Mary and I visited the Notre Dame cathedral in 1991, back when you could still do fun stuff like hang from the clapper of a giant bell.
Category: Government (Page 23 of 35)
ABC News: Biden pardons Hunter
This morning, when there were rumors that Biden might pardon Hunter, I felt that would be fine. I had hoped that Biden would speak frankly and honestly, but assumed he’d issue a statement similar to what is linked here.
A good friend called “bullshit” on my suggestion that the 2020 election was shady.
This article is interesting because the numbers aren’t what I’d have guessed. The graph lumps press conferences in with interviews, but the article provides more detail.
Biden hid from the press, but I wouldn’t have guessed that Reagan wasn’t out there more.
I got on this track because, “The White House press corps is already “exhausted” at the outset of the second Trump administration.”
It’s never appealing to hear people complaining about their jobs, but it is appalling to hear grumbling from the White House press corps.
Being a part of the White House press corps is, I understood, a prestigious position for a journalist. They really aren’t going to like it when bloggers and social media influencers are given press passes.
The White House press corps was derelict in their duty to inform Americans about President Biden’s frailty and deteriorating mental health. They should be ashamed.
In an alternate time-line, the corporate press would have reported on Biden’s condition, Dr. Jill would not have insisted upon a second term, the Democratic Party would have held a legitimate primary, the world would not have learned that Kamala Harris was dumb and unprepared, nobody outside of Minnesota would be familiar with Tim Walz and some other Democrat would have run for president against Trump.
The election result may have been the same, but it wouldn’t be as embarrassing for the Democratic Party.
The Democratic Party is off in the weeds. They are making excuses for lunatics, and it would be better off if they weren’t.
The Republicans took the House, Senate and presidency, but only because Democrats made it happen. Not the Democratic Party, they are off in the weeds, but people who were Democrats not too long ago. Trump wasn’t a Republican when he was a TV personality and real estate developer in NYC. He was the first president to take office in favor of gay marriage.
Establishment Republicans don’t have to learn a lesson from this because Trump has pushed most of them out of office.
When Donald Trump won the presidential election in 2016, there were many Twitter posts from celebrities and influencers describing poignant reactions from their young children. The posts were too on-the-nose, and people called bullshit. This time, it’s “Just So” stories purported to have been written by high school girls or teachers.
Being a heterodox free-thinker, students would occasionally ask if I believed in conspiracy theories. A group of people colluding on a secret plan to do something sneaky? Sure, conspiracies happen all the time. Of course they meant “conspiracy theories”, like faking the Moon landing or something along that line.
You shouldn’t read any further because I intend to discuss a conspiracy theory.
I’m not an alcoholic or participant in any 12-step programs, but the Serenity Prayer seems like a broadly useful sentiment.