OK Everyone! It’s time to rise out of our despair! It’s been 24 days of mourning since the debate debacle sunk all of us into believing this election was over, that we were going to be abused by Trump for another four years. A sick, sick feeling.
But in one shining moment, at 1:46pm Sunday afternoon, President Biden, in a true profile in courage, a selfless act for which he will be honored and remembered for years to come, put his country ahead of himself.
May I ask you, Mr. President, for one more brave and bold action?
Kamala Harris will be in a much stronger position to win if she can run as the President of the United States. As the incumbent President. This will give the country a chance to see her in action — as the most powerful person in the world. She will have three and a half months (as they say, “an eternity in politics”) to show the American people her smarts, her strengths, her heart. She is fierce, and compassionate, and unstoppable. She will have the power to issue significant executive orders that can provide help to the middle class, protect the environment, restore basic women’s rights. And to face down the man who has promised to be a dictator on Day One. For this takedown, I want a front row seat. And a large popcorn.
Vice President Harris, I have three suggestions for you on this fateful day:
After 10,000 years of men calling the shots and running the show, how great would it be if you asked Governor Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan to be your running mate?! It would be a bold and historic move that no one is expecting — but tens of millions of Americans will cheer it and love it — marking the first time ever that a Party’s ticket for the White House is made up of TWO WOMEN! Two fearless, unbossed, energetic, highly capable women who will quickly become very popular (you have already pulled ahead of Biden’s numbers versus Trump; Whitmer’s approval rating in Michigan is an amazing 68% in her second term). Think of it — “Harris and Whitmer” will be on fire to save our country from the likes of Donald Trump — and I know that is exactly what you are going to do.
You cannot win the White House without Michigan. Right now, because of President Biden’s fatal mistake of his time in office — his funding and arming of Netanyahu’s slaughter and mass starvation of innocent civilians and children in Gaza — Michigan, a state with 300,000 Arab and Muslim voters, turned intensely against Biden and the Democrats who had, in 2020, received 60% of Michigan’s Arab/Muslim vote. Now the polls show the Dems will get only 15% of that vote this year — a massive 45% drop! The “good news” is that the Arab American vote has not switched to Trump — his current numbers show no improvement over his limited 2020 Arab support in Michigan. Arabs and Muslims right now simply plan not to vote or to vote but leave the presidential line blank. Also, thousands of young Michigan voters have stated they will not vote for a pro-war Democrat. This can be fixed. Vice President Harris, you need to go to Michigan and make a major speech as you stand with Arab and Jewish voters from Detroit and Dearborn and declare an end to the U.S. funding Netanyahu’s war in Gaza. If you call for an immediate ceasefire, plus no more use of American offensive weapons, and the release of all hostages, this will go a long way toward achieving peace and preventing Trump from entering the Oval Office.
And perhaps you could promise aid to rebuild Gaza, and maybe offer a gentle apology as you speak to the hundreds of Michiganders who have lost loved ones in Palestine. This will save Michigan in November.
The vote amongst liberals and Democrats is seriously depressed. Millions are in despair. Many have given up. The youth vote is down due to the Gazan war. The Arab American vote is essentially gone. In the Michigan primary, 101,000 Democrats, upset with the embrace of Netanyahu, did not vote for Joe Biden but rather marked the box that read “Uncommitted.”
All of this could lead to a Trump victory. But…
Hear me loud and clear: Trump. Is. Beatable. Soooo beatable!! And he knows it. Trump is going to lose because we are the majority. America hates what he stands for. In 2020, after seeing and living through the trainwreck of his presidency, the citizenry removed him by over 7 million votes and sent him packing. Nothing he’s done in the past four years has convinced millions of these voters to change their minds.
Never forget this one indisputable fact:
There are more of us than there are of them!
And how do I know this? Because this is who we are:
America is a liberal country!
69% of Americans support legal abortion.
72% of Americans don’t own a gun.
90% of the country wants stronger gun control laws.
