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Why Smear Joe Biden?

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Why the smear campaign against Joe Biden? Haven’t he and his family given enough to the country, with Joe offering a lifetime of service, and one of his sons dying from a condition possibly acquired while serving overseas? Shouldn’t the nation be grateful?

I agree that he may have been too old to run for that second term. I was among those thinking he shouldn’t do it. I hoped he wouldn’t do it, but he did. And with a couple of exceptions, he did a pretty good job. Far better than this current president, who unleashes a wrecking ball on our democratic form of government at every turn, recently returning from the Arab world, not with any new substantial treaties, but with bags of loot and the offer of a “free” 747 luxury jet the Quataris clearly no longer need or want. Or they wouldn’t be giving it away as a bribe to DJT.

By now we should all be getting it. Donald J. Trump, has turned his back on our allies while appearing to support the enemies of democracy, like Vladimir Putin, with whom he is clearly enamored. A tyrant and dictator, who puts up a front of keeping the door to peace talks open, while launching a drone attack on old ladies in a van in Ukraine. And children in the street. And thousands of other Ukrainian non-combatants.

As for Netanyahu, and the continued slaughter of Palestinians, who knows what Trump currently believes, as his push for any given policy is erratic at best, apparently changing on a whim from one hour to the next as his need to become America’s first dictator continues?

If ever there was a U.S. President, whose mental fitness should be called into serious question, it is Donald J. Trump. And that, makes it all the more curious that media outlets just recently launched what appears to be a campaign against the past administration of Joe Biden. A man whose family has already given so much, only to be smeared while in retirement.

I admit to being a Democrat. A very bad Democrat, who switched from my former lifetime status as an Independent upon moving back to Maryland, which has a closed primary, making it necessary to join a party or be shut out of voting in the State’s antiquated primary elections. By my way of thinking, that makes me something less that one of the “party faithful.” I am a Democrat out of necessity, not because I back the party’s platform.

Millions of Americans, I believe, really do put the general good of the country ahead of personal passion for one special interest issue or another. Consequently, a great many Americans feel left out of the process, with Republicans peddling fear, hatred and lies, while Democrats, appear to represent nothing short of the old “tail wagging the dog” scenario, with a few far left special interest cliques running things. It may not be entirely true, but in politics, appearances can be all important to the outcome.

For Donald John Trump, the one overriding personal passion appears to be open self-aggrandizement. He isn’t even trying to hide it, as he appoints unelected lieutenants to attack our hard-won freedoms, our democratic institutions, paid for with the blood of our ancestors, while he tries to intimidate the judiciary into inaction through overt threats in the media. A media, which, in its infinite wisdom, has currently turned its focus to a critique of the job Joe Biden did, rather than the questionable mental condition of this current president, who has been diagnosed with malignant narcissism, and other conditions, by mental health professionals with impeccable credentials. Warnings a nation in denial continues to largely disregard.

Compared to Trump, Joe Biden was sharp as a tack and a great patriot, who gave nearly all he had and then continued to give even more. Yes, he failed to lock down the border and lower grocery prices. At the same time, he pulled the country out of the Covid pandemic and the economic crisis it created. Unlike Trump, who appears to be obsessed with improving tax cuts for the nation’s wealthiest citizens regardless of the impact his actions will have on our middle-class and the poor. There really is no comparison between the two. Joe Biden, cared for America. Trump, cares only for Trump, and refers to those who put country first as “suckers and losers.”

Setting aside any number of violations of constitutional law, like repeated violations of due-process and sending out masked federal goon squads with questionable warrants to break into private property and kidnapping people from the streets, the emoluments clause alone should be enough to put an end to Donald Trump’s tenure in the Oval Office.

His questionable mental health is another issue, which may outstrip all the others. It is however, of little meaning, lacking Republicans with the spine to take action against a man who is turning out to be America’s version of mad King George III of Great Britain.

Who can possibly agree with Trump’s latest mad proposal, to somehow “move” a million Palestinians from Gaza to Libya? How to get them there and what to do if they don’t want to go, little details like that, apparently never crossed Trump’s mind. Or what’s left of it. Maybe he feels that just thinking about it will make it happen? Maybe he’s “hearing things” again?

