Green Parties of Europe

A coalition of European Green Parties, including those from Belgium, Spain, Ukraine, Poland, and most other European nations, have urged Jill Stein to step aside.  They note that only Harris can stop Trump and his anti-environmental policies.  The rogue U.S. Green Party is not allied with the European Green parties, some of which are part of governing coalitions.

Take it from a former American Green Party member:  the current U.S. Green Party is a fraud and its presidential candidate, Jill Stein, is a stalking horse for Donald Trump.

I'm in a movie!

My friend René just released a musical film for YouTube entitled “Great Big Man.”  It has a catchy tune, good vocal backing, interesting characters, and a political message.  My own performance is award worthy.

Here is the YouTube link:  <https://youtu.be/3BA97kVslt4?si=_7Ms0r70Gr7HFcx6>

Millions of people are voting for this man

My friend Bill sent me this film of Trump’s speech in Wisconsin.  It’s hard to watch, but every Trump voter should watch it.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AebaA1AF9w

"a sin on our soul"

In the week or so before the election we miss important news because we are worried about the latest poll in Wisconsin or what Trump said in a rally in East Bimburg, Arizona.  In case you missed it, last Friday President Biden apologized for the federal governments’s policy of forcibly removing Indian children from their families and sending them to boarding schools where they were often neglected and abused and forced to abandon their cultures.

Biden said “I formally apologize as president of the United States of America for what we did.  I formally apologize.  It’s long overdue.”  

Over 19,000 children were sent to such schools.  Nearly 1000 died while attending them.  Biden also signed legislation to invest $45 billion in infrastructure and health systems on reservations.  You may remember that Biden was also the first President to appoint an American Indian, Deb Haaland, to run the Department of the Interior.

I really like Joe Biden.  I think he was absolutely right to apologize. 

See Peter Baker and Aishvarya Kavi, “Biden Apologizes for Mistreatment of Native American Children,” New York Times, (26 Oct. 2024), pp. A1, A17. 

What goes around...

So Biden called Trump supporters at Madison Square Garden “garbage.”  These were the people who laughed when a “comedian” called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage.”  These were the people who thought it proper to call people like me “vermin.”

Now their feelings are hurt.  After years of using pornographic terms for Biden, for Kamala Harris, and for Democrats in general on signs, flags, and at rallies, their feelings are hurt.  

In the words of J. D. Vance, “I am done with that.”  What a bunch of snowflakes.

José Delgado and Ron DeSantis

Mr. Delgado is a 75-year-old farmworker in Florida.  He suffered a heat stroke in 2018, when he was hospitalized.  A group called “We Count!” formed shortly thereafter to push for local laws that would require employers to provide water and rest and shade breaks for Miami-Dade County’s agriculture and construction workers on excessively hot days.

Leaders in the agriculture and construction industry said such rules would create “an unneeded burden” on those industries.

In April Gov. Ron DeSantis, signed a bill banning cities and counties from imposing protections on agricultural and construction workers.

DeSantis was sitting in his air conditioned office at the time.

Information for this post came from Patricia Mazzei, “At 75, A Florida Farmworker Still Toils Under a Hot Sun,” New York Times, (27 Oct. 2024), P. 17.

Undecided?

We are still encountering people who say they are undecided in the Presidential election.  I’m not sure I even believe them, but I always have an urge to say, “What the f--- is wrong with you?”

Don’t worry.  I never say it.  But I think it.

By the way, Bad Bunny has endorsed Harris.  Trump is toast.