Go Woke, Go Very Broke

I think Biden's performance was hidden and only came out months ago when he was kicked out. That puts a totally different spin on what he did - or didn't do. He did the minimum, and he didn't talk it up or ask for the support of the public. Instead focused on these little things like money for childen - which is good, don't get me wrong, and to reduce the price of insulin - but all the rest of the people, the workers who were hurting from inflation, or the legal aliens worried about illegal aliens coming in and devaluing their labor - Biden just ignored it and did nothing. Biden did make claims that the economy was good - for billionaires and for those who can afford big stock portfolios, and I think when Americans found out that was gaslighting they fled with extreme prejudice away from him - and it was even worse with Harris, and the rest of the Democratic leadership.

We realized we could not trust the Democrats. The problem was, so far there was nothing from Trump that made trusting him any better, in fact it was measurably worse, but the only way to strike back at the Democrats for their malfeasance, since there was no Democratic primary season where they could have voted for a Bernie Sanders like figure who would appeal to both left and right, they sent the Democrats a fatal message, and honestly, I don't blame them, I just could not join them.

I remember getting in these long aguments with a talk show host back in 2015 about how bad a candidate I thought Joe Biden was, and same with Kamala Harris. I am in California and I've followed her forever and never liked her, but in 2024 she was uniquely terrible. I feel sorry for her because she did not have a chance, but she also would not have had a chance in a primary season. Events conspired to put her in the situation she was in, and all she did was that cringe smile and head bob.

I think Republicans will govern poorly, more likely pillaging and tax cuts and cementing themselves into power.