We don’t need to know all the sordid facts about Tim Walz. I will not read or react to them. I am sick of it all. None of the truth about this scumbag politician is surprising. Walz, like Kamala and EVERY SINGLE ONE of his fellow “Democrats,” is a proud, open Communist in search of power over others. He is doing all he can to destroy Minnesota, a beautiful place with a proud history. He locked down his state for no reason and weaponized the police against law abiding citizens and property owners to foster a race war. It’s what Marxists do: divide and conquer.

He wants a shot at destroying America, just like Kamala. He says socialism is a good thing. He’s just another glorified control freak seeking to bring economic decline, impoverishment and starvation combined with control over thought and speech, to the greatest nation in all of human history. He claims to be progressive. Progressive? Sure. Like a disease.

Do all you can to support President Trump. He is literally ALL America has, at this point. If you are a RINO, libertarian or “Objectivist” planning to VOTE FOR Kamala, then you can go to hell. I do not care what happens to you.

There will almost certainly be a civil war or some kind of national breakup whether Trump wins or loses. Some say Kamala will not be the nominee. That’s not what I see. They are betting the farm on Kamala. I believe Kamala may be sworn in well before January 20 to solidify her power. Biden is toast and really has no say in the matter. As for the cackling Kamala: Of course she’s an incompetent whore. But the last puppet was a demented goon. You don’t need to be of high character to be a puppet. Obama, and whoever else comprises this toxic oligarchy, are the ones in control.

I am rooting for Trump. I will vote for him with pleasure. He is one of the great heroes of human history. But I have no illusions. These rotten sociopaths, drunk on power and hellbent on incinerating the rights of man, will not go quietly.

Find your inner strength. We’re all going to need it.

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Right now, the United Kingdom is barreling toward totalitarianism.  After a second-generation immigrant reportedly murdered several children in a vicious stabbing attack last week, native Brits took to the streets to denounce their country’s criminally dangerous open borders.  If these outraged citizens had been members of Antifa, the press would have compassionately framed their actions as “mostly peaceful protests” deserving of praise.  Instead, because the public’s fury is directed toward one of globalism’s sacred cows — mass migration — angry parents have been condemned for fomenting “violent riots.”  Protecting children from serial killers and sexual predators, it seems, is not “politically correct.”  Of course, anyone familiar with the Rotherham grooming scandal already knew that

The problem, according to the ruling Establishment, is not that open border immigration policies have led to marked increases in violent crime and cultural hostility, but rather that ordinary citizens have begun to express their displeasure.  Commie Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has announced a two-pronged solution for combatting public dissent: (1) increased social media censorship and (2) widespread implementation of facial recognition technology to beef up the U.K.’s already robust mass surveillance.  

This exercise in raw tyranny follows Big Brother’s favorite playbook.  First, the government creates a problem that harms ordinary citizens.  Next, authorities pretend that no problem actually exists.  Eventually, citizens are forced to take matters into their own hands.  Finally, the government uses public outrage as an excuse to expand its own powers.

As in America, there is overwhelming public support in the U.K. for secure borders and controlled immigration.  Just as in the United States, both sides of the U.K.’s political Uniparty have ignored citizens’ wishes and instead flooded the country with illegal aliens who cannot easily assimilate into Western society.  After violent crime and community conflicts predictably rose, U.K. authorities were more willing to ban knives than to admit that they had put the public in serious danger.  And now that regular Brits are pushing back against the government’s criminal enterprise, the Marxist prime minister has chosen to use the crisis as a pretext for increasing mass surveillance and banning free speech.  Somewhere on a whiteboard in a Deep State dungeon, this blueprint for erecting a new world order dystopia has long been planned out.  Government officials have the blood of innocents on their hands.

Such ruling-class treachery is nothing new.  Similar blueprints for erasing freedoms and expanding government power abound.  For instance, there is the classic welfare state gambit: (1) move blue-collar jobs overseas, (2) tax and regulate citizens into poverty, (3) buy the votes of impoverished citizens desperate for handouts, and (4) keep the public dependent upon the government’s continued “generosity.”

