Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod President Matt Harrison is full of hypocritical crap

And yes, family and friends still in that denomination, President-for-Life of the LCMS Matthew Harrison, fresh off putting "lutefash" in a containment box without actually taking it out tot he dumpster, is full of crap — hypocritical crap — in his response to Trump surrogate and general nutter Michael Flynn.

Flynn, per that link, attacked Lutheran Immigration Refugee Services for getting large federal grants for ... uh, helping immigrants. That's even though the LCMS, unlike Rome, can't see its way to doing social justice while remaining theologically conservative.

Flynn, one of Elmo Musk's DOGE-y minions, is of course peddling twaddle. 

So is Matty in his response.

Here's the start of that hypocrisy. Matty says:

We don’t say much to or about the government.

Then goes on to talk extensively about the government indeed.

We have suffered formal legal action and much more as we have watched as DEI philosophy (formally rejected by our church body along with white supremacy) has pervaded nearly every aspect of government activity, even as the U.S. government has burgeoned beyond all ethical and rational propriety, in effect stealing the future from our children.

Talking about the size of government in general is talking about government in general. The "taxation is theft" that appears to be in the background of that last line is bigger bullshit, as it's Trump who has run up large parts of the federal budget deficit, Reagan who started it, and Dick Cheney in between who said "deficits don't matter."

Matty doubles down later, while claiming it's "just me, not the LCMS":

Let me just note (and this is NOT an official position of the LCMS): I’m personally pleased with DOGE. The federal government is bloated beyond all rational limits. It can’t fund its activities without accumulating debt. And it’s failing in its basic tasks.

Please.

First, Federal spending ticked up during COVID, yes, but since then, has returned to close to its historic 60-year norm. See the St. Louis Fed. St. Louis, where you are, Matty. Let's add that, in 1998-2001, we actually ran budget surpluses. Gee (with carryover to fiscal 2001) what party controlled the presidency then, Matt? Arguably, you're violating the Eighth Commandment (Lutheran-Catholic-Anglican-Orthodox numbering) by bearing false witness against a political party.

In fact, Trump himself, on Super Bowl Sunday, just blathered to Bret Baier about $36 trillion in national debt without admitting his first term, he was responsible for one-quarter of that. 

Matty also ignores that the Slickster, Bill Clinton, had a balanced budget at the end of his second term. (He didn't push for cutting military spending more, though.)

And again, this is talking about government.

And, because the devil supposedly loves a bible-quoting secularist, now would be the time for Romans 13, I believe:

Let every person be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those authorities that exist have been instituted by God. 2 Therefore whoever resists authority resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment

There you are, Matt.

As Jesus said at the end of the tale of the Good Samaritan? Maybe you should "go and do likewise"? 

DEI? Most of it is a capitalist pile of junk. (See above about Rome and social justice, vis-a-vis at least excessive capitalism.) And, no, Matt, even if there is a god, he, she or it didn't invent capitalism. When done rightly, as Costco knows, it's good for business and its good ethics as well.

You didn't mention critical race theory, but I'll but you at least have personal, if not official, thoughts about it. Well, they would be wrong; of that I have no doubt. 

I can say that with confidence for two reasons. The first is that most White wingnuts blather about critical race theory without knowing what it is. The second is that I've read "Silent Covenants" by Derrick Bell, one of the developers of critical race theory, and thus DO know something about it directly, and found it informative and more good than bad.

Let's next do a gotcha call-out, Matt. You say at the end:

At the same time, a well-regulated border, sound immigration policy, and welcoming space for persecuted refugees are all fundamental parts of a God-pleasing answer to the question:

OK, what's your answer to the genocide in Gaza? I already know. Your denomination hasn't called it a genocide, AFAIK, and has basically ignored it and the countless refugees Israel has created. (The LCMS is fundamentalist in its own way, but not evangelical millennialists, so it has no reason to expect Israel to bring on Armageddon.)

For that matter, since we're talking primarily about Hispanics, and you ARE talking about the government, what's your personal — and denominational leadership — take on the United States' history of coups and other meddling in Latin America that destabilizes countries and creates refugees?

But, then let's get to the rhetorical question that follows.

Who will contribute to this marvelous and blessed American experiment?

THAT, my "dear sir," is clearly untheological. The "United States of America" is not in Christian scriptures, and to claim the "American experiment" is "blessed" as an implication that it is, and so is a theological lie. It's about as much a lie as the drivel from the Gun Nuts for Luther group which out of thin air implies there's a biblical, god-given right to gunz. It also is a violation of at least the spirit of the First Amendment you claim to love.

