A little bit of everything
I’m going to handicap the Mayor’s race for you. It’s going to be one of the two candidates pictured above. You can thank me later. Baltimore needs and deserves so much more, but better candidates just aren’t willing to run.
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First of all, for those of you who think the results of Monday’s Iowa caucuses are meaningful, don’t worry about it. They’re not. They may have made sense in a small town, in rural Iowa over a hundred years ago, but have long ago outlived their usefulness.
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Even if you have been living under a rock, you surely have heard of the “shocking gaffe” that Presidential candidate, former South Carolina Governor, and United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley made over a week ago regarding the Civil War.
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What will 2024 bring? God only knows. I wish the most important things to consider were who will win the
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Donald Trump is not only well ahead of his Republican primary opponents, he’s also leading Joe Biden in the general election polls. The problem isn’t Joe. Yes, Joe Biden is too old to be President. It’s not just his numerical age, which is now 81. The problem is that he presents old.
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Trump is a clear and present danger to the United States, but I fear that President Biden is as well.
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There is one candidate, the only one in recent months to whom I have made a contribution but with whom I have no ties, who represents a presidential candidacy I can support strongly: Nikki Haley, the former governor of South Carolina (2011-2017) and the 29th United States ambassador to the United Nations from January 2017 through December 2018.
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Our government appears to be headed for a shutdown in a little over a week unless Kevin McCarthy’s House Toddler Caucus, as Susan Glasser calls his MAGA Republicans, agree to negotiate a deal. Glasser laments that, “the rage of the toddlers now threatens to take the entire government down. For what? To prove, once again, that these are not serious people on whom we have bestowed great power?”
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Political newcomer Vivek Ramaswamy’s following on his X account (formerly known as Twitter) jumped 18% the week after the first Republican presidential debate on Aug. 23, according to data from Social Blade, a site that tracks user statistics among various platforms.
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What’s the grand accusation against President Biden? Even MAGA Republicans can’t answer that with concrete evidence, and yet they plunge headfirst into political spectacle.
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