America's choice: Taylor Swift shaking it off or Ted Nugent screwing a 13-year old
How is it even close?
The news is pretty disheartening these days. They talk about the race like it's every other presidential election; politics as usual. Ladies and gentlemen, please believe me when I tell you that this is NOT politics as usual and UNLIKE any other presidential election EVER.
Can you remember or find in history a case of a convicted felon running for the highest office in the land? A convicted felon facing espionage charges who attempted to overthrow our government, no less.
No, you can not.
Elections can be pivotal, moving the country in one direction or another. FDR, JFK, Lyndon Johnson, Barack Obama and Joe Biden were all transformative presidents in their own way.
Trump's presidency was more chaotic than transformative, but make no mistake. A second Trump presidency will be drastically transformational, and not in a good way.
George Wallace shook things up in 1968, winning about 20% of the votes, clearing a lane for White anger and creating a pathway for Democrats for Reagan.
Half the pundits and anchors on the news refer to Donnie as President instead of the correct, accurate title of former-President or ex-President. Clearly, they fear for their jobs should Donnie win.
Only MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace, a disillusioned Republican herself, refers to Donnie appropriately, as twice-impeached, disgraced, convicted felon T....
If you watch MSNBC, Steve Kornacki fidgeting with his maps is like watching someone with OCD arrange deck chairs on the Titanic. Dude, the ship is going down, who cares what happens in Bonefuck County, Kentucky?
And now they’re calling it a statistical dead heat. How can that be?
Why are they pretending everything is the same? How is OK that the guy tied to Project 2025 and wants to ban abortion and give people with children extra votes has the right to question the other guy's 24-year military service?
Why did they insist that one presidential candidate needs to sit down for interviews when the other one promotes a 4-year conspiracy to deny an election, a lie that led to a violent insurrection at our nation's Capitol?
In what twisted universe do so-called journalists see this election as two equals running for the same office? The question they should be asking - and asking and asking and asking - is how is it possible that the guy who stole, hid and lied about sensitive, classified documents is even allowed to run for the highest office in the land.
This week, he once again, accidentally admitted to losing the 2020 election - by a whisker he said, and now claims that he was entitled to interfere in said election, which may be the core of the problem; his entitlement.
What if America's choice boiled down to the gifted Taylor Swift or marginally talented, Ted Nugent, a man who has repeatedly admitted to a fondness for underage girls. Lyrics to his song Jailbait tell the story.
I don't consider myself a Swiftie, but I do like her music. Now and again she even comes up with lyrics that are downright brilliant. Shake it Off is on my top 10 list.
Not the greatest of all time, mind you, but the top 10 I like to listen to, which also includes Beyoncé's Single Ladies, Shania Twain's Man! I Feel Like A Woman! Alice in Chain's Man in the Box and Culture Club’s Karma Chameleon.
More than anything though, reading about Swift's generosity and concern for others almost makes me wish I wasn't such an asshole. Sadly, that ship has sailed for me.
Ms. Swift has given away millions more than even Donnie could ever steal from his own charity and she's done it with grace and joy. Maybe I am a bit of Swiftie.
We may never know how much Donnie stole, fleeced and extorted while in office, but the title of World Class Grifter probably goes to his son-in-law, Jared Kushner.
Kushner used the U.S. military to force Qatar to buy his money-hemorrhaging property in New York, made $640 MILLION while working for us as a civil servant and got a TWO BILLION DOLLAR BONUS from Saudi Arabia when he left office.
Taylor Swift vs Ted Nugent. That's how stark this choice is, there's nothing equal about it.
If the anchors and pundits of NBC, ABC, CBS and all the other unbiased networks won't connect Donnie's name with his crimes each and every time they mention his name, they can at least call him by his chosen avatar's name; Adolph Soprano.