Author: coastcontact

I am a somewhat cranky but mostly optimistic 65 plus who refuses to give up on this maddening world. The purpose of this BLOG is to express my feelings, thoughts.

Donald Trump is mentally unqualified to be President of the United States

Donald Trump suffers from mental deficiencies and should not be elected president of the United States.

Here is his reply to the question of providing affordable child care. It is a word salad.

“It’s a very important issue. But I think when you talk about the kind of numbers that I’m talking about that — because the child care is, child care, it’s, couldn’t, you know, there’s something, you have to have it. In this country, you have to have it. But when you talk about those numbers compared to the kind of numbers that I’m talking about, by taxing foreign nations at levels that they’re not used to, but they’ll get used to it very quickly — and it’s not going to stop them from doing business with us, but they’ll have a very substantial tax when they send product into our country. Those numbers are so much bigger than any numbers that we’re talking about, including child care, that it’s going to take care.”

Denial of the Holocaust in the Fall of 2024

Do you really want to elect Mr. Donald J. Trump and Senator JD Vance to the positions of president and vice president of the United States?

This is too sickening to even talk about or write about but I must.

Senator JD Vance, the running mate of former President Donald J. Trump, has declined to denounce the right-wing talk-show host Tucker Carlson for praising and airing the views of a Holocaust revisionist who falsely claimed that the Nazis’ destruction of European Jewry was not an intentional act of premeditated genocide.

Mr. Carlson is no stranger to controversy, but his recent interview with Darryl Cooper, whom he described as “the best and most honest popular historian in the United States,” has faced particularly fierce blowback.

The Nazis’ killing of almost six million Jews was meticulously planned, documented and pursued even after the tide of World War II had turned and Germany’s defeat was assured.

The German penal code prohibits publicly denying the Holocaust and disseminating Nazi propaganda, both off- and online. This includes sharing images such as swastikas, wearing an SS uniform and making statements in support of Hitler.

White House spokesman Andrew Bates said in a statement: “Giving a microphone to a Holocaust denier who spreads Nazi propaganda is a disgusting and sadistic insult to all Americans, to the memory of the over six million Jews who were genocidally murdered by Adolf Hitler, to the service of the millions of Americans who fought to defeat Nazism and to every subsequent victim of antisemitism.”

Vice President Kamala Harris is Likely Winner of the November Election

Allan Lichtman, the historian who correctly predicted the outcome of 9 out of the 10 most recent presidential elections, has made his guess on who will reclaim the White House this year.

It’s Vice President Kamala Harris.

Lichtman said in a video, first reported by The New York Times, that he based his prediction on thirteen keys or “big picture true-false questions that tap into the strength and performance of the White House Party.”

Who is Allan Lichtman?

Before receiving the title of “Distinguished Professor” from the American University in Washington, D.C., Lichtman earned a Ph.D. specializing in modern American history and quantitative methods at Harvard.

I only hope Harris doesn’t let this prediction go top her head and she decides to limit her campaigning.

Today in History: September 3, A Very Consequential Date

On Sept. 3, 1783, representatives of the United States and Britain signed the Treaty of Paris, which officially ended the Revolutionary War and recognized U.S. sovereignty.

In 1939, Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand declared war on Germany, two days after the Nazi invasion of Poland; in a radio address, Britain’s King George VI said, “With God’s help, we shall prevail.”

Joe Biden’s exit was Relief for the Democratic Party

The Democratic Party was obviously heading for a major defeat in the House and Senate if Joe Biden remained as their candidate for president. Even the most loyal party members knew it but were determined to soldier on because that is what lemmings do. This is the reason I have never been active in any political party.

Nancy Pelosi, the highly respected former leader of the Democratic Party in the House of Representatives, had the courage to speak the truth after Biden’s debate performance on Jun 28, 2024. Behind the scenes she was a leading participant in pressuring Biden to drop out of the race.

At this late date primaries to identify another candidate were impossible to conduct. That was the reason Kamala Harris was recommended by Biden.

I do not agree with Democratic Party leadership that they have made the right choice. Harris has been absent from most decision making in the Biden Whitehouse. That is typical. Harry Truman became President after FDR died but Truman did not know about the Manhattan Project until he became president.

If Harris wins on November 5, it will be because Trump can’t focus on issues. Harris is a nice lady but that does not make her the best candidate.

‘I wonder how much this moron will pay’

Matthew Perry had tried for years to stay sober but had a lifelong addiction to alcohol and other drugs. In Perry’s last days one doctor texted another doctor “I wonder how much this moron will pay” and “lets find out,” according to an indictment filed in court.

My question is where were his friends? I guess he had no friends from the program “Friends.” This reminds me of the death of Whitney Houston who also died from a drug overdose. Then there is the case of Michael Jackson who also died from an injection of anesthetic given by a doctor.

Sadly we have a nation of addiction.