A Reasonable Point of View

Sit Quietly and the Truth May Find You

It’s been a little more than 5 months since the 2024 Presidential Elections. This is my first post since then. I have been silent because I needed to grapple with the outcomes and to assess the movements of the Trump administration.

I needed to understand how things came together to give the Republicans and Trump control of every branch of the Federal Government. There were and are a lot of moving parts. What I will communicate in this post will not be what you will hear from legacy media or social media influencers who are paid to spew disinformation and lies.

First, let me say that the American electorate is a huge part of the problem. It is fragmented, highly partisan, extremely uninformed, easily gaslighted, and open to cultural callousness that blinds it from the desire or ability to utilize critical thinking. Moderate politicians and voters are locked in on stale, worn views and tactics which have long since been viewed as nonsense by thinking voters. Progressive politicians and voters only offer views that feel extreme to the voter who is incapable of digesting policy concepts that cannot be conveyed on a bumper sticker. Conservative politicians and voters provide opinions that are racist, sexist, and upper-class oriented. Conservative voters usually want to ascend to the upper class so bad that they consistently vote against their present interest, thus rewarding the upper class.

I try not to identify with a political party but since Reagan was elected, I have had little reason to not to vote for Democrats. Their policies aligned better, though not perfectly, with my interests.

After the 2020 election, I thought that Biden had made a few critical mistakes:

#1 He should have named Kamala Harris as his Attorney General. She had the appropriate Prosecutorial requisites that Merrick Garland lacked. He could have called on any one of several women to be his Vice-President, but Harris would have made moves to get to the planners of the January 20, 2021, attack on the Capitol without fear of the political blowback. She also would have gone after the MAGA terrorists in a much more robust manner.

#2 He coddled the bi-partisan centrists Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema to the detriment of voting rights. Because of those two, the rights of women and none-White voters are threatened in ways that recall the pre-Voting Rights Act era.

#3 He and Kamala Harris should have personally met with American-Palestinians in Michigan. There he should have declared that Netanyahu’s Zionist military would receive no more offensive arms if they continued their offensive in Gaza. Instead, he made the calculation to stand with the Zionists and not the Israeli people, who legitimately wanted peace.

#4 He should have insisted that American-Palestinians should publicly condemn the Hamas attackers of October 7, 2023, and appointed an advisory panel on how Palestinians in Gaza move forward with new leaders.

As for the campaign and the election let’s deal with a few truths.

#1 For all the talk of new leadership in the Democratic party, No serious candidate stepped forward to primary Biden. The politicians most people named understood that Trump had mishandled the pandemic and the resulting economic shortfalls, they did not want to hurt their future electoral chances. In reality Gavin Newsome has serious issues in California that would hurt him. This became clear when he debated Ron DeSantis and he did leave him battered, bruised, broken, and newly ‘WOKE!

#2 Gretchen Whitmer understood, that she would fare no better than Kamala Harris at this point in time, given the narratives around ‘Greedflation’ which was sold as ‘Inflation by the owners of the mainstream media.

#3 Joe Biden might have stepped aside much earlier had viable candidates stepped to the forefront.

No matter what the media reports, remember that Donald Trump did not win 50% of the popular vote. Harris lost by a very slim 1.7% margin. Given that she only had essentially four months against a guy who had a three-year head start on campaigning, Trump didn’t blow her away.

Putin flunky Jill Stein drew just enough votes to make the difference between who won and who lost. The short-term memory of the American electorate and the misogyny of younger male voters of all races and ages. along with some Gen Z Hispanic and Palestinian-American females, was just enough to help.

Lastly, no one paid real attention to the levels of spending tech billionaires dropped in the ‘Swing States’ behind the ‘Blue Wall’ during the last three weeks of the election. No one, the Democratic Party, the Harris campaign, nor the media called out the over $300 million in lies, distortions, and unfact-checked ads they placed in Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina. This is the reality of what happened.

Today, we have the narrative that Democrats don’t have a message the voters want to hear. That’s can’t be true since the plurality of voters didn’t choose Trump. What happened is that the right-wing and Conservative mindset controls the legacy media outlets in this country.

They were not going to allow the Democratic message to be heard on an equal footing with the Trump gaslighting. Every time Trump openly spoke his mind, the legacy media cleaned up his words and or his intent. You cannot tell me that Harris lost because she did not appear on podcasts.

She went on several podcasts. She just didn’t go on Joe Rogan, and why should she, if Rogan would not agree to a balanced interview? Trump would not go on media outlets unless they agreed to go easy on him and not push back when he made outlandish and baseless claims. You cannot convince me Trump won because he went on a podcast where the host was known to sniff the seats his guests used after they left.

I blame Harris for spending too much time sharing the limelight with Liz Cheney. I doubt that it will win many votes. But politics is a game of calculations. That was a swing and a miss. Harris should have also explained in more detail how her policies would differ from those of the unpopular Biden. How would she have governed differently if Democrats also won the House and the Senate?

I will state another truth: Democrats always get pulled to the left by Progressives. Remember how ‘Defund the Police’ worked out in 2020? That notion hurt the Democrats, and they lost control of the House. Ironically, it’s Trump and Republicans who are literally defunding various police agencies. I have often expressed my admiration for the many ‘Progressive Presidents’ this country has had. Oh, wait! A Progressive has never won the Presidency.

In all fairness, the current narrative involves many negative critiques of Democrats. It’s all gaslighting since the media landscape is controlled by Trump-supporting media and social media tech oligarchs. They are the ones behind the unbalanced coverage that ignores Trump’s mental inadequacies.

Next, there is the left. Those folks who have great ideas but lousy timing. It’s foolish for them to think they are doing the right thing by undermining the Democratic Centrists in the face of open attacks on Democracy, voting rights, women’s rights, and economic inequality.

A prime example is the supposed popularity of Bernie Sanders and AOC. They recently toured some districts Trump won. They were very well received by voters who regretted their choices. Bernie’s ideas seem very popular until you understand that the voters don’t send people to Congress who will actually vote to enact his ideas.

There lies the crutch. The Gen X and Gen Z voters will show up everywhere to tout Bernie and AOC except the ballot box. These folks complain about the leadership within the Democratic Party, but they don’t show up to vote in new leadership.

Every thinking person should have understood that the goal of Trump, the Oligarchs, the Heritage Foundation, the Federalist Society, Evangelicals, and other ultra-Conservatives is the destruction of a society that is built on equality and enforced by the rule of law that we pretend was the intention of the White male property owning Founding Fathers when they created the Constitution.

