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First Female President
The news has reported that Kamala Harris had already secured enough delegates to become the Democratic nominee which means she has the opportunity to become the first female President of the United States (sorry Hillary!).
Kamala Harris was the first person to abandon her campaign during the 2020 primary. When given a choice, voters flatly rejected her. However, this time, voters don't get a choice to nominate her during a primary. It's either elect Harris or lose democracy as we know it (which considering how undemocratic our election processes are, might not be a bad thing).
If I were a conspiracy theorist, it's not such a huge stretch to think that the party elites planned this whole thing. According to George Clooney, they all knew Biden had some cognitive issues, but they covered it up until the primary season was over. Is that because they knew in a competitive primary, Kamala would lose? Then when the primary season was over, they force Ol' Joe out and anoint Kamala as their nominee. Is that because they think a woman can't win on her own merits and if she can't win on her own merits, what makes them think she can beat Trump? that seems a bit sexist to me, but I digress.
Of course, she could easily beat Trump if he's dead and that almost happened but that's not because some government entity left an easy shot any 7-year-old who knows how to fire a rifle could hit unguarded and told a sniper to stand down until some shooter working entirely on his own fired a shot at the target they were supposed to protect. That's crazy talk and it also implies that these people might be competent and if they were competent, they wouldn't have messed up assassinating Trump. Back in the 'good Ol' days, when you planned a political assassination, you did the job right. So that can't be it.
The media wants you to know that any attack on Harris will be based on race and gender and therefore should be flatly rejected. After all, shouldn't Harris be judged on something more substantial? Well, one person of color commented that she isn't voting for Kamala because Kamala is a cop, and we all know what cops do to people of color. There are reports that Harris fought to keep nonviolent inmates in California's overcrowded prison's because they were cheap labor, and we all know that people of color are overrepresented in our penal system in regard to their percentage in the general population. Now, most of those people are men and we know there is a subset of the female population that believes all men should be locked up anyway, so that might not be a negative with some female voters, but is it enough to put her over the top?
Whoopi Goldberg of the view let everyone know on air that she was voting democrat even if that meant voting for a corpse. She is also having a hard time that everyone has thrown Joe overboard (she must not have gotten the memo about Kamala), but that's another issue altogether. Loyalty is a good trait to have though, so I'm not knocking her for it.
There are women who think this is there moment to rise up and take power, but those women are delusional. Kamala isn't being promoted because she is pro-woman, she is being promoted because she is pro-establishment and anyone who is pro-establishment is anti-average people. Anyone who doesn't get that is stupid. The only people who should be voting for Kamala are those who benefit from the establishment. Everyone else should be voting for a third-party candidate (which will never happen by the way).
Threats to Democracy
As we all know, Donald Trump is a threat to democracy. That's why it is ironic that he will be the only candidate on the ballot in November that was chosen by the people, like they do in democracies. The democratic nominee, however, will not be chosen democratically. Instead, party elites will give us Kamala Harris, the first-person voters rejected in the democratic primaries in 2020.
Let that sink in for a few minutes. The threat to democracy can only be combated by electing a person that was rejected by voters when given a choice and instead, is selected by elites. If you are in the Democratic party and you feel like your vote doesn't matter, that's because it doesn't, and you will vote for whoever the party elites tell you to in the general election because the alternative is the end of democracy as we know it!
The writing on the wall
President Joe Biden, for the good of his party and the country, has decided to not seek re-election as President of the United States. After the President's disastrous showing at the debate, party elites have been putting pressure on Biden to step down and this campaign has been successful. Biden has read the writing on the wall and as much as I am sure he doesn't want to step down, he is stepping down. He doesn't really have a choice.
Regardless of whether you think this is the right thing for the country, I think it is the right thing for Joe Biden. Why? Because it is very clear that age has caught up to him and he is not the same person he was. This is not a slight on the President, everyone grows old, and, in the process, they break down. It happens to everyone eventually. The stress of being President has to be enormous and that isn't doing the President's health any favors. Now, he can concentrate on his health and enjoy whatever time he has left in peace and that is definitely the right call.
