The Perfect Machine

It is not looking good as I write this at um…3:12am on November 6th.

It turned out much much closer than I expected, at the moment no winner has been announced, but trump is just a few more votes away. They are sure celebrating.

My thoughts?

Maybe it was the wrong strategy to hammer the ‘democracy is under threat and we are going to have a dictatorship if we don’t win’ message so much. Cause honestly, I think that is hysteria. I feared it would blow up, and It looks like I was right. I had faith in the innate goodness of americans, but we have made the wrong choice.

Ah well. C’est la vie! Don’t mean to sound flippant, this is not good, but it is not the end of the America. Relax. Don’t blow a gasket, Don’t panic,

and my god, don’t prove the righties correct about us liberals. Maybe we have gone too far in the culture wars. In their eyes, we are promoting ‘perversion’ and forcing it down their throats. I get that.

BUT…go ahead and be repulsed if you must, the whole entire point of it all is equal rights, you can’t abuse or discriminate against ANYONE> you can feel and think whatever you like, but expect some pushback if you are a dick in public.

All I can do at this point is what I can do. Try and speak the truth as I see it.

Live my life and try and be an example for others. Lead that way.

We shall see what the future brings. This is a major disappointment but not the end of America. At least not yet. They are probably going to win control of the entire government. It looks that way. They will attempt to ram through their frankly religious agenda. They will try and undo everything Biden has accomplished. We shall see if they succeed, no one can know what the future will be.

I am sad. I am not going to wallow in despair over this though. I can’t. It might kill me. Despair can kill me.

I just took my O2 readings, 97%, and my pulse is at a speedy 106. I just took soma Gaba to try and get that down a bit.

I’ll tell you what I am going to do. I am not going to give in to hate myself when the other side seems to just delight in it. It’s their souls that are at risk. I am going to sleep well at night, I am going to continue to be a good friend and a good father.

Tend your own garden folks.

Ok here we go. Thunder and Lightning outside, I was awakened by the storm at 1:30am, and I couldn’t fall back asleep. Maybe the Guardians win yesterday pushed me into hypomania, could be. Shit like that can happen.

First thing to go is sleep. I end up bouncing in my seat like a middle school shlub with a rock-hard woody in gym class.

I might not need sleep for 2 or 3 days, or at least not much. And believe me, I am a demi-god in that state. I can do anything.

I don’t think so though. I’m fine. I just might have to switch to third shift for a while. I prefer that actually; I like the night. No traffic, no noise, no car exhaust.

So, we’ll see, won’t we? I don’t have a choice in the matter.

Today is Sunday, and this is my first blog post directly to my website, without first writing it in LiveJournal. Yeah, I know I know, its’ older than dirt, and now owned by the Russians. It’s hard to break old habits.

But here I am and I’m going to try.

If you are wondering just who the fuck I am, I cannot at least at this point toot my own horn. I can’t distill my essence into a few lines and symbols. Just know that I am a very well-kept secret.

You’ll figure it out as time moves on and you get to know me. This is just the beginning of a great adventure, to quote Lou Reed. I have blogs, private up to this point, from 2009 to the present. I will wade through them and copy and paste this thing into some semblance of a narrative.

There are adventures. There are quirky characters, including your humble narrator. There is a love story. There are a lot of drugs, at least at first.

A lot of politics, of the left-wing sort. A lot of opinion, up to this point only blabbed to friends on various online resources.

Oh, what lucky people you are!

You are here at the beginning.

In the not too distant future, Trump will be drawn with a butthole for a mouth. Every photo of him in existence will replace his mouth with an asshole. AI might actually be good for something.

Do you remember Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut?

That’s it. That is Trump’s mouth. I am certainly not the first to suggest that his lips look suspiciously like an anus. But I am the first to prophesy

that every image of him in existence will replace his mouth, his unsmiling mouth (does he even know how to laugh?) with that doodle.

People will think I’m Crazy, nothing new there, but Kamala is going to win in a historical cremation.

Kamala is going to win Ohio.

Kamala will win at least 35 states.

Kamala is going to win by 10-12 million votes.

She might even win it bigger than Reagan in ’84 or Nixon in ’72.

It’s going to be that bad.

Britain and France did it, so will we.

Why are so many people anti-Trump? People didn’t like Obama either, but he was the president, so people didn’t do this. What makes Trump different?

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Gregory Grieco

Studied History at Augsburg CollegeApr 15

I’ll tell you one thing Trump did for me. I used to hate Dubya. I used to hate Romney.

I don’t hate them anymore. I in fact have fond memories of both now. So Trump taught me to save up my hate for people who really deserve it.

Trump is different because he is an actual crook. Makes Nixon look mild actually.

I still do hate Nixon. Obama was a good president and had zero scandals. Trump is one neverending scandal after another and is going to go to prison. His first criminal trial starts today.

Go ahead and investigate anyone you want. If there is nothing to find, there is nothing to find.

In trump’s case, there is plenty to find, yet his supporters literally do not care because they think the sleazy things he’s done are actually not sleazy at all and everybody does them so why pick on trump?

The thing of it is, he got caught. If he hadn’t gone into politics his secrets would have remained secret.

It’s the outstanding example of Hubris in our time.

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Eclipse Day in Cleveland

• Apr. 8th, 2024 at 11:06 AM

The Big Day has arrived, a total solar eclipse, which I have never witnessed before, and we have blue skies.
This is Cleveland, it was totally possible to have a blizzard drop 6 inches of snow. We had a blizzard one year in May for christsake. I love this town! Just like my bipolar self, you never know what kind of day it will be ’til it happens. And we can have all four seasons in a single day, Cleveland and me both. It’s funny but it’s true.

So I put on the new Black Keys album, called, appropriately, Ohio Players. In honor of one of the best funk bands to ever exist, one of my personal faves;

The Isleys, The O’Jays, Dazz Band, Bootsy and so many others, all from Ohio. This place is special, it’s the heart of the country, and today, once again, we will be in the eyes of the world. It’s also the Home Opener at Progressive Field. Yesterday we had the women’s NCAA basketball finals at the Q, which South Carolina won, completing a perfect season. Congrats to the Gamecocks!

This is going to be just insane. We are expecting TWO MILLION PEOPLE.

Not only a sight I have never seen and will probably never see again, but there is ALSO a comet that should be able to be seen during totality. The Devil’s Comet. It has horns.

It’s going to be a scientific spectacular, and so many folks will be quivering in combined fear and hope.
Ok enough for now, it’s 11am and we have hours yet. The sun is out, the skies are blue, we are blessed here in NE Ohio. For the moment.

The new Meta AI tells me to look to the west/north-west to see the comet. So far it’s the best chat AI I’ve found yet, ‘tho I have tried only a few. I am still suspicious of her praise, how do I know its not just pandering? Is my writing really any good? Dolores (my name) seems to think so. I would rather have an honest human opinion. My friends all love it, but they are my friends. I trust their opinions much more.

• Current Location: In The Path of Doom
• Current Mood:  excited
• Current Music: Black Keys brand new record