VP HARRIS

As the COVID-19 death toll nears 170,000 and the cases exceed 5,300,000, we can only hope for the terrible price that we have paid and are paying that the pandemic will be the demise of Trump's political career.

Joe Biden announced that California Senator Kamela Harris would join his team as vice president. She was the best choice. The Democrats need a huge African-American turnout and Harris electrifies this faction. She also has crossover appeal to every voting block with her charisma and intelligence. The Republican Party's hordes of racists, rednecks, religious right and right-wing rich are shitting in their boots. They know that if Harris' left won't get you, Biden's right will.

The president, in his usual bullying fashion, called Harris "phony" and "nasty" and then turned to his servile surrogates to characterize her as radical, socialistic, transactional (These goons call her an existential threat as part of their narrative, but if you asked these ignoramuses the definition of transactional, existential and narrative, they would respond with their usual blank faces) as well as a tool of Wall Street, a puppet of China and a globalist. Whatever any of that shit means when millions of Americans are either sick or broke or both.

It's the 2016 playbook that worked successfully against Hillary, but it's a new season and old tactics will not carry the day. Particularly when Trump and his toadies will soon have to answer for 200,000 deaths, 7,000,000 COVID-19 cases, massive unemployment, a plummeting economy and social unrest that he has exacerbated rather than mollified with his odious rhetoric and militaristic ordering of armed Americans to violently quell fellow American protestors.

"Stick and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me" the saying goes. Trump and his thugs can call Biden, Harris and the rest of the Democrats, with Fox in its usual role as the propaganda machine turning up the volume, every name in the book, but the sticks and stones they have brandished on innumerable occasions have perforated the electorate's eardrums and in the latter's painful state they are not listening to Trump's empty words.

Will Biden tell Trump that he has the blood of thousands of Americans on his hands? Will Harris tell Pence that he has the blood of thousands of Americans on his hands? The Democrats need to attack and attack and attack because nobody pities Trump and Pence and then pivot with their vision for America's future.

To the beat of the old Buck Owens' classic, they just need to act naturally. They are both handsome individuals, they have winning smiles, they possess great senses of humor and they need to return Trump and Pence's outrageous accusations and denunciations with condescending chuckles communicating that the time has come to end America's perception as the laughingstock of the world. We need a new king and queen to rid us of the court jester Trump who was funny when he played the fool, but his interpretation of comedy has been a tragedy for our nation.