lesser of two evils

  This morning, the NY Times editorial board asserted that Trump destroyed the Republican Party. They're wrong. The craven, spineless politicians who represent the party destroyed it.

Kamala and Joe by Nancy Ohanian-by EmorejLong-term, many have analysed how a Biden-Harris win in 2020 could cement Harris’s dominance of the Democratic Presidential nominating process, likely until 2032 (after 1 Biden term and 2 Harris terms).

Slimeball by Nancy OhanianIn the early days of DWT, Paul Lakasiak occasionally graced this blog with guest posts. They were always among my favorite contributions.

My political enemies are conservatives and reactionaries, and in Trump's case, mentally deranged fascists.

Normally, sitting presidents are reelected and one of the reasons is that voters view them as being experienced and prepared for the difficult job.

Noam Chomsky believes that it is so imperative that Trump be defeated that he will vote for Biden, while Glenn Greenwald challenges the political strategy of the lesser-of-two-evils dictum. It is difficult to imagine anyone more intellectually commanding than Chomsky, but Greenwald is no inferior. Chomsky and Greenwald are unbroken, rational warriors who apply contrasting […]

If U.S. politics were as binary as the average Joe thinks it is-- and everyone was either a Democrat or a Republican-- then any Democrat not voting for Status Quo Joe would be a traitor, just the way so many average Joes on Twitter seem to think #NeverTrump/#NeverBiden Americans are. Don't hate them for their simpleminds. Even the Simple Minds had a hit song.

Did you know there's a big special election on May 12, two weeks from yesterday? Remember when Katie Hill resigned after a sex scandal. This is the special election to replace her until the November election decides who represents CA-25 (the Santa Clarita Valley, most of the Antelope Valley and most of Simi Valley) for the next two years. The winner of the special win face the loser of the special again in November.This is the perfect opportunity for the GOP to steal back a blue seat-- no incumbent and a dreadful Democratic candidate in what is expected to be a super-low turnout election.

End Of The Line by Nancy OhanianIf you would vote for a pile of dog-shit in the street to get Trump out of the White House, Biden is your man and there's no real need to keep reading. Besides, if you read this blog much, you already know that there's nothing on earth that will get me to vote for Trump or Biden. I can barely think of two less fit individuals to be president.

And he wasn't ever really a liberal on civil rights and civil liberties eitherI really liked the two Jeff Sharlet books I read, The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power and C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy and his Netflix series, The Family (based on the two books).