I just voted.

I’m in California so my vote for president doesn’t matter; however, I find it still helpful to vote on referenda (my default is to vote no on almost everything).

Still, I was facing a dilemma about voting or not voting for president. I hate being forced into a lose-lose situation between two controlled candidates; my vote, while it doesn’t matter practically still has spiritual implications. Voting means that I provide legitimacy to an inherently illegitimate process that I don’t believe in (not only are the elections rigged post-2020 due to institutionalized mass vote-by-mail, but the candidates themselves are chosen ahead of time by oligarchs and the decisions made behind closed doors). Voting for the lesser of two evils is a really shitty option; if the Orange Man is allowed to win, I think it will only be because they plan to crash the economy around him or force him into WW3, much as they trapped him with COVID fraud. Still, elements of the CIA/FBI did try to murder the Orange Man multiple times, and I appreciated that Vance recently gave Ron Paul what appeared to have been an honest hearing (x.com/RonPaul/status/18… ).

So I went into the voting booth unsure of what to do; I was waiting for a sign.

Well, I got it: for the candidate for president, on the first page of the electronic voting machine was Kamala, Robert Kennedy (who CA wouldn’t let off the ballot), Chase Oliver and Jill Stein. Trump was on a second page that one had to manually get to in order to vote for him. Seeing Kennedy still on the ballot and Trump on page 2 pissed me off with the in-your-face attempt to influence the election, so I ultimately voted out of spite.

After I voted the ballot itself “malfunctioned” and the polling staff - black women, an effete Asian man and a Jewish guy - stared at my ballot answers, breaching the integrity of the private vote, and they printed out a new ballot and I had to cast my votes all over again.

Thanks for the great experience, libs.