I have had yet another USPS experience from hell. And I paid for something to be sent Priority Mail. It was perishable. Now it’s just rotting somewhere thanks to USPS.
It went from Richmond, Virginia to Philadelphia. Then it went from Philadelphia to Chicago. Then it went to Harrisburg, PA. Then it went to Philadelphia again. Then it went to Wilmington Delaware. Right now it’s in Salt Lake City Utah thinking about going someplace else.
The order was placed September 27.
You can’t get anyone from USPS to help you. USPS has been disemboweled and eviscerated ever since Donald Trump appointed Louis De Joy. He was of course, a major Trump and GOP donor and fundraiser. So if you want yet, another reason to #DumpTrump look no further than the United States Postal Service.
I also saw a post go by recently in a local group about someone speaking to their mail carrier to find out where their mail was and priority is being given to political mail. You know those glossy pieces of crap that clog your mailbox.
It’s absolutely ridiculous. And this is something that truly is an election issue that no one is talking about.
And yes, these articles go back to 2020 because people have forgotten about it. Everyone knows that the United States Postal Service continues to fail, but everyone is forgetting how it started and it started with Trump appointing DeJoy. 
Last week people erupted into ridiculousness because Chair of the Willistown Supervisors and lifelong Republican Bob Lange, along with his wife, appeared in a commercial saying why they had made the personal choice and decision to vote for Kamala Harris.
The horrible things people have said are astounding in their ignorance. Some of the most amazingly ignorant comments have come from Willistown which isn’t a shocker.
It’s really simple: Bob Lange (and his wife) made a choice that he felt strongly about as an American. No one coerced him. Like everyone else I didn’t know about it until somebody slipped me the ad, and then I actually thought good for him for standing up for what he believes in —- if people cannot deal with a man who is an adult standing up for the courage of his convictions then they need to sit down and shut up basically.
And in Willistown they should be more concerned about what jerks some of them seem to be to the rational world. Yes I am talking about that article in Philadelphia Magazine.
Yes it’s time for a segue. You know I live for those.
And no, I didn’t know that article was coming out either, until it did. I will admit I was delighted and found it amusing that they referenced my blog and they’re welcome. However, they did get one thing wrong. I am actually the one who figured out where that nasty postcard for Wildflower Farm came from. As in where it was printed based on the postal permit on it- not who paid for it.
I was also amused at the magazine’s choice of tour guide, but hey she needs to be big woman on campus with a rooster, right? Of course, that whole rooster issue and Willistown is just ridiculous and eventually they’re going to have to deal with it. The bottom line there is roosters don’t belong in regular old residential non farm neighborhoods. There’s not enough space. But maybe they should start with getting a better zoning officer? They always seem to pick the wrong ones.
Willistown gets messy. I used to think West Vincent was messy, but Willistown gets world champion domination messy. Which, bringing this back around again to what is happening to Bob Lange now, is not a surprise. And they do like to crucify him on occasion in Willistown, like they did over the whole sewer sale of it all. I bet some anti-sewer sale folks from back then are busy sucking up now, right?
Ok so yes, he’s going to vote for a Democrat, because the Republican Party is so polluted that even life-long actual Republicans, as in the party of Lincoln, can’t just say “We’ll just vote for Trump.”
What is at stake here is huge and Trump has not actually really done anything for anyone. The only one Trump is interested in is himself because he has a malignant narcissist and he has shown people since he emerged on the scene in the 70s that this is who and what he was. Nothing has ever changed about Donald Trump.
The Republican party is currently cochaired by his twat waffle daughter-in-law, so does that give you an idea of how far the party has fallen?
Do you think it was easy for Bob Lange or his wife to make this decision let alone make it public? But make the decision they did based on what was best for them.
Even Barry Dee who is Republican agreed with me on Friday on WCHE that no matter for whom people choose it is their right as an American and that is the beginning and end of the conversation except for one last word: Bob is from the socioeconomic playground that you would thinkwanted Donald Trump, but more and more of them do not. What goes on in Willistown of course is a completely different story because nobody knows how to behave most of the time anymore anyway.
If Bob Lange is not voting for Trump, maybe people around here might want to think about that. I was a lifelong Republican myself until 2016 when Trump became the nominee. And when he became the nominee, I realized as a woman with a brain, I could no longer be a Republican.
