Can Biden Or Newsom Reach Enough Votes Again?

 For the 2008 election (Obama/McCain)....there were a total of 129-million voters in the mix.

For the 2012 election (Obama/Romney)....there were a total of 126-million voters in the mix.

For the 2016 election (Clinton/Trump)....there were a total of 128-million voters in the mix.

For the 2020 election (Biden/Trump)....there were a total of 155.5-million voters in the mix.

(Note, I'm not counting the 3rd-party guys).

The question here....can you dig up 25-million extra voters....which in 2008/2012/2016.....was not possible.

Adding to this issue....if inflation is still a continuing problem (four years into Biden's period)....will working class Democrats really buy into the Biden or Newsom message?

Then you consider.....just on California woes of the past decade....is there anything really positive about Newsom....other than he looks really good in a thousand-dollar suit?

It's a sad thing to admit....but there's clearly not any dynamic 'star' as governor or senator....that the Democratic Party can drag out and really attract people....other than Biden or Newsom.

You need to find these 25-million extra people and somehow convince them to vote again, and I just don't see this possible.  

If Trump exceeds the 2020 numbers (he had 74.2-million votes)?  Well....that's another worry....that he might actually convince another 3-million voters (probably Hispanic and blacks), and suddenly.....the 25-million Biden extra votes really matter a lot.  

Q-and-A: 23 Aug 2023

 1.  Does any of this debate crap matter?

NO.

A couple of dimwit journalists asks stupid questions.....a couple of candidates give bogus answers, and after an hour of this....you have this 'daze' in your head....like you had six shots of vodka and drunk a whole bottle of flu-medicine.  

2.  Biden falling asleep at that Maui appearance

You have to deal with a old guy who probably needs two naps every day....on top of his eight hours of sleep.  If you don't like the idea....vote someone else in.

3.  Did you even notice S&P downgraded several banks?

Wasn't front-page news.  Should be a big indicator of things to come over next year.

4.  Masks coming back?

Yeah....another Covid era.  Me and my one single mask (bought in 2020) with 14,888 hours of use.....to be re-used again?  Yeah.  

All This Maui Business

 Three observations:

1.  There's going to be a lot of talk over incompetence in the next twelve months.  A number of people who held positions of responsibilities.....probably weren't qualified or capable of fulfilling the roles.  

This is going to cause of lot of us....non-Hawaii folks....to look around and ask the same questions of our local police, fire protection, water control, and authorities.  

2.  The state of Hawaii getting a lawsuit bill for the deaths?  Oh, I would wager there will be a full decade of lawsuits....probably going over the 1-billion dollar range.

3. All this leading back to the way fires are handled in the 49 other states?

Yeah, that's a probable outcome.

My Captain Story

 At some point in my vault-career....I worked with a Captain, who'd been as a kid in Columbia....gone to the US....gotten citizenship, and gone to medical school as a mental health guy.

We sat one afternoon and he laid out his situation.  After med school....he'd gotten picked up for a mental clinic in Miami.....making probably double what he was making as a Captain.  He was....however....unhappy.

His focus by the clinic director....was to take mostly married female patients...ages 40 to 60, and listen to their woes for an hour every two weeks, and if they were out of happy pills....issue more.

I asked what the problem was.

He responded.....they all had hit some peak in their thirties....married to men who found as 'problems'.  He was there to mostly hear the stories, erotic thrills with the tennis instructor, or some indepth fantasy.  

After 18 months of this....he told the director that something had to change.  Well...the director responded.....this was the top-money maker of the clinic.  Anything of a change meant a paycut.  A month later....the guy walked into a recruitment office and signed up for the Air Force.  He told the recruiter bluntly.....absolutely no medical jobs.  Fine...the Air Force saw that he was a great Spanish speaker and got him into the vault-profession.  

He admitted....if he'd just stayed, he'd probably be retired by age 50.  But this was just not a place where you wanted to hear about woes every single day.  

I look around today, and I see a lot of guys/gals.....unhappy....with no angle to improve things.

Calculator Story

 There's a test you take to get into the military.  Various scores come out of this....indicating if you are smart enough, and which fields should be open to you, or forbidden for you.

So, for all these years.....there was a math related set of questions on this ASVAB test.  

Example, if you had three quarts of fuel, in a one-gallon can.....how full was it?  30-percent, 50-percent, 75-percent, or 100-percent.

This portion of the test.....I considered simple (1976 testing).  You didn't use a calculator, and I breezed through the ten-odd questions with ease.  

Well....the Pentagon has decided that entry failures are bad enough.....that they are issuing out calculators for the ASVAB test.

I pondered upon this.  In using the calculator, you'd have to have a formula in your head to start with.  You'd have to know just what a quart really means or compares to a gallon.  I'm pretty sure in a class of 25 kids.....17 years old....that half of them have no idea of the quart angle to gallon angle.  So handing the marginal IQ  kid the calculator really doesn't mean much.

It'd be like asking a kid how many feet in a mile (5240 ft), and what 10-percent of the 5240 amount relates to, and if running 5 ft per second....how far would you get in 1,048 seconds (answer: a mile)?  There might be five kids out of 25....who'd get the formula right, within a minute.

Somehow, the Pentagon believes easing up.....will get more low IQ kids to pass ASVAB, and possibly enter the military.

I pondered upon this logic.   You'd end up in three years....with probably 100,000 low-IQ types in the Navy, Army, and Air Force.  'Sarge' would be standing there and shaking his head.....having to deal with this quality problem on a daily basis.

Who do I blame for this issue?  The high school education system, low quality teachers filtering into it, and graduating 18-year old kids who are marginally at the 7th-grade level.  

Thank God that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is coming.  AI will be able to tell stupid Airman Jones or Private Marty....what to do.  

Six Things I Tend To Believe Now

1.  Joe Biden, or Robert L. Peters.....won't be running in the 2024 primary.  I just don't believe the national level of the Democratic Party wants to campaign with him as the choice.  Nor will it be Harris.  

2.  New recession coming....mostly over banking/business failures in China developing in the past year.  

3. The Ukraine War will only end when Putin dies.  Even if it takes four more years. I also don't believe that Russia as a 'nation' will exist as a single country....it'll end up being split up.

4.   Another banking crisis (failures, multiple) will occur before Christmas.

5.  Rumor chatter starting up over the movie 'Rust', and that state folks are considering some kind of charge against Alec Baldwin.  I don't think he'll walk away without some kind of court charges being attempted.

6.  Reproduction rates in China dropping.  Within two generations, I believe the national population will drop by 30-percent.  

President Robert L. Peters?

 Someone was digging around and suddenly came to realize that some effort was done by Joe Biden....to create a pseudonym (fake ID) via gov't emails, and connects in some unknown way to Hunter Biden's associates.  

What's said this AM....the House is asking questions and wants to see all emails that went out.

My question?  What's the L for.....Leon?

I'm not against pseudonyms.....number of writers have done this, and there's nothing illegal about it....unless you create a fake ID.

Years ago, I got into a talk with a Air Force Lt.....who was showing me his fake ID from college.  He was proud of the ID in some way.

Is there just one single pseudonym for President Biden?  Well....that's the one odd thing.....there might be a couple.