Presidential debate

I didn't watch it. Nothing either one could say would change my mind that the felon Trump is not a viable candidate. The policies are a choice between centrist, that boost the economy and pay down the debt to get real value for the dollars, and far right wing grifter policy nihilism. Not a hard choice for me. Erode women's right to choose versus trying to hold the line on the onslaught of far right wing shenanigans that distract from climate change and the disappearing middle class. 

I can't tell if the hysteria about Biden's performance is real or just right wing shrilling. The NY Times has been against Biden, so their editorial doesn't surprise me. Guess they're not going to play at bothsidesism on that one. 

Anyway, Biden's age is why we have a vice president. A black woman who isn't far right wing is unacceptable. I think the first woman to be elected president will be right wing. But slipping in the side door? A black woman? Who isn't right wing? Na, that's something you have to fight with all the papers you own and all the TV news networks you own. We'd get a hysterical backlash that we got for and after Obama. America is just too racist and misogynist to take it. Nobody is saying anything about policy, it's gut reaction to how people look.

I'm not even sure swapping in Gavin Newsom would be the right thing. I mean he is a good and capable politician and would run the country fine from the center, though since he's from California the right would be twitchy, they're always twitchy. We have to take care of that twitchiness, or they release the hounds. They couldn't be twitchy about his color or his gender. He's against all the killing done because we have the world's laxest gun laws. That alone makes the right quiver with righteous indignation. 

I believe policy is the most important thing. What are we doing about global warming? What are we doing to curb the excesses of capitalism? Can we build a better society through taxation and the redistribution of wealth? Anyway, centrists don't really go very far with all that, they make small gestures. The checks and balances work on the right.

Meanwhile the egregious rulings from the illegitimate supreme court continue.

4th of July. I think the era of the liberal media bias is over. Biden has a bad debate because he's under the weather, and everyone is howling for him to resign.

Trump has 36 felonies, reports of his pedophilia come out, raping a 14 year old girl, and gosh didn't he try to overthrow the democratic election of Biden, gosh, hasn't he done about 20 horrible things, but nobody asks him to step out of the race. We have a media owned by oligarchs, who want their grubby tax break, and that's all they care about. Pathetic. 

With the recent supreme court rulings, I'd say America is dead. This might be the last election. But sure, Biden is the problem. Just pointing out only Biden's cognitive decline is a choice. It's not newsworthy to show Trump rambling about some nonsense. That's expected and acceptable somehow.