Monthly Archives: August 2020

How To Ensure Your Vote Counts

Published / by Lee Kessler / 2 Comments on How To Ensure Your Vote Counts

VOTE IN PERSON AT THE POLLS!!!!!!! THAT IS THE BEST WAY OF ALL.

IF YOU MUST DO AN ABSENTEE BALLOT, REQUEST IT EARLY, AND MAIL IT EARLY!!!!! IDEALLY DROP IT OFF AT THE MOST SECURE LOCATION AVAILABLE. (HINT: A DROP BOX ON A STREET CORNER IS PROBABLY NOT YOUR BEST CHOICE. NEITHER IS ANOTHER PERSON WHO PROMISES THEY WILL SEE IT GETS DELIVERED.)

IF YOU GET MORE THAN ONE “MAIL-IN” BALLOT MAILED TO YOU AT DIFFERENT LOCATIONS (PREVIOUS ADDRESSES ETC.) FIND OUT HOW TO MAKE SURE ONLY THE BALLOT YOU CAST IS COUNTED. YOUR ELECTION OFFICIALS KNOW HOW TO DISPOSE OF OR TURN THEM IN PROPERLY. AND HOW TO REPORT POSSIBLE MISUSE OR FRAUD.

IF YOU HAVE MOVED, NOTIFY THE ELCTION BOARD TO REMOVE YOU FROM THE ROSTER, SO THEY DON’T MAIL ONE TO YOU THAT SOMEONE ELSE COULD TAKE AND FALSIFY. (THIS DOES NOT HAPPEN BY THE WAY WITH AN ABSENTEE BALLOT, SINCE YOU HAVE TO REQUEST IT PROACTIVELY. IT IS THE UNIVERSAL “MAIL IN” BALLOT THAT POSES A CHALLENGE, AND RISK)

BOTTOM LINE, IT IS YOUR VOTE. YOU TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR ENSURING THAT YOUR VOTE COUNTS. DO NOT SIT BACK AND WAIT FOR BUREAUCRATS TO SORT ANYTHING OUT FOR YOU. NO EXCUSES HERE, FOLKS.

YOU MATTER, AND YOUR VOTE MATTERS. IT IS A SACRED RIGHT OF THE AMERICAN CITIZEN TO VOTE. THAT RIGHT BELONGS TO NO ONE BUT ELIGIBLE AMERICAN CITIZENS. BUT YOU ARE–IN THE END–THE RESPONSIBLE PARTY. ONLY YOU AND I CAN SCREW THIS UP. NO ONE TO BLAME BUT OURSELVES.

GOING TO THE POLLS IN PERSON IS THE BEST–ABSOLUTELY THE BEST. IF YOU CAN STAND IN LINE AT GROCERY STORES, YOU CAN STAND IN LINE AT THE POLLS. YOU CAN DISTANCE YOURSELF. YOU CAN WEAR MASKS.

DO NOT LET ANYONE INTIMIDATE YOU INTO THINKING IT IS NOT “SAFE” TO GO TO THE POLLS. YOU KNOW BY NOW HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF AND OTHERS. BUT, IF YOU DOUBT THAT, THEN REQUEST A PROPER ABSENTEE BALLOT.

THE KEY IS NOT TO PROCRASTINATE. GET THE BALLOT. RETURN IT PROPERLY WITH PLENTY OF TIME TO SPARE.

AND REMEMBER THIS IS YOUR ELECTION, YOUR VOTE. TURN OFF THE NOISE, AND ENJOY ELECTION DAY!! HAVE SOME GOOD CONVERSATIONS WITH OTHERS AT THE POLLS. “SOCIALIZE” WHILE YOU “SOCIAL DISTANCE.” YOU CAN DO IT!!!

Rachel Maddow’s Latest

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This week, while driving home from Montana, I listened to the revelation about the Abraham Accord between Israel and the UAE. For anyone who has lived long enough to know the struggle in that region, and our country’s part in it for decades, the magnitude of this agreement and the very unique and untried approach the President took to the problem over the last 3 years was patently obvious. Breathtakingly obvious. No one with any intellect or compassion could say anything other than this is HUGE.

The world we live in changed last week. It was changed by one man’s campaign promise. A promise kept. His vision started a chain of events and meetings that culminated with two brave, visionary leaders in the Mid-East striking a new accord.

