Friday 6 March 2020

If Hillary Was the Biden VP Choice

This is one of those scenarios which would typically require half-a-bottle of gin, or a complete bottle of cheap Italian wine. 

I don't give it much of a chance.  There are a minimum of fifteen individuals which I'd rate higher (Warren isn't even on that list of mine). 

However, if you go with the scenario that Joe Biden is in a light dementia stage.....knows it, and is just on this run to win, and hand it to Hillary, then it might make marginal sense. Adding to this, by October, I expect the Ukraine to be asking for sworn statements by Joe Biden and Hunter (his son).

The three issues with Hillary in 2020 as the VP?

1.  Her cough has never gone away.  She can't go more than 15 minutes of talking, without sipping something. 

2.  The email server business has never gone away.  Yep, four years now....and it's still there as a problem.

3.  She doesn't thrill that many Democrats.  Ask a Bernie supporter, and they mostly just laugh.

Here's the thing though....it would be Joe Biden doing the massive amount of public appearances after the convention.  Joe is in great physical condition (if not mentally).  Joe could carry the campaign to November easily. 

Joe's comments hurting?  Well....he's ten times worse at screw-ups as Hillary, and that's a major problem.

If Hillary lost this election as well?  I think she might finally go into full retirement and settle down in the Ozarks....visiting the casino on Friday evenings, and sipping premium coffee. 

Calculating Story

I watched this 90-second piece on MSNBC with Brian Williams and his guest....Mara Gay.  So the comment was made...that this $500-million that Bloomberg spent....could have been spent, and given all 327-million Americans a million each, and still had money left over.

I watched it twice....to make sure what I heard.  Then I did the math.  I'm not a rocket scientist, electrical engineer, or physics PhD guy.  My high school math teach did give me some basic math tools, and they still linger today.

If you figure up the Bloomberg money, and gave it to the public.....we each would have gotten around $1.53.  In basic terms....it would pay for a cheap cup of coffee and one cheap donut (not even the Dunkin type).  You couldn't even buy a bucket of popcorn at the theater, or a premium beer at the bar, or a table dance with that Memphis stripper visiting Gadsden this week.

In fact, you couldn't even buy a six-pack of Pepsi, unless it was on sale at Wal-Mart.  You might be able to buy ultra cheap bottle of discounted wine.  English Leather cologne?  It would have only paid 40-percent of the cost of that bottle.

So this exchange between Williams and Gay?  It was like two marginalized 3rd-grade kids and talking over numbers but not able to grasp the value of numbers.

This is the sad dilemma for Americans today.  They watch people like this and sit there at the kitchen table with their Tandy calculator for 30 minutes....trying to figure out how you'd get a million from Bloomberg, with MSNBC numbers, and it never adds up.  Eventually, you figure the Tandy calculator is crapped out (after 38 years of service and you throw it into the trash).  Then 'Randy' (your 8-year old son) comes in and looks at the data and says the Tandy calculator was correct.  You wipe a tear away.....drag the calculator out of the trash and thank Randy for his insight and brilliance. 

Randy might be going off to college one day, and inherit the Tandy calculator.