In My Humble Opinion (IMHO)

 The Better of Two Evils - A Cold Vs A Cancer?

For the last 20 years or so, I have described myself as "Financially Conservative, Socially Liberal", although I generally leaned Republican. My politics these days have changed to simply "Anti Trump" and "Anti MAGA". IMHO Trump is a dishonest, corrupt, nasty, incompetent, ignorant narcissist with very strong dictator instincts. As President, Trump is a ticking bomb that can explode at any time and none of us knows the damage that may result.

The following comments and record is only meant for me. I find writing thoughts and ideas help me to organize my old brain. Plus I want my own history of the next 4 years. 

KAMALA  AND THE DEMOCRATS

Kamala and the Democrats lost this election because they are not very bright and somewhat scared of their own shadow. IMHO these are the specific issues that lost the election:

1. Immigration: Is out of control and obviously a majority of voters are concerned. Its not only an issue of volume, but also an issue of lack of control. I simply do not understand why Biden and the Democrats allowed the immigration situation to fester and give the MAGA Republicans such an easy election advantage.

2. Inflation: The USA economy has been primed for inflation for the last couple of decades by Government overspending and especially by Federal Reserve Bank policies that resulted in interest rates of less than 1%, and 8 trillion dollars of "Quantitative Easing" (AKA printing money). This policy is totally ignorant and laid a foundation for inflation. COVID was just the match (or maybe the blow torch) that ignited the fire. 

Other than his contribution to the National Debt, Biden generally did a good job on the economy through COVID and the subsequent economic recovery and soft landing. He needed to give the economy a boost as we emerged from COVID, and I think its just "hindsight" to say the boost was too great. At the end of his term the USA economy is the envy of the world - although the National Debt is a serious and growing problem.

Kamala's response to inflation seemed to be based upon a hope that "people would forget" and be impressed by the economy's growth since COVID and the promised "soft landing". But people are still upset about being ripped off by the higher Cost of Living and had to blame someone.

IMHO the Democrats could have pushed back by pointing out how many Republicans were to blame. COVID created the "opportunity" and most of the big store owners and operators that lead the price increases are major Republican supporters and donors. Plus Trump started the import tariffs. 

3. "Woke": Being reasonably aware and considerate of LGBTQ people and other minorities is really just about being a decent human being. LGBTQ or black or Native American (or whatever) people should not be persecuted or marginalized, but on the other hand they do not more rights than the rest of us. 

The MAGA Republicans do not seem to promote solutions to the real issue we face - the growing National debt, Global warming, Homelessness, the Chinese threat, the Ukraine war, Uncontrolled Immigration, Gun violence, Drug abuse and more. So to divert our attention they focus on such a non-issue as "Wokeness" and stupid people eat it up. I have to wonder how many people are concerned that one of their kids will come home from school "the other sex". Narrow minded morons.

On the other hand, why the "Cleveland Indians" become the "Guardians" is also a  mystery to me.  

4.  The Afghanistan withdrawal.

5. The Federal Debt

6. Global Warming and Fossil Fuels

7. 

What was good about the 4 Biden Years?

1. Peace and quiet

2. The economy

3. The share market

TRUMP and the MAGA Republicans

The only good thing about this election result is that we did not have to live thru Trump throwing a bunch unsupported accusations at the election process, and maybe organizing another attack on Congress.

Kamala and the Democrats were not much of an alternative, but Trump and the MAGA Republicans are a terrible choice. Its like comparing getting a cold with discovering that you have incurable testicular cancer.

So what is so wrong about Trump? Let me list my reasons that he is a terrible choice for President:

Trump is an incurable serial liar. 

How can we trust a President who will lie with abandon about anything - important or trivial. There have been so many I will only mention my "ten besties". If you have a few hours to spare you can see an almost complete list of the over 30,000 of his documented lies at https://cedar.wwu.edu/wwu_honors/486/

1. "I won the 2020 election." That Biden and the Democrats pulled off a massive election fraud and stole the election from Trump. Its amazing how such a stupid and incompetent government made such a mess of the country over the last four years, but were able to carry out a huge electoral  fraud without being caught at all. Amazing!

2. "I never paid any money to Stormy Daniels."

3. "Schools are sending children for gender-affirming surgeries without their parents’ knowledge.

4. President Joe Biden sent Harris to negotiate with Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2022 in an effort to prevent an invasion of Ukraine. 

5. That Trump was named “Man of the Year” in Michigan before he entered politics. 

6. That he did not take Confidential documents to Mar Largo after he left the Whitehouse

7. That Haitian immigrants were eating cats and dogs in Springfield Ohio.

8. That the Mexicans will pay for the wall. 

9.  President Trump on Covid.  “We’re doing a great job with it. And it will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away,”

10. That the crowd of 10,000 plus people greeting Harris on XX/XX were not real - that the video was faked.

11. That he won the October 2024 debate against Harris

Trump is corrupt.

Trump is a traitor

Trump is not qualified for the job of President

 

TRUMP AS PRESIDENT