The direction he took was forward–not backward. Trump looks forward to create the future. (A lesson Black Lives Matter sycophants could learn. We don’t go back down a time track to when things were worse. We go forward from where we are, and create something better.) Israel and the UAE shook off preconceptions, and past failures, and looked through new eyes, from a different angle, at a possible future.

A business mentor of mine often says, “Your past does not equal your future.” The President did not attempt to solely solve the Israeli/Palestinian issue which had embroiled the whole region for decades, if not centuries. He attacked the Israel and Arab states issue relevant to Iran, terrorism, and economic potential.

So, platitudes like “historic,” “huge,” “world-changing” seem to be the best we can do to express the magnitude of the shift in relations in that arena. But, this time, the platitudes apply.

Anyone who downplays this, or demeans it, or dismisses it, is frankly in the camp of those who destroy, not who create. Or they are too intellectually dim to comprehend, and should therefore lead no one.

Those of you who have read “White King and the Doctor” probably remember that the protagonist was an 18 year old Grandmaster chess champion who ended up discovering a very elaborate and layered chess game being played against us by a very brilliant enemy. Not relying on chest text books, or past Masters’ winning moves and games, Andy Weir was a “natural” chess player who simply played the invisible opponent in the moment, not by rote repetition of moves from the past. He cracked the case. Trump and his team appear to have done the same.

Now for my point. Fox was covering it massively in their evening opinion shows. I decided to see what Rachel Maddow on MSNBC had to say about it. Turning to her channel, Maddow was not only not covering it at all, she was off on another conspiracy theory using “anonymous” sources and allegations of a document sealed somewhere that proved Trump had offered his golf course for a major tournament, and therefore she once again was establishing for her viewers just how vile and criminal our President is. At least that is the gist of what I gathered. In her mind, she was laying the foundation for yet another “impeachable offense.” Stunningly vacuous!

For the last three years–if you slowed down to observe and really think about the various actions we took that led to this accord–Donald J. Trump has been playing Three-dimensional Chess. And Rachel Maddow has been playing Pin the Tail on the Donkey!

Here’s a link to: http://whitekingrising.com/ where you can read that book, and learn what it takes to be able to play 3-dimensional chess!

Election Choices Made Easy

Published / by Lee Kessler / 1 Comment on Election Choices Made Easy

Well, as complex and numerous as the issues are that we face in the US today, you may be in a quandary about who to vote for in November. So many things to consider, so many choices, so much noise. Medical dilemmas, foreign policy issues, economic issues, social issues. So much noise!

Here are two questions that may simplify this particular election for you.

Do you like watching mobs seize neighborhoods, vandalize and loot stores, destroy people’s business dreams, burn buildings, blind federal agents, throw Molotov cocktails? Or like watching young children gunned down in the street in their own neighborhood? Is that the America you want to live in going forward?

If no, go on to the next question.

Did your mayor, city council members, governor, state senators and representatives, US Congressperson and Senators, and Presidential candidate stand up and openly decry the lawlessness? Or have they remained silent, in tacit agreement with the anarchy?

Assuming you understand that what you reward you get more of, you only need to decide what kind of world you want. If you reward lawlessness, you get more lawlessness. If you reward anarchy, you get more anarchy.

So, if you answered no to #1 and #2, then your vote is simple. Any politician who has failed to stand up and OPENLY decry the criminality–no matter the ostensible justification–wants that world to continue. Your government leaders have the power to stop it and restore order. If they did not do so, and if you reward them with re-election or election, you will have more of what invades your household daily on the news. Only soon, this traveling show will show up in your pristine, tranquil neighborhoods.

As for me, I will not vote for ANY politician who did not take a stand against chaos and anarchy. If they encouraged the mayhem, they are gone. If they stood silent while their constituents suffered, they deserve to be unelected.

All the rest is just blabber and political pandering. It can all be debated post election. Unless of course the American people decide they want to live in the world that is being created now by violent anarchists. In that world, nothing will be debated. Censorship and violent extortion will silence all dissenting voices. And none of these other important issues that you are trying to decide on will be solved. It is impossible to solve America’s problems while America burns, and anarchists force you into submission.

The choice is yours. No matter your party, this one is real simple.