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Andy Arthur

October and already the leaves are fading away in the Adirondacks. 🍂 Most shocking to me is that we are less then a month away from November, which in many ways should be a sigh of relief with the craziness of work and with the deep blue skies and crisp days of that month.

Donald Trump and his small town friends

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Trump Country!

I don’t get the small town people who love Donald Trump so much. You see so many signs, some hand painted for the man.

Donald Trump a mediocre New York City billionaire who acts like a bull in a China shop. He’s never hauled manure, worked on an engine or dug coal during his whole life. Most of his ideas are piss poor slogans, hardly well thought out. He’s hardly a strong advocate for conservative causes – his fickle manner often overrides whatever good that could come from his advocacy. He’s delegitimizing conservativism in the eyes of billions.

Now I totally get that people want government off their backs. I don’t want the government telling me what to do when I own land out in the country. I don’t want to have to go through excessive hoops when I buy a gun, I don’t want to be looked down upon because I own guns, kill deer for food or homestead on my land.

I get that, but I just don’t think Trump is much of an advocate for conservatives or rural Americans more generally.

Got to work on the hard braking …. 🛑

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I never thought of myself as a particularly aggressive driver, but the one strike I seem to rack up the most is hard braking on my insurance app. I am sure that’s the most difficult one to avoid, as sometimes you need to stop hard in an emergency, but also I sometimes let my mind wander too much on the road, and don’t notice a stop sign or a changing light until I am well into the dilemma zone or too close to stop smoothly.

I really should be more concerned about that, as that was the kind of auto wreck I was in 10 years ago, probably caused by own hard braking. Even if I wasn’t ultimately judged at fault by the police, as the driver behind me was following too closely and not paying attention, clearly my quick stop to avoid merging traffic lead to the wreck.