The presidential race tops ballots filled with other candidates and issues deemed important enough to merit a vote by the people. Voters like to believe we have a voice in government. Too many times in 2020 we’ve seen candidates at the federal level along with mayors and governors exercising authority voters did not give to them.
The LEFT are all in a dither worrying about a peaceful transition of power in the White House. After the chaos they have continually drummed up the past four years “resist”ing all things Trump, regular folks wonder what they’ll do if President Trump is reelected. We’ve witnessed the LEFT peacefully protesting as cities burned, protesters ransacked, looted, and destroyed local and chain stores, and attacked and vilified police while mayors and governors empathized with outraged mobs.
What if Joe Biden wins? The last time a socialist won, opponents went on with our lives and waited eight years to elect someone who wasn’t a career politician. President Trump ended wars and brokered peace deals in the Middle East. His economic plan reduced unemployment to record lows for all races and created more jobs than we had workers to fill. Under President Trump the economy added about $6,000 more to median household income in three years.
After 47 years in Washington, Joe Biden promises to undo everything President Trump has done. Biden said on national TV he would shut America down if necessary to control the pandemic, and bemoaned “a dark winter ahead” in his last debate with Trump. Biden is projecting a gloomy picture for America’s future. But, that’s what the LEFT has been projecting for America every day, week, and month for the past four years.
The LEFT has been hyping and touting the pandemic as a political problem for about eight months now. That’s the club they’ve used to bash Trump and his supporters. This is after they minimized the dangers of coronavirus. Remember LEFT headlines during the first three months of 2020?
“Who Says It’s Not Safe to Travel to China?”—New York Times, February 5, 2020
“Coronavirus is not going to cause a major issue in the United States.”—Dr. David Agus, CBS This Morning Saturday, February 8, 2020
“So if you’re freaked out at all about the coronavirus, you should be more concerned about the flu.”—Anderson Cooper, CNN, March 4, 2020”
President Trump initiated “Operation Warp Speed” to develop a vaccine and has planned for the military to deliver 200,000 doses before the end of this year to our most vulnerable citizens.
No one is voting for Joe Biden. The LEFT are voting against President Trump, his supporters, and the coronavirus, as if they would have banned travel from infected nations and developed a vaccine in less than a year. “Wear a mask!” “Isolate!” “Lockdown!”
A friend told me the mayor of his town had reported him for not wearing a mask, and he’d been given a ticket. If I had written that sentence nine months ago, no one would have believed it. The LEFT has been using the coronavirus to dictate and control what we can do, where we can go, and even what we can say. If Joe Biden wins the presidency, we can expect more government control from Washington paid for with our rising taxes from dwindling paychecks and bank accounts.
Daniel L. Gardner is a syndicated columnist who lives in Starkville, MS. You may contact him at PJandMe2@gmail.com.
46 comments:
“ What if Joe Biden wins? The last time a socialist won”
You should really look up the definition of socialism. You just look stupid.
“What if the left wins?”
Then Trump will claim he won in spite of the vote tally and try to further divide the country and likely call for a civil war. It’s going to be UGLY!
What if the left wins?
Q Anon will tell the boomerwaffen to take up arms to save the children from the underground adrenachrome extraction laboratory bunkers. Hopefully the nutjobs never come back out of whatever sewers that they climb into.
ended wars? where??
Nice revisionist history about spending 8 years "going on with our lives." No one remembers the Tea Party? The 2010 mid-terms? What about birtherism? The tan suit uproar? How about Mitch McConnell actively blocking legislation and judicial appointments (not just Garland)? It's a nice narrative that creates a false sense of decorum on the right but it's devoid of facts. No there weren't riots or massive city-closing protests (but those of late aren't related to the election directly anyway). But the conservatives/republicans continuously tried to undermine Obama and their base of support was energized by a continuous protest movement that resulted in the political philosophy of DJT being adopted by him around 2014. If you are going to argue in favor of 4 more years or try to scare people with 4 years of the alternative, at least have a relationship with reality that resembles the truth of the recent past.
