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!
Yes, Bill, It’s time to take a break for, let’s say, the rest of your life. The Weakly Standard is out of business and so are you.
I hope this ugly irrelevant POS moves far away and is never heard from again.
GTFOOMC, you NEOCON POS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9YYZ8_HmNs&ab_channel=FoxNews
Tucker sums up Bill Kristol’s life now
Effete snob. He hates deplorables and working class Americans.
Bye!
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.
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This dude inhereted everything, never worked a day in his life and has a tin ear for politics! He is too old to find honest work; is destined to remain irrelevant.
It would break my heart if Kristol...Cher...Babs Streisand...Tom Hanks....Adam Schiff...Lady Gaga...and others were to renounce their US citizenship.
This bung hole is on my airport list.
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McCain and his a-hole buddy Chuck Hagel hated the squishy GWB back in the day.
I’ll say it: John McCain was rotten and no good to the core. Reminder: Fellow prisoners in the Hanoi Hilton were awarded the MOH. NOT John McCain. His nickname The Hanoi Songbird tells you all you need to know.
“Fear not. I’m not heading off to Russia [if Trump wins]”
LOL!! No one is afraid you are leaving Bill…
What has this guy ever really done?
Helpful. Thanks.
...I’d like to see HamasHarvard Billie disgraced in public as the traitorous bastard that he is ... a warmongering Deep State puke who asked for 9/11 to get the US back into a ME war as his Bolshevik father would approve. He pushed for early war with Iran and endorsed PotatoJoe for President, the schmuck. Just an odious piece of guano in need of more public humiliation... deport him to Venezuela! ...ymmv
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