Actually, when I was on WCHE with Barry Dee on Friday and I ended my segment with a simple thought: I believe it is incumbent upon the leaders of the Democrats in Chester County and the Republicans to step forward and tell people to put an end to this nonsense of harassing and bullying people over who they are choosing to vote for. We all know they won’t have the balls to do that though.
People have a right to vote for whomever they are comfortable with. It’s personal choice, not lock step like a dictator told you to.
I will also note that Barry Dee on Friday told the story of a Republican business owner in West Vincent who put a Trump sign up at his business, and he started getting harassed and threatened by Democrats. So freaks exist on both sides and everyone needs to STOP letting the freaks speak for ANY of us.
Also for the record, I’m not and never will be in Bob Lange’s inner circle. But I have a brain, so this isn’t so hard to figure out. Move on, people.
Part of our inalienable rights is not only the first amendment right to our opinion like this blog post. For example, we are also entitled to vote for whom we feel most comfortable voting for.
If we are currently living in a world, where people can’t safely express for whom they choose to cast their vote for, then how can we say this is the United States of America in the first place? Chew on that for a while.
Just vote like Ruth sent you and it will be good. Kidding, but it is the truth.
I try to keep my mouth shut on this topic of a certain bloviator’s latest series of smelly social media farts , but I think I am just done.
Bigly done.
Let’s get this into perspective:
Celebrities and politicians and public figures always and every election season come out on one side or the other. It’s nothing new…except to a malignant narcissist who always has to be the great bloviator in the room.
It’s literally like he can’t believe a woman said “no.”
As we all watch a candidate for President in the United States of America seeming sink further and further into this abyss of crazy, I don’t understand how anyone can think he’s the one? How is he even a choice?
A woman said no and this is what a normal 78 year old man does? And Republicans are ok with his slut shaming? That is exactly what he’s doing while attempting his own twisted harassing cancel culture, and again people are ok with this?
It’s crazy.
It’s like we’re waiting for the resurrection of Jim Jones and special Kool Aid. The Republican Party has been completely polluted. That became complete when his sounds like a goat caterwauling when singing daughter in law became co-chair. And his camp follower for this campaign so far seems to be another nutbag who likes plastic surgery too much named Laura Loomer, all while his wife is noticeably absent from everything.
The reality of this election for me is truly what it all means for me as a woman. This election is also all part of a much bigger picture. This election is also about the simple right to be ourselves at its most basic.
I’m not going to tell people how I think they should vote, but I am telling people why I am voting for Kamala Harris.
That nasty old man doesn’t care about any of us, and he never makes anything better. This is like a giant game show for him. I have never liked game shows.
If you really value our constitution and inalienable rights, I don’t see how anyone can consider him. If you are a student of US and world history, I don’t see how you can consider him.
The haters will come out of the closet now, I’m sure and it will leave me with one final point to ponder: why are so many afraid of the musings and opinions of independent minded women?
I just can’t with the Madoff-Lite of it all. The Philadelphia Business Journal popped out a new story on new drama regarding Scott Mason of Gladwyne, PA:
Now for the filings in NJ – interesting to PA because in the exhibits you can see where they added filings of PA people as exhibits….and Joseph DiStefano’s Inquirer article too.
Willistown is churning up like a tropical depression once again. Would that the ill wind that blows no good over there start by blowing some of these charmers to Puerto Rico and they can ship their love of Teslas there by freighter or something?
We shall start with the sewer rats, one in particular, who seems to like bombarding the township with emails. And when he’s not bombarding the township stuff with emails, he’s bombarding the supervisors. Seems like an old man should get a new hobby, eh? He doesn’t seem to get that the actual business of the township should not include constantly babysitting his maniacal bullsheit? Maybe those lovely brown belteds should leave him a pile of manure to shovel?
It’s also like the antics of S & S guy (Sidewalks and Sewers – just felt the need to shorten it) are ramping up. Calgon, take Willistown away….also is he really going to be running for Supervisor?
Now I’m going be honest that this person with this crusade was seemingly only friendly with me as long as I was useful or agreed with him, which does make you feel kind of used as a human being, but that’s on him not me. Hey it’s his jam and when we last spoke he said he was going to be running for Supervisor in Willistown and maybe it’s not the worst idea for him to see how the other half lives is it?
