How This Fake Trump Evidence Will Collapse On The Clinton Campaign Crew

 I could make this a 300-line summary but I'll limit this to the obvious.

It would now appear that virtually everything that was handed to the FBI to investigate on Trump....to lead to some agenda saying he had under-the-table dealings with Russia....was created out of thin air, and apparently leads back to someone who was hired by the Clinton campaign.

Stopping this before court action?  I don't see that happening now.

So here's the question....if someone was hired by the Clinton Campaign (using their money).....who authorized it?  That individual who created the fake evidence is deep into trouble and has to detail what the contract was.....then the person paying for the agenda.....has to 'fess-up'.

Will it go higher?  Well....someone will ask how the guy who paid the creator got to this point, and who ordered what.  Then you get to the top level of the Clinton campaign.  

My humble belief is that after this wraps up.....three or four folks going to prison.  Trump will go into court and ask for damages, and this will revolve around the Clinton Campaign group.  Money left?  I doubt it.  

But here's the thing.....it's going to get awful close to Hillary Clinton, and she'll have to make some kind of legal statement....mostly saying she remembers absolutely nothing from this period, and looking like she has dementia.  

Most of us will just shake our head, and laugh over the comedy that was played out.  Trust in government?  We already had a marginal degree, and I think this will dissolve most of what is left.  

Why Does Netflix Fail At This Point?

 In the past week, a lot of hype has occurred that subscribers to Netflix are on the decline....affecting profit and stock prices.

I would offer five observations (being a Netflix subscriber myself):

1.  I will admit from a new-material prospective....they are doing things way ahead of CBS, ABC, NBC, and even the Showtime/HBO folks.  But these projects (often done outside of the US) are done on a lessened budget.  So you can produce a eight episode show in Spain....on a mystery murder situation....with thrills and various 'twists' that rarely come with traditional TV.  The producers will be shocked at the viewer numbers and Netflix will suggest a second season.  

A good example of this....the French series....the 'Black Spot'.  The third season for it?  No....numbers dropped in the second season.

2.  Netflix offered up a fair number of comedy event shows (I assume on a limited budget), which I'd say that half did well, and half crapped out.  

3.  These documentary shows?  Total waste of the budget and whoever ran this department....soaked the company of a fair amount of funds.  I'd strongly suggest....for the company to drop that angle entirely.

4.  Companies in media typically evolve....but in this case....you don't see much evolution.

I'd like to see a 'side-channel' of Netflix to feature 1930s movies.  Maybe offer up each month twelve of the 1930s period movies, and refresh them each four weeks. 

5.  Finally, to the Covid topic.  I think a lot of people joined up with Netflix....to fill the hours that kids or adults were at home.  And when Covid went 'away'....the necessity for Netflix also went 'away'.

Netflix isn't going away, but I suspect by early 2023....they will be valued at some degree to be bought by someone....maybe Google....maybe Facebook.   

Yeah, About That Mail Service

 I noticed the US Postal Service announcing today....that if you bought first-class service (one stupid 1st class stamp) and expected real delivery to occur....that capability will go away for about one-third of items. 

They aren't clear about what they mean, but if you were mailing a small box that typically took three days to arrive....based on chatter.....I'd now go and expect the box to take about five days now to arrive.  The fact that you could mail three boxes, and only one of them (all three going to the same place) take the extra two days?  Yeah, it'd be funny to discuss that.

So here's my take in 2032 (a decade away).....you live in Portland and mail a box to some cousin in Boise, Idaho (430 miles away) and it'll arrive 17 days later (first-class shipment by the post office).  

You quiz the gal about this service, which she finally admits....they flew the box from Portland to some giant desert airfield in southern California....spending sixteen hours being sorted by three-hundred different people, then shipped onto Denver....where it sat for ten days....then went onto a truck to Jackson, Wyoming....where it sat in a underground bunker facility where unregistered Mexicans sort the mail.  Then went by one single electric-powered van the final 400 miles to Boise....to be sorted by a half-blind-half-crippled-up-half-witted guy who brings it to your cousin's house.

My advice?  We might all need to just get away from mailing boxes and just call up folks to wish them a happy birthday and mention how weather is in our little part of the world.   

