Four intersecting events to shape the presidential election
PLUS: How the MAGA movement puts women in danger
There are four intersecting events that will play an enormous role in shaping the outcome of the US presidential election, which is 276 days away.
The American economy is exploding. Job creation is massive, prices are falling, wages are rising, and so is consumer confidence. This is important because it defenestrates any delusional nostalgia for the Trump economy, which is mostly the product of Trump’s ceaseless bluster and the passivity of the media in confronting it.
Second, the United States military struck 85 targets across seven locations in Iraq and Syria, directly targeting Iranian forces for retaliation after the attack that killed three American soldiers at Tower 22 in the Jordanian desert. These strikes have been announced as the first of an ongoing campaign, and mark the beginning of direct attacks against Iranian military personnel. The war instigated by Iran in Gaza is escalating. It is much easier for wars to escalate than stop.
Third, President Zelensky is about to fire the most popular general in Ukraine, while the country is beginning to feel the effects of being choked off from resupply because of the hostility towards democracy and the support for Putin across the MAGA movement in America. Ukraine is being strangled by a new breed of American appeasers who don’t seem to understand, or care about, history’s lessons. Though they are blind to them, the Chinese are watching closely. Should Ukraine be defeated the war will spread west into Europe, and the world will know horror at a scale it can’t imagine because it won’t remember.
Fourth, the American border with Mexico has become a deranged stage where human misery caused by political madness is swallowing American values, and ripening a dangerous extremism. The dishonest malice, hypocrisy and incompetence of political crackpots like Speaker of the House Mike Johnson regarding this issue are almost otherworldly in an era where there seems to be no bottom. The American people are fed up with the inhumanity and criminal indifference to this issue. The MAGA right has overreached. President Biden has an opportunity to cauterize his most vulnerable wound and position.
These issues are all deeply connected, and they will shape the months ahead. The world is boiling and a deranged demagogue is going to be the GOP nominee for president for the third consecutive election cycle. The stalemate in American life is going to give one way or another in a few months. The stakes could not be higher.
VIDEO COMMENTARY: How the MAGA movement puts women in danger
Joe Biden is leading Donald Trump in the latest Quinnipiac poll. Here I warn women in America about the choice they have to make:
Women are pissed. This push toward the 1850s will never, and I mean never, win. We are not the noisy belligerent ones. We are the quiet, stealth ones. We will win this. I just know it.
Excellent as always, Steve. Basically, one party is willing to destroy every tenet of American democracy and our institutions. They will abandon all of our Allie’s and destroy every semblance of the world order.
For what you ask? To appease the mango moron and world’s biggest crybaby and narcissistic kleptocrat. Why? Because they are a bunch of spineless hypocrites who disparage the tango terrorist behind his back, yet profess fealty; bending a knee in public.
This is why the entire party is a threat to the National Security and global interests of this nation. Ironically, they still suffer from delusions of grandeur; believing only their anointed on can fix it.
If that were true, all the nations ills could have been fixed in Trump’s first two years in office, when he had the house and senate. Yet, all he managed to do is cause chaos.
Yet, here we are: no wall was built, and Mexico didn’t pay for the 50 miles he managed to build, at a cost of two billion per mile, along the 2,300 mile southern border. I guess, mission accomplished!
His economy hummed for 3 years 1 month; inheriting a steady economy from Obama that grew for 7 years five months at over 2.5% a year.
He mismanaged the COVID epidemic, leading to an additional 500k needless deaths.
He added $8.2 trillion to the national debt in four years, increased the deficit from $536 billion to $1.88 trillion a year. Nothing to mention, the loss was f 7 million jobs, and increasing the unemployment rate from 4.7% to 6.7% when leaving office.
Additionally, he mangled the Afghanistan peace accord (Doha Agreement), releasing over 5,800 terrorists with American blood on their hands; handing the country over to our enemy, The Taliban.
He betrayed our Kurdish Allie’s in Syria. Threatened our Allie’s in Europe, and bent a knee to the world’s biggest threat to our western way of life (Putin).
And yet, the mango moron seems to be the best chance the lunatic party has to retake the presidency; which speaks volumes to the sanity of the GQP and their bench of future and current leaders.
Good times!…:)