Do Black Lives Matter To Democrats? With the Harris Pick, Evidently Not

I'm dealing with Blogger's new format for the first time.  Already I've cursed a bunch of times.  I won't go into how I've been thwarted in trying to do simple things I used to be able to do in the previous version.  Suffice it to say the assholes who chose to mess up a good thing, albeit turning it into something usable once learned properly, have no problem wasting users' time by creating a new format to replace something that worked fine before.  This practice can only be the work of busybodies and their obnoxious masters, dedicated to making the simple more difficult, like when a cop says, "Vehicle," instead of "Car," or "Truck."  The second two words have one syllable each and furthermore describe accurately the "vehicles" involved.  A vehicle could be a tank, a semi, an MG sports car.  

     What all this has to do with Kamala Harris and Joe Biden is unknown to me.  I first became aware of then-Attorney General of California Harris when MSNBC's primetime host Lawrence O'Donnell touted her as a great pick for the U.S. Senate.  By that time, Harris had already locked up poor African American parents of truant children.  I guess Harris would've found it absurd to lock up the kids' grandparents too, so that means her judgment shouldn't be entirely suspect.  

     I saw a clip of Harris relating how she went after poor parents of truant children, terrorizing them with the prospect of jail time.  She laughs and smiles beautifully, MSNBC's and California's liberals idea of an enlightened well-educated person of color destined for great things.  On a radio show in February 2019 she boasted, while laughing, of having smoked pot in college.  As San Francisco's District Attorney she convicted over 1,900 people for marijuana possession.  Only after she left that job were their cases dropped by her more humane successor.

     Barack Obama smoked pot, Al Gore smoked pot, Bill Clinton smoked pot, George W. Bush smoked pot.  

     Biden-Harris 2020 thrills those who have it made, money-wise.  Hillary Clinton, close to Harris, sounded like Bernie Sanders in her congratulatory tweet.  Sanders offered the fiction that Kamala Harris has been good on the health care front.  The Vermont Senator's capitulation to Biden in the Democratic Primary proved him to be a creature of the Democratic Establishment, something independent journalist Chris Hedges wrote about in 2016, saying that Sanders' giving-in to Hillary Clinton that year and campaigning for someone mostly opposed to his views was a harbinger of what he would do in 2020.  His desire to avoid being ostracized like Ralph Nader, who supposedly cost Gore the 2000 election (he didn't) has stymied Bernie Sanders' presidential ambitions.  His crumpling under the pressure of a Democratic machine that's already proven it doesn't give a fuck about him or Progressives (and the Harris pick is a big fuck you to that movement) shows me, anyway, that Bernie Sanders would've made a terrible President, giving in on a regular basis to Republicans and Democrats.

     I saw an ad for Biden showing him outside his house, I guess, on a safe tree-lined lane with a green early 1960's Corvette, a beautiful "vehicle" for sure.  He claims at the end that Corvette is planning on an electric version by 2030 that will "go two-hundred miles an hour."  Corvette right away denied this.  Simple mistake, or maybe a fantasy on Biden's part as he believes the products of his fading mind more than he believes in the reality of his fading country.

     He zooms on the well-protected little road.  Secret Service standing near their cars watch him pass.  He sits in the convertible's driver's seat, saying, "I love how this is set-up," apparently letting us know it's convenient the makers of this car supplied it with a steering wheel, a shifter, a speedometer, and other devices one associates with a dashboard.  Biden doesn't smoke, but there's even a cigarette lighter.  

     The purpose of this ad, I guess, is to show a still vigorous leader, "in the driver's seat."  The common saying, "It's time to take Grandpa's car keys away," is not meant to apply here.  Ironically, if elected President, Biden will never drive again.  He doesn't drive now, in the sense of how most people drive--on streets, on freeways, on back roads where at least some traffic passes.  I recall reading a few years ago that Hillary Clinton last drove a car in 1991.  In other words, by now she's a terrible driver.  And old.

     Maybe it's time to have people who drive their own cars and trucks serving as politicians.

     The Democratic Convention is nigh, to be held in Milwaukee.  Face masks, social distancing, protests outside we can hope.  That ordinary Americans are okay with Kamala Harris and Joe Biden as alternatives to Trump-Pence is debatable.  Four repulsive human beings, all of whom have done their shares turning America into a "shithole country," to quote Trump's assessment of nations like El Salvador, do a repeat of 2016, when four repulsive human beings, Trump, Pence, Clinton, and Tim Kaine (a right wing Democrat who wasn't even pro-choice on abortion) offered their nation, as now, nothing to hope for.  

     The thing about a bottomless pit?  There's no end to it.  Not until people stop voting for politicians, Democratic and Republican alike, who are actively destroying our country.

                                                                                   Vic Neptune