, to make voting “more accessible.”  It very well may, but to whom?

Then there’s the sketchy signature validation and, in some states, the “progressive” idea that IDs, though needed to get on a plane or cash a check,  are not required to vote because racist.  Many of us (i.e.  normal people) see this as inherently racist in itself. 

There are many more problems you probably know yourselves. We already have drop boxes on fire in this election. Who knows what will go on in the middle of the night?

Early voting itself is suspicious, giving all sorts of possibilities for fraud. We have an election season now, rather than an election day, giving the hostility and division more time to fester and increase.  It almost seems deliberate.

That old line attributed to Stalin-- it’s not who makes the votes but who counts them --is evidently apocryphal. But even if the communist dictator didn’t say it, he’d likely concur.

A hint of optimism, or common sense,  can be found in SCOTUS (Oct 30) allowing Virginia to remove noncitizens from voter rolls.  This was, unsurprisingly, a 6-3 decision with Associate Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Ketanji Brown Jackson and Elena Kagan not agreeing to remove the foreigners’ names.  After all, they might vote for Harris, even though noncitizens voting is against federal law, as it should be.  The ends justify the means.

Allegedly, the new Republican National Committee is prepared for all sorts of hanky-panky, the old one under Ronna McDaniel having been accused of being more interested in partying at a Four Seasons.  We shall see.

They have to be prepared for more than the election because if Trump should win Nov 5, what follows during the interregnum before the inauguration is likely to be craziness of historical proportions.  The left will use the term The Resistance, an example of the very cultural appropriation they claim to disdain and a particularly nauseating one since they seek to cloak themselves undeservedly in the mantle of the brave of World War II who had to confront real Nazis, not imaginary ones. They did that before (2016).  

One genuine danger not frequently discussed we could be confronting for that period is what Iran might do, also, even more ominously, China..  As we used to say, the whole world is watching.

The good news is that Trump has been preparing the transition for some time, early, on his own dime. 

In answer to the question in my title, because of how I vote,  I hereby attest under penalty of law I am not Nazi Garbage.  I’m… Deplorable Nazi Garbage.