Mr.Gardner, you seem to have missed that conservatives have left the GOP. You seem to have missed that the LEFT as you describe them is no larger than the KKK, Neo Nazi, Proud Boy, dumber than a post wing of the GOP.
Some of us are fiscal conservatives but we are not blinded to serious social issues that are more draconian in some States and towns than in others.
We actually noticed how the debt was soaring before the coronavirus hit.
We noticed that some spending was not practical.
We aren't anti-science or prone to myths. And, we do believe expertise and experience has value.
We don't like Obamacare but do not understand why the GOP couldn't come up with a replacement when controlling both houses of Congress. We have seen nothing in writing...NOTHING. So we think you should put up or shut up before throwing out everything with no plan to replace what you've erased.
Some of us still see Russia and China as threats. We don't like their interference and we don't think we made a good deals in our trade war. We noted the Trump Organization's contract with China.
We also understand why the peaceful transition of power is important and know the difference between fraud and suppression. Suppression of any legal citizens vote by closing or under manning precincts is bad.
We support the idea that each State gets to determine their voting rules.
Your entire article is propaganda.
I'd appreciate it if you would do more studying before writing about something as important as our form of government and issues in our election.
Or as famously once said, " where's the beef?". I hear lots of talk about a beautiful great burger but where's is it? The new wall is collapsing as it was built on unstable soil. Not even that promise is enacted with any efficiency or attention to detail.
"His economic plan reduced unemployment to record lows for all races and created more jobs than we had workers to fill."
Pretty easy thing to do when you can spend money like a drunk sailor as Trump has. The last four years has been nothing but a complete departure from conservative values, democratic norms and standing in the world to support an unqualified baffoon simply because he can appoint Supreme Court justices. And when he loses by 10M+ votes tomorrow, the entire republican party will turn on him like Ben Sasse has already done.
My guess is that the boomers will do whatever Q anon tells them to do. They have nothing to lose and a lot more guns and ammo than intelligence.
It looks like a socialist just stupidly posted.
Biden says he will take our guns, all of them. Well, come on over.
No state engages in more government control than the state of MS.
Either way I truly expect some sort of out lashing. It will depend on the winner as to how violent things will be.
All I know is that Nate Silver isn't even right as often as a broken clock. The Trump rallies are as big and sometimes bigger than 2016. The democrats k ow this and they are so desperate. They continue to peddle the conspiracy theory that Trump can only win by cheating.
Mr. Gardner-
If you realized how fatuous your comments were, I think you would give up writing.
I have been a Republican for 40 plus years but will not vote for Trump because he is a :
1)- liar
2)- draft dodger
3)- bully
4)- womanizer
I'll gladly take my chances with a " socialist. "
A “career politician”? Trump has toyed out loud with the idea of undoing term limits for the president. If that doesn’t sound like an aspiring career politician, I don’t know what does.
At least actual career politicians don’t mock the disabled, brag about sexual assault, completely bungle coronavirus responses to the point that our economy is ruined even more than it had to be, say there are good people on “both sides” at neo nazi rallies, have kids locked in cages, and call thugs trying to run Biden’s bus off the road “patriots.” This guy is a real threat to our democracy, and I, for once, can’t wait to see him gone.
More and more politics devolves into and ever more hostile hammering from the left and the right with the middle taking the beating
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyhaVaZgqTI
Rush's demand that the right wing conservatives make Obama a 'do nothing administration' and culminated in Trump going to the Whitehouse. But now the left will feel justified in returning in kind and the middle will again take the blow. Such is politics these days.
I hope the left wins and they accelerate their agenda and force the milquetoast right into really becoming the hardcore fascists the media describes them to be.
Trump is not even close to being literally Hitler.
I love this guys columns. They are too detached from reality and too poorly written to be satire, but as honest to goodness drivel, they are a perfect encapsulation of the modern GOP.
You referring to Trump or bill Clinton?
Bill. Clinton. Is. Not. On. The. Ballot.
