Why I Endorse Kamala Harris
Is It Because I Have So Little to Lose...?
I was not a fan of the Democratic Party at all coming into 2020. I saw the DNC use chicanery, once again, to deny Bernie Sanders his rightful place as the Democratic candidate for President, and him being replaced with…Joe Biden, the Centrist Safe Choice that Trump would beat like a gong. I was sure that Biden was lacking in moral courage; losing his cognitive functions; a Klan apologist the DNC picked as Obama’s running mate to reassure those Dixiecrats who hadn’t yet deserted to the Republican Party like ::cough:: “former Klansman” Harry Reid that there was a White Guy to keep the Charismatic Eloquent Black Guy from disrupting their comforts; and somebody who, while he didn’t have as many skeletons in his closet as Trump, still had much to answer for when he faced his version of God on Judgment Day—from his policies as “Senator Biden” (imprisoning Blacks, making students loans into indentured servitude) to his treatment of women (his putting Anita Hill on trial during Clarence Thomas’s confirmation hearing, behaving like “gropey Uncle Joe”!).
Even after COVID-19 lockdowns nullified the Nazi-like rallies that were Trump’s greatest strengths as a campaigner and Biden won by being Least in Sight as Trump flailed around impotently (the best way to see Trump flail!), I was sure “That Nothing Would Fundamentally Change” (as Joe Biden promised Wall Street) under a Biden Presidency….
Well, You Could’ve Knocked Me Over with a Feather!
While I wouldn’t go so far as to say President Joseph R. Biden turned into Bernie Sanders while I wasn’t looking? He started to seriously walk back many of the worst things he’d done in the past—like partial student loan forgiveness, and being serious about “police reform” (usually an excuse to give the worst cops more money to oppress minorities with!). He also dealt with COVID-19 and the threatened recession in a straightforward and clear-eyed manner, unlike Trump’s attempts to sweep the entire pandemic under the rug and denial of basic science! Trump, meanwhile, staged an insurrection when he didn’t get his way and spent the next four years getting the Republican Party to LIE for him over and over, becoming more like one of those Tinpot Despots he loves so much every single day as his own “cognitive issues” became more blatant and uncontrollable.
Joe Biden had improved enough, and Donald Trump had gotten so utterly mask-off rotten, that I was relatively content with voting for Biden in 2024, even after his…weak debate performance against Trump. But the Corporate Media and some of the more Chicken Little members of the Democratic Party
Like This Nervous Nellie
And This One!
made Biden’s continued run untenable, at least as far as he was concerned.
So, in a move that combines the kind of grace under fire I never credited Joe Biden with before, along with a sucker-punch so perfectly delivered that it was genius, he waited until after the Republican National Convention to announce he was stepping down…and endorsing his Vice President, Kamala Harris, to take his place. I admit I’d been terrified the Democratic National Convention would erupt into the Circular Firing Squad NeoLiberal Democrats are so fond of engaging in whenever there’s a crisis—but though I have no hard evidence of any of this, I suspect Biden had made up his mind to step down weeks before, and spent the run-up to the Republican National Convention quietly shoring up support for Harris.
I don’t know what kind of President Kamala Harris is going to make—but I think when it comes to running for President against Donald Trump? She’s making all the right moves: From picking a White Middle-Aged Midwestern Progressive who was both Career National Guard and a High School Football Coach as her running mate;
Looks Rather Different From Bloated White Elephant Trump and Bloat-in-Waiting White Whale Vance, Doesn’t It?
to ignoring the slings and arrows of the Corporate Media who, for reasons that seem to run from “Tax Breaks For Our Bosses!” to “Trump’s a Good Story, Just Like a Fifty-Car Pileup!” to “Oh, Noes! What if Trump Wins and Goes After Us?”;
A Little Video I Made Yesterday After Both WASHINGTON POST’s Jeff Bezos AND L.A. TIMES’ Patrick Soon-Shiong Refused to Endorse…Anybody, Even Though Their Staffs Had Written Kamala Harris Endorsements, Set to the Opening Theme of Chicagoland Radio’s BATMAN TV Series Lampoon CHICKEN-MAN!
to taking the fight directly to Donald Trump by making him look like a Corrupt, Fascistic, Senile Old Weirdo…with J.D. Vance as His Corrupt, Fascistic, but-not-Senile Young Weirdo waiting in the wings for him to drop dead! All Trump can do is sputter and lose his temper and get more and more bigoted, which is exactly how you should treat him—while Vance may be smoother? He’s every bit as bigoted and crooked, with fewer excuses.
That’s why I’m not only endorsing Kamala Harris, I’m going out to early voting to vote for her as soon as I finish this.
DON’T FORGET TO VOTE, AMERICA!
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PS 10/30/24: I confess, I didn’t make it Saturday or Sunday because I screwed up the times—but I did go on Monday the 28th and voted!
Now, if I can just convince all the e-mails and texts and phone calls that they can start nudzhing other people to go out and vote, and stop doing it to me…?