Politics: Dangerous Myths about the Poor

You might be confused as to why I am updating this blog now. Well, a certain cheat of mine caused me to update my TV blog. Then one day, it wouldn't have worked so I moved it to this blog. Once it didn't work for this blog again, I moved it back to my TV blog. After this, I moved it back to this blog again starting with this post. You see, I had rolled a movie length Survivor special on a Tuesday. I had decided that Tuesdays were unfilled so I could then make Tuesdays a weekly update of my TV blog. Thus, with today being a Tuesday and the cheat to update on Tuesdays not applying to a blog that's already updated on that day, I would thus have to update this blog instead of my TV blog. Now that I've said this, I might as well get to saying what the rest of this post is about.

I can’t even believe all of the crap that I’ve heard as reasons not to support the poor people. So many people seem to think that they are lazy people living off of government money and that is just one of many myths about them. I will hopefully get rid of all of them in this post.

Myth one: People want to be homeless. Why it’s not true: Being a beggar in life would be such a terrible thing to go through. Why would someone want something like this? When Steve Harvey looks back at his life, I doubt that he thinks: Man, I miss being homeless. People do not seek this out as a life goal. This isn’t something that anyone wants or desires in life.

Myth two: People on welfare are just gaming the system. Why it’s not true: Sure, there could be more work with making sure that the people on welfare actually need it. But most of the people on this just can’t work in any way, at least for the moment. They need the government’s help for the time and will then work once they are able to find work.

Myth three: Jesus wouldn’t help the poor. Why it’s not true: Read the bible and you will learn that this is not true. It is hard to believe that people actually think things like this. Jesus said a lot of bad about the rich while explaining that one has to help the poor.

Myth four: If we help the rich, this will help everyone else. Why it’s not true: This policy has been accurately described as voodoo economics. People push tax cuts for the rich as if they will all use this money to help everyone else out. Not all rich people are philanthropists or willing to share their money with others that are not already required by taxes.

Myth five: The poor need to be taxed more. Why it’s not true: These people aren’t going to get money to pay others and if you want to tax someone, tax people who can afford it and would still be rich after their taxes are paid.

You might wonder what any of this post has to do with politics. It seems like the Democrats are more willing to help the poor nowadays while Republicans take a fuck you attitude to them while calling them lazy and wondering why they just don’t get jobs easily. You could be part of the solution or you could be part of the problem. There will always be poor people if we do nothing to help get rid of the problem. If I’m to be convinced that Republicans are actually good people, they would care about helping the poor instead of spreading and believing dangerous myths like these. I’m sure that people don’t like to be poor.

Politics: Is a RINO just a Bipartisan Republican?

Maybe you’ve heard of this term before or maybe you have not. RINO is slang for a Republican in name only. Basically, a person labeled this is considered to not be a real Republican. Sure, they may call themselves that, but they are not a real Republican. Or are they?

We tend to hear a lot about moderates in some way. Moderates could just be what Republicans labeled as RINOs are in reality. I might have to do a post on why moderates tend to be hated on both sides. But bipartisanship is sparingly rare nowadays. Whether or not they are moderates in the end might be a different matter entirely.

John McCain normally sided with Republicans most of the time. By the end of his life, he had done a lot to help the Democratic side of the aisle. He was a key vote in the failure to repeal the Affordable Care act. He was labeled a RINO. But was that only because he worked with those in the other party?

The problem might actually be there being pro-choice (or anti-life, if pro-life is now called anti-choice) Republicans in the senate and elsewhere in office. These people are easily labeled as being RINOs as they go against one of the core pieces of being a Republican nowadays. Why we don’t see (as far as I know) Democrats who are pro-life being DINOs (the same slur applying to Democrats) is unknown to be.

Still, the slur comes up often enough that it seems kind of bad that any Republican that works with Democrats is seen as abandoning their party and are voted out of office. Mark Kirk was not a bad politician by any means (outside of being a known liar like many are), but he still lost by a lot when he came up for reelection. Many voted for every Republican but him. I saw more signs for Gary Johnson that election than I did for Mark Kirk. What was his problem? As far as I can tell, it wasn’t that he abandoned Republican ideas. He simply worked with the other party.

