I didn't know if you took a girl out you had to wear a tie

 Election Day ruminations.  Some folks be in a time warp.  I can't remember the last time I saw an actual hippy.  Does Jackson Galaxy count?  This is gonna come out the wrong way but some older folk can't stop talking about WW2.  Not a pacifist but I also think war should not be celebrated.  That said Hegseth should have treated the Eisenhower globe with more respect.   "We had nice songs back in the day" is another one.  The time will come when a future generation won't even know who Lady Gaga was and we"ll be saying the same thing.  There's a strong bias towards the past among many folk who don't seem to know what going forward means.  BTW if the tie comes off does that mean things are gonna get a little frisky?

On the eve of disaster

 The NYC Marathon.  These people are amazing.  I can barely walk to my local bodega.

The time change.  Driving home after work yesterday.  Pitch black at 5 PM.  I'm lovin' it.

Will the real Dan Sullivan please stand up

 Reading about the Alaska Senate race.  Apparently it is true according to the New York Times that the Democrats scoured the state of Alaska to look for another Dan Sullivan to run as an independent against the Republican Senate candidate the actual Dan Sullivan the idea being to confuse voters into voting for the wrong Dan Sullivan to get the Democratic candidate Mary Peltola in.  She has denied any knowledge of this Dem scheme.  The Trump DOJ involved.  Would be kind of like if the Repubs ran a candidate named Hank Frankenberry in an Ohio Senate race and the Dems found another Hank Frankenberry to run.  What are the odds?  OK so Dan Sullivan is a rather common name but still.  Nobody believes in their platforms anymore?  No more confidence in the power of ideas and proposals to sway voters?  What in hell are the Dems doing trying to add credence to Trump's constant election fraud mythology like maybe the man has a point after all?

Both parties are a joke.

I'm just a squirrel collecting my nuts

 Prepping for retirement.  Trying to get my financial house in order.  What I don't get is these long lines of yahoos getting the new I-Phone with the folding screen issues.  Got a Samsung Galaxy 5G phone at a Walmart at a reasonable price and I'm good.  People don't budget themselves.  Sure I'm no financial saint and have maxxed out on a couple of Visas myself but you learn.  We're a nation of compulsive shoppers.  Probably half the people who go to Target don't really need anything.  I'm on a budget but it's not overly strict.  My CB and pipe tobacco are still essentials.  I cut my own hair with a Wahl.  It ain't that hard.  I think some guys just want the girl's tit in their face while she washing their hair.

The older I get the more grouchy I get.

The most likely scenario

 The Dems will sweep the House because the Republicans didn't have the balls to remove the Asshole-In-Chief (hereinafter the AIC) and pretty much soon the Dems like maybe after lunch on the second day will present the official Articles of Impeachment. Even if the Dems also pick up the Senate most likely there won't be enough votes to convict so Trump will have been impeached three times in his two terms in office.  The GeeeZ crowd will of course get their knickers in a twist.  So then the surreal presidency continues on for two more years and I get a flood of anti-Trump stuff in my YouTube feed with the Young Turks chiming in.  Won't mean anything.  May as well watch toilet videos on This Old House.

Trump's diesel deal with Putin.  The Starlink slowdown.  Whose side is Trump on?  Imagine if we had made business dealings with Hitler during WW2.

Can't make this shit up.

The spiritual wing of YouTube

 Every night I go on YouTube for at least an hour.  Politics, wolverines, pipe smoking.  Everything.  Some guy has studied the four alien races besides the Grays.  I didn't know we already established one alien race.  Is there a field guide?  The algorithm might think I'm interested in dying folk in hospice.  Depressing.  Back to Rogan.  Gone down a few religious rabbit holes lately.  Fr. Chad Ripperger major exorcist for the Catholic Church silenced by his bishop for one year.  YouTube says HUGE story but I doubt the Mormons care.  Thing is when you go down these theological rabbit holes it goes off in all kinds of directions and tangents like a big sparkler.  Before you know it you see if you suck your big toe you're going to hell or too many donuts opened up the gateway to Satan.  Now I myself am theologically inclined but theology by its very nature is not established fact although many people talk about it as such.  Political bubbles, religious bubbles most everyone these days is in some kind of bubble.

Pipe smoking late afternoon then a quick bite then a shower.  Set up the coffee for the next day.  YouTube then the CB and then the News and maybe part of a movie and then to bed.  Some old folk go to bed right after Wheel of Fortune.  I ain't there yet.

Don't go there

 Vivek Ramaswamy just a weird dude.  The Ohio Governor's race and the controversial attack ad against Democratic opponent Amy Acton - complicated sordid family drama which lends itself to the natural political option of you can just stay out of it totally.  Don't comment on it, don't involve yourself in it just hash out the issues.  Just as an outside observer looking in why would you automatically believe the mother anyway?  You're not even an extended member of her family and have no insider's knowledge of anything that went down.  It's all in the court records anyway.  You can publicly express sympathy and empathy for Amy Acton OR staying neutral is a perfectly OK option.  Why go there?  Aa far as political ads go this is raw sewage and that's really saying something.  Kind of says to me he's not confident enough in his own political positions and feels he has to go that extra mile.

Trump is a dick.  Why embrace his style?