The danger, after Biden’s disastrous debate performance, is not that voters will now flock to Trump. It is that voters who are anti-Trump will simply not vote. The undecided need a positive reason to vote Democratic in November. Bill Maher has said he’d vote for Biden’s head in a jar to prevent a Trump win. But he’s not happy with that choice, and neither are millions of other voters.
There’s going to be a delay in Trump’s sentencing in his New York conviction. Why am I not surprised? Has there been any procedure in the saga of Trump prosecutions that hasn’t been delayed/postponed/put off indefinitely? The defense throws every obstacle they can think of at the wall, and the judges - to look fair - are letting many of them stick. And even when decisions are finally made (still waiting), appeals will delay further as they head for - you guessed it - the Supreme Court.
Henceforth, I will stop referring to the highest court as SCOTUS, but instead will call it by its rightful name: SCOT - Supreme Court of Trump. And they might now be on an undeserved vacation, but they’ll be back one month before the election - time enough to do more damage to Dem prospects if they expedite things. And they will.
Let’s remember that the Supreme Court has no army, no police force, no enforcement of its rulings whatsoever. It depends on, well, the judiciary doing what it has deemed to be Constitutional. But what if President Trump has other ideas? And has the muscle to make his desires happen? SCOTUS would be powerless. Perhaps that’s why they are bending over backwards to favor Trump, so that their little club can continue to be important when Trump becomes king. A Biden win would make changes.
Judge Chutkan should get that hearing started ASAP, so at least the public will get to see Jack Smith’s evidence before the election. Having an actual trial now before November is now dead, and thanks to SCOTUS, much of Smith’s evidence will not be allowed anyway. A Supreme Court in the tank for a criminal. Who would have ever imagined it?
Okay, Biden, if the polls can be believed, didn’t lose ground in the debate and even turned it into a donation event. Hard to fathom, but if Trump can turn his indictments and convictions into a positive, anything is possible this election cycle. But does anyone believe Biden’s performance will win him new voters? And will the voters he has be voting for Biden or against Trump, which is essentially what happened in 2020? Trump has true believers in key swing-state positions this time around.
A friend shared a reading list to help understand the Chevron decision impact:
Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe-Keith O'Brien
Silent Spring -Rachel Carson
The Jungle -Upton Sinclair
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water - Marc Reisner
Unsafe at Any Speed -Ralph Nader
Agree
Interesting idea, but it has a flaw. Harris’s approval numbers are worse than Biden’s. And, she’s a woman of color to boot. How about this? Harris bows out so that Biden can have a strong VP candidate able to take over when necessary. Folks wouldn’t trust Harris in that role. Biden ain’t gonna quit before the election, so there needs to be a good alternative VP in place.
Yeah, of course it’s the time zones. But what biggies originate on the West Coast? The Academy Awards? They start in the early evening, so we on the other side of the country will have it in prime time.(And it still runs too late.) I never watch sports events taking place in California - past my bedtime!
Trump can stop campaigning! His people say he’s way ahead in all the polls (not hardly), so if he loses, the only answer is that the Democrats cheated! He’ll have millions of cultists believe this. And if Joe Biden, senile, faltering Joe, somehow does well in the debate, it’ll be because he got injected with a performance-enhancing drug.
Never before has a major presidential candidate used these big lies to win. But never before have there been millions of people who will believe them!
Retired surgeon, now a novel writer (thrillers mostly) in North Carolina