Elections: To vote or not to vote?

President AOC, what was your plan to get into office in spite of so many faux pas and MAGA?

(The Jimmy Dore Show) Dr. Abdul El-Sayed -- American epidemiologist, public health administrator, academic, winning politician (who beat Republican Mike Rogers without backing of Zionist Haley Stevens) -- wins Michigan 2026 US Senate election. (Who is Israeli Foreign Agent Abigail Ronson?)

Can I vote, Don? - No. 

It's time for the midterms and we're to believe that criminal Pres. Trumpet is sweating and worried he won't be able to continue his cronyism if the Dems step in and stop him.  Maybe they'll take the Congress. He had his cronies figuring out how to circumvent that eventuality. Maybe they'll take the Senate, too. Then he'll really be in a pickle.

What's so bad about Israel's Trump?

Tucker Carlson warns Trump wants to NUKE Iran for Israel

If we lose Tuesday, I'll have pie on my face.

Far from this website to ever touch any worldly topic like politics. What are we, living in the world? What are we, Engaged Buddhists? What are we, progressive social activists? We would never want to influence anyone on any topic to do with living.

It's like Alan Watts just said on the 2026 Day of the Dead's version of what we call "Buddhist Radio, Los Angeles" (KPFK 90.7 FM's Nov. 1, 2026, 8:00 am show, which aired Part 2 of "Religion of No Religion," following last Sunday's introduction of Part 1).

Who are we, lowly monastic gals, to comment?

"Spiritual people" should never sully themselves with worldly material matters, all sensual and often hedonistic. And, naturally, "worldly people" should never bother with the spiritual, which is immaterial and a waste of time, all intangible and blissed out.

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Get an earl to decide on politics.

The great 17th Earl of Oxford Edward de Vere (aka "The Bard," "Shakespear," or "Shakespeare") is reputed to have asked:

"To be, or not to be?" (Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 1). We could alter that to voting rather than existing or carrying on in this endless samsara in this momentary form.

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He didn't stop there. He more or less answered the question, came down on a side:

Count me in.

To be, or not to be[?]; that is the question:

Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer

The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,

Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,

And by opposing end them: to die, to sleep

No more; and by a sleep, to say we end

The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks

That Flesh is heir to? 'Tis a consummation

Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep,

To sleep, perchance to Dream; aye, there's the rub,

For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come[?],

When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,

Must give us pause. There's the respect

That makes Calamity of so long life:

For who would bear the Whips and Scorns of time,

The Oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely [poore],

The pangs of despised Love, the law’s delay [dispriz’d]

The insolence of office, and the spurns

That patient merit of th'unworthy takes,

When he himself might his Quietus make

With a bare Bodkin? Who would Fardels bear [these Fardels],

To grunt and sweat under a weary life,

But that the dread of something after death,

The undiscovered country, from whose bourn

No traveller returns, puzzles the will,

And makes us rather bear those ills we have,

Than fly to others that we know not of?

Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,

And thus the native hue of Resolution

Is sicklied o'er, with the pale cast of Thought,

And enterprises of great pitch and moment [pith],

With this regard their Currents turn awry [away],

And lose the name of Action. Soft you now,

The fair Ophelia? Nymph, in thy Orisons

Be all my sins remember'd.

Alan Watts, what to do?

That seems clear enough. Or it brings us back to Alan Watts. At Minute 29:07 he says, "they go together." [The two sides imply one another, there being no this nor possibility of this without that and likewise for the other.]

But what about all the corruption? The Republicans, led by their buffoonish Great Leader, Donny Johnny "Toot My Own Trumpet" Trump, are already up to shenanigans, prefiguring their loss and how they're going to explain it away and carry on.

(Jimmy Dore) "WAR IS A [profit-making] RACKET"-Major Gen. Smedley Butler Elon Musk

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Hey, Burner, you're on brand. How can I get ahead?

It's a wonder if Dictator Trump learned anything from January 6th and will be willing to depart peacefully this time. It seems the movers and shakers want spectacle, expect trouble, are preparing for it with AI, Zionist Israeli modeling and weaponry, and building up the paramilitary to deal with it.

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Follow me to Hillary, I mean, to the Israelis.

Is anyone expected to believe the Democrats, those constitutional idealists and patriotic dreamers, are going to be any different? They will be, of course, but it always seems they pay much more lip service to greater ideals that actually doing much of anything different. Will Supreme Leader AOC finally get a chance to rise up with her flunky Bernie "Feel the Burn" Colonel Sanders? Will triumphant Germanic poster boy Cali Gov. Gav Newsom take the mantle from sober Kamala Harris and rise to his seat upon the hill of this great nation? Yawn. Who cares?

