These are remarkable times we live in.<\/p>\n
It’s unknown how many assassination attempts against a sitting or former president have been foiled, but we have just witnessed the first known attempt in over forty years.\u00a0 In 1981, John Hinckley, Jr. shot president Ronald Reagan outside the Washington Hilton hotel in Washington, D. C.\u00a0 Reagan survived, but the attempt was a close call.\u00a0 A police officer was killed and Press Secretary James Brady was also severely wounded.<\/p>\n
On Saturday, July 13, 2024, just moments into a campaign speech in Butler, Pennsylvania, former president Donald Trump and candidate for the office again, was providentially spared as a rifle shot took a chunk out of his right ear.\u00a0 Two others were not so fortunate; one was killed and two others were wounded.\u00a0 A moment earlier, the shot would have struck him right in the head, but he uncharacteristically moved to point to a chart, and the bullet narrowly avoided killing him.\u00a0 Trump appeared two days later at the Republican National Convention sporting a bandage on his ear, but seemed otherwise unharmed.\u00a0 Remarkable.<\/p>\n
At the same time, despite remarkable efforts to conceal the fact, the incumbent president is revealed to be suffering from some form of mental incapacitation.\u00a0 Observers of the political arena such as myself have noticed this ever since his 2020 election campaign was one of invisibility; under the cover of the COVID pandemic, Joe Biden huddled in his basement, rarely coming up and out for public appearances.\u00a0 When he did, he exhibited many signs of encroaching senility.\u00a0 One of those signs I’ve witnessed is a relaxing of inhibitions relating to self-restraint when it comes to expressing opinions.\u00a0 From my witness stand, I’ve seen Joe Biden as a lifelong racist and inveterate liar, but most of the public doesn’t see that.\u00a0 They only see what the image-makers have concocted, and so have believed Joe was a typical “everyman.” Remarkable.<\/p>\n
In my youth, the Democrat Party portrayed itself as the party of the working class.\u00a0 It catered to unions, minorities and the “workers.”\u00a0 The Republicans on the other hand, were depicted as being the party of the rich, of Wall Street, and international elites.\u00a0 Today, the Democrats are seen as “limousine liberals” and “Gulfstream Guevaras.”\u00a0 The Republicans are led by a successful businessman who entered politics late in life.\u00a0 The businessman, Donald Trump, mingles with construction workers, professional wrestlers, country music artists, and flag-waving Americans who show up en masse at rallies to show that the American Dream isn’t dead.\u00a0 Yet.\u00a0 Remarkable.<\/p>\n
At this writing, the Democrat Party is maneuvering to remove Biden from the ticket.\u00a0 Despite a series of non-democratic moves to ensure his place as the nominee, the Democrats are now using undemocratic means to remove the man they pledge will “preserve democracy” in the country.\u00a0 Remarkable.<\/p>\n
By the same token, the Democrats have used a number of non-democratic means to remove any challenges to their party’s candidate; they worked tirelessly to keep Democrat-turned-Independent Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. off the ballot wherever possible.\u00a0 And the extent to which they leveraged the power of the government using “lawfare” (a term coined to describe persecuting the opposition through the courts) to remove and imprison Donald Trump is nothing short of remarkable.<\/p>\n
The legal procedures that Donald Trump is undergoing have all been designed to keep him off the campaign trail.\u00a0 A law that was enacted but never used was the basis for convicting him of 34 charges.\u00a0 For paperwork errors. At the same time, a special counsel investigating Joe Biden’s possession of classified documents found him effectively guilty of a felony, but excused him from prosecution due to his status as aged with a poor memory.\u00a0 The wags would say that this election pits a convicted felon against an un-convicted felon.<\/p>\n
The inflammatory rhetoric from the Democrats accusing the Republicans of being like Nazis, and a “threat to democracy,” among other aspersions likely resulted in motivating a young, 20 year-old to attempt to take the life of the threat.\u00a0 Twenty years after the last assassination attempt on a president\u2019s life. Remarkable.<\/p>\n
Every election year, the media and observers anticipate an “October surprise.”\u00a0 This whole 2024 election process has been nothing short of remarkable surprises.<\/p>\n
I only wish everyone would take notice of the current state of affairs.\u00a0 They are remarkable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
These are remarkable times we live in. It’s unknown how many assassination attempts against a sitting or former president have been foiled, but we have just witnessed the first known attempt in over forty years.\u00a0 In 1981, John Hinckley, Jr. … Continue reading