I heard this statement today.
There are a lot of freaked-out folks who want to be noticed and awarded some kind of status in life....being non-normal.
Kind of like some mental development thing....where the dreams just aren't going anywhere much.
Just makes you wonder about the future and how these people manage to survive.
Roughly 14 weeks until the mid-term, and one has to feel this enormous pain that the Democratic Party is suffering through. My ten thoughts:
1. Biden was supposed to have gotten a dozen-odd things done in the first and paved the way onto his agenda demonstrating 'something'. Well...there's just not much to brag about.
2. This mental decline business? If anything....Joe has done more to convince the general public of this decline.
3. VP Harris is a zero asset to the administration and it'd be better if she just golfed three afternoons a week, and hung out at baseball games.
4. If you line up the top ten topics for this election.....the Republicans probably control six of them, and four of them are neutral (meaning you get no gain).
5. On the oil/gas price business....Biden absolutely does not want US oil companies pumping oil out of the US soil. You can't argue that point.
6. We've accepted the fact that the cards he reads.....make him the President. Who writes the cards? They are the actual President.
7. The chatter after November 2020.....'now, we got the grown-ups in the White House'? No one believes that today.
8. CNN, WaPo, MSNBC, Twitter and NY Times carrying the lame administration? More or less....that's the feeling in the public arena.
9. The chief selling item of Biden for 2021? Well...mostly Covid.
10. The Latino and Black community? They left Biden and the administration by the side of the road while waiting. They moved on.
This week, Hillary quietly gave a signal that she's contemplating a run in 2024.
So first, it's basically Hillary versus Joe versus Newsom of California.
Will Joe run? Most suggest not....there's just no way to tell.
If this were only a Hillary versus Newsom script? Well....lets start in Iowa. Neither gets much traction....same way in SC. Maybe in NH....Hillary wins. In Nevada, it's clearly Newsom.
My gut feeling is that it'd be a 60-40 primary, with Hillary walking into the convention without enough votes to win the first round. Whether she can climb out of the pit or get dumped when she did get 60-percent of the primary deal? Unknown.
If Hillary were to advance?
Then you have the Trump or DeSantis versus Hillary situation. Frankly, I just don't see the Democratic voters being that hyped up or positive on her campaign. If this were a 2016 script (Trump versus Hillary)....to which Hillary loses again....I think the whole Democratic establishment would fall apart and drag everyone through a massive stressful four years.
I go back to something I said in 2016.....some people like to fantasize that about another Bill Clinton era, and you get that via Hillary Clinton. No.....Hillary is simply not another Bill.
So, settle back and be entertained. Maybe we need a Trump versus Hillary campaign to reset politics once again.
So it came out this week that California legislative folks and the governor (Newsom) agreed to a $17 billion package that is geared in some way for inflation relief. Of this, $9.5 billion goes to the public.
Now before you get excited....if you were a Californian....it's ranked. Minimum you get (early 2023) is $200....most is $1,050.
How can they swing this? Well....they are number nine in the nation on taxes....roughly 9.7-percent of what you make....goes to the state.
Inflation affecting everyone? Yes, but the money is ranked. So if you made up to $75k a year in salary....you'd get $350 per tax-paying couple...then $350 for each kid....capping at $1,050.
Next level up, you get $250 in this scenario....capping as well.
Does the $1,050 potentially change your life? NO.
That's really the crappy part of this story. If you follow inflation in California....just in fuel prices....you probably are paying around $1,000 extra per year, if you own two cars. Count up your energy bill, groceries, and oddball things....it is probably over $3k in extra cost.
I'm not condemning the offer....but it's because of the hefty tax...that they have some money to throw around.
Trying to suggest it's some great relief? Well...it's like baking a cake for your neighbor, but having no icing on it...as you present it.
1. It's just odd on this 6 Jan hearing business.....the longer it goes on....the more I see it as the Warren Commission....mostly there to make you think of a certain outcome, whether true or not.
2. NY Times says that President Biden is frustrated with the amount of questions over him running in 2024. The questions that he refers to? The ones coming from within the Democratic Party. Amusing to some degree.
