
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.)