Trump’s Inevitable Triumph

Of late, things on the US 2024 presidential elections campaign front are getting interesting.

After the first debate between President Biden and former president Trump on June 27th, the democrats started panicking. Biden’s cognitive descent into full-blown dementia and senility became common knowledge[1] and it was no longer possible for the courtiers of the Democrats to pretend that Joe was compos mentis.

The rats started abandoning ship. And not a moment too soon. Deep-pocket donors started realizing that Biden was toast and their money would be wasted; down-ballot candidates realized that they too would go down with Biden at the top of the ticket. The Republicans were mostly — though not all — united behind Trump. The polls among likely voters revealed that they were leaning toward Trump.

The final nail on the Biden campaign coffin was driven on Saturday 13th July at a Trump rally in Butler, PA. A 20-year old climbed on to the roof of a building about 150 yards from the podium where Trump was holding forth and took half a dozen shots at Trump.

Trump literally managed to dodge that bullet with his name on it. He got away with, as I believe he put it, “a yuuge ear ache.”

The Secret Service, as it turned out, were either seriously incompetent or, as some conspiracies have it, they waited to see if the guy whom they’d tracked and seen perched on that rooftop for an extended time would take Trump out of the race. Only after the guy had fired his shots did the Secret Service kill the guy — now of course he can’t talk and it will be hard to figure out if he was acting alone or not.

Instead of eliminating Trump from the race, the exact opposite happened. Trump’s defiant fist pump picture will no doubt be an iconic image for Americans in years to come.

Two days later came the Republican National Convention in Milwakee, Wisconsin that began on Monday 15th. Trump declared his running mate: JD Vance. There was much jubilation and Trump made a 90+ rambling acceptance speech. It’s the longest ever in US presidential history.

I didn’t know of the existence of this JD Vance guy. I got to learn that he and Vivek Ramaswamy, both from Ohio, are friends. Moreover, that JD is married to an Indian named Usha, that they have three children and one of them is named Vivek after guess who. JD, Usha and Vivek were at the Yale Law School at the same time.

The panic among the democrats deepened and the calls for Biden to not run for re-election grew louder. It was widely reported that Obama, the guy behind the curtain, joined in the chorus (from behind the curtain, of course.)

Biden had made it quite clear that he had no intentions of dropping from the race. He insisted that he would run and beat Trump once again. But the Democratic party leadership could not abide by. So they had to bundle Biden off to his home in Delaware — which they did by saying that Biden has once again contracted Covid-19.

Ah yes, the man who is heavily shielded and has had several of the amazing vaccine shots conveniently gets sick. It’s not as if Biden has to take public transport.

Anyway, on Sunday, Biden declared that he was indeed pulling out of the race but that he will complete his term in office. That’s awesome. I had bet a friend $10 that Joe will quit the race on Sunday. I won.

So what comes next for the Democratic party? Biden endorsed Kamala Harris. The NY Times reports, as of July 22nd, the support for Harris stands thusly:

I am happy that Biden didn’t resign because VP Harris would have become the POTUS. I’d have hated that. She has the grace of a hysterical, deranged chimpanzee and the IQ of a bag of doorknobs. I hope that Trump beats her easily and then that’d be the last we hear of her or from her. Good riddance of bad rubbish.

I have another bet with the same friend. I bet $10 that Kamala Harris would be selected as the nominee at the DNC.

I am not a Trump fan. In fact, I think he’s an uncouth egotistic knuckle-dragging ignoramus. But I would vote for him over the corrupt, senile, vile, incompetent Biden any day of the week and twice on Sundays.

Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.

NOTES:

[1] If some piece of knowledge is known to many people, it is general knowledge. That is, it is generally known.

Take a proposition P (say, it is raining.) So if you know that P, and I also know that P, then P is general knowledge.

If I know that P, and I know that you know that P, and you know that I know that you know that P, and I know that you know that I know that P,  . . . then it is common knowledge that P.

For a more detailed explanation, see The Theater of the Absurd post.