Do Those Trump Trials Make Sense Yet?

There was a piece of advice I got once, early in life, that was a bit vulgar but also very true. "Don't ever fuck yourself trying to fuck someone else."

It makes me think about where we are right now with this Joe Biden vs. Donald J. Trump thing. And while the head of this very long snake is before us now, ready to chomp down on some flesh, it's been working its way to us for quite a long time.

Ever slowly. Inch by inch.

Think back to all of these indictments against Donald Trump, and the trials and even the conviction. It did sometimes amaze me, the fervor and tenacity that they went after him with. They were out for blood. They wanted this man out of the picture permanently.

Granted, this started long before Joe Biden was the president. But it became clearer once Joe Biden was the president.

For a long time, I kept wondering, what's the real threat here? What does Trump know?

There were the many questions about 2020, of course. Not only were people silenced for even suggesting the election may have been stolen, but many are also still being drug through the courts, or like Steve Bannon, going to jail.

Was this to bar Trump from running and keeping him out of the White House where he may be able to potentially open this question up for some real answers?

I am still not sure. This entire operation against Trump may go way deeper than any of us might ever believe. There may be even darker secrets in the Democrat's closets than what we think the big one now might be.

But that's for another day.

The thing is, the Democrats are in a real pickle, and it's something they won't be able to get out of easily. If at all. They got caught in one the biggest lies of the century and they're now working very hard to pretend to be shocked after what will go down in the history books as probably the wort presidential debate performance in American history.

Set that aside, though. We want to focus on those trials. If it were nothing else, what they were more than anything, were a big part of the huge cover up regarding Biden's health.

It was all about look over there. If they could keep the 24-hour news cycle focused on Trump, perhaps you'd miss the gaffes or the trips and falls. Perhaps you'd not see Biden getting lost on stages or pay too much attention to handlers dressed in bunny costumes leading him around.

The fact is that they knew. The Democrats. The White House. They knew all along something was not right with Joe Biden, but they kept it under wraps. For a long time, they mostly got away with it. Granted, Fox News talked about it non-stop. So did overseas news agencies like Sky News in Australia.

But all the other networks? It was wall to wall coverage of Trump's criminal this and Trump's indictment that and Trump's conviction.

Folks, step right up. We have the most amazing attraction you simply can't miss. Introducing the J6 committee to feast your eyes on. Come one, come all and see the amazing wonders of the evilest man in America. 

In other words, it was all about don't look over here. Perhaps if you could give the media and the people something else to keep their attention on, you'd miss the classified documents in the garage story, or the gaffes, or you'd ignore the fact that Biden wasn't doing press conferences or holding cabinet meetings on a regular basis.

You'd forget about Hunter Biden's laptop and all the juicy details it might contain because something juicier was happening with Trump.

It dawned on me. That's what this may have been all about. The truth. The truth they wanted us badly to be hidden from. That something wasn't right with Biden. If they could just hold out to the end, though, maybe they could fix it. 

I mean, worst case scenario they make it through the election and Biden wins. They could just pull the 25th Amendment, seat Harris as president, and the next four years and possibly eight were set. They just had to keep eyes off the White House and Joe Biden to whatever extent they could.

Trump was their way to do that. Get all eyes and attention on him. Make it juicy. Make it look good. Make it seem devilish in any way you can. But for Heaven's sake, keep the focus on him. Whatever you do, and we mean, whatever you do, don't dare look at us.

Not only could you have wall to wall coverage on the indictments and trials, but you could also have wall to wall coverage from pundits talking about it all. All the while, what would be left in the news cycles to address Biden and all the questions that might loom about him?

"Biden accidentally called the president of Eqypt the president of Mexico...ha, ha, ha, silly Joe...now getting back to this Stormy Daniels thing."

The problem is, they got caught in the lie. They got caught in the deception, and let's face it, it was all already backfiring on them and badly. All the polls seemed to show that. The more and the harder they went after Trump, the more popular he'd become.

