What with Joe Biden being in hiding, there was great expectation for the first presidential debate Tuesday night.  Presidential debates have become part of the political landscape every four years.  After every debate, there’s the obligatory media critique, of the candidates, the moderators, the questions, and the answers.  We rarely are told, “Boy, that was great!”  That’s because what we call “debates” are really not debates.  Debating has a long history and can be traced back to the philosophical and political debates of Ancient Greece.  Plato began the concept of the debate.  What we saw on Tuesday, resembled neither a Platonic oration nor a Socratic dialogue.  In ancient Rome, Cicero was the greatest orator on the floor of the Roman Senate.  Had he been involved in the Trump/Biden debate, Cicero would have gone home and opened his veins.  Saint Augustine is known for his debate with Pelagius, on the nature of Original Sin.  What we witnessed Tuesday was a sin, but it was far from original.  Every election cycle, we’re reminded of the Lincoln/Douglas debates.  They were real debates, the candidates squaring off to expound in the issues.  Our modern debates have been nothing like that.  At the 1960 Kennedy/Nixon debate, radio listeners said Nixon won, but television viewers favored the tanned Kennedy over the sickly, pasty-faced Nixon.   The 1980 Reagan/Carter debate is memorable, with Ronald Reagan jovially chiding Carter, “There you go again.”  There were few memorable, or even repeatable, lines from the Tuesday debate.  I rarely agree with anyone on CNN, but I had to agree with Dana Bash, who said of Trump/Biden, “This was a shit show.”  The format of the debate was questions from moderator Chris Wallace, with each candidate to have 2 minutes uninterrupted to answer.   Wallace said beforehand, if he did his job right, he’d be invisible.  After his performance, Wallace might want to disappear.  He served softballs to Biden.  “Mr. Biden, you say that President Trump’s response to the violence in Charlottesville three years ago, when he talked about very fine people on both sides, was what directly led you to launch this run for president.”  Trump never called white supremecists “fine people,” but O.K.  Then Wallace repeatedly tried to nail Trump.  “You, in the course of these four years, have never come up with a comprehensive plan to replace Obamacare, and just this last Thursday, you signed a largely symbolic executive order to protect people with preexisting conditions.”  Trump says at every rally “we will always protect preexisting conditions.”  I guess Wallace thinks Trump is lying.  “Will you denounce white supremecists like those in Kenosha?”  The only white people in the streets of Kenosha were the Antifa A-holes burning and rioting.  It’s true that Trump interrupted Biden a lot, but Biden gave as good as he got, calling Trump a clown and a racist, and telling the President, “shut up man.”  Old Joe got very testy, warning Trump he was messing with the “wrong guy, the wrong night at the wrong time.”  It put me in mind of the Seinfeld episode with Lloyd Bridges challenging everyone to a fight.  “It’s go time!”  No matter who’s turn it was supposed to be to answer, whenever Trump chimed in, Wallace rebuked him.  Wallace continually gave Biden more time to answer, and when Trump tried to correct something Biden said, Wallace told him, “We’re moving on.”  I think I understand the Trump strategy.  Joe Biden’s been in the basement, shutting off all contact with the media as early as 9 a.m.  Clearly, his handlers were trying to get him ready to do a 90 minute debate.  They succeeded, because he stood up to the pounding.  Trump was trying to bombard Biden with facts and questions, hoping that he would crack, and descend into one of his incoherent monologues or rants.  That didn’t work.  The best I can say for Trump is that, whenever he interrupted to hit Biden, he hit him with issues about which we are entitled to have an answer from Sleepy Joe.  Did your son take $3.5 million from Russians?”  Biden gave liberal answer #1 – “That’s not true.”  “Do you intend to pack the Supreme Court?”  Biden refused to answer, “Whatever position I take, that’ll become the issue.”  Chris Wallace didn’t press him on that, or on anything.  Biden attacked Trump with lies.  “200,000 people are dead because you panicked, and did nothing about Corona virus.”  “You want to drop nuclear bombs on hurricanes.”  There were a couple of good shots by Trump.  After Biden criticized the size of Trump’s rallies, Trump responded that Biden rallies were “much smaller events because no one shows up.”  Trump challenged Biden on his failure to speak up for law and order.  Biden blurted out that “Antifa is an idea” not a real organization.  Hispanic viewers on Telemundo said Trump won 66% to 34%, and CSPAN viewers favored Trump 53% to 29%.  But Trump rubbed me the wrong way.  Projecting strength and confidence is fine, but I found Trump’s interjections to be unseemly, gratuitous, and counter-productive.  I like the President, but I couldn’t wait for it to end.  And Trump missed an opportunity set the record straight on Corona virus.  When accused of “doing nothing,” and “not taking it seriously,” Trump could have said this.  “I took it seriously enough to set up the Task Force in January, and ban flights from China.  We compiled a team of medical and logistical experts.  When the medical experts advised us, we listened, and implemented their recommendations.  When the state governors needed ventilators and PPE, we mobilized private industry to supply them.  We built hospitals.  We positioned hospital ships.  We reported to the American people almost every day.  You say in July you gave a list of things you would have done.  We did  everything on your list in February, March and April.  Every nation on Earth has been hit by this virus and has taken unacceptable losses.  No nation on Earth has found a magic solution to the problem.  But we’re supposed to believe that Joe Biden has the secret solution.  Not likely.  The Trump Administration was all action.  Joe Biden is all talk.”  Case closed.  Game over.  Or as Biden might say, “Period!”  President Trump can do better, and he needs to do better.  We need to see the bold actor, versus the the old mumbler, not just another remake of Grumpy Old Men.