As for the German immigrants you say founded the LCMS?

It should also be noted that German-Americans broke harder for Trump than any other white ethnic group, apparently driven in fair part by their liking in 2016 his claims to breaking with the neoconservatives within the GOP and having a more isolationist stance in his "America First," and the LCMS' roots are primarily in German-Americans. 

Many of these people are "alt-white" types. And, let us note that Harrison is palling around with racists. And he knows this.

I said on my original piece about the Lutefash that Harrison was enough of a political chameleon to largely stay above the fray. To the degree he thinks it's too much heavy lifting, he'll ignore the underground network of pastors and congregations, of which I only scratched the surface in that initial piece.

That may or may not still be true. But, on secular politics, I guess he just can't help himself.

Beyond the above, Harrison has big financial fish to fry, namely the Hot Chalk lawsuit and others over the LCMS' abrupt closure a couple of years ago of Concordia University Portland. Harrison's mixing of secular politics and church governance was a factor in how the pooch was screwed in its closing, too, further showing what a hypocrite and liar he is. (Let's not even count the timing on Portland's close blocking easy student transfers that academic year.) So, too, was his eye on the dollar signs CUP was generating with Hot Chalk.

Add this to Matty's political chameleon behavior, too. The Boy Scouts of America a couple of years ago voted to accept gay Scouts, but not leaders. So, Harrison went down the Bill Clinton route of 30 years ago and saying it's "don't ask don't tell" on gay Scouts at troops affiliated with LCMS congregations, and beyond that, in a legal memorandum of understanding, individual congregations still have the right to boot Scout troops. And, contra Rev. Bart Day, no, sexuality was always an issue in the BSA, until it decided to do its split-the-difference bullshit, presumably on grounds that gay Scoutmasters would be "groomers." (This ignores the BSA's long history of tolerating sexual abuse by Scoutmasters, of course, with Harrison and his LCMS predecessors aiding and abetting that.)

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Updates of various sorts:

First, in response to an old college friend on Facebook? It IS my business because, per that neocon Lutheran political pundit (and moderate ex-LCMS theologically), Richard John Neuhaus, Harrison is operating in the public square, per a famous Neuhaus phrase, and influencing members' political views in the process. So, Keith, if you or some other LCMS member want to vote Trump on bad political information, that's your choice. But, when the peddler of bad information is operating in the public square, calling them out is my choice.

Second, per the ex-Lutheran subreddit, Harrison is also lying about current LCMS membership levels. 

So, Matt Harrison is a serial liar.

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I would say "Here I stand, I can do no other" as a bit of additional mocking, but of course (OF COURSE!) Luther never actually said that. It's just another part of 24-karat gilt Luther legend. FAR more of that legend is exposed here.

From that second link, this observation of mine:

The "yes I'm right" stance of Luther himself, not only vis-a-vis things where he clearly was, but other issues, such as versus the Reformed on the Eucharist, versus many Reformed and other Lutherans on the issue of adiophora and more, seems to still run strong in much of the conservative wing of Lutheranism. (Let's not forget that Luther thought he was competent to condemn Copernicus' heliocentric theory of the solar system, and rushed to do so when his book was published.)

Is quite pertinent to the situation at hand.

The enshittification of Shitter gets worse (with occasional updates)

And, in this case, it has nothing to do with Elmo Musk's politics.

Update: Scratch that; in the 2025 updates at bottom, it does have more to do with Musk's politics, AFAIK.

It has nothing to do with #BlueAnon celebrities and political celebrities fleeing to BlueSky, all while either forgetting or else being ignorant of the fact that its owner, Ice Bath Balls Jack Dorsey, wasn't exactly a barrel of enlightenment when he owned Shitter, and neither was Shitter itself. (This also ignores that Ice Bath Balls Jack couldn't make a real profit on Shitter, so he dumped it on Musk.)

What it is, is that Elmo's Shitter appears to have dumped the "Trending" on the right-hand rail of a normal Shitter page. Dumped as in gotten rid of it.

Instead, we have this "Explore," listed as being currently in Beta, but surely about to be shoved down our throats. (Later removed, but a symbol of Musk's ADHD that drives anything and everything he runs, from Shitter through Tesla to the Boring Company, and now, reportedly, the USofA.)

