The Problem In Selling the Biden 'Brand' In 2024

 There are two Biden 'brands'.....one from 2020....and one that fits into the 2024 election cycle.  Selling each....requires a different approach. 

For each hundred folks that voted for Joe Bien in 2020....I would suggest from the independent side....more than half question his mental stability, and from the Democratic voter side....at least one in ten are shaking their head.

So getting 81.2-million votes a possibility in 2024?  I consider it near impossible.  Plus you have to discount the Covid trend that was mandated in most states.

How many fewer voters?  That's not possible to gauge, but it wouldn't really shock me if we were talking three or four fewer states in the Biden-win column, and a loss of 10-percent of the 81.2-million votes.  

But this leads me to the shock-value sudden episode developing....something where Biden suddenly announces in January of 2024.....he's got ill  health, and pulls out suddenly.....to allow Governor Newsom to suddenly appear.

I sat this past week and counted around a dozen different scenarios....where you could imagine the whole landscape changed in a matter of 24 hours, and the news media just grinning.

I could even see Biden arriving at the Convention in mid-summer 2024....announcing then he's bad-off, opening the Convention to Newsom getting the shock nomination.  

So prepare yourself....whatever you see today as the likely scenario...probably will not be reality in mid-2024.

My 'Dumbass Airman' Story

 I was stationed late in my Air Force career at a base, and about five miles away was a second Air Base (it's best not to mention either of the locations).

One day...an associate of mine at the second base (supervising around six folks) simply noted that Airman X...a guy who'd been at the base for six months was becoming a problem.  

It was a simple story.

Airman X arrived at the site....performed up to standards, never was late, and never had to be 'jerked-around'.....for about 90 days.  

Then one day....Airman X met Airman Wendy.  Airman Wendy was a dental technician....had various body tattoos....several piercings, and you'd probably describe her as eccentric, freaky, and weird.  

Over the course of 90 days....Airman X underwent a transformation.  He got a couple of body piercings, and had a public physical event with Wendy (with three or four folks watching).   Then on one weekend....X decided to get a particular piercing in a sensitive part of the body....in the barracks TV room....with Wendy doing the job, with a audience of a dozen folks observing. 

On Monday, this got back to the First Sergeant.  There was a fairly long counseling session that my associate had to endear, with the 1Lt of the shop and division chief attending, with X and the First Sergeant.  It was one of those drop-dead sessions where you were told what behavior was acceptable and what could not be acceptable.

For about three weeks....things ran fine.  Then the unit held a holiday bar-b-q....where Airman X and Airman Wendy arrived....both with some weird barb-wire head piece.  

The division chief (Lt Col) told my associate in the midst of this bar-b-q....come Tuesday morning....he was to accompany the Airman to his office.  

What transpired that Tuesday.....the Lt Col had gone to base legal and done his homework.  Out came the fitness paperwork....declaring the Airman not mentally fit.  

Up until that point, in most cases I'd seen in kicking people out....it normally took around two-to-three months to discharge people....unless they were nutcases.  

In this case, Airman X was walked to each point requiring dismissal, and the discharge paperwork was finished on Friday morning.  Flight arrangements were arranged for Saturday morning, and he departed Germany.  

It was one of those things where everyone in the shop was told not to bring up Airman X's name again or get into conversations about Wendy, the barbed-wire, or the piercing in the TV room.  It was to be forgotten history.

This ending Airman X's career, and his intense relationship with Airman Wendy?  Well.....yeah.  That's the thing about it.  Wendy stayed on....never affected by any of this.  The medical folks didn't see anything really wrong with her behavior.  That was the one odd part of the story....she continued on.

I've wondered about Airman X, and what became of him.  He probably asked himself later....where he went wrong, and how he got all messed up with Wendy.  Life is that way....you stumble into a pit and usually climb out.  In this case, he just kept lingering in the pit, and getting deeper as each day went by.  

