All You Fascists Bound to Lose - Prove Woody Right

 

All Souls day - Election Eve.

Your are the home I didn't know I needed

When I thought being alone

Was what I meant but didn't say

When I find what I may lack

There is always a way back

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I don’t get a lot of views on this page, not that I expected to get many even when I started this. Blogs are passé now, I suppose. I think all the “influencers” on the internet use twitter, instagram and tick tock. I don’t understand that whole tick tock thing. I think more people are doing podcasts, too. I’m sticking with words and my poor typing skills.

The views I get are mostly from the United States. Sometimes I get some people in Canada and England, excuse me, the United Kingdom. The odd views are the single views from places like Somalia, Kenya, and Russia. I suspect that the people in Somalia and Kenya are looking to start sending me messages from some prince that wants to give me money. I’d like to think that there is that one person in Russia who is honestly interested in what I have to say, but given the news of how much they are interfering in our elections, I suspect that they probably have more nefarious intentions.

So, if you are that one person in Russia reading this, leave me the hell alone. I’m just an old fucker saying what I want to say. Just like other Americans.

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Pete Seeger quote:

​"Participation, it's the only thing that's gonna save the human race."

If you can't march or phone bank or donate, you can call or write or email your senators and representatives. They probably won't listen much, but you can still tell them how you feel.

Or you can vote.

Pete's banjo had these words written on it:

"This machine surrounds hate and forces it to surrender"

Woody Guthrie quote:

Woody Guthrie quote:

"The note of hope is the only note that can help us or save us from falling to the bottom of the heap of evolution, because, largely, about all a human being is, anyway, is just a hoping machine"

Woody's guitar read: This machine kills fascists.

A lot of people think we are in dangerous times in our country. I think so, too. Biden is right. This election is about the soul of our nation and what we decide tomorrow will determine the direction we go for a long time.

If we don't like the direction it takes, then we will have to do what we think is best for ourselves and our families. We just might have to be the machine ourselves.

Tomorrow is election day. We should all be singing Woody's words:

Vote dammit. Just vote. Prove Woody right.

Observations two days from an election

 All Saints Day - two days until the election

Two days to go in this election madness and regardless of who wins, by the end of this year, we’ll start seeing people jockeying for the nomination in 2024. 

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When you’re down, fight it

March uphill

Keep marching 

Find what’s wrong and right it.

If they knock you down, get up

Fight it.

Fix what’s wrong and right it.

Just remember that you are part

Of what they call the riff raff 

And of that you should be proud

When you want cry instead just laugh

Cuz you are part of a larger crowd

We outnumber them

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The GOP will try to change the rules of counting votes. Democrats will try to count the votes. On election night, no candidate is awarded electoral votes. That only comes after the votes are tallied and certified by each state. Some states will have all their ballots tallied. Most won’t. Patience will be a virtue more than ever. I keep telling myself that.

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Doctors and nurses DO NOT make any more money on COVID patients than they did before the pandemic. I wish Trump would stop telling that lie. As one health care worker said:

It is true, however, that hospitals do get 2000 bucks. According to researchgate.net, 

“The average cost of an ICU day is estimated at US$10,794.00 for the first day and then plateaus at US$3,968/day by the third day, depending on the need for mechanical ventilation, 25 and surgical floor costs are estimated at US$1,488/ day” 

While the average ICU stay is a 3.3 days, the ICU stay for COVID ranges from 5 to 19 days. Seems that an extra 2000 bucks that hospitals get is cheap.