72% of us believe the Climate Crisis is real and that we must act NOW.
71% of all Americans approve of labor unions.
79% of us insist the rich must pay more in taxes.
76% of us want to more than double the minimum wage — to $17 an hour.
70% of all voters believe marijuana should be legal.
73% of the country want student debt relief.
74% of Americans support a cap on rents and the building of more affordable homes.
80% of the American public want a mandatory retirement age and/or term limits on all Supreme Court justices.
70% of us are demanding a permanent ceasefire in Gaza NOW!
The vast majority (72%) of all Americans want money removed from politics!
Youth, Women and People of Color, or any combination thereof, now make up 79% of those who will vote in November!
THAT is who we are.
In 7 of the last 8 Presidential elections, the majority of Americans voted for the Democrat on the ballot. That’s right. For the past 36 years, since 1988, the Republicans have won the popular vote only once.
Americans simply don’t like them. I mean, they really, REALLY don’t like them. Americans do NOT want right-wingers in our White House or running our country. And Republicans know this. They know their time is up. White people will cease to make up the majority of the U.S. in less than 19 years. That’s why they understand that the only way they can cling to any semblance of power in their “end days” is to get elected through gerrymandering, voter suppression, and attempting to not certify a legitimate election. They have already shown us the extent to which they are willing to go to seize this power: Staging a violent insurrection, refusing to leave office, threatening to lynch their own Republican Vice President, and conducting a treasonous coup. They’ve already packed the Supreme Court with scoundrels who have legally made women second-class citizens, denying real power to the actual majority of the country. And this week, they threatened that, once they are back in the White House and in control of both houses of Congress, they plan to conduct mass deportations of hundreds of thousands of Brown people — aka, Future Democrats, the new American Nonwhite Majority that will crush their traitorous activities as soon as the 2040s.
MAGA Nation is over. All that’s left to do is for each and every one of us to commit to getting out every single vote on our side of the political fence. I have some fun ideas on how we can do that while enjoying the rest of our summer and fall.
Who’s with me?!
— Michael Moore, Block Captain, Harris (Whitmer) Campaign: Grawn, Michigan
Why does this speculation get identity here? Jeez, let the choice marinate. Shapiro and Kelly are much more effective than Gretch. Like a Colleen column.
Kamala Harris and more than 30 Capitol Hill lawmakers are not planning to attend Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s fourth address to a joint meeting of Congress, today, Wednesday July 24.
If Trump is “America’s Hitler”,as J.D. Vance has said , then is Netanyahu “Israel’s Hitler” ?
Democrats reported raising more than $250 million since Biden announced he was leaving the presidential race and endorsed Harris.
The leadership of the Democrat Party is the reason California has become a literal cesspool. There are three major political party’s in California. The fastest growing party in California are the Independent’s. Harris will receive 30% of the vote from those who blindly vote for the party candidate. It will not be enough to beat RFK who will get the independent vote and those in the Republican party who cannot vote for Trump and those in the Democrat Party who can’t vote for Harris.
Democrat leadership in California is responsible for the record budgets, businesses relocations and the home grown homeless problem.
The citizens in the three major cities in California: LA; San Diego; and San Francisco wake up every morning knowing their downtown business areas are filled with shit and piss from the homeless. The blame for this debacle is the leadership of California and Harris.
Because the voters are angry the turn out will be high. California is going to swing back to the center with this upcoming election.
Harris will lose in California.
Either Trump or Kennedy will get more votes than she will. With Harris losing California’s electoral votes there will not be a democrat in the White House in January.
RR – have to disagree with you on many points but it’s too hot to argue.
no need to argue, it is a prediction based on living in California since 1953.
In 94 days we will see who is right.
Well then I beat ya dude – since 1950.
