Maresca is a New York City native and a Marine Corps veteran living in Flyover, Pennsylvania.
Once Donald Trump passed on debating his GOP rivals, the news was nothing short of a political windfall for Democrats and President Joe Biden. The refusal provided Biden the perfect out for not debating Trump.
It was a slam dunk as all Biden needed to do is retreat to his basement presidential campaign office and wait out those election harvested mail-in ballots.
The question was brief, direct, and tinged with urgency. “Do you think the country has gone off the cliff?” This query was coming from an individual whose standard acknowledgment during a conversation always seems to include the ubiquitous phrase, “it’s all good.”
It was a striking contrast, inferring that current events are taking on an ominous concern.
In his eight years, the big dog has never turned down anything edible and never misses an opportunity to take advantage of any inedible occurrences, too. His insatiable appetite never ceases to amaze. We often joke that big dog would eat until he exploded.
The week before the recent solar eclipse, an extensive nor’easter disabled power to hundreds of thousands. On the Friday before the celestial happenings, a rare 4.8 earthquake centered in New Jersey shook a good part of the Northeast just days after a much larger quake in Taiwan – 7.4 magnitude – collapsed buildings resulting in at least 13 deaths.
Headlining Major League Baseball’s (MLB) offseason was not its uniform fiasco, the Players Association’s battles, the new ownership of the Baltimore Orioles or the bickering over broadcast rights. Rather, it was the record $700-million contract the Los Angeles Dodgers accorded Shohei Ohtani, the richest in sports’ history.
Crime, open borders, inflated prices, gender ideology, critical race theory, male athletes competing as women – the list goes on and on in these divided states of Biden. According to one of Biden’s campaign commercials, all this success is because of you, and by contributing to his campaign he can finish the job.
Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade with their 2022 Dobbs decision and gave the States the power to determine their abortion laws, Minnesota wasted no time in enshrining abortion up until birth in their constitution. Moreover, Minnesota is one of 17 states where tax dollars fund nearly half of their abortions.
A picture is worth a thousand words that transcends generations. That photograph of armed New York National Guard troops standing at the entrance of a Queens bound 7-train was another iconic photo that captured the Big Apple devolving into the Big Banana – as in republic.
In another sign of societal and political surrender Gov. Kathy Hochul ordered the state’s National Guard to patrol New York City’s subways. In the raw days of the 70s and 80s when no subway car went unscathed courtesy of an army of graffiti bombers, the National Guard stayed home.
With the presidential primary season underway, we inch ever closer to a rematch for the ages.
The Dark ages.
It is never as bad as we think but a change is desperately needed.