Biden Withdraws

I'm as conflicted today as one would be witnessing a beloved father surrendering his car keys.  

As things now lie, President Biden can retire on an exceptional record of accomplishment in his presidency, vice-presidency, and throughout a lifetime in the Senate.  

And, as things now lie--whether the Democratic candidate is Kamala Harris, or somebody else--we are offered a clear choice; maturity and civility, or ...

rather than finish that sentence, I encourage you to read the 'grace and dignity' with which the opponent responded to President Biden's withdrawal from the race; so absolutely typical. and indicative of his well-established mental illness:

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/07/21/joe-biden-drops-out-election/trump-pounces-00170008

I would have had no fear with President Biden leading us on the world stage, if we still had the kind of country that backs the president in international affairs.  

But his most dangerous enemies--our nation's most dangerous enemies--are no longer foreign.  They are Americans, under the domination of an adversarial foreign power.  

Mind Your Own Damn Business!

We're approaching the midway point of Pride Month, when we celebrate our LGBTQ brothers and sisters (etc., it is hard to keep up, I'll admit).  

Earlier this week, was National Loving Day, which commemorates the Supreme Court Loving v. Virginia decision in 1967, disallowing state laws that had banned interracial marriages.  

Then yesterday, the current Supreme Court unanimously tossed out a proposed nationwide ban on Mifepristone, a drug used by women to privately terminate pregnancy.  

I propose we institute a 'Mind Your Own Damn Business' week, combining the best attributes of these - and encourages the Gladys Kravitz's cross our land to stop peeking through the curtains of other people's lives ... and maybe get one of their own. 

If this week is well received, maybe we can stretch it out to ... I don't know ... forever?

M.T. Greene, The Steroid Queen

Do you suppose that if Georgia's Congressional CrossFit Queen backed off a little (or maybe a lot) on her steroid dosages, it could help prevent these manic outrage episodes?  

I doubt that there is any way for her to un-grow that  paleo brow, or the other cosmetic side effects, but at least she might be able to begin practicing some more civilized homo-sapiens behaviors.  

MT Greene's Attack on Fauci

Neutrality is anything but

I don't normally pass on commentary from columnists ... and George Will is generally a bit on the conservative side for me.  But these are the kind of times when true conservatives find common ground with liberals, in opposition to a treasonous cult, whose leader is a 'useful idiot' of a dangerous foreign enemy.  

In 1994, in the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukraine gave up it's stockpile of nuclear weapons, in return for security assurances from Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States.  The world has been safer for thirty years now, thanks to that agreement.  Putin's attack against Ukraine's territorial integrity, and sovereignty, it is a clear violation of this international accord that has enabled safety and stability in the post-Soviet era.  

It gives undue credit to M.T. Greene's intellect to assume that she has any conception of what it means for us to stand aside and allow the violation of this accord to wipe the key signatory off the map.  And Donald Trump is so utterly narcissistic that he can't see beyond his self-interest, and the loss of his primary international mentor.  So it is up to the rest of us, regardless of political affiliation, to rise above the fools and the corrupt, to make sure our leaders act in out nation's--and the world's--best interests, by stopping this aggression, while it can still be contained. 

George Will - Putin-Wing Republicans

Arsenal of Democracy

Trump International Airport

I heard this yesterday on the news, and thought it was an April Fools story that I heard about late.  

But I looked it up, and it was no joke (not intentional, anyway).  It's a ludicrous idea, which will go nowhere, even in the current House of Representatives.  It's just a way for these fools to try to curry favor with The Donald.

The saddest thing about this futile gesture is that it will gain them nothing from their hero.  Trump lacks the capacity to experience gratitude – even for the moment.  One need only consider poor Lindsey Graham, and all the money he's wasted on knee pads to realize this.   

Trump International?

Genocide and the Genocide of Truth

An excellent illustration of the power of multimedia coordination and brainwashing is when simply calling for a pause in an historically tragic genocide opens one to accusations of supporting genocide. 

Empathy Doesn't Take Sides

My heart goes out to those who lost loved ones in the Hamas attack on October 6, those who were taken hostage, and those who await their safe return.  

My heart also goes out to those who have lost loved ones under the relentless destruction that continues to be visited upon those living and working in Gaza.  

It is often difficult to feel compassion for people on both sides of a conflict.  It is much easier to simply choose one side, embrace deep compassion for them, and vilify the other; negating their perspective, and disregarding their injury - including that to non-combatants.  

This is lazy, and makes us less fully human.  More importantly, it lowers our psychological barriers to demagogues and zealots, who exploit the wedges we have allowed to grow in our own awareness.  Before you know it, a modern-day Joe McCarthy emerges, to try to clean out government, or academia of any who don't align with their own radical views - and we have voluntarily disarmed ourselves against them.