You Get What You Vote For.
I’m sure I’ve said this before out of the hundreds of pieces I’ve published on here, I wouldn’t be surprised if I’ve written this before. Whether I’ve said this in the past or these are lingering thoughts that never escaped the prison of my mind, today I will release (or re-release) them. This topic and talking point will be in my “I told you so” rolodex along with the actually phrase “I told you so” and other repeated words of warning and wisdom of mine. This will be the case until Americans actually rise up (all we need is 20%) or until I completely give up trying to educate folks on this point. I’m hedging my betters on the ladder, unfortunately.
Another election year which means another nine months of brittle boned politicians feeding us nutrition deficient bullshit on an ice cream cone as we are told to our faces the cone holds our favorite ice cream flavor. Nine months of corporate funded politicians asking struggling Americans to decide between eating dinner for the night or donating to them so the “bad guy” doesn’t win the money race, and unfortunately nine more months of loud mouth shills calling people like me, Cardi B and Macklemore “irresponsible” for holding politicians accountable and opting not to waste our vote. Who am I kidding, those last two points never stop, politicians are always going to ask us to do more financially than what they are willing to do or will ever do for the very people their unpaid campaign staffers mass text, and shills will always be shills. Right now the American voters have the opportunity to change the tide for the better and I truly mean that. Unlike the political campaigns from four, eight even twelve years ago, I truly mean it when I say “this is the most important election of our lives.” I say this solely based on one issue, war. Within these four years we’ve seen America continuing to conjure up cash to fund their proxy wars and sugar baby, Ukraine. Now America is financially aiding in the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians but your boy JB wants us all to believe he only has the power to abolish the student loan debt of one man and a little bit left over to buy him and his family a fast food chicken feast.
I say THIS election cycle is one of the most important ones of our lives because right now we have a presidential candidates who is just as pro-Palestine as everyone who uses water melon emojis is an that presidential hopeful is not Joe Biden or Donald Trump. We have a 3rd Party candidate by the name of Dr. Cornel West (please say the Dr.) who not only is pro-Palestine, but wants to cancel student loan debt, eliminate medical debt and my personal favorite, is pro-reparations. Sure, his stance on it isn’t perfect, meaning there are some flaws and missteps I think he should revisit, but even I would accept it as a win regardless of how it looks if it happens.
There are a few other hot button topics that a lot of y’all have expressed interest in that Dr. Cornel West has a genuine want and plan for, but there has always been a 3rd Party candidate who has had the temerity to get what we want done, but “we” never get them in a place of power for them to do that. Not at the national level. We meaning you, not me, because I’ve voted for 3rd Party candidates since I stopped voting for the Democrats after Obama’s first term. Did I get a T-shirt or cookie for it, no, but I get to say I have a long track record of voting on issues I claim to care about and not throwing my vote away to spite the next man or woman running for office. You as a vote blue no matter who’er have another opportunity to keep the big bad booger built boogie man out of the White House and stick it to the Democrats who constantly show you that they do not care about your cries to free Palestine, cancel student loans and medical debt, protect reproductive rights and withdrawing foreign aid to Israel.
Don’t let 2 Loud and 2 Wrong tell you that voting 3rd Party is a wasted vote that could’ve gone to Biden. Voting for Biden is voting for four more years of the same with a bigger scooping of shit ice cream. Shit, voting for Biden is voting for Trump minus the crypto donations.
Whatever happens between now, when you’re reading this and November 5th, 2024 is primarily on you. All I can do is present you possible new information. All I can say is I wont be surprised if the next 4 years are more of the same, but shittier, and neither should you.
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