There is the central bank funny money gambit: (1) give a small cabal of filthy rich bankers the power to print money as they see fit, (2) fund extravagant government programs with loans from the money-printing bankers, (3) artificially inflate the value of Wall Street assets while devaluing the meager savings of the working poor, (4) prop up unnatural economic bubbles with government interventions, (5) transfer all real property from the poorest to the wealthiest, (6) leave the majority of citizens in the precarious position of borrowing all their lives from rapacious creditors, (7) wait for the economy to crash like a house of cards, and (8) force all the desperate peasants into a system with central bank digital currencies that supervises their transactions in real time.  

There is the global apocalypse gambit: (1) indoctrinate citizens with the false message that hydrocarbon energy is killing the planet, (2) heavily regulate all market activity for the public’s safety, (3) tax citizens for using unapproved energies, (4) launder windfall profits to “green energy” cronies, and (5) strictly monitor all citizens’ carbon footprint from cradle to grave.  

There is the WWIII gambit: (1) promise Russia that NATO’s military alliance has no intention of expanding toward its borders, (2) spend the next three decades expanding NATO’s military alliance right up to Russia’s borders, (3) blame any Russian response on its secret desire to conquer Europe, (4) provide the European Commission with an excuse to erase national borders and build a pan-European military, and (5) give Western nations an opportunity to send able-bodied young men off to battle before they can turn their attention to matters closer to home.  

Finally, there is the global health emergency gambit: (1) invest tax dollars in dangerous biological weapons programs that experiment with deadly pathogens, (2) wait until one of those pathogens escapes and kills millions of people, (3) isolate citizens in their homes while seizing control over markets and communications, (4) mandate the use of experimental “vaccines” (providing windfall profits to pharmaceutical pirates), and (5) institute medical passports in order to track and trace citizens for life.  

Cause a problem, exploit a problem, and leave citizens worse off than they would have otherwise been had the government never gotten involved — lather, rinse, repeat!

At some point, Westerners must accept that their governments are only gentler versions of the one-party dictatorships that rule over citizens in places such as China, North Korea, Venezuela, and Iran.  If you’re a persecuted member of Germany’s conservative AfD political party, an incarcerated J6 protester still awaiting trial in D.C., or an online meme-maker convicted of “hate speech” in the U.K., the West’s rhetorical cheerleading for “democracy” over “authoritarianism” represents a distinction without much difference.  Tyranny feels just as oppressive no matter which government places its boot on your neck.

This sometimes comes as a shock to anyone who has been indoctrinated to worship government as a force for good, but here’s the unvarnished truth: the State is not your friend!  Big Brother does not care about your safety or security.  Espionage agencies do not care if their shadowy schemes lead to your untimely death.  Central bank gangsters do not care if you lose all your savings in one of their financial bubbles.  Pharmaceutical companies making money hand over fist do not care if you get injured from one of their experimental “vaccines.”  (Their government friends gave them legal immunity, after all!)  Defense industry executives selling weapons to both sides of every conflict do not care if you end up as collateral damage.  Politicians who are eager to replace their own citizens with foreign nationals do not care if you are the next casualty of illegal immigration.  Governments care about only two things: (1) what you can give them today, and (2) what you can give them tomorrow.  Monarchy, dictatorship, oligarchy, democracy — the form of government does not matter.  In every political organization, the unquenchable thirst for wealth and power remains the same.

Once a person frees himself from the delusion that the government is here to help, it’s much easier to make sense of its otherwise inexplicable behavior.  Think of the State as a ruthless conqueror interested only in taking everything you own.  From the State’s perspective, you would ideally keep your mouth shut as it rummages through your things, considers whether your children would make good slaves, and decides whether to let you and your loved ones continue breathing.  Should the government spare your life, however, there will be strings attached.  You will do as it says.  You will keep only what it doesn’t take as tax.  You will obey its chosen “experts.”  In other words, in exchange for your life, you will worship the State.

