I think, I hope, (okay, I desperately pray) that enough thinking Americans still recognize the danger that is Donald Trump to come out and vote against him. The media is focused like a laser beam on Biden’s slips but not paying much attention to Trump’s. Why not? Trump doesn’t do much better than Biden when he’s speaking. They’re both old. They both show signs of decline. Only one of them, Trump, is a criminal, sexual molesting, liar.

How can he be winning? I’ll tell you this: if he is the best America could put on offer, I’m pretty sure our ethics have fallen SO far we don’t deserve to be the leaders of the free world anymore.

I still wish the Dems would replace Biden, though. He’s facing a tough, uphill battle. Under the best of conditions, he’d be fighting MAGA with the Dems supporting his efforts. But now he’s fighting the Dems, too. They want him out, he won’t leave. It’s very Ruth Bader Ginsberg of him.

She, too, had a chance to do the right thing and step away with dignity and grace, allowing Obama to replace her with a younger option. She said no. I suspect she was one of those relentlessly optimistic people whose relentless optimism blinds her to certain realities. Like, being an 87 year old woman battling cancer – and just…randomly deciding that was no problem at all. Her choice gave rise to the end of Roe. I’m sure that was not her intention but that was the result.

Biden’s relentless optimism seems to blocking his view, too. The fallout from his self-imposed blindness will likely be the end of the Republic. Yeah, yeah, they say that about every election. Only this time? The opposition is openly floating plans about the best way to end the Republic. Project 2025, anyone? If you think it’s only hyperbole this time, you’re simply not paying attention.

Biden and/or Biden’s team have done a pretty good job in the White House. Even with dementia, I’d rather have Biden in there than the usurper. Biden’s team could keep things going. But Biden is suffering an enthusiasm gap that may keep people from coming out. A younger person wouldn’t scare so many people, wondering if he or she can do the job. Then, it would just be a younger, competent person, against the feckless, felonious, fibbing fraudster who gropes women for fun.

But the media seems to be trying to pick the winner by focusing on Biden’s gaffes while mostly ignoring Trump’s. Biden has difficulty saying things but the things he says are truthful. Trump has difficulty saying things and can’t say truthful things at all. Biden has mixed up some names. So has Trump. Biden loses his train of thought. So does Trump. Trump speaks a little more smoothly – not a LOT more smoothly – a little more smoothly – and that’s only because it’s so easy for him to lie. He doesn’t CARE if what he says is accurate. That gives him less to stumble over – but he still stumbles.

For both men, age is ever-present and taking it’s toll. But only one of them has a proven and irrefutable record as a moral reprobate. What does it say about MAGA that they continue to support him?

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Rudy Giuliani’s bankruptcy dodge has come to an end. He was trying to use the bankruptcy court to protect him because he has been ordered to pay $150 million dollars to the two women he defamed while he was out lying about the 2020 election that Joe won. You remember. Those were the lies he told, sometimes in court, that got him disbarred.

Mostly, he’s been stalling. He didn’t want to pay (who would?) and thought he could hide from the consequences of his actions in bankruptcy court. But the creditors got tired of the stalling and filed for a dismissal, which the judge granted. Now the two ladies, and all of Rudy’s other creditors, are free to come after him for their money.

You can add Rudy Giuliani’s name to the long, long, oh my god, oh-so-long list of people who put their faith and trust in Donald Trump and ended in ruin – and Trump didn’t even pay him for it afterwards…