Me dino thought for today~~
Because I still simply breathe, I live to always piss off the perpetually pissed.

Thanks for the reply. No, I don't look for trouble. I would rather be calm and happy but......

In the space of five minutes, I observed two joggers (one male, one female) run across my path while my light was green While looking at their stupid phones!
Portsmouth NH

The smothering vines of an invasive species. It was not here during the Civil War.
https://www.nature.org/en-us/about-us...

t-t, these days we have to treat elections like the lottery: There may or may not be a snowball's chance of your vote being counted, but if you don't play, you know you have an absolute 0% chance. As a California resident I have very little confidence that my vote will be counted at all, but in terms of the Presidential slot California's electoral votes are going with the jackass anyway, so I can vote my conscience with no regrets about the "wasted vote" concept. And although you're helping make my point that Trump did absolutely nothing between 2016 and 2020 to restore integrity to American elections, I think the fact that Republicans were able to gain Congressional seats at all in the 2022 elections indicates that as bad as Demo-Soc election fraud has gotten, that fraud is only having a partial effect. So if you are not living in a state that's virtually certain to flop to the Democrat, refusing to vote is a refusal to fight for America. And going out to vote - even if you assume it's a complete null, which I do not despite my misgivings - is a monumentally simple thing to do. You just drive a few blocks to the polling station and spend maybe fifteen minutes inside before resuming your day. Why would anybody just blow off that simple task in a petulant huff and resign to defeat? Discouragement and pessimism are natural reactions to the mess the elections have been allowed to sink into, but defeatism and surrender are on the wrong side of the ethical equation IMO.

And O-u-c, Executive Orders are just one in a huge arsenal a seated President has at his disposal to fight for what's right. His first and greatest role is that of a teacher, or teacher/leader if you will. Consider what Reagan was able to accomplish just by sitting down and doing a periodic address to the nation, despite the fact that his entire Presidency was opposed just as viciously (if not more so,) as Trump's was.

What should have happened, starting on January 20, 2017, was an absolute avalanche of outrage and maximum-volume demands, relentlessly and daily, for accountability and solidarity from people of every party, on the vital importance of election integrity - enlisting the full roster of GOP Congressional members and explicitly calling out anyone who opposes election integrity reforms as a flat-out enemy of American pluralism and therefore of the American people. In the hands of a competent Republican President - which we have not had in this country since 1988 - anything remotely resembling the blatant "We defend our right to commit election fraud" which contemptibly enough has become commonplace among Democrat Party hacks, would have resulted in those fraud supporters being tarred and feathered and run out of town on a rail. Instead we got: Pin-drop silence on the entire issue from January 20, 2017 until the "Oh gee, we seem to have lost!" on November 4, 2020 - at which point it suddenly became A Big Deal. That, folks, is textbook dereliction of duty. And people want to run this guy again?!?

The issue, like every other, requires true leadership. And as I've said, we have not had that from a Republican President since the mid-'80s. This must change.

Addendum: To clarify, while I consider RFK to be a completely different animal from today's standard Democrat and while his explicit opposition to the Climate Catastrophe Cult, the danger of censorship and the weaponization of gov't agencies against the American people are more Republican in their activism than Trump's, he remains a Democrat, which means the wrong stands on a multitude of issues. I do not plan on flopping Democrat - as indicated above, as a CA Republican I have the freedom to vote exactly how I want (currently DeSantis is my personal "frontrunner,") with no "wasted vote" stigma. What I'm saying is that if whatever GOP nominee were to lose in 2024 to RFK Jr., RFK Jr. would nonetheless be a massive improvement over Biden or any of the rest of that foaming-at-the-mouth pack of predatory fools on the Left.
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Not to mention: all the exec orders against voting corruption are not worth a damn if the left decides to ignore them.