So there we were, happily watching the news, when they reported the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (R.B.G.) .  I turned to my wife and said, “This will only make things worse.”  As if we weren’t already at the boiling point, with the election less than 6 weeks away, the death of R.B.G.  has turned up the heat.  No matter when a vacancy on the Supreme Court arose, any Trump nominee would have faced a bitter confirmation hearing, and/or circus.  Anyone remember the Kavanaugh hearings?  Add to this mix a presidential election, and what’s coming is a Steel Cage, Battle Royal.  If you thought Democrats couldn’t go so low, just wait.  This will be the limbo championships.  The coming strife could have been avoided.  R.B.G. served on the Court for 27 years, and was 87 years old at the time of her death.  Love her or hate her, she put her stamp on the Court.  In a statement, President Trump said of the late Justice, “Her opinions, including well-known decisions regarding the legal equality of women and the disabled, have inspired all Americans, and generations of great legal minds.” That’s true.  R.B.G. will be missed by the Left because she was the brains behind the liberal wing of the Court.  She carefully crafted opinions supporting all the nutty notions of the Left.  Plus, as her long friendship with Justice Scalia attests, R.B.G. could disagree without being disagreeable.  But they knew the end was near.  R.B.G. was a sick woman, who battled cancer for years.  Il Duce Obama wanted her to retire while he was president, so he could replace her.  She refused.  She couldn’t have planned her departure any better, in the midst of the most  contentious election in our history.  She may be gone, but she’s still affecting our politics.  R.B.G. was never shy about letting her political feelings be known.  During the 2016 campaign, she called Donald Trump, “a faker.”  She refused to attend Trump State of the Union addresses.  And even her last words, if her granddaughter is to be believed, were purely political, “My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed.”  I hope they made that up, because, if that was her last thought on Earth, it diminishes her legacy.  Democrats don’t care if its true, they’re running with it.  Witness Jerry Nadler, “If Sen. McConnell were to force through a nominee during the lame duck session then the incoming Senate should immediately move to expand the Supreme Court.”  That’s a familiar Democrat solution, we can’t win under the rules, so screw the rules.  And what do you mean “if” Jerry?  You crumbs have been promising to do that for months.  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (All Out Crazy) added, “Republicans are violating Justice Ginsburg’s dying wish.”  Being a Democrat means never having to make any sense.  Violating her dying wish?  If that was her wish, so what?  It’s bad enough federal judges constantly meddle in the operations of the other branches of the government, and that they serve for life, but now we’re supposed to permit a judge to reach out from the grave to control the operations of our government?  Crazy Nancy Pelosi has even suggested “she” could “impeach Donald Trump every day” to prevent him from filling the Court vacancy.  So, let me understand this, a living president should be impeached for performing a function explicitly delegated to him by the Constitution, and Republicans in the Senate should be threatened with retribution for performing a function explicitly delegated to that body by the Constitution, but Democrats can demand that a judge’s last wish be carried out without constitutional authority.  This shouldn’t be surprising, Democrats want dead people to vote, so why not let dead judges rule?  President Trump announced he’ll reveal his nominee for the Court tomorrow.  Even now, business owners in downtown DC are boarding up their windows in anticipation of Supreme Court rioting.  Democrats don’t understand irony.  They demand justice, yet they’re willing to indulge in rioting and other violence in pursuit of what they consider justice.  The problem is, they don’t want  justice.  For Democrats, it’s “JUST US.”  “We get what we want, or else.”  Democrats call the nomination improper so soon before an election.  In 2016,  the immortal R.B.G. said a president’s powers don’t end in the 4th year of his term.  No matter.  Circuit Court Judge, former Notre Dame law professor, and Scalia law clerk, Amy Coney Barrett seems to be the favorite.  Super liberal Harvard professor Noah Feldman clerked with Judge Barrett.  He said, “She was legally prepared enough to go on the court 20 years ago.”  Democrats will fight her.  Judge Barrett has seven children, including two adopted Haitians, so she’s not committed to abortion.  Plus, she’s religious.  Can’t have anyone with religious scruples or morals on the Court.  It will get ugly.  They’ve already begun.  The highly irrelevant Hillary Clinton told Democrats to use every possible procedural obstacle to stop the nomination.   You know, just do what you always do.  The detestable Chuck Schumer called Barrett wildly out of the mainstream, adding, “The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice.”  They did numbnuts.  They chose a president and elected a Republican controlled Senate.  Schumer vows, “everything is on the table,” if the seat is filled, including ending the filibuster, adding new States with Democrat Senators, packing the Supreme Court, and abolishing the electoral college.  In other words, if we can’t win by the rules, we’ll just throw out the Constitution and do what we want.  Which, by the way, they were threatening before R.B.G. died.  Then there’s the violence.  CNN moron Don Lemon, “We’re gonna have to blow up the entire system.”  Former CNN agitator Reza Aslan, “If they even TRY to replace RBG we burn the entire f***ing thing down.” “Over our dead bodies.  Literally.”  O.K. Reza, if that’s the way you want it.  Here’s Hollywood.  Screenwriter Beau Willimon, “We’re shutting this country down if Trump and McConnell try to ram through an appointment before the election.”  Academia?  Professor Emmett Macfarlane, ‘THERE WILL BE RIOTS” “Burn Congress down before letting Trump try to appoint anyone to SCOTUS.”  How about journalism?  Washington Post political commentator Laura Bassett, “If McConnell jams someone through, which he will, there will be riots.”  All in the name of equal justice under law, you see.  The spectacle is about to begin.  All three rings of the circus will be in operation.  Get the popcorn.