The whole thing with the sewers is, there’s no pleasing some of these people and the person posting about one component of this evening’s meeting is on septic, so he is NOT AFFECTED. Stirring up a sheit storm may not go as well as he thinks right?
The reality is a lot of these municipal sewer systems have deferred maintenance. And people in these townships kick the problems down the curb and apply Band-Aids for decades until they no longer can so then the repairs have to be made, however saying all that….the one thing that these people and Willistown still don’t seem to understand is they DO NOT actually OWN the sewer. they use it and they are billed for their use but it’s kind of like a leasehold thing. It’s not an ownership thing.
None of this is free. And umm developments have helped put more stress on infrastructure and that includes the sewer system.
And then there are sidewalks as an issue.
Sidewalks in some places aren’t a bad idea but the thing that the sidewalk people don’t understand is who all is supposed to pay for it, and why many suggested roads are fakakta. They also want to tell you that grants and everything will pay for it all or get the sidewalks approved and THEN figure out the details but that’s not always true is it and that’s why sidewalks are often a hot topic in communities, correct?
One problem with sidewalks is once they go in they are the responsibility of the property owner who gets the sidewalks plunked on their property that means no municipality and no Penndot is paying for it. they will tell you if it’s in the right away, you won’t pay for the sidewalk, but you will. That’s what residents in Radnor Township and other places have learned.
And then what if there are people that don’t want to give their land to a municipality for sidewalk use? That creates an eminent domain situation. That’s what almost happened to the Hicks Farm and East Goshen.
So, if these are your issues in Willistown, I’m not saying don’t have them as your issues, but I am saying learn and listen, so learn the facts…and avoid peekaboo keyhole blouses as well. But I hear one fashionista is lately obsessed with driving a Tesla cross county and well can we say bon voyage? Is the car named Pinky too?
I will note that the rooster issue and the issue of how many farm animals in a suburban subdivision back yard is a good thing has yet to be addressed so what does Willistown have to lose by dealing with a perennial problem? It’s stupid not to address it.
Also can we chat about something else interesting here? Can you trust someone with sewer antics and sidewalk dreams who was seen cozying up to someone involved with the development of Rock Hill Farm? So is the pretzel logic here big development on that swath of beautiful open space is OK as long as it means a concrete jungle of sidewalks? Seems like selling one’s souls to the devil doesn’t it?
Desperation always makes strange bedfellows….in Willistown.
The Willistown meeting is in person and non-recorded as always at the General Wayne Elementary School this evening at 7 PM. I admit, I have a huge problem with the township, not making an effort to record the meetings and upload them to YouTube or something while their township building is under reconstruction. That’s archaic and not sunshine friendly.
Here’s the link to the entire agenda and bring your popcorn:
All that is left are the memories. Once a vibrant and beloved neighborhood, now all that is left are the echoes of memories and photographs. R.I.P Lisa Drive in West Whiteland.
SuNOco / Energy Transfer / Mariner East are the architects of this tragedy. And the PA DEP gave a stamp of approval.
Given the age of the homes, one nearby resident aptly noted did the DEP take precautions for lead paint and potential asbestos or are those particles just going to be left to float in the air, lay in the soil, get into water? But do we think they all care? I do not.
This neighborhood was sacrificed for the god almighty profit of what we now know as Energy Transfer. In 2019, beleaguered residents 2 weeks to agree to the offer and move out back . And they had to sign NDA’s. These people would never have just compensation because all of what they lost was not monetary which would never matter to this company and too many elected officials. They lost their neighbors, their homes where they raised their families, etc. Those things cannot ever have a dollar amount placed on them.
I have written about this many times in the past and today I take a minute to remember a neighborhood. We should not be losing our neighborhoods and environment to this crap. Period.
R.I.P. Lisa Drive in West Whiteland Township, Chester County.
Former Congressman Jim Gerlach May 29, 2010 at Historic Montgomery Cemetery at a Memorial Day Observance with a lady I once knew as Auntie Eileen.
I think it’s time to mention how we all wherever we are, whatever we believe, need to be able to have conversations. We can be opposites politically all of the time and yet, we can should be able to talk about things, even politics. People have lost that ability and I think it’s sad. We all don’t have to be bobble headed sheeple for either political party, but we need to relearn the art of conversation and meeting in the middle to get things done. To that end and this topic, has everyone seen see the article in the Daily Local about Jim Gerlach?
