1. “Jesus Christ, if that’s who you believe, if that’s who you believe in, admittedly was not perfect when he was here on this earth.” Quote by CNN's Don Lemon.
Basically, he's dug himself into a pit. From the black community, he just lost an enormous amount of respect that took years to gain.
2. Biden's 'Buy American' Speech? 700 billion dollars? Well, here's the odd thing....it's basically the Trump program of 'Make America Great Again', except he'd raise taxes to shuffle the 700 billion into the pot, and have the government either buy American-only products or grant the money out to cities and states to buy American-only products.
If you think about it....federal, state and local already had the money....why not just buy American, without the infusion money?
3. The Trump tax return 'game'? Basically, the NY City prosecutor folks are hoping to find tax issues. But Trump pays professional accountants to take advantage of every single loophole that the city and state has written. The odds here? Pretty close to zero, on finding a problem.
So the next issue.....did Trump get discounted rates for loans for his buildings? Maybe, but that tax return is going to marginally cover that discussion. You'd have to go after the banks and insist on more information.
4. The odds of schools across the nation starting up in August? I would imagine that more than 50-percent will not open, or the parents will refuse to send the kids to school because of Covid-19.
So advancing in terms of education for the next school year? Pretty much a marginal situation.
5. Texas Division of Emergency Management....says that you ought to wear a mask, even in your home.
6. The problem with defunding and re-directing funding? Well...it's the same thing. It doesn't matter if Joe Biden said 're-directing' funding, it's the same thing as defunding in the end.
7. This upcoming 'quickie' restaging of the NBA season? Probably one of the most stupid ideas ever attempted by the NBA. At some point yesterday, former NBAer Charles Barkley finally said the 5-star comment....that sports is becoming big 'woke-circus', with no real payback or gain for anyone. Think about it....who pays $70 for a NFL seat to watch woke-NFL-football? Who'd pay $50 for a NBA seat to watch NBA people pretending to care about the sport but more hyped up on wokeness?
8. News story from Friday....some US Army General says that the 13 authorized four-star positions of the Army....aren't diverse enough (1 is black). Here's the thing....somewhere around 20 years of service, most talented black officers (Lt Col/Col) are edging toward the commercial world because of opportunity and pay. They move on, with their retirement pay, and reach a higher level of happiness.
9. That Hong Kong virologist who sneaked out? Well, she's said a lot over the past day or two....saying that the government of China knew an awful lot....ahead of the game.
Saturday, 11 July 2020
The Problem With This On-Off Antifa Button
For about two months, I've sat almost daily and reviewed video of Antifa events/demonstrations. It's mostly (say 90-percent) young white 'kids' (age 18 to 25). The few blacks you see....are BLM-supporters. Latinos? Almost non-existent in the background video.
The behavioral level? Intimidation, narcissistic, demanding, intolerant, lacking of both history and knowledge, and often displaying attitudes you'd expect out of a 8-year old kid.
So I look at the Biden campaign, and the Democratic Party....kinda wondering if they walk with confidence that there is a on-and-off button with Antifa.
What if Joe Biden wins? Can he walk in and suddenly hit the off-button, and make Antifa go away?
I have this suspicion that after eight months of activity....this off-button doesn't really exist anymore, and the overall plan of quieting down the 'kids' will have disappeared.
At some point in 2021....some folks will begin asking....if there ever was a off-button to Antifa, and some news journalists will wander around....trying to find such a button. Reality will set in at that point.
The behavioral level? Intimidation, narcissistic, demanding, intolerant, lacking of both history and knowledge, and often displaying attitudes you'd expect out of a 8-year old kid.
So I look at the Biden campaign, and the Democratic Party....kinda wondering if they walk with confidence that there is a on-and-off button with Antifa.
What if Joe Biden wins? Can he walk in and suddenly hit the off-button, and make Antifa go away?
I have this suspicion that after eight months of activity....this off-button doesn't really exist anymore, and the overall plan of quieting down the 'kids' will have disappeared.
At some point in 2021....some folks will begin asking....if there ever was a off-button to Antifa, and some news journalists will wander around....trying to find such a button. Reality will set in at that point.
Thursday, 9 July 2020
If We Dumped the Electoral College
You can go back to the mid-1800s, and find various people disgruntled over the way that the EC was functioning, and simply say nothing has changed over the years.
