Tag: Donald Trump

Sam Elliott Gets Down and Dirty with Lincoln Project Ad for Kamala Harris

Let’s just make Sam Elliott the official voice of the Harris/Walz campaign.

There are voices and there are voices. If you’ve ever been in the business of casting an actor for a character or finding a voice for a message you know what that means. You also know when you hit pay dirt. The Lincoln Project did just that with Sam Elliott and his well known and well loved gravely voice over for its latest ad called Choose Change. 

Be warned though, this might not be your grandma’s ad. Call it NSFW, depending on where you work, but you need to call it perfect for the moment.

The ad makers decided to let Elliott say just what those of us who liberally sprinkle the F-word in our descriptions think and say about what’s happening in this country. If you ask me it’s glorious. I’m sure others will think it’s out of line. But then what line are we talking about given what we’re living through? The one for deportations?

The ad also ends with what I think is a great line: “It’s time to be a man, and vote for a woman.” I imagine that’ll piss off more folks than the F-word. If you ask me further, I’d say the Harris/Walz campaign should just sign Elliott up as the voice of the campaign going forward.

Well worth a watch and well worth sharing. Hell, even send it to your grandma. She may not like the language, but for many I’ll be she’ll tell them to suck it up and be a man.

You can find more of my writings on a variety of topics on Medium at this link, including in the publications Ellemeno and Rome. I can also be found on social media under my name as above. 

The Real Kamala Harris Debate Story

The Kamala Harris debate victory puts all the rest of Trump’s previous opponents to shame.

Kamala Harris wiped the floor with Donald Trump’s comb-over in the debate last night. There’s no disputing her victory. As wonderful as it was watching it, it doesn’t mean there isn’t work to still be done in what continues to be a close election, and perhaps a closer post-election slew of legal fights. But the real story, from a 30,000 foot view is a bigger one.

US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris (R) shakes hands with former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during a presidential debate at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on September 10, 2024. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP)

Kamala Harris is the first political candidate to take on Donald Trump in a debate and knock him off kilter, while winning walking away since he emerged as a candidate in 2015. Joe Biden, Ted Cruz, Chris Christie, Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush, Hilary Clinton, and others never bested the bully. They may have scored on points, may have technically been declared the winner, but not one of them knocked him off his stride.  

From the moment she strode across the stage and forced the coward to shake her hand while introducing herself she had him in her grasp. It was a spectacle to behold in these typically less than spectacular events.

Yes, I posted previously that we didn’t need a debate. I won’t say I was wrong then. I will say instead that we needed this moment, whether it was in a debate or not.

Kamala Harris wants to turn the page on this terrible Trump tale. Perhaps she’s also turning the tide. But we still have a ways to go.

You can find more of my writings on a variety of topics on Medium at this link, including in the publications Ellemeno and Rome. I can also be found on social media under my name as above. 

Things We Know

Some things we know, yet somehow pretend we discover anew now and then. It’s not rocket science.

Rocket science.

Donald Trump is a convicted felon.

Donald Trump is a racist.

Donald Trump is a child rapist.

Donald Trump is a dangerous psychopathic narcissist.

Donald Trump’s agenda is in writing. It’s called Project 2025 sometimes masked as Agenda 47. It’s evil.

J.D. Vance is a self-serving opportunist and a useful idiot.

Both Donald Trump and J.D. Vance are bought and paid for looking to cash in further on you.

The party that used to be the GOP embraces and coddles criminals of all stripes instead of wanting to see them in stripes.

Those that support Trump/Vance/GOP will not be content until they can turn back the clock on the things that they irrationally fear.

If you think there’s a choice in this November’s election, or if you feel like debating what the choices are, you support all of the above. If you wonder why someone may vote for Trump, stop wondering. They support all of the above and either don’t care or think this is who we are or should be.

It’s that simple.

You can find more of my writings on a variety of topics on Medium at this link, including in the publications Ellemeno and Rome. I can also be found on social media under my name as above. 

New York Times Calls Trump Unfit But Misses the Larger Story

Making a point while missing the larger one.

The New York Times is out with a highly produced (perhaps over produced) editorial denouncing Donald Trump a week before he’s coronated as the Republican nominee at the GOP Convention in Milwaukee. Titled Donald Trump Is Unfit To Lead, the editorial is unequivocal and unforgiving in its damning the candidate, pointing out most of the flaws most could recite as a catechism these days. CleanShot 2024-07-11 at 08.29.30@2x.

There’s one large exception to that list of flaws. Not once in the editorial does the editorial board mention that Trump is a convicted felon running for the office of the presidency while out on bail. Call me crazy, but that does seem somewhat important.

With the focus on the candidate, the Times also completely looks away from the only reason we’re even faced with Trump still dominating our lives: that the Republican Party has either completely and cowardly surrendered to the decaying orange child rapist’s wishes hoping he’s the sign of some rapture to come, or they’ve just decided to out themselves as what they’ve always been.

There is a discussion about what the party used to stand for, but the editorial choice focuses on the candidate’s character rather than party and platform issues such as Project 2025.

Character is indeed the root of the discussion, as it always has been in most places except the pages of the New York Times. If any publication had insight into Trump’s character it would be the Times, but that’s a story constantly and consistently on their doorstep they’ve largely ignored until now. So, it’s good to see it finally have focus here. Even so, granting  a free pass to the character-less characters who’ve allowed us to reach this point after having multiple chances of preventing it the week before they convene in Milwaukee ignores the larger questions and dangers we face.

The omission is as damning as the belated slams against the candidate.

You can find more of my writings on a variety of topics on Medium at this link, including in the publications Ellemeno and Rome. I can also be found on social media under my name as above.