I confess the 2024 general election has been weighing heavily on my mind for MONTHS and MONTHS. As you may know, I don’t watch television. I get my news through a variety of newspapers, podcasts, and other online sources. I noticed that I’ve been consuming far less of those and actively leaving the room during newscasts that my husband watches. I’ve even stopped listening to the morning news broadcast on NPR and forget about the Monday news broadcast for Charlotte Talks, which is the local news that I listen to. Monday is politics.
Not to mention the near-hourly texts and phone calls that I have been getting. Why? Because I am probably classified as a suburban female? The one time I talked to a pollster the questions were so badly slanted I had to end the poll early.
The point is I am heartily sick of the entire process. And his voice. And the way that the mainstream media fawns over him and covers him incessantly.
I mean did they learn nothing from 2016?
Sickening, the lot of them.
I am grateful that I didn’t go to J school. Journalism school for those in the know.
And so I am elated that early voting is finally starting on Thursday in North Carolina.
Make a plan to vote. I don’t care how you vote. Well, I care a little but I won’t try to dissuade you from making a terrible decision. Especially if you are a woman like me and crave our bodily autonomy back.
If you are in one of the 46 states that allow early voting, please plan accordingly.
Vote as early as you care to. But do not delay.
I’ll be in my house, in my jammies, waiting for this entire thing to be over with.
At least some of the noise will stop.
Dispatches from the Evening Shift 