Aftermath
In the aftermath of the Trump assassination attempt, two questions emerge that don't really have any good answers to them.
1. Is the secret service so incompetent that they couldn't secure a building that was identified as a vital threat?
2. Was the building not secured on purpose and the shooter allowed to take the shot?
The shooter had a shot that anyone with basic weapons training would hit 100 out of 100 times. A professional sniper was on a podcast and said that any 7-year-old who has been taught how to shoot would hit that shot. We have since learned that the shooter had been ridiculed at a rifle club, he belongs to for being such a bad shot.
There were a lot of people on social media who were upset that the shot missed (which is disturbing in itself) asking the question "How do you miss that shot?" and it's a valid question despite the motivation behind asking. The shooter should not have missed such a easy shot according to the professional sniper on the podcast.
So, with all the information that has been circulating, here is where we are...
The secret service is claiming incompetence.
Trump supporters are claiming on purpose by the government.
Those who oppose Trump are claiming that Trump organized it himself.
In regard to incompetence, these guys are supposed to be among the best you can get. If that's the best, God help anyone who needs protecting.
In regard to on purpose, that means that our own government tried to take out someone based on politics and that kind of thing isn't supposed to happen here. Instead of bemoaning the fact that the guy missed, everyone should be very concerned. Democracy is letting the people choose, not killing off your opponent so the people can't choose.
In regard to democracy, I'm kind of wondering if people actually know what it is based on the reactions I'm seeing.
Assassination Attempt
Donald Trump was shot at while speaking at a rally in Pennsylvania. The shooter grazed Trump's ear and barely missed taking the former President out of the race. President Biden denounced the violence by saying that there was no room for that here in America.
The shooter was killed by secret service agents and one member of the crowd ended up dead according to reports. When the media looks into who the shooter was, no doubt it will be some mentally unstable person who thought by taking out the former President they would be 'saving democracy'. Several people on X (formally known as Twitter) were upset that the shooter missed.
I am sure in certain circles there will be talk of the deep state finally giving the green light to the nuclear option and that this attempt was by someone coerced into doing it by the FBI or some other alphabet organization. Just for the record, I am not saying this belief is one I share, I'm just saying that someone is going to put it out there.
The calls for President Biden for him to get out of the race are going to continue but he says he isn't going anywhere. He is the nominee by the will of the people and that's something he isn't going to turn his back on.
It looks like the powers that be really want two other people running for President. What lengths are they willing to go to make that happen? It will be interesting to find out!
Politics and lying
The corporate media calls Trump a liar and thinks it’s a major news story. The truth is that all politicians lie. In fact, when President Biden was in Philadelphia, he lied in his speach. He said that the city of Philadelphia put him over the top in his senate run. The only problem with that is that Joe was a senator from Delaware and Philadelphia is in Pennsylvania. So no one in Philadelphia would have been able to vote for Joe.
Politicians lie constantly and the reason is really simple. People can’t handle the truth.
Now you may be thinking that you are the exception but just ask Walter Mondale how telling truth worked out for him. He told the truth and let everybody know that everyone’s taxes were going to go up. He lost the Presidency by 48 states and everyones taxes went up.
So if you don’t want to vote for a liar, your going to have to stay home and not vote.
Biden Press Conference
Thursday Night, July 12, 2024, President Joe Biden came out and did a press conference with the White House Press corp. There was only one purpose for this meeting with the press and that purpose was whether Joe Biden could string multiple sentences together without getting confused. The President succeeded ... mostly.
The President looked down at whatever notes were on the podium and it was clear that the people asking the questions in the press were picked before the whole thing started, which means the whole thing was scripted. I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed, but if I could tell, I would think most people watching could also tell.
The President touted his record without really giving any details. He took credit for the price of groceries, which I don't think is something you want to take credit for. $100 worth of groceries when Biden took office cost you $400 now. I may be wrong, but I don't think that's progress since my salary has not increased by the same proportion. The President did make a notable mistake which he did not even know he made until someone pointed it out to him. But for the most part, the President sounded coherent.
