(TriceEdneyWire.com)—There has been a lot of listening we have had to do this past week about the choice we have to make about who will be our next President when 2025 rolls around. There are a lot of people who believe the orange man was really injured enough to wear that big pad on his ear that could have been covered by a band aide. He wears it for sympathy. It’s hard enough to believe his ear was pierced by a young man who couldn’t shoot straight enough to even get into a gun training session in school! I wasn’t there at the Republican convention, but I’m having a hard time believing the same man who was such a bad shooter that he killed one man and injured two others near the orange man was the same person who hit his ear.
I’ll move to the performance of the Secret Service as they tried to protect the orange man while he continued to pop his head up and down so we could see his fist pump into the air (which by the way is the symbol we, Black people are known to use to express our determination to fight against racism.) I may be wrong, but I find it hard to believe that anyone who was just shot would not want to be protected by holding his head up to make it easy for the shooter!
Let’s move to the Secret Service at the time of the reported shot of the orange man. I was impressed by the quick response of the men and women as they risked their lives to save the orange man. I was grateful for the female Secret Service woman who rushed up the steps to the stage to make the orange man keep his fist pumping to stop and figure out how to quickly get him down the stairway to safety in the limo waiting to take him out of danger.
Now let’s go to those complaining about the makeup of the Secret Service that had several women taking measures to protect the orange man. After the first female agent succeeded in getting him to stop showboating with his fist, he had at least three female agents at the limo who again took over and rushed him into the limo out of danger by pushing him inside, closing the door as he resisted. The women moved their bodies against the door to keep him safe while the male agents walked away. I resent any criticism of agents just because they are women, but when you consider how orange man and his VP candidate teach people how to disrespect women, they should consider it lucky the women agents were there.
As Mark Pocan, Progressive for Congress, says in essence: Selection of J.D. Vance as his running mate is the latest glaring sign that if Trump retakes the White House and has a Republican Congress, he’ll pursue an extreme agenda that leaves Americans with fewer rights, worse healthcare access and a higher cost of living—not to mention a loss of democracy.
Before you go to the polls, you already know all of the orange man’s positions, but also take a look at what JD Vance, Trump’s selection for VP believes in: 1. national abortion ban with no exceptions, 2. stay in abusive marriages for the sake of children, 3. called universal child care “war against normal people”! Don’t forget his voting record where he failed to stand with striking autoworkers last year and advocated for cuts to Social Security.
Isn’t it interesting how these men are so against immigration, but choose wives who are immigrants or the product of immigrants? I’m just asking!
Consider working for and voting for those who’ve shown they will work for your best interests. The next Presidential voting day is November 5, 2024. You know how to vote—so VOTE!
(Dr. E. Faye Williams is a columnist for the Trice Edney News Wire.)
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