An early happy July 4th! Only it ain’t so happy this year.
I say that because I have read every word of the Trump v. The United States Supreme Court ruling.
I can assure you, it’s as unconstitutionally damaging as the dissents of Justices Sonia Sotmayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson say it is. “With concern for our democracy, I dissent,” the closing words Justice Sotomayor uses, and so should we all.
I wrote a lengthy post about it and was ready to publish it until I realized I was too angry to publish it.
Not that it was an anger piece. It wasn’t. It was, instead, an effort to assess the decision in a reasonable, limited dispassionate way as possible.
That was the problem because that’s not how I’m really feeling. I don’t feel reasonable, I feel angry, very angry, in fact.
First of all, I’m angry at six radical justices selling the country down the river, changing the Constitution without the consent of the governed, leading to the unavoidable conclusion that this great experiment of a government of the people, by the people, and for the people has now perished from the earth, as Lincoln feared it might.
If you think that’s an exaggeration, read the ruling and the dissents for yourself and then tell me I’m wrong.
So I am angry that these sanctimonious liars who said they respected precedent in their confirmation hearings are in the position of making this decision simply because Donald Trump got to appoint three of them.
That brings me to the second reason I’m angry – Democrats who think they are helping the nation by complaining about Joe Biden and even calling for him to step down.
That they are proves what we’ve known for a long time. Too many Democrats have no loyalty to the party. I think any Democratic member of the House who opposes Biden should be excluded from the House Democratic Caucus. Any Democratic Senator should suffer the same penalty.
Loyalty means something. And right now, talk against Joe Biden is being disloyal. Those doing it may think they’ll being honest, but what they’re actually doing is helping Donald Trump. They’ll never admit it, but they are.
They talk as if the rest of won’t admit how badly Biden did in the debate. That’s BS. Nobody’s denying that, but for God’s sake, give the man a chance to show he is as capable of leading as he has been, which has been pretty damn good.
Besides that, he has a capable vice-president should something happen once his second term begins.
What makes me so angry with Democrats talking the way some of them are is the first reason I’m angry – the court decision that just came down.
It makes the election all about Donald Trump, not Joe Biden, because of the unleashed power Trump will have to do anything he wants to do if he is elected, including remaining in office indefinitely.
The immunity the radical six handed Trump is entitled, “Trump v. The United States. That’s what we are facing, and anyone who doesn’t know it now doesn’t want to or doesn’t care.
Some Democrats seem to be in that category, not least because there is no sensible alternative to Joe Biden right now. It is just plain insane to think a brokered convention is. Here’s how that would go.
Kamala Harris would seek the nomination. Given her position now, she has every right to expect to get it. If she does, she will lose. As capable as she is, she is not an effective campaigner as she proved in 2020 when she sought the nomination then. She is a also woman, and also black, neither of which should matter, but in this political climate will.
She will lose, period. But if she doesn’t get the nomination, Democrats will lose most of the black vote, and the substitute nominee will also lose.
This is why I am so angry. The country’s future is literally hanging in the balance and some Democrats want Joe Biden to step aside and are predicting if he doesn’t, Trump will surely win, as if he won’t if Biden is pushed aside (and that’s what’s happening, make no mistake about it).
If in the coming days Biden were to decide not to run, Democrats would have to face it and do the best we can, but we are not there, far from it.
These Democrats may think they’re being loyal to talk to press and fill the front pages with anti-Biden headlines, but they’re not. Some of them even have the gall to express admiration and sympathy for Biden while stabbing him in the back.
I can’t write what I’d like to say to these people, but it’s the thought that counts, right?
The hard and I believe undeniable truth is, the only person who will beat Donald Trump is Joe Biden, and the hard and undeniable truth is, that won’t happen if Democrats keep talking about his needing to step aside.
That this unhelpful talk will continue, I have no doubt, and that makes me even more angry because it may very well ensure that Donald Trump will sit upon the throne as America’s first Imperial President.
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Jan, I share your anger regarding the Supreme Court but not your anger towards democrats calling on Biden to withdraw. Just because he has been a capable and good president, (except for his unconditional support of Israel who loves his money but ignores him otherwise, continues to steal land in the West Bank, and has killed 37,000 Gazans), doesn’t mean he continues to be capable, and THAT should be the determinate for who is the nominee. Loyalty as you seem to be suggesting, is what Trump demands of people around him. I think that is neither appropriate behavior as a real friend nor, in this case, good for the nation. I don’t understand nor agree with the the assertion that Biden is the only person who can secure the majority Black vote. And I don’t understand how one can ignore 70% of the voters, including nearly 50% of democrats, who say they don’t want Biden to run. Yes, it would get very messy but that is when party leadership needs to lead as it’s called to do. The real question, it seems to me, is whether or not Biden’s debate performance was a one-off or an indication of likely performance going forward. I think it’s the later, and that’s what matters most. Loyalty has nothing to do with it.
Wilbur, where you are and most disagree is that I believe there is only one choice in November, and that is Biden. Gaza has nothing to do with that choice because Kamala Harris agrees with what Biden is trying to do, plus I think you’re naive to think there is a different way for Biden to deal with the situation. That aside, the only thing that matter is defeating Trump and unless Biden decides not to run, and he will if he know something is wrong with him, he will be the nominee. He cannot be replaced, only forced to step aside, and, if that happens, Trump will be the next president. That has everything to do with loyalty. You don’t quit on a leader who has shown he is great at his job because you think he is too old. He has already proven that that is not the case. Until Biden says different, it’s him or Trump.
I do agree with you Jan, with the exception I do believe Harris can win, but that is not a call for Biden to step down. Some Democrats and the press focus on Biden one time debate affect, ignoring a liar and incoherent trump. No other issue in this election is greater than the right wing nuts Project 25 plan, which if trump is elected has a 6 months completion time. The 6 SC hacks gave them the one big tool and that is a unitary Presidency, (no oversight), One of the Project 25 authors said recently “this is the second revolution, and will be bloodless if the radical left allows it to be”. It is incumbent on every voter to be familiar with the treasonous document, and vote accordingly regardless of the Democrat nominee.
I wish Harris could win if Biden steps aside, and I would do whatever I can to help her, but she has proven to be a terrible campaigner, lots of people don’t like (just like Hillary) even if unjustified, and the fact that she is black means prejudice is going to raise its ugly head. Too much against her. Biden is the only hope we have, unless he tells us otherwise.