The Real Job as President?

I know some of you won't agree with this 'thought'.....but I tend to see the President's chief function/job.....as just persuading on 'something'. 

It doesn't matter if it's a war in the Balkans, or punishing the evil Russians, or suggesting that taxes have to creep up to pay for stuff we are giving away, or making you feel good over achievements to defeat racism, or giving you a hyped-up feeling over downsizing the nation's drug problems.  

 Probably since the 1920s....we've been dealt a thousand problems, and Presidents size up the mess....give speeches or gear the nation for a persuasion situation.  

So, we come to President Joe Biden.  

On some weird persuasion 'index' (one to ten).....Biden is marginally delivering at two or three on just about every single topic.

I just can't recall a President stumbling around at this level.  Maybe Carter gave several crappy speeches and just walked around with a successful speech one day.  Then he'd do a crappy no-thrills speech the next day.  

2021?  It's been a full year of comical persuasion.  For me, it was like a used-car dealer talking up a 1970 AMC Gremlin.  Two minutes into the Gremlin chatter.....you just want to leave the sales lot without being hindered by the sales guy.

Was Joe Biden always a dismal persuasion guy?  I sat and thought about this.  From the 1990s, there's nothing to really indicate he had persuasion talents.  Even as VP for Obama.....he never gave a 4-star performance for persuading people.  In 2020?  It was a choice of Joe Biden's dismal persuasion factor or Bernie Sander's crappy persuasion capability.  You picked the lesser of two evils.

So here we are.

2022?  I'd expect more of the same.  Maybe it's time that Joe hires up a sign language gal like the Latin American dictators use.....swinging her arms, body and boobs around......captivating you more than the clumsy dictator himself.  

The Student-Loan-Hysterical?

 With the 80-odd million votes in 2020....I would personally take a guess that 10-percent of these votes came from Republicans, Independents, and Democrats for Joe Biden....because he 'guaranteed' that student loan debt would be massively cut (some people felt 50-percent would be likely).  

If you were standing there in 2019....owing $80k and barely making $35k at your start-up profession after college (age 24), the debt thing was a constant problem for you to handle. Voting for Joe Biden made sense....he'd dissolve half of that debt and you'd feel better.

For some folks, the sales pitch was that $50k of debt would dissolve away.....so those owing $25k, $35k, or $45k....it was an enormous 'weight' lifted off your back.

President Biden did one single thing for you....he stalled the debt payments (no interest, no payments).  It was all figured that this would eventually evolve into a large sum of money forgiven.

Well.....it didn't happen.

In fact, presently, the new executive order says you have a grace period of no payments up to May of 2022.

Come June 2022....you will have to start making payments.

Anger and frustration?  I'd guess and say more than forty-million Americans are pretty negative about Biden and his fraudulent promise. Whoever is running for the Democrats in 2023's 'build-up' to the primary.....will go and repeat the Joe Biden promise....dismantling the college loan debt.  It's virtually guaranteed.

I certainly feel sorry for these folks and realize that this 'anchor' is screwing people over....limiting their home-purchase ability, and their contributions to their retirement.  But, I generally ask.....why did you go and borrow $50k for a crappy degree which only leads to a starting $30k a year salary, and limits you to probably $45k at age forty?  Why were you that stupid not to grasp the sequence of results?

Blame at the university system for having so many burdens upon them with almost no value for one-quarter of their college staff work-force?  Yeah.  I also blame state legislatures for not tackling the issue and asking for audits of their own public colleges.

This Biden 'joke' just sinking away?  More or less.

Someone will come along in 2023 to promise a massive give-away deal, and half your debt to dissolve if you just vote them in.  Another massive push that fails in the end?  Absolutely.

The only way to fix this?  I'd go to each kid applying for massive student loans and just tell them.....the max you get for a non-engineer/non-medical loan per year....is $8,000.  Either you accept this and just go to school part-time (making this a 8-year degree process)....or you settle on Community College (for lesser cost degrees).  Once you decrease the 'herd' entering universities.....the college will have to react, and lay off one-quarter of their employees (the non-productive folks).  The system will clean itself up in just two or three years.  

This Idea of a Vax-Status to Travel By Air?

 The White House is studying the idea that for all internal flights in the US.....you could not board unless you had a vax-status.

Odds of this order being issued?  I'd give a 30-percent chance of occurring.  So several observations:

1.  Even if you were quintupled-vaxed (five times).....it simply doesn't mean that you are 100-percent immune to Covid.  No one will sign their name to any statement like that.  So if you forced this order....vaxed-up people would show up....board a plane legally, and still pass the Covid virus around on the plane.  

To be honest, I'd have ten times the fear of Omikron being 'stashed' on the plane after a flight, and I'd be less than thrilled to board the flight leaving.

