With the announcement of President Biden stepping down from campaigning for a second term in the White House, yer Captain has been listening to krewe members talking about the candidates in the upcoming election.
Quite frankly, some of what I have heard is disturbing.
Most of what I hear is simply the regurgitation of Republican talking-points.
But that reality only makes it more disturbing.
These are otherwise intelligent people spouting unfounded claims they heard on FoxNews.
“President Biden is the worst president in the history of our nation and Kamala Harris is just as bad.”
“Kamala Harris is a DEI hire.”
“Kamala Harris is the dumbest vice-president since Dan Quayle!”
Captain’s Note: At least we can all agree on Dan Quayle!
One ass-hat Republican in the House of Representatives has today filed Articles of Impeachment against Vice President Harris for not securing the border between the U.S. and Mexico.
As I recall, President Biden had a bi-partisan plan for securing the border but Trumpf intervened and the GQP backed out.
Perhaps we should impeach all of the Republican Party while we’re at it!
Anyway, the Captain did a little research and I’ve put together the following information to let you decide who is “most qualified” to be in the White House.
SPOILER ALERT: It is Vice President Kamala Harris!
First up, Mr. Donald J. Trumpf, a former President of the U.S.A. and the Republican Party's choice this year as well.
Captain’s Note: There is no photo of Trumpf here because it is the editorial policy of Banana Winds to not display photos of convicted felons.
-He was born in Queens, NYC.
-He was raised Presbyterian/Reformed Church.
-He attended the New York Military Academy, a private high school (not West Point).
-He received a B.S. in economics from University of Pennsylvania.
Captain's Note: He sued to prevent the release of his transcripts.
-He received four draft deferments during Vietnam and finally a medical deferment for bone spurs.
-He did not have a political affiliation prior to 1987. Since then he has registered as Republican, Reformed Party, Democrat, and Independent.
-He worked for, then took over, his father’s real estate development company.
-Between 1991-2009 he filed six bankruptcies, including for hotels and casinos.
-His tax returns indicate that between 1985-1994 his businesses lost $1.17 billion.
-He has been married three times – the first wife was a model from Czechoslovakia, the second an American, and his current wife was a model in Slovenia. His two divorces were due to his adultery.
-He has 19 books attributed to his authorship, but his most popular “Art of the Deal” was completely written by someone else.
-He has a long list of failed businesses:
-He had no previous political experience before being elected President in 2016, and it showed.
-During his tenure as President he was twice impeached, but not removed from office.
-He lost in the 2020 election, then incited a riot on Jan. 6, 2021, to prevent the vote certification.
-He was found guilty of defamation in the E. Jean Carrol rape case, which also concluded that there was sufficient evidence to indicate he did, in fact, rape Ms. Carrol.
-He was recently convicted on 34 counts of falsifying business records in New York.
-There are other court cases pending against him.
-He is 78 years old, the oldest person to ever run for President.
Vice President Kamala Devi Harris
-She was born Oakland, CA to a Jamaican father and an Indian mother. He was a PhD economist, she was a PhD research biologist.
-Her middle name was changed by her parents two weeks after her birth.
-She was raised American Baptist.
-She has always been registered Democrat.
-She earned a BA from Howard University in political science & economics, and a JD from UC-Hastings.
-She was elected District Attorney in San Francisco, serving from 2004-2011.
-Then she was elected Attorney General in California, where she served from 2011-2017.
-In 2017 she was elected to represent California in the U.S. Senate.
-Joe Biden chose her to be his Vice President, bringing us to the present day.
Captain's Note: That’s 20 years of elected public service.
-She has been married only once. Her husband is a Brooklyn-born Jew.
She has written two non-fiction books and one children’s book.
-She is 59.
Senator J.D. Vance
-He was born in KY, but his Wikipedia entry claims he was born in Middletown, OH.
-His given name was James Donald Bowman.
-At some point he changed his middle name to David.
-After being adopted by his mother’s husband, his name was changed to James David Hammel, the name he used while in the military.
-He changed his last name to Vance (in honor of his grandparents) in 2014.
-He was raised Evangelical Christian, but later converted to Catholicism.
-He has always been a registered Republican.
-He served in the Marine Corps from 2003-2007, attaining the rank of Corporal. He was a combat correspondent in Iraq.
-Thanks to the GI Bill he earned a BA from Ohio State in political science & philosophy.
-He received a near-full scholarship to Yale, where he received his JD.
-He has been married only once. His wife is Hindu.
-He worked two years in a law firm, then two years in a Venture Capital firm in California.
-He was elected senator from Ohio in 2022, which means he has only served in that capacity since January 2023. (That’s 1 ½ years of elected public service.)
-He has written one book, “Hillbilly Elegy”, a memoir, which was also made into a movie.
-He is 39.
In this Captain's opinion - which is the only one that matters here - Vice President Kamala Harris is the only one of the three that has the education, experience and personal qualifications needed for the job of President of the United States of America.
She has my vote and my support!
