The Unifier Story

 This past week, I sat and watched a podcast where the moderator brought this talkative 'expert' on, who got all into the problem of division in America.  He (the guest' actually did a great job for about three minutes.  Then he wanted to lecture you that the only time in the past couple of decades that you got some 'measurement' of unifying....was under the Obama era.

I sat and kinda laughed.

During the build-up of the 2008 campaign....into the primary period....some guy came on CNN and hyped up the unifying experience/background of candidate Obama....saying that the Illinois era was a great example of how Obama worked across party lines.

So about three months into the President Obama era....you just came to realize on unifying skills....he was missing the talents, the smarts, and the savvy to unify people.  It wasn't just him....even the people around him in the White House....were lacking the same talent-set.

By the end of the 4th year.....you could asses the unifying 'hype' as mostly all bogus.  

So, back to Bush II, Clinton, Bush I.....were they all missing unifying skills?  For the most part.

Reagan?  He won the 1976 election mostly because Carter got caught up in the Iran mess, and Carter's debates were good but not enough to bring down Reagan.  Reagan as a unifier?  No....but the news media wasn't corrupted enough to make it a big deal. 

Carter as a unifier?  No....Carter was brought in to clean up the perception of Watergate.  

Nixon and Ford as unifiers?  Not really.

Kennedy or Johnson as unifiers?  Kennedy marginally filled that 'square', and Johnson was simply the guy filling Kennedy's empty shadow.

So I'd suggest that it's been a mighty long time since Eisenhower was around and decent unifier.  

The job of social/news media to present a fake unifier today?  Well....that's what you are left with.  There's probably sixty different national characters walking around today....as hoax-unifiers.  Some Republican....some Democrat...some journalists...some clowns-pretending-to-be-leaders.  It's bad enough that you can't even recognize a real unifier from a fake unifier.  

Your Gender is Based Mostly on Someone's Imagination?

 If you had made this statement twenty years ago....99-percent of people would have laughed.  Today?  The statement is mostly leaning toward what I'd call a hoax-fact....meaning people accept it and don't question it, but if you tried to make it a logical statement in a discussion....you MISERABLY fail.

As each year passes now....active imagination adds another couple of genders (with pronouns).  Without the active imagination....this trend goes nowhere.

Right now, sitting in some basement in Milwaukee, is some guy who is dwelling on a brand new gender which he will introduce via his social media situation, and sell to 10,000 followers over the next month, and by January....have convinced around 20-million Americans of the new gender.  The fact that this may only involve 300 people around the US?  It's best not to bring up this fact.

The possibility that some alien (UFO-type) gender will be invented out of thin air over the next year?  I'd say it's better than a 50-percent chance. 

So this whole thing....the chatter....the arguments....the 'got-you' talk....the furious nature of society forever on a binge frustration...all based on imagination?  Yeah, and the best part, because the way that imagination works....there's no limit.

You might as well open up that fine whiskey you've been saving, and sit over on the porch tonight....thinking over this implication, and how the future now proceeds.  

The 1 August Arrival: The Evictions Start

 This Covid-protection law protection....to keep house/apartment renters from being kicked out for failure to pay rent....ended this morning.  

If you go by the figures....it's estimated that around 15-million Americans are in this 'boat'.  Landlords, I will predict...probably already have the legal documents drawn up, stamped, and will probably hand them to the local sheriff or police to enforce (I would suggest tomorrow morning...Monday).

A few states...like California for example, have some rules in place where this might be drawn out and hindered for a while, but the bulk of states have no delay rules.

So the question, if you think about, where you find 15-million Americans in sixty to ninety days?  

My general prediction here goes three ways:

1.  I think one out of ten will have some cash flow or third-party 'loan' where they buy a RV or trailer, and just go living off some public street, or city park.

2.  About forty-percent of these people will approach friends or relatives....getting an invite for a period of time to live in their house/garage/basement. 

3.  The remainder will end up at some local church or charity operations....with a new enthusiastic view for home dwellings (temp fix).

The Biden crew in a mess?  This whole Covid handling mess by Congress....handing out this no-eviction notice created a magnificent mess which has no reliable or simple answer.  

As for the news media?  I expect in two to four weeks....almost every evening will feature some story over the pitiful folks kicked out and camping out on the streets.  Most of us will mute the story, and just avoid water-cooler discussions over the mess.