You Cannot Believe the Media’s Interpretation of Polling Data. It May Not Be So Close

This is my last post until after the election. There isn’t much new to say, so let me summarize my take on the data I follow. I don’t rely on the mainstream news media or listen to local news channels. These sources simply report on superficial top-line numbers without doing much analysis.

I follow sources that rely on real data to help audiences understand where we stand in the election cycle. I will share data that has been collected from early voting exit polls. These represent voters who shared their choices for the Presidency.

This recent CES/YouGov poll interviewed almost 50,000 people suggesting a 4-point lead for Harris, ( Note most polls interview as few as 350 people but not more than 2500.)

A recent Marist poll of people who have already voted

Several different polls this cycle including Republican-funded polls have flooded the news environment. Despite that, several non-partisan polls have remained consistent since the Democratic Convention.

There are still some undecided voters out there.

No one wants a repeat of the 2016 election. The Harris/Walz campaign is still working to attract new voters. This effort was helped by the Trump campaign with the racist comments made at the Madison Square Garden event, about Puerto Rico and Black carving out watermelons for Halloween. Those comments have garnered a swift backlash.

Finally, the Harris/Walz campaign inherited a massive ground infrastructure from Joe Biden. They are geared up to turn out the vote through election day. Watch for the vote totals reported for Florida, North Carolina, and Georgia. Either could hold a surprise as they are regarded as Republican-safe or leaning states. However, they have fallen into play in recent weeks.

Watch out for the Senate races in both Florida and Texas. There might be a surprise or two there. I won’t post again until after the election results have been called. My advice is simple. If you have already voted and talked to the people you felt comfortable encouraging to vote find a couple of good books to read. Binge-watch a couple of your favorite series or movies. Put the election worries aside now. You have done all you can do.

There is A Sinister Plan Behind The Scenes

I have a different perspective on the 2024 election as the voting phase concludes. As I look at the reports of the early voting surges, I hear about the effectiveness of the Harris/Walz ground game in turning out the vote. I am also hearing about a virtually non-existent ground game for the Trump/Vance campaign headed by Elon Musk.

It would not surprise me if the race was called fairly early on the evening of November 5th with a couple of huge surprises. Florida might fall to Democrats. I know that seems unlikely, but something is trending there right now. They have an ‘Abortion’ measure to overturn the DeSantis 6-week ban. Republicans in the Conservative enclave called ‘The Villages’ has been holding large rallies weekly in support of Harris/Walz. Unpopular Florida Senator, Rick Scott is in a tight battle with Democratic challenger Debbie Mucarsel-Powell. Just this past week a Federal Judge just tossed a case by the DeSantis Administration over threats to pull the licenses of television stations that run ads in favor of the measure overturning the Florida 6-week abortion ban.

All these issues are sending more people out to vote. We could see the state flip in the Presidential race and flip the Senate seat. I know this is counter to the media and polling narratives but what seems to be happening on the ground, where actual votes are cast suggests this unlikely probability is a very real possibility. Their 29 ‘Electoral College’ votes could go to Harris.

North Carolina is also a potential flip in the Presidential race. The state is in play. The Harris/Walz campaign has committed dollars from their more than $1 billion dollar war chest to secure the state’s 16 ‘Electoral College’ votes.

Georgia went for Biden in 2020 by little more than 11,000 votes. The Republican legislature and Governor have worked to try to ensure that a Democrat does not win their 16 ‘Electoral College’ votes in 2024. They changed the laws to allow people to challenge the voter registration of people they don’t know. You used to be unable to challenge a registration unless you lived in the same county. Now you can do mass challenges. Over 30,000 registrations were challenged by just 11 people. Republican operatives from other counties can challenge the registration of people living in areas made up of minority citizens. The county then pulls the registration. They should notify the voter. The voter then has to take steps to have the registration reinstated. Georgia legislators, mostly from outside of the urban areas, have chosen this insidious manner of voter suppression to discourage voting.

This is happening in other states as well. These strategies are conceived and implemented with groups such as the ‘Heritage Foundation’, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the Koch Brothers-run Americans for Prosperity (AFP), and the State Policy Network (SPN).

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)has been operating since the 1970s to create model bills and encourage elected officials to introduce those bills. They have been historically focused on social issues like guns, and gay rights: the Equal Rights Amendments. ALEC’s use of model bills is worrisome from the perspective of democratic representation in that some lawmakers are simply cutting and pasting legislation, without their constituents’ knowing, from an outside interest group.

Americans for Prosperity, tend to place a more laser-like focus on economic regulatory issues. It was formed in 2004 out of the remains of an older organization that Charles and David Koch had founded. By now, it encompasses something that looks almost like a political party; in fact, the Washington Post described it as “America’s third biggest political party that you’ve never heard of.

The State Policy Network (SPN) is a nonprofit organization that serves as a network for conservative and libertarian think tanks focusing on state-level policy in the United States.^[The network serves as a public policy clearinghouse and advises its member think tanks on fundraising, running a nonprofit, and communicating ideas.^[4] Founded in 1992, it is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, with member groups located in all fifty states.

Hundreds of voter suppression, anti-abortion, taxation, and anti-regulation bills introduced and enacted in state legislatures across the country were written by organizations such as these.

There is Leonard Leo of the Federalist Society. He influenced the selection of the last three of the six Christian Nationalists to the Supreme Court. Their main goal is to invoke legal interpretations that favor the interests of religious conservatism, the fossil fuel industry, White Nationalists, the financial industry, and corporate executives.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/inside-leonard-leos-plan-for-conservatives-to-crush-liberal-dominance

American lawyer and conservative legal activist Leonard Leo wants the conservative movement to become as “impactful and effective as possible, he plans to do this by financially backing conservative groups that are focused on more than just ideas and policy, but on “operationalizing and weaponizing” those ideas to “crush liberal dominance at the choke points of influence and power.”

In an extensive new interview to right-wing Daily Caller, Leo said that it is now time to “crush liberal dominance at the choke points of influence and power” by “operationalizing and weaponizing” the policy ideas he helped cultivate in the past. Leo sent a letter to grant applicants this past September to emphasize that he will be looking for different criteria this year them:

“Vastly insufficient funds are going toward operationalizing and weaponizing those ideas and policies. When you get to a certain point in a movement’s history, while you always have to continue to develop ideas and to educate, what becomes even more important is operationalizing those ideas, taking the principles and philosophy that you’ve developed, and finding ways to make those a reality in our culture. The Left has been very effective at this over the past couple of decades, and it’s time for the conservative movement to be much more leveraged in the way it tries to implement its beliefs.”

