Things are tough all over, Mr. President, AR-15 mayhem splattering the country, tent slums under freeways, judicial branch busted, despair over such slow progress with the climate crisis, hell even the techbros are getting laid off.
Personally I am having another off-kilter Spring without baseball, all of my life I have been an Oakland A’s fan, but something has gone terribly wrong with the A’s ownership, in the reality of having to finance a new stadium some kind of malevolent hatred has set in for the fanbase with the franchise simply destroyed in front of us. I liked watching baseball on teevee, and I had good times at Markos’s old A’s site, the live game threads were fun.
All of it gone, just like the Raiders, as an East Bay boy I naturally attuned to the winners growing up and became an Oakland fan, although I never got into basketball. The Raiders betrayed Oakland twice and had a horrifying season under their dim coach and owner in 2022, so I will be a New Orleans Saints fan this year, the Raiders even betrayed their quarterback this time, my final straw.
I warned you once before, Mr President, over consequences to the Democratic base into capitulating to the Republicans over the debt ceiling and my dismay has grown more acute since, as usual, nobody listens to me and it’s obvious somehow your Presidency is disastrously playing along.
Look, Mr. President, weeks ago Mitch McConnel and Donald Trump gleefully signed off on the idea of debt ceiling extortion. Why is that? Because if you play along they instantly know they’ve got you leveraged and trapped, absolutely nothing good political can come about for you in any scenario if you negotiate with these punks. Nothing, with plenty of disastrous possible outcomes.
Escape the leverage and deploy the 14th amendment, there is nothing difficult about going on national teevee and telling the little people Congress cannot demand we spend and then turn around and refuse the money for extortion. The country will of course agree, the ranting Republicans will sue and lose and life will naturally flow on as it should have. Dark Joe will yet again have ambushed the doubters in a smashing solid start to your 2024 campaign.
Or you can sputter and whine as you try to explain to the Democratic base how you were too stupid to easily escape a vicious trap, got manipulated as Donald Trump laughed and performed a political face plant to start an alleged Presidential campaign. [opens hands] It’s up to you.
Jonathan Capehart on the PBS Newshour last night, look nobody on either side is going to get all they want out of this, god Jonathan, eat me, why isn’t it obvious all the screaming absurdity doesn’t have to happen at all? You explain all the gross hypocrisy and lying extortion and yet I still have to accept the consequences in some kind of gun-at-your-head deal?
That, Mr. President, is broken regressive government, and let me tell you I will not accept it and damned if I let anyone call me far left for doing so. Far left, right, please, I am a plain good American Democratic Party regulated capitalism liberal, what I seek is rational government functionality, not emulating the Cubans.
If in fact you do make a debt ceiling extortion deal you will become like the Raiders and A’s in my life, elements I seriously miss but have nothing to do with anymore because you became so offensively stupid and dysfunctional to the little people you were supposed to be serving in your mission.
Not a dime will the Democratic Party ever get from me again, and I will not use my puny voice here in attempts to help the little people. So many elements of my life have not worked out well, Mr President–I’ve been badly sick last 22 years with neurological problems–and Democratic Party failure will just be another added to a long list.
I will wander and putter in my rose gardens–that’s my secondary above 2 days ago–go to my little job, vote, ride my bike and daydream, I won’t let you despoil the little time I have left in all the betrayal and failure.
One element of my sickness has left, I’ll know for sure in a year, and if I do break out at last oh my god the shining power I will yield somehow and somewhere. It would be so much better if it were applied still to the liberal Democratic Party cause and little people, don’t let me down, Joe.