It's nice. Or rather, "nice."

But, it's all about politics.

It's like Elmo and his autistic/OCD goons don't recognize the world of non-political media, and for that matter, non-media period, users of Shitter. (Well, maybe former users, if more and more of these people go away, too.)

Like #NBATwitter, for example.

I don't know if Cory Doctorow has tackled this subset of enshittification in detail, but it's the reverse of the old (and untrue) adage that "the customer is always right." It's now, "the tech dudebro owner is always right."

That said, it IS fun watching and reading all the post-election #BlueAnon blather. Or rich people like Ellen Degeneres being serious about leaving the US.

LeBron is just taking a Shitter break. Maybe he'll establish international residence after he retires? 

Update, Nov. 22: A LOT of people must have bitched about this. Shitter made them go away.

Update, Feb. 4, 2025: It's gotten worse. I got a warning label for allegedly engaging in "inauthentic behavior," and per the engagement numbers after that happened about 48 hours ago, it's like I've been shadowbanned. I appealed, but no response yet, because of how many people Musk fired, among other things. Sub-update, Feb. 6: The "impressions on my posts" are less than half of what they were a week ago.

Update 2, also Feb. 4: Elmo's lawsuits against advertisers for boycotting Shitter (can't believe we're not going to see directed verdicts against Musk, let alone a dismissal of at least some of these) won't help retain other advertisers. Related? More and more subreddits banning Shitter links will drop his counts. Blue Sky surely will pick up some of this.

Update, Feb. 27: When I used "tranny" on Shitter when posting this story about Dannie Goeb, aka Dan Patrick, with the word "Tranny" in the header, Shitter's Nazis limited its visibility. I appealed, and knowing I would lose, I mentioned they worked for a Nazi-saluting Grüppenfuehrer boss who lets racism run rampant. I still lost.

Does Hersh have a "live one" on COVID, Trump 1.0 and WIV, or was he set up?

Or, as my Substack note said about Seymour Hersh's paywalled piece last week:

Does Sy Hersh have a live fish here, or did some winger bait his hook with a dead minnow, like with Butowsky (and people behind him) and Seth Rich, for which Sy remains largely unrepentant, AFAIK?

And, let's dive in, and I'll link to old Blogger pieces about Sy, too. The nutgraf, quoted in full, is the second paragraph and the last before the paywall:

I learned this week that a US intelligence asset at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China, where the Covid virus was first observed, is safe and out of danger. The asset, highly regarded within the CIA, was recruited while in graduate school in the United States and provided early warning of a laboratory accident at Wuhan that led to a series of infections that was quickly spreading and initially seemed immune to treatment. As is the case today, many senior US officials were reluctant to tell the president what he did not want to hear. But early studies dealing with how to mitigate the oncoming plague, based on information from the Chinese health ministry about the lethal new virus, were completed late in 2019 by experts from America’s National Institutes of Health and other research agencies. Despite their warnings, a series of preventative actions were not taken until the United States was flooded with cases of the virus. All of these studies, I have been told, have been expunged from the official internal records in Washington, including any mention of the CIA's source inside the Chinese laboratory. It was a cover-up to protect a president who did not do the right thing.

OK, more analysis, stemming from my note.

First, per the Butowsky link, there's a possibility that Hersh is a willing fellow traveler, and as part of that, there's some axes he has to grind, unbeknownst to me what they are. Or maybe this is firing a shot across Trump's bow in some way. (He's not paying attention to you, Sy.)

Let's start with Sy's first piece, after his "hello world" one, on Substack, about the Nord Stream pipeline demolition, and my take on it.

I said there that, even if the big picture was right, he got a lot of details wrong. I also added that, if nothing else, he may have gotten "Fisked." (That said, as with the late Robert Fisk, that happens more easily if the journalist is a willing dance partner.) 

I also noted Mark Ames, and Bernhard at Moon of Alabama, as too willing to give Sy blank checks. In fact, since I've had run-ins with Bernard and MOA before, I wrote a separate brief call-out. Related to Ames? I noted that Sy's piece — and Mark's Radio War Nerd about it — had brought plenty of nutters out of the woodwork, many related to Julian Assange in general, and Seth Rich in particular.

Rather than being Fisked, as another option, I wondered back then if Sy was ax-grinding. Possible on this issue as well. (Trump ain't listening.)