Through this lens, the West’s descent into totalitarianism makes perfect sense.  Our governments do not care about free speech, free markets, self-government, or world peace.  Why would they?  Such lofty ideals only detract from their power and authority.  On the other hand, censorship, regulation, bureaucracy, and constant war provide the State everything it needs to rule in perpetuity.  With friends like that, who needs enemies?

J.B. Shurk, American Thinker

Back in 1980, competence in the federal government still mattered. That’s why Ronald Reagan (whom the media detested) crushed Jimmy Carter in a landslide.

Today, it’s not the same. The globalist elites have rigged the economy and the electoral systems in their favor. In 1980, we had a hampered market economy. The government had too much influence, but did not pull the strings. Today we have a fascist economy; the major corporations are private in name only. Their embrace of insane woke ruminations would have been suicide for profits back in 1980, or even as late as 2000. Those days are over; like the malignant tumor America’s founders warned us about, the government grew big enough to take all our freedom away. The fiascos of 2020, the COVID scam and the subsequent prosecution and later shooting of Trump (the modern Reagan) provide more than enough evidence to support this point.

In 2024, the best Trump can hope for is a narrow electoral college win, if enough fraud can be prevented in the swing states run by lawless, amoral Democrats. Things are developing VERY rapidly and there’s no telling what will happen before November, or even by the end of the week. The oligarchy that America became is swift and efficient; just ask the Bidens.

It is not my intention to be negative. It’s my intention to be truthful. I wish conservatives would stop fantasizing it’s 1980. It’s not, and it won’t be again–until we literally overthrow the tyrants, taking away their profits/power and imprisoning all of them, so they can’t keep doing this to us. Try the big names for treason, starting with the Biden crime family. And Kamala, and the Obamas. Show them the same mercy they show their victims, the middle class they’re decimating and the fought-for-in-blood heritage of freedom they’re eviscerating with a sneer.

We need to honor the system of private property and individual rights that gives any government moral legitimacy. Anything less — and you will get some version of President Kamala.

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Trump’s support comes mostly from the middle class. The uber wealthy are almost all Democrats; the uber wealthy don’t have to worry about inflation or taxes, not too much. And the poor are dependent on the government. Democrats are the party of unlimited government, so most of the poor are good with that. There are notable exceptions to what I am saying, but these are the trends.

The middle class is not inherently superior. No class is. But the existence of a middle class is a signal of economic, as well as moral and social-psychological health. The elite DemComs are evil, but they are also smart. They understand that if you kill the middle class, you get compliant people. It’s control they’re after, not just money. Soros, Zuckerberg, the Bidens, the Obamas and all the rest already have billions. Billions are not enough for them. They want control, domination and power. This is what makes them ruthless, totalitarian and evil.

Trump’s coalition is fascinating and historic. He inherited the voters who used to follow FDR and JFK, and later Reagan. They want the American dream. The essence of America was the result of any vibrant capitalist system — a strong middle class. The DemComs have murdered the middle class in California and New York is on its way. They are coming for all of us. Leftists want us barefoot and pregnant. Trump’s movement, at present, is the ONLY thing in the culture trying to stop them.

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Of course the proclamation that Christianity’s most holy day had been replaced by National Day of Visibility for the Mentally Ill and/or Perverted was intended to offend. Understand that communism is really a manifestation of hatred for others – the others being us – and that part of the fun is exercising power over the normals. They intend to insult us, then they gaslight that it was just a coincidence. But everyone – us and them – know that it is, in fact, a disgusting and disgraceful blasphemy designed to disrespect us.

The real problem is that we notice. Why are you Jesus people so triggered? This comes from people who scream like little girls when you point out that they are not actually little girls.

But do not get wrapped up in the right or wrong of it, at least when dealing with the communists. There is no right or wrong for them; there is only what is required right now, this minute, to solidify or increase their power. You cannot reason with them and you will not talk them out of anything. Their rejection of reason and facts and objective truth is really their greatest advantage. It puts normal people on the defensive because normal people’s tools are utterly ineffective since those tools include debate and argument and analysis.