Gav "The Governator" Newsom with Dictator Trump and Ukraine's Savioress Mel

American voting, party politics, rigging elections (Greg Palast)

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• If only elections investigator Greg Palast were here to advise
• Have they closed down the country's only free-speech radio?
• If only Brad Friedman's "Brad Cast" could advise on voting

What if we call psyops PR?

The country might be better off with things as is -- exposing Washington DC's corruption, being in bed with Israel, the CIA, and a kind of cartel that runs things from behind the scenes. What to call it? A military-industrial complex? Nah, that's been said before? An AIPAC Mafia? No one knows what AIPAC stands for. (They stand for Israel running the show on the USA's money and military hardware, which oftentimes was invented or perfected in Zionist Israel).

• T.R.U.E. "Blast"; Alan Watts (Religion of No Religion); I. Rony, Wisdom Quarterly COMMENTARY with Pfc. Sandoval, Shauna Schwartz, Seth Auberon, Ashley Wells, Dhr. Seven, and CC Liu

UC Berkeley's Calapalooza 2026 (8/27)

Pitch Perfect remembers its small liberal arts college version of Calapalooza: Music Fair Scene

CALAPALOOZA: UC Berkeley's "Club Day" (Vincent Ooi) Looking back seven years at Cal’s Club Day, when students sign up for what interests them to get involved in campus community life.

Are there any all-girl acapella groups to join?

Summer is over. Everyone is back. This is the slow wind up to the beginning of instruction at the University of California at Berkeley (Cal), the world's greatest public institution of higher learning. Move in days just happened, and everyone is bracing for the full moon day of August as everyone returns to class and studying. Thursday, which is coincidentally also a lunar eclipse, marks a big event on campus: Calapalooza:

Why join a student club at UC Berkeley?

Clubs : Where to begin? (UC Berkeley Life)

With over 1,400 student-registered organizations on campus, a student community is right around the corner. Learning a new skill, meeting like-minded friends, and discovering passions are only a few of the perks of joining a student club. Establishing these connections through activities that members have in common enriches the college experience. life.berkeley.edu

'Free Palestine' encampment set up on UC Berkeley campus - UCB holds diploma: drop that flag!

Why even go to college? To get the Big D

Mom, why should I go to college? - To get a Big D! (Wet Leg "Chaise Longue" | Glastonbury '22)

QOTSA: Concert mass surveillance

(Rock Feed) Queens of Stone Age's Josh Homme done with corporate greed

(Rita) When I get to Cal, I'm going to be like Wednesday Addams

I was too cool in school, but I got out of my shell. - I'd go to anyone's party to get over myself.

How to LIVE if we're sure we'll die?

(Buddhism Podcast) When death comes, what truly matters? | Buddhist Wisdom

Some are as if dead already

Things can wait. What's the rush?

Heedlessness (Pāli pamada, Sanskrit pramāda, Tibetan bakmepa) is a Buddhist term translated as "heedlessness," "carelessness," "negligence," and so on. In the Mahayana tradition, pramāda is defined to not apply oneself earnestly and carefully to adopting a wholesome attitude and abandoning unwholesome actions. More

The heedful do not die*

I'll do what can be done right now.

Heedfulness (Pāli appamāda, Sanskrit apramāda, Tibetan Wylie bag yod pa) is a Buddhist term translated as "diligence," "conscientious," "concern," "vigilance," and so on. It is defined as taking great care concerning what should be adopted and what should be avoided [1, 2].

In the Theravada Pāli canon, a vast collection of the historical Buddha's earliest teachings, the term appamāda is very significant. The essence of its meaning cannot be captured with a single English word. "Heedfulness," "diligence," and "conscientiousness" all capture certain aspects of appamāda. It is identified as one of the 11 virtuous mental factors in the Mahayana Abhidharma teachings. More

• *One will never again die when one gets off of the samsaric cycle of endless "wandering on" of rebirths chasing fulfillment that is not to be found.
• Nirvana is "the deathless" (amata, amrita, ambrosia)



Watch my death-defying jump against nature!

• The Four Right Efforts: (1) The effort to prevent harmful, unskillful things that have not yet arisen. (2) The effort to abandon harmful, unskillful things that have already arisen. (3) The effort to promote the arising of skillful things that have not yet arisen. (4) The effort to maintain, develop, and bring to culmination skillful things that have already arisen.

Five Recollections (Upajjhatthana Sutta)

What did the historical Buddha teach?

Here are two English translations and the original Pali text of the "Five Recollections," remembrances, or contemplations:

1. I am sure to become old; I cannot avoid aging.
   I am subject to aging, have not gone beyond aging.
2. I am sure to become ill; I cannot avoid illness.
   I am subject to illness, have not gone beyond illness.
3. I am sure to die; I cannot avoid death.
   I am subject to death, have not gone beyond death.
4. I am subject to separation and loss and to be parted from all that is dear and loved by me.
   I will grow different, separate from all that is meaningful and appealing to me.
5. I am the owner of my actions (karma), heir of my actions, actions are the womb (from which I have sprung and will be reborn), actions are my relations, actions are my protection. Whatever actions I do, skillful or unskillful, of these I shall be the heir [2].
   I am the owner of my actions, heir to my actions, born of my actions, related through my actions, and have my actions as my arbitrator. Whatever I do, wholesome or unwholesome, to that will I fall heir [3].

