Along with millions of Christians, on Easter Sunday President Joe and First Lady Jill attended church.

Bible peddler Donald celebrated the Resurrection with 77 tortured, hate-filled, online screeds.

What a poor, sad mind.

To forestall chaos and controversy, football, baseball, basketball, and other “games” are played according to mutually accepted rules.  Umpires, referees, and other “officials” ensure the rules are enforced.  On and off the court or field, contestants never resort to character assassination, name-calling, slandering, and threatening an umpire, referee, or other official.

Likewise, cultures function according to mutually accepted rules or “laws.”  Magistrates, judges, and justices ensure the laws are enforced.  In and outside the courtroom, citizens never resorted to character assassination, name-calling, slandering, and threatening magistrates, judges, or justices—before Donald John Trump!

I am puzzled by the motive behind Donald’s egregious, outlandish, assaults on judges, their family, and staff.  By intimidating and threatening umpires and referees a rogue coach might seek to ensure his team’s infractions are ignored.  By intimidating and threatening judges and jurors a rogue ex-President seeks to ensure that judges rule in his favor and jurors absolve his of alleged crimes. 

Until now, witness intimidation, jury tampering, and judge bribing were perhaps more common than we like to believe, but clandestine.  Today, Donald’s blatant attempts to game the system are open and notorious!

At ages 81 and 77, do Joe Biden or Donald Trump possess the mental acuity to lead America, indeed the Free World?  Proponents and opponents point to candidates’ pronouncements seeming to reflect a grasp of the facts or delusions and lies. 

In less than a month I will have ridden Ol’ Earth around Ol’ Sol 87 times.  I like to believe my blog demonstrates that octogenarians are not always doddering old fools.  Some exhibit the cognitive dexterity to tackle and express reasoned consideration of thorny issues. 

For me the larger challenge posed by being President of the United States of America is having the energy, the physical strength, to perform its day-to-day tasks: the meetings, travel, speeches, rallies!

I am awed by Joe’s and Donald’s apparent stamina!  Their exertions appear to flow from a gut-level determination which very few of us, certainly I do not, possess.   

For falsifying a single document, a man who could not afford an attorney spent over two years in federal prison.  In a truly fair justice system, Donald Trump would long since have been locked up.

Injustice bought is justice denied.

Donald J. Trump is an enigma: a brilliant Grifter and astonishingly ignorant!  The plethora of instances supporting this hypothesis makes selecting a few akin to sampling dirty bath water with a thimble:

• Like a Prima Ballerina, Donald pirouettes through litigious minefields, making bonehead assertions that intravenous toxins might combat COVID-19 virus, wind turbines kill millions of birds and whales, and wet magnets don’t work.  
• In 2015 Trump labeled McCain “not a war hero.  He’s a war hero because he got captured.  I like people who weren’t captured.”  By extension, Donald views all Prisoners of War as not heroes.  In a The Atlantic article, September 3, 2020, entitled “Trump: Americans Who Died in War are ‘suckers’ and ‘losers’” Jeffrey Goldberg detailed numerous derogatory remarks by Trump regarding members of our armed forces, calling John McCain “a f****** loser.” 
• In a speech conflating America’s Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, July 4, 2019, Donald said, “Our army manned the air, it rammed the ramparts, it took over the airports, it did everything it had to do, and at Fort McHenry, under the rockets’ red glare, it had nothing but victory.”  Manning “the air” and taking “over the airports” predates Orville and Wilbur by a century!
• Despite incontrovertible proof he lost America’s 2020 Presidential election, Donald insisting he won.  
• After, orchestrating an attack on the Capitol, Congress, and Constitution, pressuring State officials to overthrow valid 2020 election results, and absconding with thousands of official documents, Donald insists, “I did nothing wrong.”
• While hundreds who he ordered to storm the Capitol on January 6, 2021, are indicted or in prison, Donald roams free to spew lies and vilifications.
• He repeatedly brags about beating “Obama” in 2016.
• Non-Caucasians are, “poisoning the blood of our county.”
• President Biden might lead us into World War II !

On and on and on  .  .  . 

According to my go-to source Wikipedia, “The Washington Post’s fact-checker documented 30,573 false or misleading claims during (Trump’s) presidential term.  .  .  .  The Toronto Star tallied 5,276 false claims from January 2017 to June 2019.”  The monthly graphs of these data are instructive.

If they were not so ominous, Donald’s pronouncements may be viewed as humorous.

Should this man to represent the United States of America?  Does he represent you?

Donald Trump is a Bully: “a blustering, browbeating person, especially .  .  .  who is habitually cruel, insulting, or threatening to others who are weaker, smaller, or in some way vulnerable.” (Merriam-Webster)  Moreover, the ex-President is a Sixth-Grade Bully.

Our world is a playground.  Most of us play nice, take turns, don’t lie, or cheat.  We don’t push, hit, or taunt our playmates with insults and derogatory names.  When a more vulnerable child is being picked on, we step up to defend her or him.  Sixth-Grade Bully Donald would “encourage” his Sixth-Grade Bully Pal Vladimir to “do whatever the hell (he) wants” to our less fortunate playmates.

How stupid and crazy is that?

NATO is American’s front-line against Donald’s Sixth-Grade Bully Pal, Vlad.  We must fulfill our pledge to stand up and protect smaller European allies.  We must tell the Sixth-Grad Bullies to grow up, think and behave like civilized adults, and back the hell off!