As DJT becomes increasingly irrational, establishing crypto currency funds his anonymous admirers can dump millions of dollars into in the hope of influencing his administration, while he demands that Canada becomes the 51st state and that the United States should act, possibly militarily, to annex Greenland and Panama, in short, acting in a fashion that is in the country’s worst rather than its best interest, a few Republicans appear finally to be waking up to the fact that something needs to be done, possibly before the mid-terms. Hopefully, their numbers will grow.

To assume we’ll get through this by any means other than removing DJT from office, like trying to wait this madness out, could be a fatal assumption for American Democracy. Complaining about the job Joe Biden did, is nothing but a diversion from what Trump is doing. Our media needs to stop falling for it, and go after the real problem, the old guy who is currently in office, not the old guy who is no longer there.

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(News of Joe Biden’s cancer diagnosis was released just hours after this piece was posted.)

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The Future Is Now

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Turkey and Israel are on the verge of civil wars because of far right extremism. In Paris, tens of thousands are in the streets protesting the far right and racism. French President, Emanuel Macron, is calling together a “coalition of the willing” on the 27th, to help defend Ukraine, by taking a stand against Vladimir Putin and the Russians – backed presumably by their old friend and apparent ally, Donald J. Trump.

Would Israel, be on the verge of a civil war had Kamala Harris been elected rather than Trump? Probably not. It’s doubtful she would have been able to do anything about the situation in Turkey, but she would have at least tried.

If only DJT were able to connect the dots. Instead, he’s attacking our institutions of higher learning, closing the Dept. of Education and threatening to shutter Social Security. He was about to give the keys to the Pentagon to Elon Musk, before his misstep was narrowly averted after being exposed by the New York Times. At the same time, like an angry child, he revoked the security clearances of true American patriots.

Would we be having any of these issues had Kamala Harris been elected rather than Trump? No. Instead, Kamala Harris, is one of the American patriots who has had her security clearance revoked by Donald Trump.

Stand by for news.

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U.K. And Germany Issue Travel Advisories For Travel To The United States

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With each new day it feels like we are closer to living in a dictatorship, with warrantless searches and people being snatched off the street and then being denied due process. These are not just hypotheticals anymore. These are actual events as the rule of law is being set aside, replaced by a new brand of anti-Americanism made possible by a Supreme Court that enabled Donald J. Trump, declaring him to be immune from being held accountable for pretty much anything he does. And he’s doing it, at an ever increasing pace.

But there was more. It was the one/two punch of the Supreme court, first making it possible for anyone to funnel any amount of “dark” money to support any candidate with no transparency through their “Citizens United” ruling. That, first knocked the American ideal down onto the mat, followed by the insanity of declaring the President to be above the law in a country where the rule of law is supposed to be paramount. That, was Lady Liberty, being kicked while she was down.

We do not have a king. Or we had none, until now. Until the Supreme Court, made it possible. Apparently the majority never read the Constitution.

Question: “Will John Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett, step up and save the Republic? It’s an outside chance, but it is, at least, something to hold onto. A flash of judicial conscience with the realization that they can actually save the country from tyranny.

And still there are those who don’t seem to care about any of it. Hopefully, it’s because they don’t understand. Even now, with the U.K. and Germany, issuing travel advisories to their citizens planning on coming into the United States. Advisories about the possible hazards of traveling to the U.S. It’s unthinkable. Impossible. But it’s happening.

Donald Trump, is turning the United States into an international pariah, and Americans are not happy about it. A new study indicates that Finland, a Socialist country, is the happiest place on Earth. Americans are the unhappiest ever, dropping down to 24th place.

Here at home losing our Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security will hurt like hell. Not for millions of younger Americans, of course. Not now. And by the time they realize what they’ve lost, it will be too late. That, however, will be next to nothing compared to the loss of their liberty. But again, odds are they won’t know what they’ve lost until they have no chance at getting it back.

An exaggeration you say? Just weeks ago, we were the leader of the free world. Now, we’re being regarded as not much more than another banana republic. That’s a flat-out fact. The European Union is drawing up plans for their defense absent the United States.

Those who support this current president should dwell on that for a time before continuing their slow-walk, confidently supporting that which is in their worst interest. Something the Republican Party has been working on for years. Something they may now, finally achieve.

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Not My President

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The BBC is reporting that Trump and Putin will be talking about “dividing up certain assets” in regard to Ukraine, without any input from the Ukrainians.