Leo told Daily Caller that what the Left has done tactically is something he wants right-wingers to emulate:

“They’ve mobilized people. They’ve created infrastructure to get the word out, to train people to be leaders, and for those leaders then to have the resources they need to create communities of people who will go out and do everything from protesting and demonstrating, to writing in the popular press, influencing the entertainment industry, putting pressure on academic institutions, sometimes even litigating, and sometimes working in various international organizations like the UN to effect change.”

Leo said from this point forward what he is looking for is to back people “who have the greatest capability of entering into and helping to control the choke points of society, it’s really important to find those people, to identify them, to recruit them …” He then gave some examples of the kinds of things he wants them to do:

“It could be challenging government actions so that you can reinvigorate things like the separation of powers and checks and balances and federalism … It could be challenges to government policies that relate to DEI or other parts of the woke cultural agenda … it’s time to take what you already know, and to operationalize it, and that means being at the tip of the spear, filing those lawsuits, building those talent pipelines, placing personnel in positions of influence in culture, society, and government, launching campaign-style tactics to beat back things like ESG and DEI. That’s the kind of thing that needs to be done.”

Leo concluded his interview by saying that although this presidential election is important to him, it is not the most important thing to accomplish his long-term objectives:

“Yes, very important what happens in November, I don’t want to undercut that, but in the medium term, what’s perhaps even more important than elections is the conservative movement building beachheads in areas like news, entertainment, business and finance, corporate C-suites, educational institutions.”

Leo is one of the most prolific fundraisers in American politics. He’s also one of the most consequential figures on the American Right. As a leader of the Federalist Society, he has worked for decades to foster strong judicial and legal appointments, and as an advisor to former President Donald Trump on judicial selections, he helped Trump choose the three conservative Supreme Court justices instrumental in overturning Roe v. Wade.

After Trump, Leo is quite possibly the man most hated by the Left. And with an estimated $1 billion to spend on aligned groups, the conservative activist holds the attention of both sides of the aisle. In a rare interview with The Daily Wire, published Sunday on the Morning Wire podcast, Leo laid out his vision for how he can use his influence in the movement to empower the types of work that will be necessary to compete with the Left, and win.

“As someone involved in philanthropy, I want to make sure that the conservative movement is as impactful as possible in doing things like defending the rule of law, and improving our society and culture,” he shared with The Daily Wire. “That means that the participants in our movement, the many organizations that are involved in trying to improve our society and our culture and the law and politics and public policy, need to be as impactful and effective as possible.”

https://www.msnbc.com/katie-phang/watch/trump-vance-and-the-25th-amendment-220994117621

There is A Sinister Plan Behind The Scenes

This is happening in other states as well. These strategies are conceived and implemented by groups such as the ‘Heritage Foundation’, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the Koch Brothers-run Americans for Prosperity (AFP), and the State Policy Network (SPN).

Hundreds of voter suppression, anti-abortion, taxation, and anti-regulation bills introduced and enacted in state legislatures across the country were written by organizations such as these.

There are all big money shadow groups influencing policy applications for the sake of profit, class, racial, and ethnic estrangement.

It’s Important to Know Who Funds Your Information Sources

As we head toward the final days of campaigning for the 2024 Presidential, Congressional, and Senatorial elections, a lot is going on. Let’s be clear, the US legacy media has severely failed the general voting public. They have allowed Donald Trump and his team to spread lies and disinformation in ways that will be impossible to assess for generations.

Two clear points I wish to make. Trump has been campaigning for the past 4 years to be reelected. Kamala Harris has been running to be President for only 3 months. The fact that she and Trump are tied at this point speaks to Trump’s weakness as a candidate. Harris appeals to voters because she presents the opportunity for change that the electorate has been demanding for months. Democrats should stop clutching their pearls and do the hard work of convincing the voters that VP. Harris is the right person to occupy the Presidency at this time.

New reporting suggests recent polling skews our perception of how this election is going. 33 of the most recent polls have been conducted by non-partisan entities. 26 additional recent polls have been conducted by entities funded by Republican sources. Only 1 was funded by Democratic sources.

Source: Let’s Talk Elections YouTube video ‘Republicans pollsters Are Flooding the 2024 Election Averages’ 10/12/2024

Unfortunately, the misogyny among minority males has some Black and Hispanic males leaning toward Trump in this election. Former President Barack Obama spoke at a gathering this past week where he addressed the issue. Speaking only to the men in attendance he commented, “You have someone who knows your challenges, who grew up as you did, to consider voting for someone who has a history of denigrating you is unacceptable.”

The news headlines came out screaming ‘Obama Scolds Black Men’. My YouTube feed populated videos from people I never heard of condemning Obama. One was a minister who complained that the former President told Black men they should vote for V.P Harris because she is Black. He included the MLK quote that people should be judged by the content of their character, not the color of their skin. ( I noted that this person also has a video on returning to the ‘Biblical Patriarchy’ or something like that.)

I responded to his post saying that he mischaracterized Obama’s comments and he completely ignored Trump’s 34 criminal convictions for election interference by paying off a porn star not to disclose he had sex with her shortly after his third wife gave birth. I added that Trump was an adjudicated sexual offender. He has been indicted for insurrection. He stole government documents when he left office. There is nothing about these facts that suggests there is anything about Trump’s character that offers a valid reason for your vote.

Two other videos complained that Obama had disrespected Black Men. My reply to those posts was how is asking why you would consider voting for someone with a history of denigrating you disrespectful? Trump has also floated that as President he would seek giving full immunity to police officers. Who disrespects men of color more than police officers? Oh yeah, other Black men.

Finally, Trump stated that he would invoke the ‘Alien Enemies Act of 1789’ to deport immigrants. The problem? With the immunity given to the office of the President this past June, Trump can implement these actions. It gets worse. Once he has invoked this act, he can arrest and detain anyone or any entity that criticizes him directly or how this policy is implemented. Anyone. However, your criticism is made, in writing, on social media, and spoken openly. You could be subject to arrest and detention for as long as he deems necessary. (I have provided the text of the law as it was written for your review should you find my interpretation hard to believe.)

You have to research your sources. Trump and MAGA folks lie on purpose because they know few will fact-check or challenge them in real-time. If you do, they will whine. They always whine, when you challenge their lies about the economy, voting security, emergency response to natural disasters, and the list goes on.

( As usual, I also provide receipts to support my comments. You won’t find these discussed comprehensively in the legacy media. The Meidas Touch Network commentators are practicing lawyers.

