Shoe by Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly for November 07, 2024

Pro versus con, and you’re the con…..

This election sucked!

Whatever it is, he’s against it.

America just became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Putin, Inc.

Oh what a beautiful morning!

I wanted “None of the Above”

Against what? Democracy?

Sums it up in a nutshell.

We always do that in Canada.

Did not work this time.

That option apparently wasn’t on the ballot.

Same as most of America these days. Politicians don’t give you reasons to vote FOR them, they only tell you why you need to vote AGAINST the other guy

In essence, that is what all voters do.

I think a lot of voters did that. Sorry, Ben, we will try harder next time.

No wonder why…

“I feel a strong desire to tell you – and I expect you feel a strong desire to tell me – which of these two errors is the worse. That is the devil getting at us. He always sends errors into the world in pairs – pairs of opposites. And he always encourages us to spend a lot of time thinking which is the worse. You see why, of course? He relies on your extra dislike of one error to draw you gradually into the opposite one. But do not let us be fooled. We have to keep our eyes on the goal and go straight through between both errors. We have no other concern than that with either of them.” (C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity)

shoe

When I was younger, I voted for the one I felt would be best. We had those kind of options back then.. After a few elections, I didn’t care for any so voted against: this one cos I don’t want that one. More recently, I vote so I can “have conversations” about it.

My best friend told me she voted for a write in. I said it’s people like you that put the convict on top. Going to take me awhile to be able to talk to her again.

American voters should have taken Shoe’s direction. The majority failed to do so.

Done with this subject.

I did that, sorta. I thought it was an easy choice. Most did not agree

once again a vote between No and Hell No. at least this time I sat under the leadership of both of them and voted for the one who seemed to make things better while in office.

Ok, we seriously messed up this time, but it’s a long game and since the beginning of humanity, we are actually making progress. The arc of the universe is long, but it bends toward justice.

Just go back to the sidelines, pray for the defense, help out the defense any way you can, and figure out how to do better when you get the ball back— and we will. Once the hype wears off and there is no opposition, people will look at what they have elected, and that itself will inspire some serious buyer’s remorse. The economy will continue to do whatever it wants to, since the president doesn’t actually control it. Trump will either fail to do much about the border, or there will be news reports of roundups, comparing them to Nazis with the Jews. Trump will hand Ukraine to Putin, inspiring him to start looking at what he wants next, again inspiring comparisons to appeasement of Hitler. One thing we can count on is that Trump’s handlers are actually going to work on project 2025, and he has no clue what is going on, so they are in control. Not much of what is in that plan is going to make people happy.

The game isn’t over, and we are on the right side of history. This is a very serious setback, but that’s all it is.

The Democrats need to stop playing the blame game. Learn from this loss and use the next four years to find a charismatic leader and develop policies that truly benefit the American people. As an 85-year-old grandma, I’m saying: get to it. I’m tired of all this malarkey.

That was the only choice we really had this go ’round.

I’m there with you, Shoe. Pick the least offensive in a sea of abysmal choices…

The tide ebbs and flows, wait four years.

I never vote, it only encourages them.

Even more so the foolish?

I used to be that way: anti-everything. Against it all. A punk in attitude and expression, not simply led by musical adventure and culture.

Good man!