May I Give You a Tip?

I will start with a few words of advice for our presidential candidates, as I am prone to do. First, stop writing to my mother. Although at 91 she is in your same age demographic, Mom is not interested in you in any way, and she will not be sending you a dime. In fact, your mailings only avoid the trash can because she knows her politically-interested son will want to see them when he visits. And, by the way, she thinks your dire messages about the “urgent need” for campaign contributions are a bit over the top. She actually hopes neither of you will have enough money to spend on negative TV ads this fall.

While you are at it, I will clue you in that you embarrass yourselves when you send me texts, such as after a jury convicts you of felonies, that pronounce it “THE DARKEST DAY IN AMERICAN HISTORY.” I don’t want to name names in this part, but the one that said “ALL HELL JUST BROKE LOOSE! I WAS CONVICTED IN A RIGGED TRIAL!” did not impress me, either. I wasn’t there, but my understanding is that Pearl Harbor, D-Day, 9/11, and the Civil War were darker, more hellish days for those who truly care about America.

The shameless desire you both have to buy votes and raise funds is embarrassing you and your political parties.

Partisan voters, my second tip is for you: Don’t sell your soul to these people. This occurred to me again last week with the results of a Minnesota poll regarding whether one particular presidential candidate or both candidates are too old for office. In that poll, zero percent of Democrats believe that only Joe Biden at 82 will be “too old” to serve a second term as president; whereas, three percent of Democrats found only Donald Trump (who is younger) to be too old. Conversely, 56 percent of Republicans found Biden (who is less than four years older) alone to be too old, and of course none found only Trump to be too old. Clearly, our judgment regarding how old is too old depends on political alignment.

We all should start thinking with our heads, not our team colors.

Tip three is for the U.S. Supreme Court. My advice is that you gain more respect when you issue unanimous decisions on controversial topics (such as your abortion pill ruling last week) than when you accept glorious free trips from billionaires.

Meanwhile, to those citizens on the left, the high court’s decision denying the challenge to approval of the abortion drug Mifepristone should make you pause before continuing to say the justices are waging “war on women.” If they really were so partisan and antagonistic, the justices could have found a way to allow the anti-abortion legal challenge to proceed.

My fourth tip is simple: Hunter Biden’s guns and drugs should not reflect on his father in the 2024 presidential election. The September trial on tax charges related to selling the family name overseas may be a different story, but let’s all wait for the evidence before we jump to conclusions.