This stuff is nothing new for evangelicals.  I'm a PK (preacher's kid).  I remember in the 70s when UPC symbols were just starting to make their way onto boxes, cans and books.  My late father and many among his friends thought that it was "the mark of the devil", that pretty soon we would all have UPC codes stamped upon us and that the "end times" were just around the corner. This was the precursor to microchips. My father lived in a perpetual state of "the end times are near" that I'm quite sure many here have experienced with a relative, loved one or friend over their lifetimes.

This is not new.  People have "prophesied" that the end of the world is coming in nearly every single text as far back as we can date them.  Why?  We want to appear important, as if what we do in this moment can have some sort of affect.  We, as human beings, don't want to imagine we are born, live and die without having some sort of immediate impact or control.  That's why things like climate change, national debt, systemic racism, chronic homelessness, education reform, and substantial changes to health care (among thousands of other decisions big and small) are constantly punted down the line. They have no immediate impact.  They are meant not to improve our lives in our lifetimes, but give hope that decisions now will eventually change things for the better when we're not around.  No.  Instead we're left fighting about mail-in ballots, election rigging, masks, social distancing in a fucking pandemic and whatever else Trump and the Republicans deem is the next front in the culture war.  

It's fucking exhausting.  

His points were particularly accurate, and especially demonstrative. And in 32 minutes, he repeated himself - I dunno, maybe once.

Clean. Clear. Concise. And yes, I miss a president who can speak in complete sentences without copying himself.

I DARE to hope that Biden/Harris will be as good as Barack was. We'll know for sure in about two weeks, give or take.

Remember to vote.

About 18 minutes and 40 seconds into the White House footage of Trump's "60 Minutes" interview, once again Trump has to use both hands to take a sip from a small glass of water. Interesting.

That thing came up the last presidential election. It has something to do with his dentures, which have a tendency to come off when he drinks.