1. Just odd....why are there so many young people who are objecting to who they are, and trying to portray themselves as something else?
2. Aren't the TikTok generation overly dramatic in everything they do?
3. You ever noticed the number of people 'talking' with their hands/gestures....is at a all-time record?
4. If people are so fragile to criticism....should they be let loose upon the world at age 18?
5. Who started this trend where wearing pajamas in public....was acceptable?
1. Coming to an end for Fox News?
First, remember when newspapers in the 1980s started to tremble and admit they couldn't compete with TV news?
Second, remember when talk-0radio came to a point where reality said....only Rush Limbaugh moves ahead....everyone else is regulated to 'average' numbers.
Third, remember when Time and Newsweak were deemed insignificant?
Fourth, remember when CNN was deemed failing?
I would suggest that we are looking at the two to four year disconnection of Fox News to society.....where they will be like MSNBC/CNN.
2. What happens to Tucker Carlson?
His contract was supposed to be renewed (probably in excess of $25-M a year).
I would suggest some deal will be worked out....whatever the current contract has....he'll get bulk of that. Then he'll sit and probably write a book over the remainder of 2023. And I suspect he'll end up with a on-line program like Joe Rogan....where you pay $8 a month for view of things.
3. All this hype over no debates for Biden in the primary, or Trump in the primary?
Look...back in the 1800s....you went to institutions of higher learning and gained the skill of debate. At some point in the past fifty years....colleges lessened the idea of debates.
Look around....out of 100 Senators....there might be ten of them with some ability to debate on a topic.
I don't see a great loss here.
1. Admit he was into LGBTQ stuff before anyone else, and he had a 'special' friend all the way back into the 1980s.
2. Give a one-hour speech without a teleprompter and no mistakes.
3. Whop VP Harris in the head each time she gives some 44-word single-sentence that makes no sense.
4. Admit Hunter screwed up on taxes, and actually does owe $17 more on his 2019 tax paperwork.
5. Open up the top secret stuff and admit....yeah, we've got five UFOs and he's personally flown one of them.
6. Admit he's had dementia since 2004, and it's under full-control with special drugs developed in Mexico.
7. Announce that he's bringing in six elephants to lounge and live on White House grounds.
8. Admit he's written four romance novels since his VP days....all best-sellers.
1. Odds of Fox News being prepared to sell?
By mid-summer, if you see Sean Hannity 'let-go'....I'd say it's a 90-percent chance. Who buys? Some non-public company.....like Blackrock....who sees a distressed news group and under-priced.
Fox News never recovering? I would say their anti-Trump stance and the big guys being let go....sets the new market value to about 60-percent of their peak.
Who gains viewers? Podcast group, Joe Rogan, smaller news units.
2. Joe Biden having problems in selling his position on LGTBQ and 'counter-can't-define-a-woman' folks?
Somehow, his key insiders believe this is a big-tent agenda that sells well across the US. I'd say it's more likely that only 30-to-35 percent of pro-Biden people feel this way. If you made the election on this agenda....with Joe trying to tell the story....it's a colossal failure.
3. If people start up being rude and obnoxious......how much effort will it take for you to lessen your negative view of them?
It's kinda like walking into a restaurant and noticing a cockroach on the table as you sit there. Pretty good odds you will get and leave....never to return ever again.
4. Can President Biden make a 3-line statement without a teleprompter......without a mistake?
I'd be willing to lay down a $500 bet that he can't accomplish this.
5. CBS saying from a poll that 72-percent of Americans believe 'things-are-out-of-control'?
Polling across the nation.....even I'm shocked at the rate of things. No one asked though....HOW things are out-of-control.
If you asked me....dealing with paranoid schizophrenic folks, the drugged-up crowd, and regular criminals...probably have drained half the nation of regular patience.
6. All this chatter about female crash-test dummies?
If you have time to worry about this....you might need a new reality to work upon.
I sat and read through a piece.....that Governor Newsom of California.....has authorized a activation of California National Guard folks....to help the police in SF.
