Could have been so much worse

I'm going to give the Democrats credit, as evil as the party is, they could have been far, far worse in how they handled the Let's Go Brandon failure as a candidate.  Not only could they have been far more sinister, they could have dramatically altered the course of the election.

Imagine if instead of installing Kamala Harris after a horrible, early Let's Go Brandon debate performance, instead the Democrats had allowed Brandon to make it to the convention, and to the second debate before realizing that Brandon could not win.  

Then what? Instead of allowing the Secret Service to fail to protect Donald Trump, they could have orchestrated an assassination attempt on Let's Go Brandon and then installed Kamala Harris afterwards. That would have been so much worse:

• They could have avoided the appearance of being anti-Democratic and installing Kamala Harris the way they did.  By responding to an assassination they would look like the victims rather than Trump looking like the victim of a deep state plot
• They could have continued to blame "crazed far-right lunatics" for the violence in the country, and blamed the GOP for their supposedly "heated rhetoric", thereby taking all the heat off their own crazy-talk anti-Trump rhetoric
• The effect of waiting for later to install Harris as the nominee would be the artificial poll bump that Harris received would have occurred closer to election day. When that bump inevitably ebbed it would perhaps still have lingered enough to have a slightly positive Democrat impact on the election outcome

All of that combined would have dramatically shifted the election in a different direction than the current trajectory.

But none of that transpired. The Democrats were either not that evil, not that smart, or not that patient. I happen to think that at the elite levels, they are indeed that evil. I'm glad they didn't have the foresight to consider that option and that the Let's Go Brandon debate failure was so acute, they had to react in a knee-jerk panic sort of way.  It could have been so much worse otherwise.

Trump: Something real.

America's trade imbalance is complicated. It's not a sustainable situation long term.  Donald Trump has a plan, right or wrong, it will have an impact.  Kamala Harris' plan? "Look, I was raised a middle class kid..." That's a soundbite, that is not a plan.  It's meaningless, yet it's her answer to every economic question.

Take away the complexity of tariffs, what Trump is proposing will have a real impact; it will either save jobs or if John Deere decides to offshore manufacturing regardless of the tariffs, they will face a massive increase in the cost of production.  That cost will be passed on to consumers. The consumers will choose alternatives and John Deere will face declining sales and ultimately, likely, hardship.

In other words, Trump is doing something real. Harris cannot even fathom something real.

Do Not Vote For This

My personal exhortation to American voters, do not vote for this:

UPDATE: Well, that got removed.  Not surprised.

Sunday verse

 

Friday Musical Interlude - two for One

A double dose of faith today. Amazing Grace on bagpipes, and How Great Thou Art, the Elvis version.

Sky News Australia, based

Sky News Australia is based; they'll run stories like this.  Great work.