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Donald Trump’s obsession with crowd size is certifiably weird. Yet it is surpassed in its weirdness his obsession with TV ratings. Watching the Democratic National Convention play out this week is only worsening his public nervous breakdown. This breakdown was triggered when Joe Biden passed the torch to Kamala Harris. Of course, the Obamas trigger… Read more.
Trump’s racist and misogynistic attacks against Kamala are only exacerbating the congenital problem he has with women voters. But even that pales in comparison with the problem he has with Black women, particularly four of them: Vice President Kamala Harris, New York AG Letitia James, Fulton County DA Fani Willis, and U.S. District Judge Tanya… Read more.
Granted, this isn’t nearly as bad as Trump dodging the Draft. But still, it speaks volumes that CNN’s Jim Acosta sounded like Trump yesterday when he accosted a Harris campaign spokesman: Would it kill you guys to have a press conference? Why hasn’t she had a press conference? News media across the spectrum have been… Read more.
The media are hailing Nikki Haley for her “blunt message” to Trump, telling him to focus on GOP issues instead of personal attacks against Kamala Harris. But let’s not forget this is the same Haley who once declared that no one in their right mind would vote for a wannabe Mafia Don who’s now a… Read more.
On Sunday, to the relief of sensible people everywhere, Joe Biden ended his reelection campaign and endorsed Kamala Harris to carry the presidential torch. In fact, how’s this for “divine intervention”: I’ll see your Trump escaping an assassin’s bullet by the skin of his ear and raise you Biden putting country above himself by withdrawing… Read more.
The attempted assassination of former president and 2024 Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, coupled with Joe Biden’s sudden withdrawal from his reelection campaign, already made this a summer to remember. Now, Vice President Kamala Harris becoming the new Democratic nominee risks political sensory overload. The VP countdown President Biden led Democratic politicians, donors, and activists… Read more.
Former President Trump on Friday reupped his request for President Biden to undergo a cognitive test, telling Biden he would accompany him. ‘Joe should immediately take a Cognitive Test, and I will go with him, and take one also,’ Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. ‘For the first time we’ll be a team,… Read more.
Presidents causing national anxiety The world spent much of Trump’s presidency in suspended anxiety over his unhinged tweets. That’s why Biden’s presidency provided such a collective sigh of relief. But Biden now seems hell-bent on inflicting more anxiety over his cognitive decline. That was all I felt watching this interview. I kept waiting for him… Read more.
Today, International Women’s Day, I’m reiterating my longstanding assertion that women need to replace men as leaders in every public sphere, from the Oval Office to the C-suite. Men should be barred from politics The titles of three previous commentaries on this topic speak volumes: “Cracking the Political Glass Ceiling: Bachelet Becomes First Woman President in South America”… Read more.
President Joe Biden announced his reelection campaign today. This, despite polls showing that nearly half of Democrats don’t want Biden to run in 2024. They like Biden. They just think he’s too old. I agree. At the very least, Biden retiring would spare me the anxiety I get every time he speaks. After all, I… Read more.
