Trump Paying Stormy Means Biden Wins?
The Absurdity of Democratic "Strategy"
The vacuity of Democratic strategy is astonishing if you take at face value the claim that a Trump victory this November will “end democracy.” Apparently, Trump paying Stormy Daniels $130K in hush money, after which some creative accounting obscured the source of the payoff, renders him “unfit for office.” And that claim is now a “top 2024 issue” for Democrats, as The New York Times notes here:
Democrats Push Biden to Make Trump’s Felonies a Top 2024 Issue
Interviews with dozens of Democrats reveal a party hungry to tell voters that Donald Trump’s conviction makes him unfit for office, and hopeful that President Biden will lead the way.
Meanwhile, this was the lead headline in the NYT “top news” send-out this morning:
A Felon in the Oval Office Would Test the American System
Some are wondering how the Constitution’s checks and balances, meant to hold presidents accountable, would work if the next president elected were already a felon.
“Some are wondering”: What a vapid phrase!
I think there are more severe “tests” of the “American system.” How about a president enabling a genocide in Gaza, for example?
If you want to beat Donald Trump this November, how about running a more attractive, more dynamic, more charismatic, more populist and popular, candidate? Whatever else Biden is, he is very much lacking in dynamism even as his actions render him increasingly unpopular among key segments of the Democratic base.
My wife jokingly said today: Just what we need, another election featuring two tired and seriously old white guys. She has a point. It’s not that Trump is now a felon that renders him allegedly unfit. Trump is, in my view, constitutionally unsuited for the presidency. Biden, in contrast, is a fading political hack who will be 82 years of age at the end of this year. Yet, this is what the “American system” produces. Maybe that “system” needs an overhaul?
So, which tired and seriously old white guy do you want to vote for this year?
It seems hard to believe that in my lifetime we had a young, dynamic, and visionary president, JFK, who was 43 years of age when elected. A president who grew in office, rather than fading. A president who in 1963 made a commitment to pursuing peace with the Soviet Union. A man with flaws, but also one with potential.
Of course, the DNC with its superdelegates has created a system to deny anyone like a JFK (or even RFK Jr.) any chance at securing the nomination. Only corporate stooges need apply. That has allowed a populist-fraud like Trump to emerge from the right, a billionaire who poses as a man of the people. That Trump’s claim is plausible to so many is a measure of how far the Democratic Party has fallen.
It’s already been a very long election cycle, and it’s only early June. Five more months of total BS to go, America.
I was 8 when Allen Dulles arranged the assassination of JFK, and I am still waiting for justice (if there is any such thing in America) to be served. Even Jeffrey Sachs and Ray McGovern are now openly noting this ultimate infamy in American history, and I am hoping that more people who were on the inside during or just after the coup will start to speak up. America is never going to be a functioning democracy as long as the deep state coup regime remains in power and continues the forever wars that they sustain their power through. I just hope that more open discussions of America's true history start to percolate through the country.
Neither individual is desirable as President: one is a senile fading political hack; the other is a boorish mercurial narcissist.
Both are equally loathsome in their support of Israel. Neither will improve the economic fortunes for the citizenry. Both appear to have the same views on China and Taiwan. But perhaps, and only based on his first term, Trump might be better on Ukraine and war with Russia.
Given their ages, neither might survive a second term. That means Kamala Harris or (a player to be named later for the Republicans).
Kamala Harris as President is frightening, but she would be controlled by the same forces actually in charge now (meaning Obama and his minions). It's the Republican VP pick that may be a bigger threat given the chaos and conflicts within the Republican Party. Of the names mentioned so far, the most terrifying is Nikki Haley - who autographs bombs used to kill children.