This is beyond belief. How long will it be before all of America realizes just how utterly incompetent DJT truly is as he stumbles forward with his attempt at ending the war Russia started with its invasion of Crimea in 2014, while Elon Musk continues running rampant through the federal government, gutting institutions, ending lives and destroying careers with the stated goal of putting and end to Social Security. A move that will financially cripple millions of our senior citizens.

Musk, is unelected, an immigrant from South Africa. It’s doubtful he has an adequate understanding of our system, much less our traditions, many of which were purchased and then preserved with the blood of our friends and ancestors. Who is he to run roughshod over our institutions, many of which have made the United States, the envy of so much of the world?

For whatever problems we may have, we are still that “Shining city on a hill” that President Reagan, spoke of.

Don’t buy into Trump’s baseless argument that the United States is a mess. We were fine, with a sound and stable economy, able to work through our differences with no threat to the Republic until he came along, supported by Vladimir Putin at the polls and with Saudi money being funneled directly into his family while he promoted Roy Cohen’s immoral philosophy of striking back twice as hard, even when you’re in the wrong.

The truth, is that Donald J. Trump, has a history. Whatever he gets his hands on, falls into ruin. And he now has his hands all over the United States. Trump, moves ahead with the bravado of a monarch, suggesting the annexation of Greenland and Canada. An American dictator, ignoring the orders of federal courts, our very constitutional guarantees, as he thumbs his nose at our legal traditions, the rule of law that gives our system its balance, guaranteeing our liberty.

This is madness. Much of America, was distracted by the false prophecy of fear and hate. It’s time to wake up. We must reclaim our true allies on the world stage and demand a return to the rule of law in America, holding all accountable, including the Chief Executive and those justices of the Supreme Court, who may have been unduly influenced by personal gain. The high court’s past misjudgements can be corrected by the Congress and the Court, acting together as co-equal branches.

Both Republicans and Democrats should be screaming for Trump’s removal from office under the authority of the 25th Amendment before he destroys the United States. Doing any less is to promote the destruction of all we hold dear. The death of our very liberty. The death of the American ideal.

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A Nod To Our National Nausea

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Don’t be surprised if you feel a little nauseous. This is what happens when your plane is in a tailspin with Mr. Magoo, in the cockpit. Or you see some idiot with a chainsaw jumping around on a stage while other idiots cheer him on.

What’s happening to the country is truly sickening.

A peculiar feature of our system is that so many of us are apparently more concerned with how much we’ll make this year as opposed to worries over whether our country will survive Trump, Musk and Putin.

How long will it take the Republican Party, or what’s left of it, to wake up to this attempted destruction of the American Republic?

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Finally, A Ray of Light In The Political Abyss

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Call it what you will, a crack in the dam, a sliver of sunshine breaking through the vast darkness of Republican sloth. Whatever you want to call it, it has happened.

First, Senators Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins stood up against the misguided and just plain irrational nomination of Kash Patel for director of the FBI. The guy, who clearly shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near any branch of law enforcement, was confirmed anyway, as Murkowski and Collins were the only two Republicans with the courage to stand up against Donald Trump, but they did.

Then came Senator Thom Tillis, of North Carolina. He was a another beam of light and truthfulness to cut through all the Trumpian insanity, as he took to the senate floor to lambaste Vladimir Putin and Trump’s demented stand on supporting the Russian invasion of Ukraine while turning his back on NATO and our traditional allies.

Three Republican senators may not be much, but it’s a start. A beginning in what hopefully will be a return to sane and responsible governance by the Republican Party, before Donald J. Trump, brings us all down, destroying our “shining city on a hill” that took 250 years to build.

We can only pray there will be more, joining in the patriotic fight against creeping despotism, until the entire Republican Party, or most of it at least, can regain their senses and stand as a block against Donald Trump, refusing to accept his attempted overthrow of our Constitutional Democracy.

America needs heroes not cowards, and we need them now. People willing to take the lead, like Thom Tillis of North Carolina, Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski, of Alaska.

Use any metaphor you like, the train carrying American patriots to the continued successful future of our Constitutional Democracy is about to leave the station. Time to pick a side, Democracy or dictator.

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The New Russian/American Alliance

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When we were growing up we were criticized for doing stupid things. We were told “you better go and take a smart pill or you won’t be able to get into college.” It worked, I think, as many of us tried harder to develop our minds as well as our bodies. And a bunch of us, did get into college.

