"My estimation of Abraham Lincoln, as a man, just f*cking plummeted."
No, seriously: In his letter, Lincoln was writing about the expansion of SLAVERY.
Regards,
Posted on 11/05/2024 10:11:10 AM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
After months of poring over every bit of polling data, of pressing friends and colleagues for insights, of closely watching debate performances and television interviews, the last piece of wisdom I was given about this election came from a fortune cookie.
Yesterday, I stumbled upon one on my kitchen counter—sitting alone, neglected, and unopened. I opened it, only to find the most inviting of advice: “It’s time to take a break.”
A break! How wonderful the thought. How appropriate a message for Election Day—the moment where our exhaustion turns to anxiety as we wait for results to come in.
But this is no time for a break.
First of all, everyone needs to vote, if they haven’t yet. And everyone needs to get as many like-minded voters to the polls as you can. So no break until this evening.
And after that? Time for a break?
Sorry, the answer’s still no.
Let’s consider the two possible outcomes.
If Donald Trump wins tonight, I’ll be tempted to follow Abraham Lincoln’s counsel from his 1855 letter to Joshua Speed: “When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty—to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.”
Fear not. I’m not heading off to Russia! Still, back here at home, we’ll face a major, even daunting, task. For the next four years, we’ll have to re-constitute a loyal opposition—loyal to the Declaration and the Constitution, loyal to what America has been and should be. We’ll have to organize to try to limit the damage Trump can do in a second term, and lay the groundwork for future recovery.
So it’s clear that if Trump wins, it will be no time to give up, no time to take more than a short (okay, maybe medium-length) break for a few stiff drinks. We’ll have to fortify ourselves by recalling the wonderful admonition of the great John McCain: It’s always darkest before it turns pitch black. Then back into the fray!
What a brain-damaged retard.
I don't pay much attention to polls.
The Gaslight Media mostly puts them out to assist their Horse Race Narrative.
He could just shut up and retire. That works, too.
I feel so much better that Bill Kristol is not leaving us!😉😊
Bill is 71 years old.
Message to scumbag Kristol: You will not be allowed to escape. You are going to be severely punished. Pain is coming for you and your ilk. The sooner you can accept this fact, the sooner you can make peace with your God.
Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only Trump has the Key.
Of course he wouldn’t go to Russia, Ukraine, maybe.
Double FUBK
I love the fact he let us all know how much he is suffering.
He went up against Trump and lost everything.
I love the fact he was likely tipped off to watch the rally in Butler, sat drinking on the phone with the ghost of Molly Goldburg in anticipation of receiving his copy of the new Zapruder II film, but the patsy missed leaving him weeping and spitting obsenities throughout the night.
I can’t help feeling sad as I remember how much I enjoyed these people back in the day. I split from them when they split from My Hero. Just sad that I won’t mind at all if he left. I’d only mind if he stayed to keep playing superior. That would really be sad.
"My estimation of Abraham Lincoln, as a man, just f*cking plummeted."
No, seriously: In his letter, Lincoln was writing about the expansion of SLAVERY.
Regards,
The place of William Kristol's birth ought be stricken from all maps, and the the site razed with the remants used for the construction of thoroughfare playbills proclaiming his traitorous shame and ignominy.
Billy is scared
Unfortunately, Kristol isn’t going anywhere. He’s nothing more than a drama queen (perhaps, literally) desperately trying to preserve what little remains of his political and social revelance.
Buh-bye 👋 Don't let the door hit you in the a$$ on the way out.
Words fail me.
Poor Russia to have the communist go there.
Yep, won’t get those minutes of my life back.
They are fighting on MSNBC. Take them some Crierball Bill.
I would find it hard to believe that Kristol is NOT on the Epstein Island list. There must have been a few little boys there, after all.
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