Cultivate all eight factors of the Path

The Buddha advised, "These are the five facts to often reflect on, whether one is a woman or a man, a layperson or a monastic" [5].

Since the Buddha redefined karma as "intention" (cetana, the decisive intent underlying a deed or action) in the Nibbedhika Sutta, intention or intentionally-committed actions may be better translations of "karma" in the fifth recollection. More

Will AOC ever run for president?

(ABC News) "Anything is possible": Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (AOC) on her political future

• John Oliver: Moderator: 1 | Politician: 0
• Turns out this Republican woman was just in the wrong place at the wrong time... with the wrong battering ram

Who will Dems choose?

Scott Jennings says rising figure has an advantage

We have a plan: to sell out and keep ourselves relevant. It's the USA Way!

The Buddhist Dark Night of the 'Soul'

(Buddha's Wisdom) Breakdown or breakthrough.

• Catholic/Christian mystics understand, “To get your breakthrough, sometimes God needs to break you.”
• Dark Night of the Soul: What it is and how to move through it

Dark Night of the Soul

The Dark Night of the Soul (Spanish La noche oscura del alma) is a phase of passive purification in the mystical development of an individual's spirit, according to the 16th-century Spanish mystic and Catholic poet St. John of the Cross.

St. John describes the concept in his treatise Dark Night (Noche Oscura), commenting on his poem of the same name.

John of the Cross, 1656

It follows after the second phase, the illumination in which God's presence is felt, but this presence is not yet stable.

The author himself did not give any title to his poem, which together with this commentary and the Ascent of Mount Carmel (Subida del Monte Carmelo) forms a treatise on the active and passive purification of the senses and the spirit, leading to mystical union [1] or "yoga" through samadhi.

El Greco "View of Toledo" (Google Art Project)

In modern times, the phrase "dark night of the soul" has become a popular phrase to describe a crisis of faith or a difficult and painful period in one's life.

The poem

Dating and subject: The poem of St. John of the Cross, in eight stanzas of five lines each, narrates the journey of the individual (soul, personality, persona, ego, self, spirit) to mystical union with God or the Godhead (Brahman). More

The Dark Night of the Soul

By St. John of the Cross

Dark Night of the Soul (by ogipavkovic on DeviantArt)

I. In a dark night,

With anxious love inflamed,

O, happy lot!

Forth unobserved I went,

My house being now at rest.

II. In darkness and in safety,

By the secret ladder, disguised,

O, happy lot!

In darkness and concealment,

My house being now at rest.

III. In that happy night,

In secret, seen of none,

Seeing nought myself,

Without other light or guide

Save that which in my heart was burning.

IV. That light guided me

More surely than the noonday sun

To the place where He was waiting for me,

Whom I knew well,

And where none appeared.

V. O, guiding night;

O, night more lovely than the dawn;

O, night that hast united

The lover with His beloved,

And changed her into her love.

VI. On my flowery bosom,

Kept whole for Him alone,

There He reposed and slept;

And I cherished Him, and the waving

Of the cedars fanned Him.

VII. As His hair floated in the breeze

That from the turret blew,

He struck me on the neck

With His gentle hand,

And all sensation left me.

VIII. I continued in oblivion lost,

My head was resting on my love;

Lost to all things and myself,

And, amid the lilies forgotten,

Threw all my cares away. Source

• The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Douglas Adams)

Tucker's 3rd party: Non-Republicans (AOC, Bernie)

(The Young Turks) Tucker: This is the end? Carlson apologizes for ever endorsing Trump

(Kim Iversen) MTG and Tucker Carlson say they're starting a third party

(Mr. Newberger's AI Funnies) New film: THE WORRIERS (The Warriors Parody)

(TYT) Ryan Shawn and Candace Owen also leave Republican Party (friends of Charlie Kirk)

• The new MAGA: Make ALGAE Great Again
• Candace Owens
• The Jimmy Dore Show
• Shawn Ryan (United States Navy)
• Politician Joe Kent
• Americans reject data centers, AOC + Bernie

Jewish Kabbalah for worldly power

(Professor Jiang's Perspective) The dark connection between

Kabbalah and global power | Prof. Jiang Xueqin

AOC backs Zionist genocide supporter

(Glenn Greenwald) AOC endorses "AIPAC Shakur": What about genocide?