Now less than 50 days from the election, and I’m haunted by the nagging question, “Is Joe Biden really presidential timber, or is he just dead wood?”  Biden’s 77 years old, he’s been in Washington since he was 30.  Actually, Biden was narrowly elected to the Senate in 1972, before he was 30 years old and eligible to serve, although Richard Nixon won Delaware by 20 points.  That’s how long Biden has been around; since Republicans had a chance to win Delaware.  Biden first ran for president in 1984, and then again in1988.  He failed both times, unable to get voters excited about his candidacy, and exposed a habit of plaigerizing speeches.  Joe Biden waited 20 years, and then tried again in 2008.  His ability to motivate voters did not improve.  Ultimately in 2008, Il Duce Obama chose Biden as Vice-President, the choice coming down to Biden or Indiana Senator Evan Bayh, because Biden had more energy than Bayh.  So, an additional 12 years after his last presidential run, Biden tried it again.  Let’s be honest.  Even in his prime, Joe Biden was not too smart.  Long before he became Vice-President, Mark Levin had anointed Biden, “the dumbest man in the U.S. Senate.”  And that was in his prime, when Biden was in full possession of his faculties.  Sadly, much like dairy products, Joe Biden has not improved with age,  yet the Democrat Party decided that Biden was their best chance to win in 2020.  That raises several questions.  First, what does that say about the Democrats’ bench.  Biden is far from ideal, his only apparent  advantage being the name recognition you get when you’ve been around since dirt.  His past opposition to busing (“I don’t want my kids going to school in a racial jungle”), and his support for the Clinton Crime Bill, won’t help him with minorities.  Then there are the scandals; family members, including his son, reaping huge profits from shady deals brokered by Good Old Joe.  Then there’s the creepy touching.  Can’t you just see him as the Covid-conscious President?

