I voted for Trump in 2016 and 3rd party in 2020. Grew up in a Republican household listening to Rush Limbaugh because my parents did, and became an independent in college after becoming disillusioned by the GOP, but would often vote “socially conservative”. I still have what most of Reddit would call very conservative values, but what my Republican friends would call liberal values. I have no real political home. My ballots usually look like a weird mix of voting Republican, 3rd party, and Democrat down ballot. 🤷‍♂️

Anyway.

At the start of the year I would have told you that I would vote 3rd party, but I got into that little ballot cubicle yesterday and I just couldn’t do it. Trump has given American voters a non-stop litany of reasons not to vote for him, even if you are a conservative. It’s like if he said to himself “what could I do to turn voters against me” and by golly he did it. And not just reasons not to vote for him, but it’s like he’s screaming at us to vote against him and make sure he loses.

So I think Harris will carry Michigan because I know so many people in a similar situation. If someone like John McCain was running against Harris I could and probably would vote for him. Trump isn’t a “conservative”. It’s baffling to hear people think he is. Too much is at stake. Every 4 years it’s “this is the most important election of our lifetime” but now it actually feels like it. It’s different than any other election in my lifetime.

One day I hope we will have two or more viable sane political parties to choose from again instead of feeling like “I have to vote against the other party”. But for now, this conservative stands firmly with the rest of you - and I voted Democrat in the presidential election for the first time.

Last thing I would say to my Democrat friends, please don’t fight and argue political issues with your conservative friends who are also voting for Harris and accidentally push them back into voting for Trump. At least not right now. I have witnessed that happen a couple of times in the heat of an argument. I feel like right now all social issues get set aside and we vote together as Americans to make sure Trump doesn’t end up back in office.

With that said, assume nothing and go vote. Voting early was easy. I just showed up and voted like I normally would on Election Day. Exact same process. The line looked crazy long, wrapping around the building outside, but I had voted and was gone in under an hour.

There is this weird concrete thing by Chevy Truck and Bus in Flint affectionately referred to as "The Block" and is regularly painted/tagged up for any occasion- birthdays, memorials, anything goes.

This is this morning.

This is one single days haul from the mail. I've been receiving this many mailers daily for nearly a month, and I'm sure it won't stop until the election ends. What a waste... how many dollars and resources have been spent on this garbage just for me to toss it when I walk in the door!?

The Ford Motor Co. employee who heckled President Donald Trump during a January visit to the company's Dearborn Truck Plant. still has his job and "has no discipline on his record," a union official confirmed Monday.

We wanna present these buffs to our governor 🕶️

Seen this afternoon at the peaceful protest at the capitol building. Human rights are being violated by the new federal administration and the people are using their voices to speak out against it. The powers that be are after basic freedoms and next they’re coming for your social security.

President Donald Trump's bid to cut off birthright citizenship is a "flagrantly unlawful attempt to strip hundreds of thousands American-born children of their citizenship based on their parentage," attorneys for 18 states, the city of San Francisco and the District of Columbia said Tuesday in a lawsuit challenging the president's executive order signed just hours after he was sworn in Monday.

The lawsuit accused Trump of seeking to eliminate a "well-established and longstanding Constitutional principle" by executive fiat.

https://www.axios.com/2025/01/28/pete-buttigieg-michigan-senate link to the article mentioned

Can't stand these people flying Confederate flag in Michigan. I went to Gettysburg last summer and read the monument dedicated to the Michigan men who fought hard and died on Little Round Top single-handedly repeling a Confederate attack on the flank and saving the army of the Potomac. Abraham Lincoln coined the term "michigander" when addressing our bravery in battle. Anyone carrying a Confederate flag in Michigan isn't celebrating Michigan Heritage, they're pissing on it.