Now they're caught in it. They fucked themselves trying to fuck somebody else. For going on 7 years, it's been the same thing. They wanted to go after Trump. Because the debate happened, and when it did, there was no other way to spin that.

No amount of Trump coverage would be enough to distract attention away from Biden. But seeing how bad Biden really is at this stage, it makes the whole pursuit of Trump clearer as to the why of it all.

It sounds crazy. I know it does. But when you think about it, how crazy is it, really? 

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Biden's Not Handling His Richard Nixon Moment Well

For the Democrats what's happening with Joe Biden right now really is quite akin to a moment in time that former President Richard Nixon once faced, albeit under a different set of circumstances. Richard Nixon was facing an impeachment conviction as he had lost all of the support he had from his party.

Whether or not it was nobility on Nixon's mind when he decided to step down, handing over his resignation and giving the Oval Office to Gerald Ford, he knew the writing was on the wall and there was only one course of action to take.

And he did.

In Biden's situation you have to wonder what is on his mind through this latest string of calls from senior Democrats, news media and others asking him to step aside and resign from his campaign for reelection.

Here's a guy who has forever warned of the extreme dangers we may face if Donald Trump were put back in the White House. As he said to George Stephanopoulos in a scathing interview, "We are at an inflection point. Whoever wins now determines the course of our country for the next 60 or 70 years."

That seems pretty dire. So, if that's what he believes, and it is clear his chances of winning now are almost completely erased from reality, why would he continue to run if the only likely outcome of him doing that is that Trump wins?

If Nixon would have refused to step down, the Senate would have convicted him of impeachment, and he'd have been forced out of office, leaving the reins to Gerald Ford anyway, and leaving an even bigger stain on his legacy than resigning did, or even all the things about the scandal that haunted him to the very end.

His fall from grace would have been amplified many times over.

Sure, Biden thinks he can do the job. He thinks he's earned reelection. But the American people disagree, and so does his party. It's an arrogance, in a way, that sort of flies in the face of the arrogance their side has long accused Trump of.

"Trump doesn't care about you or about the country. He cares only about himself and his desire for power."

But what separates Biden from that argument? If he has no support and can't win, and feels that this is one of the most important election decisions in the country's history—why else would he allow that to happen other than to consider his own personal interests over the people and the country?

As I have said often, sometimes you have to do things that are in the best interests of the country even if your side has to lose. Country and America first are not just slogans. They are very important things to consider above all else.

Granted, the Democrats seem assured that replacing Biden is all they have to do to beat Trump. I think they are right to decide Biden's not their guy. But I think they are wrong to think that they will have the support of the American people if all they do is replace Biden.

The thing that seems to be becoming clear in the minds of most people is that the Democrat party made the wrong choice from the very start, and now it's come to rear its ugly head. The country is in a mess despite the claims coming from the White House that there are all of these accomplishments to account for. Americans have been lied to and hidden from the truth on purpose. And top contenders like Gavin Newsome don't have great records either.

Kamala is also a hot mess with approval ratings far below Biden's, and she is probably one of the most disliked vice presidents in America's history. She's also far from qualified to take on the job. Even then, pushing her aside would be considered a slight, and I think that would also leave a bad taste in many American's mouths despite her being an awful replacement choice.

The key takeaway is, how can we trust the Democrats? How can we trust anyone they might pick in Biden's stead? For three and a half years your side has pounded the drums telling us Donald Trump is the world's most dangerous man and the biggest threat to democracy this country has ever faced, and all you've done is do everything to make sure he wins?

Biden should step down. If not for the good of the country, but for the good of his party. It's the right thing to do when you have lost all of your support. It doesn't change the outcome even if he does, mind you. The ship that would bring them to safe shores has long sailed.

But at least go out with some dignity left. After countless lie after lie Biden has told to the American people time and time again, why make the last lie, "I can do the job?"

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It Happens to the Best of Us, It Happened to the Media

There is a saying some people like to use all the time that says, "It happens to the best of us." While the saying applies mostly to otherwise good, honest people caught in a simple mistake, I will allow the news media to have the saying at least for now.

