By DUARDO PAZ-MARTINEZ
McALLEN, Texas |...They're doing their darndest to push him out. Calls in turgid news editorials at the biggest newspapers in the land of late. Senior Democratic senators and congressmen. It's a rolling fear that President Joe Biden's age, 81, is simply too much to overcome ahead of the crucial November General Election.
But is it?
No one really knows, no matter what the learned pundits and editorial boards tell you. As the song says, we've never been this way before.
And we're led to believe that only Biden knows whether he'll stay in the hunt, or whether coming events lead him off the stage. They say his wife Jill may be the one to decide.
The president has had a rough few weeks. That "doddering Grandpa" performance at the First Debate with equally old Republican Donald J. Trump, 78, is still white-hot in the daily news cycle. The development has even shut Trump up of late, his backers saying Trump is just letting Biden twist in the wind.
As my old pal Melissa used to say, "Quien sobby?"
Well, yeah, that's where are this fine no-hurricane morning in the magical Rio Grande Valley, Land of Eternal Hope and Dreams. It's a sure bet Valleyites are hoping Biden wins the election. What Trump would do with welfare (food stamps and housing assistance) is well-known. That right-wing Project 2025 he supports explains it quite clearly - no more freebies.
That one is one crazy existential plan, but desperate Republicans have time to draft such idiotic plans. We have posted an informational graphic below of exactly what these White Supremacists have in mind.
I suspect that it will not find support in the RGV.
Well, it could not be any clearer, could it? Wow. I know, I know that's just another overused word, like extremist. Only there is no question the mission of this project is aimed at certain people. The plan is backed by the conservative Heritage Foundation, a group of folks who believe their station in American life is now past being threatened by non-White citizens.
They frown at California and Texas now being more Black & Brown than White.
It is to be expected, and it has been coming for a long time.
Joe Biden fights Project 2025, as do many other Whites. The plan is silly and ridiculous, but what do you say to the ever-fearful amongst us? You'd have to know your way around our ditzy American Politics to grab at every nuance of who we are and where we're going as a nation.
Project 2025 is not nuanced. It is now in your face.
As is the November Election.
Yes, we could keep telling you Biden is the way to go for continued happiness, but perhaps it's time that you got there on your own. Take your brain for a reality spin, yeah.
The bell has sounded for the 10th Round...Five to go...
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