Charming.  But the most troubling part of the Biden candidacy has to be the fact that, in addition to being a corrupt Washington grafter, Joe Biden also is a demented imbecile.  Now, I certainly don’t want to offend any senile dementia support groups, but it’s a simple fact that Joe Biden’s mental ship has sailed.  To put a point on it, Joe Biden is null and void, and his constant gaffes can’t just be laughed off as, Good Old Joe at it again.  Here are some of his hits, just from the last year.  Joe still thinks he’s Vice-President, telling Iowans he’ll continue policies he and Obama support.  Then again, Biden doesn’t remember when he was Vice-President, claiming he met with Stoneman-Douglas school shooting survivors as Vice-President, though it happened in 2018.  Sometimes, Joe thinks he’s running for the Senate, announcing “I’m Joe Biden, and I’m running for the U.S. Senate.”  He doesn’t know what year it is, vowing, “I’m going to make sure that we rejoin the Paris Peace Accord on day one.”  The Paris Peace Accord ended the Vietnam War in 1973.  He often mixes up Syria and Iraq.   Joe has trouble with numbers,  recently claiming 150 million Americans have been killed by guns since 2007, and claiming there have been 6,114 military Covid deaths.  The real number is 7.   He also touted a child tax credit, claiming it would bring 720 million women into the workforce.  You have to give him the benefit of the doubt on this one, as he didn’t say “American” women.  And he has a nasty habit of telling the truth.  Here’s Biden’s healthcare plan, “The public option will be available with my plan.  We’ll make sure it’s not quality, we’ll make sure it’s only affordable.”  Biden knows just what to say to court black voters, “poor kids  are just as bright and talented as white kids.”  Not good enough?  He then told a black interviewer, If  you can’t decide whether to vote for me or Trump “you ain’t black.”  Biden’s speeches often devolve into word salad,  “COVID has taken this year — just since the outbreak — has taken 100 year.  Look, here’s…the lives…it’s just … I mean, think about it.  More lives this year than any other year for the past 100 years.”  Huh?  Then there’s Biden on the Declaration of Independence, “We hold these truths to be self-evident,  all men and women – created by – go –  you know –  you know the thing.”  We know the thing, but Joe doesn’t know he’s alive.  Then there are the crotchety old man episodes.  Biden doesn’t like to be questioned, telling a woman, “No you haven’t! [been to a caucus]  You’re a lying, dog-faced pony soldier.”  Biden then told a Michigan voter “You’re full of shit,” wagged his finger in the man’s face, and suggested that they go outside.  I don’t want to bash Old Joe, but these are just his highlights from the past year, and they keep getting worse.  All of us get old, and sadly, some of us begin to lose our faculties sooner than others.  No thinking person can honestly evaluate the shape that Biden is in, and seriously want to hand the nuclear codes over to him.  That’s why both Biden and Kamala Harris this week referred to the Harris-Biden Administration.  That won’t work.  Since President Trump has been closing the gap in polls that had Biden way ahead, the Biden team has pulled him out of his basement, conceding that he will have to campaign outside.  So far, they’ve managed to have Biden answer softball questions with notes, or reading from a teleprompter.  This suggests that the questioners are carefully chosen, that they are given the questions to ask and that Biden is given the pre-programmed answers.  But he can’t even do that right, stumbling through his responses.  Biden’s outdoor events are carefully staged.

