Joe, Ya Gotta Listen To This Guy
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The Message
Joe, here’s former Republican, former Rep. David Jolly (R-FL) on Nicolle Wallace’s program, March 5, Super Tuesday (lightly edited). He has a message for you.
“There’s a healthy suspicion that the Biden camp has been relying on Donald Trump as a [flawed] candidate to do a little bit of the work for them, to help close the gap. And Joe Biden has to do a couple things at the same time.
“He has to defend democracy, whether or not that informs voters’ opinions. I don’t think that informs a lot of voters’ opinions today.
“But then he also has to take the role of a traditional president and candidate to say, ‘This is what I’ve been doing for the country all along.’
“And I think what ties those together is:
“Only in a healthy democracy are your fundamental rights protected.
“Only in a healthy democracy does an economy work for all people and reproductive freedoms are protected.
“Only in a healthy democracy can we give equity to communities that Republicans want to punish.
“And I think part of that is Joe Biden and the Biden administration has to take control of the narratives that they’re losing on. Don’t avoid issues like the economy and the border. Own them and re-frame them.
“It is morning in America again. More people will go to work tomorrow than ever before. Home ownership is at historic highs. The stock market is breaking records. Retirement accounts are at an all time high. Inflation is coming down and real wages are going up. Joe Biden has led a bipartisan border security package and families have better access to healthcare and to education than they have ever had before.
“The threat and danger is Republicans.
‘Instead of rooting against the economy and instead of rooting for chaos at the border, join us and try to fix it and try to move America forward.’
And you saw Joe Biden do that at the border last week. He said to Donald Trump, “Come help me.” And I suspect at the State Of The Union address we will see that again.
“This is a guy who played rope-a-dope on Rick Scott on Medicare last year [and won]. If Republicans think they can just walk into this election making it about the economy and the border, it’s up to Joe Biden to say, “Okay, let’s talk about those issues, because I’ve got something to say on them, too.”
Joe, this sounds a lot like Ronald Reagan’s re-election campaign in 1984. And Reagan won.
Give this to your campaign people, Joe. Tell them to stop moping and find a new attitude – like this from David Jolly. Then distribute this to all your surrogates and make sure We The People hear this message of success and hope over and over. Start at the SOTU tomorrow.
The Vote And You
This is from Steve Schmidt’s post of March 5:
“The hour of crisis imagined by Alexander Hamilton and James Madison has fully arrived. The simple truth is that a man like Trump could never have risen when the World War II generation was here. They would have been collectively revolted and [would have] discharged him from public life in a manner appropriate for a dime store Mussolini, who can’t speak in coherent sentences, yet somehow captivates his cult with flourishes of inanities and slurred non-sequiturs. He would have been laughed out of the room, but now they are all gone.
“It is up to us. The question at hand is very simple: do you see what is looking back at us through the night from the edge of the woods? It is a malevolence, and it is coming. Thankfully, the generation that recognized it left us monuments and museums to memorialize it so we wouldn’t forget.
“2024 will be a year during which the proverbial hand will be called.
“It will be time for America to show the world our cards. The deficiency of the choice at hand is not what will be remembered. The choice of Trump will be. It will change everything. Forever. Nothing good will come from it. When fascists take power societies get poisoned. It is exactly what will happen to America.”
And THAT, my fellow American, is the reality of what is going on. It is existential. It is why you and I are going to vote and encourage others to vote in November. Check the clock below, counting down our opportunity to keep the dream alive.
And that’s the thing about clocks: They keep on counting down until there is no time left.
And just in case you need more clarity about how dire things have become, read this Times editorial.
I Support Donald Trump
– for incarceration in the Attica Correctional Facility in New York for criminal fraud and election interference
– next for imprisonment in a Georgia State Penitentiary for election interference, racketeering and conspiracy
– then for federal imprisonment for the theft of classified and other government documents, lying to the FBI and for defiance of a subpoena
– then, if he’s still alive, I support him going to another federal prison for his blizzard of crimes surrounding the insurrection
All sentences to run sequentially. He should be eligible for parole by the time he’s 167 years old.
- Today is a good day to be the light
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- Our governance and electoral corruption and dysfunction and our ongoing mass murders are all of a piece, all the same problem with the same solution:
- Fire the bastards!
- The days are dwindling for us to take action. Get up! Do something to make things better.
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