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CapnSteve

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October 25, 2024

My early voting story...

I am an elementary school teacher (SPED) in Fort Bend County Texas, just outside of Houston; one of the bright blue counties in Texas.

At the beginning of the month, my wife and I took some vacation and visited my family in the Seattle area. Then, things went sideways: I was hospitalized for 16 days with "severe sepsis, diabetic wet gangrene of the foot, decreased circulation with gangrene due to blocked arteries, gangrene of toe(s) of left foot, gangrene of left foot, bleeding diathesis, anemia, and foot infection." I had five surgeries, including three to remove all the toes on my left foot, and received seven units of blood.

I was discharged and was able to return home Sunday. I have lots of follow-up care and will be in a cast for the next six weeks, using a knee scooter to get around. With all of that, there was never any question about me voting. I wheeled myself (well, with help. of course!) to my polling place and voted early on Tuesday.

If I can overcome my obstacles to vote YOU CAN TOO!

Please share your early voting stories!

CapnSteve

November 15, 2023

Everything that criminal does, everything, is to do one thing:

1) Stay in the headlines. 2) Stay in the headlines. 3) Stay in the headlines!

Celebrity via outrage is his only trick. The best way to defeat him is to give him no oxygen. Don't click on the clickbait, turn off the tv when they talk about him, etc. If enough of us do this, then the media will see a correlation - when we report on Donnie, we lose viewers and revenue - and he will fade. Convicted, disgraced, ignored and then, finally, invisible.

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