The president drops out so Kamala Harris can step up
Joe Biden is done.
The president who brought us back from the brink after four years of Donald Trump’s atrocities, a horrible COVID pandemic and multiple subversions of democracy by the U.S. Supreme Court bowed out of his re-election bid Sunday after more than 30 Democratic officeholders, the party’s mega donors asked him to go. Biden quickly endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as his successor.
It started with a horrible debate performance and was accentuated by a letter that actor George Clooney submitted to the New York Times two weeks ago urging Biden to step aside.
The donors and the elites have told us the voters don’t matter, Mary Trump said on her “Nerd Avengers” show Sunday. “It was a decision driven by the white, power elite,” she added.
This happened just days after The Republican Party nominated a convicted felon, former president Donald Trump, for president.
This is just a reminder that the 2006 movie “Idiocracy” directed by Mike Judge, featuring Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Terry Crews and Dax Shepard was meant as satire. It wasn’t supposed to be a documentary.
Yet there was Hulk Hogan channeling President Camacho on the closing night of the MAGA convention in Milwaukee. Prior to introducing Trump, I half expected Hogan or UFC head Dana White to say, “I know shit’s bad right now, with all that starving bullshit, and the dust storms, and we are running out of french fries and burrito coverings. But I got a solution.” Instead, he just ripped open his shirt to reveal a “Trump-Vance” tank top. And the WWE fans went wild. All he needed was a monster truck.
That’s MAGA politics. All show and no go. Trump’s former attorney Ty Cobb, quoted in the Independent Friday, gave the convention high marks for its theatrics but said Trump is an empty suit of blind ambition and no principles.
The repetition of that message sounds like tinnitus to some, a song of hope for others, and just nothing worth listening to for all those at the convention who bought t-shirts picturing Jesus hugging Trump.
There sure was plenty to laugh at as the MAGA party closed out its convention in Milwaukee this week, leaving behind fetid flies, rotting garbage and tons of soiled linen, and that’s just following the 92-minute self-congratulatory filibuster that constituted convicted felon Trump’s acceptance speech.
He was supposed to call for unity, and I’m sure in what passes for deep thought in the shallow recesses of his mostly empty skull, he nailed it. Yet, as the AP reported, “as quickly as he called for an end to the ‘demonization of political enemies,’ he turned the issue exclusively toward Democrats,” wherein he pushed his greatest hits of accusations that the justice system was weaponized against him, he was a victim, the Democrats were evil and he’s the victim, savior and best dancer of all time.
About the only specific policies he mentioned in his 92-minute excremental, self-aggrandizing speech was promising to roll back Biden administration efforts to combat climate change, redirect infrastructure spending and impose steep tariffs.
Afterward, his bobbleheaded sycophants took to the airwaves where they dutifully regurgitated the mantra of a unified party, while also assuring us Trump walks on water and if he lays hands on you he can cure you of warts.
