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The Stench of JD Vance’s “No”

Since the 2024 VP debate, we’ve all watched JD Vance sidestep whether Trump lost the 2020 election. Most recently, Vance was asked five separate times in the same interview but refused a yes or no answer.

Anyone with an iota of intelligence understands that JD Vance knows Trump lost but was instructed never to say it. Trump won’t allow any of his people to utter the word “loser” when talking about him—he’s too fragile. So, like the good soldier, JD refused to answer, sidestepping more than Al Jolson and Fred Astaire in a game of dodgeball.

Yesterday, Vance got a message from his boss that sidestepping wasn’t cutting it and to fall in line with the election denial. So, when asked AGAIN if Trump lost the 2020 election, he said “No,” which we all know is complete bullshit.

How do we know it’s complete bullshit? Because it’s been almost 4 years since the votes for the 2020 election were tabulated, litigated, and re-tabulated, yielding the same result – an overwhelming victory in the popular vote and electoral college by Joe Biden, with no evidence of vote rigging or cheating, in what the lead Trump election official called the fairest election in a generation and in which Trump’s attorney general called Trump’s assertions of a stolen election “total bullshit.”

Zero evidence that Trump won.

If I were a reporter, I’d follow up with JD Vance and ask why he has refused to answer the question for the last several weeks. Why didn’t he say “No” the first time he was asked? Now that JD Vance has officially joined the Election Deniers club, I would press him to explain precisely why he thinks Trump won. What evidence does he have to come to his conclusion?

It was almost comical watching JD Vance refusing to answer the question about Trump’s 2020 loss because we all understood (to an extent) the Vance Dance – He didn’t want to piss off his boss by being honest, so, sidestep shuffle-shuffle, sidestep, no answer.”

Embracing the lie is anything but comical because it shows us that JD Vance cannot be trusted with the most basic of things: facts, math, counting, and recounting.

If he denies something so clear and definitive, how can he be trusted to be truthful to the American people?

Everyone knows Donald Trump can’t be trusted—that if he loses AGAIN, he’ll refuse to accept the result. Some of us might have had an inkling of hope for Vance—that when faced with basic math that proved he and Trump came out on the short end of the election, he would man up and say, “We lost.” That hope is now gone with his one-word answer, “No,” and it’s the biggest reason to vote against this ticket.

Vance’s election denial is the latest example of the public humiliation by association that anyone close to Trump goes through. The cowardice of simply going along to get along will stick to Vance long after the stench of Trump fades.

Vote blue in 2024.

Dog Food for Thought

Trump and Trumpism get their sustenance at the intersection of blind ambition and intellectual vapidity, as demonstrated most recently by the former President’s racist remarks about immigrants eating the pets of people who live in Springfield, Ohio.

More telling than the remark itself was Trump’s justification for making it on the debate stage in front of 67 million viewers:

“I saw a guy say it on TV.”

Nothing exemplifies the festering rot of politics in America more than that statement by former president Trump, which dovetails beautifully into the Murdochian decline of American news media and its host of shit shovelers like Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, and Laura Ingram.

Donald Trump is the embodiment of Nazi Joeseph Goebbels’s “Big Lie” messaging strategy:

If you repeat a lie or falsehood loudly and frequently enough with conviction, your audience will come to believe it, even when the facts do not support it.

America is a failing nation
Crime rates are through the roof
Inflation is the worst it’s been in the history of our country
Democrats stole the 2020 election
Haitian immigrants are eating the pets of the people who live in Springfield, Ohio

All of these statements are blatant lies that Donald Trump continues to promote and lean into.

The President’s willingness to repeat and share what he hears (regardless of validity) is strategic. When coupled with our natural inclination to glom onto stories that support preconceptions and voters’ zeal to dismiss evidence and facts they don’t like, the President’s words have a rippling and corrosive effect on social cohesion in our country.

So, when President Trump heard the unsubstantiated rumor on TV about Haitian immigrants eating cats and dogs, that was all the evidence he needed – A responsible candidate for President of the United States would have done their due diligence on the veracity of the rumor because sharing false stories about Haitians eating their neighbor’s pets puts the Haitian community in danger.

Donald Trump is not a responsible candidate.

President Trump shared the lie about Haitians eating cats and dogs because promoting hate of immigrants serves his interests and ambition, the same way refusing to condemn insurrectionists who stormed the capital and violently attacked police officers serves his interests and ambitions.

It’s why we can’t allow this sociopath near the white house again.

The Voting Booth is Gen Z’s Normandy

After the presidential debate last night between former President Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, the choice of who should be the next President of the United States couldn’t be clearer.

Unfortunately, nearly 40 percent of Americans will continue to disregard Trump’s incompetence, petulance, and insatiable desire for power and vote for him this November.

In the 1940’s, the greatest generation stormed the beaches of Normandy to stop fascism from spreading across Europe. This November, Gen Z Americans need to storm the polls in massive numbers to stop the spread of fascism here at home.