Elements of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798:

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the President of the United States, whenever he may deem it necessary (for the public safety, to order to be removed out of the territory thereof, any alien who mayor shall be in prison in pursuance of this act; and to cause to be arrested and sent out of the United States such of those aliens as shall have been ordered to depart therefrom and shall not have obtained a license as aforesaid, in all cases where, in the opinion of the President, the public safety requires a speedy removal. And if any alien so removed or sent out of the United States by the President shall voluntarily return thereto, unless by permission of the President of the United States, such alien on conviction thereof, shall be imprisoned so long as, in the opinion of the President, the public safety may require.

the President of the United States shall make public proclamation of the event, all natives, citizens, denizens, or subjects of the hostile nation or government, being males of the age of fourteen years and upwards, who shall be within the United States, and not actually naturalized, shall be liable to be apprehended, restrained, secured and removed, as alien enemies. And the President of the United States shall be, and he is hereby authorized, in any event, as aforesaid, by his proclamation thereof, or other public act, to direct the conduct to be observed, on the part of the United States, towards the aliens who shall become liable, as aforesaid; the manner and degree of the restraint to which they shall be subject, and in what cases, and upon what security their residence shall be permitted, and to provide for the removal of those, who, not being permitted to reside within the United States, shall refuse or neglect to depart therefrom; and to establish any other regulations which shall be found necessary in the premises and for the public safety: Provided, that aliens resident within the United States, who shall become liable as enemies, in the manner aforesaid, and who shall not be chargeable with actual hostility, or other crime against the public safety, shall be allowed, for the recovery, disposal, and removal of their goods and effects, and for their departure, the full time which is, or shall be stipulated by any treaty, where any shall have been between the United States, and the hostile nation or government, of which they shall be natives, citizens, denizens or subjects: and where no such treaty shall have existed, the President of the United States may ascertain and declare such reasonable time as may be consistent with the public safety, and according to the dictates of humanity and national hospitality.

“An Act for the Punishment of Certain Crimes Against the United States.”

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That if any persons shall unlawfully combine or conspire together, with intent to oppose any measure or measures of the government of the United States, which are or shall be directed by proper authority, or to impede the operation of any law of the United States, or to intimidate or prevent any person holding a place or office in or under the government of the United States, from undertaking, performing or executing his trust or duty, and if any person or persons, with intent as aforesaid, shall counsel, advise or attempt to procure any insurrection, riot, unlawful assembly, or combination, whether such conspiracy, threatening, counsel, advice, or attempt shall have the proposed effect or not, he or they shall be deemed guilty of a high misdemeanor, and on conviction, before any court of the United States having jurisdiction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, and by imprisonment during a term not less than six months nor exceeding five years; and further, at the discretion of the court may be holden to find sureties for his good behaviour in such sum, and for such time, as the said court may direct.

SEC. 2. And be it farther enacted, That if any person shall write, print, utter or publish, or shall cause or procure to be written, printed, uttered or published, or shall knowingly and willingly assist or aid in writing, printing, uttering or publishing any false, scandalous and malicious writing or writings against the government of the United States, or either house of the Congress of the United States, or the President of the United States, with intent to defame the said government, or either house of the said Congress, or the said President, or to bring them, or either of them, into contempt or disrepute; or to excite against them, or either or any of them, the hatred of the good people of the United States, or to stir up sedition within the United States, or to excite any unlawful combinations therein, for opposing or resisting any law of the United States, or any act of the President of the United States, done in pursuance of any such law, or of the powers in him vested by the constitution of the United States, or to resist, oppose, or defeat any such law or act, or to aid, encourage or abet any hostile designs of any foreign nation against United States, their people or government, then such person, being thereof convicted before any court of the United States having jurisdiction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars, and by imprisonment not exceeding two years.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted and declared, That if any person shall be prosecuted under this act, for the writing or publishing any libel aforesaid, it shall be lawful for the defendant, upon the trial of the cause, to give in evidence in his defence, the truth of the matter contained in publication charged as a libel. And the jury who shall try the cause, shall have a right to determine the law and the fact, under the direction of the court, as in other cases.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That this act shall continue and be in force until the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and one, and no longer: Provided, that the expiration of the act shall not prevent or defeat a prosecution and punishment of any offence against the law, during the time it shall be in force.

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/alien-enemies-act-explained

The president may invoke the Alien Enemies Act in times of “declared war” or when a foreign government threatens or undertakes an “invasion” or “predatory incursion” against U.S. territory. The Constitution gives Congress, not the president, the power to declare war, so the president must wait for democratic debate and a congressional vote to invoke the Alien Enemies Act based on a declared war. But the president need not wait for Congress to invoke the law based on a threatened or ongoing invasion or predatory incursion. The president has inherent authority to repel these kinds of sudden attacks — an authority that necessarily implies the discretion to decide when an invasion or predatory incursion is underway.

Although the Alien Enemies Act has only been invoked in major conflicts, Presidents Woodrow Wilson and Harry S. Truman continued using the law after the cessation of hostilities in World Wars I and II. World War I ended in 1918, but the Wilson administration used the law to intern German and Austro-Hungarian immigrants until 1920. And World War II ended in 1945, but the Truman administration used the law for internment and deportations until 1951. In its 1948 Ludecke v. Watkins opinion, a narrow majority of the Supreme Court upheld the Truman administration’s extended reliance on the Alien Enemies Act, reasoning that it was not the judiciary’s place to second-guess the president on a matter as “political” as when a war terminates and wartime authorities expire.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-archaic-law-mass-deportations-1234941671/

Trump’s Bonkers Plan to Weaponize an Archaic Law for Mass Deportations

Invoking the Alien Enemies Act is a key component of the multi-pronged immigration and southern-border clampdown that Trump is planning. The law, first passed in 1798, grants presidents the authority to remove foreign nationals over the age of 14 from countries where the United States is either engaged in a declared war or subject to “invasion or predatory incursion” by their country of origin.

The text of the law presents a number of problems for the would-be mass deportation plans, which opponents would likely attempt to leverage in federal court. Congress has not declared war on any country since World War II, much less on any of the Latin American countries whose citizens Trump would like to deport. Nor has any foreign country invaded the U.S. since the post-war period.

But the sources say a second Trump administration would, for instance, argue in court that cartels, gangs, and drug dealers in Latin America have, essentially, co-opted and corrupted their governments to such a degree that the criminals represent effective state actors. Trump and his senior officials would present documents and evidence that these foreign nations — including Mexico and El Salvador — have lengthy track records of corrupt high-level government and law-enforcement officials being on the payroll of and working with drug cartels and violent criminal groups.

By using the Alien Enemies Act, rather than existing immigration enforcement authority, a future Trump administration could “suspend the due process that normally applies to a removal proceeding,” Miller explained during a September talk-radio appearance. Once migrants are relieved of their right to due process and appeals, Trump could more easily carry out a mass deportation operation of the scale he has outlined in campaign speeches.