Understand that it is about power. But it’s not the optimal type of power, not usually and not yet. The optimal power is a gun, and while they do have federal law enforcement, there are still barriers to their full exercise of the kind of power to imprison and murder their opponents, like their heroes in Stalin’s Russia or China or the fake nation of Palestine or Cuba or wherever. They can’t just kill you, not en masse, not yet, though make no mistake – that is where they want to end up. And this is why you need to buy guns and ammunition to have in reserve to lawfully defend your freedom against open tyranny.

But that’s a long way away. We are going to beat these creeps on their own terms. What is happening now is more subtle. Their real power today is solely to manipulate you. They exercise power by making you act as they wish. This means you can only be ruled by them if you are, voluntarily or involuntarily, complicit.

Don’t be complicit.

The first step is to understand the enemy. Understand the nature of their power. The fat mutant womyn shrieking on the streets, the chestless femboys throwing paint on paintings, the credentialed cretins in the regime media – they cannot make you do anything. They can only convince you to do their will. They are nothing unless you give in, unless you buy into their premises and accept their paradigm.

Don’t.

Let’s look at the Easter blasphemy. They get an erotic thrill from insulting you, sure. Remember, communism is largely driven by the stunted, immature emotional chaos of its practitioners. It’s a daddy issue writ large as an ideology. That’s communism’s weakness – it overreaches because its adherents do not have the mental strength or discipline to forgo the giddy thrill of showing their contempt for you before they have fully locked-in their power. We can still resist, and their short-term jollies will inspire normals to do so. Biden and the rest just could not pass up a chance to get in your face and compare their weirdos buddies with our Savior. As a bonus, if we do nothing and accept it, we are trained in submission. Their next atrocity will be even worse. Eventually, we will be serfs.

So don’t give in.

Our reaction determines how this goes. Do we freak out? No, we point out the insult not to reaffirm to each other the badness of our enemies – we are based and already know how bad our enemies are – but to awaken those who are not yet based. Remember, there is a default to normality on the part of normal people. They assume the system is working, that people are operating in good faith, and that everyone functions on the basis of objective truth. The communists exploit this default assumption of normality, knowing that normals will assume that the communists’ actions cannot be as crazy or evil as they seem. But they are as crazy or evil as they seem.

That’s why incidents like the Trans Day of Nonsense are useful to us to help us break through the normals’ benefit of the doubt for the communists. There are red lines that normals will not cross, and when the communists do push over them – because they cannot help themselves – there is pushback. Look at the military – normals won’t join. Look at the school boards – normal people are firing them. The country is falling apart, and Donald Trump is ahead despite being framed and outspent. That’s pushback. The potential to fight back exists. And cultural abominations like this proclamation are powerful tools for us to radicalize the normals and let them see the truth they would prefer to ignore.

Their ruling class hates them, and it must be destroyed.

That’s why everything we do must persuade the normals to get off the sidelines. Don’t argue with communists – you cannot change them and it is a waste of effort to try. You are not going to convince them. You need to defeat them, and the way to do that is through the ruthless exercise of power. You get power by winning over the normals. If you address the communists at all, it must be purely performative, a show to demonstrate to the normals how contemptible the communists are. So, on Twitter, if you diss some pinko, it’s not for the joy of dissing a pinko (though it is a joy). It is to show the normals the truth and bring them to your side.

The communists are vulnerable to our power, ruthlessly exercised. Look at Ron DeSantis in Florida, scoring win after win, using his power without apology. Trump needs to do that when he wins – and he is promising to. The enemy will then try to do what it always does – leverage our values against us to get us to act as it wishes. They will seek to call us “authoritarians” who “hate democracy” whenever we exercise our power. Laugh at them. Suggest they cry more.

They can’t stop us; they can only try convince us to stop ourselves.

Kurt Schlichter

The open-borders policies of President Joe Biden and border czar Vice President Kamala Harris have allowed millions of illegal aliens to enter the United States, including terrorist organizations and other bad actors looking to harm Americans,” the report stated. “In three-and-a-half years, the Biden-Harris administration has released more than 5.4 million illegal aliens into the United States, with an additional at least 1.9 million known ‘got-aways’ escaping into the country.

