The election: A post-mortem
Apparently taking Kamala Harris’ advice to resist, the governors of Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey and California have announced that they will resist the Trump Administration. California’s Newson wants to make the state “Trump proof” and to “safeguard California values and fundamental rights.” Illinois’ Pritzker has said that “you come for my people, you come through me” – an apparent reference to Trump’s threat of deporting illegals. Massachusetts’ Healey says that she will have her law enforcement officers to not support Trump’s deportation efforts. New Jersey’s Murphy says he will “fight to the death” against Trump if he is “contrary to values”. Well I have a suggestion: why not transport any illegal to those states to await deportation? I am sure the residents of Palm Springs, Matha’s Vineyard, Parsippany, and Kenilworth will welcome them with open arms.
Imagine the hue and cry from the left if republican governors had said that they were going to resist or ignore the edits coming from Biden. Actually, I wondered why didn’t they and guessed the reason was that they asked their attorneys general to pursue legal action. Obviously, the democrats would rather have an insurrection instead.
Trump, as we all know, is profane. But it seems that most presidents cursed. Lyndon Johnson was probably the worse. Even Richard Nixon said that if you thought his language was bad, you should hear Lyndon Johnson. Joe Biden is not choir boy either, freely throwing around f-bombs. As to presidential slurs, Trump doesn’t hold a candle to Abraham Lincoln who said of Steven Douglas’ view on slavery “It is as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death.”
What has happened to coarsen our language over the years? Now even literate people sound illiterate. Consider tweets. Chris Olave, wide receiver from Ohio State now with the New Orleans Saints tweeted this after suffering a second concussion, “Thank God Preciate all the love & prayers Ima be aight.” Ohio State should revoke his degree.
Kamala Harris an empty pantsuit got 69 million votes. Trump, who everybody knows is a wannabe fascist got over 73 million votes. Is this a great country or what?
One of my best friends in Georgia is retired. He is black and has a high school education. Salt of the earth. He is pinching pennies due to the price of energy, groceries and health care. He has never voted for a republican until Trump. I asked him why Trump and he said that when Harris said she could think of a thing she would change, he could not vote for her.
I told him the raid at Mar-a-Largo did it for me.
There are 231 million eligible voters in the US. Of that number 161 million are registered voters and 142 voted. It also means that 89 million eligible voters did not vote. I think that the motor voter law is responsible for these numbers. It is too easy to register. You no longer have to make a special trip to the courthouse. Now people who are never motivated to vote are registered when they get a driver’s license or apply for public assistance.
Since it seems that every other commercial on the sports networks is a betting website. I wonder if there is a parley on how long will it take for Trump to fire his first cabinet member? Take the under.
Biden didn’t fire anyone and there have been only two resignations from his original cabinet which must be a world’s record. One resigned to join a law firm. The other resigned to become executive director of the National Hockey Leagues Players Association!
Trump got 45 percent of the Latino vote because he appealed to them as citizens rather than as a voting bloc. He talked about the economy and illegal immigration. The democrats seemed surprised that the Latinos resented being called Latinx and taken for granted. The Latino communities on the border are overrun with illegals straining their social fabric. No wonder many of their communities went for Trump. Note to the democrats: are you sure that open borders will benefit you?
Trump got 25 percent of the black male vote and the democrats act as if he got 75 percent. Of course 92 percent of black women voted for Harris. I think that is because black women want to keep having abortions while black men are more concerned about the economy. Does Obamacare cover abortions?
Seventy-nine percent of Jews voted for Harris. Go figure.
Only fifty-four percent of Catholics voted for Trump. Go figure.
Trump says that he will be a dictator only on Day 1. That means he will govern unilaterally through executive orders – just like Biden before him. See my previous positing on Joe Biden, Dictator.
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