{"id":57484,"date":"2024-08-22T17:03:13","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T17:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57484"},"modified":"2024-08-22T17:03:13","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T17:03:13","slug":"how-is-this-contest-still-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57484","title":{"rendered":"How is this contest still close?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I consider myself to be reasonably well-educated, with above-average intelligence, one who is still alert at my advanced age and who has a deep love of the country of my birth.<\/p>\n

OK, now … someone will have to explain to me how a twice-impeached former POTUS who wants his old job back is still in the race to win the 2024 election.<\/p>\n

Bear with me while I review where we stand.<\/p>\n

He served a single disastrous term as president; he lost re-election in 2020; he had been impeached twice by the House for high crimes and misdemeanors. He then was convicted on 34 felony criminal counts, found liable in the sexual assault of a journalist. Federal and state grand juries in four jurisdictions have indicted him on a range of alleged criminal acts, including the Jan. 6 assault on the government that sought to overturn the results of the 2020 election.<\/p>\n

All the while, he has hurled insults at veterans, Gold Star families, immigrants, gay people, women of all stripes, a physically challenged reporter for the New York Times and admitted to grabbing women by their private parts because he’s a “celebrity.”<\/p>\n

These issues don’t even touch the myriad cluster-fu** acts that he committed as POTUS.<\/p>\n

We fired this guy four years ago. We told him he wasn’t fit the job he had. Now he wants it back.<\/p>\n

How in the name of all that is sacred, holy and sane does this add up?<\/p>\n

I’m sure some High Plains Blogger critics will see fit to tell me I don’t get it. They are right.<\/p>\n

I don’t.<\/p>\n\n

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