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Following the assassination attempt on Trump one user responded with perhaps the best summation I've seen...
And I've just discovered the r/darwinawards reddit thread. Social Media & Cellphones means video proof of Stupidity with the highest consequence, never as refined as American Politics, but - been watching the RNC and Biden and this is a hell of a lot more cheerful.
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And it begins. A fire in the distance, visible from my apartment, the plume of smoke, the ceaseless sound of water bombers.
Last night a quick thunder and lightening storm that dropped little for rain but lots for lightning and - from the rainiest spring I remember to - in the span of 2 weeks, what is likely to be another record year for forest fires. A slight haze this morning has become already a pall upon the town.
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Today, the attempt on Trump's life. Polite, politic for Biden to offer sympathies, especially after his own speech, it's what you do. The bad thing about this is we run the risk of Trump becoming a martyr to degeneracy. Trump becoming a martyr to any cause is unacceptable.
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I'm unsure how I feel. The sides - both of them - have become so radicalized that it seems this election is at best a precursor to Civil War. I would have guessed Biden would have had the attempted assassination. That Trump did surprised me. It's the MAGA folk who keep going on about guns and power and shit. I understand very well the threat to democracy Trump represents, and feel that as he has willfully incited violence (on the Capitol, for example - that resulted in deaths) that he should face some of the repercussions - which might include violence visited upon himself.
It might be time to turn off the news for a few days.
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I find it curious, everyone has done the thought experiment that if you could go back and time and kill Hitler, would you?
And maybe somebody has done it, only realizing the time is now. But that's not a media take.
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In other news, both Richard Simmons and Dr. Ruth died today. You would have hoped in each others arms, or - if not - at one of his private Aerobics classes. Sadly the news didn't offer up such fun. The take-away from it all is given a choice - Sex VS Fitness, choose Sex. You'll live longer. I'm getting neither.
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Tomorrow, innumerable creative projects to be begun. I've been stalling. Stalled. Time to get them all underway. And to start the car and run it and maybe go off and find some treasures, crystals, aquamarines, an emerald mine, anything, just enjoy the day...
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Saw this on Reddit. Know your meme. Calgary, always keeping it classy...
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Friday, a horrific crash on the highway south of Nakusp, passing, a jackknifed semi lost it's load, a camper entered it's lane, swerved to avoid, crushed by the load. 4 dead. Passed it on a trip up Revelstoke way. Half hour delay. Today, news that the campers were from Nelson, and it's probable I know - to recognize at least - a few of them, but there's no further details.
Otherwise, the roads filled with motorcyclists, lemmings that pull out to pass you on a solid yellow line, imbeciles, 2 killed already this year, both times their fault, there will be more I'm sure but it's always ironic this, "Careful of Motorcyclists", when they themselves clearly don't give a damn...