Random thoughts
Was I the only one who throught that the patch Trump wore on his ear looked like the ones that my mother put on my skinned knees? Surely a doctor’s patch would look differently.
In a recent posting by Southern Living magazine is an article “20 Sunday recipes just like Grandma used to make” with a photo of chicken enchiladas! Neither one of my grandmothers likely had never heard the word “enchiladas” much less have made it. Also on the list were beef casserole, chicken spaghetti casserole, classic chicken tetrazzini and chicken and wild rice casserole. Please show me a southern grandmother who could even spell tetrazzini. Now pot roast, fried pork chops, fried chicken, chili, beef stew and chicken pot pie – yes! However, they left out fried oysters, fried steak and pan fried cornbread – staples in both households.
I wish Trump would stop calling his opponents names. “Lying Kamala” seems to be his current favorite for Harris. I presume this is because she – and a host of others – lied about Biden’s mental condition. This from a person that the Washington Post’s Fact Index says lied 35,573 during his four years in office. This would mean that Trump, according to the Post, lied an average of 24 times 7 days a week for 4 years. The Post found that Biden “only” lied 78 times during his first 100 days in office but then mysteriously shut down its Fact Checker for the rest of his term – likely because as we all know Joe Biden is a serial liar. As to 35,573 is it possible that the Post is lying?
As I pointed out before, the Legislative Scorecard had Harris as the most liberal senator – even more liberal than Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders. Well Sanders says that Trump is lying when he calls Harris more liberal. Sanders said “It’s not true. Once again, Trump is lying. Let me just simply say that for better or for worse, Kamala Harris is not more progressive than I am.” Oops. The Legislative Scorecard says that Sanders is lying. Who knew that politicians lie? It’s hard to tell if they ever tell the truth. Remember the old saying about “How can you tell a politician is lying?”
Trump should just run on Biden’s record and point out that Harris is to the left of Biden. There is not a single progressive initiative that she opposes. The Green New Deal, universal income, banning right to work, increasing minimum wages, broadening government health care, overturning Dobbs, gun control, increasing corporate and personal tax rates and rent controls are only a few of her priorities. Her first speech after Biden’s abdication had the left salivating. She talked about her positions and each one was high on the leftist agenda. It is though both she and Trump have abandoned courting the uncommitted middle of the road independent voter. This is the milquetoast bunch that must have whiplash from changing their votes every four years.
Sanders and his ilk are salivating over the possibility of a Harris presidency. Her administration will make Biden’s look like Reagan’s. Don’t think that if the republicans hold on to the House and even retake the Senate that they would be able to stop a runaway socialist agenda. The congressional republicans have proven inept at slowing down Biden’s shift to the left through his executive orders and agency mandates. Only the republican attorney generals with their lawsuits have been able to negate some of the more egregious dictates. Expect more of the same if Harris somehow gets elected.
Don’t think that her becoming president is farfetched because of her unpopularity. The media will mold a completely new image for her. The voting public has a notoriously short memory. Trump is still Trump and will continue to be his own worse enemy. If the republicans had nominated anyone else, that person would be ahead by 20 points and would have a landslide victory similar to that of Nixon’s over George McGovern. I am reminded of the football player who in the last second breaks away for the winning touchdown only to drop the ball right before he crosses the goal line. If anyone could blow this election, it is Donald Trump.
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