Then it happened. Somewhere in the 80’s, the country began celebrating ignorance and chastising higher learning as being “elitist.” The country started glorifying commonality and demeaning higher learning for anything other than an MBA. Diplomacy was displaced by a bigger and badder war machine as we adopted “Greed is good” as our national mantra.

What was left of any spiritual ethos we might have had was beaten bloody and left lying on the floor.

Now, here we all are. Half the country has no reading comprehension and the only thing anybody can agree on is football. A perfect satellite for Putin and his Russian machine as the United States turns it back on its allies in favor of dictators, oil rich kingdoms and terrorists.

The bad guys are no longer at the gate, they have kicked down the front door and made a home for themselves in the Oval Office. They are standing the American ideal on its head and probably laughing about it while the Republican Party, the only ones left with the power to put our house back in order, cower in a dark corner of some basement room at the Capitol.

This current Republican Party gives new meaning to the term political cowardice, as they watch the country die from a thousand cuts with influence being purchased through dark money courtesy of a totally politicized Supreme Court.

It may be too late to hope that people will develop critical thinking. Instead we’re losing the Dept. of Education, denying Science and hoping the Oligarchy, our new rulers that are slowly tearing apart our American Democracy, will be kind to us.

The hotline to the Kremlin, installed years ago to keep the peace in an increasingly dangerous world, is undoubtedly coming in handy to receive instructions from Vladimir Putin, advising Trump how and when to act, so that we the sheeple will continue behaving according to plan, making as little trouble as possible as they continue laying waste to our institutions.

You didn’t really think Donald J. Trump was smart enough to come up with all this stuff on his own, did you?

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Follow The Leader

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Feels like people are complaining a lot, doesn’t it?

I went in for a blood draw with an appointment for one o’clock. There were three women in the waiting area when I arrived around 12:50. All three were complaining about how long they had been waiting. I finally asked if they had an appointment. They did not. I then suggested that maybe the people who worked at the office might be on a lunch break. That was a mistake, as all three then directed their frustration at me, because it would, they explained, be only reasonable to put up an “out to lunch” sign. At one o’clock, on the nose, a phlibotomist came out and invited me into the office for my blood draw. Because I had an appointment. Easy to get one. You can do it online in just three or four minutes.

Next came a guy the at supermarket, loudly complaining about all the federal workers being “Paid big money for just sittin’ around.” I wondered if he could name three, or even two, and what his complaint will be when he needs help from that same Federal Government, but there’s nobody to take his call. Bet that’ll set him off.

I wonder if he knows that our President, a guy he may have voted for, is now claiming that Ukraine started the war with Russia, and not the other way around. Or that people working for Elon Musk, are now scrambling to try and re-hire some of the federal workers they recently fired, because it turns out those recently dismissed had filled positions of critical importance within the Federal Government? Like keeping tabs on our nuclear industry and watching the expanding Bird Flu problem.

I wonder if he knows any of that, or even cares. Thing is, if you tried to tell him, he’d probably just get mad. Therein lies the heart of it. Telling people what they don’t know but should is a blow to their egos. So, suggestions like making an appointment might be a good idea or maybe you should read a newspaper now and then, will only draw their ire.

It seems to be epidemic. So many of our fellow Americans now seem to think with their collective gut and not with their heads. Which should probably be expected in a country led by a man who frequently complains and divides but seldom if ever, does anything designed to heal and bring people together. He seems great at tearing things down and then playing the victim when he fails, but lousy when it comes to building things up. And he once billed himself as a real estate developer?

The really scary thing, if you’ve been paying any attention at all, is that his condition is obviously systemic. This time when he crashes, turning his back on NATO, denying Science and attempting to silence the legitimate press, he’s gonna try and take us all down with him. It’s built in to his psychosis. Simply put, it’s who he is.

In the words of retired U.S. Army 4-star General Barry McCaffrey, “It’s utter madness. It’s against the security of the United States and its allies.”

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Ratigan, Nailed It Years Ago

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DYLAN RATIGAN, HAD IT FIGURED OUT years ago, back when he was still on MSNBC and MSNBC was still worth watching. “It’s all about extracting the wealth” he’d say. But nobody wanted to talk about it. So he’d repeat it, obviously frustrated. He kept repeating it until, eventually, he was fired, along with Ed Schulz, Keith Olbermann, and anybody else who spoke their truth as opposed to playing a role for their corporate bosses.