I have to admit, I would not have chosen that title for the article, I find it cringey and awkward. But because it was about someone I like and respect, I read the article. Here’s an excerpt:
Jim Gerlach has taken on a new position.
The former congressman has joined the board of the Pennsylvania Democracy Defense Project. The organization was created to support the transparency, safety, security and validity of Pennsylvania’s election system.
“I’m excited to join this bipartisan coalition of Pennsylvania and national leaders working to restore faith in our election system,” Gerlach said in a release announcing his appointment to the board. “Now more than ever, we must work to dispel the misinformation surrounding our elections and restore trust in the process.”
Gerlach most recently stepped down from his post as president and CEO of the Greater Reading Chamber Alliance last year. He had been with the chamber since March 2020.
Before taking over as leader of the local chamber, Gerlach represented parts of Berks, Chester and Montgomery counties as a member of Congress for 12 years. The Republican lawmaker, who was widely regarded as someone willing to work with his colleagues across the aisle….Gerlach joins former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, former U.S. Rep. Melissa Hart and former State House Speaker Keith McCall as board members of the Democracy Defense Project in Pennsylvania.
This bi-partisan approach is not new to Jim Gerlach. He practices what he preaches on this topic, he always has, from the State House to Washington, D.C.
Two hundred and thirty-three years ago last week, on April 6, 1789, the first joint session of the U.S. House and Senate met in New York’s Federal Hall and proceeded to count the electoral votes that would establish George Washington as the nation’s first President. That remarkable proceeding was peaceful, dignified and the outcome was accepted by all participants – candidates and supporters alike, those who prevailed and those who did not. Thus began the first full session of an institution now in its 117th iteration.
Since the founding, more than ten thousand Americans have had the honor and privilege to represent their constituents in the House of Representatives and Senate. As legislators, their primary responsibility has been to accurately reflect the will and needs of those they represent and, most importantly, engage with their colleagues and the executive branch to formulate public policy that best advances the rights, opportunities, and security of their fellow citizens.
Because our nation is so diverse, our people’s representatives are as well. Consequently, to achieve passage of legislation in either chamber, productive members are those who interact with each other, engage in meaningful conversation, and ultimately find the common ground that is the foundation of public policy advancement. They do so by respecting each other as colleagues, regardless of party label. It is certainly true, that during that first Congress and ever since, spirited policy debate has been the hallmark of the American legislative process. But that debate must be conducted civilly and responsibly if we are to advance as a nation.
Unfortunately, in the past few years, the conduct of far too many members of the House and Senate and in legislative bodies across the land has devolved into angry exchanges and name-calling that serves no other purpose than to inflame passions and harden sentiments against fellow officials. We are concerned that too many of those serving in and seeking elected office are willing to degrade our centuries-old representative democracy by riding a wave of tribalism and division. Instead of engaging in dialogue to achieve practical policy solutions, these outbursts of acrimony only serve to further separate members from each other and inflame individuals and organizations among the broader public. Worse, the rhetoric is increasingly involving threats or encouragement of acts of violence.
In response to this dangerous and divisive trend, as two former members of Congress with a combined 24 years of service and coming from different regions and political parties, we have authored a “Civility, Not Violence Pledge” that has now been signed by a bipartisan group of over 100 former members of Congress. Together, we have all have pledged to withhold our support of any candidates – regardless of party – who advocate or threaten violence against their political adversaries. The pledge reads:
“Recognizing that a strong, vibrant, and unified republic is founded on our citizenry’s mutual respect for the rights, beliefs, and opinions of others, and
That our local, state, and federal elected officials have a special and solemn responsibility to recognize and promote such mutual respect in the conduct of their public duties, and
That their conduct should at all times be civil, respectful, and ethical in action and discourse,
The undersigned do hereby affirm and pledge that they will:
Responsibly conduct themselves in speech and action in a manner that fosters civility and respect among fellow officials and citizens,
Decry and oppose any conduct or activity that encourages, supports, or condones any act or threat of violence against any individuals, groups, elected officials, or government employees at any level of government, and
Decline support for any persons or organizations that encourage, support or condone such violence.”
