Given two terrible choices, what should I do? – Orange County Register

How can we understand the meaning of these elections?

I realize there are millions of people who think it makes perfect sense that either former President Donald Trump is going to “Make America Great Again” or Vice President Kamala Harris is going to “save democracy.”

But for those of us who aren’t inspired by slogans and lawn signs, it’s a little more difficult to figure out.

I want them both to lose, but I know that won’t happen.

Despite all the confidence of their supporters, I am equally sure that both are ridiculous.

Trump has spent the last four years cashing in on his next-level fame by selling Trump coins, Trump cryptocurrency and Trump Bibles. I want to believe that this is just an elaborate, decade-long performance piece, a satirical commentary on the sad state of our nation, but it’s not. He’s just a snake oil salesman who somehow became president. Trump has a lot of negative aspects, but I don’t need to know anything more about him to know that I would never vote for him.

I was going to move on to Harris, but I have to repeat: Trump Bibles! According to the site, it is “the only Bible endorsed by President Trump!” He doesn’t appear to have read any version of the Bible, but again, he only supports the one that licenses his name.

Is Harris better? Harris is different. Having lived with her in California as Attorney General, Senator and Vice President of the United States, I can confidently say that I do not know what she truly believes. She will be what she thinks the largest number of voters want her to be. She was tough on crime but soft on crime, and then a made-for-TV progressive figure in the Senate and now a candidate for change who can’t say how she’ll be different from her boss, President Joe Biden.

Harris is relieved of having to explain why she lied for years about Biden’s suitability for the presidency, and benefits greatly from ambiguous answers to common questions, a sycophantic Trump-hating media, and Trump’s tired Nazi campaign strategy.

What do I mean by mixed answers? When asked how she would be different from Biden as she runs as a candidate for change, she told The View: “There’s nothing that comes to mind in terms of — and I was part of most of the decisions that had an impact.” .

Harris later added that they were “two different people.”

I think this clears things up.

Last week, she called Trump a fascist, and her supporters in the media compared his rally at Madison Square Garden to a Nazi rally.

To be fair, Trump isn’t really doing much to avoid situations in which he’ll be accused of being a fascist, a Nazi, or a sympathizer of one or the other, or both.

Trump political adviser Stephen Miller drew criticism for saying at the MSG rally that “America is only for Americans and Americans,” which on its face seems quite racist but is also apparently a riff on an old Nazi slogan.

Is Miller racist? According to the liberal elite, all Republicans are racists: Mitt Romney, John McCain, George W. Bush, and so on. That’s 75% of the Democrats’ strategy, with the other 25% being free stuff for everyone.

Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, for some inexplicable reason, used the rally as an opportunity to get roasted. Most of the jokes fell flat, especially his joke about Puerto Rico being a floating garbage island. Anyone who’s watched his Netflix stand-up roast of Tom Brady knows these are his jokes.

But political rallies are no roast, which is why he bombed so hard. Someone on the campaign should have seen this coming.

The MSG rally likely would have done much more damage if not for Biden, who took advantage of the news cycle by calling Trump supporters “trash.”

When it comes to politics, I don’t care about Trump or Harris. Neither of them are conservatives. Biden/Harris had the largest budget deficits since at least 2000, with the exception of Trump. According to The Wall Street Journal, the deficit will grow under Harris or Trump, but under Trump it will be significantly worse.

The federal debt also continues to rise under both Trump and Biden. I don’t expect the November results to change anything here either.

I’m not naive, I know it’s my choice: Trump or Harris – I don’t have the luxury of looking for better candidates.

But my voice is my voice. California will elect Harris by millions of votes, so my vote doesn’t matter in that sense, but it still matters to me personally.

Trump has made life miserable for Republicans for over a decade. I don’t want to support him in any way.

Meanwhile, Harris helped turn California into an iceberg with her weak, ineffective leadership and sheer opportunism.

I still can’t believe Harris could be elected president in a few days – talk about failure.

I still haven’t decided what I’ll do, but right now I’m torn between voting for who the Libertarian candidate is or writing a random choice like Toulouse, our neighbor’s cat, or the late, great William F. Buckley. .

Cat? Dead guy?

Give them a chance, they can be a step forward.

By the way, Biden, who was removed from the ticket for being unfit for office, is still president.

What are we doing, America?

Matt Fleming is a columnist for the Southern California News Group.