Show Chatter

 I noticed this story over the weekend, and spent some time reviewing what people had said.

So, there's this show on American TV....called "The View".  The best description of the show is that it slices up politics and American trends, then does the best to draw you the viewer (usually females) to a left solution/position.

About seven months ago....their top (maybe the only) conserative figure on the show (Meghan McCain, who'd I consider marginally conservative), packed up and left the show. 

From what most folks said....she'd done this enough....was fed-up with the rest of the crew, and wanted something new.

So the producers for the past seven months.....have been out looking for a replacement.  Various people have come....for a week or two.....then left.  No one has gotten a contract deal.  It also appears that those who did come and serve a while....weren't up to the argument level required (at least some on social media suggest that).

The fact that the 'other' left crowd on the show....don't want a professional conservative on the show?  Well....that dynamic does fit into the whole discussion.  A Candace Owens type person.....would blast the liberal ladies daily and swing the arguments in a different direction.

So they need a loser-type conservative gal, who does a marginal job on political arguments.  For the producers?  The recruitment drive just isn't working.  

It's almost a comedy now with this show.    

What is the Greater Idaho Concept?

 Well....first, there are two states that have a fundamental difference between themselves....Idaho and Oregon.

Oregon, with a population of 4.29-million people....of which, the bulk reside in the vicenty of Portland, Eugene, Albany, and Salem area (roughly a 50 by 100 mile area on the NW side of the state).  If you did the numbers....around two-thirds of the entire state live in that 50 by 100 mile area....which means the rest of the state (mostly rural areas and small towns) is fairly unpopulated.

Here's the significance of this....urbanized Portland/Salem votes heavily Democrat and the rest of the state has little influence over the laws or political direction of the state.

So this group (roughly 80-percent of the state land mass) wants 'out', and they think that they can establish some 'path' that leads to adding their mass to Idaho.  

Odds of this?  Well....it's never been done.

If this were to occur?  Greater Idaho would rank in size after Texas and Alaska.....just on square miles.  

On voting aspects?  If you lived in what remained in new Oregon?  It'd be a 90-percent Democratic vote state, which no one really argues much about.  For Idaho?  It'd probably guarantee them as a Republican state for eternity.

Here's the thing....once you open this door....what hinders things from occurring in other states?  Could one-third of Alabama vote to move itself to Florida?  Could the city of Chicago be edged out and made into a state by itself?  Could California be broken up into five states?  

I doubt seriously that anyone in Washington DC wants this to play out because it creates a mass 'unknown'.

Observations

 1.  President Biden took for the Christmas holidays, and went to Delaware....to his beach house.  So, he and his wife.....fully vaxed and boostered....were seen out on the beach walking around....masked-up.  

I read through the piece....probably no one else but Secret Service for at least half-a-mile, yet wearing masks.

2.  Home prices in 2021, went up on average of 18-plus percent.  In a bubble like 2008?  I would suggest that.

3.  Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) did an interview and said that the Democratic Party is searching for some way to reform the filibuster process.  It'll probably be discussed in 2022, and some new phrase/word will be invented, but I seriously doubt that it goes away.