The Important Part about Project 25 is the Number 25 or 25th

It is not lost on very serious political observers that Trump is just phoning it in. He knows he cannot win this election by conventional means. The polls had him hopeful that he could have defeated Joe Biden. However, once Biden dropped out of the race and endorsed Kamala Harris, Trump immediately understood his most sinister plans would need to be implemented if he had the slightest chance. His problem is that his sinister plans were designed for Biden and not an energetic and highly competent opponent like V.P. Harris.

Just like the regular media outlets that have come to normalize Trump, his campaign had bought into the media and punditry narrative that V.P. Harris was so maligned that Democrats would dump her along with President Biden in a messy open convention floor fight as their 2024 Presidential nominee.

It didn’t take him long to realize that he and his team had been suckered into a situation that may prove to be the most stunning self-owns in American political history. Biden announces he is dropping out of the race, less than 30 minutes later, he announces he is endorsing V.P. Kamala Harris. Within 36 hours, her team announces that she has secured the backing of all the Democratic delegates to secure the nomination. Within less than a week, she announces her campaign has received more than $100 million in donations, 80 of which are small-dollar donations.

Next her V.P. choice of Minnesota Governor, Tim Walz turns out to be an unexpected winner. In the meantime, donations are still coming in. To date, the combined Biden/Harris and Harris/Walz campaigns have raised almost $680 million. The Trump campaign has barely raised half that amount.

The Republican Senatorial Committee has announced that it is almost out of money at the same time that two solid Republican seats are now polling even with their Democratic opponents. The Harris/Walz campaign just announced that it will donate $25 million to down-ballot races. You can be sure that more money will be targeted to Senate races in Florida, Texas, Ohio, and Montana. It’s likely that the Harris/Walz campaign will have close to $1 billion in their coffers by mid-October and will pour more money into turning out the vote in those states as well as Georgia, North Carolina, Arizona, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan.

Let me get to the point, this all fell into place in such a way that it had to be orchestrated. Democrats have been sitting back and watching Trump run for President for the past two years. He has raised millions from his supporters and big-money donors. They have also watched him redirect money to his legal troubles. They smiled as he had his legal team file frivolous legal challenges and appeals to convictions and judgments against him at a cost to the Trump campaign. If he had to pay up judgments on his civil cases and fines on his criminal cases, he would owe close to $1 billion.

Oh, other cases are waiting in the wings, including other civil cases related to January 6, 2020. There are other cases related to his Trump media stock and other potential cases related to the criminal cases that are currently on hold.

What does Project 2025 have to do with all this? First, the Heritage Foundation and the Trump team got extremely overconfident when they thought they would go into November 5th running against Joe Biden. They knew that the CEOs of all the legacy media outlets were Trump supporters and they appeared to have successfully implemented a false equivalency strategy and held Biden to a different standard.

This became apparent during the Afghanistan withdrawal. Not one media outlet kept the drumbeat that Trump negotiated the troop withdrawal with the Taliban after having Pakistan release over 7000 Taliban troops and their leadership a full year before the withdrawal. Trump did not include the Afghan government in those negotiations. Not one legacy media outlet held Trump accountable for refusing to allow the Biden transition team any access to the Pentagon and records on the withdrawal before the January 20, 2021 inauguration. American conservatives point to 13 American troops who died in an ISIS bombing attack outside of the Kabul Airport but none credit Biden for getting over 250 thousand Afghans out of the country.

J.D. Vance wrote the forward to the more than 900 pages of the Project 2025 plan. Trump’s VP choice wrote the forward. Why was he the Republican VP choice? Because the Heritage Foundation wanted it that way. Why?

If Trump wins reelection he will be invited to step aside. If he agrees Vance will do a Gerald Ford-style pardon. Trump will be allowed to take all the money he can steal and walk away. If he refuses Vance will call the cabinet together and execute the 25th Amendment. He will be removed.

As President and dictator under the control of the Heritage Foundation and the Federalist Society, Vance will implement Project 2025, the public portion and the portion that has yet to be seen, the part their President, Kevin Roberts says, is too radical to be made public at this time. Understand, people smarter and far more focused that Trump will have control of the military and the federal judiciary.

Vance will have absolute immunity, the gift that SCOTUS appeared to have given to Trump but in reality, they gave it to the position of President. They will also rid themselves of any rabid Trump fans who offer any resistance to their takeover. They will enact their insidious plan of Christian Nationalism.

It is unfortunate that there has been an increase of Gen Z minority males, who are leaning toward Trump. This might be offset by an increase of white voters leaning toward Harris/Walz.

It’s Time To Wake Up and Show Up

I have been monitoring various blogs, websites, and other sources of information. I have moved away from traditional and cable news outlets. When they started airing Trumps so-called press conferences in their entirety in 2015, I knew there had to be alternative avenues.

This election cycle we learned that the CEOs of all the major news outlets donate to Trump’s campaign and their outlets air all his absurdities because he is thought to be ratings gold. However, that gold has long since begun to tarnish. It’s not even ‘Fool’s Gold’. It’s the idiocrasy, and the media continues to do us all a disservice.

Some so-called news channels are really licensed at entertainment entities. Many are committed to spreading pro White Christian, pro male, anti-woman, anti-minority, anti-democratic, autocratic doctrines. Fortunately, the severely segmentation of media has also provided spaces for democratic, pro equality (racial, gender, sexual orientation, non-racist religious, and human rights) views to be shared. I include this blog among the latter resources.

I want provide you with interesting observations now that the election season is genuinely engaged:

#1 We really don’t need campaigns in this country to linger for two or more years. All it really does is give the money class time to unfairly influence our choices. The choices we are then left with are rarely competent in governance and policy. Really, what we get are usually ineffective telegenic heads of the executive branch and totally bought and paid for ideological partisans in the legislative branch. This happens on all levels of government.

#2 Trump has been running for President since 2015. He has never stopped for various reasons. He has been running for nearly 10 years. Actually, he has been grifting all that time, while the monied interests have been working on how they can gouge as much as they can from the American electorate and political systems.

#3 Kamala Harris has been running for the Presidency for almost three months. She is now running tied with him or ahead of him to date, in what are thought to be the most consequential polls.

#4 Trump has raised 100’s of millions if not billions of dollars over the past 3 three years. He has used those funds to pay for his mounting legal issues. If his fundraising dries up from big donors, he won’t have money to campaign in the final weeks before election day. Mind you early voting begins in some states in the next week or two.