Why does this have to be explained?
KF, that was a nice fluff piece. The revisionist history is pretty astounding. I still want to know how a Republican controlled legislature did not produce anything to remove Obamacare? Trump didn't drain the swamp, he made just made the murkier and the swamp things dive a little deeper and play a little dirtier. Trump has conned and pimped the Republican party into making his friends richer while pissing in the face of middle class America for four years, especially those that have blindly supported him. Unfortunately, Biden will be no better. It is a sad state of affairs that this is what American politics has devolved into, a con-man and a lifetime political do-nothing leading the greatest country on the planet.
Why is a guy who has filed six (6) bankruptcies that has cost a multitude of hardworking Americans millions and millions of dollars treated like a rock star? This kind of credit history would not allow him to be a regular federal employee, so why have we allowed him to hold the highest office in the land?
Don't get me started on the loser Biden. He is an unqualified buffoon. What has he ever done as a politician that has positively affected the US? I am not talking some pork project for his friends and family, but the nation as a whole.
Neither of these men are qualified for the office. We as voters have let the extreme left and right soil our nation to nearly being unrecognizable. Shame on us for siding with either side of what currently exists. The Trumps, AOCs, Bernies, et al. should help us fine common sense and common ground not rule us. We shouldn't allow them to divide us in the name of some extremist ideas.
@11:07, Biden isn’t a socialist. Harris, the one actually running for President is a COMMUNIST, you are correct.
@11:13 Hopefully
@11:26 “Proud Boys” are a bunch of israel-loving, civic nationalists who just want the country destroyed slower than the left, not Nazis or KKK
@12:51 Here, I’ll do Biden
1)- Senile
2)-Owned by China due to Hunters deals
3)-Child-sniffer, it’s on video, don’t deny it
4)-Liar, repeatedly tried to blackify himself and his past, when we’ve seen his videos from the 70s and 80s
@12:58- hopefully
to 12:51
Stay home in your basement w joe. You will get the crappy world you deserve. Lesser of 2 BAD choices, certainly, but I prefer the lesser of 2 evils.
The president that follows Trump will be universally loved. It will be so refreshing for American citizens to have someone they respect making decisions on their behalf. There is nowhere to go but up from here. We can all tell our grandchildren about the dark years and hopefully they won’t make the same mistake when they grow up.
“ No one is voting for Joe Biden. The LEFT are voting against President Trump, his supporters, and the coronavirus”
In reality, the only people I’ve heard that are voting against a boogeyman platform are the lifelong Republicans that are too ashamed to admit they like Trump because he is the opposite of everything they claim to care about and stand for. He is a horrible person and a worse leader. He is trash and everyone knows it, even the fantasy writers on the right trying to fool the masses with their fairy tales.
I did not realize QAnon had syndicated columnists now. Biden will have the highest percentage of Republican support in American history because of Trump.
"The president that follows Trump will be universally loved. It will be so refreshing for American citizens to have someone they respect making decisions on their behalf."
Which one? Mike Pence? Eric? Don Jr.? Want to look further out than the next 24 years?
Turnabout is fair play?
Most of the folks hanging out at Trump Rallies will not even vote.
Let's hope that after Trump wins this time the left will admit defeat and actually look at why people won't vote for them instead of doubling down on crazy as they have for the past four years. And let's also hope that we haven't raised millions of kids who don't understand the disaster that socialism is.
Early in Obama's first administration, Time magazine had a cover stating, "We are now Socialists."
Gardner is a lot smarter than those caterwauling posters here.
I see Tom and Donna have posted many times on this thread.
I was willing to give this guy a little attention until he writes "The last time a socialist won..." I get sick and tired of these idiots who think just calling people socialists, communists, or fascists with no factual basis somehow defines the other person's politics. Sure there are people who advocate a socialist takeover, but just because they are more liberal than you does not make them a socialist. Just because a person is more conservative than you does not make a person a facist or neo-nazi. We've had liberal presidents and we've had conservative presidents and we are not a socialist country or a facist country. We will survive this crazy election, hopefully learn from it, and four years from now, do it again. Bet on it!