That’s not to say there aren’t still some good people at MSNBC. There are. But there’s also an elephant in the room. A big fat Republican economic elephant that needs to be recognized for what it is.

Where do you go after agreeing that predatory capitalists are going after all the money, sucking it up to the top and holding it there, turning America into a neo-feudal society? I mean, what’s left to talk about after the truth is set free? Especially when it’s too complicated for most common folk to understand and too terrible to contemplate for those that can understand it. You can’t talk about it anyway, because those same predatory capitalists watching their numbers rise on Wall Street are the same guys that send you a big fat paycheck every couple of weeks.

Ratigan, was right. So was Ralph Nader, when he wrote his book, “Only The Super-Rich Can Save Us.” Only they can impose a balanced economy as opposed to an unacceptably massive gap between the rich and the poor that grows broader day by day.

Wouldn’t it be something, if, in two hundred years or so, historians look back on our era with curiosity, amazed that the country’s last best chance for survival as a Constitutional Republic may have been an elderly senator from Vermont? An old grandpa looking guy with a heart condition, who stuck it out, trying to wrench his party away from elitists and back into the hands of working class centrists – even while PC extremists tore the party to shreds from the inside out? No point in thinking about that now. That one’s already out of the barn and galloping away.

“Its the economy, stupid!” – James Carville, 1992

Under Trump, watch billionaires and millionaires suck more wealth up to the top of the economic food chain than ever before. Watch for them to put the squeeze on the elderly, with higher and higher deductibles, making health insurance less and less affordable. They’ve wanted to kill Medicare and Social Security from their inception, and now the push will continue, but this time it will be done Trumpist style. That is to say, “bigly.” The cost of auto and home insurance will also keep climbing as will inflationary pressures forcing old folks to obtain reverse mortgages, giving their homes back to the banks just so they can afford to keep buying food for themselves and Christmas presents for the grandkids who will no longer be able to afford college.

Ratigan, was right. Wait for it. It’s all about the rich extracting the wealth from the masses. Just wait for it, suckers. Sure, the Democrats blew it, but “sharing the wealth” was just a stupid pipe dream somebody had. Anyway, it sounds kinda Socialist, doesn’t it? And we want nothing to do with that, do we? Even though most of us have no real idea what the hell it even is.

So now you’re gonna get exactly what you voted for, everything this new Republican Party has to offer. A retirement age so high that you’ll be working until you drop, and even then you’ll have nothing left to leave the family. It’ll all go back to a bank, sucked up to the top of the economic food chain as the gap between the rich and everybody else continues to grow. And there’ll be nobody left to care. Just the rich on one side, and suckers and losers on the other.

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Welcome To Our New Ongoing Alternate Reality

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Putin has been making noises about nuclear war for months. Now Kim Jong Un, is making the same threatening sounds about nuclear conflict on the Korean Peninsula while his troops fight alongside the Russians in Ukraine under a master plan obviously drawn up by the Kremlin. Wonder what China thinks? What’s keeping their Commie big-wigs up at night?

Also have to wonder if Russia, North Korea and China are awaiting the coronation of Prez Elect Trump, before announcing their new hybrid Communist/Autocratic axis while NATO shrinks into near insignificance without the United States? Will it herald the Chinese attacking Taiwan and maybe some of the Japanese islands while the Russians continue pushing into Ukraine and possibly other countries as well, all with the blessings of Donald J. Trump? If that does happen, will even that be adequate to convince Trump’s supporters that they made a massive mistake?

Why didn’t anybody tell us?

By the time the right wing media gets done with what will be a boiling cauldron of misinformation, disinformation, opinion and rumor, the Trumpsters will have no idea what’s really going on or why. But that’s to be expected, the truth being so bothersome to autocracy. Anyway, for them it will be nothing new. It’s what they want to hear. It’s their comfort food. It’s Pavlov, blowing his whistle.

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Flash! Dog Catches Car

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Well, that’s over. I feel a need to write something about the dog catching the car, but there’s probably nothing I can add to what will be an endless stream of highly critical reviews. Perhaps most biting, is the fact that more than half the country voted their approval of immorality, bullying, and extreme dishonesty.

When the world’s stability is hanging in the balance, there’s no such thing as a “little white lie.” Words, carry weight.

An early thought, which I find most interesting, is how all the Trump voters will feel when they realize they were conned into voting against their own best interests. Again. That they bought into it, big lie after big lie. That they fell for it, hook, line and sinker, or whichever metaphor you prefer. A political cartoonist, might depict it as the dog that caught the car urinating on one of the car’s tires before walking away.