“Among those more than 7.3 million illegal aliens are 375 illegal aliens on the U.S. government’s terrorist watchlist who have been apprehended by Border Patrol under President Biden’s and Vice President Harris’ watch. That is a more than a 3,000% increase of watch-listed alien encounters compared to all four years of the Trump administration.”

During the 2024 fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30, the report showed that the Border Patrol has encountered thousands of illegal immigrants nationwide from countries that could present national security risks, including 2,134 Afghan nationals, 33,347 Chinese nationals, 541 Iranian nationals, 520 Syrian nationals, and 3,104 Uzbek nationals.

The report said at least three illegal immigrants with potential ISIS ties were released into the U.S. after they used the administration’s CBP One app to arrive at a port of entry and be processed into the country. Meanwhile, one former senior Immigration and Customs Enforcement official admitted the Biden administration’s open-borders policies make it more difficult for ICE to arrest national security threats in the U.S.

“Although American communities already feel the disastrous effects of the Biden-Harris administration’s immigration policies, the worst could still be yet to come,” the report said. “With national security experts and immigration officials increasingly concerned about the threat of terrorism originating from the border, it is clear that policymakers must take all necessary steps to secure the border and stop the flow of illegal aliens.”

The report lamented the failure by the Biden administration and Senate Democrats to consider the Secure the Border Act, or HR 2, that the House passed by a 219-213 vote in May 2023 but has been buried in the Senate by Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.

“The Biden-Harris administration has refused to address the national security nightmare created by its radical, open-borders agenda,” the report said. “To secure the homeland and protect Americans, the Senate must pass, and President Biden must sign into law, HR 2.”

He wasn’t wrong. Look at their history. “Palestinians” do not relocate, they infiltrate.

The so-called “Palestinians” are simply Syrian and Jordanian trouble-makers who were kicked out of those countries for following the paramilitary group Fatah led by Yasser Arafat (a native of Egypt) in the 1960s.

In 1957, Arafat obtained a work visa to enter Kuwait as a civil engineer. While in Kuwait he met up with two old friends from Cairo and formed Fatah, a resistance group dedicated to armed struggle to “liberate Palestine.” By the time Arafat moved his operations to Syria in 1962, he had amassed a following of about 300 people.

While in Syria, Arafat continued to recruit new members. In December 1964, Arafat began to attempt raids from Syria to infiltrate Israel. Arafat was eventually arrested for the murder of a Syrian military officer who was conducting meetings to ease tensions between Arafat and other faction leaders. Arafat was convicted and was sentenced to death, but was pardoned by the President of Syria. Arafat moved his operations to the West Bank territory of Jordan.

In November 1966, Fatah launched a roadside bomb attack from Jordanian territory which killed three members of the Israeli security forces. Israel retaliated with a raid into the Jordanian-controlled West Bank, where dozens of Jordanian security forces were killed and 125 homes were razed. This engagement was one of the precursors to the Six Day War that led to Israel gaining control of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank/Golan Heights. After the other Palestinian political factions collapsed as a result of defeat to Israel, Arafat snuck into the West Bank and began recruiting more fighters for Fatah. At this point, Egypt’s President Nasser proclaimed Yasser Arafat to be the “leader of the Palestinians.”

The Jordanian military sided with Arafat as Fatah continued attacks against Israeli forces in the occupied areas of the West Bank. Israel was planning a major attack against Fatah’s headquarters in the Jordanian town of Karameh, which was launched after an Israeli school bus hit a Fatah mine, killing two children. The attack was ultimately a draw despite Israeli forces destroying Arafat’s camp in Karameh. Israeli forces withdrew at the end of the day, and Jordan and Fatah declared a political victory and Arafat was elected as the Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).

Arafat and Fatah, joined by other sympathetic paramilitary groups, began asserting themselves in the civil life of Jordan, essentially creating a state-within-a-state. King Hussein of Jordan offered Arafat the position of Deputy Prime Minister of Jordan, but Arafat refused citing his desire for a self-ruled Palestinian state. By 1970, Arafat’s militancy continued to grow within Jordan, including airplane hijackings. In August 1970, Arafat declared: “Our basic aim is to liberate the land from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River…” In 1971, Arafat called for King Hussein to be overthrown. Hussein responded by ordering the Jordanian military to oust Arafat and his followers from Jordan. Arafat and 2,000 followers eventually fled Jordan for Lebanon.

