Wow, the right is melting down over the change. Joe left. Kamala stepped in. MAGA is mad! They say it’s undemocratic. Is it, though? Does democracy mean someone is not allowed to change their minds? It’s important to remember, Joe was the “presumptive” nominee. He had not secured the nomination, yet. That’s the key. As of this writing, the Democrats don’t have a nominee. They have a presumptive nominee. We assume Kamala will be the nominee but that isn’t confirmed until the convention.

Mike Johnson said the switch was illegal in some states. Maybe Ohio, but they’ve already addressed that. Ohio has a law that the candidate must be named 90 days before the election but they’ve already issued a waiver. After that, though, there weren’t any specifics. There never are. Which law has been broken? Which states? Because those I’m hearing about refer to the nominee, not the presumptive nominee.

It looks, to me, like their actual concern is that now they’re running a geriatric patient (and in their case, a felon) against a younger, smarter, person. (A one-time prosecutor of felons.) Now Trump is the old guy who can’t complete sentences and needs help walking down ramps. MAGAGOP is now running the guy they thought (hoped) they were running against. And there’s no way in hell Trump would make as selfless a move for the good of the country as Biden made.

Both Biden AND Harris are running for lots of reasons. They want to help people who need help. Trump is running as a ploy to avoid prison. He HAS to stay in the race. Even if he had the integrity of Biden, he couldn’t step down – because of prison! I mean, that’s a real high-quality candidate, right there…

Besides, at this point, I’m not sure I want him to step down. The momentum is with the Dems right now. People on the left seem energized by the change. Trump saddled himself with effing JD Vance as his running mate. Remember all those things MAGAGOP keeps saying are illegal for Biden to have done? They aren’t, because he wasn’t the candidate. But those laws DO apply to Trump/Vance because they’ve been formally nominated.

So far, it looks like people find Vance just as vile and opportunistic as we find Trump. Maybe more so, if that’s possible. Vance was an excellent choice to needlessly shore up Trump’s already firmly dedicated base but Vance won’t do much to attract moderates, and MAGA can’t do it alone. They’ll need Russia, again, I guess. Fortunately for Trump, Putin is ready to help…

Remember when I mentioned that the cons plan to attack the way Kamala laughs? They’ve even done a montage reel. It’s supposed to be mocking. I didn’t really get the big deal, though. People laugh. She didn’t sound like Janice from ‘Friends.’ She just laughs. But, they needed something and they needed something fast – and that was the best they had.

But here’s the part that gets me. It came to my attention that MAGA isn’t the only group attacking the way Kamala laughs. Do you know who else took the exact same line? Russian state broadcasting. The attack on the way Kamala laughs is a pretty weak attack in the first place. The idea that both MAGA AND Russian broadcasting might come up with the same, very stupid attack doesn’t seem so much like a coincidence, to me.

To me, it seems Trump is working with the Russians again. You know, like he did before. Putin and Trump go back a long way. Putin’s daughter and Ivanka are friends, though they put the relationship on hold during Trump’s 2016 campaign. Putin helps Trump and Trump lets him. Of course Putin wants Trump to win. Putin wants access to the American intelligence apparatus again and the only way he gets it is if his spy gets back into the White House…

Like I said, that’s a real high-quality candidate, you got there…

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For reasons that elude me, the cons continue to attack Biden. I guess they’re just used to it. Like, they had all this good, vicious garbage they planned to spew and now they NEED to spew it, relevant or not. So they started attacking Biden’s ability to govern after he stepped down from the race. “If,” they ask, “Biden is too demented to be the candidate, isn’t he too demented to be the President?”

The thing is, he didn’t step down because he’s too demented to be the candidate. He stepped down because he had lost the faith of the people. He’s like a coach who has, for some reason, lost the locker room. It doesn’t matter, any more, that he’s a good coach. Once you lose the locker room, other factors come into play. Biden will be able to finish out his term just fine. But, hey, MAGA, you stay focused on Joe. Kamala will benefit from the distraction…