This is the same guy who said he’d build a border wall and get Mexico to pay for it. The same guy who lied to the American people about the threat posed by Covid-19. We didn’t get a wall and more than a million Americans died from Covid.

One of the toughest truths for me to try and get around, is that they bought into the lie that real news was fake and fake news was real. Feels like it came right out of some old KGB playbook in the 60’s, but they bought it, again and again and again, and now we’re all stuck with it. Like a bug on a rug. For at least four years or maybe longer. Who can say just how far the country will slide into monarchy?

Whatever our system might have morphed into, Trump will refuse to leave. By then he’ll be 82. Who knows when his already questionable synaptic relays will simply stop firing? When Mozart was that old, he’d been dead for 47 years.

One imagines Melania, rehearsing for the lead in Evita at the Met, the opera having been federalized for the sake of presidential convenience.

None of it will be our fault, those of us who saw the train wreck coming and tried to warn the country. And now, with the dog having caught the car, and all of us buried under a giant pile of all the best metaphors and analogies we could come up with to try and make things understandable, we can only sit back in shock and amazement that so many of our fellow Americans plunked down their hard earned money on an Edsel when they could have had a shiny new Buick. It’s gonna be a long four years and in the end, we’ll get what we voted for. Or paid for, in the case of Elon Musk, who, according to multiple sources, contributed $130 million to the Trump campaign.

Until then, there’s a monster question the Democrats need to sort out. What was it they did that was so wrong, so abhorrent, that it drove millions of Americans to prefer what was clearly an unacceptable choice? Was there any one thing or was it a national combo plate of sexism, racism and new media driven by a new high-tech that has outpaced our ability to control it? It’s so much easier to bury the truth once it becomes unidentifiable.

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Please God, Let It End

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Way back in time, approaching the dawn of man (and woman) – in other words nearer the beginning of this election cycle – pundits were in near agreement as I recall, that the election would rise or fall on the votes of white suburban women. Bucks County, PA, was frequently mentioned. So often, that I thought of buying property up there, as it would surely rise in value simply because it was so popular during election years. It felt like the Stepford Wives were taking over, which would be okay with me if they could beat Professor Evil.

But now, and somebody please enlighten me if I’m wrong, those magnificent suburban white women are hardly ever mentioned, although I did hear the other day that they are expected to vote in large numbers for Harris. And that, friends, would seem to portend very well for the Dems? Is that why the pundits aren’t talking about it? Because if it’s true, then this election is not on a razor’s edge. It is in fact a slam-dunk for Harris which would be bad for the ratings.

Please, somebody enlighten me. I admit to having no idea what the hell I’m talking about. I knew George McGovern. I covered George McGovern, and I should be better than this. I should be able to work things out, but apparently political PTSD is setting in and I’m sinking fast, imagining Harris/Walz winning only MN and DC.

My God, I’m now looking at Janelle Monae on MSNBC, stumping for Harris. I love Janelle Monae. Everybody does. She was great, back when Obama used to rock the White House with those wonderful, funky concerts. How can Harris possibly lose? How can the election be so close? Would the pundits be anything less than genuine?

The only thing that seems to help is binge-watching Leave It To Beaver. The non-stop adventures of Ward, June, Wally and the Beaver. And Eddie Haskell, who grew up to become a cop. It’s all so well ordered and easy to understand. Something even I can handle, without any need to self-medicate.


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NO CAMPAIGN SIGNS?

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With 29 days to the election, I am struck by the absence of election signs – lawn sign – flags – banners – bumper stickers. There are almost none here in rural Maryland. How about where you live? I’m wondering if people are afraid of showing their allegiance one way or another? Never seen anything quite like it. Very strange vibe.

There was a somewhat unusual vibe on FOX tonight, unusual for FOX, that is, as VP Harris, answered Bret Baier’s questions with complete sentences that made sense as opposed to the blather coming from Donald Trump. Kudos to Ms. Harris, for throwing Baier’s own tactics back in his face, and talking over him as he attempted to talk over her, when she was providing answers to his questions. If not taken to the woodshed, Baier, was at least put in his place as he tried to turn the interview into a positive for the Trump campaign, something Harris did not let him do. Whether Harris accomplished anything for her campaign with her appearance, is an open question.