As far as Sy's past? Yes, he got My Lai right. And other things. He was totally wrong about Obama's Abbottabad raid on Osama bin Laden, and perhaps in part either due to ax-grinding, being Fisked, or both.

And, long ago, Sy's "The Dark Side of Camelot," per my linked review, was as much, if not more, miss than hit, and some of the misses were straight-on laughable.

So, sorry, Sy and/or minders? No desire to "claim my free post" and be spammed or something. It's not worth it to figure out whether this is more a Fisking or more an ax-grinding piece, and I'm confident that it's NOT more a "reality" piece.

Texas Progressives talk this and that

Off the Kuff despaired at the frontal assault on vaccination that is coming in the Legislature. 

SocraticGadfly looked at Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge, and more, a "friends" support group, whoring itself out for oil and gas propaganda.

Bird flu will likely increase at Texas chicken and dairy operations. And, it's sad to see someone from the Texas Animal Health Commission sounding halfway like a Great Barrington dude on COVID and talking about herd immunity already. The Trib notes antivaxxer Brainworm Bobby's pushing of raw milk; we'll see if he gets the HHS confirmation or not.

The ACLU et al look prepared to sue local school districts if they adopt a bybul-infused state-OKed school curriculum.

Measles is here as antivaxxerism surges, with MAGAts getting a boost from Brainworm Bobby's MAHAts.

On EV charging stations, only in a news site like the state capital-bound Trib would a place the size of Longview be "a little town."

I highly doubt the death penalty will be eliminated in Texas, but I hugely welcome any possibility of restricting it. Will any Conservative Cafeteria Catholics in the Lege agree?

The Observer has an update on education bills in the Lege, and notes that on the House side, remaining anti-voucher Republicans (my flip-flopper David Spiller no longer being here) like Drew Darby continue to fight.

Arlington OKs new fracking one-fifth of a mile from a day care.

Six Texas kids under age 12 got out-of-state abortions in 2023 because they couldn't here. And, related, that means that the sexual abuse crimes against them weren't investigated.

The Barbed Wire catches Elmo Musk cheating at a video game and catching flak with some hardcore gamers/fanboys.  

Space City Weather does a postmortem on Hurricane Beryl.  

Deceleration talks fermentation, the food kind.  

Texas 2036 looks at the keys to water policy success.  

The Bloggess does not want to be polished by AI.  

Bayou City Sludge watched the Senate committee hearing on vouchers so you didn't have to.

Quorum Report's Harvey Kronberg is pissed off, sort of

The Monthly, in my non-paywalled article, reports how Harvey Kronberg, founder of The Quorum Report, is disgusted at the current state of Tex-ass politics. (The Monthly doesn't ask if it's contributed to that at all. Harvey doesn't ask that of himself, either.) The piece is good in noting the state will be hitting some budget caps, that passing them requires a two-thirds vote, and in the House, Dem votes will have to be sought out, giving them some degree of power.

HK: They’ve got two pieces of leverage there. One is that we’re going to be busting budget caps. You need one hundred votes to bust budget caps. The leverage is that it’s going to take two-thirds to do some things, and that—historically, anyway—West Texas Republicans have more in common with South Texas Democrats on most issues than they do with Woodlands Republicans. And that has been the basis of a workable coalition for a long time. Second, the Democrats couldn’t figure out why they should care [about losing chairmanships], because only six or eight were going to be chairs anyway. But Burrows giving them vice-chair authority in the rules, with the ability to set bills, shouldn’t be taken as insignificant.

I disagree on the ranking minority members angle, but, we'll see.

He also thinks Dustin Burrows will be better for the House in general than was McDade Phelan.

Phelan? Wonderful guy; I like him. But when he would go on the floor, he would only go to the frat-boy caucus [a group of younger white, male Republicans]. He never went to Red Square [the part of the chamber where Democratic liberals sit]. He never went to the old farts over by the members’ lounge. One of the responsibilities of a Speaker is to build a community. With Phelan, members never knew what the direction was from management; even if they disagreed with the plan, they didn’t know what it was. The chairmen didn’t feel like they were empowered as much as the frat-boy caucus was. He didn’t have any graybeards in the back hall with him. Now I see the pieces there for Burrows to build a community.

We'll see on that one, too.

The tariffs are here, even as Texas business-MAGAts worry and bullshit

And, so are the countertariffs, as the Wall Street Journal reports.

