The Last Couple of Weeks In the News Have Been Nuts

For most of the last month and more, I had been feeling very fearful of the future and losing hope that the worst will NOT happen. Biden’s senility becoming readily, embarrassingly, and shockingly obvious at that first debate with Trump was a real hope killer. The Dems’ bullshit machine went into full swing, but it didn’t work and was never going to. Biden fumbled and lost his way a couple of times at the interview that was supposed to reassure us all that the debate was just a “really bad night,” and– yeah, BULLSHIT. The Blue Party top brass seemed confused as to why their spin wasn’t working and all of America was just… “REALLY!?!?!” And Biden himself was letting his ego get in the way of stepping down. I thought (as I’m sure many did) that we were fucking doomed to a Trump presidency and thereafter an end to our American democracy.

Luckily, little by little, the members of the top brass started to smell what they were shoveling and realized there was NO WAY business-as-usual was going to cut it. And the stakes were simply too high to chance a genuinely decent but unpopular president beating Trump. They couldn’t pull it off and actually realized it this time, and one by one, they began to admit to the obvious, pressuring Biden to step down for his VP, Kamala Harris.

Meanwhile, there was an assassination attempt upon Trump, who got a bullet to the outer edge of his ear rather than his head, and that galvanized his base to claim that “Divine Intervention” saved their crazy candidate, who just stated to Christian voters that they only had to vote “one more time and then never again.” 
Eventually, a couple weeks after the dismal debate that will go down in history, Biden realized what everyone else already understood months ago and couldn’t avoid after his senior moments kept piling up: there was NO WAY he could win, but there was still a chance to beat Trump. Biden promised to finish his term, but he agreed to step aside his campaign and hand it over to Harris.

And then…

It feels like the glimmer of light in the darkness galvanized the entire Democratic party. Donations pored in, as well as endorsements, and clearly now Harris is off to a running start. Biden was behind Trump in the polls, especially the swing states and counties– but Harris is already neck in neck to a couple of points ahead of Trump less than a week after the turnover. There’s just weeks until the Democratic convention, but it looks like we now stand a real chance of beating Orange Mussolini!

Now I’m cautiously hopeful. I’m almost scared to allow myself to be reassured. Let’s hope a lot of people feel that way and decide to vote because this is still a close race. Too many people fell for, or pretended to fall for, Trump’s bullshit. He’s GOT to go.