The Best IS Yet To Come (Right?!)

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NOVEMBER 5 = IS IT 1955, 1985, OR 2024?

“How were you to know
That you would be the lucky one
Ain't it funny how time flies
When the best was yet to come”

From “The Best Was Yet to Come” By Bryan Adams
Written By Jim Vallance & Bryan Adams

In Back to the Future fashion, November 5, 2024, could be the day the United States of America gets transported back to the worst parts of 1955—or it could be the day we realize better days can be ahead…if we move forward together.

Like a lot of people, I’m feeling a lot of anxiety, dread, hope, and worry this Election Day. The same mixed emotions I’ve had since at least 2000.

My stomach’s in knots, nerves buzzing just under the surface. It’s not going to be an easy day for me to focus, so I’ve planned accordingly.

Comedian Adam Conover may be right that worrying doesn’t help anything, but I’m an expert-level worrier. Maybe you are too?

As much as I love ephemera and photos from the past, I live in the here and now. So I’m hopeful we can collectively move toward a better future and resist those trying to turn back the clocks to the Dark Ages. Frankly, one time change this week is more than enough.

When it comes to the candidates, let’s be real: neither will cure all that ails us.

If Trump wins, we know the score. Based on his own words—and past actions and inactions—he will do his best to stoke division and attempt to repeat some of the worst moments in world history.

If Harris wins, she’ll likely invite more voices to the table, working together to improve our “imperfect union.” However, relying on focus groups isn’t always the best solution. Oftentimes, groupthink just leads to more confusion, mess, and noise.

Whoever wins, this election won’t fix everything. But it could break more shit. So I’m holding onto hope that, at the very least, reasonable minds will prevail, and maybe—just maybe—we’ll wake up tomorrow with a clear, decisive direction forward for the country. Fingers crossed.

This afternoon, I plan to sign off early and dive into the election coverage, starting with MeidasTouch on YouTube.

If you’re not familiar,

MeidasTouch Network

is an independent, progressive media group that's popular on both YouTube and Substack. Since I consider mainstream media complicit in creating a more divided country by chasing dollars over delivering fact-based news, I’ve decided to tune into a newer network on this historic night.

“If they succeed, you'll miss the lightning bolt at the clock tower, you won't get back to the future, and we'll have a major paradox!”
"Doc" Brown = Back to the Future

Wishing us all brighter futures, fewer paradoxes, and stronger stomachs.

Thanks for reading!
Clint

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NEWS + VIEWS

• Men Are Sharing “It’s Gay” Kind Of Things (Buzzfeed)

• Judy Garland's Wizard of Oz Red Slippers Tipped To Sell For £1.5m (The Mirror)

• Better Pinterest? Cosmos.so — Review As A Graphic Designer (Medium)

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ON THIS DAY = NOVEMBER 5

BIRTHDAYS

• 1911 = Roy Rogers = American singer and actor

• 1913 = Vivien Leigh = Indian-British actor

• 1922 = Violet Barclay = American illustrator

• 1931 = Ike Turner = American singer-songwriter and producer

• 1958 = Robert Patrick = American actor

• 1959 = Bryan Adams = Canadian singer-songwriter and photographer

• 1960 = Tilda Swinton = English actor

• 1963 = Tatum O'Neal = American actor and author

• 1965 = Famke Janssen = Dutch model and actor

• 1968 = Sam Rockwell = American actor

• 1974 = Ryan Adams = American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1980 = Luke Hemsworth = Australian actor

• 1987 = Jason Kelce = American football player

• 1987 = Kevin Jonas = American singer-songwriter

CELEBRATIONS

• Movember

• Guy Fawkes Night (UK)

• National Donut Day

EVENTS

• 1605 = Gunpowder Plot = Guy Fawkes is arrested in the cellars of the Houses of Parliament, where he had planted gunpowder in an attempt to blow up the building and kill King James I of England.

• 1773 = John Hancock is elected as moderator at a Boston town meeting and says anyone who supports the Tea Act is an "Enemy to America."

• 1872 = Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time in defiance of the law and is later fined $100.

• 1895 = George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.

• 1940 = Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first only President to be elected to a third (and later fourth) term.

• 1955 = "Doc" Brown conceives of time travel car in Back to the Future.

• 1955 = Marty McFly returns to November 5 in Back to the Future.

• 1955 = The rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens after being destroyed in World War II with Fidelio, Ludwig van Beethoven’s only opera.

• 1956 = The Nat King Cole Show debuts on NBC, the first variety program to be hosted by an African-American.

• 1961 = The New York Times arts critic Howard Taubman launches an attack on “the increasing incidence of homosexuality on the New York stage” in an article headlined “Not What It Seems = Homosexual Motif Gets Heterosexual Guise.”

• 1973 = The Supreme Court of the United States in Wainwright v. Stone finds that the sodomy law of Florida is not unconstitutionally vague, reversing a Fifth Circuit ruling.

• 1974 = Elaine Noble becomes the first openly gay or lesbian individual to be elected to a state legislature in the United States when she is elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives.

• 1992 = A clause prohibiting anti-gay verbal abuse in schools is repealed by the Board of Education in Fairfax County, Virginia out of concerns that it promotes homosexuality.

• 2004 = Saskatchewan rules that same-sex couples have the right to marry.

• 2008 = Strauss v. Horton, a legal challenge to Proposition 8, is filed in California.

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PHOTO + SONG + QUOTE OF THE DAY

“I've only ever trusted my gut on everything.
I don't trust my head, I don't trust my heart, I trust my gut.”
Bryan Adams

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