"Half sunk a shattered visage lies"---Shelley ("Ozymandias") nt

Does anyone doubt that some of the "true Christians" who are---as I type this---on bended

knee earnestly praying for Trump's speedy full recovery will next spend equal time in prayer pleading for Biden's infection and death?

This sick practice actually has a name: "imprecatory prayer".

Trump is still the same monster. I think it is necessary to keep that in mind as

we hear all the expressions of sympathy and concern.

It is still necessary to subject him and his regime to the same intense criticism that has been building for months. In large measure, he is responsible for his illness---IF he even has genuinely tested positive. He is also responsible for exposing COUNTLESS OTHERS to the Corona virus.

While I will not wish him ill, I will not give him an inch politically.

"It is what it is".

Ooh, ooh! Mr. Trump! Mr. Trump! DON'T GET TESTED FOR COVID!

If you don't test, you can't be "positive", remember? No test equals no Corona virus!

So, what is the deal with CNN just now? Piece about threatened violence at polls on election day

termed it "frightening and real" and then attributed the violence to BOTH right and left wing extremists!

Are they TRYING to suppress voting?

And, this "both sides do it " is transparent bullshit!

I guess I am just a terrible person. At the very least, I am small-minded and ungenerous.

A gulf has opened between me and those who STILL support the monster in the White House. And, though I know it is not " the right thing to say", I don't ever foresee that gulf closing or even narrowing because I will not allow it.

I do not want to associate unnecessarily with anyone whose integrity, judgment, morals and courage are so deficient that they are utterly unreliable for any purpose. I also do not want to be involved in frequent arguments and confrontations with people who are fools, fascists or both. That would happen if I tried to "make nice" with them because I would call them that and worse when they tried masking their arrogant racism, misogyny and bigotry with a smile and a wink.

The handful of relatives who are still proud to fly his flag will get a nod at any funerals at which we unavoidably bump into them. Any who bother to ask why I am so "distant" will be told, in blunt terms, exactly why.

I did not cause this divide. They did. I have never belonged to the TEA Party, but I am proposing a "FEA" Party: "FUCK 'EM ALL!"

We voted this morning in southern Illinois---hand-delivered our mail-in ballots to the clerk. We

made photocopies of both our exterior "mail-in" envelope and the interior "secrecy" envelope and had both stamped to show date of receipt by Clerk. Our county is counting these nearly "as received". They count in 3-day batches.

Clerk said the expect to have county totals by 7:00 p.m. on November 3rd. That's just an hour after the pills will close.

Maybe, just maybe, "only" 2 out of 3 of my neighbors will vote for Trump. Over 3 out of 4 did in 2016.

While it is tragic that Trump has the mindset of a spoiled 3-year-old, it is even

more tragic that so many are---Just---Now---realizing that.