Gen Z voters are not facing machine gun fire, land minds, or snipers. Still, they are up against concerted voter suppression efforts, deep cynicism and apathy, and an information landscape of lies from far-right, anti-democratic, pro-Russian sources.

Voting this November to stop fascism here at home is far less dangerous and requires none of the bravery that young Americans faced on June 6th, 1944, on the beaches of Normandy – but it is no less critical in terms of what is at stake.

Kamala Harris did her job last night. She demonstrated a calm, cool, and collected understanding of the issues and exposed Donald Trump for the political and personal fraud that he is.

Now it’s up to the voters – it’s on us and (in large part the youth of America) to do their part on Election Day to keep Donald Trump from ending democracy and killing the great American experiment.

Young People, it’s your Time to Shine

There’s a crook in the race who’s a felon

all his tweets are full of misspellings

let’s put him in jail

protect pussy and tail

and bid adieu

to his fat ugly melon

Democracies don’t breathe on their own

a voice ain’t the same as a phone

Kamala’s the traction

for you to take action

to keep Donald Trump

from his throne

You walk in the booth and you pull it

you beat him with ballots not bullets

don’t sit on your hands

or wave from the stands

you have to commit to the fullest

Trump’s Veep is creep and a fraud

a populist prick with a sword

beware of JD

he’s cruel and shady

and thinks he’s

the hand of the lord

Our democracy is starting to teeter

we don’t have much time on the meter

walk into the booth

cast a vote for the truth

and swat Trump away

like a skeeter

It’s time for a new generation

to save the soul of our nation

with a foot in the door

you’ll settle the score

And send Trump to his

incarceration

You walk in the booth and you pull it

you beat him with ballots not bullets

don’t sit on your hands

or wave from the stands

you have to commit

to the fullest

Clueless Joe?

At sixty-one, I’m not as mentally agile as I used to be, and I’m sure this natural decline will continue as I age.

I suppose what I’ve lost in mental acuity is somewhat offset by the wisdom I’ve gained through experience (personally and professionally) – but I’m not burdened by the need to prove this to anyone – Joe Biden is.

It doesn’t matter if Joe Biden believes he can be a successful President for the next four years.

In fact, it doesn’t matter if Joe Biden can objectively be a successful president—what matters is whether Democratic and independent voters believe he can—and most of them do not.

I’m one of many who think Joe Biden should bow out of the 2024 presidential race.

Does that mean I won’t vote for him?

HELL NO!

I’d vote for the moldy-unrecognizable-saran-wrapped mystery in the back of my refrigerator before I vote for that fat-orange-traitorous-fuck, Donald Trump.

That said, a second Trump Presidency is not something we should leave to chance (the stakes are too high). With Joe Biden as Trump’s opponent, there is a greater chance Trump will win than if the Democrats run a younger candidate with some vitality and vigor.

Joe Biden needs to put the country he professes to love above himself.

He needs to recognize that this race is not about whether his age is a disqualifier but whether he’s able to effectively, aggressively, and convincingly prosecute the case against a second Trump presidency. That should be a relatively easy task, given all the negatives Trump brings.

President Biden had the opportunity to prosecute the case against Trump in the debate, and he failed miserably.

There’s no shortage of capable Democrats (Kamala Harris, Gretchen Whitmer, Wes Moore, Amy Klobuchar, Pete Buttigieg) who can stand toe-to-toe with Trump and cut him down to size – but the longer Joe Biden dawdles, the more logistically challenging it becomes for the party to pivot to an alternative.

Put on your cape, we have a job to do!

More than two years ago, Russia invaded Ukraine.

Its army murdered civilians, raped women, and kidnapped children.

In a recent speech, Donald Trump said he would “encourage Russia to do whatever the hell they want” to NATO countries who don’t pay their fair share.

In November 2024, American voters must become Guardians of Democracy, swarm to polling places in droves, and drive a stake through the heart of the MAGA movement once and for all.

Donald Trump wants to end American Democracy and Democracy around the world.

This November let’s end him instead.

Hey Nikki!

Read to the tune of Hey Mickey

Oh, Nikki you’re so fine

Stick it to the orange swine

Go Nikki!

Oh Nikki, you’re OK

your tan is real, it’s not a spray

Go Nikki!

Oh, Nikki

You’re our girl

You don’t make us want to hurl

Go Nikki!

