By David Glenn Cox
I guess I just lost the spirit and a preachers gotta know. I’ll say grace if you set the table, but I ain’t no preacher no more. What next? Like combat, if someone tells you they aren’t scared they’re either lying or crazy. The fuse is lit, and the fire tended by the well intentioned. Let’s paint “Handle with care Live soldiers inside” on the Trojan horse. Let’s help our opponents pull rabbit out of a hat and gleefully squeal as the Democrats self-destruct…again.
Joe Biden’s mental acuity is known only to his inner circle, everything else is spin. I often say pass the salt when I mean the pepper. I just don’t do it in front of eighty million people. “Oh, what’s his name?” Said everyone at some point. It doesn’t mean you’re losing it. I’ll tell you a secret; you are only old on the outside. Inside, I could still play shortstop for the Chicago Cubs.
But age is inescapable, the inevitable slowing down and mental decline leading to a life in Florida. Watching the sea winds blow and hearses come and go. God’s waiting room does a brisk business. You buy yourself an old house and stuff it full of the artifacts and mementos of a sordid life with a room for the wife.
Why oh, why? He said blandly. Is the talk only about Joe Biden’s age and health? Because once they smell a weakness, they pounce and the media like wolves’ pile on. The media loves dirty laundry and great drama. The majestic liner sailed through the ink dark night unaware of the danger until hitting an iceberg at approximately 11:40 PM with great loss of life. We sure hope it happens again tomorrow! Maybe a bombing or a shooting at a school somewhere! That’ll make them tune in!
I don’t know if it is too late for Joe Biden or not, but it feels that way. The chorus is only getting louder. If your friends are going to ask you to leave, what will your opponents do but capitalize. Anybody remember the film “The Caine Mutiny?” Captain Queeg had some issues and peculiarities. That didn’t make him a bad Captain. A disloyal crew made him a bad Captain. Because his officer’s, had no faith in him and Queeg knew it. The Captain was always at odds with his officers and paranoid until failure was certain.
All I know is; if you are going to call a pinch hitter out of the dugout. They had better hit a home run. This is a mess of the highest order and I see no clear path out of it. Jesus? If you’re up there this might be a good time. Me personally, I would lean towards Kamala Harris. She’s capable and competent and lends some air of continuity taking over for Joe Biden if we must. But this is the Democratic Party and the chances they will rally together about anything is microscopic.
“I’m not a member of any organized political party. I’m a Democrat.” – Will Rogers
Let’s go crazy! Gretchen Witmer or Gavin Newsome! Or how about “drum roll please” Michelle Obama. After all, she was married to a President once. I’m sure she picked up all the finer points. She’s a remarkable and praiseworthy person but that’s showmanship over workmanship. A little bird tells me she would decline the honor. Ms. Witmer has already made it clear she has no intention of climbing on the Sloop John B.
I know! Let’s just throw all this shit up in the air and see who it hits on the way down. Let’s juggle with hand grenades! Let’s play chicken with Armageddon. What’s the worst that could happen? Donald Trump get’s elected unleashing a Fascist nightmare on the people of the United States for a generation or so. Ending in either War, Civil War, economic failure or possibly a military coup d’état?
Trump plans to git rid of the disloyal Generals because that worked out so well for Joe Stalin. But the military is an irascible bunch and won’t take kindly to being chloroformed. It’s the education thing. The military teaches officers what happens to the officers under a dictatorship. (Hint) They can’t buy life insurance.
When Dick Cheney had the bright idea of putting conventional explosives on ICBMs. The top Pentagon brass threatened to resign on masse. Sure, you could replace them. But they know where the keys are. You can’t just say, “You’re in charge of the Army. So, Trump’s claim of troops in the street might be met with…no. When the Army says no, who are you going call next? And Fascist regime would never have to explain to Fox News why the entire joint Chiefs of Staff are resigning. See? Maybe a military dictatorship under Martial Law is a good thing? Don’t vote and find out.
Donald Trump, you are under arrest by order of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Supreme Court…your house is next!
But that is how catastrophic the consequences are for us all. If you break it you bought it. If you break it there is just no telling any more. There will be no second chance.
I just don’t see how a wounded Joe Biden can continue assailed from all quarters with the wolves riding on his back. What if this was the Republican plan all along? Aided by a stumble. Democrats thinking, they were doing the right thing, when they called for Barabbas.
Personally, I would vote for Joe Biden comatose and on life support. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. The chicken came before the egg. Because an egg is only a potential President.
“Thus, it is that no cruelty whatsoever passes by without impact. Thus, it is that we always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.” ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn