How Lid-Time Would Work with President Joe?

 This was on my mind today, and I finally came to five observations:

1.  In this case where Joe is slowly being affected by dementia....whatever amount of time that you see of Joe today (November 2020), you can carve it down by 30-percent by February 2021.  

So I would suggest on inauguration day....they wake Joe up about three hours prior to the ceremony....pep with the 'right' shot, and about three hours after oath, he quietly disappears while VP Harris carries out the rest of the day.

2. January to March?  While a lot of foreign dignitaries will want to meet with Joe....the appointments will be lined up for the morning hours only, and everything else will be handled by his chief-of-staff or VP.

3.  Staged public moments over the first-half of 2021?  Mostly all morning events.  

4.  Weekend events?  Virtually none.  He might be seen at Camp David occasionally, but by early summer....you won't see much of Joe.

5.  Some new term will be invented to replace 'lid-time' by the news media.  

If you examine the pace of dementia, and generally say his progress really started at the tail-end of 2019....he's at the first year closure.  With the latest and greatest in drugs.....I would suggest him getting through all of 2021, and issues continually noted by the last quarter of the year.  Him being taken out before mid-2022 (the next election period)?  I'm guessing that the plan is that he either stage an exit by January 2022, or try to make it to November 2022.  

Hiding this?  It just won't be easy unless he stays hidden out for the majority of time and keeps his mouth shut as much as possible.  

At the End of This Mess

 After a fair amount of pondering....I've come to three observations about the future of politics in the US....no matter who wins this election:

1.  Roughly fifty to sixty percent of the nation will be coming to the conclusion over the next twelve months that the election system is crapped out and unable to function  (as advertised).  

Blame will set upon various county officials, state political folks, news people, judges, and the national party system (both parties).  

'Banana Republic' will be uttered a great deal.  

2.  Right-leaners still voting with the Republicans?  I think a fair number of people will gaze at Fox News, and twenty-odd Republicans in the House and Senate....to say they more or less wanted Trump 'moved-on'. 

A third-party discussion will start up.  It might take three to four years, but I expect a full-up conservative party to exist by 2024, and mount some candidate.  Maybe he'll only get 12-percent of the national vote.  Maybe he only gets fifteen Electoral College votes.  But it'll the beginning of the end for the GOP.

The same occurring for the Democratic or left-leaners?  Maybe.  The Green Party already exists.  But there's probably room for non-urban Democratic Party....especially in the south.

3.  Finally, you can just sense an enormous amount of propaganda being dished-out on a daily basis.  You get propaganda via your local TV network, some local sports talk-show host, your local minister, your neighbor, your local school PTA 'bosses', and forty-odd individuals.  

Maybe it was marginally done back in the 1980s, but at the current pace of things....people are likely to start backing away from 'trust' and start to question virtually everything they see.  That's not exactly a good thing.