Past the peak of summer. Primary Time. Time to VOTE

Summer Sunset through the trees

The RantWomen done voted. Ballots for the August WA state primary appeared in our mail. RantWoman considered making the trip downtown or voting online just to demonstrate support for accessible independent voting. But none of those options come with supper at RantMom's, at least not without tech support.

Voters who do need accessibility are encouraged to check out http://kingcounty.gov/elections . 206-296-VOTE (8683)  1-800-325-6165

Before we get to the voting, a culinary note: RantMom did GREAT about salad with avocados and no pickled beets. The pasta was tasty. And pineapple sherbet with blueberry crisp is not RantWoman's favorite flavor combo. RantWoman likes both, just not together. Word!

Now back to the ballot. The RULES, around the RantWomen at least:

1. This election is too important to mess around with and the dumpster fire / shit storm / unending torrents of uncomposted manure in DC are too nauseating for amateurs. . The RantWomen voted straight incumbents all the way. Re-elect Maria Cantwell. Re-elect Adam Smith. Relect all 3 37th district Democrats. There. That was simple. Now mail it.

2. This time around, you don't even need a stamp. So there is NO EXCUSE not to vote.

3. It's a PRIMARY, a top-2 primary. ONLY VOTE for people you seriously consider competent and want to see advance. The RantWoman spent some time on census issues and made some effort to consider stands on Issues.. RantMom noted that the 29 primary candidates for US Senate, besides Maria Cantwell and Susan Hutchison include: 2 or 3 other women, 2 or 3 men of color and a large field of what RantMom described as middle-aged white guys.

--Medicare for All is popular among the candidates. Nice, but RantWoman's reading of tea leaves is that Medicare is under serious attack and Medicare for All is WAY too much of a long shot.

--One of the women is very interested in protecting people from electromagnetic emanations associated with 5G telecomm infrastructure. She has no position on #netneutrality though.

--One of the men must have had one heck of a divorce. RantWoman has no expectation that his background in fathers' rights will be helpful for example in reuniting all the families torn apart on the US Southern border.

--Maybe RantWoman is lacking in imagination, but RantWoman just does not automatically make a leap from fisheries biology to handling the swamp in the nation's capital.

--RantWoman appreciates perennial participation from the Freedom Socialist Party, GoodSpaceGuy, and Mr. Alex Tsimmermann.

4. RantWoman does not consider it the brightest move ever for 6 Republican Senators to spend the Fourth of July in Moscow tut-tutting to Russian parliamentarians about please do not meddle in our elections anymore. RantWoman is coldly uninterested in whether or not any of these 6 got Russian money for their campaigns. Things just LOOK bad. On the bright side, these 6 Republicans are from states where the other Senator, a democrat is up for re-election and where The Orange One won in 2016. Being a one-party state is just not how the US won the Cold War
   Vladimir Putin is #NotMyPresident. RantWoman is unclear whether the #StableGenius ensconced in the White House has sold out specifically to Putin or just gotten tangled up in some bad money-laundering tainted funding steams. Either way our country desperately needs people of conscience who are willing to overcome partisan gridlock. Readers who know people in places where races may get hot are encouraged to consider their options for helping shape campaign conversations.

And in almost completely different news, RantMom says she has no plans ever to run for office. RantWoman suggested that RantMom could try for a Supreme Court appointment and go hang out with the Notorious RBG. RantMom demurred. She mumbled something about qualifications, which apparently is more than can be said about some judicial and prosecutor nominations in the pipeline.
Now it's your turn, dear readers. Get out there and VOTE!