So if you dump the EC? The election would be mostly about urbanized areas (Chicago, NY, Miami, Houston, Denver, SF, etc). States like North Dakota or Idaho...wouldn't matter.
But if you were this crazy and foolish....why limit your change to only the EC? Why not dump all fifty primaries in a two-week period....mid-June for example, force both parties to have a convention in early August, and just run the silly debate season (a year prior) to occur in May....two weeks prior to the election?
So if you dump the EC? The election would be mostly about urbanized areas (Chicago, NY, Miami, Houston, Denver, SF, etc). States like North Dakota or Idaho...wouldn't matter.
But if you were this crazy and foolish....why limit your change to only the EC? Why not dump all fifty primaries in a two-week period....mid-June for example, force both parties to have a convention in early August, and just run the silly debate season (a year prior) to occur in May....two weeks prior to the election?
The Worst of All Scenarios
Lets say on the morning of 4 November, we wake up and find that several unusual things happened on election day. In this mix, at least three states are having trouble reaching a conclusion, mostly because of mail-in ballots. The end can't be concluded, and Trump appears to have won only 27 of the 30 states that he won in 2016. If the three states go to Biden? Joe Biden then wins.
Lawsuits start up. It's not just at the state level....it's thrown at individual counties. Neither candidate can reach 270.
In mid-December....the Electoral College process would kick in (normally). In this scenario, at least three states would have judges dellaying things, and unable to hold the vote.
End-result? No winner. So you go to early January when the House and Senate come in, with new members.
The House would be given the power to vote on the Presidency. The problem here? You vote state by state. If you have nine house members from your state, and four are Democrat....then the five Republicans would edge out the vote and the state votes via the House mechanism for Trump.
So it matters on this House election. Presently? This is an odd part of the story. While Pelosi and Democrats hold a majority.....25 states are GOP-majority situations. Penn is a 0-majority state, meaning it has no vote coming, then three Democratic states hold only a one-vote lead at this point.
How the House election might go? Imagine that two seats in Penn flip to the GOP, then imagine Colorado, Michigan, Arizona and even Minnesota flip enough seats, Trump would easily win via this mechanism.
But lets go to another scenario where nothing much changes, and Trump can't win 26 states via this mechanism. As the end of the presidential period ends....the mechanism would then confirm the head of the House (likely to be a Republican) as President, and the Senate would then confirm the VP. This would be done until a change in state by state voting occurs.
A deeper crisis? No doubt.
You could very likely have a House Speaker turned President (Republican) with a VP who is a Democrat.
Massive anger by both the Republican and Democratic voters? No doubt.
But this ought to make you understand that the House election in November is just as important as the Presidential election.
Lawsuits start up. It's not just at the state level....it's thrown at individual counties. Neither candidate can reach 270.
In mid-December....the Electoral College process would kick in (normally). In this scenario, at least three states would have judges dellaying things, and unable to hold the vote.
End-result? No winner. So you go to early January when the House and Senate come in, with new members.
The House would be given the power to vote on the Presidency. The problem here? You vote state by state. If you have nine house members from your state, and four are Democrat....then the five Republicans would edge out the vote and the state votes via the House mechanism for Trump.
So it matters on this House election. Presently? This is an odd part of the story. While Pelosi and Democrats hold a majority.....25 states are GOP-majority situations. Penn is a 0-majority state, meaning it has no vote coming, then three Democratic states hold only a one-vote lead at this point.
How the House election might go? Imagine that two seats in Penn flip to the GOP, then imagine Colorado, Michigan, Arizona and even Minnesota flip enough seats, Trump would easily win via this mechanism.
But lets go to another scenario where nothing much changes, and Trump can't win 26 states via this mechanism. As the end of the presidential period ends....the mechanism would then confirm the head of the House (likely to be a Republican) as President, and the Senate would then confirm the VP. This would be done until a change in state by state voting occurs.
A deeper crisis? No doubt.
You could very likely have a House Speaker turned President (Republican) with a VP who is a Democrat.
Massive anger by both the Republican and Democratic voters? No doubt.
But this ought to make you understand that the House election in November is just as important as the Presidential election.
Wednesday, 8 July 2020
Just Observations
1. Iron-clad rule....Marxists don't share power. Their ultimate purpose is to eradicate all existing opposition. If you think Nazis are evil....these people are just as bad.
2. The thing about leaving the WHO. In 1948, they were a noble idea and cause. Maybe for the first thirty years, they had a purpose and positive path ahead. Over the past twenty years? They became unfocused....unable to touch various topics....and politicized. Rather than go and recognize that problem....they felt intimidated and refused to consider change.
3. I don't see the Washington Redskins staying in the DC area if the name goes to a change situation. For DC, they pushed the wrong button here. My prediction? They end up moving to San Antonio, Texas or Oklahoma City.
4. If you declared racism a mental disorder....would it change much of anything?
5. The chief problem of the defund the police effort? You end up with private security in a thousand ways that you never dreamed of, and have some 9th-grade drop-out named Larry who now seems to be the only real protection you have in your neighborhood.
6. Could the NBA go through a woke-situation, where they realize that only 30-percent of fans care about their wokeness? Would they then be woke-woke?
7. Just me, but I'd pay $75 to sit in a Presidential debate area where Joe Biden and Kanye West were in discussions.
8. Did Joe Biden say that the police have 'become the enemy'? Yes, but if you asked him to define the enemy....he'd get on the subject of WW II movies and Nazis. So don't bring it up.
9. Senator Chuck Schumer linked to Jeffrey Epstein? Yes, but it's best not to discuss this matter.
10. The FBI says HALF of all it's counter-intelligence cases....involve China.
2. The thing about leaving the WHO. In 1948, they were a noble idea and cause. Maybe for the first thirty years, they had a purpose and positive path ahead. Over the past twenty years? They became unfocused....unable to touch various topics....and politicized. Rather than go and recognize that problem....they felt intimidated and refused to consider change.
3. I don't see the Washington Redskins staying in the DC area if the name goes to a change situation. For DC, they pushed the wrong button here. My prediction? They end up moving to San Antonio, Texas or Oklahoma City.
4. If you declared racism a mental disorder....would it change much of anything?
5. The chief problem of the defund the police effort? You end up with private security in a thousand ways that you never dreamed of, and have some 9th-grade drop-out named Larry who now seems to be the only real protection you have in your neighborhood.
6. Could the NBA go through a woke-situation, where they realize that only 30-percent of fans care about their wokeness? Would they then be woke-woke?
7. Just me, but I'd pay $75 to sit in a Presidential debate area where Joe Biden and Kanye West were in discussions.
8. Did Joe Biden say that the police have 'become the enemy'? Yes, but if you asked him to define the enemy....he'd get on the subject of WW II movies and Nazis. So don't bring it up.
9. Senator Chuck Schumer linked to Jeffrey Epstein? Yes, but it's best not to discuss this matter.
10. The FBI says HALF of all it's counter-intelligence cases....involve China.
Just Observations
1. Someone brought this up today....on smog/pollution checks with the yearly car inspection business. In California, it's $85 and 25 minutes being hooked up to the machine. In Tennessee, it's $8 and two minutes hooked up to the machine. It's the same basic test, and I would dare anyone to show that there is any legit difference in the inspection of car A....if taken from one state to another.
2. If you approach working-class democrats (the ones who pay taxes and work)....then tell them that you not only want to get rid of guns, but you want less police (defunding the police)....about fifty-percent of them will just start laughing. They marginally might listen to the first argument, but the less police gimmick? That merely pushes them to vote for Trump.
3. So, imagine this....a public housing complex in Melbourne, Australia.....tower-type building. 3,000 residents in the complex. 500 cops surrounding it. No one enters....no one leaves. Covid-19 situation, and the whole population of the building is on lock-down. Testing is being conducted, but everyone is forced to participate for a five-day period of self-quarantine.
4. The key question that Trump will throw at Biden throughout the three debates? Why do you hate America? Over and over. Joe will deny he hates America but he'll stumble through this theme, and each debate will be won by Trump....solely on the 'hate America' theme. If you had brought up this discussion three years ago, most everyone would have laughed at the mere suggestion of 'hating America'. Yet, here we are.
5. It's an odd story that has developed over George Floyd (the dead black guy from Minneapolis). One of the key parts of the story which is never discussed....the reason for the phone call to the cops from the store....was the $20 counterfeit bill. No one seems to be asking anything about the bill or how Floyd came to have it.
Oddly, Floyd and this choker-policeman....worked at the same restaurant, for years. So it gets brought up....this is a restaurant which is owned by a guy who originally came out of Jordan, and is known as a developer. No one asks questions over the money for the developments though. Some chatter has started up about the restaurant (El Nuevo Rodeo), and there is this belief that behind the operations....they had some type of money-laundering and counterfeit-money operation going on.