Ha! TOO HOT? Hell Frank, I had to run into the tiny town 15 miles north yesterday to the bank and to deliver a Food Bank box to a family, and the casino thermometer read 111’F at 5pm on the way back!!! Got up into the hills, out of the valley, and my porch thermometer was only 106’F though to be honest it didn’t really feel much freaking different…and you’re complaining about it being too hot to argue?
RR: the leadership of the ‘democrats’ are what we used to call your average ‘moderate business republicans’ in 1979. Remember when the League of Women Voters controlled the presidential debates? Now it’s controlled by corporations whose owners range from conservative to…extremely conservative because they exist with only one thought in mind; increased profits.
So…have you looked around at the Red State numbers lately? You know, those run by GOP and/or MAGA-GOP governors? Education, health care, infrastructure, poverty levels, crime, wages, teenage pregnancy, environment, fiscal stability, unionization, environment, drug use, alcohol use, on and on the list goes. And don’t forget to look up which states actually pay INTO the federal tax base that flows out to those same states that seem to always be at the bottom of those lists with their hands out begging for more.
You’ll find a large number of the former Confederate States mostly filling those ‘worst of’ positions.
And remember, RR, there are 40 MILLION+ people in Cali. How many Red states would it take to equal the population? Has Wyoming even hit a million yet? I don’t think so.
Population pressures have always downgraded living standards across the world. Maybe you should take a vacation to the slums of India to put the term ‘cesspool’ into perspective? We ain’t seeing nothing like that here so get a grip.
But then if Trump gets back in he’ll do what all recent GOP presidents have done, crash the economy and add to the debt. What was Trump’s increase? Oh yeah, $7.8 TRILLION dollard in four freaking years?
There was a reason the homeless shantytowns of the 1930s were called ‘Hoovervilles’ during the Republican Great Depression. They were more honest then I guess because the crash of 2007-08 should have been called ‘Reagan Crash’ due to his domestic de-regulation policies leading up to it, or at the very least the huge numbers of homeless encampments should be called ‘WbushTrumpvilles’ don’t ya think since they were essentially the same program? Again, get a grip.
sealintheSelkirks
If Trump “gets back” he’ll do more than that, seal, or are you ignoring Project 2025 et al?
ME? Not pay attention? How can anyone with a brain and a sliver of historical knowledge ignore that monstrous document? With 144 Trump White House ’employees’ as a nice significant portion of the authors ‘credited’ for producing it, and the ‘Heritage Foundation’ head honcho threatening the rest of the country saying it is the “2nd American Revolution” and will be a ‘bloodless “only if the Left lets it be.”
NOTE: I find that completely bizarre thinking because the ‘Left’ is most definitely not the majority corporate Capitalist Democrats. What ‘Left’ I might ask?
But isn’t that enough to get him locked up for making terrorist threats? Since everything seems to be terrorist threats nowadays…. Threatening to commit murder and insurrection if those he doesn’t like don’t let the Fascists do what they want or it will be BLOODY sure sounds like it to me.
Oh wait, Trump ain’t in prison yet, either…
And to think the Heritage Foundation started out as a simple ’70s college fundie Christo-theocratic/right-wing/Fascist group even before Reagan’s take-over… funded by the likes of Coors, Walmart, and Exxon/Mobile among a whole raft of other…shall we say?…authoritarian-leaning corporations and their extremely wealthy owners that have been waiting in the wings to try again since failing the 1934 Fascist Coup. Too bad they, their families, and the corporate infrastructure survived the Coup’s failure, eh?
But then our species seems to always have more psychopaths waiting in the wings…
A link to read into:
Madison’s Warning
https://hartmannreport.com/p/madisons-warning
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RR: Yep, we’ll see if there is enough sanity left but given the history of our species I really have my doubts. All empires collapse.
sealintheSelkirks
Was being factitious.
That’s why I capitalized ME with the question mark. Because I know you know that I read far too much about everything. One of the advantages of not having TV since 1993 I think.
sealintheSelkirks
75% of Americans in my household don’t own a gun. But if you bust in at night, you’re getting shot dead anyways.