120 Days ✡️🌻✡️🌻✡️

Dems in Disarray:  So here we are, July Fourth is in the rearview window and the November elections are only 120 days away. Biden is still old, Trump is still evil, crazy, and dangerous.  The pundit class is so all in on the Biden infirmity issue that they are ignoring the evil, crazy, and dangerous one.  As noted by Guardian writer Rebecca Solnit, they are using the 2016 playbook that got us into this mess in the first place, “providing wildly asymmetrical and inflammatory coverage” of the candidates. Remember how Hillary Clinton who is still alive and kicking was supposedly on her death bed? Trump’s debate performance and daily utterances are so chock full of lies that it’s hard to recall if he ever says anything truthful or anything not chocked with bile and spite, but that part of the story is less mentioned these days because it’s old news and those stories don’t generate clicks.  While the specter of another Trump administration looms, the NY Times has run 50 editorials and 142 news stories about the “Biden problem.” Not to be outdone, The Washington Post which has been experiencing and possibly is trying to downplay its own inner turmoil, has gone for “saturation coverage,” going so far as to author and publish a resignation speech for Biden to deliver.  The New Yorker said that Biden staying “would be an act not only of self-delusion but of national endangerment” with one staff member suggesting that it was time to invoke the 25^th Amendment. Naturally, the Murdoch owned Wall Street Journal and NY Post have chimed in too, but that’s not surprising, they’re all in on Trump and are salivating at the liberal media and Democratic party eating its own while also reveling in all the recent Supreme Court decisions authored by Republican Court appointees. As to the liberal media, it’s hard not to think that some of its articles and calls for Biden to step down are fueled by their often-voiced anger with Biden over his handling of the Israel-Gaza situation.  Don’t get me wrong, Biden is old and struggling, not that he’s ever been gaffe free or all that articulate, but somehow or other mumbles and all he has been doing a pretty good job running the country.  Our economy has avoided the oft predicted recession, there’s been remarkable job growth and the passage of legislation that will have a positive long-term effect on infrastructure and American industry unless the former guy becomes the next guy and screws it all up with his tariffs and mass deportations and hands Ukraine and a number of its neighbors back to Russia while also dismantling NATO.  Of course, Democratic politicians are nervous with some, though not all, chiming in too, we know that because the media gives us a daily tally of those who insist that its time for Biden to step aside.  It amuses me, and not in a good way, that one of those is my Congressman Jerry Nadler, another one who jumbles his words and is hardly the picture of youth or robust health.  At the end of the day, I suspect that Biden’s path will be determined by the polls, not just how he’s doing but how his most likely replacement, VP Harris, or someone else, would do against Trump should Biden step aside. So far, the polls haven’t been definitive.  In fact, over the weekend the respected Bloomberg Morning Consult poll showed that despite his debate performance, Biden has gained in the key swing states, putting those races into statistical ties. What happens next, who knows?  Is it even possible to move on to another candidate without opening up a Democratic can of worms? As much as I respect legal pundit Andrew Weissmann, his recent tweet that the Democrats should go with a Kamala Harris/Liz Cheney ticket is indicative of how wild a new selection process would be. Sure, Liz deserves respect for standing up to Trump but she’s uber conservative, voted with Trump almost all the time and like him still talks about the “horror” of non-existent 10-month abortions.  Had she been in the Senate rather than the House, she would have voted for all of Trump’s judicial nominees.  At least for now, it appears that there are voters in swingy places that can distinguish between age and evil so let’s all take a deep breath while this plays out.

Fog:  Over the weekend the news out of the Middle East was that Israel and Hamas are closer than ever to a ceasefire, again. Lucy and her football would like to weigh in. The Brits have resoundingly thrown out the Tories, replacing Prime Minister Rishi Sunak with Labour’s Keir Starmer.  Liz Truss, the “lettuce” Prime Minister who briefly preceded Sunak and who recently endorsed Trump lost her seat altogether.  Proving that polls aren’t always right, Frances’ far right has lost out to an alliance of Emanuel Macron’s centrists and a leftist coalition meaning that Martine Le Pen, her anti-immigration party, and their neo-Nazi cohorts, won’t be taking over the French government, at least for now. That’s good but France’s left wants to undo the economic reforms that Macron put in place in an attempt to fix France’s stagnant economy, so the path forward won’t be easy.  And, because of course, Judge Eileen loose Cannon has frozen the already stagnant purloined document case, directing both sides to provide her with briefs on how the Supreme Court’s immunity decision impacts Trump’s post-presidential document theft crime spree.      

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