This is Pastor Tim’s article which appeared in the Evening Leader on Tuesday, July 30, 2024
I am telling you that this is the most wild political season of my lifetime. It has given me no shortage of things to write about. My original plan was to write a movie review about the movie in theaters right now called Twisters. Here is my review: it was alright. I am sick to death of Hollywood pumping out movies about girl bosses, but the tornado action scenes were something to behold and I loved the Oklahoma countryside scenes because it reminds me of rural northern Ohio where I grew up. I also loved the tornado truck that one character drove around in the movie. Not as cool as the Beetle, but pretty cool. There is my review.
Now, the important question, where is Joe Biden? I would love for someone to explain to me how a man went from swearing up and down he was absolutely running for president to dropping out of the race and disappearing from the public eye in the blink of an eye. It was announced he had COVID, but it seems like we should have seen something from him by now. The announcement he made came out via Twitter, an account that he does not control. That means the only statement we have is that Joe Biden dropped from the presidential race and that was announced by a picture of a letter posted to Twitter 2 days ago. Doesn’t that seem a little strange?
If, God forbid, something catastrophic happened to Biden, then Kamala Harris should be sworn in as president. If he is unable to address his country at a time such as this, then how is he leading our nation? Again, God forbid, but what if something in the world happens right now? If we are all aware of Biden’s absence, then so is the rest of the world. This sudden change from no way he is dropping out to dropping out by a picture of a letter posted to Twitter makes me worried about what has happened to him.
If I can level with you, I feel very sorry for Joe Biden. He and my dad are similar in age and while my dad is hands down one of the wisest men God ever put on this earth, there is no way in hell I would allow my dad to be put in the position Biden is now. And if I found out that someone from outside my family was pressuring my dad to do this, I would make it my mission in life to destroy that person. There is no way I would allow this to happen to someone I cared about that much.
I pray that by the time you read this article that Biden has made a public statement that he was sick with COVID and has recovered. But my fear is that he has been “dispatched.” How wild would it be that his political rival was shot, and Biden is the one who ended up assassinated? I don’t want that to happen but there is so much distrust right now that anything short of 100% transparency is not going to satisfy the public. This looks so suspicious because Biden has received millions of votes in Democratic primaries and for him to suddenly drop out makes it look like something else is going on.
The Democratic party has screamed and yelled for years about the subversion of democracy, and they had to defend the sacred honor of democracy. Which is interesting given that the United States is not a democracy, we are a republic. For evidence of this, recite the first few lines of the pledge of allegiance. Democracy exists on the state level, not the federal level, but that is a civics lesson for another time. It just strikes me as strange that the party who thinks that democracy is hanging by the slightest of threads is now the party whose candidate was absolutely running for president a few days ago, has received millions of primary votes representing the will of the people, and then drops out of the race in the most anonymous way possible. This is especially surprising given that Biden received 81 million votes last time around which would make him the most voted for president ever. That is the guy who just disappeared from the public eye.
I know that government officials do not really do transparency so well, but there needs to be some here. What happened in the secret service breakdown that got Donald Trump shot? Where is Joe Biden? Who is the president right now? If something happens nationally or even globally, who will be responsible to respond?
Right now, I don’t know those answers and neither do you. If this frightens you, I would like to remind you that Wayne Street Church has church services at 8:30am and 10:45am on Sunday. We will save you a seat.