Whether You March, Jog Or Goosestep Your Way To The Polls, JUST VOTE!!!

It’s Election Day 2024 at last, and I’m both mentally and physically exhausted.  I typically get this way whenever Daylight Savings Time ends and my typically atypical sleep patterns get even more out of whack.  I’m now purposefully setting whatever I might hope to be watching to tape knowing full well the odds of my staying awake even in early evening aren’t great.  But this year, more than ever, I’m zombie-ing my way through my errands and work.

To say that even trying to follow a cycle as unprecedentedly, well, weird, as this one has been a grind has been an understatement.  There seems to be no opinion that anyone can express that isn’t at least somewhat polarizing, and in my case anything that doesn’t reflect pure capitulation seems to evoke snark and ire from my more impassioned friends, followers, and one particular “fan” who I believe resides in Israel that seems to be Benjamin Netanhyahu’s agent.

If there’s one saving grace from my perpetual exhaustion it’s that there’s an exceptionally strong chance virtually nothing will be decided by midnight tonight, especially in California.  Especially the races that matter the most to me–the ones that involve propositions and funding that directly affect me, and ones where my actual vote matters.  Unlike, of course, the one that’s dominating the headlines and rhetoric that has been set up in a way where whatever I decided to do is completely inconsequential.

But I at least did send my vote in ahead of time, if for no other reason I wanted to avoid what’s transpiring today.  FORBES’ Conor Murray set it all up in his post from last night:

Some polling places and vote tabulation centers, particularly in battleground states, are adopting unprecedented security measures—including snipers, bulletproof glass and “panic buttons”—as election workers brace for potential unrest, fearing an election denial movement that has reportedly grown more organized since the last presidential election.