\n
Bryan Zepp Jamieson<\/i><\/p>\n
November 4th<\/sup> 2024<\/i><\/p>\n Kamala Harris is going to win. And fairly substantially. She will be our next president and with any luck at all, by next March Donald Trump will be just a bad memory. <\/span><\/p>\n But if you can vote, do so. Especially if you are in a state or a Congressional district that is even remotely close. Harris won\u2019t be able to put many of her campaign promises into effect if Republicans control either House. At this point, I think the Dems have a good chance of taking the House back, but I\u2019m not so sure about the Senate. Even with Mitch McConnell shuffling off to well-deserved obscurity, I expect whoever replaces him will be just as obstructionist and possibly a crazy MAGAt. <\/span><\/p>\n Some of the smaller polls are producing startling results. Texas might just dump Ted Cruz, and may even break for Harris, despite the best efforts of the fascist government in Texas to skewer and interfere with the vote there. North Carolina may go for Harris: a lot of voters there heard Trump\u2019s claims of no government assistance in the wake of the hurricanes, looked around, and realized that Trump was lying. Many realized that the future will bring more natural disasters, and they need a government that won\u2019t base assistance on how you voted in the last election. Harris is leading in solidly red Iowa by two points. <\/span><\/p>\n America needs a government that is competent, clean, and works on behalf of everyone in the country, and not just people waving Trump flags. Unless Democrats take the White House and BOTH the House and the Senate, that\u2019s not going to happen. <\/span><\/p>\n Imagine a future where the news of the governance of the nation isn\u2019t dominated by Marjorie Taylor-Green, Lauren Boebert, Jim Jordan, Ted Cruz, Tom Cotton, Mike Johnson, Elise Stefanik, Joni Ernst, Rick Scott, or any of the other nutball rabble that infest our governance these days. Yes, many of them will be re-elected or didn\u2019t have to run this time, but if they are in the minority, it will put an end to the endless kangaroo court hearings, and Congress might actually become useful again. Instead of clownish hearings about impeaching Biden or punishing family members of his, we may instead hear about debate over housing assistance for young adults entering the workplace, expanded Medicare, and further efforts to rein in the corporations. <\/span><\/p>\n Fascist plutocrats like Rupert Murdoch, Elon Musk, and Jeff Bezos, and the National Association of Zealots and Ideologues will continue to poison the well, of course, and they will have the usual clown shows where some attention seeker in the GOP ranks will call for Harris\u2019 impeachment three days after she takes office. That won\u2019t change. But at least a solid win for the Dems will set them back, and reduce the threat they pose to our freedoms. <\/span><\/p>\n I expect that MAGA and QAnon will disintegrate after the inauguration. Trump won\u2019t be their figurehead any more; at the very least he will have lost his clout, and in all likelihood he\u2019ll be in prison or a rest home. Yes, America, like everywhere, will always have a significant population of nasty right wing nuts\u2014bigots, greedheads, haters\u2014but without the cult leader, they will crawl back to under the rocks where they belong. <\/span><\/p>\n Most importantly, control of court appointments must be taken back. Trump appointed three disgraces to the Supreme Court, and he\u2019s even on record suggesting that his District Attorney (appointed, because there isn\u2019t a prayer the Senate would confirm her) would be his pet corrupt Florida judge, Aileen Cannon. He\u2019s also said he will make the loony Robert F. Kennedy Junior the nation\u2019s \u2018health czar\u2019 and put the eerie Reinhard Heydrich clone Steven Miller in charge of immigration. Yesterday, he proposed to put the nation\u2019s missile defense in the hands of noted rocket scientist Herschel Walker! Trump probably would like to have Mafia-type rule, but what he would achieve to control our lives would be an extremely malignant and incompetent idiocracy.<\/span><\/p>\n Last week Joe Biden made an ambiguous statement that interpreted one way, suggested he called Trump supporters at large \u201ctrash.\u201d There was a lot of outrage over that, of course, but it\u2019s significant that the outrage didn\u2019t spread much outside of Trump\u2019s most devoted followers. Many people who have known Joe Biden for years don\u2019t believe he meant it that way (the remark, Biden says, was aimed at some of the trash who spoke at Trump\u2019s Madison Square Garden rally) and among those who did, there was considerable doubt that the supposed judgment was particularly harsh. It\u2019s hard to give people the benefit of the doubt when they shout that liberals are communists, Democrats are scum, and want to impose their church doctrines on us all, not to mention nutball opinions about vaccines, reading material, women\u2019s right to vote, eugenics, and \u201crace science.\u201d Some of these flat-earth nuts want us to doubt the Moon landings took place.<\/span><\/p>\n