I Can't Take Any More Historical Events

 And I can't take another four years of being horrified by some new offense from President Trump every week.

Since the last time I posted (warning you all), Donald Trump got shot at, J.D. Vance became his running mate, Joe Biden caught COVID, and now today Joe Biden has dropped out of the race and endorsed his Vice President Kamala Harris to take over.

deep breath

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH

Okay. Okay okay okay okay okay. OKAY.

First thing first: this is not the nail in the coffin that guarantees Trump's victory. Political parties run their own nomination process, for the most part, and Joe Biden was still the presumptive nominee, not the official nominee. Which means it is not against the law to replace him. Which will not stop the GOP from mounting legal challenges across all 50 states to kick the new nominee off enough ballots to secure victory. With a slate of judges and a Supreme Court that are all in Trump's pocket.

We will also have a drumbeat of the GOP saying Biden must resign his office immediately. To that I say: good fucking luck. If Biden has any guts he'll forgive every student loan he can and use every executive action possible to benefit the country. The Supreme Court says it is all okay, after all.

Second: there will be a DNC convention. Someone, probably Kamala Harris, will take over as the nominee and run for President. It is possible, as Aaron Sorkin calls for Mitt Romney to be the nominee and Joe Manchin considers rejoining the party to contest for the slot, that the convention will deteriorate into a complete shitshow.

Hopefully... hopefully not.

Even if Kamala Harris isn't the strongest pick (and I would ask which Democrat is actually better), she's the natural choice in the minds of the country, being the current Vice President and Biden's chosen running mate. Not picking her would be questionable at best, especially with no clear replacement waiting in the wings.

The convention could, conceivably, knife her in the back even as she takes the nomination, It would not be the first time (ref. Jimmy Carter). Again... hopefully not.

This is what I would ask:

Whoever the nominee is, the focus of this election needs to be voting against Donald Trump.

I have given my reasons. Trump has not gotten better. We can handle four years of a poor Democratic presidency (and there's no evidence right now it would be poor). We can't handle another four years of Trump.

Vote Blue 2024

-Dave