Check out his notes.  Looks like Don Corleone, right before he fell out of the chair.  This plan won’t work in the debates.  I’m sorry, I know that Biden is just the anti-Trump candidate, but I can’t imagine anyone seriously wanting to make him President.  As my late grandfather used to say, “He’s no there all.”  For fans of Star Trek, Joe Biden is President John Gill, from the episode, Patterns of Force, simply a puppet to be manipulated by sinister forces.  They even look alike.

Joe Biden isn’t presidential timber, he’s just dead wood.

For the better part of two thousand years, the Catholic Church has had seven sacraments: Baptism, Holy Communion, Confession, Confirmation, Marriage, Holy Orders, and Extreme Unction.  Now, Father Kenneth Boller, SJ, of St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in New York City, in concert with Black Lives Matter, has declared a new sacrament; Unholy Collaboration.  On August 30th, Boller led his congregation in vows, reminiscent of the Baptismal vows, denouncing “white privilege.”  The Pastor led the vows during Mass, just before the final blessing.  Of course, the Mass was celebrated remotely on video, as the Church hasn’t exhibited the courage to protect its own right to exist by standing up to a government that bans in-church Masses, while condoning mass riots whose object is to burn down churches.  Here’s Father Boller’s new Profession of the Faith:

“Do you support racial justice, equity, and compassion?  Yes.

Do you affirm that white privilege and the culture of white supremacy must be dismantled where it is present?  Yes.

Do you support racial equity, racial justice, and liberation for every person?  Yes.

Do you affirm the inherent worth and dignity of every person? Yes.

Therefore, from this day forward, will you strive to understand more deeply the injustice and suffering white privilege and white supremacy cause?  Yes.

Will you commit to help transform our Church culture to one that is actively engaged in seeking racial justice and equity for everyone?  Yes.

Will you make a greater effort to treat all people with the same respect you expect to receive?  Yes.

Will you commit to developing the courage to live your beliefs and values of racial justice and equality?  Yes.

Will you strive to eliminate racial prejudice from your thoughts and actions, so that you can better promote the racial justice efforts of our Church?  Yes.

Will you renew and honor this pledge daily, knowing that our Church and our community, our nation, and our world will be better places because of our efforts.  Yes.”

