Yes Please . Kamala Harris for President

We already elected Kamala Harris for exactly this purpose.

My vote for Joe Biden was always a vote for Kamala Harris ... and Antony Blinken ... and Janet Yellen ... and Jared Bernstein ... and Alejandro Mayorkas ... and you get the picture.... It's one thing to *promise* the best people, and quite another to deliver the best — measured by subject matter competence and accomplishment — as Joe Biden did.

Kamala Harris is intelligent, accomplished, strong, confident.

• A clear-  and tough-minded thinker.

• Solidly GenX

• A strong legal mind — an experienced elected prosecutor and California Attorney General

• A solid legislator in the Senate and an exemplary President of the Senate as Vice President.

• Great policy and foreign affairs chops.

• Known and respected by world leaders, diplomats, the intelligence community, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

• Fully invested in the Biden Administration agenda for a more just and prosperous America.

Kamala Harris is Donald Trump's nightmare ... she already beat him in a general election.

A Prayer at Midsummer

We 

Thank 

Thee

O God

That

Thou

Dost 

Hate

Exactly 

The 

Same

People

We

Do.

Amen.

Poison Control . Donald Trump + the Civil War Battle

If I were in poison control, I would, I think, be very interested in controlling poison.

Donald Trump said — as a statement of fact — that a Civil War battle took placein a space now marked by a plaque at Trump National Golf Club, along the Potomac River in Sterlling, Virginia. The plaque reads:

"The River of Blood" 

Many great American soldiers, both of the North and South, died at this spot, "The Rapids", on the Potomac River. The casualties were so great that the water would turn red and thus became known as "The River of Blood". 

It is my great honor to have preserved this important section of the Potomac River!

-Donald John Trump

On the facts, the dedication, publicly defended multiple times by Donald John Trump, is a lie … and the claim about preserving the river is contested.

1. No such battle occured at that site.

https://patch.com/district-columbia/washingtondc/president-trumps-golf-course-memorializes-fake-civil-war-battle

https://www.golfdigest.com/story/details-details-donald-trump-has-plaque-at-his-golf-course-commemorating-civil-war-battle-that-never-happenedvvv

2. Clear cutting mature trees for a mile-and-a-half along the river in 2010 increased toxic runoff into the Potomac  … and cutting down another dozen or so mature trees in 2019 (and throwing in the river to drift downstream and become someone else’s problem) … raised legitimate questions about whether that can be described as preservation.

https://www.washingtonian.com/2016/03/30/donald-trumps-golf-course-continues-to-threaten-potomac-river/

https://dcist.com/story/19/03/07/trumps-virginia-golf-course-illegally-cut-down-trees/

Is this the worst? I don’t imagine it is … but it’s poison nonetheless. 

Is it a stretch to question the integrity of a person who goes to the expense of making up such an extravagant and self-serving lie, and then publicly doubles down when it’s shown to be a lie?

Poison Control . Donald Trump and Infanticide

 If I were in poison control, I would, I think, be very interested in controlling poison.

Donald Trump said — as a statement of fact — that some Democratic states allow people to execute babies after they're born.

On the facts, that statement, repeated on a number of occasions, is a lie.

Infanticide is illegal in every state. It's difficult to imagine a mentally fit former president of the United States not knowing this. 

The fact that Donald Trump has repeated this lie multiple times, including the nationally broadcast debate on June 27, 2024, indicates that no one in his immediate orbit is telling him the truth ... or, if they are, he's not listening ... or he doesn't have the capacity to comprehend the truth and those around him are not admitting that to the American people.

For more on what makes Donald Trump's statements about infanticide lies — and not misstatements or mistakes — see:

https://www.13newsnow.com/article/news/local/virginia/trump-debate-fact-check-virginia-governor-after-birth-abortion-ralph-northam/291-9bf4d577-863f-4f31-9e63-11c55cdada53

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/06/06/politics/fact-check-donald-trump-abortion-babies-executed/index.html

In a Nutshell . July 04, 2024

In a nutshell: 

“For all the fact that the [Second Continental Congress] got around the sticky little problem of Black and Indigenous enslavement by defining "men" as "white men," and for all that it never crossed their minds that women might also have rights, the Declaration of Independence was an astonishingly radical document. … America was founded on the radical idea that all men are created equal.

…

“In 1863, Lincoln explained, the Civil War was ‘testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.’

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“The Confederate rebellion failed. The United States endured, and Americans began to expand the idea that all men are created equal to include Black men, men of color, and eventually women.

….

“[W]e are now, once again, facing a rebellion against our founding principle, as a few people seek to reshape America into a nation in which certain people are better than others.”

Heather Cox Richardson 

In our families and friendships, leading to the ballot box, in the second half of 2024, our work is cut out for us … There is only *Do. Or do not. There is no try.*