{"id":602,"date":"2024-07-09T01:44:11","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T01:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jeremysarnecky.com\/?page_id=602"},"modified":"2024-11-12T23:45:17","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T23:45:17","slug":"the-lights-are-on-in-the-white-house-but-nobody-is-home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jeremysarnecky.com\/index.php\/the-lights-are-on-in-the-white-house-but-nobody-is-home\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lights are On in the White House, but Nobody is Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

July 8th, 2024<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the last three years, I have been asking myself the same basic question: \u201cWhy isn\u2019t Trump in jail?\u201d He concocted a political pressure campaign of baseless lies and outright illegality, culminating in a mob storming the Capitol Building in order to overturn the results of a free and fair election. (Yes, that actually happened.) In the aftermath of what I felt was the most embarrassing spectacle I have ever witnessed befall our country, a hastily-organized impeachment trial was conducted, but the former President\u2019s term was only days from ending, and the argument that impeachment was unnecessary and\/or inappropriate won out. Nothing happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve had my theories for the insulting and inexcusable delay in bringing forth a criminal prosecution since then. Some had to do with Joe Biden\u2019s desire to avoid the appearance of political retribution, others about Merrick Garland\u2019s intransigence. Only recently did I start to question Joe Biden\u2019s overall mental and physical resilience for such an undertaking. But when it became clear that no trial would take place before the 2024 election, I settled on my current, cynical explanation: the Democrats wanted to hold our democracy hostage as an election pitch. \u201cVote for us, or else he comes back.\u201d \u201cDemocracy is on the line.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, after watching the last debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, I have some very strong reservations about both this strategy and Joe Biden\u2019s ability to serve another four years as President. Firstly, if democracy really was on the line \u2013 you think you\u2019d put out a better candidate. We need to be honest with ourselves \u2013 forget debating who the better candidate is \u2013 Joe Biden is not fit to serve now<\/em>. Furthermore, by pushing Joe Biden as a viable candidate, Democrats are in effect saying the opposite \u2013 there is no democracy, because this man is obviously not leading the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The \u201cdebate\u201d was a humiliating disaster, eclipsed only in my eyes by the greatest stain on our nation\u2019s honor and prestige, that being the events of January 6th. But the Democrat spin-job is only making matters worse. With bold-faced lying reminiscent of the Trump era, we are told it was a \u201cbad night,\u201d he had a \u201ccold.\u201d You\u2019re damn right he has a cold \u2013 I saw his brain freeze up trying to finish his sentence in front of the whole world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Defeating Trump was Joe Biden\u2019s biggest accomplishment, even if Trump still hasn\u2019t been forced to concede that under oath in the confines of a courtroom. Now, not holding Trump accountable is his biggest failure and may very well be the reason he loses in November. And for those saying that it\u2019s not Joe Biden we\u2019re voting for, it\u2019s his administration, if that were the case, he can\u2019t take credit for anything that has happened during his time in office. Put someone else in to lead his administration who is not mentally compromised, because if I was the GOP or one of our foreign adversaries, I would definitely want Joe Biden running in 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don\u2019t think I can vote for either one of these candidates. And as hard for me as it is to say this, maybe it\u2019s time to start asking: if a political system can only present a choice between the lesser of two evils, maybe the system is \u201cevil\u201d and isn\u2019t even a democracy to begin with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jeremy Sarnecky<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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