DPoisn.com - Countdown to Election Day

I originally created this program as one of many countdown timers that lead to various events like, Christmas, Halloween, or next year. Unlike all those others, this one is actually important! Because, make no mistake about it, election day is tremendously important! The original versions of this page got rather long and I decided it was time to clean the slate and start over. But you can still read them if you'd like, because I've archived them. I don't like to delete things

Post: 2025-09-12
I had hoped against all hope that I would be able to go for many months without writing anything in this blog of sorts. I made it about 10 months. And then 2 days ago, something truly terrible happened. Your impression of how terrible that event is, and why, depends apparently on which side of the political aisle you sit. If you are a Conservative, you are upset because one of your most outspoken people was assassinated. If you are on the other side, you are upset because of the coming fallout from that event. There is a very real concern that this event is exactly what the authoritarian Trump regime needs to REALLY clamp down on the citizens of this country. You can expect many more National Guard deployments. You can expect crackdowns on every marginalized group in the country. If was already getting really bad. It's about to get worse.

The words and accusations started flying immediately. The Conservatives straight up blame the "radical left" even though there was no evidence that the shooter was a liberal. There were rumors of evidence showing that the shooter is "trans" or "hates Trump." Meanwhile, no such evidence was found. The Conservatives started screaming about revenge. At the same time, the people on the Left have been exceedingly clear about how wrong political violence is, and how it needs to stop.

I should note that as of the time of my writing this, they evidently have a person in custody. And if the initial reports are true, he is a Far Right Conservative who took that shot because he thought the Kirk was betraying the Conservative movement by not being fascist enough. Or, an alternate idea, is that once Kirk started proclaiming that the Epstein files need to be released, that was the last straw. I don't know how much of ANY of that is true. I will update this article once new reliable information becomes available. Unlike the likes of the Wall Street Journal, I will UPDATE my stories with factual information, rather than leaving the bullshit.

UPDATE 2025-09-13: The identity of the shooter shows that he is young, male, white, Mormon raised, straight, and from a family of gun loving MAGA. Sorry, Conservatives. Once again, he is one of yours. And what is the response from MAGA? "It's the fault of universities. He was indoctrinated with their radical Leftist agenda."

I swear, I wish I was making this up. But that was all said over the past 24 hours.

Now where was I?

What is SO incredibly hypocritical about this is that the Conservative Right has been calling for political violence for decades. When Trump got shot last year, assuming that he really did, he didn't call for an end to the violence. No! He stood up bleeding, with the flag blowing behind him in the greatest photo-op in history, threw up his fist and yelled "FIGHT!!!"

The Left has been calling for more sensible firearms legislation forever. People like Charlie Kirk have said that, "It's worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights." He said that. That is a direct quote from a 2023 event.

Seriously... How does the Right spend so much time screaming about their love of guns, and the need to use them, and literally calling for political violence - but when it happens, it's the radical Left?! The Left that has been saying all along to put the guns down, and stop the violence.

Every writer, YouTuber, and social media influencer has already jump up and given their words about what happened here. There really is no reason for me to just say the same things, repeat the same quotes, or make the same points. I just wanted to get this bit documented for my own self, so I could remember how I felt about it 2 days later. Also, what you choose to think about Charlie Kirk is entirely up to you. No matter what I write here, it is not going to change your mind.

The social media activity about this has been most astonishing really. Especially the people on the left. The Conservatives are pretty consistent that Kirk was a good guy, and family man, generous, and all sorts of other flowery things. The Left is split right down the middle between people who think that it was wrong, but they understand it, and the rest saying that his own rhetoric is what got him killed.

And with that... Here is my opinion on this:

Let me be perfect crystal clear right NOW. Political violence of ANY kind is WRONG. Violence will only bring about more violence. If you don't like what a politician or activist says, speak up about it. Shooting them doesn't solve anything. It only makes things worse.

I am sorry for Charlie Kirk's children. They are innocent and don't deserve this. I am sorry for his wife. But Charlie Kirk... He was a racist, xenophobic, homophobic asshole who repeatedly made claims about how gays should be locked up and/or executed (stoned to death), how black people don't have critical thinking skills, and it worried him to see a black pilot flying a plane. He said that women shouldn't be allowed to vote. I recently saw a clip where he said that a 10-year old rape victim should bring that child to term, even if the 10-year old his child. In short, he had some of the worse opinions any human being could wrap into a single package. But the worst part is that he influenced millions of people to think the same way.

His words were not just a "matter of opinion" as the Conservatives keeps saying. His words were HATE speech. His words caused measurable harm to millions of people in this country.

So I will not mourn his death. I won't celebrate it either. But I'm not sorry about it.

One more thing... Speaking of the hypocrisy and double standard of this whole thing. Melissa Hortman, an actual elected lawmaker, one who was loved and respected by millions, was gunned down in her house, along with her husband. Why no moment of silence in Congress? Why no flags at half staff? Why no calls for revenge from the Conservatives? Yeah, I think pointing out that foul smelling bit should really drive this home for you.

Update: 2024-11-15
Before I was shooting my mouth off about elections and politics, I was writing a long blog to chronical the time of COVID. I have now compiled and released that entire thing as a Kindle eBook!

Behold my new book, Echoes of Isolation: A Personal Journey Through the Pandemic.

The Print version is now available for $22.50.

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