Yesterday, amidst all the 9/11 and Charlie Kirk reporting.
I changed my voter registration back to Republican.
I switched to Libertarian sometime in the Obama administration.
I couldn’t stand what the Republicans had become, and the Democrats were no better.
At the time I wasn’t going to vote for Hillary for a wide variety of reasons. Not the least was that I believed she was simply dangerous and still do. There are too many people around her that have mysteriously “Suicided” for no good reason, and oddly they seem to have frequently shot themselves in the back of the head. I don’t know if Hillary had anything to do with any of them, but for me, it called into question the caliber of people she surrounded herself with. Either she had a lot of very unstable people surrounding her, or she had a lot of people around her that were into questionable activities that got them killed. Either way I didn’t want that anywhere near the office of the president.
At the time Trump was running and with all of his bombast I wasn’t sure he was the right man for the job nor did I have faith that he would be up to it.
The Republican field was also unbelievably weak.
So in that election I abstained from voting for president. I chose neither candidate and slept well that night.
Signing up as Libertarian wasn’t a bad move, but it was kind of sitting on the sidelines.
In principal I agree with many of the libertarian beliefs. But the party itself is ineffective and tends to put forward as candidates some real loons.
It served my purpose. I got to vote in all the elections and got notifications about all the issues and candidates.
After Charlie Kirk’s assassination. The way the Democrats in congress reacted, the silence of the libertarian party on the matter, and the giddy celebrations of the liberal left, (mostly Democrat) I was, and still am, appalled.
Add to it that Gavin Newsom is in the process of forcing redistricting in violation of the states redistricting policy, and that the California courts are saying they’ll allow it. I couldn’t stand on the sidelines anymore.
California (I don’t believe,) reports changes in voter registration publicly, but since registration is electronic and goes to the Secretary of State it seemed a fitting time to make a small statement.
Call it a pre-vote.
It was a way to let the idiots in Sacramento know that one more California voter is sick of their shit. Sick of the idiot governor and sick to their stomach of the Democrats way of doing things.
Newsom’s redistricting plan could easily be conflated with Kirk’s assassination. Both are efforts on the part of lunatic democrats to silence dissenting voices.
California redistricting is gerrymandered to the breaking point as it is by a supposedly “Independent” commission, and Newsom’s plan is just a way to silence conservative voices.
I seriously thought about registering Democrat. I thought, if all conservatives registered Democrat, then Newsom gerrymandered based on false data, it would be interesting to see him humiliated at the mid terms.
But then I decided Newsom and Sacramento should know exactly how much they’re hated and what a shitty job they’ve done.
Oh Newsflash: Looks like the FBI has maybe the “real” suspect in custody. It’s a 22 year old kid probably loaded up with rhetoric and unfounded hate towards Charlie Kirk. Etched on one of the bullet casings found with the rifle was, “Hey Fascist! Catch!”
The kids father turned his sorry ass in.
Hearing some of the things these people believe Kirk said is completely astounding. Stephen King made the claim that Charlie Kirk advocated stoning of Gays.
His ass is going to be fried and he’s already taking heat for it. Dave Rubin jumped on the statement immediately saying the Kirk had been to several dinners with he, and his husband and never once had thrown a stone.
I hope Kirk’s estate sues the living shit out of King who has become almost as bad as Rosie O’Donald, spewing unfounded claims, rumor, & innuendo.
There was a video of a ring nosed, pink hair girl discussing Kirks murder with her Dad on X. She said she was glad Kirk was murdered because he said hurtful things. You could tell her Dad was super disappointed and see her suddenly wondering if she was going to lose her place to live. She had no good arguments and her Dad was asking simple questions about freedom of speech. She kept going back to Kirk deserved to die because he said stuff that hurt people’s feelings. The one question her Dad didn’t ask was, “You’ve said things that hurt my feelings do you deserve to be shot? Do you deserve to be thrown out of the house for those things?”
I think that would have brought his point home to her. Freedom of speech must apply equally to all, or it’s not freedom of speech.
There are scattered repots of people losing their jobs over their sick celebrations of a murder. I’m of two minds about this. On the one hand, the vengeful tired part of me says, “good”. Then the egalitarian part of me says, “Wait, their freedom of speech must be protected too, even if you think they’re shitty people.”
I suppose it comes down to their employers deciding they don’t want the bad publicity. Since employment is not guaranteed and most of the time employers have standards of conduct I suppose it’s fair.
The people can say whatever they like, but their employers don’t have to continue giving them paychecks.
I suppose It’s the other side of the coin. Conservatives have been fired over their years for saying conservative things because those words hurt the feelings of the progressive left in the workplace. Maybe it’s a rebalancing of the scales.
Maybe America has reached a turning point. It seems that a lot of people who have been sick of years of turmoil are finally speaking up. They’re speaking truth and calling out the crazy idiots that have been running around “in control” only because everyone thought they’d burn themselves out like a weak virus.
I for one am willing to say “No More” and it looks like a shit ton of my fellow Americans are too.