I am fully admitting it's hard to call the media "good people."

For one thing, and this is no secret mind you, they lie. The media. And if they're not lying, they're shaping narratives that are caught somewhere between a lie and a half-truth.

It's been a long 8 or so years, folks. From the moment Donald J. Trump came down that escalator at Trump Tower to announce he was running for president to now, with Joe Biden as the sitting president. It's been one thing after the other, and constant.

If they weren't bashing Trump, or aren't bashing Trump now, they were giving praise after praise for Joe Biden—and outright lying to us about his health and fitness to be president. The untold lies about his record of successes notwithstanding.

Reality often hits the fan, so to speak. It happens to the best of us. And the media has finally come to terms with the idea that they simply cannot continue the lie about Joe Biden's health or fitness to be president anymore. The gig is up. It's simply undeniable after what can only be labeled as a complete disaster of a performance by Joe Biden on the debate stage.

There's a point when one can at least "get away" with the lie. Not that it makes it okay to tell the lie, but there's no real consequence for telling it. People will still afford you some level of credibility, and when you're in the media credentials are everything, right?

Regardless of whether you are telling the truth or not, you still have to appear intelligent and informed to a degree. Sort of like a salesman when you think about it. He might be completely full of shit, but you still feel like he mostly knows what he's talking about. He needs that. He needs you to feel that.

In the case of Biden and his debate performance, what was widely suspected to be, and that he was long-time accused of became so glaringly obvious it was simply impossible to ignore it. If this would have been a spin-room in a sales office, that performance would have been a firm acknowledgement, "There's just no way we can sell this anymore other than for what it actually is."

The media now has no other option, in order to maintain any sense of credibility, but to be honest. Joe Biden is just not fit to be president.

You saw it first, immediately following the debate from the panel on CNN. And instead of their initial thoughts quieting down, they are doubling down on the idea that Joe Biden cannot win, and especially that he shouldn't even be running at all.

Take the George Stephanopoulos interview, which was a one-on-one with Joe Biden recently. It was hard knocks. These were very direct and tough questions. I'd say probably some of the toughest questions ever posed to a sitting president, let alone a Democrat one.

There was no room in this one to sit back in one's chair contemplatively and ask the president what his favorite flavor of ice cream happened to be.

This is about the future of America, and everyone gets that.

There's also no foreseeable turnaround that's going to happen here either. I am not sure Biden gets that, or his team for that matter. The news media is not going to suddenly change their mind. Even if Biden somehow manages to pull off a good debate performance in September, I think it will be too little too late.

Suddenly all eyes will turn back to the State of the Union address, and the media will have to wonder—like so many of us already wondered before they ever would—what was he on? What did they give him? It's a rouse!

No one is going to buy it that if the president was a rambling mess on Monday through Saturday, but all put together well on Sunday, that it wasn't because of some reason. The reality is that the reality simply can no longer be ignored or brushed aside.

Why would the media turn their backs on their guy and not defend him to the hilt no matter what? Again, it's because they need to be at least somewhat credible. America is watching, and they are watching very closely. They are seeing what they are seeing, and there's no way to sell the story any other way than what's right in front of their eyes.

Granted, it doesn't mean we will start getting the whole truth from them. Come on. Get real. Look at how they continue to report on Trump. When Trump wins in November, and I think that's easier to predict now that he actually will, they're not going to give up on bashing him and telling lie after lie about him.

But see, the difference is they can still get away with the Trump lies. They cannot get away with the Biden ones. In an ironic sense, it means that what the American people at least get in the meantime is the truth we need within the other lies they'll tell. 

The lies about Trump, in other words, don't matter as much as the truth about Biden does. 

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Just One More Excuse for Biden's Awful Debate Performance

Are we to the point of the Biden administration desperately clutching at straws? And how stupid do they think we are? Because I think we have to start asking that question along with, of course, a plethora of others.

