Ten Observations

1.  Can one explain socialism with beer?

Imagine you have a case of Elephant-beer (a Danish beer by Carlsbad, at 7.2-percent alcohol, 24 bottles).  Also, don't worry about the premium nature of cost factor. 

So you invite over assorted friends....a total of a dozen.  Logically, it should be two beers per friend. 

But in this socialism moment....several folks point out that so-and-so in the group is well off, and they should be limited to just one single beer.  After several minutes, four folks are deemed as 'rich' and not deserving of two beers. 

So among the twelve, eight are deserving of the four leftover beers.  One of the eight then admits that he has a limit (two max), and a second guy says that this isn't his favorite beer, and so he only wants one. 

The math expert (the engineer in the group) then does the calculation.  For six people, this leaves 6 extra beers for the six people (three bottles each).  An 90-minute period passes, and all six leave in separate cars....to be pulled over and DWI-checked.  All six fail, because of socialism.  The well-off, because they were limited to one beer each.....pass, and continue on home with no issues.

2.  Can politicians flip a switch and suddenly have a dialect? 

Well....Republicans, and in particular....Trump.....can't.

Democrats, by a vast number have this unique 'power' to flip the switch and suddenly start talking Ozarkian or Savannah-like.  They can even flip the switch and start uttering the word 'ain't' which is typically not used more than twice-a-year in their vocabulary.

3.  Should colleges start a program for common sense? 

First, you'd have to find professors with common sense, and this might take a while.

4.  In terms of unhingedness (meaning, mentally challenged and likely to blow-up if you say a 'trigger-word' or phrase).....is there a big difference between 1977 and today?

Night and day.  In 1977, you might have bumped into, or watched via TV....a total of a dozen folks in the whole year who were unhinged.  Today?  It's a dozen per day.

The biggest crowd showing the mental strain?  College kids.  For that, you have to wonder how they will survive once they hit the job-market or pick up the job as high school teacher.  Thirteen year-old kids will have to learn how to handle a mentally stressed-out teacher, who throws a 7-year-old type temper tantrum.

5.  Nigerian scammers made several hundred million dollars off Washington state's unemployment application program?

Well.....yes.  They basically cut a number of standard procedures, to hurry the money out. 

But here's the thing to worry about.  The statistics data for unemployment?  It's got Nigerian scammer data mingled into it now.  So anything that Washington state says.....is a woeful made bogus story. 

Kinda funny to think about, but then....that money is gone.  Someone ought to go to jail, but won't.

6.  Is there a key ingredient to success in life?

Some 'business-coach' would charge you $1,200 for a weekend seminar, to list sixty qualities.  But I'll save you the money, and just list the one and only ingredient required.

Motivation.

If you don't feel motivated to get ahead, or achieve something, or make a business bigger....then your success in life will always be marginal or limited.  Doesn't matter your background....your education....your ethnic situation....or your height or build.  If you have motivation....it's highly likely that you will succeed in life.

7.  Shouldn't Joe Biden just be quiet, and softly pedal his campaign? 

Look....as soon as we can get this convention out of the way, and announce the VP choice....we can reach the next level of this fake game (announcing Joe has health issues, he resigns, and the VP moves up....then picks her own VP). 

8.  Could hurricane season disrupt the Covid-19 season?

The NHC folks say that a 60-percent chance of a above-average-hurricane season.  Go imagine trying to run some shelter operation in North Carolina, Virginia, or NY City.....with Covid-19 around.  You'd have a 2,000 person shelter, with Covid infecting fifty-people a day. 

9.  Just for the record, what political organization stood behind the massive bulk of Confederate statues erected after 1865?

Well....the Democratic Party.  When you do find Republicans gathering up and putting up statues....it's typically for dead Union soldiers or generals of the Union.  So far, none of those have been yanked down.

But please don't bring this up....it makes the Democrats look worse off than what they ought to be.

10.  If Twitter had never been invented....would Trump be as successful as he is today?

NO.

Twitter gave him immediate access to you....while standing in the Wal-Mart line, while sitting in traffic, while sipping beer at the bar after work, while mowing the yard for Aunt Francis, while feeding the cattle at 5 AM, while sitting in church waiting on demon-chatter by the minister, while on a cigarette break at work, and while fake-listening to your idiot brother-in-law who just wrapped up six continuous hours of CNN-chatter and Covid-19 talk. 

He had immediate access, and didn't require twenty-odd people writing the text. He didn't require a poll with 2,500 people telling you the right opinion.  He didn't have to use funny words that PhD people use. 

And here is the best part.  It might come at 5 AM, 9:30 AM, noon, 5 PM, or 9:45 PM. 

If Twitter were stupid enough to delete him or freeze his account?  I'm pretty sure some kid has written the code for a new app....probably called 'Trumper', and you can download it in 30 seconds.....to get strictly Trump messages.