Man it looks like a lot of you on here already think 65 passed and went straight with the puff-puff-give.
What he left out is that our current situation is ALL obama's fault. The biggest mistake America ever made.
I quit reading after the first twelve posts, most of which were penned by the same socialist malcontent.
PS: If Griffis wanted to lose some votes, he did the right thing in paying Feel Brant to do a commercial endorsement. Almost cost him my vote, but I'm not really into cutting off my nose.
Bryant's self-stroking ego-centrism is resoundingly repugnant. "I appointed him and I am proud of him". Exactly like the parent of a sixth grader is proud of her child making honor roll.
My main concern is adding DC as a state so 2 Senators can be added to the Democratic side and doing away with the electoral college. Do most of you want California, New York, New Jersey, Michigan, Ohio deciding our president every election? Once that occurs our country will be forever changed. Look at what Biden promises to the 35 and under crowd, free health care and we will payoff your student loans, the 2 major issues with that group. I suppose he will pay me back for my oldest daughters college and my twins present college expense that I started saving for 3 months after they were born.
I really like all the post from the "Boo Hoo, I didn't get a trophy for finishing in last place crowd"......
Sure is funny that if you follow the Democrat votes west on I-20, then north on Hwy 61 the big difference in how they improved once successful cities, towns and counties with Jackson being their crowning achievement. Meanwhile the "Red" communities thrive in all aspects!!
Y'all going to learn today!
4:53, No, it isn't all Obama's fault. The odious "Patriot Act" was George Bush's idea. Speaking of Big George, Obama spent both terms whining about Bush. Trump talks about Obama now to link him to Biden. Obama more than doubled the debt. The debt has increased under Trump, but not at Obama's rate.
Trump hasn't constantly blamed Obama the was Obama did Bush. Bush was not a good President. Barak "manufacturing jobs aren't coming back" Obama was an awful President.
As for Gardner, he sure beats Sid and Bill as a columnist.
7:04. Yeah- that analogy works in Mississippi. Ever been to a Blue state? Plenty of thriving Blue communities..just not here or in Red states..
I am a Democrat. I am not a socialist or a Communist or a radical. I support Joe Biden because his view of the role of government is close to mine. And he is not a divider. Trump is a divider. He has lied to his base and convinced them the “left” wants to take away their liberty. And the
Republican Party for the most party has been mute in response to his constant deception. Sad.
8:08...yep been to the Blue states......same thing you see here. The Blue voters left the cites to get away from the same thing happening in Jackson.
Prime example: ST. Louis, Cincinnati, Baltimore, Detroit, Chicago, Memphis.
Last time I was in a Blue state, toured the suburbs and marveled at all the gated communities, not streets like in Jackson, but whole subdivisions with their private armed security inside the gates. There are a lot more neighborhoods in the blue states that blacks don't go, way more so that the Red states.
Coumo says the 1st amendment doesn't apply to "hate speech."
Nevada says you can gather at a craps table but not at church.
Greenville, MS tried to ban in-car parking lot worship services.
Blue mayors say BLM riots are allowed as "peaceful protests." How about Neighborhood gatherings? The mayors say "no."
8:16 says the claims of liberty being under assault are a "deception." That isn't sad. That is a lie.
This is the first time, in my lifetime, that Texas, Georgia, and Arizona, all traditionally solid red states were considered to be "up for grabs". An entire group of Republicans (Lincoln Project) and many others are backing Biden. That is no coincidence. That should tell you all you need to know about this president and the Republican party should be worried about its future based on those things.
Before Trump, you couldn't distinguish one political party from the other. They were essentially different sides of the same coin. Trump appeared to be different even though I still have my doubts. That is why members of both corrupt parties attacked Trump on behalf of the intelligence agency's.
I can guarantee you that Mr. Gardner doesn't make enough money to be affected by Joe Biden's tax increases.
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