Category: Politics, Religion & Money

They tried Swiftboating Tim Walz, and now they’re pulling a Willie Horton.

Something I said six days after Trump’s attempted overthrow of the United States government:

The aged leaders of both parties are beyond their “best if used by” dates. Biden has said privately he would be a one term president, and I hope that’s what he does. This raises the prospect of the next four years being a de facto co-presidency. Harris 2024?

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As it turned out, Biden dropped the idea of being a one-term president, and Harris was a typical low-profile vice president. I was losing respect for Biden until he finally accepted reality and dropped out of the race. Harris has a lot to prove between now and election day, assuming she is confirmed as the Democratic Party nominee.

Regarding last Saturday’s shooting, incompetence beats careful planning every time. The first, best assumption is, what can go wrong will go wrong.

It’s all over, except for the voting. Trump will serve another term in the White House.

“The central premise of the Biden campaign is that President Donald Trump is an authoritarian fascist who must be stopped at all costs. That rhetoric led directly to President Trump’s attempted assassination.” — Republican Vice President hopeful J.D. Vance

What an irresponsible thing for a United States senator to say. I see this event as being the latest in a long series of mass shootings. What Vance should be doing is promoting an assault weapon ban.

“My goal today is to convince you that this court is not comprised of a bunch of partisan hacks.” — Amy Coney Barrett, September 12, 2021

Yesterday, Barrett and her five conservative colleagues proved that they are indeed a bunch of partisan hacks. It was a foregone conclusion how Alito and Thomas would vote, and I was wrong to hold some small hope for the other four justices.

With Trump’s Federal charges yet to be tried, he has not only been found pre-emptively innocent, he has been awarded broad powers to do whatever he wants if he returns to office. Starting with dropping all of the charges against him, which he can do even without yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling.

Chief Justice Roberts, who wrote the majority opinion, said Sonia Sotomayor’s dissent was, “fear mongering on the basis of extreme hypotheticals about a future where the President feels empowered to violate federal criminal law.” Like the formerly extreme hypothetical of Roe v. Wade being overturned after fifty years?

Right now, based on Biden’s disastrous performance in last Thursday’s debate, and his refusal to drop out of the race, it seems likely that Trump will win in November. As dictator starting on Day 1, Trump will act with impunity, of this we can be certain.

Only long after Trump has committed his countless crimes, might there be the determination of whether or not they were done as “official acts.” But with the Justice Department filled with his cronies, nobody will bring the charges. The impeachment process will be the only possible disciplinary action.

Republicans now have everything they could wish for. The only note of optimism I can offer is the old saying, “be careful what you wish for.”