Israel on IDF murdering journalists

(Breaking Points) Israel claims journalists they killed don't count

MAGA: violent ICE abuses

(TYT Sports) WW II veteran doesn't mince words about MAGA ambitions

(Owen Jones) Israeli general exposes Netanyahu's genocide lie

May Day: Int'l Workers Day solidarity

(APT) Watch: 10,000 protesters flood Berlin streets during May Day demonstrations | APT

What is May Day?

Pyramid of Capitalist System

International Workers' Day ("May Day" to most of the world outside the U.S.): International Workers' Day, also called Labor Day in some countries [1] and often referred to as "May Day" [2, 3] is a celebration of laborers and the working classes that is promoted by the international labor movement and occurs every year on May 1st [4, 5] or the first Monday in May [6, 7].

Traditionally, May 1st is the date of the European spring festival of May Day. The International Workers Congress held in Paris in 1889 established the Second International for labor, socialist, and Marxist parties.

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It adopted a resolution for a "great international demonstration" in support of working-class demands for the 8-hour day.

The date was chosen by the American Federation of Labor to commemorate a general strike in the United States, which had begun on May 1, 1886, and culminated in the Haymarket affair on May 4th.

The demonstration subsequently became a yearly event [5]. The 1904 Sixth Conference of the Second International, called on "all Social Democratic Party organizations and trade unions of all countries to demonstrate energetically on the First of May for the legal establishment of the 8-hour day, for the class demands of the proletariat, and for universal peace" [8]. More

(The Jimmy Dore Show) Jewish Zionist Bill Maher faceplants while attacking Jimmy Dore and Joe Rogan

International Women's Day 2026

English language has encoded meanings 👁️🤯 - Disney programming theory 🤯😨 Part 3

She deserves justice #helpmemakethismakesense - No rich men under investigation for Epstein

She confronts pedophiles at their public meeting - Pedos on parade with powerful Epstein 😰

International Women's Day 2026

Was the truth in plain sight the whole time? - John McAfee's spied on US gov't | Luke Belmar

They called Bill Cooper crazy but never a liar - Jews/Israel/Zionists are ultimate "victims"

Asmongold realizes 9/11 was inside job 😭 - 

International Women's Day 2026 - Unlock Potential

First female 'Pope' for Church of England

Anglican leader: the Archbishop of Canterbury

A historic shift: Sarah Mullally becomes first female head of the Church of England

Don't spoil this for us, Sinead!

Right Honorable Dame Sarah Mullally has‌ broken barriers, ascending to the position of [the 106th] archbishop of Canterbury. This momentous ⁢appointment, announced on October 3rd, marks a pivotal turning point for the Church of England ⁣and​ the wider Anglican Communion.

Don't think of me as a woman!

She is the 106th individual to hold this esteemed⁣ role and, significantly, she is the first ‍woman to lead the⁣ church established nearly 500 years ago.

The Church of England’s origins trace back to 1534, when King Charles VIII sought to circumvent the ⁤[Roman Catholic] Pope’s refusal to annul‌ his marriage to Catherine of Aragon [who due to him would not bear him a male heir].

• We say "Pope," but the official Church says she's the "ceremonial head" or primus inter pares, "first among equals.

This act fundamentally reshaped the religious landscape ⁣of England ⁤and now, centuries​ later, ‌it’s experiencing another profound transformation.

Rome still rules the world with its pope.

[Pope] Mullally, 63, was a leading⁤ contender to succeed Justin Welby, who stepped down in November 2024. Her reputation as⁤ a highly capable administrator undoubtedly played a key role in her ⁣selection. 

• Sarah Mullally confirmed as first female archbishop of Canterbury
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The Selection Process: An Intentional Path

What Brits need is more pomp 'n circumstance.

The Crown Nominations Commission, responsible for filling the Church of England’s most senior positions, chose Mullally. This commission⁤ comprises prominent bishops‍ and archbishops, and⁣ its process differs significantly‌ from the papal​ conclaves⁣ of the [Roman] Catholic Church. Here’s ‍a breakdown of how the selection unfolds:

• Extensive⁣ Consultation: The Commission engages in months of thorough discussions and evaluations.
• Rigorous review: Candidates are assessed on ⁤their theological understanding, leadership skills, and administrative experience.
• Governmental Approval: Ultimately, the⁣ chosen nominee ‌requires validation from both the [UK] Prime Minister [Keir Starmer] and the King of England [Charles III], reflecting ⁣the Church of England’s‌ status as the state religion.

I’ve found that this deliberate, multi-layered process underscores the gravity of the Archbishop of Canterbury's

position and the importance of selecting a ⁣leader equipped to navigate the challenges and opportunities facing the church today. More

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• Business Editor Olivia Bennett, world-today-journal.com, Oct. 3, 2025; Ashley Wells, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Wisdom Quarterly