Because of Lebanon’s weak central government, the PLO was able to operate virtually as an independent state. Arafat formed Black September, the military wing of Fatah to take revenge upon King Hussein and the Jordanian Armed Forces in northern Jordan. Black September later committed the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre of 11 Israeli athletes.

After that, Arafat aligned the PLO with Lebanese rebels during their civil war in the late 1970s. From Lebanon, Arafat continued to launch attacks into Israel, causing Israel to launch counter-attacks into southern Lebanon to push Arafat north into Beirut. In 1982, Israeli forces eventually laid seige to Beirut to capture Arafat, and the Lebanese government negotiated a safe-passage ceasefire with Israel to expel Arafat and the PLO to Tunisia.

Arafat then settled in Tunisia where he orchestrated a movement of coordinated riots and civil uprisings in Gaza and the West Bank in Israel consisting of throwing stones, Molotov cocktails, and burning tires. At this point, a new paramilitary militant group called Hamas emerged and began targeting Israeli civilians with the new tactic of suicide bombings.

After Arafat sided with Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait, other Arab nations cut off funding of Arafat and the PLO. After Arafat signed the 1993 Oslo Accords, he relocated to the Gaza Strip, and later Ramallah where he died in 2004.

In 2005, Israel withdrew from the Gaza Strip and turned control of the area over to Fatah. In 2007, Fatah was defeated by Hamas, an Islamic Jihadist group that instituted Islam Law, forced out all Christian schools and businesses, and began its campaign of continuous indiscriminate rocket attacks against Israel.

The point of all this is that the so-called “Palestinians” are really the descendants of cast-off radicals from Egypt, Syria, Kuwait, Jordan, Lebanon, and Tunisia. Let those countries take them in again. They cause trouble wherever they go, and we don’t need them to gain a foothold here to continue their Jihad from within the United States.

-PJ

What will you do if Kamala “wins”? Yes, fraudulently. But what rational plan of action do you have, if any — or will you just keep adapting and taking it all? Remember: she could be President next month if they make Biden step down. They WILL do that if they think it increases her votes.

Kamala has promised executive orders to demand gun confiscation. She has promised 100 percent socialized medicine, meaning government will control and pay for everything. If you thought COVID was tyrannical… are you ready for this? If you own a gun, and if she goes there with national gun confiscation, will you comply? Will you fight? What is your personal, individual tipping point? Social media accounts getting shut down, even more than they are now? Do you have a tipping point or is there nothing you won’t let these psychopaths do to you, your loved ones and what remains of your country? Do you care if your children and grandchildren will not be living in a free country, not even the disappearing remnants of one, as we do?

What about frozen bank accounts for Trump donors, or other dissenters, like they did in Canada over the truckers? What if you refuse to name your pronouns at your job, as Kamala herself does at official meetings? Are you ready for continuing hyperinflation (the ultimate tax increase for unlimited government spending), rising economic panic (if Trump loses) and subsequent excuses for the government to do whatever it wishes during a national emergency? And what about the clock ticking on the elimination of gas as a fuel? As a Republican, or as insufficiently woke, will you be last in line for electricity rations as energy prices skyrocket under all the mandates presently in place, at the federal level?

The propaganda media is parading its best Stalin and Mao regime tactics. And we don’t yet know their plans for September and October. They already tried killing Trump. The Secret Service protects Democrats and RINOs like George W. Bush just fine. There is absolutely nothing these bipartisan, truly evil totalitarians won’t do. In the end, dictatorship always loses, but with no America anymore to push back (it’s not 1943, nor even 1983), it will take much longer for this dictatorship to fall.

“President Kamala” is a real possibility. Even well before November. I think they are going for broke with her, and are confident that with the propaganda machine plus additional fraud they can certainly get 51 percent to do this. I still think they will find a way to imprison Trump, especially if they can convince people he lost the election.

