2024 Election Thoughts # Last
This will be my fifteenth presidential election. You do the math. I’m old and my civic sensibilities were formed in a different time. There have been many times when I felt I had to choose the lesser of two evils. That is certainly not the case now.
Q – How can you tell when Trump is lying?
A – His lips are moving
Based on What? – I guess Democrats will continue to be too nice and live in denial about how Republicans no longer play by the rules but it’s way past time to call ‘bullshit’ on Trump.
Abortion after birth – Where? When? Who?
Crime is up – In Arizona recently, he said, and I quote, “Young American girls” are “being raped and sodomized and murdered by savage criminal aliens.”
The FBI collects stats from local government...and has done so for decades. What are your sources?
I’m sure the friendly folks at Fox News would be all over stories like this and the Aurora, Colorado gang takeover and the Springfield, Ohio pet-snatching…yet we see no reporting.
“They’re emptying their prisons and mental institutions and sending them here.” – Who’s ‘they’? Name ONE country. Identify ONE facility that’s been emptied.
For the Guy Who Likes Ratings - I know this is a time when facts are optional and expertise is irrelevant, but let’s look anyway at how career historians and political scientists view the performance of all forty-six presidents. There we’ll find Mr. “I had the best/greatest/most fantastic administration in history” ranks pretty high...if you turn the list upside down.
U.S. News & World Report places Trump as the third worst, as does the CBS News survey of historians, as does the Sienna College Research Institute. The C-SPAN 2021 survey improves his standing to fourth worst of all.
Nah. What do they know?
We should never forget that Donald Trump cemented his place in the bottom three presidents of all time with his miserable, negligent management of the federal Covid response. I’m OK if the Harris campaign reminds us of the leadership failures that resulted in the deaths of over a million citizens? I suggest watching this will help.
Better Late Than Never? - While it is gratifying that so many significant Republicans have come forward to reveal the dark side of the former president, it is exasperating that NONE of them raised these objections in real time when it could have mattered. That fine-sounding phrase, ‘country over party,’ has become archaic hollow fluffery.
What Will It Take? – For the life of me, I can’t understand why the polling is still so close given one candidate is a totally degenerate, off-the-wall, lying sack-o-shit who has said and done things too numerous to count, any one of which would have disqualified ANY major party candidate we have seen in the last hundred years.
I can’t help but believe there are still too many of our fine citizens in this Exceptional U. S. of A. who, despite every indication, simply can’t get past the fact that Harris is not White and not male. That and because we all know Democrats and libs are Satan-worshiping, Marxist, fascist, communist, pedophile cannibals. I saw it on the internet.
You just gotta!!!
See you on the other side when I can happily return to travels and graves.