The Home Stretch

October is upon us, and we now find ourselves in the home stretch of a tumultuous quest for the Office of the Presidency. The first debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden is now behind us, to which despite a lot of Monday morning quarterbacking I doubt anybody's minds were changed.

My only real tangible takeaway concerning the debate just highlights how apoplectic the media continues to act. The race card has become front and center as the media continues to label Trump as a white supremacist, which by association they are really calling anybody who voted for him a bigot - not a way as Dale Carnegie would say, "to win friends and influence people."

You know it's funny because at 12:42 PM on 8/14/17 Jim Acosta Tweeted, "Trump condemns KKK and white supremacists commenting on Charlottesville: 'Racism is evil.'" Yet at 9:51 PM 10/1/20 Jim Tweeted, "Trump has finally condemned white supremacists...on Hannity." Nobody holds these people accountable for their hypocrisy. The media establishment and Hollywood complex is at their wits end that they cannot defeat Donald Trump.

Trump's rallies are very significant yet completely glazed over by the media. The fact that tens of thousands of people attend an event to hear a guy talk from a podium for an hour an a half is not something to be ignored. Joe Biden couldn't be more unpopular and lacking in terms of enthusiasm. If we put Joe in a swamp with a high powered flash light I doubt he could even draw a single moth. I haven't met a single democrat who has anything nice to say about the guy, which perplexes me even more so the Democratic Party chose him to be their torch bearer.

I've come to the realization some time ago that many of my peers who dislike Trump come from three main camps. The most reasonable group of people just disagree with him policy wise - which is perfectly fine and expected. The middle of the pack group are just very uninformed which emanates from a place of consuming poor news, while the worst group is just a bunch of deranged mean spirited people. You know the President was diagnosed with COVID 19, and I could not be more saddened by the lack of respect and decorum by a large amount of people. One peer from college put on her Facebook, "DESERVED," while another peer wrote a paragraph on a thread wishing the President ill, "I simply hope that he [Trump] finds peace through this, whether through revelation and transformation or death. Some people simply can't find peace in life, and Trump may be one of them.” Talk about just a weird statement, I am sure Trump wan't at peace sitting in his Manhattan penthouse with a couple billion dollars at his finger tips before he assumed his role as President. Part of what makes us American is our sense of morality, despite stark disagreements we have always been able to rally behind a mutual feeling of wishing each other the best during times of hardship. I condemn anybody wishing harm on somebody over political disagreement, your lack of respect and dignity reflects poorly on all of us.

The media really cannot help itself either. The President is in the hospital tweeting he is doing well, yet the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) sends a message to my phone, "A person familiar with Trump's health said there is cause for concern about the President's vital signs, adding that the next 48 hours will be critical." Who is this "person?" The President's doctors even said he's doing well. We are tired of these fake anonymous sources that do not exist.

So what happens next? October will continue to be a sporadic month as the media continues to try and tell us what to think and how to act. My ultimate prediction remains resolute: Trump will continue to emanate from a place of strength and resiliency, and those who have ignored the notion of a silent majority might just be in for another surprise - again.