Face reality. You are much more likely to survive and thrive if you do. If the good guys could simply unite in our frightened, timid society, we’d crush the psychopaths, probably without ever firing a shot. They are so weak, so very weak, beneath that arrogance and smugness. They should never have come this far.

Michael J. Hurd

I walk my dogs around my town twice a day. I’ve always known it was a 96% white and 99% liberal town. It’s the kind of California town with yoga studios and health food stores. The rules are very strict. My brother, who is building a house here, had to go to court three times to fight for a gas stove in his new house. It’s the kind of place that has those lawn signs, you know:

I’ve lived here for about a year. I am ordinarily a city girl, but there are reasons for me to be here right now. It’s been strange getting used to the slower way of life. I don’t exactly fit in.

But I know the vibe because I grew up in California. This is the hybrid-driving, green juice-drinking, MSNBC-watching utopia. It’s the kind of place where there is no crime to speak of, no abused pets tied up in the yard. It hardly ever rains. There are birds everywhere. You’d almost think you were in a David Lynch movie.

I don’t mind it too much. It’s beautiful and clean, and I don’t have to worry about my car being stolen. No sirens are blaring, and no helicopters are flying over.

I often see the same people out walking their dogs. Most of them are very friendly. Every so often, there is an angry person. As much as they want to project a loving and tolerant attitude, if you break the rules, they will come for you.

I’ve been chatting with a woman who walks her dog around town. She’s one of the nicest people I’ve ever met. After I broke my arm, she advised me on how to exercise it back to health. She is a Pilates teacher. We always say hello and have been doing so for a while.

Today, our conversation went a little deeper than usual. It was something about getting old and how fast time goes by the older you get. And it’s true. It does. I said to her, “I can’t believe it’s Friday already.”

Then she said, “Things are getting so scary. November is coming.” I pretended not to know what she was talking about. I didn’t add to the conversation or pretend to agree. I just said, “And it’s so hot.”

“We do seem to have just gotten some hope,” she said. I imagine that to her, hope means Kamala Harris now has the nomination. Again, I said nothing. What could I say? “It was looking dire for a while there,” and that I took to mean Biden, she believed, could not beat Trump.

I didn’t say, “Can you believe Donald Trump was shot just 13 days ago?” I couldn’t say that. I could not ding her hope, what little she had. I quickly pivoted again, “I can’t believe Summer is almost over! It’s July!”

We’d reached a door we could not open, a conversation we could not have. I realized it was expected that I was in her tribe. I fit the demographic. I live in this town. It would never occur to her that someone like me might not agree with her that a Kamala Harris presidency represents hope. Quite the opposite.

I smiled, and we tried to continue our conversation, but I left shortly after that, leaving the odd conversation hanging in the air. She would no doubt think about it and wonder why I didn’t go further. Did she not understand what I meant, she might wonder. Would that thought take her further?

She might google me and find out pretty quickly why I said nothing. Then what? Would she still say hello to me? Would she still invite to come and do yoga with her and a group of women once a week? I’d like to think so, but I don’t know.

It just made me think how strange our lives are now, how we are on such opposite sides, and how our votes could instantly end a potential friendship. I could hear her explaining it later to her boyfriend, “Then I found out she was a Trump supporter.”

If I could be honest with her, I would try to tell her that there is nothing to fear with Trump, that it’s a media narrative that got out of hand and inadvertently caused a mass hysteria event that we’re still not all the way through. I’ve tried to have that conversation with so many people over the years, but it has never gone well.

My dog Jack is funny. When I see he’s scared, I always say, “It’s okay, Jack.” But somehow, telling him that always makes him more anxious. To him, his fear is something he won’t give up, certainly not if I try to tell him that he has nothing to fear.

The same would be true if I tried to tell this woman that the truth awaits on the other side of the delusion. She would do what my dog does: Glance back at me before trying to get away as fast as she could.

And so went my Friday morning.

In the other America, Trump is headed back to Butler, PA. What a great thing to do.

Sasha Stone