PROBABLY THE MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION IN LIVING MEMORY

Bob Walsh with thoughts on the upcoming presidential election and his thoughts on Joe Biden

 
by Bob Walsh

Big Jolly Times
August 4, 2020

As you read this it will be 3 months until what is almost certainly the most important presidential election in living memory.  OK, I know that sort of thing gets said a lot.  Most of the time it is bombast and political rhetoric.  This time it's not.

Donald Trump is far from perfect.  That being said I honestly believe he is a well-meaning patriot who wants to do the right thing and is not always sure how to do it.  He is also beset by a near perfect storm of problems.  Covid-19.  The economic contraction caused by our government's reaction to Covid-19.  A never ending string of moronic attacks, believed by some, who assert that Trump is a Russian spy.  A serious attempt by anarchists and nihilists to destroy both American government and American society by piggy-backing on some completely legit political unrest caused by a small number of outrageous incidents of police misconduct.

Trumps opponent, Joe Biden, is a senile sock puppet.  Even in highly controlled settings, from his basement bunker reading off a script or in rightly manged pseudo-press conferences the man often does not know what year it is or even what city he is in when he is in his own home town.  He is either drinking the Kool-Aide and has become a true believer or is so brain burnt he doesn't care that he has moved from being a "moderate liberal democrat" to being a hard-core leftist mouthpiece.  

If, due to some gross mischance, he does get elected what is going to happen?  He has made conflicting statements about defunding the police.  He either really believes the ChiComs are nice guys or he is so desperate to keep his remaining son out of prison he will say anything to help cover up his son's criminality, aided and abetted by Senile Joe himself and the Obama administration.  He wants to raise every tax on the books, close down schools and churches by government decree, force people to wear face masks pretty much constantly and destroy the Second Amendment.  (Remember who he said he was putting in charge of his Second Amendment policy?)  By the way how does the thought of Barack Obama, or Michele Obama, or both Barack Obama and Michele Obama on the Supreme Court sound to you?

Several weeks ago he PROMISED to put a woman, probably a woman of color, on the ticket with him.  He is apparently actually going with that, presumably because his Black supporters will not let him forget it.  It doesn't matter if she is competent, as long as she has the right skin tone.  We should find out this week who is getting the prize.  

Four years ago I opined that Hillary would probably win, but that there would be a HUGE closet Trump vote and that if Hillary did win it would be a squeaker, not a stampede.  I was half right.  It may be even bigger this time around.  The Cancel Culture is pissing off a lot of moderates.  That is where elections are won, in the middle.  

I did not vote for either Hillary or Trump last time.  I live in CA.  If I thought there was a snowballs chance in hell Trump would have won I would have voted for him simply because I hate Hillary so much.  This time around I will likely vote for Trump, if for no other reason than to do my small part to screw up the stats.