It makes you wonder, in a way. Was the only problem of RINOs, at least nowadays, the fact that they work with the other party? Lots of people still do work with the other party today, but it does not make the news and you can only learn about it through emails from them. These bills are just not as important as others. All I know is that bipartisanship needs to happen in order to get a good government that works. We need it. We don’t need any bipartisan person getting voted out in favor of more partisan people. We have far too many of them nowadays and we don’t need any of them at all. We still need people who will work with the other people from the other party. And we need them to stay around.

Politics: A Reckoning Every 80 Years; Is it Coming Again?

I might not have thought of this post were it not for a Time magazine article that mentioned what Steve Bannon said. It seems weird that he would be an inspiration for this post, but I think that he actually said something that is a bit important and could affect things today.

Let’s start with the first example. In the 1780s, the US was in possibly our most important war as we fought for our independence. We were able to form a brand new form of government after the war as a result.

In the 1860s, the US was at war again, only this time, it was with ourselves. The Civil War was what we needed to get rid of legal slavery in this world. Sadly, illegal slavery exists today. But this was yet another reckoning if you will.

This leads us to the 1940s. What was happening then? World War II had taken over most of this planet leading us to fighting to rid the world of fascism. Very few places in the world still have it today and this war was the reason why.

Now if this sort of pattern continues, something will happen in the 2020s. We won’t know yet what it will be. We just know that it will be a reckoning of sorts. Will it relate to Trump? Will it relate to the US? Will it relate to a third World War?

Some say that Trump’s behavior regarding certain events into the investigations into him might be leading us into a current constitutional crisis. Now we have had these before and I don’t think that they all cover the exact same period. What I do know is that there have been issues that he has caused and people keep talking about impeachment. Is it a good idea? Should they do it? I do not know for sure but based on what I know as of 5-23-2019, nothing he has done yet might be worthy of it in my mind.

You may notice that I mentioned a date that has already passed. Well, I had to schedule this post in advance since I knew that I wouldn’t have time to write about it this date in question. I do not know what all might have changed in this country over the last set of days. Maybe we are now in the reckoning or maybe it is like Watergate (which lasted four years) where we aren’t far enough into the investigation to know for sure what happens with him. If such an eighty year thing really is going to happen, it might be way worse than anything Trump could do.

Well, that’s about it for this post. I don’t know what else to say except hope that we are not into such horrible times in this world or even country that such a thing like a reckoning of sorts will happening, although, all of these things really did need to happen in some way in order to make the world a better place. What will happen next? Time can only tell.

Politics: Jokes about Republicans

Well, with me always switching between two different themes of political posts in this blog, it is now time to get to the next them. The Republicans will have their turn as I largely complain about them over and over again. I’ve decided to make up a bunch of jokes about them in this post. I don’t need to as that whole party is a joke. But let’s get to them all and I hope that you enjoy them. I probably could make more of them, but I figure that I’ll just stop when I do.

What do you call an argumentative Republican? A Republican

How many Republicans does it take to change a light bulb? Just one, but he’ll wait to do it until it is advantageous to him.

It used to be that people without a brain, heart, or courage were Wizard of Oz characters. Now it describes the typical Republican senator.

What’s the difference between a Republican and a procrastinator? A procrastinator gets stuff done.

Did you hear the one about the two men who were caught on tape bragging about groping woman? One got fired from his job. The other got elected president of the United States.

What do you call an illogical Republican? A Republican

What’s the difference between a Republican and a monkey? Monkeys don’t throw as much crap at each other.

Did you hear the one about the honest Republican? Me neither.

What do you call an honorable Republican? Dead

What’s the difference between Trump and a sewage treatment plant? A sewage treatment plant doesn’t have nearly as much crap.

What do you call a disagreeable Republican? A Republican

Trump got elected. While people are certain that he’s a joke, people have struggled since to figure out what the punch line is.

What do the New England Patriots and Mitch McConnell have in common? Both rig the rules so that they win. (That's not a joke, is it?)

What’s the difference between a clown and Trump? One is a sometimes scary creature who has fake hair, makes people laugh by being stupid, and has crowds of people gathering to see their antics. The other is a clown.