They say that politics makes for strange bedfellows, but collaboration between Black Lives Matter and the Catholic Church is stranger yet.  After all, the leadership of BLM is comprised of avowed Marxists, and it was Karl Marx who labelled religion, “the opium of the people.”  Father Boller has thrown in with the Marxists, though I’m not sure BLM would approve of all his vows. Dismantle white supremacy “where it is present?”  Father Boller has forgotten his catechism, “Where is white supremacy?  White supremacy is everywhere.”  In truth, the Black Lives Matter movement itself has become a pseudo-religion for its adherents.  BLM founder Patrisse Cullors says as much, characterizing her efforts as a “calling,” “Part of our calling as people who do this work for Black lives is to lift our people up, both in their living, but also in their death.”  Hence, black people killed in encounters with police are the new martyrs of the BLM faith.  Many of the BLM led protests (riots) take on features that are reminiscent of religion: there is collective worship, public confession of the sin of whiteness, requests for salvation, devotional poses and gestures, and group prayer; e.g., chanting, “Pigs in a blanket, fry ’em like bacon.”  Lately, BLM “missionaries” have invaded restaurants, where they’ve demanded that innocent diners raise their fists and swear allegiance to Black Lives Matter, or else face violence and denunciation as white supremecists.  It’s just a matter of time before such heretics are burned at the stake by BLM.  That might come in handy too if Covid restrictions extend outdoor dining into the winter.  Anyhow, the Sacrament of Unholy Collaboration, or maybe they’ll call it Extreme Marxism, should come as no surprise in a year as screwy as 2020.  If billionaires, who owe their wealth to capitalism, can support Marxists dedicated to the end of capitalism, then why shouldn’t the Church get on board, even though ending capitalism in America will eliminate the Church’s biggest source of funding.  Maybe they’ll take a vow of poverty.  The thing is, much of what’s in Father Boller’s vows is indisputable, and has been part of Church teaching forever: racial justice, equity, compassion, the inherent worth and dignity of every person.  Nobody’s against those things, right?  The problem is, there’s more to it than that.  BLM isn’t the benign force for racial justice that it pretends to be.  Think the BLM link to Marxist revolutionaries is overblown?  Think again.  The funding arm of Black Lives Matter is controlled by the Thousand Currents Group, an organization run by convicted terrorist, and avowed revolutionary, Susan Rosenberg.  Rosenberg is suspected, among other things, of helping her idol, cop killer Joanne Chesimard, escape from prison.  She was convicted on weapons and explosives charges and sentenced to 58 years in prison.  Maybe that’s where BLM gets the idea that violence is acceptable.  Rosenberg served 16 years before being pardoned by President Bill Clinton.  “Thou shall not kill” is a religious tenet that came down the mountain with Moses, but I guess the Church can overlook that flaw in BLM orthodoxy.  Black Lives Matter also supports unlimited abortion, which I thought the Church was against, but I guess they can ignore that little flaw as well, in the name of “social justice.”  But they better be careful.  In the 1930’s, the Spanish clergy  preached in favor of social justice, equity, compassion, and the inherent worth and dignity of every person.  The clergy, by and large, didn’t overtly oppose the Republican (Communist) forces that fought the Monarchists.  The Communists said they were fighting against fascism.  Sound familiar?  They began their revolution with protests, and burned many churches throughout Spain.  Sound familiar?  These “anti-fascists” believed that terror was integral to the anti-fascist war effort.  Can you say Antifa?  In the end, the Marxists killed nearly 7,000 Spanish priests, brothers and nuns in the name of social justice.  The difference between the conditions during the Spanish Civil War and today’s civil unrest is that the Spanish Communists actually were fighting against fascists, while Black Lives Matter is fighting against the America that defeated the fascists.  So I hope Father Boller knows what he’s doing.  And now, bow your heads for the Black Lives Matter benediction.  “Submit or you’ll have no peace, no peace shall we give you.  The Mass is ended, go set another church on fire.”