Hey Nikki –

He wears a MAGA hat

and always likes to brag

Melania took off

So instead, he humps the flag

He’s flabby and he’s soft

He really makes me gag, Nikki

You seem to know your shit,

debating all those men

Saw one-by-one they fell

and then they fell again

And when compared to him

You score a perfect ten, Nikki

Oh Nikki, he’s so shitty, we all understand

He’ll grab you by crotch with his tiny orange hand

Oh Nikki, he’s so shitty, we all know his game

Its guys like him Nikki

and what they do,

what they do Nikki

They Kill Democracy

Hey Nikki –

He loves that Kim Jong Un and his Putin Pal

He can’t be gone too soon

Cuz he’s killing our morale

Please send him to the moon

And then you’ll be our gal, Nikki

He screamed to stop the steal

And wanted to kill Pence

He makes our blood congeal

Behind his border fence

He wants us all to kneel

You are the best defense, Nikki

Oh Nikki, he’s so shitty,

we all understand

He’ll grab you by crotch

with his tiny orange hand

Oh Nikki, he’s so shitty,

we all know his game

Its guys like him Nikki

And what they do

what they do Nikki

They kill democracy

Oh, Nikki you’re so fine

Stick it to the orange swine

Go Nikki!

Oh Nikki, you’re OK

your tan is real, it’s not a spray

Go Nikki!

Oh, Nikki

You’re our girl

You don’t make us want to hurl

Go Nikki!

Oh Nikki, he’s so shitty,

we all understand

He’ll grab you by crotch

with his tiny orange hand

Oh Nikki, he’s so shitty,

we all know his game

Its guys like him Nikki

And what they do

what they do Nikki

They kill democracy

Booking Prisoner P01135809

No matter the strength of the evidence in the multiple indictments in which this man is named, he is assumed innocent until proven guilty.

So, let’s put aside the four criminal cases and 91 felony counts he faces and instead look at some of his actions as President.

As President, this man:

Knowingly lied to the public about the dangers of the COVID-19 virus.
Regularly praised anti-democratic and authoritarian leaders around the world.
Equated the moral character of neo-Nazis with the people protesting neo-Nazis.
Welcomed interference from foreign governments into American elections.
Refused to accept the results of a free and fair election even after sixty court cases, and his own attorney general stated the claims of election fraud were bullshit.
Sat idly in the Oval Office for nearly 3 hours as his supporters attacked the capital building and assaulted police officers.

Even if you believe this man is innocent of the 91 felony charges, he is demonstrably guilty of being a shitty human being.

I’m unsure why millions of Americans refuse to look at this man’s lack of ethics and morality and continue to support him, but my gut says it’s human behavior.

Admitting Trump is a shitty human means admitting you knowingly voted for a shitty human, which reflects poorly on you. So, to avoid the embarrassment of your vote and inability to judge a person’s character, you turn a blind eye to all that orange shittieness and hop on the “What About Hunter Biden” bandwagon.

A president or presidential candidate’s lack of character threatens the republic only when voters are unable or unwilling to judge that character.

Until Republicans discover their character and admit politics blinded them to Trump’s lack of morality and that they were conned, America will continue to teeter on the abyss.

An Ugly Lust for Power

Floating in his own orbit

absent from the ethos of ethics

he was driven by an ugly lust for power

fueled by an insatiable desire for attention

bootlicked and buttressed by a sycophantic public

and buoyed by yes men

The man was wholly unhinged from truth

divorced from morality

and devoid of integrity

Gripped by insecurity

and the crippling fear of being labeled a loser

he cultivated lies and deceit

Like a Shakespearean witch

hunched over a cauldron

of poisonous misinformation

he hatched his plan

to cling to the reins of power

just long enough to topple the republic

For a few hours that day

our democracy flickered and dimmed

teetering on the dark edge of an authoritarian abyss

and if not for the courage of a few

and the rationality of the rest

We’d have lost our democracy

and the hope and freedom it brings to us

It would be a fatal mistake to think

the bullet we dodged cannot be reloaded

The confederacy of cowards

who defended the snake

and helped perpetuate the crime

still walk the halls of congress

and just beneath the ashes

of the failed attempt

are the smoldering embers

of the next

Crap-casting Rogan and Young-loving Streamers

Crap-casting Rogan and Young-loving streamers

Fact-blasting moron, artists and dreamers

Free speech and fact breach, they dance and they stab

Truth in the morgue on a cold marble slab

Drip-drying wet naps on Vin Diesel’s Daisy

Popcorn and Pepsi with Martin Scorsese

Grifting and grafting on quaaludes and blow

Gaetz in sex traffic with nowhere to go

Oath Keeping Proud Boys, soldiers in waiting

“My Pillow hucksters” gaslighting and baiting

Fascists and fucktards fall from the sky

Democracy’s gone in the blink of an eye

Hopscotch and whiskey, Sorry and Twister

Rebellion and UNO with Vlad Putin’s sister

Records and transcripts get flushed in the can

Truth getting trumped by a fat orange man

Cow tipping junkies and pill-popping tweakers

Political flunkies in loafers and sneakers

Gazpacho Goosestepping Capital cops

Malevolent Marjorie, she never stops

Fuck headlines and deadlines

Bread, milk, and inflation

The next time you vote

for the soul of your nation

Carry integrity into the booth

Raile against liars

and vote for the truth