The tariffs themselves, even before Mexico and Canada announced countertariffs — and President Claudia Sheinbaum and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced they were coordinating response policy, had many Texas biz leaders worried, the Trib notes. (Kudos for it calling tariffs "taxes" in the opening graf.)

As for what this will affect? Per the WSJ, get ready to pay more for a new car, or repairs to an already-owned one, among other things:

Supply chains in the highly integrated auto sector face significant disruption because tariffs have an expansive impact. Mexico supplied about 42% of U.S. imports of auto parts last year and Canada almost 13%. With auto parts going back and forth among the three countries several times, tariff costs risk surging well above 25%, industry experts say.

That right there will piss off a lot of people, and be noticeable.

As for here in Tex-ass? Less politicized groups of businesses are worried; more politicized larger groups and individuals, plus people like Havana Ted, are bullshitting and hand-waving right now.

I thought the US economy was set to go into recession some time in the next four years even without this, and no matter which of the candidates was elected US president. This only confirms that.

Related? A reminder to BlueAnon that Biden kept in place Trump's tariffs on China — and also continued Trump's bribing of US agriculture.

Finally, as to Trump's claims that this would fight drug cartels? The Trib concludes by saying it will backfire, if anything.

(We'll see what happens after 1 month from now, with the temporary pause versus both Canada and Mexico.)

The Mavs-Lakers, Luka-AD trade: My short take

First, here's the trade basics, from Red Satan.

At that site, not too long after the trade, Windy was wondering why the Mavs didn't get either a second first-round draft choice, or another player, like Hillbilly Heroine Austin Reeves? Good question on the former. On the latter? Windy's own employer reported that the Jazz had to be looped in as a third team precisely because of salary cap issues.

Then there's the Dum Fuq casuals on Shitter who blamed Mark Cuban when he sold majority ownership of the Mavs nine months ago.

I don't think it's all bad on the Mavs side, despite The Ringer's caveats that the Mavs were A. Built around Luka and B. Actually better on team defense, memes aside, when he was on the floor.

And, we'll get to the B. in a minute.

First, this may indeed have been a steal for the Lakers. Given Luka's age vs AD's, it's a crime that Nico Harrison didn't get more draft capital. Yeah, even if you were that soured on Luka (and was Jason Kidd also that soured?), you still should have gotten more.

Update, Feb. 7: That draft capital went to Charlotte, which got Dalton Knecht (AND Cam Reddish as a bag of chips) AND that 2031 first-rounder that Nico couldn't, for middling center Mark Williams. No, really, that's the trade, even as Shams oversold the hell out of Williams on Shitter. Williams can't be a rising star yet when he's missed about half his eligible games in his 2.5 years due to injury.)

Update, Feb. 10: Related to the above? Pelinka specifically targeted Williams to please Doncic. Hey, Rob, Nico told you how that went in Dallas. Have fun!

That said, from the point of view of Harrison — and from the son-in-law of new owner Miriam Adelson, who is now the team's governor, The Ringer also notes this puts the Mavs below the salary cap first tier. Bobby Marks confirms. Mavs fans, keep that in mind.

Now, the B. side? Another Ringer piece notes Luke hasn't played 70-plus games since his rookie year. And, the ESPN top link notes he was in his 260s! earlier this year. At the same time, Michael Pina notes that AD has his own injury history.

If there's anybody in the NBA who can talk Luka into a better conditioning mindset, it's LeBron. Maybe he'll use any anger Luka has over the trade. OTOH, Luka's anger is often of a pouting sort. We've seen him not play D after arguing with refs.

If he won't show up in better conditioning next year? The Lakers may have traded for a more creatively passing but ground-bound version of Zion Williamson.

Meanwhile, Harrison has made the Mavs hostage to Kyrie Irving. As everybody and their uncle has noted, the current team is built around Luka. You can sort of get Kyrie to do much of the same, though he's not a Luka-type rebounder or other things, by making him into the first banana. That said, we know what's happened at other teams when Kyrie is the first banana. Maybe he's truly — and completely — turned over another leaf.

But, Mavs fans, would you bet your life on that? 

That said, Rob Pelinka is betting on something, too. That's that LeBron opts in on his contract next year. What if he doesn't, and not just to extract more from the Lakers? What if he wants to leave? Back to the Cavs, if they don't get the ring this year, to try to help them over the top and retire there? Who knows? Gnarls Barkley offered up the Warriors as his first option, which I doubt, and the Spurs as No. 2. THAT would be interesting.

