C. Jeffrey Smith

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Financial executive (retired), educator, and consultant to nonprofits, in New Hampshire, USA. Dartmouth College and Cornell University alumnus. Supporter of democracy, gun violence prevention, vaccines, fact-based reality, and civility.

Election perspective:

Candidates' Character and Values are vastly more important than their Policies.

C>P and V>P and C+V>>P.

We can live with, and change, policies we dislike.

We can't change the character and values of those we elect to positions of great power.

I understand the assignment: VOTE!!!

If now-convicted felon Donald Trump retakes the U.S. presidency, he can pressure NY State to pardon him by denying federal funds to the state for Medicare/aid reimbursements, disaster relief, etc.

Oh, that's illegal, you say? PULEEEZZ. The courts would tie it up for years, causing massive fiscal disruption.

If now-convicted felon Donald Trump retakes the U.S. presidency, he can pressure NY State to pardon him by denying federal funds to the state for Medicare/aid reimbursements, disaster relief, etc.

Oh, that's illegal, you say? PULEEEZZ. The courts would tie it up for years, causing massive fiscal disruption.

Posted on the pump at my local gasoline station here in New Hampshire, prior to Monday's solar eclipse, in anticipation of heavy traffic.

"I'm sorry I didn't hear your question, but the answer is: Lower taxes, and more guns!"

~ Today's MAGAfied U.S. Republican Party.

@w7voa And apartheid-loving MAGA Musk promoted that 100% false claim.
@GraniteGeek I haven't done a 4K since December, just lower-elevation, less northerly climbs most weekends, partly because of our early mud-and-slush season.

RIP Alexey Navalny.

The Onion always gets it right: "Study finds suspicious circumstances still leading cause of death in Russia."

https://www.theonion.com/study-finds-suspicious-circumstances-still-leading-caus-1819579799

Study Finds Suspicious Circumstances Still Leading Cause Of Death In Russia

GENEVA—Warning that the trend represents a major national health issue, a study released Monday by the World Health Organization confirmed that suspicious circumstances remain the leading cause of death in Russia. “Our analysis has found that mysterious circumstances represent the number one overall killer of…

The Onion

Traitor Trump's recent green light to Putin to invade European nations that don't spend enough on defense puts at risk the lives of the 75,000 U.S. military personnel stationed there, along with the thousands of State Dept personnel and hundreds of thousands of civilian U.S. ex-pats living there. TRUMP HATES OUR TROOPS.

VOTE!

@GraniteGeek On the other hand, “If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.”
~ Mark Twain