The Second Amendment or Freedom From Tyranny

 If you could write some statement and find some way to provide protection (absolute in nature) from tyranny.....then you wouldn't need the Second Amendment.  That's really the long standing problem when you drill down into this whole discussion.

In the 1760s.....tyranny was some statement that you uttered in various ways, after having to deal with the British system of law in the colonies.  There just aren't 'protections' that exist....to give you some safe feeling against tyranny.  

So we edged through the 1800s...with tyranny always a step or two away (particularly in American western history, or the Civil War period), thinking over what would give us some chance of survival. 

As we arrived in the 1900s....tyranny was discussed in various other ways.  

If you live in a number of American cities today....tyranny has been replaced by fear of crime or threats.  You could be on the way home, and have some wild human creature with the idea of harming you at the gas station or super-market.  The Second Amendment is the only protection in this case.

This entire argument....to rid the nation of the Second Amendment?  You'd have to go and refer to tyranny, and build something to protect people from that.  Good luck on that search.  

The Normal Strategy of Picking a Vice-President

 Up until the 1990s, you (as the Presidential candidate) picked a VP who was mostly unknown to the bulk of America after the primary system.  Even in the case of Johnson being selected by JFK.....beyond Texas, the vast majority of Americans didn't know the guy.

The chief strategy was that you'd pick someone who was mostly unknown....not likely to create a fake national crisis....not having affairs to turn into scandals....didn't really cheat much on taxes....and didn't really know much about world politics.  

You might admit in 50-percent of cases....selecting a VP meant meeting the guy/gal for the first time and your full knowledge level was enough to put on a 3 x 5 inch index card.

So here is the problem of Biden-Harris.  Joe Biden needs 'lift' and figures that his VP ought to be out....actually working.  The script to the VP job?  You are supposed to attend funerals, cabinet meetings, golf at least twice a week, and mostly attend parties in the district.  You can consume a vast amount of alcohol, and wink at the opposite sex.  Joe wants more, and Harris is unable to deliver.  Why Joe needs more?  Well....he can't deliver.  He's basically acting like the VP job under President Obama.

What Harris should do?  Nothing.  I'd dismiss most of her staff....hire 3 or 4 unknown folks (college kids) and just do exactly what VP Biden did for eight years.  

Chances of her running in 2024?  Just about zero.  So it doesn't really matter.  

Observations

 1.  Jussie Smollett. I think this case will end with a conviction and a total time of 12 months of prison given.  With time off....he might be out in seven months.  Maybe it shapes up the guy, and he walks a straight line from this point on.

2.  Tesla moving its headquarters from California to Texas.  If you wrote up a list of the top fifty company headquarters in California presently....I'd suggest that virtually all of them have examined the idea of leaving, and at least ten of them are pretty serious (to announce by the end of 2022).  If I were the California tax revenue 'boss'.....I'd start hinting that this is a major problem.

3.  Gut-feeling over nut-case high school students.  The minute there is some hint of a high school kid being a nut-case.....expel the kid and let the parents deal with this.  If the kid needs a permanent presence in some mental facility....it's their job, not the school's job.  

Wilson Edward's Story

 Back around the 3rd week of July (2021)....there's this guy who appeared on Facebook/Twitter by the name of Wilson Edwards.

Wilson was a Swiss guy (yeah, Edwards is not really a Swiss name)....who happened to be a PhD-type biologist, and knew a good bit on Covid.  

Wilson came via social media to a lot of people, and talked over the idea that the US government (via the Biden-people) were putting a fair amount of pressure on the WHO to blame China for Covid.

At some point....maybe about three weeks into Wilson's appearance....some folks wanted to know more about the guy.  Even Chinese wanted to know about him.

So the Swiss government went and did a search to Wilson.  Basically, they couldn't find the guy.  He was non-existent.

Within a couple of days....Facebook and Twitter took down Wilson's accounts.

Here's the thing....if you really started to dig around Facebook/Twitter....there's probably 100k fake accounts out there like this....maybe even going up to 1-million.  

In the end, people doubted Wilson's chatter and began to question his authority.  

Observations:

 1.  It's just rather odd.....Mayor-Pete (Secretary of Transportation) and VP Harris....going this week to North Carolina for a speech gig.....same time....same place.  

You get the feeling that someone (not President Biden) is pulling the strings to see who is ahead by the end of 2022....to be running as Joe's replacement.

2.  Fewer profits seen on Black Friday, for the first time ever?  Business news is suggesting that.

3. Some investigation started after someone blew up a crater area....maybe big enough for three refrigerators on the beach in the NY City region.  FBI involved.  Terror uttered over and over by the news folks.  Evidence?  Zero.  Other than a hole in the sand, and maybe some sample for the lab....zero evidence of terrorists.

4.  Odds of a Ukraine-Russia 'rumble'?  I'd give it better than a 50-percent chance.  President Biden presents a weaken position for the US, and Putin can flip this into a six-month pretender-war.  

Observations:

 1.  New CEO of Twitter (Parag Agrawal) says that the company (Twitter) will not be 'bound' by the first amendment (Free Speech).

After a long pause and bit of pondering....I thought about the term 'bound'. The first amendment allows for free and open discussion, free ability to assemble (in a yard, church, cornfield), and the ability to exchange ideas without limits on conversation.  

So this guy Agrawal is basically saying he's all for hindering free speech, not exchanging ideas and stopping the ability to assemble?  The first amendment does nothing to bound.....it unbounds anything in its path.  

How Twitter will exist under Agrawal?  I'd suggest you are looking at the light at the end of the tunnel....their demise.

2.  Someone did a poll on Biden's Build-Back-Better.  52-percent of people have something negative to say about it.

3.  Just my hunch....Chris Cuomo on CNN?  He's got about 30 to 60 days of employment left before they launch him into a non-news job.  

4.  Just a page six story.....the FAA came up and admitted around 700 other Eppstein flights that no one seemed to know about.  Who was on the flights?  Unknown.  

5.  What the defense said the first day of the Jussie Smollett court episode?  They say Jussie was a victim....of a highly sophisticated team of twins....then tossing the label of 'highly intelligent' on the two.  Basically, he's labeling his own client as non-intelligent and non-sophisitcated....in doing so.  

The question is....will a jury believe this?

CNN Today

 I tried to watch a CNN piece today.....where they had three folks trying to explain President Biden 'poor' numbers.  Approval rating as of today?  36-percent.

About 10 minutes into this....you just felt it was like listening to some 5th grade kids trying to explain why the Professor couldn't get the Skipper/Gilligan off the island, or why the Power Rangers were so lame.

Look....Joe Biden doesn't care if he has a 1000-percent approval rating or a 1-percent approval rating.  He got elected to replace Donald Trump....so you gotta just accept him being the one running things.

As for CNN even doing this?  They might as well drive a RV around NY City's east side, and go looking for robbers.  People that voted for Joe really don't want to hear CNN explain things.  

Odds of the approval rating getting below 30-percent?  It just doesn't matter.  Joe's going nowhere, and you just need to get used to it.