Saturday, September 14, 2024

D.L. Gardner: Wisdom to Know the Difference

People say America has never been this divided before. Our founders declared America’s independence from England 248 years ago way back when this election started. As Jerry Clower used to say, “Someone shoot up here amongst us. One of us has got to have some relief. ” We’re glad the kickoff has finally begun.

Now they’re saying Trump is the favorite for those who want change. Maybe that’s why VP Harris is trying to move her policy positions to Trump’s right. You know, “No taxes on tips!” “Frack all you want! I’ve been for it all along.” “Universal healthcare for everybody who thinks it’s a good idea and doesn’t care how much taxes go up!”

Trump continues to say he wants to build the economy from the middle class up. Harris wants to build the economy from the government out. At least that’s what someone at the Wall Street Journal quipped. And, they don’t quip about anything unless it’s true.

Jobs numbers have been dropping the past few months everytime they have to revise them. After Harris began lowering inflation rates, prices on everything have dropped to about 20% higher than they were under Trump. Harris wants to fix everything they broke back on their first day in office. Have you heard her talking about the benefits of walls? Or, was that Walz?

Governor Walz from one of the snowy states in the midwest has been a good call for Harris. He brings a lot to the table though his wife evidently believes he needs some refresher courses in grammar when he lies. And, Walz actually has experience defunding police while he and his family open their windows to smell the fires during riots downtown.

Of course Walz does not have the experience Harris has dealing with military situations overseas. Everyone remembers how well Biden and Harris handled the airlift out of Afghanistan. Biden even boasted about not losing a single service member while serving as commander in chief. Or, was that his dog? As far as we know Commander has only bitten Secret Service agents, but not killed any of them, yet.

VP Harris continues to tout her on-the-job training with President Biden. She stayed with him faithfully as the last person in the room when he was interacting with world leaders. What better teacher could she have had than a man who has held a government job for more than 50 years. Can you imagine how much knowledge about foreign affairs Biden has stored all these years upstairs as well as in the basement beside the Corvette?

VP Harris has also cultivated an amiable personality as a boss. And yet, as a senator and vice president she has struggled to maintain staff. It seems that every time she gets one staffer broken in, another one leaves. But those who support her admire her moxey. Biden may have had a reputation for “no bologna,” but Harris has a reputation for securing our borders. Those who have slipped through have filled many of the good jobs lost by those who had to stay home during COVID-19.

One of the goals of elections is to change what needs to change. The Harris-Walz ticket has highlighted needed changes and accepted what they won’t change. May voters have the wisdom to know the difference.

Daniel L. Gardner is a columnist who lives in Starkville, MS. You may contact him at PJandMe2@gmail.com.

15 comments:

Anonymous said...

Lay off the crack pipe Daniel. You are all over the place.

Anonymous said...

Is he trying to bring awareness of mental illness with this crap? This is one of the worst written rants I’ve seen. How does this man teach?

Anonymous said...

No, 6:56 - He's not all over the place. He painted a short but perfect picture of what Trump and most of us are up against.

And speaking of Biden, Daniel is not the one with the crack pipe. There's even one in the Corvette.

Anonymous said...

I wonder if DL knows anything about coaching football. I’m a creative problem solver.

Anonymous said...

Can you solve the problem of the obscure post?

Anonymous said...

@10:36. Not on JJ. Because KF has a closed mind and a censor’s gavel. You can only slip the truth past him with obscurity and dog whistles.

Anonymous said...

Hey, Daniel - woof, woof, meow, meow.

Anonymous said...

Daniel should eat a Trump sandwich while he drinks his Kool-Aid: White bread, full of baloney, heavy on the Russian dressing and a small pickle.

Anonymous said...

@10:36 - sure I’ll explain. Daniel is a terrible journalist who teaches at MS State. MS State has a terrible football team who got blown out by Toledo. If DL can coach football even a little bit, we won’t have to try and translate this wall of crap every week and MS State football can’t get any worse so … win - win.

Anonymous said...

DL and Trump are much alike. They use a lot of words to spew only nonsense and ignorance of the facts. I think the whole "eating cats and dogs" statements by the GOP candidates says it all. They believe in " the Big Lie" as did Hitler. Hitler made Germans believe Jews were eating babies. Indeed, if DL ever visited the propaganda section of the Holocaust museum in Washington, he could read entire sentences and phrases MAGA has borrowed from the Nazis. And Trump is travelling with Loomer who is among the most bizarre Neo Nazis. At least , Trump doesn't really try to mix religion with politics but it's probably because he had NEVER been a member of a church or regularly attended any church nor can he quote any verse from the Bible.
Trump is the rich kid we all met in college whose Daddy bought his pass in his PASS/FAIL schools. Bet a lot of you don't realize that schools that are difficult to get into, once you do, it's not A's to F's. It's Honors/ Pass/Fail. There's a reason Trump threatened to sue his alma mater if they release his class standing.
Some of us knew Trump was a joke back in 1968. We knew his classmates.
If you never venture out of Mississippi or when you do, don't make real friends and you bother to actually get to know them, you get a very limited view of the "real world".

Anonymous said...

Harris at the top of the ticket peeled away any support Trump had coming from white women. Harris being ostensibly black -- maybe -- peeled away any support Trump had coming from blacks. And continuing with the dogs and cats thingy, women see that as mean. There goes the rest of the women vote for Trump.

That will be excuse enough, then, to select and install Harris come November. You heard it here first.

Anonymous said...

9:28 AM, We need to get out more? That's funny. It took you about 4 sentences to get around to calling half the country Hitler and Nazi followers. There's a name for that strangely obsessed behavior. It's called Godwin's Law. Seems like you should be the one getting out more.
You knew Donald Trump in 1968? Go lie somewhere else.

Anonymous said...

@9:28 This kind of unhinged rhetoric is why you leftist nut jobs keep trying and failing to assassinate President Trump. FYI he is anointed by God and your evil can’t work against him!

Anonymous said...

The drama and jealousy from the left, on here, was heavy and stinky yesterday. These people can't enjoy a damn thing without pissing on it.

Angry, obsessed, unhappy people who want everybody else to join their pity party.

Anonymous said...

@5:49 - Trump is anointed by god?! Some people are delusional. Trump doesn't believe in God and doesn't attend church. The only things he is anointed with are orange hair dye and bronzer facial makeup.


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