What do you call an obnoxious Republican? A Republican

Politics: The Ten Most Contentious Presidential Elections

Another name for this blog post could easily be the ten worst elections for US president. But I think that this might be more accurate. Not all of the elections have been smooth and we might not have a good one again. One may argue that we’ve never had one that wasn’t bad in some way. But I will say that when I look back at all the contentious presidential elections, there are ten that stand out more than all the others.

#10 1880: I wasn’t entirely sure if this should be on the list, but maybe there wasn’t enough for this list. Still, this election is known as the one with the closest popular vote for president in US history. James Garfield won this despite splinters in the Republican party and was president for a brief time before a religious nut shot him and poor medical practices of the time lead to his death. This was after a long nomination process that he was stunned he won.

#9 1992: This was actually the first election of my lifetime. Bill Clinton beat the challengers of both the incumbent president and a third party candidate who got a surprising turnout in the race despite having not been in it for a while. I feel like somehow, the country as a whole lost a lot during and after this election when it started the process of it being a media circus instead of what civil ways typically existed in the way before. Mudslinging might have begun around this time officially in the way we see it now where there is a lot of negativity pointed at the other one in the race but not much positivity pointed at oneself.

#8 1828: Here’s a shocking fact: the longest election cycle for a presidential election was this one lasting nearly four years long after Andrew Jackson, the loser in the last election, declared that he would challenge the incumbent in a rematch. He won that rematch after one of what has to be the nastiest campaigns ever even by modern standards. From his side attacking John Quincy Adams over the controversial way he got into office to Adams’s side plaguing Jackson’s wife over issues with whether or not they were really married which might have lead to her dying before her husband took office, this was quite an uncivil campaign by both sides and what’s sad about it most is that it would hardly be the only presidential campaign like it.

#7 1960: John F Kennedy won this election, but it remains controversial to this very day due to all of the people who are wrongly convinced that it was rigged in favor of him as if Nixon wound up being the best president ever later. The election was close in terms of the popular vote and the Electoral College vote with a third party candidate getting enough votes to win two states. The weirdest part is that Ohio didn’t pick the election winner, something that no election since then has done thus far.

#6 2016: I can’t do a top ten contentious elections without including the most recent one. We kind of got two sucky choices as the two main candidates and somehow, many were convinced that the clearly worse person was the best and he fucking won. With a Supreme Court vacancy looming on the minds of many, the Republican’ts gained leverage they shouldn’t have had if they were decent human beings who did their jobs. While both candidates were clearly liars, so many people were focused on Hillary Clinton’s to the point of ignoring Trump’s worse and more frequent lies. Plus his bullying was so horrible that I’m shocked that people like him for it is what is contributing to the further degradation of society at hand. Newsflash: Trump has missing emails too. All the protests after the election and the fact that he had 3 million less votes than his opponent make this one for the hall of infamy.

#5 1800: This wasn’t the first election, but it was the first one where there was more than one candidate and things got a bit confusing as a result. Despite being opponents, the person who came in second place became vice-president instead of simply a failed candidate. The law was then changed later as a result, but only after the next election had happened was it set up so that the second place person didn’t become vice-president. John Adams won and Thomas Jefferson was now second in command. They hated each other for a long time. What if Hillary Clinton was the vice president under Trump? That’s the type of election problems that were caused by this and it being the first real election was simply bad enough.

#4 2000: Bush versus Gore was not just the election but a Supreme Court decision that also helped decide the election. They had no business taking an already contentious election and making it even worse by voting along party lines. They arguably continued the conservative’s harsh reign on the Supreme Court that they’d had since sometime in the 1970s and continue to have to this very day. Many correctly believe that Gore should have won since he had won the popular vote. Some people will never get over the results.

#3 1860: Here we have the worst ever reaction to an election results: states leaving the union and forming their own confederacy. Abraham Lincoln wasn’t on many of the southern state’s ballots and there were tons of other issues that finally lead to the Civil War taking place. It was still something that needed to happen, but it was contentious beyond maybe all others.