#5 The Harris/Walz campaign has out raised the Trump campaign by more than 2 to 1 since she secured the required delegates to become the ‘Presumptive Nominee’.

#6 Joe Biden never intended to finish the 2024 campaign for President. Biden, James Clyburn and the Democratic brain trust understood the polling and the way the Republicans, the media, and some Democrats had worked to denigrate VP Harris over the course of his term. He held off dropping out until he had the leverage to dictate how Democrats would move forward.

#7 Within 20 minutes of dropping out of the 2024 Presidential race, Biden endorsed VP Harris for President, despite the desires of big money donors. Within 72 hours a much maligned Harris secured the commitment of the required number of delegates to become the Democratic nominee. Within the first week of her candidacy VP Harris’ campaign received over $300 million in donations. More than 80% of those funds were small dollar donations.

#8 Joe Biden had what appeared to be a disaster of a debate against a flailing Trump. He then went on, in subsequent days, to give almost 20 speeches, some extemporaneously, where he gave clear articulate comments. I am saying, it has all been orchestrated by very crafty elder political statesmen.

#9 Democratic pundits had openly called for an open nominating process at the 2024 convention. That notion was quickly tossed aside with everyone falling in line behind Joe Biden’s choices. Currently, the Democratic Party is united behind the Harris/Walz campaign.

#10 The Trump camp was caught completely off guard. They were running against Joe Biden as being too old and incompetent. They allowed the release of the ‘Project 2025’ White Christian Nationalist manifesto. They chose JD Vance as their VP nominee. Now both those decisions appear to be a potential drag on the GOP candidates since Trump looks like a whiny old candidate giving incomprehensible speeches, with a VP choice who has the lowest candidate favorable ratings of any candidate for national office in recent times.

There is new speculation that the team behind the Heritage Foundation intends to get Trump elected, execute their plans for the first 100 days of Project 2025, then use the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office and install Moscow friendly JD Vance as President. If this is true, it is rich with karma and poetic justice. What true useful idiots Trump and his supporters are.

Given the SCOTUS ruling on ‘Presidential Immunity’, there is nothing anyone could do once Vance became President. They could not prosecute him for overthrowing Trump, nor using the US military to put down any resistance from MAGA supporting militias and protestors. These are intriguing times.

The voting electorate has to awaken and stand against the Putin backed MAGA/Heritage Foundation move towards theocratic autocracy; Or, vote in a Democratic sweep of governance that will take steps to ensure we never see this type threat again. That will also entail constant voter awareness and engagement. Yes, that means it will always be in voters and taxpayers best interest to stay politically awake and engaged.

There is one final interesting point to consider. The SCOTUS ruling on Presidential Immunity has an unintended consequence. The threat of violence from MAGA supporters before January 20, 2025, can now be met with the use of military forces controlled by Joe Biden. What’s interesting is that such violence, as organized movements, is currently more likely to take place in ‘Red States’ or in rural areas of ‘Blue States’. You see which communities would be instantly impacted especially if an outgoing Biden orders drone strikes against caravans of MAGA terrorists. It’s all legal now to use these forces domestically.

(The link to the Roland Martin video shows you what it looks like when low information minorities drink from the MAGA punch bowl.)

(The link to the Allan Litchtman video that explains why he is predicting a Harris/Walz Electoral College victory in Novmber. )

The Usual Talking Heads Don’t Have a Clue

It’s a day before VP Harris names her running mate for the 2024 Presidential campaign. If you listen to all the so-called political experts Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro has been declared the best choice because they believe he gives her the best chance to win that Electoral College votes for that state. They say she must win those votes in order to win the election.

Recently, Pennsylvania Democratic Senator from has openly expressed some concerns about Shapiro. Needless to say that is adds a new element to the decision that must be considered. While the media has been hyping the Governor, this resistance to his selection by the sitting Senator from his own state is a problem.

Both Shapiro and Fetterman are Jewish, but they represent different wings of the pro-Israeli political thought.

Does VP Harris really want to piss off a sitting senator whose vote she will need on bills and nominations? Does she really want to risk that? Either way, given the current state of mindset of potential youth and independent voters, this is a minefield that VP Harris can easily avoid. The most exciting and wise choice she could make at this time is Minnesota Governor Tim Waltz.

2 weeks ago, I was watching an interview Lawrence O’Donnell was doing with David Hogg, the youth activist and survivor of a mass shooting at his Florida high school. He was endorsing VP Harris and when asked who his organization was looking at for her VP choice he mentioned Tim Waltz. A few days later I saw the Minnesota Governor being interviewed where he called Trump’s VP Pick ‘Weird’.

That has become the Democratic rallying cry against the ‘Trump/Vance’ team. Waltz is a Veteran, a former member of Congress, and as Governor, his state had enacted some very Progressive policies, the most popular is free meals for every public school student in the state. He also signed into law a bill that protects abortion access in his state.

While I can appreciate why a lot of talking heads like Shapiro, he hasn’t actually done what Waltz has already accomplished. Waltz will motivate a Progressive youth engagement. He has no baggage as it relates to the Israeli/Palestinian so Palestinians in Michigan will not be the problem that they had become for Biden. VP Harris has already told Netanyahu his Zionist positions will not stand with her administration.

We shall see if my read is correct by tomorrow evening.

We Can Not Be Fully Informed From The Outside

We exist in a time where the corporate owned media has dramatically failed to live up to it’s responsibility of keeping the citizens of this country informed in an unbiased and educated manner. Because of major consolidation of media outlets, our usual sources of news and information has been transformed into a partisan propaganda tool of money hoarding billionaires. To be honest, the corporate owned media has always been a propaganda tool of the wealthy.

Who else has the ability to convince 90% of the population to embrace bigotry and the illusion of class status over their own economic, environmental, and social interests? The oligarchs or ‘Robber Barons’ can. They maintain their power and control even more of the wealth by feeding the general public a lot of disinformation, like don’t open your eyes and see how we are misleading you. Don’t become ‘Woke’!

The thing I love about doing my own blog, is that I can ignore the political and cultural narratives of the corporate media and give you a different perspective on what I am seeing by focusing on things we might be missing. It’s been a really intriguing three weeks. Things are happening at a very fast pace. Let me drop some thoughts that have occurred to me recently.

President Biden comes up lame in a debate everyone was sure he could not lose. He and the Democratic leadership outmaneuvered the MAGAverse, the media, and this misguided electorate into thinking he is too old and feeble. As this narrative was being pushed by Trump and the MAGA bench players in Congress, he set out to accomplish more in one term than other Presidents have achieved in two terms. He sat back as VP in the Obama administration and discovered just how much more racist the people he worked with for years really were. Now he understands that McConnell, the Supreme Court, and corporate heads don’t care about the ideals of Democracy. They will burn it all down as long as they can control the economy and the public policies that support their views.

