First of all, I want to say that I did not watch last night's televised debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. I decided to boycott it for the following reasons:
I have already made up my mind on whom I'm going to vote for in November and it won't be Trump. I felt that watching last night's debate would be a complete waste of time for me and, based on what I've read about the debate so far, I made the right decision.
CNN decided ahead of time not to do any kind of fact checking in real time. When you consider that Donald Trump is a frequent liar, not fact checking him only further proves my point that the corporate media really wants Trump to get reelected so his antics will improve their ratings and their parent companies can get huge tax write offs.
Scheduling a debate unusually early before both of the major political parties have had their conventions is an idiotic decision. Debates are more effective when they are scheduled closer to an election because voters are more likely to remember what was said and who they are going to vote for.
Most importantly, one of the debaters is a convicted felon now. It is a travesty to have one major political party not even pressure Donald Trump to drop out of the race because, as a convicted felon, Trump will be unable to execute a huge number of his duties if he gets reelected. I refuse to watch a debate featuring a convicted felon who should not even be on the debating stage at all. (And that's not to mention his attempted coup on January 6, 2021.)
Instead I spent last night attending a free performance of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream that was held in a local park and was performed by local actors. It was pretty well attended and I ended up sitting in the back because there were so many people there, which proves that not everyone stayed home to watch Donald Trump trying to get people to forget that he's a convicted felon who let a huge number of Americans die during the COVID-19 pandemic because he made a political issue out of a contagious virus. Even watching that performance from the back of the audience was far less painful than hearing Trump speak.
Now it's time to completely switch topics.
Back in March I mentioned that Annapolis was one of the many state capitals where the Poor People's Campaign held simultaneous events focusing on the plight of poor and low-income people took place. There will be a sequel. Tomorrow a major protest and rally will happen in Washington, DC as people will arrive from across the United States to march with the Poor People's Campaign. This video provides the details as to what this protest is about and how this movement is focused on the upcoming US presidential election in November.
Here's a flyer that outlines the demands from elected officials along with the location and time of this event.
I hope to see some of you in DC tomorrow at the intersection of 3rd and Pennsylvania Avenue, NW starting at 10 am tomorrow.
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