The problem is the President's performance was just ho-hum. He didn't tank like he did during the debate, but he also didn't knock it out of park either. So, he didn't persuade those calling for his head to get behind him, but he also did enough to argue he should stay in the race. The press conference didn't really answer the question it was supposed to and so as a result, it was a huge failure for Democrats wanting a clear answer as to whether the President is fit to continue being President.
With both major candidates having their troubles, it has turned into an interesting and unusual election cycle. Enjoy all the drama and fireworks and we will see how this all shakes out. Who knows? The guy who said neither Trump or Biden would be the candidates still has a chance of being right and wouldn't you really like that to be the outcome of all this?
Elder Abuse
The knives are coming out for Joe Biden. After his poor debate performance, the green light has been given to publicly call for his removal as a candidate for President. The question is, who gave the green light? It wasn't that long ago that if you questioned the President's mental state you were considered a conspiracy wacko, but that is now no longer the case.
Micheal Moore came out with a statement that claimed whoever is allowing Biden to continue to run is committing elder abuse, something I have thought for some time now. There are other unconfirmed reports that the President has Parkinson's. Jon Stewert had a whole bit about Biden which was both funny and sad (to be fair, he also roasted Trump) because it showed just how bad Biden's mental state is. No body watching that debate who is honest with themselves would think that Biden doesn't have a serious mental problem.
George Clooney wrote an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times and claimed that he has known Biden was like this for MONTHS! Why didn't George write his op-ed months ago? The answer is because he didn't have the green light months ago. At the beginning of the year, someone (I forget who) said that neither Biden nor Trump would be the candidates come November and while the efforts to remove Trump seem to have stalled, the efforts to remove Biden are just ramping up.
Biden has stated that he isn't going anywhere but if the powers that be, have decided he's gone, he is going to be gone. So, if you thought that the drama this election season is all about Trump, stick around because while the Trump trials seem to be dead in the water, there is still a lot more drama to be had.
Presidential Debate
Did anyone watch the Presidential debate last night? Just for context, I skipped it. CNN said that Joe Biden did so bad that some Democrats want to replace him as the nominee. They also said this was the first Presidential debate that has ever been held before the conventions where the nominee is selected and that seemed like a strange thing to do.
Does anyone think the Democrats wanted to debate before the convention so they would have a stronger case of replacing Biden with someone else as the nominee?
If you did watch the debate, who do you think 'won'? Did the debate reinforce any opinion that we should have two other people to choose from for President other than two old white guys?
Does anyone else think we're screwed regardless of who wins the election?
Political Trials
The US judicial system has always been corrupted. Its purpose isn't to uphold justice, it's to keep a certain social class from experiencing any disruptions to power and to maintain control of the population. However, when the masses lose faith in the justice system, society collapses.
This is why the system shafts people that are out on the fringes. When those people are shafted, nobody hears about it and if they do, nobody cares. But what happens if the person you want to shaft is the nominee of a major political party? What if you make that person a convicted felon for political purposes rather than the cause of justice? Well, a lot of people are going to notice that and not be happy about it. Why? Because using the justice system for political purposes is what they do in dictatorships and authoritarian regimes, not in the United States. The United States likes to think it's better than everybody else even if it's not. The other issue is that if one party is going to use the legal system to shaft their opponents, the other party is going to follow suit.
Did you know that Hillary Clinton did the same thing that Donald Trump got convicted for? She funded the Russian spy dossier and put it in the campaign finance reports as a legal expense when it was really opposition research. We should prosecute her for that. What's good for the goose, right? (She did end up paying a fine for that but she's not a convicted felon)
Now you have Republicans talking about taking political revenge for what is clearly a political trial. If you don't think the trial in New York was for political purposes, you are believing the corporate media which lies to you on a constant basis. When the Judge in the case won't let an expert on campaign finance law testify in a case where the issue is campaign finance law, that's a problem and it shows what a sham that trial was.
Sentencing is scheduled for July 11. So, we have to wait an entire month to hear what the sentence is going to be? Are they going to throw Trump in jail? Are they going to jail a nominee for President of a major political party? Does Trump end up dying in prison by some strange event and the video surveillance mysteriously disappears? We will have to wait to find out!