Trump resembles the losing wrestler on World Wrestling Entertainment he loves so much. Desperate times call for desperate measures.
Kamala Harris has fired up the Democratic Party, outraising Trump for campaign funds. The pressure is telling on the Trump-Vance Republican opposition.
So, Trump and Vance are making claims about the vice president based on innuendo with occasionally a little bit of fact hidden in the language. Vance has attacked women without children in homage to The Handmaid's Tale while suggesting that families with children receive more voting power than single individuals, an idea garnered from who knows where.
The usual television and mainstream newspaper pundits ask how long this can last, ignoring how long the MAGA supporters have swallowed fake information as if it is a magical potion. That is precisely what author Maya Angelou meant when she wrote, "When someone shows you who they are believe them: the first time.
The other 60% of the population that votes are excited to have a candidate much younger than the 78-year-old Trump. She wants to help all the people of America, not just MAGA believers and oligarchs. It seems to me that Oligarchs are doing ok with the stock market sitting at record highs.
Now that Trump is the only elderly candidate, the media may pay closer attention. It took nearly two days for the New York Times to report on the questionable and shocking Trump remarks to Christians attending the Turning Point Action Believers' Summit in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Trump said, "Get out and vote. Just this time. You won't have to do it anymore. Four more years, you know what: it'll be fixed, it'll be fine. You won't have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians…. Get out, you've got to get out and vote. In four years, you don't have to vote again, we'll have it fixed so good you're not going to have to vote." This is an explicit promise to eliminate voting. Did the Times initially think he was joking?
I call it the audacity of desperation: an open admission he wants to return to the White House and stay forever, a difficult wish for a man at 78 with obvious physical and mental health issues. His appeal to religious people is offensive on multiple levels, yet we must take it seriously.
There are multiple explanations, but Occam's Razor suggests he says what he believes. With President Biden bowing out of a rematch, Trump faces a woman. He knows that women are not his fans, especially after the Supreme Court overturned a 50-year right to abortions. Recent election results show this has backfired with a majority of Americans. His fear is amplified because his campaign team told him Biden would stay in the race. Whatever information they used was wrong, or maybe they told him what he wanted to hear, a common problem with despots.
Biden's act resembles Washington refusing a third term in 1796, putting country over self. We know from Trump's remarks about soldiers who died in WW2 that he thinks that is a stupid concept; his desperation is front and center, revealed in the rambling, rage-filled speeches he gives. Perversely, because he is consistent, we have normalized it as Trump being Trump. Maya Angelou returns to say, "When someone shows you who they are believe them."
Earlier in the week, he told Fox News hosts (where else?) he had things under control. "My instruction is, we don't need the votes. We have so many votes…" bragging that "I drove to another location yesterday, and every house has a Trump-Vance sign on it, every single house, there's not a house that we passed that doesn't…" Classic Trump to imagine something and then use a lie or misstatement to support the initial transgression.
Trump is agitated that President Biden has deprived him of what was supposed to be an easy win. Biden, showing statesmanship and a sense of history, spoke to the nation and said it was important for a younger generation to lead and save Democracy from extremists.
I receive emails from Trump, the RNC, and multiple right-wing organizations (for professional reasons, of course.) They rarely, if ever, are rational efforts to explain positions or plans. Usually, a diatribe about something Biden or Kamala Harris might have said or done.
Trump speaks of Harris ungraciously (surprise?), hinting he may skip a debate with her. She responded, saying, "Now, he is backpedaling. What happened to: Any time, any place?" Adding that "he revealed he planned to fill a second Trump term with more criminals like himself, attacked lawful voting, went on and on and on, and generally sounded like someone you wouldn't want to sit near at a restaurant—let alone be President of the United States."
Hate is easy to dispense, but it takes skill to use ridicule. We will hear a lot of this from the vice president who is applying the same weapon President Harry Truman used in defeating Republican Thomas Dewey in 1948.
By: Ken Tiven