#2 1876: Some people may not be familiar with this one where the election winner lost the popular vote, but it could have started a second civil war the way it divided this country again. The way that it went might have been the reason why the southern states became and remained as horribly racist as they are today. Samuel Tilden lost by only one election college vote and Rutherford Hayes was the narrow winner after a bunch of controversial decisions about different votes lead Hayes to get all of what was in contention. But what made this even more controversial was the fact that when people needed to decide the election, it was a narrow party line vote with the conservatives having the barest majority, picking Hayes by one vote. It was such a terrible decision that was made by a bunch of people and the compromise made by the people after this didn’t work out in the country’s long term favor.

#1 1824: Hands down, this will always be the worst presidential election in our country’s history. It was a four way race and should have pointed out the issues with the Electoral College to the point of getting rid of it. Andrew Jackson got 42% of the popular vote and the most votes in the Electoral College, but he did not get enough votes to cross the magic threshold of winning. We then get to John Quincy Adams who got 32% of the popular vote. We then have an Amendment that helped create even more havoc. Henry Clay, the Speaker of the House, got to proceed over the final decision of the election when the House decided it in Adams’s favor. Thus, a man who got 10% less votes than someone and the lowest percentage of the popular vote out of all of the candidates who became president got to win the presidency. Many believe that Henry Clay went out of his way to make sure that his candidate won and the states that Jackson won even had changed in his favor. The ideal party system was gone forever and now we have two parties that always fight each other instead of one relatively united one.

That’s all for this post. Sorry if all of these paragraphs were really long. I hope that I was able to help education you on all of the contentious elections of our country’s past. I only hope that we are able to avoid elections like these in the future. I thought of including 1972’s election on here since it was one that had relations to Watergate, but thought that it wouldn’t work after all. I do not know what else might have made it on here so I guess I’ll leave it up to you to see if I had picked the most contentious ones or not.

Episode from 4-21-2019

Another Maundy Thursday has come and gone. As expected, the networks continued to air episodes of shows that were new then. Thus, I missed episodes of Gotham, The Orville, The Big Bang Theory, Young Sheldon, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Law and Order: SVU, Grey’s Anatomy, Station 19, For the People, and S.W.A.T. I was busy on Easter and barely had any time to write any of this post and I have a lot to say before talking about this episode in question.

You might have noticed that I haven’t been updating you on any changes to the TV shows on DVD that I watch. Well, I’ve been more or less stuck with the same six choices for longer than I think I’ve ever been stuck with any six choices before. If I finish watching Survivor: Borneo, I get to replace it with Survivor: Gabon. If I finish watching anything else, I get to replace it with The Walking Dead and finally do a review of that show for my blog on The Good Wife. The six shows on DVD that I’m watching are Charmed season 4, Farscape season 4, Moonlight: The Complete Series, NCIS season 3, Survivor: Borneo, and shows that I have recorded on tape.

Ita sicut multi, non videtur intelligere quid esse pauper et paupertas in opera. Wes Moore scribit magnus articulus in tempus hac in February V, MMXVIII in infinitum et articulum, quod appellatur "Americae est Passibilitatem". Sunt igitur plures habentur mythi relate de illis simile, quod 'homines per paupertas aliqua merentur, "aut" populos in tantum ut paupertas 'adepto a officium, "ut scribit in scriptoris paginam 36. sequitur, ut de re publica altera pagina" nemo dignus is est paupertatem vereatur. "ego iustus adepto cur populus non faciunt pauper, et dives est in loco putat auxiliari dare tributum confractus est bonum idea.

I realize that I need to update you on what I call my tier two group of football teams that I root for. I had checked the scores of old games that they played last season versus games they played this season. Let’s get to it. The Texans beat the Dolphins and the Dolphins lost to the Jaguars. This makes the point system as Texans: 1 out of 2, Jaguars are 2 out of 3, Buccaneers are 2 out of 2, and Dolphins are 0 out of 3. This makes the ranking as Buccaneers, Jaguars, Texans, and Dolphins.

While I could talk about possible shows that could replace this blog, I’m not sure that I need to right now at this moment. I did dream about having a blog about the new show Whisky Cavalier. I haven’t seen that show and am not sure that I ever will. I mean, that’s a stupid name for a show, right? How many shows do people watch that have stupid names? Know that Bob’s Burgers is still next in line. I don’t yet know if I’ll watch this ABC show and blog about it or not. It will depend on what works in my schedule with all the other shows I care about.

