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Monday, December 2, 2024

Biden Pardons His Son

Yesterday President Biden decided to give his son Hunter a full, blanket Presidential pardon, despite repeated statements in the past that he would never do so.

I get it, it's his kid. By all accounts, a scummy individual who expolited his Dad's postiion for profit, at times with this nation's enemies, sired and abandoned a child; illegally purchased a gun, etc. Character wise, he was as far removed from Biden's late son Beau as siblings can be.

But it's his kid, and morally I can't fault him for pulling him out of the fire.

Politically tho', what a blunder.

A - He swore up and down he would never do it, so now it's just one more lie for the public to swallow, Right now the Democrats have a lot of bad behavior that is excused by "Well, at least he/she isn't Trump." and then tossed aside. That garbage pile is starting to acculumulate some height, and its getting harder to ignore.

B - He did it with six weeks left in office, giving the press and his opponents six weeks to talk about it. Why not have snuck it in at the eleventh hour, as has been the case with many pardons?

C - Man, he just handed Trump the Golden Goose.

Not that Trump *wouldn't* do whatever he felt was best, opinions and correctness be damned, but now he can go ahead and use pardons at will. Who's going to criticize it? The Democrats whose President just gave his POS son a get out of jail card? The media who bought and repeated Biden's lie? The precedent has been set, and good luck finding a moral soap box to stand on when/if Trump pardons the January 6th participants, his family, or anyone.

What a Christmas gift to Donald Trump. He should mail Joe a thank you note.

Sunday, July 21, 2024

Biden Is Out of the Race

A historic moment of course, the first sitting President to bow out of an election since 1968, and the first to do so so (perilously) close to voting day.

I think it's a stupid move, regardless of the election's outcome, for all the reasons I listed here.

What will go unmentioned today is how this showcases the power of the media. It was the press who covered up and denied Biden's decline, even though it was painfully apparent to the public. When it could no longer be ignored, post debate, they doubled down on his weakness and pushed and pushed and pushed for him to be out of office.

I truly, truly think that absent a conscious media avalanche Biden continues to November.

The media is not a Kingmaker. They should not enthrone someone, by act or omission. But that's what they have done all year, and now it's gone so far as to override the millions of voters in the primaries.

It's a shame.

Friday, July 12, 2024

My Thoughts on replacing Biden

If you ask me, and no one has, the Democratic Party would be foolish to replace Joe Biden at this point in the game.

Yes, he's suffering from memory loss and is clearly, visibly, unfit to continue in office. But that didn't start when the media lifted its self-imposed blinders after the debate; the general public knew the emperor had no clothes for at least a year now. The time to get a healthier, more viable option was back when the primary season began.

Now? With a convention coming up and the election what, 100 days away? Changing horses now just tells the voters you either didn't pay attention or didn't care when you should have, and leaves the public trying to evaluate and trust a new candidate at the 11th hour.

Not to mention a contested DNC convention in Chicago should spark some superstition.

I do NOT buy into the argument that a Biden-Trump matchup is an automatic loss for Biden. That is media hysteria as rooted in fact as the "The President is fine" nonsense they parroted for the last year. I think he's probably, regrettably, the best option to defeat a second Trump term.

Remove Biden, and I think you seal a victory for Trump. If that's your goal, fine. If it isn't . . . live with your choice.