It’s “bombs away” on Pearl Harbor Day in America in the two Georgia senatorial runoff races.
I’m being bombed by political mail. To date, I have received a single, lonely Christmas card and a dozen or more giant, colorful postcards about the Republican candidates, David Purdue and Kelly Loeffler. So far the Democrats have AI that determines that I am not to be one on which to waste their postage. I’ve received not a single Dem mailout. There’s no party voter registration in Georgia but the Dems have ways of finding stuff out. Repubs also.
“Urgent notice: your absentee ballot needs your immediate attention.” Kinda like those urgent phone calls I get about my car warranty having expired. I don’t have no stinkin’ absentee ballot.
“Official Republican Party Notice” reads another. I’m officially sposed to apply for my absentee ballot. Never mind that. I’ll vote in person…get a copy of the ballot…and scan it into the system while a poll worker looks over my shoulder. I got me an electronic vote. I got me a paper vote. I got me a scanned paper vote. What could possibly go wrong? I dunno, ask election expert Brad Jurkovich. He seems to know a lot.
There’s businessman Purdue, smiling, distinguished looking. He should be scowling having narrowly missed a majority vote in the general election. Now he’s in an ugly runoff with Democrat Jon Ossoff. Ossoff, according to my mail has a first name: “Radical” as in radical Jon Ossoff. He makes movies which is suspicious, even though Georgia is near the top as a location for feature films. Ossoff has clients like Al Jazeera and communist countries. Purdue just watches as money managers trade his stocks.
And there’s the tall, slender Kelly Loeffler, like Purdue in the top ten richest senator list. Both came from more humble backgrounds. Farm kid for Loeffler. Purdue is a child of school teachers. Went to Georgia Tech, but I’ll hold my nose and vote for him anyhow.
Here’s Raphael Warnock, a preacher, running a strong race against Loeffler. He’s got two new first names: “Liberal” and “Radical.” His sermons are fair game and he has this riff on the Sermon on the Mount where he quotes Jesus (“You cannot serve God and Mammon”) and expands it to, “You can’t serve God and the military.” Not sure what he had in mind but since I served in the military it doesn’t ring right. It’s not a great line for Warnock.
Both races will be close. I’ll cast a vote for truth, justice, and the American Way; against socialism, communism, and Obamaism, free stuff-ism, and a lot of others…when early voting begins. I love divided government.
Oh, Trump looms large. “Trump wants you,” reads the big postcard with a somber looking Trump pointing at me, “to vote Republican.” No need to scowl at me, Mr. Lame Duck Prez, I haven’t voted for a Democratic senator since I was young and dumb.
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And you guys outside of the Peach state are all about Advent and Christmas cheer. Politics here, 24/7. Five weeks from today, the election.
BTW, polls show the Dems ahead now but what idiocy it is to pay for polling with the track record they’ve got. Ummm…we’ll see. No Dem has won a state-wide runoff in Georgia in decades.
BTW, my father-on-law was on a ship in Pearl, this date 1941. Survived. Career Navy. “Cannot serve God and the military” would probably not hit him right, RIP.
I also live here in Georgia and my experience is just like yours except that I have had my first (of several, I bet) in person visit wanting to be sure I was voting the right way.
I did learn a new term last week. “Reluctant Evangelical Voter” means someone who holds certain views but is unlikely to vote. I bet there are similar designations on the other side of the aisle. Such voters are in for special attention.
You have to spend your billion dollars somewhere.
Had a GOP guy visit the house last week.
Did they threaten your immortal soul?
Guy couldn’t wait to get away.
No. Why do you ask if they threatened my soul. What an odd question. They wanted to know if I was going to vote. I bet if I fit the profile, I’d get a visit from a democrat activist asking a similar question. It’s just politics.
John: Ask Dave Miller. He is regularly consigned to hell for not voting for Trump. I wasn’t sure if the rule applied to the down ballot races.
And others are regularly consigned to hell for voting for him. Next.
Is there a real question here are you just painting broadly with a dirty brush.
John: In future I’ll try to remember to include #humor in my comments that aren’t meant to be taken too seriously.
Printers and media outlets will do very well. Nice boost for the Georgia economy.
William, “I got me an electronic vote. I got me a paper vote. I got me a scanned paper vote. What could possibly go wrong?” As a fellow peach state tax payer, in light of recent events, I’m half-jokingly forecasting another facility maintenance incident (perhaps a ‘sprinkler system fire alarm activation’ this time) My money is on a well-timed infrastructure emergency in close proximity to ballot tabulating scanners, requiring pesky poll observers to vacate the premises. (for public safety) Who knows …a selective electrical circuit overload, could strangely affect only the network of security camera feeds. Do I sound cynical?… Read more »
Better candidate, incompetence of local election officials. Happens every election.
Does Georgia have a harbor where North Korea can deliver votes?
Bill, William
My faith in mainstream news reporting to deliver unfiltered factual accounts …is as equally diminished as my confidence that a consistently lawful electoral process will occur again.
I cannot read or listen to network news, without reflexively thinking of George Orwell’s ‘1984’ and the ‘Ministry of Disinformation’. Likewise, Pilate’s astounding question to our Lord; “What is TRUTH?”
The upside for my soul, is viewing the relentless social decay and implosion of these once-revered institutions, as confirmation of my dispensational expectation …accelerating the arrival of a pre-trib rapture.
Dave: I don’t see a problem with being skeptical of mainstream media accounts. However I haven’s seen any indication that non-mainstream news reporting is any more factual or unbiased. That certainly isn’t the case with Newsmax or OANN.
Bill, On YouTube, I have watched a few hours of source material from multiple state election board hearings in which many credible witnesses provided affidavit testimony, recounting their first-hand observations …under sworn penalty of perjury. I didn’t require sophomoric interpretation from a biased ‘talking head’ offering their self-congratulatory, smarmy commentary of the hearing proceedings. I prefer examining original material when possible. Of course, an oath doesn’t automatically mean that a person positively will not ‘lie like a rug’, but the consistent descriptions of the alleged incidents from a diverse assortment of many witnesses …does ring true to my ears. These… Read more »
Fine, but allegations aren’t proof.
Bill,
Last night while commenting, weariness diverted my intent to explain my remark pursuant to reflexive, dismissive criticisms from forum contributors …of the growing legal claims alleging that outcome determinative election tabulating negligence or deliberate malfeasance occurred.
I hope my words didn’t appear as a direct retort targeting our respectful exchange of views on this thread.
Assuredly, I was recalling the prevailing conversational tone that seems reflective of majority consensus among a great many commenters, across multiple discussion threads.
Dave, no problem. I’ve often felt that online conversations tend to be a bit harsher than they would be if people spoke face to face.
I don’t see any other place to make a suggestion. So I will put it here, how about a discussion of what SBC churches have done during the pandemic to stay in touch with members and keep them informed; to minister to people isolated during the lockdown; to do outreach; to support missions, etc. So many churches seem to have just been hunkering down and remaining quiet. Where are the churches with imaginative, inspired approaches?