Floyd is choked to death on 25 May....a full month into the Corona period, and virtually everything is shutdown. This $20 counterfeit bill? It's probably some cash flow that Floyd stumbled upon and it's what paid his daily cost of living. When the idiot cop arrives and stumbles upon the fact that it's Floyd (his associate)? This whole path leading back to the restaurant comes up. Whether it's thought out much, I think the cop couldn't let this counterfeit $20 start a massive investigation.
The read, I would suggest? Regional news source. The problem I see....this restaurant and whole background....leads to various political characters from Minneapolis, and none of them want the 'rest' of the story told.
6. Chief Justice Roberts stumbles at home, and gets taken off to the hospital? Cause? The statement is....shortness of breath. A bit odd, but maybe he was walking around with a mask on?
2. If you approach working-class democrats (the ones who pay taxes and work)....then tell them that you not only want to get rid of guns, but you want less police (defunding the police)....about fifty-percent of them will just start laughing. They marginally might listen to the first argument, but the less police gimmick? That merely pushes them to vote for Trump.
3. So, imagine this....a public housing complex in Melbourne, Australia.....tower-type building. 3,000 residents in the complex. 500 cops surrounding it. No one enters....no one leaves. Covid-19 situation, and the whole population of the building is on lock-down. Testing is being conducted, but everyone is forced to participate for a five-day period of self-quarantine.
4. The key question that Trump will throw at Biden throughout the three debates? Why do you hate America? Over and over. Joe will deny he hates America but he'll stumble through this theme, and each debate will be won by Trump....solely on the 'hate America' theme. If you had brought up this discussion three years ago, most everyone would have laughed at the mere suggestion of 'hating America'. Yet, here we are.
5. It's an odd story that has developed over George Floyd (the dead black guy from Minneapolis). One of the key parts of the story which is never discussed....the reason for the phone call to the cops from the store....was the $20 counterfeit bill. No one seems to be asking anything about the bill or how Floyd came to have it.
Oddly, Floyd and this choker-policeman....worked at the same restaurant, for years. So it gets brought up....this is a restaurant which is owned by a guy who originally came out of Jordan, and is known as a developer. No one asks questions over the money for the developments though. Some chatter has started up about the restaurant (El Nuevo Rodeo), and there is this belief that behind the operations....they had some type of money-laundering and counterfeit-money operation going on.
Floyd is choked to death on 25 May....a full month into the Corona period, and virtually everything is shutdown. This $20 counterfeit bill? It's probably some cash flow that Floyd stumbled upon and it's what paid his daily cost of living. When the idiot cop arrives and stumbles upon the fact that it's Floyd (his associate)? This whole path leading back to the restaurant comes up. Whether it's thought out much, I think the cop couldn't let this counterfeit $20 start a massive investigation.
The read, I would suggest? Regional news source. The problem I see....this restaurant and whole background....leads to various political characters from Minneapolis, and none of them want the 'rest' of the story told.
6. Chief Justice Roberts stumbles at home, and gets taken off to the hospital? Cause? The statement is....shortness of breath. A bit odd, but maybe he was walking around with a mask on?
Tuesday, 7 July 2020
My Thoughts on Ghislaine Maxwell
1. No one in her position would remain in the US, in open sight like she did....unless she felt awful safe.
2. For the next two months....total silence on her case and what she is saying.
3. Over the next two months, I expect around fifty significant suicides to occur, from Hollywood to London. Bankers, actors, politicians, etc.
4. Toward late September, the list of names will start to appear. Some US Senators will be listed (some retiring this year, some already dead, some fairly embarrassed), from both Republican and Democratic sides. Some bankers will suddenly retire after being listed.
5. Suddenly the news cycle for the month of September to late October will be occupied over Maxwell.
6. Maxwell will name five or six dead folks, who might have met an untimely end by an arranged situation.
2. For the next two months....total silence on her case and what she is saying.
3. Over the next two months, I expect around fifty significant suicides to occur, from Hollywood to London. Bankers, actors, politicians, etc.
4. Toward late September, the list of names will start to appear. Some US Senators will be listed (some retiring this year, some already dead, some fairly embarrassed), from both Republican and Democratic sides. Some bankers will suddenly retire after being listed.
5. Suddenly the news cycle for the month of September to late October will be occupied over Maxwell.
6. Maxwell will name five or six dead folks, who might have met an untimely end by an arranged situation.
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