If you’re puzzled by Donald Trump‘s fealty to Vladimir Putin, consider:

1. Donald spent time in Moscow.
2. Moscow is awash in Slavic Sweeties.
3. Donald is reputed sometimes to ruffle the sheets.
4. Moscow hotels have cameras.
5. Very little escapes former KGB chief and Russian President Vlad’s surveillance.

Regarding Donald Trump’s and Joe Biden’s cognitive acuity, distinguishing “remembering” and “reasoning” is instructive.  While the latter routinely relies on the former, they are distinct.

Think of memory as a bag of marbles.  Through our formative years the number of marbles is small.  Finding the green one with the orange stripe is easy.  With several hundred marbles in the sack, the green and orange one becomes more illusive.  After decades, with thousands of marbles in the bag, apart from those recently acquired, the identity and significance of most, e.g. a specific date, event, or experience, is wholly forgotten.   

“Reason” applies accessible memory, “apperceptive mass,” and current data to an issue at hand.    

This said, who?

• Suggested injecting toxic chemicals to combat COVID-19 virus?
• Bragged, “with Obama, we won an election that everyone said couldn’t be won.”?  (It was Hillary.)
• Said, regarding confronting the January 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol, Congress, and Constitution, “Because of lots of things like Nikki Haley is in charge of security.  We offered her 10,000 people, soldiers, National Guards, whatever they want.”  (Go figure?) 
• Said wet magnets don’t work?
• Said “(Biden’s) now in charge of dealing with Russia and possible nuclear war  .  .  .  just think of it, we would be in World War II”?  (We already won that one?)
• Said wind turbines kill birds?  (Automobiles kill 500 times, communication towers 50 times, and buildings’ windows twice the number of birds as wind turbines.)
• Said wind turbines cause dead whales to wash up on America’s east coast “on a weekly basis.”?  (NOAA finds that fishing nets, being struck by vessels, disease, and starvation account for most whale deaths.)
• Would let Russia “do whatever the hell they want” against NATO countries unable fully financially support the alliance.  NATO is America’s frontline against Putin.
• Said John McCane, hence all prisoners of war, is not a hero?
• Reputedly said armed forces personnel are “suckers” and “losers”?
• Despite over sixty failed court challenges, overwhelming evidence to the contrary, and universal consensus he lost, still insists he won the 2020 Presidential election?
• On the heels of, (1) orchestrating an attack on the Capitol, Congress, and Constitution, (2) pressing Secretaries of State, Governors, and Legislators to overthrow 2020 election results, and (3) absconding with thousands of official government documents, says, “I did nothing wrong.”?
• Said undocumented immigrants are, “poisoning the blood of our county”?

And who,

• Has more employed workers than at any other time in American History?
• Passed the CHIPS Act authorizing $280 billion for domestic semiconductor research and production?
• Rescued the economy and changed the course of the COVID-19 pandemic?
• Passed Bipartisan Infrastructure Law which: expanded access to clean drinking water; will repair rebuild and build highways and bridges across America; improved and expanded public transportation; will upgraded airports, ports, and expand passenger rail service; upgraded America’s power infrastructure; cleaning up Superfund and abandoned mines, oil, and gas wells?
• Enacted Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, removing firearms from dangerous individuals and expanding mental health services?
• Protected marriage for LGBTQI+ and interracial couples?
• Quarterbacked worldwide support for Ukraine against Putin’s aggression?
• Issued executive orders protecting reproductive rights?
• Advanced equity and racial justice through, criminal justice reform, narrowing racial wealth gap, criminal justice reform, and a Public Safety Trust?
• Delivering the Most Aggressive Climate and Environmental Agenda in American History?
• Expanded health insurance to more Americans than ever?
• Passed Inflations Reduction Act capping Medicare beneficiaries’ out-of-pocket cost for brand-name drugs to $3500 per year?

On Morning Joe, September 25, conversative commentator Charles Sikes opined, “Joe Biden can say, ‘Yes, I’m old, but he is crazy.’”  Crazy is only three years junior to Old.

Your choice.

Someone please explain how a flagrant huckster and liar, Donald Trump, can make Republican Senators and Representative dance like string puppets?  The blue suit, white shirt, and red tie suffice to mesmerize and manipulate his MAGA minions.  Surely more sophisticated—I believe a majority of—Conservatives are not flummoxed by the malignant machinations under the red cap.  That these folks don’t exhibit the character and courage to cut the strings and lead the Grand Old Party back to its vital and honorable roots is maddening!

At a Mason City, Iowa, rally, January 5, Donald Trump decried magnetically powered elevators for hoisting and lowering carrier-based aircraft.  In the heartland of John Deere manufacturing, candidate Trump pitched for votes with, “Think of it, magnets.  Now, all I know about magnets is this, give me a glass of water, let me drop it on the magnets, that’s the end of the magnets.  Why didn’t they use John Deere?  Why didn’t they bring in the John Deere people?  Do you like John Deere?  I like John Deere.”

Magnets function quite effectively in water.  While hundreds perform essential functions onan aircraft carrier, few if any, get wet.

Like the notion that intravenous chemicals may eradicate COVID-19 virus, our “stable genius” again reveals his grasp of science. 

A side note: Amid the blast of his often-verbal firehose, Donald’s astonishing facility to concoct whatever serves his purpose in the moment, without regard to fact or truth, is easily overlooked.

Do you really want this man’s finger on the Nuclear Trigger?

Think about it!