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Tuesday, July 9, 2024

How We Moved From Policy to The Subject of Biden's Age


 


I have no problem having a discussion on the subject of Biden's age. It's a legitimate discussion; I am having a problem with this discussion, no one is putting forward a viable candidate on the Democratic ticket. When having this conversation, give the voter a viable alternative to shift the referendum back to Donald Trump. When you say Harris, you have to convince Joe Biden to release his delegates to her and you might have the black vote, but it comes with limits; The whole of America has to admit that some women, Black men, white men, and Latino men have a problem with women in leadership; Gavin Newsom comes to mind but what about the center and the progressive coming together to rally around him. 


I take issue with President Biden saying that he’s the only one who can save Democracy in defeating Donald Trump when you have a Vice President who is just as capable and despite the abovementioned handicaps, she still holds a commanding viable arsenal of experience as a prosecutor, as a United States Senator to make a case against Trump. 


The mistake, however, that the press is making is several folds' first, the press and the media are two different things; The press is people like Lawrence O'Donnell, Aire Melber, Joy Reed, and the like; The media are their bosses. 


Those bosses in media groups such as NBCUniversal (Comcast) are men and women who sit on the board of directors and CEOs like Brian Roberts. Roberts is an American billionaire businessman, Roberts was a founding co-chair of Philadelphia 2000, the nonpartisan host committee for the 2000 Republican National Convention. So where do you think his political affiliations lay; ABC is owned by the Walt Disney Company and is part of the Disney-ABC Television Group. Its CEO is Robert Alan Iger currently listed as an Independant,  He was named to President-elect Trump's Strategic and Policy Forum on December 2, 2016, so what is his allegiance? Fox News, Rupert Murdock; It seems like CBS with Wendy McMahon president and CEO of CBS News and Stations and CBS Media Ventures is the only truly liberal news-owned media group which includes its board of directors, Charles Phillips, Linda Griego, Judith McHale, Shari Redstone, Barbara Byrne, and Susan Schuman all of which are over the age of 60; How many of these people are a part of the Heritage Foundation; how many of these people support and agree with the right-wing MAGA party calling themselves Republicans and who many of them are never Trumpers.  


The next mistake that the press, (“workers of the corporate billionaires”) is that they do little investigative reporting; there is some here and there but the investigation is basically leaks being called out as investigative reporting because sources are more afraid of being called out as whistleblowers. 


This election process has no policy agenda that is being set forth to the American people, the fact that the media wants to talk about Trump 24/7 365 and ⅓, takes the focus away from Project 2025 and its agenda; Now the media which has been working its way in making Joe Biden’s age an issue since the beginning of the year has made Biden’s age the story since the debate as if one bad day is a reflection of a person lifetime of achievement and current goal, that is to save and safeguard Democracy. 


Trump is the apparatus that is being used by the organizations that make up the Heritage Foundation and that should be the story; who is the head of the organization and its board of directors and subsidiaries and those named currently working on Project 2025 like Peter Navarro and Ben Carson; Shut them down like you they made you shut down the 1619 Project; which no one talks about anymore;


The press or media, make women's rights and LGBTQ rights about civil rights being attacked when in fact minority right, predominantly that was hard fought by the Black community since the end of Reconstruction is what made those “rights for women” and those “rights for the LGBTQ” community possible; in fact every immigrant that is currently living in America is privileged to those  rights because of the Civil Rights Movement’s wins that were hard fought for by African Americans and not one of you speak about the right that we gained that are now in peril thanks to the Heritage Foundation’s Supreme Court (Not Donald Trump's Supreme Court). He was and is just their avatar or face if you will. So it’s time to tell the American people the truth as to why this is the most important election in 5 generations. Because even if whoever the democratic nominee is, that person has to win the popular and still be accepted by the Electoral College which gave Donald Trump the presidency in 2016.