My Redhead Story

 On day one of my Air Force period (1977)....I was at the recruitment center in Nashville, and four of us were set to leave in mid-afternoon for the boot-camp experience (San Antonio).  Three guys and a redhead gal.  I was from NW Alabama, the two guys were from Iuka, Mississippi, and the redhead gal was from the Hackleburg area of Alabama.

At the Nashville Airport, we were given the ticket by 'Sarge' and provided just three instructions....stay together, don't drift off, and hand over the 'records' at the boot-camp processing station.

Boarding the plane...we sat together.  The redhead gal got pretty talkative and seemed to be overly religious and very moralistic.  As the plane taxied around....she insisted we pray for a safe flight.  This being my first ever flight....I kinda wondered if this was necessary.

About 12 minutes later....the stewardess came around and offered up drinks.  The two Mississippi guys ordered beer....which got the redhead a bit disturbed and she told the stewardess that she didn't think that was right.  I asked for a Coke, and a small bottle of whiskey....which got the redhead more disturbed, and she said she was going to report the three of us once we got to boot-camp. I sat for the rest of the flight...fairly worried over getting 'reported'.

Getting into trouble on my first day in the Air Force....brought on anxiety.  

Once at boot-camp, the next 'Sarge' got about 8 seconds of the redhead's report, and told the redhead to concentrate on boot-camp.  That ended my anxiety.  

After that.....I didn't see the redhead for six weeks.  Then I ended up in Wichita Falls...at the Tech School....where on day one....they had a in-processing episode, and here was the redhead again.  This was an morning spent on 'I'm-ok-you're-ok' counseling.  

The Air Force for years and years....spent time each year on this 'I'm-ok-you're-ok' gimmick.  It was supposed to stress to you....that you needed to control your talk or commentary to some degree.  

She was attempting to explain some chapter out of the Old Testament (as much I could figure) and within her 'group'....she was acting in some 1977-version of 'woke' (in a extreme conservative way).

I didn't see the redhead again....for about two years.  

Then at Rhein Main Air Base....in the medical clinic....I sat in some hallway awaiting a vaccination.  Next to me was a open-door, and this conversation was underway between two people.   The subject was....the junior person had apparently had some paperwork done on them....to prevent/forbid re-enlistment.  

For about five minutes, I listened to this 'talk'.  The NCO was explaining that the airman was overly argumentative....constantly trying to one-up authority...everything was a battle. This attitude was continually creating tension within the group.  

Then it kinda hit me....this voice of the airman sounded familiar.  I got up and walked by the open-door, barely gazing over, and yes....it was the redhead from Hackleburg.  

Usually with this prevention-paperwork....it's just awful rare.  The few occasions I ever saw it used in the Air Force....usually for nutcases, serious alcoholics, or low-IQ people who never should have come into the military in the first place.

What happened to the redhead after her four years in the Air Force?  Over the years, I wondered about that.  I would imagine she went back to Alabama....maybe attended some university....probably became a teacher in this highly rural area of Alabama.  And yes, she probably continued to create tension out of thin-air.  

Five Things I Believe Today

 1.  I don't think Fox 'just suddenly' released Tucker Carlson.

I would imagine that by the end of 2022....they (Fox) were already discussing the next contract, and the potential of just not following a new contract.  

2.  On my 'thrill-index', just looking around at how the public has reacted to Joe Biden announcing his 2024 campaign....I'd say for each ten Joe-voters in 2020....I think at least four of them aren't that hyped-up or thrilled.  They were thinking Joe wouldn't run, and that Newsom would be the replacement.

3.  With this pronoun/misgendering gimmick....it's reaching the point where if you did bump into or have to engage upon such a person....you'd mentally 'mute' everything they say and in your mind....focus on them being mentally unbalanced.  Respect is non-existent. I think most people are headed that way, and the enraged crowd hasn't figured this out yet.

4.  Some massive weekend race in progress for FDIC to sell First Republic Bank....to literally anyone....before Monday AM.  Some weird belief that a massive tidal wave will occur.  Where the hell did this occur?

5.  Progress....in some cases....means nothing has changed in thirty years.