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!
Bill should move to Venezuela or North Korea.
He can flip a coin.
Lol.
I’ll start the bidding for funding transportation: $1.00
“Still, back here at home ...”
Where is that for him?
Who's going to set up the GoFundMe page to ship Kristol's sorry ass to anywhere but here?
BYE
Doesn’t he realize how trite and hackneyed even talking about emigrating is? So many threaten it. Literally No one ever does it
I was going to vote for Trump anyway. But, if this means neo-cons like Bill Kristol leave, so much the better.
BTW where you thinking of going? How about Iraq or Afghanistant, you know, places that you neo-cons thought to transform into democracies that could defend themselves?
Drop dead pinko commie.
I don’t see a cogent argument — or, for that matter, any argument at all, in his entire article.
Well said.
Wow! The positive results from Trump winning this election just keep stacking up!
the great John McCain”? Seriously?
They promise that if we vote for Trump they will permanently leave the United States but we vote for Trump and we do our part but yet they do not leave.
I think this constitutes a verbal contract and we should file a class action breach of contract lawsuit against them ans sue for damages.
Anyone remember in 2015, when Bill took it upon himself to identify a suitable alternative nominee for Trump.
The smug arrogant propaganda spitting d-bag clings bitterly to a non-existant thread of imaginary relevancy.
Tel Aviv
And where exactly is the loss to America, Bill, if you should emigrate?
“. . . (okay, maybe medium-length) break for a few stiff drinks.”
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It seems like Billy has already started with the drinking!
You read the article. Congrats. You realize it’s even more self-serving and straight-jackety than anyone thought possible.
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