Speaking Their Minds

 Okay, after the State of the Union speech, there was a lot of talk about how we were stuck with the choice between two old duffers. Those same voices were the ones who marveled at how tough Joe Biden sounded. 

But you know what? I checked the transcript. Nowhere in the State of the Union address did Joe Biden refer to a "bloodbath" if he didn't win the upcoming election. Nor did he say that he would be a dictator if he did win. Not for a day. Not at all. 

The guy with multiple indictments facing him spouted this at a rally last weekend: “Now if I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a bloodbath for the whole — that’s gonna be the least of it,” he added. “It’s going to be a bloodbath for the country. That will be the least of it." The former game show host was regurgitating in front of a crowd in Ohio, trying to make a distinction about the auto manufacturing business but he couldn't find any better words than "bloodbath." Until he landed on this one: “If this election isn’t won, I’m not sure that you’ll ever have another election in this country.”

To be clear, Joe Biden has made a point of making sure elections in our country are safe and fair. He did not foment insurrection, starting a years-long delusion about how we count. Which wouldn't be so bad except for the legions of red-baseball cap wearing lemmings who lick up whatever bile he spews. 

And ask for more. 

Worse still is the fact that it is not just he rank and file rally-goer that seems powerless to resist the man who cheats at golf more than he cheats on his wives. Republicans in Congress continue to dance and dodge around any legislation that might solve the very problems that they insist are destroying our country. 

"For the good of the party." The Grand Old Party. The elephants whose memory seems to have failed them. The ones who seem to have traded in their jobs as legislators for full-time campaign shills for the man voted by scholars as the worst president this country ever had. 

Worst. Bloodbath. Dictator. Some of this really should start to sink in.