…Having served in office ourselves, we call on current members and candidates for Congress to join us and publicly demonstrate their recognition that public service should be founded on mutual respect for their colleagues and constituents, and that their words and conduct should not be used to support or condone any form of violence in the public square. We also call on the public and the media to hold elected officials and all candidates accountable to make and abide by this same commitment.
Baird served in Congress from 1999-2011 and Gerlach served from 2003-2015. Both are members of the U.S. Association of Former Members of Congress.
Jim Gerlach with members of the Save Ardmore Coalition in 2006 with the late (and beloved and missed) Dick Saha and his wife Nancy of Wagontown Valley Township
Jim Gerlach was our Congressman for many years and he was a terrific congressman in my opinion. He helped us in Ardmore with eminent domain for private gain many years ago and the hallmark of his tenure in Congress is his door was always open for anyone regardless of political persuasion. You do not have that today and then there is the pecking order or if you can’t do anything for most elected officials with few exceptions, they don’t have time or they are more aptly put handled out of reach of every day constituents.
Now he has joined the board of the Pennsylvania Democracy Defense Project. The organization was created to support the transparency, safety, security and validity of Pennsylvania’s election system. Gerlach joins former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, former U.S. Rep. Melissa Hart and former State House Speaker Keith McCall as board members of the Democracy Defense Project in Pennsylvania. This group wants to bring together trusted leaders to bolster faith in the integrity of election systems. They said the organization will run a campaign to raise awareness of efforts to subvert elections across the country and help move people beyond polarizing rhetoric. This is BI-PARTISAN.
I think this is a great idea and I hope it’s successful. I am tired of the rhetoric. I am tired of the baseless crazy conspiracy theories and ridiculous litigation after every election cycle. And I know most of you are so I hope you all pay attention to this.
I am sure the critics of this post will become giant mina birds as to why this won’t work, and to them I simply say, what if it does? We have to start somewhere. The extremism of politics is ruining this country. Pure and simple. And no someone like Donald Trump won’t seriously support something like this because most simply put, a project like this is a complete threat to his insanity. He is essentially an autocrat, a dictator in training and has destroyed the Republican party. He is about whomever gets all the toys wins and HE wants all of the toys, he will never as a malignant narcissist care about anyone other than him which is exactly WHY when something BI-PARTISAN pops up, we all as Americans need to look at it.
BUT STOP THE FREAKING PRESSES AGAIN THERE IS A NEW SCANDAL. This one will be a peach. Hat tip to the Philadelphia Business Journal for breaking the story wide open and public…but the guy they mention in the article is not the only one suing their “advisor”…AND once again, yes more fine upstanding Lower Merion Township residents? Perhaps the Magic Kingdom has priced itself out of residents with moral compasses? And I think the Philadelphia Inquirer article is going to be a fan favorite (and the subscription is much more reasonable, sadly, and I like and appreciate the Philadelphia Business Journal as well.)
But wait…more articles…from the Philadelphia Business Journal who popped out with these ahead of the Inquirer. All articles are interesting…very interesting….very interesting….
Of course I am legit wondering aloud what in the Sam Hell is in the water in Lower Merion these days. And OMG the woman the articles filing suit is the guy’s aunt according to press so far?
Here’s an article from 2005 that shows the beginnings of the SEI relationship with Rubicon/Mason:
But this is not the most interesting thing of all, is it? If you cross reference an obituary notice you can verify that this is not the only Mason who has had issues, isn’t it? Like father like son?
(And yes the First Amendment, the SEC, and the New York Times can back this ALL up, can’t it?)
I can’t find much on the Orchard Park whatever business other than this:
However…when I went perusing the Montgomery County dockets I found three cases all filed within the past few weeks plus the SEI related one:
I went and pulled what I could find for Rubicon Wealth Management/Scott Mason. There was a Rubicon Securities on FINRA that was in Bala Cynwyd that looks like it closed up shop in 2002 and when you try to clickaroony on the Rubicon Wealth Management website , https://www.rubiconwealth.com/ it is “not found”. It disappeared apparently as a website? I found some stuff on Zoominfo.
Society snippets of yore, tell their own story, right? Social climbing and needing to belong? Just go noodle through Newspapers.com with their names in it.