So I have a speculative consideration. This nomination of VP Harris for President was a play set in motion when Biden turned to South Carolina Congressman James Clyburn for his endorsement in 2020. Clyburn drove a hard bargain, he wanted a Supreme Court nomination, and he wanted the first Black woman at the head of the ticket when Biden’s term was up.

You may recall Biden originally stated that he would only govern for one term. Consider, the possibility that Biden announced that he would seek a 2nd term so he could gauge Trump’s electability. During the GOP primaries, Trump underperformed. Despite the media narratives, Biden over performed. He had no serious Democratic competition. He was able to prove that Trump is beatable because he cannot grow his coalition beyond his core base of MAGA fanatics.

Biden knew that the GOP has been working to tear down VP Harris the way they did Hillary Clinton. So by announcing his candidacy for reelection in 2024, he was able to draw the fire of the GOP establishment, the corporate media, and force the next generation of democratic leaders to stand on the sidelines temporarily. Take note, that while many voices aligned with Progressives pushed for Biden to step aside, the main Progressive leaders in Congress said nothing. Bernie Sanders, AOC, Pramila Jayapal, Ilhan Omar were careful not to step into that effort.

When the chatter for Biden to step aside intensified, it was rumored that Nancy Pelosi and former President Barak Obama were also pressuring Biden. Many large dollar donors are reported to have floated the notion that VP Harris should step aside also. But look what transpired. After that inexplicable debate performance, those on the outside became part of the ‘Step aside Joe’ chorus. But what did Biden do the next day after the debate? What did he do in 19 public events after the debate?

He gave very forceful, detailed, and extemporaneous policy speeches. He gave fiery speeches against Trump. The media ignored those speeches. The RNC nominating convention and Trump announced his VP pick, JD Vance. This has been the worse pick of a non-consequential elected official in history.

So what did Biden do? He announced that he was withdrawing from the 2024 Presidential race. Then he cut off all the nonsense about a mini-primary before the DNC convention. Understanding that Democrats cannot have a repeat of the 1968 convention in Chicago, he quickly endorsed VP Kamala Harris.

In less than 72 hours, VP Harris had secured the support of the Democratic Party and Congressional leadership. She got the commitment of the convention delegates to vote for her nomination on the first ballot and she raised over $200 million dollars from largely small dollar donors. She had over 17,000 new volunteers sign up to work the ground game to turn out the vote leading up to November 5th election day. As of August 1st, her campaign has raised over $320 million dollars. That is more than twice the amount Trump raised in July.

In two short weeks the person who was being maligned and portrayed as unpopular by the political punditry class has put into place a Presidential campaign ‘Juggernaut’ that looks to be more prepared to win than the presumed winner of the debate. That did not happen out of circumstance or serendipity. I believe this was a quietly crafted and orchestrated outcome.

Biden and Clyburn have run this better than Paul Newman and Robert Redford’s characters ran the ‘Sting’. If we end up addressing VP Harris as Madame President the reward will be knowing that Trump got played, The RNC got played, corporate media talking heads got played. They have become such unreliable propaganda agents that alternative sources for creditable objective news have emerged.

We’re not there yet, but the enthusiasm for Harris is palpable. The frustrations and exhaustion from the threat of MAGA maniacs and Privileged White Christian Nationalist Theocratic Fascists is also palatable. These folks were so arrogant that they published a manifesto for taking over the governance of the country with Trump as their figure-head.

Thanks to that arrogance we now know that election officials in small counties all over the country plan to withhold certification of their election numbers in hopes of stopping their states from certifying the results for any one but Trump. These folks will now be subjected to law suits and potential arrests for ‘Election Interference’. It’s going to unfold very quickly because the Justice Department now has an idea of where to expect resistance.

As for the the next generation of Democratic leaders, they will be in waiting in preparation for 2032 Should VP Harris win in 2024 and decide to seek a second term in 2028.

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/election-denial-cant-overcome-election-certification-protections

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/these-swing-state-election-officials-are-pro-trump-election-deniers/ar-BB1qPAAS

“In the swing states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania, Rolling Stone and American Doom identified at least 70 pro-Trump election conspiracists currently working as county election officials who have questioned the validity of elections or delayed or refused to certify results. At least 22 of these county election officials have refused or delayed certification in recent years.

Certification of election results is what legal experts consider a “ministerial task,” and one required by state and local law. But as Trump’s lies about the 2020 election have taken hold, Republicans nationwide have decided that certification provides them an opportunity to hear fraud allegations – and refuse to officially count their local votes. Republicans have refused to certify election results at least 25 times since Trump lost the 2020 election to President Joe Biden.

“I think we are going to see mass refusals to certify the election” in November, says Democratic election lawyer Marc Elias. “Everything we are seeing about this election is that the other side is more organized, more ruthless, and more prepared.”

While refusals and delays of certification have not held up in court, in Georgia and Arizona, pro-Trump local election officials are seeking to make certification discretionary – lawsuits that are currently being decided by state judges – in order to give his campaign another method to challenge election results in November.

Polls indicate that the race between Trump and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris will be close. If employed on a large scale, the certification refusal movement would have disastrous consequences, fueling the fire of election conspiracies and delaying the tallying of votes crucial to determining the next president.

Nineteen states have varying levels of local election administration, with county election officials numbering in the thousands. Rolling Stone and American Doom focused on the pivotal counties in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania.

Elias, the Democratic election lawyer, believes the findings in this investigation only represent “the tip of the iceberg,” because Republicans “are counting on not just that they can disrupt the election in big counties, they are counting on the fact that if they don’t certify in several small counties, you cannot certify these statewide results.”

The beliefs and behavior of the election officials discovered by this investigation are part of widespread efforts to call the results of November’s election into question, Elias and swing state Democrats say. Those efforts include mass voter challenges, implementation of unreliable hand recounts, restriction of voter registration rules, Republican takeover of local election boards via legislation, and certification refusals.

With an army of Republican lawyers and state lawmakers crafting voter suppression rules and laws across the country, pro-Trump Republicans can also count as allies some of the thousands of men and women currently serving as local election officials. Most of these officials carry out their duties with little to no fanfare. It’s only since 2020 that the routine, often boring, work of administering local elections has become the target of robust right-wing electioneering, with efforts to place pro-Trump zealots on election boards who are increasingly refusing to certify results in pursuit of bogus fraud allegations. “

Now We Need To Be Strategic Planners Not Impotent Reactors

This is an update to my recent post. First, I want to urge Black voters, especially Gen X and Gen Z voters, to understand that it’s not the Democratic Party that is pushing for President Biden to leave the race. It is important to make this distinction because we can use this moment strategically. If we become reactionary in this moment, we doom ourselves to a wasteland of ‘Jim Crow-like existence’ for the next 100 years, if not longer.

