"I think history is going to show that in so many ways [Biden's presidency] was transformative" -- Kamala Harris

Harris' statement is correct, yet nobody, least of all her, wants to deal with the actual transformation. What is that transformation?

I gather its host Mark Helperin is a ConservaDem journalist. It lasted an hour. It was about the Biden snafu. I gather they're Democratic Party-leaning journalists. Apparently the video itself has been made private. So nobody can see it. Nonetheless, I saw it. It was kind of fun watching the participants panic.

I watched the debate so you wouldn't have to. I was going to do a summary write up about it, but after watching it I don't want to sound biased, so I'm not going to make a judgement call on this one.

Except for this:

Watching this debate was like watching two schoolyard bullies pounding their chests about how great they are and daring the other to knock the proverbial chip off of their shoulders.

If you didn't watch it and I don't blame you if you didn't, surely, in the next few days, you all will see clip after clip of this melee, I'll leave it up to you to make your own judgement.

Whew, boy!

Note: I wrote the following essay yesterday before the Trump verdict. Will the verdict affect the campaign? I don't know, but I doubt it. All bets are off though if he goes to jail.

I was going to forgo publishing this piece in lieu of a trial verdict essay, but I'm going to post it anyway as the campaign promises are more than likely still valid.

Please use comments below if you wish to discuss the hush money trial.

It's that time again, folks.

Every four years our brains are subjected to massaged messages of mendacity and misinformation by those that would cast themselves as All Things to All Men.

I wont call them silver tongued devils, for that, they are not. I wont call them paragons of principle either, for that, they are certainly not. They will delude, dissemble, dissimulate, distort and dupe you with perjurious promises and prevarications. They'll twist words, obfuscate meanings and lie their butts off while they promise you the world, until elected anyway.

Like any good traveling salesman, they need to first get a foot in the door to sell their product. That's what campaigns are for.

Let's take a look at what snake oil they're selling this time around. But first, let me ask you, "Would you buy a used car from this man?

In light of the currently ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip and on the heels of a Great Power confrontation in Ukraine which wiped out 493,000 Ukrainians thanks to the collective West's

It's really hard for me to respond to Biden's speech, so mostly what I want to do is to post other people's responses to the speech:

RFK Jr. is now in the primary:

Here's the full speech, from Boston, Massachusetts:

I just received an email from "RootsAction" with a silly "Q & A" for one of its pet causes, "Don't Run Joe," a piece of pleading before the emperor which aims to persuade Joe Biden not to run for re-election. This stuff is pretty thin soup -- they could, for instance, run someone now against him, or, better yet, run a whole slate intended to get the worst few hundred offenders out of the Federal government.

Immediately, I'm imagining a veto-proof Republican majority in the House: