At time 00:11:09 in the video, President Biden states, "The fact that he doesn't abide by the rules of the democracy...

...we've established is not my concern. My job is to make the transition workable and available."

And that is the final statement as far as Trump's insurrection is concerned. It is just not Biden's concern: that is, defending the US Constitution against an insurrectionist like Trump is not President Biden's concern.

That represents the dumbest analysis possible. Votes are not about virtue signaling. People vote on issues they think...

...are important to their lives. That the Harris campaign could not separate itself from the perceived problems of the Biden Administration in the limited time it had to conduct its campaign is not a problem of either racism or sexism, etc. The blame for that failure rests on the Harris campaign, on the delay created by President Biden's belief that he was indispensable to the future, and on the general trend of the Democratic Party to push back (as much as possible) on the populism embraced by Bernie Sanders, not on the voters who could not see the Democratic Party as an aid to them in their future lives. Yes, there are problems with racism, sexism, transphobia, etc., but if the Democrats want to keep losing, they will keep turning to racism, sexism, transphobia, etc. instead of looking at how they present their platform, goals, and message in a hostile news environment and at what those platform planks, goals, and messages actually are.

One of the Democratic Party's biggest ongoing problems is that the leaders confuse statistics that represent the macroeconomic situation with the lived effect of the economy at the level of the individual voter. Based on that confusion, the Democratic Party seems to keep claiming that the economy is strong. At a national level that may well be correct, but that is not the lived experience of all the people who live paycheck to paycheck. To those voters, all the campaign talk of the economy being strong comes across as an act of blatant lying, and based on that, the Democratic Party cannot be trusted. That is no way to win a campaign.

So, if the Democratic Party goes off to stand on a soapbox or runs to social media or to the media to keep crying about how sexist, racist, transphobic, etc. those who did not vote for Harris actually are...instead of actually addressing the real lived problems of the voters and addressing how future campaigns will help those voters understand how voting for Democrats will solve their lived problems, things bode ill for the future of the Democratic Party, and if there is a bigger buffoon than Trump, the Democratic Party will probably lose to that buffoon as well.

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Of course, the GOP is pursuing its on-going waste of time in trying to demonize scientists (Fauci et al) and win political points with its ignorant base - instead of trying to prepare for future pandemics.

On CNN, Trump was as delusional and deceitful as he ever has been...maybe even more so.

It has, yet once again, been made quite clear that he belongs in a jail cell for life and nowhere near the Oval Office.

Perhaps, CNN gave the world the gift of a reminder (not that many actually needed such a reminder) that Trump is an absolute threat to the US and needs to be stopped cold legally or at the ballot box if that orange moron happens to make it that far.

I hope that CNN has seen enough and no longer platforms that insurrectionist traitor or any of his surrogates and that the DOJ gets off its collective ass and does something significant for a change. It's not as if Trump's crimes are so breathtakingly subtle or complex that he cannot be charged. For one, Trump openly fomented an insurrection, after all.

(It's hard to believe that Santos actually has been charged before Trump. I'll bet Santos thought he had at least until the middle of 2025 to skate.)

And again Trump did the very same thing in that town hall interview as he did the entire year before the 2020 election: he kept pushing the idea that if he does not win an election, the election has been rigged. That's right: he is preparing Insurrection 2.0, in case all of you at the DOJ missed it.

Also, for those of you in law enforcement who care about the country and each other, Trump painted a large target (one clearly visible to all our precious stochastic terrorists on the right wing) on that officer who defended the Capitol by shooting and killing Ashli Babbitt: she is neither a patriot nor a victim. She chose to invade the Capitol and found out the hard way that certain actions are not allowed. Fuck any delusional morons who hold her up as a hero of any sort.

So, yes, Trump is a threat to the US. Hopefully, everyone is again well aware of that fact.

(Lastly, E. Jean Carroll should sue Trump again for his further defamation of her during the town hall. Trump seems to have been too stupid to learn his lesson the first time.)

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Education is neither a product nor a "personal" investment as much as the GOP wants it to be.

Neither should it be designed to "serve" to students nor should any students have to pay for it (for doing the work to get one's education is difficult enough in terms of time and dedication to the subject). A saner country would provide universal free access with stipends so that its young people could achieve their educational dreams without incurring debt. It would be for the good of the community as a whole to have more knowledgeable citizens.