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Fisher: Where the heck is Kamala Harris? She kept telling us Trump was an existential threat, but as soon as she lost the presidential election, she evaporated! Raccoon: You won't have Kamala to kick around any more! She deserves a break. Fisher: Hillary Clinton did the same thing! And where did Obama decamp to? These are the party leaders. Why aren't they leading? Raccoon: Well, Hillary and Kamala only got, like, half of all the votes. Clearly there's no one who needs leading! Fisher: How is anyone supposed to vote for another Democrat when they all keep saying, "I'm not President? Then I'll see ya, suckers!" Raccoon: Oh, hey, Adam Schiff wants five bucks.

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Even when the Democrats win, they don't exactly take the reins boldly. Biden did a lot of good things during his term but he failed to treat Trump and the GOP like the true threat anyone could see they were. It was clear the Supreme Court, for example, was going to take a wrecking ball to the Constitution to make sure Republicans never had to face justice; the proper thing to do was to fix SCOTUS in some way to rebalance things. But no. Prosecuting Trump and his allies assiduously would've been a good proactive activity as well, but instead we got a lot of foot-dragging.

And when they lose? National Democrats disappear from the field almost immediately. Poor Elmer Fudd, ahem, I mean, poor Tim Walz is out there all by his lonesome trying to make a dent in Republican insanity, and JB Pritzker is trying. Gavin Newsom has gone to the Dark Side because he's always been a worthless prick. But where are the party leaders? The ones who ran on the platforms that told us how hard they would fight for us? Obama's a Constitutional scholar -- you'd think he'd have something to say about the destruction of the document itself. Jill Biden is active on Instagram. Michelle Obama is out and about. Yay. How is anyone supposed to take any Democratic candidate for President seriously when they've been such sore losers?

We talk about the hypocrisy of the Republicans all the time. But what about the hypocrisy of claiming we're in the biggest fight for the soul of America since 1861 and then quietly retiring to your mansion to wait it out?

Addendum 3/25/2025: I was wrong about Barack. I just got email from him saying, "...the change we seek — the change we need — will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. The best way to make a difference is to get up and do something. Don't wait for the next election. Go out and make a difference right now.... I am asking you to contribute whatever you can afford to the Democratic National Committee today."

I'd write more but my damn head exploded.