Okay, I drifted dangerously close to politics yesterday, and today I’m going to have to double down.

On Tuesday I assiduously plan to reverse course on that again–I’m writing it in my head already–but when in the course of human events it becomes necessary, et cetera.

I’ve already said that I’m done voting for anyone running under either wing of the foul vicious Uniparty, and I stand by that. I read up and realized that this year, my state is swingy again, at least in terms of the whole ‘Control of the Senate’ thing, and I don’t care. Somebody please explain to me what Mark Kelly has done to change things in my life, or the life of any prole. I’ll listen, with an openly skeptical mind, but unless and until I hear of a single decent reason why I should piss away my vote on the centrist likes of him again, I just will. Not. Do it.

It seems likely, however, that in the ’24 Presidential, I won’t have to throw my vote away at all.

Mr. Jimmy Dore is said to be running for that office, under the banner of the thing they’re calling a People’s Party.

I don’t know if he’ll make it officially official. I don’t know if he will stay the course all the way to the end. I worry that if he really starts to make waves, they will find a bullet with his name on it somewhere, and I’m not talking about a soft Bernie bullet either. I don’t believe with any conviction that he’d make a good president, or that he has any substantive chance in hell to get within a hundred miles of the office in the first place.

None of that matters. He tells the truth about the rotten Empire and make-believe democracy and the crimes routinely committed in the course of Spreading It like a plague over the weeping earth for my entire lifetime and long before by Dems, Repubs, and even the old system-captured supposed Independent who broke our hearts twice over, promising a revolution that never came and died in darkness.

I want the volume turned up on that truth, and #Dore24 will crank it to eleven even if it does nothing else at all.

First I Heard Of It, at least beyond hopeful whispers, from Hard Lens Media.

What you’re going to hear from your Trusted Sources to begin with is that JD is secretly a right-winger. They say it already, all the time, about not just about him but anyone who leaks a little truth now and then, like Glenn Greenwald. It’s just not true.

When that doesn’t work out, and provided Dore is capable of pulling a few votes somewhere someday, they’ll fall back to calling him, and anyone who supports him, an evil Spoiler. I’ve heard it all before, up close and personal, as when some girlfriend of mine twenty years ago accused me of being personally responsible for the Bush crimes because I voted for Nader in 2000. (In a solid red state not named Florida, for god’s sake.)

Even if it turned out to be indictably true … I can totally live with being a spoiler. And you will be completely permitted to berate me with the fact, and never even think of blaming Debbie Wasserman-Schultz or Donna Brazile or Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama or Joe Biden for anything ever, because unlike Mark Zuckerberg or the President who brought you America’s first ever literal Ministry of Truth, I actually believe in the First Amendment. So does Jimmy Dore.

I could go on, but I’m sick of my own voice for now, and besides, once I post this one I’ll finally be all the way caught up from my tragic and most recent lapse against my one true self-inflicted responsibility in this world. To date anyway. We’ll see how that goes, too.