Open Letter To..

Schloss-Blog Open Letter to Joe Biden:

Hi Joe.

Your messaging sucks. Totally sucks.

You're way too nice. Trump isn't nice - he's filthy, in fact.

You don't have to be filthy, but you have to be honest. I heard Nicolle Wallace on "Deadline: White House," say that you're messaging is too timid. 

Just saying that Donald Trump "doesn't like" or "doesn't trust" women isn't cutting it.

He hates women. Degrades them. In his speech, In deposition testimony.

He hates immigrants. Despises them. Degrades them. Every day.

Yet, he's gaining ground with minorities in polling.

Why? Because you're losing ground with them. The public is clearly saying the border and immigration are a problem.

Yes, Trump sank the solution for that. In fact, use that video clip of Republican Sen. James Lankford mouthing, "That's true," at your State of the Union speech regarding the problem-solving legislation he helped negotiate on the border that Trump sank. Use that in your messaging, in your ads, and make sure people know how conservative Lankford is and how he accomplished exactly everything Republicans wanted in that bill.

And Trump submarined it.

So, in no uncertain terms, remind people of that. Again. And again, And again.

Trump is a narcissistic sociopath. Remind people of that. Remind people that if he's president again, the First, Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights he takes away from people he despises will be gone for everyone.

Like you and me.

Trump has done nothing but make sure Ukrainians are the bad guys while his sycophants in Congress have accomplished no domestic-policy legislation whatsoever.

Remind people of that.

And at the grocery store, which is where you are losing the election, find a way to remind people this is Trump's fault.

How?

It's the fallout from his pandemic-policy failure, which left supply chains knotted, prices inflated, where they've remained, and 1 million-plus people dead.

One million-plus.

By the way, corporate America, whose pricing needs to come down in grocery stores, are exactly the ones whose taxes you want increase. 

Might want to rethink that. 

Trump, meanwhile, for all intents and purposes, killed those 1 million-plus. He did, with his denial of the pandemic. Do you think for one minute he'd fail to call you a murderer if the situation were reversed? In fact, if he's president, he'll try to prosecute you for it.

Stop being polite but stop short of being as divisive as Trump, let alone disgusting.

You're better than he is. Start reminding people of it.

And best to Jill. Regards,

Howard

P.S. - prep up the look and the talk, please.

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Post post script:

*Most Americans need to retire with $1.46 million in savings. Most Americans have $88,400 in savings for retirement on average.

*As they said on SNL, the women's NCAA Tournament has been the more interesting.

*If you never heard of Mark Elias, by the time the next election is over, you'll be glad you did.

*Indiana State won the NIT. So, there are 68 teams better than them?

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Good night, Mrs. Calabash. Here's to you, Kristin Wiig.

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