The federal government just released thousands of documents related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963.
After a chaotic last-minute review in which intelligence agencies lobbied against full disclosure, the White House said it would take more time to process and release thousands more documents that were also supposed to be made public. …
‘Since the good stuff has mainly been withheld for now — or forever — we are primarily looking for obscure clues and shiny objects,’ [said Larry J. Sabato, the founder and director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia].
(New York Times, October 26, 2017)
I fully appreciate the conspiracy theories that haunt the assassination of JFK. Indeed, it is noteworthy that those who swear by them include the likes of filmmaker Oliver Stone and no less a person than U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry (yes, he’s JFK too). …
I have read and seen enough to believe that Lee Harvey Oswald acted as a lone wolf when he assassinated JFK in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963; this, notwithstanding investigative oversights in the Warren Commission’s report. What’s more, I believe the forensics. They prove beyond any reasonable doubt that there was only one shooter, despite Stone famously mocking this “single-bullet theory” in his film, JFK.
(“Remembering JFK,” The iPINIONS Journal, November 21, 2013)
In other words, the only people who believe in JFK conspiracies are the kooks who take to all conspiracies like moths to flames. Indeed, their belief in those related to JFK is probably surpassed only by their belief in the conspiracy about the government hiding aliens at Area 51.
But I hasten to note that these kooks are no more misguided in their beliefs than the people who voted for Trump. After all, any reasonable person could see from day one of his campaign that a President Trump would run the government the way he ran his bankrupt casinos.
Accordingly, his promises are turning out to be little more than three-card monte schemes. The casino adage is that “the house always win.”
Therefore, nobody with half a brain should be surprised
- that the Trump White House is turning out to be the biggest winner of his presidency—complete with taxpayers funding everything from his golfing trips (which have already cost least $75 million) to his children’s business trips (which have cost millions more); and
- if the country ends up like one of his bankrupt casinos at the end of his presidency.
This is why I am convinced that Trump will lose his bid for reelection. And this, even if every kook who voted for him in 2016 does so again in 2020. Of course, with criminal indictments and a political impeachment looming, this assumes he survives to run again.
Whatever the case, I suspect that millions who didn’t bother to vote in 2016 will do so in 2020. They will be motivated, if not incited, to join the majority who voted for Hillary in 2016 to ensure that, no matter the byzantine Electoral College map, the Democratic nominee wins by a landslide.
For the record, I suspect further that that nominee will be — in order of preference and likelihood — a black woman, a Hispanic man, or a white woman.