Political Cold-Calling Can Bring Up Interesting Issues
I may be rare, but I often take calls to my cell phone from numbers I don’t recognize. As a result, I’ve wasted quite a few seconds of my life here and there disconnecting robocalls, but remarkably, they sometimes produce intellectually stimulating conversation.
As an example, I got a call the other day from a campaign worker for Mike Stoker, a candidate for state assembly in California. She began our conversation:
Can I count on you to vote for Mike Stoker (shown here) on election day?
Me: No. I’ve never heard of him. What should I know about him?
Stoker rep: He’s a conservative Republican.
Me: Well, that’s a deal-breaker right there.
Stoker rep: Aren’t you in favor of small business?
Me: Are you kidding? Are there people who are against small businesses?
Stoker rep: OK, but don’t you think they’re over-regulated?
Me: In general, no. In fact, what type of idiot thinks that the hundreds of different industry sectors in which small businesses operate are all over-regulated?
Seeing that this was going nowhere, she gave up. She was polite, but she recognized that there were greener pastures to be found elsewhere in her database.
My take from this is that many if not most voters believe in gross over-generalities like the one that she was trying to exploit with me.
As an environmentalist, wasteful glitz like this is simply irritating.
From “across the pond,” 2GreenEnergy supporter Gary Tulie sent me this petition to 
A business-as-usual approach to our planet’s environment means that unprecedented levels of suffering will be visited upon a huge percentage of the world’s population.
Good joke here.
As COVID-19 raged around the world, many Americans believed that the pandemic was planned by the U.S. government, as an event to determine to what extend we would tolerate having our liberties taken away. An alternative theory was that our hospitals were being given huge amounts of money for each fatality they attributed to COVID, and thus coroners were deliberately misclassifying the cause of deaths on millions of the certificates they filled out and signed.
We’re teetering on the edge.
For the low-low price of only $32.99, you can buy this baseball cap from a company called “
There sure is growing certainly that Trump and justice are on a collision course with one another. And I have to admit, as time passes, there seems to be less and less wiggle-room surrounding a couple of the former president’s crimes.
The note at left is a reminder of how cruel our system of healthcare is here in the U.S.
