My 3 Predictions Over The Trump Shooting

 1.  Somehow....the FBI will come to admit that a state-trooper for PA....got off 3 or 4 shots at the sniper, and no one from the Secret Service knew the placement of the state-trooper sniper or that he fired.  They will try to say this PA state-trooper was another 200 yards behind the shooter.  

2.  The Secret Service will admit that they had a team there of mostly replacement personnel who had never trained with actual Secret Service.   Why....will never be really admitted upon.  

3.  Whoever selected this site (within Trump's team)....was an idiot, and this selection failed various logical requirements.   

Then the whole report will be folded up and filed.  Nothing will come from this whole effort (at least in 2024).

If you expect a Oswald-type conspiracy?  It's probably there, but you won't reach that level until early 2025.  

How The RNC Ended

 After Trump ended his speech....the music started up.

If you aren't into opera....you were sitting there and shaking your head.  The choice of music?  Nessun Dorma.  It's a opera-piece.

Where you  heard it before?  At the end of the movie....'Sum of All Fears'.  

2002 movie....where the world is in chaos, and the President has been targeted....along with the head of Russia.

In the 2nd half of the movie, you figure out that various Russians and Americans have conspired to take down both governments.   Our American-made James Bond (Jack Ryan, played by Ben Affleck) has figured out all the bad guys, and saved the day.

But in the final two minutes.....Nessum Dorma comes on, and every bad guy has been hunted down and terminated....quietly.

So Trump stood on the stage and allowed the 'bad guys' to have a warning about what is to happen later.  He didn't say nothing....he didn't blame any group....he didn't say what suffering they might get.  

Sum of All Fears?  I've probably watched it ten times.  It's one of those movies that sticks to you....making you skeptical of good and bad intentions.  

If I were among the people who crapped upon a number of folks for the past eight years....I might start to get motivated....to quietly disappear (into Costa Rica or Belize).  

Just odd....the way that this message was sent...via Nessum Dorma. 

Five Observations

 1. I sat and watched a financial podcast this AM.....talking over his experience in trying to get cash yesterday (with the IT failure), and failing.

So he got onto the subject of FDIC, and the long-winded discussion of expected bank failure (either at the end of 2024 or into the spring of 2025).  He says....with some facts....FDIC is crapped-out, and will be unable to sustain this approaching failure.

What he expects?  About 3 or 4 days into this national bank-failure trend....Congress will pass a measure to enable FDIC to  'tax' US banking institutions...allowing them to 'grab' your savings/checking funds to a certain percentage....maybe 5-percent....maybe 10-percent.....which would float over into FDIC....to keep banks solvent.

I pondered over this.  If I had $3,000 total in my checking/savings....I probably wouldn't grumble much.  If I had $150,000....yeah, I would not appreciate losing $15,000 of my money.  If I had half-a-million....losing $50,000 would really peeve me.

He has a point....in that FDIC was never designed to handle massive bank failure.   I suspect he also has a point in that taking wealth who can afford it....is the only way to save these banks.  But the closer we get to this day, and it becomes apparent.....wouldn't half of society rush up to their bank and ask for $100,000 in cash....to hide in some basement or barn or garage?

Crazy times.

2.  Exit deal for Biden?  Based on chatter....he's peeved about all the talk and doesn't want to exit.

Governor Whitmer of Michigan....now leading in some polls as the replacement?  

3.  Odd statistic.....more men paying off their college loans....than women, based on the fact that more men took engineering degrees.

4.  Polling done after the assassination attempt.....80-percent of people say the country was 'out-of-control'.   

5.  Some polling in NY state says it's flip-possible to Trump now.  It would shock  a lot of  Democrats.