I am feeling sarcastic towards Lower Merion Township and their new found “celebrities” but I am seriously wondering what is in the water. In all seriousness, this is kind of disgusting and I think like the other stories of the Nouveau Main Line it is going to grow legs. As an issue, it’s like all these Madoff types came to town isn’t it? It’s sad, gross, disgusting and God don’t like ugly too, isn’t it?
This is all so Ponzi-esque and Madoff-esque isn’t it?
As I close this out, I ask again if perhaps the Magic Kingdom has priced itself out of residents with moral compasses? Is it SO important to live high SO high on the hog? And since I started sharing the Philadelphia Business Journal articles I have received some unpleasant private messages from the 19035. To those people I say wake up. Before this is over how many people will be hurt including their innocent family members? Philadelphia Business Journal and the article about Mason’s Aunt. OMG
This continues to grow legs, including a blip in the Glenside Local. This seems like it will be a tall tale of many articles? The Main Line is so not what it used to be….
But buy more popcorn, Lower Merion’s ugly underbelly is getting another scratch this summer, eh?
The postscript is for those not familiar with that Squires club there was quite an amusing article in Philadelphia Magazine in 2016:
High-stakes gambling. Near-death experiences. Semi-naked golf. For decades, what happened inside the exclusive, strictly all-male Squires golf club stayed in the clubhouse — until now.
Yesterday I wrote about the lightening striking twice at 400 Leopard Road in Berwyn. We had watched the massive local media cover this home, a very historic home to Easttown and Berwyn beginning on May 1, 2024. Yesterday morning I received a call from a friend who lives in that area in tears about 400 Leopard Road in Berwyn again.
Guess what? It went up in flames AGAIN. July 23, 2024. Maybe once you would think was an accident, and honestly I never did, but twice? My opinion is that is not a coincidence is it?
Well….it’s now July 24, 2024 and guess what? The wife (or eventually to be ex-wife) of the couple who own the house is facing well…arson charges. It’s a twist. It’s a plot twist, but is it really unexpected?
Of course this is odd, because these were the original charges filed this morning and then mid-afternoon there was this:
Here is the docket as of 4PM, showing a bail bondsman and is she in or out of jail at this point?
So, yes, again, this is the wife. And the chatter has bene insane on social media. I am not repeating it, because who knows what is true? I think a lot of it is, but I have to ask something now about the FIRST fire on May 1: is it true that had be marked as a fire of undetermined origin? If so, does that change now? I am asking because since May 1st nothing much has been heard. Yesterday around 1 or so, the Chester County District Attorney posted a very brief statement: “The Chester County District Attorney’s Office is aware of the fire that has occurred in Easttown Township and are working with the Fire Marshal to determine how it started.”
This brings us to today. I don’t get the whole firebug thing. It’s a compulsion I suppose like shoplifting or something? But is this woman a firebug or desperately unhappy and perhaps mentally ill?
A perusal on the Internet shows she is a doctor:
Now I went to the civil dockets after the first file because I was told this was a divorce house. Prior to the first fire there was a realtor sign on the lawn:
May 1st or May 2nd photo found on Facebook somewhere.
Someone messaged me today just a little while ago:
Sugartown Road is still blocked from traffic between Lenape and Leopard Road. AND… there are people all about the house and some sort of “command station” under a blue tent there as well.
Here are a few photos from today, I will post more if I get them. One is from a local who lives near by and others are from fire companies like Radnor.
Now I could post the divorce and child custody dockets, but I am not. I have to ask though if the dates on the dockets of court related events are related to the dates of fires? One was May 1st, then the fire later that day? Then other momentous events recently? Do people think that is all coincidence? In my opinion it is NOT, which is why I question WHY the May 1st fire had undetermined origins?
Someone who once called that house home said today in a comment:
Breeze Hill was built tough to have withstood what she did to it as much as it did. Not that I have any hopes for it now… How destroyed this woman’s soul must be to have done such a thing as this.
So 6 ABC and reporter Leland Pinder and 6 ABC updated their story from yesterday, so allow me to share :
There you have it. That is a lot of the chatter I heard. Of course I want to know why a house with no electricity and wasn’t habitable had the pool opened? Will Kathryn Calmus Frankel be retroactively charged with first fire? And if she is out on bail, will she go back there again? And the ATF is now part of the investigation? Will we ever hear from the Fire Marshall? Will a lot of the neighbors stop being frosty to media, I wonder?
