My Ten Issues With President Biden Running In 2024

 1.  If you dragged 100 Democratic voters into a hall, and asked what the three big accomplishments of President Biden were since day one....at the 40th minute....we would still be dwelling on an idea for accomplishment number two.

2.  There's likely to be at least four primary candidates going  against Biden, and I could envision twelve of the first twenty primaries....resulting in Biden being a second-place winner.  

3.  Sam Bankman-Fried will not be able to funnel cash to Biden or any of the Senate/House candidates.  

4.  VP Harris will be demanding a signal by January 2024....she will be his VP candidate, and I don't believe he wants that.

5.  CNN will have evolved to the point that they aren't hyping Biden in any shape or way for all of 2024.

6.  The DNC able to have debates, with Biden in the mix?  I have my doubts that you can allow this to be a public event.  

7.  If you hold 'massive' Biden rallies, and these are 2,000 seat hotel conference centers....while Trump is holding his rallies in 20,000 seat arenas.....will it be a problem for the news media to 'hide'?

8.  Can President Biden handle both a regular job and a campaign trail?  I have doubts.

9.  Is Joe Biden a brand-name that is unsellable in 2024, unlike 2020?  I'm wondering about that issue.

10.  Finally, with all the Hunter Biden and the classified-laying-around stuff.....is it wise to even ask if Joe runs in 2024?  

Oppressed or Privileged?

 I sat and read through a story coming out of a region....about 20 miles east of Oakland, California.

So....there are these students at a school district....who were given some kind of presentation that they would be listed in some way along four groups:

"Type of Oppression," "Variable," "Non-Target Groups (Privilege)" and "Target Groups (Oppression)."

In simple terms.....you would end up being ID'ed as oppressed or privileged.

Parents getting the same presentation?  No.

With the student-teacher 'package'....someone had obviously done a lot of extra work....to explain how you might be oppressed.  There was a listing to say types (oppression included racism, sexism, genderism, classism, elitism, religious oppression, militarism, ageism, adultism, heterosexism, ableism, xenophobia and linguistical types of oppression).

I sat and paused over this.  To be honest....if you dealing with me as a high school student...particularly around the 10th grade....I probably would have sat there for a good long hour trying to contemplate what was said, and if the teacher was compromised in some way (being half-witted for example).  I might have asked the teacher if they were oppressed in some way.

This would have been the point where I realized I had progressed as far as I could with high school, and it was time to test out via the GED program.  

I tried to contemplate how it was for me in the 1970s....being either privileged or oppressed.  

I had roughly five pairs of jeans (for school or work)....with one set of Sunday church clothing.    I'm not sure if that qualifies me as privileged or oppressed.

We did serve ice cream occasionally at the table....but it was the cheap stuff.  To be honest....at the A&P or Piggly Wiggly....that was about all they sold in those days.  I'm not sure if that qualifies me as privileged or oppressed.

If you asked us to define elitism.....we probably would have thought you were using a eastern Tennessee dialect, and mispronouncing athleticism.  

If you had gotten onto some linguistic oppression chatter.....we would have all thought we were oppressed....mostly because we were speaking correctly, and the non-residents were using a weird type of English accent.  

Confusing times?  I'd suggest we are headed to a point where you might want to get as much as possible done by the 10th grade and just GED yourself out of school.