President Joe Biden’s flubs, incoherence, and loss of his thoughts mid-sentence during the debates against Donald Trump are legitimate things that the Democratic Party should be talking about. The Democratic Party is not a cult like the Republican Party that bows in fear to the dictates of its dear leader. Many argue that talking about Biden’s débâcle of a debate weakens their candidate; this is absolute hogwash. Burying one’s head in the sand and pretending that the issue before us will disappear is not a good strategy.
They argue that talking about Biden empowers Trump. Realistically, everyone talking about Joe Biden wants to defeat Donald Trump in November. They say there is no room for error and want to ensure they put up the best candidate to defeat Trump. Those voters will support Joe Biden; they want the best shot at doing so.
Having seen the whole debate, your humble servant has been among those who called for the President to step aside. Biden’s friends talk about his successes; no rational person can deny them, but not everyone is happy with some other things. For example, Biden’s full-throated support of the Zionist Criminal who leads the Apartheid state of Israel’s war crimes against the Palestinian people.
They also discuss Biden’s patriotism for his country. The most patriotic thing anyone can do is put their ego and self aside and put their country before themselves. Biden has been a successful president by every metric in this first term.
He could have walked away and been seen as a hero by allowing someone younger and more dynamic to take the lead. Kamala Harris is up to the task. Having said the foregone, if the President decides to stay, the party needs to coalesce around him in the face of the existential threat Donald Trump, the Republican Party, and the Supreme Court poses, not just to our freedoms but our very lives.
I sat in on a casual discussion over the weekend with some people I consider pretty intelligent: Black people. I was stunned at the lack of recognition of the threat the nation faces if Donald Trump were ever to return to the presidency and the serious threat he poses to Black people’s existence in America.
Donald Trump would be a lot more powerful if he returned to power. He has at his disposal a corrupt Supreme Court he fashioned in his image, having been allowed to place three members on the nine-member Court, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett, in addition to the corrupt Thomas Alito and the acquiescent Roberts.
Trump’s acolytes have prepared a Fascist document, Project 2025, a blueprint for autocratic rule; the Supreme Court in Trump V US gave Donald Trump a free hand to exterminate his opponents without consequence.
Please read the document; we are not being shrill or hyperbolic.
https://www.project2025.org
Joe Biden is still the President of the United States, yet we have seen the power of a court fashioned in the image of a Fascist dictator. The Court has single-handedly struck down settled laws. Every court member told the Senate they would respect (stare decisis, letting the precedent stand). The six right-wing reactionaries on the Court all lied as they engaged in dismantling what Steve Bannon calls the Administrative State. John Roberts alone has shown himself to be a pathological liar.
As Chief Justice, Roberts has presided over 21 precedent-overturning cases and voted to overturn precedent in 17 (81%).
The Court dismantled the 1965 Voting Rights Act using the laughable logic that there was no longer a need to protect Black voters because there was no longer anyone stopping them from voting. That verdict prompted a barrage of voter suppression laws across the South and other parts of the country.
The Court struck down Roe V Wade in its Dobbs decision. Roe has been the law of the land for forty-nine years. The Red States immediately began passing laws limiting and criminalizing abortions. They are coming for contraception soon. Clarence Thomas all but told them to do it, and the highest Court will decide in their favor.
In Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, she overturned Chevron USA v. National Resources Defense Council2 and the federal judiciary’s forty-year-old practice of deferring to agencies’ reasonable interpretations of ambiguous federal laws. In a 6 – 3 decision, Chief Justice Roberts wrote that the judiciary has the sole prerogative to “say what the law is.
Roberts and his cronies on the Court arrogated to themselves the power to decide over qualified scientists and experts on critical issues of life and death. Agencies like the FDA, CDC, OSHA, EPA, and others are far weaker today because the lawyers in the highest Court know more than the scientists in these agencies.
Even more frightening is the decision of Trump versus the US, the Roberts court holding: Under our constitutional structure of separated powers, the nature of Presidential power entitles a former President to absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for actions within his conclusive and preclude — sive constitutional authority.
This means that Trump can now shoot anyone on 5th Avenue, and he cannot be prosecuted.
Trump’s people say this is a second Revolution that will be bloodless if those who disagree with them bow down to the MAGA agenda.
It is frightening to the tenth degree that we could be dithering about what we do not like about Joe Biden and Kamala Harris at this time.
Voters in France understood what was at stake, and so they banded together, put their differences aside, and ensured that the Fascist right wing did not take power in their country.
Voters in Britain turned their backs on the Conservative Right and returned Labor to power for the first time in fourteen years.
In America, a single-term, twice-impeached, pussy-grabbing, thirty-four-count convicted felon is leading in the polls.
Democratic and Independent voters do not have the luxury of cutting off their noses to spite their faces.
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Mike Beckles is a former Police Detective, businessman, freelance writer, black achiever honoree, and creator of the blog mikebeckles.com.