Showing posts with label vote blue. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vote blue. Show all posts

Sunday, July 07, 2024

Irresponsible Adults

 Here’s the situation. If Trump gets back into the White House, we’re in deep trouble. That’s inescapable. We either vote blue or endure fascism. 

We also only have a short time between now and November. The only candidate who already has the necessary organization in place, who has the volunteers, who has the funding, and most of all, who has the name recognition to win against Trump is Joe Biden. That is a simple fact.


Yet, some powerful people in the Democratic Party, and in the media, called for Biden to step down. Given the reality of the situation, this is a perfect blue print for defeat.


When I was a boy, I remember my father talking about “irresponsibility” and the Vietnam war. He was no fan of the war, but he became incensed when critics would suggest that the war was being mis-managed (which it was, admittedly) and then demanded that the military do everything differently. They had, of course, some elaborate plan that was to be put in place.


But the reality was that such vast changes in strategy and tactics could only be managed with enormous effort. While the changes were underway, the other side would have simply won without breaking a sweat.


Thus the critics’ were irresponsible. 


And I fear that’s exactly what Biden’s critics are at the moment--irresponsible. They are calling for changes which cannot be made without losing the war entirely.


That’s something to be thought about after the election if Biden wins.


If he doesn’t win, it will be because of these same Elites and Pundits, and our only consolation is that under a Fascist dictatorship,  they will be the first into the camps, and in front of the firing squads.




It awaits them.


Saturday, July 06, 2024

From The People Who Brought You Pearl Harbor

 I really admire Hillary Clinton, and I voted for her in 2016. But I also knew that she was greatly disliked by many Americans, and I feared for the worst when she was made the nominee. 

And, of course, the worst happened. It happened because the leadership decided she should be president, regardless of her actual electability, and they imposed her on the ticket in spite of, not because of what the voters wanted (which seems to have been Bernie Sanders). And, so, what we also got was Donald Trump, four years of chaos, Covid, and a very near economic disaster. 


But I think we now have a very similar situation on our hands. When Democratic elites, media members, and various pundits demanded Biden step down, they were effectively stating that their opinion about who should be president was more important than what voters believed -- and voters repeatedly said that they were sticking with Biden, regardless.


I think, then, that we need to look very hard at this situation. And we need to ask, in future, if the Party’s leadership needs to be shaken up a bit.


And maybe reconstructed entirely.




A pompous ass...

Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Save Yourselves...VOTE!

Just in case you missed it, today Trump halted U.S. funding for the World Health Organization. Why? Mostly (as near as I can tell) because it gives him a way to (yet again) somehow blame someone else for his own appalling response to the Covid-19 crisis...and because it plays well to his base, who have always regarded American involvement with multinational organizations as somehow unpatriotic ... and because the pseudo-Libertarian elites who support his administration see money going anywhere except into their own pockets as blasphemy.

So, in other words, a whole lot more people are going to die and American prestige will continue to plunge, because the bloated, orange-headed moron in the White House decided to play politics and be petulant.

I have only one suggestion. Vote. If you possibly can, vote in November. Vote Blue. You may not like Biden, you may detest him...but the alternative is four more years of that horrible, disgusting, repellent creature in power.

And neither we, nor America, may be able to survive such a thing.

Trump And The Virus

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