This will be the last movie update until it goes back to my Elementary blog. Since I had no time to watch anything since the last update, I’ll tell you what the five lists are for now. Sunday’s list is Bambi, Celtic Woman’s original concert, Ghost Town, The Little Mermaid, The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, and Pleasantville. Saturday’s list is Absolute Power, Finding Dory, The Lion King, North by Northwest, Rat Race, and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

Friday’s list is Avatar, my high school graduation DVD, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Lilo and Stitch, Pocahontas, and That Darn Cat. Monday’s list is Bend it Like Beckham, Despicable Me 3, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Liar Liar, Mr. Bean’s Holiday, and Toy Story 3. Tuesday’s list is Aladdin, Catch Me if You Can, Invictus, National Treasure, Raising Arizona, and Spaceballs.

On Friday, April 19, 2019, I rolled Survivor: Borneo again and got to watch the episode Long Hard Days. This is the last time that I have to roll Survivor for a while and depending on what happens with this show, I might have to finish writing the updates of when I rolled this somewhere else. I will keep track of it somewhere for sure.

I haven’t told anyone in this blog about it yet, but this is an important thing for others to know. I do not think that it is right for someone to get an abortion simply because their child will be born with any sort of developmental problem. But there’s an issue an Iceland where 100% of women who learn that their baby will be born with Down’s Syndrome will get an abortion. And elective abortion isn’t even legal in that country like it is in the United States. Know that this actually has nothing to do with abortion, but does have everything to do with a world where special needs people are wiped out by those who have what are considered to be superior minds but are just more problem causers.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/down-syndrome-iceland/

There’s not too much for me to say in terms of the Democratic race for president in this post. I know that I might not be able to say much about it for quite some time, if at all, depending on what happens in the future. Elizabeth Warren has a great idea that you can read about here. This is going to make her even more of a target then she already is. But I’m willing to think for now that she’s most likely to win the Democratic primary and general election in 2020. There might be others that I’d lean more towards supporting besides her, but a lot of us know that she’s popular for now.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/4/11/1849510/-Elizabeth-Warren-offers-up-plan-to-kill-tax-loopholes-for-the-biggest-corporations?detail=emaildkreadtestcontrol

With no idea if I’ll be sharing much of these links from Daily Kos in the future, I thought that I might as well get to yet another reason why Mitch McConnell should be voted out of office next year. I do not have high hopes for him, especially after his part in the longest government shutdown in US history, but if Kentuckians still like him, we’re all seriously fucked. At least stories like this one explain why he should not win, especially if he wants to embrace his terrible side. Sadly, many have won with terrible campaign strategies, including him back in 2014.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/4/17/1851138/-McConnell-brags-about-obstructing-Merrick-Garland-nomination-16-days-after-whining-about-obstruction?detail=emaildkre

If you have been following this blog for all the time that I’ve had it, you might remember that I was not good at updating it on time as I should have been. I’ve also been sharing links of my Good Wife blog and it had the same problem. Well, I’ve decided that I will share the episodes in the right order, even if this was not the order that I published the blog in. I may go back and tell you about older episodes in the past with it, but I don’t know if I will yet or not. In this post, it talks about various topics like a voting scandal, hacked emails, scandals causing one to resign from office, and that a character had rigged an election. This might have been one of the worst episodes of the show that I can remember.

http://adamdeckergoodwifetvshow.blogspot.com/2015/10/april-twelve-2015s-episode.html

You’ve probably heard a lot by now about gerrymandering and how people are able to draw districts in order to help advantage themselves and disadvantage the other party. Democrats are wanting to get rid of it as the math doesn’t add up. In one case, they got over 50% of the vote, but only 30-39% of the all of the seats that they ran for. I might need to ask someone who is good at math how that even works out because all I know is that the math doesn’t add up.

Problems when you gerrymander

Are caused when people pander

With all one side

They can change the tide

Thus we speak about it with candor

Regardless of if this show gets renewed for another season or not, that will be my last political limerick that I’m putting in this blog. If this show gets a sixth season, I will start putting a new type of poem in the blog instead. It will appear once every post instead of the old poems.