This is not the time to get mad and say “We Black folks will just sit at home and not vote. We’ll be just fine with the outcome.” The folly of that kind of thinking is what has gotten us to this day. After 8 years of the Clinton Administration, Black voter turnout wasn’t as strong as it should have been, and Al Gore failed to secure an outright the majority of the ‘Electoral College’ votes. The Supreme Court then handed the Presidency to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.

In 2004, the level of turnout among minority voters didn’t step up, and Bush/Cheney won again, defeating Democrat John Kerry. The 2008 elections were encouraging, there was a marked increase in the number of minorities voting, and Barack Obama was elected president. In 2010, a very fundamental concept of civics and voter engagement was ignored. Democrats, including minorities, ignored turning out for the 2010 midterm elections in a census year. Conservative Republicans and Libertarians turned out and won control of both houses of Congress along with complete control of the Governorships and Legislatures in a number of southern and midwestern states.

These elections denied Obama a supportive Congress that would have allowed him to move a highly transformative policy agenda forward. However, the damage was done. The State level Republicans used the census results to gerrymander their Congressional maps to diminish the strength of Black and Democratic voters. They used their state level majorities to implement voting laws intended to suppress the number of minority voters and likely Democratic voters in their states.

The failure to give Obama a supportive Senate after his 2014 reelection, allowed the Republican controlled Senate to deny him a SCOTUS nomination. Republicans then controlled the Senate during all four years of the Trump Presidency, which allowed Mitch McConnell to pack the Federal Judiciary with Federalist Society Judges recommended by the Heritage Foundation, the same people who have authored the ‘Project 2025’ plan and manifesto.

Now that I have provided a general context, I will get to the point. Many times, some in the Democratic party have made unconscionably selfish and poor decisions. The party is a broad tent comprised of different constituencies. They don’t always do what is best for the party.

In 1968, VP Hubert Humphrey jumped into the presidential race after LBJ dropped out. Humphrey represented the pro-war faction of the party they led to a contentious floor fight and anti-war riots in the streets outside of the convention. Richard Nixon won the election.

In 1972 George McGovern didn’t fully vet his VP choice. It came out that Tom Eagleton had suffered from depression and had been treated with electric shock therapy. He stepped down from the nomination. McGovern then announced that he would seek a tax hike. Nixon won a second term by a landslide.

In 1980 Senator Ted Kennedy challenged Incumbent President Jimmy Carter for the Democratic nomination. The contest was close and got real personal. After the primaries, Kennedy refused to concede the nomination until late into the Democratic convention, where he upstaged the President, who went on to lose to Ronald Reagan.

Given this history, some Democratic donors and elites want Joe Biden to drop out of the race. At a point where the Biden/Harris team had won the requisite number of delegate to secure the nomination. These people behind the scenes are pushing the narrative that Biden should drop out, but also, so should Harris. At the very least, some Democrats suggest they should have a brokered convention to decide who can best defeat Trump. At least, that is the narrative. The reality is that many white men in the party are afraid that if Biden wins, he could resign, and VP Harris would become president. They fear she would then have the benefit of incumbency going into the 2028 election cycle.

This is why you hear the question, “Can Biden beat Trump and is he healthy enough to remain in office a full term?” We need to understand that the Biden/Harris campaign has about $300 million it’s raised from mostly small donors to use going into the final stretch. They have already bought up most of the available TV ad space in the battleground states. It’s going to be hard, given current campaign financing laws to transfer that money to any other candidate but Harris. Besides, millions of small money donors gave money expecting Harris to be on the ticket.

History has shown that the proposed late changes don’t work. If Biden drops out and someone other than Harris is the nominee, the Democrats will lose the White House and the Senate. That is important because of the new SCOTUS ruling on presidential immunity. A GOP Senate will confirm more MAGA minded judges. Thomas, Alito, and Roberts will retire, and Trump will name people in there 40’s to replace them. That would mean these SCOTUS appointments would infect the next 75 years with their rulings. Those rulings would invariably they would seeks to lock in the tenets of ‘Project 2025’.

Understand, these White Democratic males, donors and elites are willing to condemn us all to a White Nationalist Theocratic Dictatorship. You may say Trump is not a theocrat. You are correct, but his VP choice is. He is a Putin supporting theocrat who wants a nationwide abortion ban with no exceptions. He believes divorce and contraception should also be outlawed.

When you hear reports that the poll numbers are getting worse for Biden, you should consider the source. All of the major news outlets do polling have CEOs and management that supports Trump. Even MSNBC, which has commentators that seem Progressive, is owned by Comcast. They own the NBC network. Why do you think that NBC interview Lester Holt did with President Biden was so contentious? Holt asked the same questions 6 different ways. Biden finally asked why aren’t you focusing on the 28 lies my opponent told during the debate or that he was allowed to not answer questions?

All of the major news outlets keep reporting that they are waiting for Biden to decide if he will drop out of the race. They refuse to report that he has already stated that he won the primaries and the delegates. He is in the race to win.

Democrats calling for Biden to drop out, without voicing support of VP Harris, risk losing down ballot. It’s foolish to engage in this play. 1,400 Black women who are political influencers at driving voter turn out have written a letter supporting Joe Biden. There are very few polls that have 1400 people in their sample size. None accurately reflects the views of Black women. We are talking about the most consistent voting block within the Democratic coalition.

The letter is telling Biden to stay in the race and cautioning the Democratic party not to throw VP Harris under the bus. In other words, all the milk toast Democrats calling for Biden to step aside, you will also lose. Trump will win and ‘Project 2025’ will nullify the oversight powers of Congress and the Senate. The only way to prevent implementation of this plan is for Democrats to win everything and pass laws to codify guardrails to work against the intentions of the Heritage Foundation, to make ‘Trumpism’ the foundation of governing policy.

The plan will also get rid of Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the ACA, climate and pollution polices and more. More than ever, we, the American electorate, have to be critical in our analysis of information sources and strategic in our engagement. This is no time to be listening to reported rumors from unnamed sources. The Russians, Chinese, and Iranians are posting disinformation on social media. The main news networks are also spreading disinformation on their platforms. The media is not an honest broker. The illusion that they were ever, anything but purveyors, of propaganda is now broken.

I have provided links to some videos that might be helpful as counter narratives to what you may be hearing from the corporate owned media.