2.  Fake vaccination slips showing up?  More than likely, but this would just invite more cops to stand by and detain you at the airport.  Some might even accuse you of having a fake vax-slip, when you have a legit vax-slip.  

3.  I would suspect that even vaxed-up people would stand there for a minute....do some critical thinking, and ask the question....if this is so bad for people....isn't this the same for getting into a taxi, riding the subway, or entering a city bus?  

On fear status, I could see this quickly flipping public opinion and asking why schools are open....why you allow unvaxed-people into grocery stores, topless bars, and NFL stadiums?

4.  Finally, it just seems logical....the next step is to limit people coming to talk with President Biden....that only vaxed-up folks should be allowed into the White House, and that non-vax folks should be kept at the gate.  

My suggestion...if it's this bad to make a vax-status and forbid air travel....maybe it's time to just give up flying in general (crashing modern air-travel) and turn airports into Blockbuster 'fronts'?  

Gut Feeling Over the Daunte Wright Shooting

Four observations:

1.  I've watched the video.....the minute that the cops have confirmed his ID, and are moving to get him out of the car, he's acting a certain way for about 30 seconds, then decides 'what the heck, I'll just escape'.  This triggers the cops reaction.  

Why the escape deal?  He's got a warrant for a situation over a aggravated armed robbery.   Just a humble guess, but with some friendly DA.....he's still going to prison for a year.  

For the cops, the minute they realize the warrant is for aggravated armed robbery.....that means a weapon was being used someone at the robbery.  This pumps up all three cops to a level of 'worry'.

2.  On the female cop (Potter), the taser should have been a shoulder weapon....NOT on the belt.  I'm not saying it matters that much, but you have to make a decision and reaching for your belt (left or right)....shouldn't be a thought proccess.

3.  Convicting Potter (the cop)?  I could see some lesser sentence of three years, but not fifteen years.  The jury?  Hard to say.

4.  Finally, to the idea of some 20-year old doing something 'extra-stupid'.....getting into a robbery?  I look at this behavior and just suggest that he was going to die sooner or later....in some act.  You had someone who just wasn't an adult.  

Observations

 1.  This 500-million Covid test-kit hand-out by President Biden.....is being done on a non-compete bid process....meaning that the company was just given the deal.  In the Pentagon circle....they would have been forced to conduct bids.  So it just begs the question, who got the contract and how Hunter figures into the whole thing.  Note, it's a Chinese company....if you were wondering.

2.  It's now figured that 10-percent of all House Democrats are NOT running in the primary season of 2022.  

3.  Chicago's mayor has asked for fed help because of the death count in 2021.  What that really means?  As they arrive....she will want to meet them and 'instruct' them on how to conduct the 'help'.  Basically.....all the problems that she has mastered....they need to perform as well.  Don't expect much out of this 'help'.

4.  Is there any possibility of success for the Biden agenda in the spring of 2022?  Well....no.  Primary season starts up shortly, and no one wants any doomed agendas being pushed around with zero success.  So....mostly go and expect a few lite-weight pieces to come up.  

How 2021 Ends

 1.  We more or less....confirmed UFOs, and no one really got excited.  In fact, by the end of 2021....the Pentagon had recreated a division to analyze this from top to bottom.

2.  The 6th of January episode?  Around 200-odd people served up a revolution with flag poles, backpacks and water bottles.  A couple of folks (cops included) died from heart attacks....with one single person shot dead, by the law enforcement folks (note, this lady was unarmed).  Revolution?  With water bottles and flag poles?  If you tried to tell  this story to a Afghan or Iraqi....he'd just start laughing.

3.  You end up with a 3 x 5 inch index card resume for a Vice-President.  The most unqualified individual in US history.....acting as VP.

4.  Covid?  It was front-page news on 1 January and will be front-page news on 31 December.

5.  Joe Biden?  We aren't even at day 365 yet for President Joe, but there are various Democratic characters discussing the need for Joe to 'go'.

6.  As bad as the economic landscape looked in 2021....a fair number of people expect the same or more in 2022.

7.  CNN reached the point of failure.

The 'Real' President?

 The VP (Harris) was asked this past week....'who the real President is', and then tried to laugh it off.

My humble thought is that she walked into the White House business back in January, and maybe within two weeks....figured out that Joe Biden isn't all there.  She probably asked questions....then reached the conclusion that there's a 'group' behind Joe who runs the day-to-day business.

So she sits there....most every single day....in a daze.  She gets verbal orders of a sort and attends meetings, but behind the 'curtain'....she knows that there is no President.  It's just the 'team'.

What happens when the news media finally admits this and Joe has to go?  Well....the team is sitting there and hoping that Harris just assumes the 'chair' and lets them continue on.  Harris?  She knows in her gut.....every single member of the team has to be dismissed on day one.  

It is a weird scenario to be stuck in.....like something out of the Twilight Zone.