Today’s episode is brought to you by no delay. We begin with Peter losing something on his way to some important meeting of some sort. A deal needs to be made on climate change. The team is told to look into what the kids might be hiding from them that they need to know so that it is not dug up as dirt against them during the campaign. Elizabeth meets with Conrad and Russell about the deal. She wants to resign and announce her campaign for the presidency tomorrow. But she is allowed to cancel this at the last minute. She and her husband want to go on a vacation before the campaigning starts.

Jason doesn’t want to tone down his political posts. Alison has admitted to doing weed. Daisy and Jay are talking to the kids and Stevie talks about how she doesn’t think that her dating history matters and that it didn’t prevent her from getting a job at the White House. Elizabeth then mentions her resignation on camera that will happen soon.

In segment two, Elizabeth talks about what she would do regarding the treaty in question. A senator from New Hampshire doesn’t want to advance the treaty as he felt it wouldn’t do anything to change the issue. They need a two thirds majority to pass the treaty. Elizabeth talks to this person later and he wants to get a bill passed in order to vote yes on the treaty. She thinks that the bill won’t work. She does want her husband to scuba dive, but he seems reluctant to do it. She then hears that the treaty will pass and that’s good news. Jay takes Stevie on an apology dinner and to little surprise, they kiss. But both of them agree that they shouldn’t be a couple.

In segment three, Elizabeth got a replacement pin that Pete had lost. It was something that Robert F Kennedy had during his campaign. One could wonder how the world would be different if he hadn’t been assassinated during the 1968 campaign. He could have been president instead of Nixon. Peter had liked the pin because it brought him and his father closer. Mike is told privately by Jay about the kiss that he had with Stevie that he was awkward about.

We then get to a security council dinner that Pete arrives at. Many all have some sort of reaction at the dinner and could all be dying. What is going on? Pete’s life flashes before his eyes and he passes out and it seems like the people who do the food are the perpetrators. The butlers all did it? Isn’t that some sort of overused plot point? Or is it something that never happens? I forget. I might have to look up this one butler stereotype in order to know for sure what it is.

In segment four, the team learns that a chemical agent was used to kill all the UN consul members and it was white supremacists who did this or are claiming responsibility. It turns out that these new people are part of a huge network that spans multiple countries. The presidential candidate from the previous episode talks about how he feels differently over the attack. They aren’t sure who the people are that might have done this, but will have to trend carefully as always.

Elizabeth talks to someone over Skype about what had happened over the people who died in their respective countries. Russia might have caused issues due to their trolls? Do I have that right? I’m not sure that I do or not. “…your free speech is just another weapon that can be bought…” is part of a great quote that this man talks about. McAllister is causing issues and he’s the controversial candidate who is running for office. Elizabeth thinks that McAllister has been bought by Russia but has to trend carefully as usual since this means she could be called out if she isn’t right about this.

In segment five, Elizabeth meets with the president and his team. Owen McAllister might have gotten some illegal contributions from Russia and his campaign manager will be arrested as a result. But they do not know if he has any involvement in it or not. This is way too on the nose to reality. After the news of this breaks, Owen calls it a witch hunt, but still drops out of the presidential race. Elizabeth isn’t sure that they are in the clear yet. Stevie wants to meet with Jay and there are issues. She is in tears and one can only hope that this doesn’t lead to sex like the TV cliché that it often is.

Elizabeth doesn’t want to resign from job and tells Conrad that. But he won’t let her not resign since he feels that she is best to fight for the future. She then talks to Peter’s kids about his life and legacy. We then skip to Virginia two months later. She talks about various things in a speech. She then announces that she’s running for the office of president of the big United States of whatever.

That’s it for this season and we’ll see later if this show returns for another one or not. All that I know is that this blog will continue even if the show doesn’t. I’ll explain how in a later post if it comes to that. If the show is renewed, then not much will change, if anything at all. I’ll be sure to do an update if this blog were to end and explain how it would be different in the future. I don’t think that we have much to be concerned about for the future of this blog. The future of this show, well, I wish that I could be sure that this episode wasn’t the series finale, but it could easily turn into that. We’ll see. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

Politics: The Top Ten Republicans Who Should Challenge Trump in 2020

What Republicans might not realize or want to admit is that they probably can’t win with Trump. I do not know why it doesn’t seem like nobody has yet entered the race in order to try to win this nomination and make Trump the first Republican since Chester Alan Arthur or sixth president overall to lose his party’s renomination. It hasn’t happened since voters could help choose the presidential candidates of their parties. Who would I want to see run and why? I might as well get to the list of the ten people that I most think should challenge Trump.

