Author: DOuG pRATt

Trump has been indicted again, but this time it’s the big one, about the January 6 insurrection. His new defense strategy is to blame Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and Clarence Thomas protégé John Eastman, while at the same time insisting he did nothing wrong. It’s their reward for being loyal.

Trump continues to be the likely 2024 Republican candidate. Like moths drawn to the flame, Republicans are refusing to see that he is throwing the entire party under the bus. How’s that for a mixed metaphor? It must be true that you can fool some of the people all of the time.

At age 88, my father was in denial about his condition. He acknowledged that he was “slowing down,” but that was as far as it went.

I joined my sister who is an M.D., and my sister who is an R.N., to have the “it’s time” talk with our father. It was time for him to move to an assisted living facility, which he angrily refused to even consider. A month later he suffered a massive stroke, instantly turning my life inside out. Ten months later he was gone.

One of my father’s neighbors told me there had been an incident months before Dad’s stroke. He saw Dad sitting in his car in the middle of the street, so he went outside to check on him. Dad was disoriented, failing to acknowledge the neighbor by name, and he couldn’t remember which house was his. The neighbor pointed to the house, and Dad recovered enough to get the car into the garage. My father had a Mitch Moment, probably due to a mini-stroke, according to my sisters.

My guess is that McConnell forgot where he was. After recovering from whatever hit him, McConnell insisted that he was fine, but everyone can see that he isn’t. McConnell needs to be told what no elderly person wants to hear, “It’s time.”

Mitch should resign, effective immediately, as should Dianne Feinstein. Biden’s mental acuity seems mostly okay for now, but he should drop his bid for re-election, and Trump isn’t far behind in age.