Sign me disgusted. This woman Kathryn Calmus Frankel put neighbors and first responders at risk. And she is a doctor to boot so what does the Hippocratic oath actually mean to her? In my opinion, perhaps a study in hypocrisy? A lot of our first responders include junior firefighters and among those ranks is my friend’s daughter whom I have known since she was in elementary school. And she destroyed a local historic asset too. That is despicable.
Now what we all will want to know is can this house be saved?
I will preface this post with it’s a full moon, so howl at IT, not me.
So today is literally stormy political Sunday. Joe Biden has dropped out of the Presidential race. Before I get to the meat of this post, thank you sir for your decades of public service.
So Joe is out, and he’s endorsing Kamala Harris? Okay but I don’t think he can avoid that. And it certainly doesn’t mean she is the right person for the nomination.
She isn’t. She can’t win the Oval. She doesn’t have it to beat Trump and it’s just kind of that basic. She has been more hidden from view than Dan Quayle. Or Walter Mondale. Notice I don’t say Cheney since he is just Dr. Evil. She has been so hidden from view since elected VP, I feel that is telling. I also have never felt she had it it make it to president. She does not have broad enough or uniform appeal.
I do respect her ambition and accomplishments, and it would be nice to have a female president in the United States but she’s not Michelle Obama. Michelle Obama could actually win. But the sad truth is this country is not ready for a female president yet of any race, creed, color, or political persuasion and we don’t have the time to muck around with this right now, unless people want Big Orange and his sharpies back in the Oval?
People do not want Kamala Harris shoved down Democrats’ throats because of a small group of party elites. Someone aptly said that Democrats keep shooting themselves in the feet for trying to force nominees people do not want at the plurality.
We need an OPEN NOMINATION process or something similar at the convention. Kamala Harris does not have broad enough appeal or potential to her ownparty to win, let alone the disgusted regular Republicans who don’t want Trump.
So of course because I said this out loud on my blog’s Facebook page you would have thought I said something really bad. What I said is she can’t win the Oval. Come on people you know she can’t. Biden had to offer her up, we don’t have to accept that, but if they don’t get that in Chicago at the Democratic National Convention, then it will be Trump again 100%.
Now I do not have a crystal ball and I could be wrong, but I don’t think so. I also said Hilary Clinton could not win the Oval, and OMG you would have thought (again) said something really, really bad instead of just expressing my opinion.
I am not a sheeple.
There is a short list forming of winnables:
1. Josh Shapiro, Pennsylvania Governor. I have been following him since he was Joe Hoeffel’s Chief of Staff and if you were paying attention, this is his ultimate goal. He has experience, he is smart even when he’s being smarmy, and he does have bipartisan appeal, which is desperately needed.
2. Gavin Newsom. California Governor. He has the chops, experience, and has survived in California. Devin Nunes might not like him but that’s a good thing. Don’t hold his Trumpian Stepford first wife against him, I am sure he didn’t know Kimberly Guilfoyle was such a nutbag until after he married her.
3. Mark Kelly. Senator from Arizona. He’s the whole enchilada. Border state, former Navy officer and astronaut, and his wife is Gabby Giffords. His twin brother Scott was also an astronaut. He was an Independent which I find appealing. He is also from NJ, so he can definitely stand up to the Big Orange Bloviator. He’s a Gulf War veteran. Honestly, he’s my favorite. He checks all of the boxes. More positives than negatives.
Like I said, this isn’t my decision this is just my opinion on this topic. You need a candidate than gets you the votes from the other side of the aisle that you need to win a Presidential election. It is pretty much that simple.
I know a lot of you aren’t going to like my opinion. I’m okay with that. But I’ve actually thought about this, and I have been thinking about it, since she became the Vice Presidential nominee.
So here’s hoping that the Democratic National Convention is not going to be the shit show we all think it’s going to be.
And I think we all need to pause, and thank Joe Biden. He has done a very difficult and selfless thing, he has put what he wants to do aside for what he feels is the greater good. He has devoted his life to public service, and that’s pretty much it.
The Band-Aid has been ripped off Democrats, don’t screw it up.
And please, go howl at the full moon, not my opinions.