#10 Kim Reynolds- The incumbent governor of Iowa would certainly have an advantage in the primary in that state. She seems like she could be a good enough choice. But I don’t know if she is well known or would even consider running for that office. I wouldn’t know if she would make a dent on this race if she were in it, but I do think that she’d be a good president.

#9 James Comey- I don’t know if he could be remotely close to being good since he has not one bit of experience in terms of politics. Plus, he is too polarizing a figure for both parties to handle and one could only see his run as revenge on his firing. Another reason why he might not work is that he isn’t even a registered Republican anymore. Still, I do wonder how people would react to him being in the race and if some would arrange a protest vote of Trump by voting for him.

#8 John Roberts- He would be a very tricky person to handle in terms of whether or not it would be good for him to run. If he would have to leave the Supreme Court in order to do it, then it is a bad idea to have him run. He has criticized Trump before and we can only hope that there will be major rulings that he does against the continued attack by Trump on our lives. But he might also be all talk and no action. I don’t know if I had enough time to research potential candidates or not so that might be why he isn’t that good a pick.

#7 Chuck Grassley- With him being as old as he is and experienced, he could be what people need who want a real conservative in the race. He did the best he could to bring order to all of the chaos of the Kavanaugh hearings and there is no way that he’d lose a primary in Iowa. You might even find it odd that I like him at all, but he’s on my good side for now and we’ll see if he stays that way or not.

#6 Mike Huckabee- Evangelicals could support him and not be hypocrites like they are with their support of Trump. He is well qualified and would be a good alternative that at least those who are real Christians could support. But since he is in media now, we may have lost him to all of the pundits that often work there.

#5 Bobby Jindal- The former governor of Louisiana should run. He can help himself with the all so important minority vote that you’d think conservatives want as the very fact that he isn’t just another white man running for office should be good for those feed up with the recent racism of the Republican Party.

#4 Rick Santorum- After doing good to a point back in 2012, one might wonder why he failed to make a dent in the 2020 race. But he is very well qualified and is another person that could get the support of Christians who don’t just ignore every non abortion related issue when they vote. I don’t get why such a church going person would do badly against those who should realize that Trump doesn’t represent any Christian values (pro-life positions not withstanding).

#3 Peter Fitzgerald- Most of you will probably have no idea who this person is. He was the US senator from Illinois right before Obama took office. One wonders how history could have gone differently if he actually had a chance at taking his own seat back in 2004. Obama wouldn’t have made it to the senate and wouldn’t have become president either. Not yet, at least. He is still at a good enough age that if he wanted to run again, many moderates would flock to him.

#2 John Kasich- I’ll never understand why there wasn’t more of a push to election him back in 2016 and maybe this time, the voters could actually get it right. When I read about him online and looked at all the positions that he had, nearly all of them lined up with my political beliefs. I do not understand why he is not already in the race, outside of the fact that he might be more of a journalist now than politician and, thus, won’t be interested in running for office again.

#1 Lisa Murkowski- Perhaps the most liberal of all the Republicans currently in the senate, she has sided with the Democrats so many times, I couldn’t think of a reason why they wouldn’t go to her in a primary to get rid of Trump. Obamacare is still around because of her and did not vote for Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. I think that a moderate could do well in office and would only hope that people can see that too. Plus, if she were to run for president, it would be good to remember that he has successfully run a write-in campaign. She’s the Republican that I most respect in the senate right now. And I’d vote for her in the primary, if not the general election too. Many could get behind her.

Well, that’s about it for this post. One can only hope that if a Republican were to enter the race that all the states would do their primaries for president. I mean, they’ll have to do them for all these other races as well too. Some states might force Trump to win the primary there by not having them like they should. This is the same party that complained that things were rigged by the Democrats against Bernie Sanders. I will say that there is someone who has an exploratory committee in the race for president and many would be happen if there were a Republican other than Trump running for office. This is just my pick for who might work.