So, you start to ask questions.
How many? Unknown (oddly left out of the news piece). I would assume it's probably in the range of sixty to a hundred folks.
Where it comes from? In the state....the 49th Brigade is a MP-only organization....located out of Fairfield, California. I would assume they got the order.
What exactly would they be doing? I can only see two scenarios. First, they might be paired up with SF police (1 and 1).....to carry out patrols for a period of time. Second, they might be there to just present the resemblance of military folks in uniform....on walk-patrols.
Armed? I just can't see the Governor approving or allowing this to happen.
How long? Well....you have to pay these guys, and for each month....for a hundred, by the time you give them their regular duty pay, house them in some hotel, and feed them....you would be talking about around a half-million. So 90 to 120 days is the max I see this running.
The look around SF....that you have military people on patrol? It'd be a scene out of some Judge Dredd movie.
Even if they arrest people.....charges won't stick because of the local prosecutor, and after two months of that kind of non-action....the Guard guys would openly talk about the stupidity of doing duty in SF.
These MPs shocked over the duty? I'd say no...here's the one odd factor. If you went down the list of guys on the 49th...I would assume that 90-percent are currently real cops or security guys....in their normal day-to-day routine. It wouldn't shock me if most all of them have done duty in Iraq or Afghanistan in their career.
This might be interesting to watch play out.
The general belief....within the next two weeks....is that President Biden will announce his campaign for 2024.
Where this goes and how different will it be this time?
The DNC says there will be NO debates.....not here in 2023, or in the spring of 2024.....with either of the declared candidates (RFK Jr and Williamson) beside Joe Biden.
If you look at polling (marginal crap so far).....around 15-percent of Democrats favor RFK....probably less than 1-percent for Williamson. With some money and Twitter chatter...I would suggest that RFK could get some wins in two to four states (not enough to matter).
That chatter of Newsom? If Joe Biden runs, then his pick for VP will be Newsom.....with Harris gone. In fact, it wouldn't shock me if Feinstein acknowledged she was bad off....with Governor Newsom appointing Harris to the Senate position, and Joe bringing on Newsom to be his new VP (crazy five-star speculation). Newsom made a comment six months ago...if he had to fill it....it'd be a black woman.
So the campaign in spring of 2024? If Joe Biden doesn't go out and make speeches....it'll be the lowest key run in a hundred years for a sitting President.
Trying to get points between now and November 2024....with a Republican House? It won't happen.
Woke BS, who is a woman chatter, and trans-stuff being the primary focus of the Democratic Party? What brings regular middle-class and independent voters to the Biden side?
The affect of Twitter? Whatever was in some positive trend for Biden in 2020 with Twitter....fails completely this time around with Elon.
The effect of Joe Rogan? That's another problem.
The burden here? Newsom, CNN, MSNBC, TikTok, Meta, NPR, etc....carrying the 'water' for Biden? More or less.
Add in....Newsom's California is in utter collapse at present, with U-Haul trailers leaving the state each day. Selling Newsom isn't that brilliant of an idea.
If you ask me....without the debates, and all this woke-stuff in the middle.....this would end being one of the most wild episodes ever. Toss in the previous Hunter BS with the laptop, use of the FBI as some propaganda tool, and two-thirds of the nation mostly skeptical of a free/fair election. It's a mess.
In the early part of 1977....while still in high school....NBC came out with a series called 'Grizzly Adams'. Each episode was about 45 minutes long.
For some odd reason, this became a huge discussion item in high school the next day. We'd meet in the ten minutes prior to class, and a 'talk' would open up....why 'Ben' did this....why 'Nakoma' was always right....why the bear didn't eat someone on the show?
It's funny....the show lasted for two seasons....making around 37 episodes. Script-wise? It was 75-percent 'crap' (my humble belief), but NBC was so screwed on material....it probably made sense.
If you tried to produce the show today....it'd be too woke, and be dumped within a week of the first episode.
