How ya feeling tonight?

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

Alarmed. One of the two main political parties in this country has decided to nominate a candidate for President who is totally disconnected from reality. I think Trump will lose decisively and perhaps in a landslide in November, and that ultimately benefits my party and my preferred candidate, but it is not a good sign for our country that someone like Trump (an anti-intellectual, a demagogue, an individual with clear authoritarian tendencies, a racist, a sexist, a conspiracy theorist, I could go on all night) is this close to becoming the leader of the free world.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

As appalled as I've been with Trump at times, and despite strong reservations about him, I'm glad that a legitimate populist has emerged as the leader of the Republican Party. Before today, I was leaning Clinton, but now I'm leaning Trump and I expect my support for him to solidify over the coming months.

In dark times like these, I find it lifts my spirits to laugh at jokes. One such joke I keep hearing is how a billionaire NY real estate mogul with a long history of prevarication is a populist.