Wednesday 23 October 2024

Ten Humble Opinions

 1.  Without any doubt...picking Governor Tim Walz as a VP candidate....was one of the top three most stupid political things done in 2024.  On my personal 'goofy-index'.....1-to-10.....he maxes out at '10'.

2.  As many stupid decisions made by the new Labour gov't (UK) on helping Harris campaign and general comments (anti-Trump).....I think PM Starmer will have to offer Trump a knighthood.  

I'm not saying Trump wants a knighthood....but he'd treasure the sword, and hand it off to Baron.  

3.  I expect one-million age 65 and above Americans to be homeless by 2030.  Half of them will be former Florida residents 'chased-out' by the condo crisis.

4.  I expect President Joe Biden to quietly exit the White House, and not be 'seen' by the news media for the remainder of 2025.

5.  Just odd.....so far in the Philly vote count....over 1,200 mail-in ballots have been identified as 'rejected' because they lacked dates....or were misdated....lacked a signature.....or were missing an inner secrecy envelope.

Just interesting....you get the ballot, and it takes merely 3 minutes to fill it out, and there's 3 key instructions...which YOU must complete....to make it official and counted.

6. Its just funny....how you bump into a stranger today and try to converse for 20 minutes, and try hard to avoid talking about politics or anything political-related.

7.  It's just interesting what the Apostle Paul wrote and how it fits into today's world:

"But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these."

Yeah....Paul did say....just avoid such people (even if they were former friends, relatives, or neighbors).   

8.  As many dangerous stunts as I did on a farm in the 1960s/1970s....surviving....in today's same world, folks are doubling and tripling the dangerous stunt routine. Some are not surviving.

9.  Depending political affiliation....if you asked a hundred 'friends' what is a woman....I'd say it's a 80-percent chance if your friend is democrat....they won't answer the question.

10.  If  I were walking around the US today....I might go and suspect at least four people per day....are not mentally stable. 

Syndromes

 TDS: Trump Derangement Syndrome

VDS: Vance Derangement Syndrome

DDS: DeSantos Derangement Syndrome

RDS: Rogan Derangement Syndrome

RDS-Plus: Ramaswamy-Plus Derangement Syndrome

EDS: Elon Derangement Syndrome

There's about forty additional syndromes I could make a case for....oddly, ODS (Obama Derangement Syndrome doesn't exist).

Also, just odd.....you could have five or six of these, but not require a visit in some mental facility in Kentucky.

Quote of the Week

 “I don't understand how we got so toxic and just so divided and so bitter.”

-- Former President Barak Obama

Yesterday at a campaign stop for Kamala Harris....Obama uttered this quote.

I sat and pondered upon it. To be truthful....you could see the toxic nature of things developing in the 1990s to a small degree.  But as you got to the 2005 to 2015 era....between the print-media (NY Times, Newsweek, Nat'l Geographic, WaPo) and the TV news-media....things simply accelerated. Adding Facebook and Twitter to the mess....just made things worse.

The comical four years of Joe Biden?  Having a dementia-person as President makes things a joke.

As for people being 'bitter'?  I would make the observation that more than half-a-million people have reached a stage where they have no emotional control of themselves.