For four years, all we’ve heard from Democrats is that Donald Trump isn’t presidential.  He has a bad tone, you see.  He gets things done, but his tone is unacceptable.  Trump is just too scary.  He frightens the delicate little snowflakes who inhabit the Democrat Party.  I recently noted, just last week as a matter of fact, that Democrats habitually accuse Trump of doing precisely the things that they, themselves, are doing.  Democrats accuse Trump of egregious things he hasn’t done, while at the same time doing far worse themselves.  The Democrats either don’t recognize this fact, because they’re so debilitated by Trump Derangement Syndrome that they’re beyond understanding, or they’re counting on simply being able to lie, and have the media swear to whatever crap they peddle for truth.  Donald Trump’s tone is objectionable, right?  I’m sure y0u’ve heard that.  I guess it means that a president shouldn’t be crude or come across as a bully, right?  And now comes one Joseph Robinette Biden.  Good old Uncle Joe.  You know, the uncle who lives in the basement.  The one you hope never gets too close to you.  He’s just a friendly, unthreatening, understanding fellow.  He feels our pain, he’ll bring us all together, a uniter, not a divider, and whatever other bullcrap the Dems have been shoveling.  The Dems spent a week spreading  that crap during their virtual convention, telethon, or whatever that was two weeks ago.  So, riddle me this.  If Joe Biden is such a benevolent friend to Man, why is he trying to shakedown American voters?  Here’s what good old Uncle Joe said the other day, when he emerged from his basement.  “[Trump] may believe mouthing the words ‘law and order’ makes him strong, but his failure to call on his own supporters to stop acting as an armed militia in this country shows you how weak he is.  Does anyone believe there will be less violence … if Donald Trump is reelected?”  For those of you who don’t speak Democrat, permit me to translate – “Nice city you have here.  It would be a shame if an army of thugs burns it to the ground.  I can protect you though.  Just vote for Democrats, and I’ll make the violence go away.”  Talk about a “tone” problem, huh?  To my mind, the President’s tone is one of leadership, while Biden’s tone is that of a mob boss.  Which is fitting, now that I think of it, as the Democrat Party has become the Party of the violent mob.  The only armed militia in the streets are the hooded bastards of Antifa, Socialist revolutionaries reminiscent of Nazi Brown Shirts.  Biden made his comments as it became more and more evident that the Democrats have condoned the rioting to the point where it’s hurting Democrat chances for November.  The comments prove that Joe Biden always knows just the wrong thing to say.  What he was supposed to do was to try to convince voters that, despite what they see with their own lying eyes, Democrats really do believe that laws should be enforced, and order should be restored.  A tough task, to be sure, but Joe totally blew it.  He screwed up.  He told the truth, which is that Democrats, from crazy Maxine Waters on down, have precipitated the violence.  Remember, “Get in their faces.  Don’t let them rest.”  The Antifa and Black Lives Matter rioters have taken Mad Maxine’s advice.  Democrats are profiting from the violence – contributions to Black Lives Matter wind up in their pockets.  And I predict that we’ll learn that Democrats are financing Antifa and BLM violence.  The Justice Department is investigating that right now.  Biden’s statement was wrong on so many levels.  First, Trump is failing to call on what supporters to stop acting as an armed militia?  One 17 year old kid with a gun in Kenosha who said he supported Trump?  Secondly, what makes Joe Biden think he can deliver on his shakedown promise.  When a mob boss tells you he’ll protect you if you pay his price, he can deliver.  Consider the Biden comments.  He’s claiming to be able to call off the Antifa and BLM dogs.  This suggests that the Democrats are in control of the rioters.  If so, Biden has admitted that his Party is responsible for the burning and looting.  That won’t help him or other Democrats.  But it’s worse.  Assuming the Democrats are using the rioters to get elected, what if they can’t control them?  I’ve pondered before who’s using who.  What if the revolutionaries are using the Democrats to gain a foothold in their bid to overthrow the government.  They’ve given aid and comfort to urban terrorists.  If the terrorists decide they’re not going to stop, Biden is ill equipped to restore order.  Like most of Biden’s pronouncements, his latest gabbling is a bald faced lie.  He accuses the President of causing the violence, in the face of overwhelming proof to the contrary.  If President Trump had not intervened in Portland, the Federal courthouse would be in a tent next to the burned-out shell where it once stood.  Biden’s statement may be crazy, but his message is crystal clear, “If Democrats lose the election, your safety is at risk.  Your home or your business may be looted and burned.  And don’t even think about exhibiting support for Trump, or your very life is at stake.”  This last point was driven home by the video of the Portland Trump supporter shot to death in the street while murderous Antifa bastards cheered his death.  We could afford for Joe Biden to be Good Old Dopey Joe when he wasn’t in a position to to do much damage, but now the stakes are too high.  A president who’s willing to sell America out to terrorists, and who’s also too demented to perceive the danger is unacceptable.  Consider this recent gem from Good Old Joe, “COVID has taken this year, just since the outbreak, has taken more than 100 years.  Look, the lives, when you think about it, more lives this year than any other year for the past 100 years.”  A person in touch with reality would understand that the “novel coronavirus” was unknown prior to 2020.  Joe doesn’t understand.  He’s null and void, and wrong for America.