Another Day Closer to the Election and All We Hear About Is Trump

Is Kamala Harris still running against him?

B Kean
6 min readSep 17, 2024

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Courtesy of Forbes

This morning, the front pages of most major newspapers in the U.S. featured three to four articles about the latest “Trump drama.” All of the articles discuss pretty much the same thing: the latest “assassination attempt,” the failure of the Secret Service, Trump “is shaken up,” and Trump is using the opportunity to draw attention to how “everyone” is determined to stop his presidency.

It took me a half hour to find an article about Kamala Harris. The article reported on how Harris had a contention meeting with Sean O’Brien at a meeting with the Teamsters. There were a couple of articles about how Trump blamed Biden and Harris for the violence against him. The Fourth Estate is failing miserably for many reasons, and the most likely one probably has to do with the simple fact that Trump’s chaos and lunacy sell a lot more ads than the smiles and love directed toward Kamala.

The moment editors across the country sensed that the novelty of Ms. Harris’s candidacy was wearing off, they redirected their pens and cameras toward Trump. Because Trump is so immensely unqualified to be president and so mentally ill, all it takes is about 30 minutes, and he will, rest assured, deliver up a whopper of crazy that can fill a…

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B Kean

The past holds the answers to today’s problems. “Be curious, not judgmental,” at least until you have all the facts. Think and stop watching cable news.