We're being played, and we've been played for a very long time. For the most part, Joe Biden and his camp, including the media, have gotten pass after pass after pass. From his botched withdrawal from Afghanistan to his insistent lies that the border is secure, and that any issues we have on the border are Trump's fault, it's one thing after another.

All the other issues notwithstanding—we can't forget those—and the way it's all been spun. From job creation claims that were actually just jobs coming back after Covid to inflation, gas prices and whatever else you want to add in there.

There is a long trail of disaster behind almost everything the Biden administration has touched.

Of course, in the beginning they did all they could to try to deflect and turn American's attentions to more "serious" matters. The threat to our democracy, for example, because Trump is supposedly an evil man hell bent on becoming a dictator on day one.

In his final State of the Union address to the nation, he literally compared the 2024 election to the days of Hitler.

It's to hide things. That's all it's really about. To hide Biden's numerous failures and more importantly, to hide the obvious decline in his mental health that has been evident to many people over the course of his presidency.

The problem is that big lie, the one about Biden being on top of his game, came to its head during the debate. Everyone saw it, and no one could deny it anymore. Even CNN. Something was wrong with the president.

He keeps saying he must continue to run to save the country. But how can a country be saved by a man who doesn't even know where he is? How can the country, at its very foundation, be preserved as the founding fathers intended if the leader that we know to be the leader isn't actually the one leading?

The White House was quick to dismiss any claims of mental decline and criticized the media for "jumping the gun." And they continued to plod out their narrative that, "The man you see is not the man we see every day in the Oval Office doing the hard work for the American people."

As Bill Maher put it, "Tape that so we can all see it too."

"The president was suffering from a cold," was of course the first thing they passed along as sort of an explanation of sorts as to why he performed so badly during the debate. Okay, that explains his voice, which was frail and weak and raspy. But it doesn't explain why he could not put a complete sentence together or get the facts straight.

Which, by the way, after being reminded of Trump's many lies by the news media and even the White House, is also a "clutching of straws."

Biden lied several times during the debate. He lied about Trump wanting to get rid of Social Security. He lied about the insulin cap. He lied about the Medicare cap. He lied about his job creation. He lied about what unemployment was when he took office.

Oh, and the 800-pound gorilla in the room. He lied about no troops dying during his watch. In fact, there have been several. The most glaring of which were the 13 service members who died on the tarmac in Afghanistan during that horrific withdrawal.

Now they come out and tell us, "Well, he's a 10 A.M. to 6 P.M. president, and during those times he's sharp as a tack." Okay. Fine. But what if he gets that proverbial call at 3 A.M. Then what?

Beyond that, now Biden is claiming he was suffering from serious jet lag from recent overseas trips and that he "nearly fell asleep on stage." It's one more clutch. And frankly, one more outright lie. I think at the end of the day everything should be crystal clear to the voters right now. His record, and his ability. But the reality is that everything about him is in question.

He's sitting on abysmal approval ratings with only 38% of Americans believing he's doing a good job, and when you ask the question of his fitness to be president, it's even worse. 72% of Americans feel Biden is not up to the job.

It reminds me of that age old idea that the more you have to tell people you're this, the more the reality is that you are something else entirely.

The fact is that the American people more than ever know now that they have been being lied to all along. By the media. By the Biden administration. By everyone. And it's beginning to really rub people the wrong way. No one wants to be taken for a fool.

A cold. Jet lag. What's next when no one buys that?

How about you're simply not the man you used to be, Mr. Biden? How about it's just time to pack your bags and really do your duty and serve the country's best interests by ensuring we are not led by people other than you? But an actual president, able to do the job, making the critical decisions, who was elected by the People?

Because let's face it. Desperation is not an admirable trait either. And that's the other trait being put on full display here. The president and the people in his camp are desperate to win, at any cost, and regardless of what's in the best interests of the American people.

The more the Biden administration continues to deny, deny, deny the truth, the more the American people become convinced their worst fears are, in fact, true. And the angrier they become about that.

Sorry, Mr. President, but the chickens have come home to roost.

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