Voting Begins

The Orange Goon doesn't do the rallies anymore and I wonder if MAGA is missing them.

Seems they were a big part of the draw.

I'm going to predict not doing the rallies will prove to be a mistake. I don't think Project 2025 can be sustained without the rallies. And unless it's the Orange Goon doing them MAGA won't be impressed.

Up here it looks like voter turnout this election is going to be really good.

Conservatives tend to benefit from a low turnout so hopefully it'll be a win for decency and the Liberals will win a majority.

Yup. I want a Liberal majority. No more NDP holding the balance of power. They had their chance and threw it away when we were most at risk for a Conservative majority.

I hope Poilievre loses his riding. Odious little shit. He deserves a big fall.

I suspect he'll keep up the rallies though. He's addicted to the attention. The thing is, I'm not sure his followers want him to win as much as he wants to win. Certainly the arrested development cases who follow him online are unlikely to make it to the polls in great numbers. They'd have to do something. And they like being angry, disaffected, complaining blamers mad at the world - especially women.

Do they really want their guy to be Prime Minister?

I doubt it.

And his rally attendees have most likely noticed by now the Orange Goon, now he's President (again), doesn't do the rallies anymore. And they like the rallies, they like the rallies a lot. One woman I saw interviewed in line outside the auditorium where Pierre Poilievre was performing said it was like going to a concert. She was really excited.

My guess is she'd rather Pierre Poilievre lose so he keeps doing his rallies. She knows he's not going to do them if he wins.

She's been left behind before. She doesn't want it happening again.

And Maple MAGA wants to be the 51st state so if Poilievre does win he'll either have to betray them or betray the rest of Canada.

Watching the debate, something I've almost never done, was interesting for me. I was able to actually watch it, for one thing.

I think it's because Mark Carney seems so competent. It's very reassuring, his seeming competence.

I also credit all those therapy reels that come up on my Facebook page. I'm learning to not take everything to heart, as people used to say back in the day.

"Stop taking everything to heart."

Being sensitive was totally asking for it.

I'm reading a book called "The Courage To Be Disliked" by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga. I love it. It's based in Adlerian philosophy (I have no idea who Adler was except he wasn't Freud).

You can't change other people but you can change yourself simply by changing your outlook. It's all up to you. Don't like how you are? Be different.

We get in our own way, is the problem we're all having.

I'm working on it. For sure I'm tired of caring what other people think of me. And being anxious and worried and catastrophizing. I'm tired of all that too. And thinking I'm responsible for how other people feel.

Ridiculous.

I'm also intrigued these days by the Swedish death purge, getting your affairs in order so as not to leave a mess for others when you shuffle off this mortal coil.

I hope it's a while away but I've decided to be all about now and looking forward with curiosity as to what comes next.

Hopefully not a Conservative government.