The Two Elephants in the Room are . . . . By Gene W. Edwards. Posted 8/22/2023.
The Two Elephants in the Room are . . . . By Gene W. Edwards. Posted 8/22/2023.
My intuitive estimates: Maybe MAGA diehards represent 20% of the whole electorate. As for 11/8/2024, General Election Day, I predict only 67% of Republicans would vote for Trump — but I predict he “drops out” in Sept. or Oct. of this year. He’s even running out of campaign cash used for legal fees. His comeuppance is just around the corner. Whoever the Republican presidential candidate is next year, by the General Election, I predict only 75% of the Republicans will vote for him. I hope that candidate is Chris Christie, double named after Christ (ha). I don’t care for Tim Scott and Ron DeSantis at all. Both are pushing the Big Lie that the election is stolen and that the Department of Justice has been weaponized against Trump. Yeah. They’re either feebleminded or just colossally dishonest — or AFRAID of Trump.
Which brings us to the elephant in the room. The Republican have their first debate tomorrow night — Wednesday, 8/23 — Trump missing? And there will be an elephant in the room. No, it’s not Donald Trump, present or absent. It’s Chris Christie. Not only is he vociferously anti-Trump (similar to me). He IS an elephant, a master of avoirdupois tonnage of the midriff. He looks like the Republican party symbol of an elephant plus a centaur torso, neck, and head. He’s hard to miss, in more ways than one. He’s bigger than life with a brilliant and acerbic line of patter, not unlike Michael Cohen. He’ll put Trump on a skewer, pillory the Trump toadies in the debate, and present himself as the only alternative to Trump’s psychopathic menace. Will it work? Christie is Sicilian by ancestry and is planning a Sicilian Vespers particularly on Trump and DeSantis. Christie is leaving their party of Trump, is declaring his independence from their mainline fix laced with fentanyl leading to party death.
I’ve already presented my predictions to you. Biden drops out, over health, stress, and graft allegations. Kamala Harris runs instead, and narrowly wins in the Electoral College, with 290 votes out of 538 (270 to win). Again, like the Republicans, I think only 75% of Democrats show up to vote. They are underwhelmed by Biden and by Harris. Only the abortion issue — women voters — bails them out.
I really don’t think the Republicans have anyone but Chris Christie. Chrisie is anti-abortion — and that policy position alone could drown his candidacy. He’ll leave the issue up to the Supreme Court and the states, but the Republicans are on the wrong side of history (public sentiment) in several big issues.
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There is another elephant of sorts. You noticed how big George Floyd was, 6’4” and 223 pounds; 6’6” in his heyday. Well, Capitol Policeman Harry Dunn, another Libra, is 6’7” and 375 pounds — even bigger than life. (A Harry Dunne was also in the movie Dumb and Dumber.) He’s been the main eloquent spokesman regarding all the racism and violence he saw and experienced on 1/6/2021. Is he disabled now? Note: “The attack was the culmination of a seven-part plan by Trump to overturn the election.[31][32] Five people died either shortly before, during, or following the event: one was shot by Capitol Police, another died of a drug overdose, and three died of natural causes.[24][33] Many people were injured, including 138 police officers. Four officers who responded to the attack died by suicide within seven months.[25]” (From: “January 6 United States Capitol Attack,” on Wikipedia.)
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I researched Fulton County, GA via Wikipedia. Take a look at the county’s impressive courthouse! The county includes 90% of Atlanta and one million people. It’s mostly black, white, and Asian, with high per capita income and household income. Georgia and Atlanta are the beacon of the South. Fulton County, GA includes an impressive diversity of businesses/enterprises. Sherman burned Atlanta. Now Atlanta’s burning Trump. Watch Trump flounder and then fail in September and October of 2023.
He should sneak out of the country, seek political asylum in a country willing to take his money — and save taxpayers probably 100s of millions of dollars in the court cases against him. The Georgia case includes 19 indicted conspirators and an additional 30 unindicted co-conspirators. For security reasons, most courtrooms will only try up to six defendants at a time. The Georgia case, particularly, is going to take time. A courtroom would be a zoo if all 19 +30 were being examined and giving testimony concurrently in one giant case.
Love,
Gene.
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