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In a follow-up, Harrison mentioned "Mavs culture" as a reason for the move. Stephen A and Shannon discuss this. He also mentioned a mix of salary cap and questions about re-signing Doncic, which indicates he thought some wells were already poisoned. He said the team had its heart set on AD, so not looking elsewhere. And, despite the look on Jason's Kidd's face at the initial presser that had some mix of shock and disgust, he said Kidd supported it. Well, if nothing else, Nico, given that you sign Kidd's paychecks, did he have a choice of saying much else?

Re the supermax, for which he's not eligible now? Doncic is not worth $70M a year.

Red Satan has a new piece on how this all went down. It follows up on "Mavs culture" by saying Harrison, who once was basically an assistant agent for Kobe Bryant, didn't see Kobe's work ethic, or close to it, in Luka. And, it explains that Harrison wanted radio silence to keep Luka's agent from meddling. THAT I can't blame. And, in a short video, Jay Williams said that NBA owners want more of this — eyeing NFL owners and GMs.

Biden Derangement Syndrome: At least as real as TDS

Speaking as an independent, non-duopoly leftist, I can affirm this.

I had been thinking about writing up something along these lines for some time. Then, running into a Bernie --> (semi)-Trump guy on The Dissident's Substack, this guy, who isn't, you know, anything but a self-professed "Evangelical nihilist," but does appear to be a misogynist, and maybe a degree of Whiteist (like some other Bernie — >Trump people like H.A. Goodman  and possibly Actual Flatticus Chris Chopin had he lived longer and shown (or been caught out on) more of his true colors, not a leftist, I "had to" do something. (Given his antivaxxerism that started the comment exchange, "Humungus" probably, if he did back Bernie in 2020, went to Brainworm Bobby in 2024 before accepting Trump as lesser evilism. He likely voted Brainworm Bobby.)

Most this piece is an expanded version of my second-last comment to him before he got muted. Too bad Substack doesn't have an exit conversation or mute conversation control. For all of its issues with API, as well as current owner, Shitter is a lot more "granular" than any other social media on that.

First, full stop. Biden IS full of shit, above all on the Middle East, per the piece I posted in comments on the particular piece at The Dissident, as I wrote here two weeks ago. Trump is still greater evilism.

First, on foreign policy stuff?

1. We're already seeing that no, he does NOT want to end the Ukraine war tomorrow. If you don't see that, like Simplicius, who still didn't fully see it two weeks ago, though he was starting to self-enlighten. But, last week, he went backward again, as he still doesn't seem to get that this is the actual Trump on Ukraine. There's no "faltering," it's the actual Trump. I'll buy you a coffee if you'll wake up and smell it. Let's not forget — in case Simplicius has never mentioned it — that Trump sold Ukraine weapons that Dear Leader Obama refused to sell. Let's also remember to discount most of Trump's Deep State blatherings, unlike the guy up top. Trump chose to sell these weapons to Ukraine. And, oh, the cluelessness of some comments there? 

2. What happens if Bibi breaks the cease-fire, on Israel-Gaza? There's a good chance he opts out after the first phase. If so, there's a good chance Trump — you know, the guy who moved the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem — does nothing. A lot of analysis has noted an opt-out after the first round is quite possible.

Primaries?

Both duopoly parties rig them. Period and end of story.

Third parties?

Yes, Democrats are more aggressive against them than Republicans.

That said, per your feed, Mr. Humungus on Substack, and an edited version of my other, longer reply to you? You may have voted third party or indy at some time, but I've gone back months on your feed, and there's not a single actual leftist (leftist not librul) thought there.

Updating this? If he voted third party or independent at all, it was likely Brainworm Bobby. I know that because I did my duopoly exit on presidential races at the start of this century and am an actual leftist. I doubled down on this in my last comment to him.

Grifter and corrupt?

Biden is less so than Trump. The failure to release his tax returns is Exhibit A.

Arrested Trump? That was state-level charges in Georgia; Biden had nothing to do with that.

Oh, I didn’t even mention Jan. 6, 2021, and now, we have Jan. 6, 2021 pardons to mention, too. Biden never goosed supporters into an insurrection

So, even if you don't "support" Trump? Biden Derangement Syndrome is as real a deal as Trump Derangement Syndrome. Or more so. 

To summarize?

Trump is greater evilism. And, even if you're not an open Trump supporter, if you supported Brainworm Bobby and said nothing when he kissed Trump's ass, you really are.