Assessing Things For Yourself

 There was a general talent that people had....at least up through the 1980s, and I suspect it became diluted in the 1990s, which centered on assessing an event or situation with your own common sense.

You'd see a riot developing and ask three or four questions, and within five minutes....determine that this was an irrational event, with no attachment to reality, or that some city/state leaders had really screwed up, with no ability to clean up the mess.

I began to notice in the 1990s.....news journalists wanted to explain more and more details.....some worthwhile.....some being red-herrings.  The minute that you had a moderator and three guests....it start to resemble more of a lecture or brain-wash session....than sharing of information.

The past twenty years?  Between MSNBC, NPR, CNN, the WaPo, and NY Times.....I've stepped back a bit and been more careful about what is said or put on the table.  

Yeah, I've become ten times more skeptical of stories now....than in 1998.

Watching video with the sound 'dimmed'?  Oh I probably spend forty minutes each week watching YouTube in this fashion and gauging the facial expression or the reaction of people....than what is said.

It's almost a talent that we need to introduce to 12-year old kids.....getting them to look at what's going on, and to assess their own opinion.  

Screwed-up?  Maybe.  It seems like a whole bunch of folks have work.....that doesn't seem to be productive, and I'm likely to wonder where they end up going....if let go from their CNN job.  

Observations

 1.  President Biden says he intends to hit the campaign trail for the Democratic Party....to help in November.

Personally....I can't see this as a big or bold step.  All it takes is five or six more demonstrations of mental issues....to readily convince the public of his dementia.  

But the other side of this....having Harris go do 'chats'....doesn't work either.  If you are running for anything in November....basically, you are on your own (win or lose).

2. Some odd development for WV's Democratic Senator Manchin.  Apparently, he's got some 'backers' who want him to run for President....as a Republican.  Pretty crazy stuff.  I think the bluff here....run in five states and show some appeal....then if Trump or DeSantos is the guy....maybe Manchin can end up as some VP.  

3.  Air Force says it's working on creating 'safe spaces' for airman to have conversations with their commanders.

I question what they mean by 'conversations' and 'safe spaces'.

I know it's a shock but virtually every single commander (Lt Col/Col) that I served under from 1977 to 1999.....had some policy letter signed on day one which stated the 'open door' policy.  This meant you could ask the commander's secretary for an appointment (usually limited to 15 minutes) and have a chat.  In a whole year?  There might have been two people to go this 'open door' route.  I won't say it was positive or negative....it's just that it always existed.

What's next to occur?  Wouldn't shock me if they create something called 'safe evaluations'....where your yearly eval is guaranteed in some weird way to be absolutely perfect and 'safe'.  

4.  New syndrome?  TDS?  'Truth Derangement Syndrome'?

Yeah, it's about Musk and his attempt to buy Twitter, and people are now fearful that 'truth' will arrive in America and you won't be able to handle it.

5.  Officially, mid-November 2021....Netflix stock hit it's peak (in the $600 per share range).  Today, it's near $323.  

What's happening?  I would say (humble opinion) that the VIP elite running the network went out and hired a number of political folks for shows....paying huge checks, without any real audience for the shows.  

I think the streaming video service is a great idea and still tons of room for improvement.  But if you are wasting half-a-billion a year on political shows.....why?  No one wants the 'lectures'.  

6.  Governor Newsom of California with a new plan?  Well....the plan says if you show serious mental issues or addiction problems....the state would step in and force you to a rehab or clinic.  

I'll admit....they should have gone this way in the 1990s already.

The fact that various groups are lining up to fight this?  They are claiming you have the right to addiction, and the right to be 'crazy'.  

I'll predict this goes to the Supreme Court, and Judge Thomas asks where is the writing on your constitutional right to be 'walking-around-free-and-crazy'?

This might be interesting to watch.

Landscape View

 1.  On Stacey Abrams as a viable future candidate....anywhere....she has a 7-line index card resume and it's impossible to find anything accomplished other than she gives speeches.

2.  On Elon Musk buying Twitter....he'll never get to one-hundred percent, but I think he'll get 51-percent of the stock-holder vote, and fire the board.  Twitter is changing....one way or another.

3.  Joe Biden having dementia.....will never be admitted and he'll walk out of the White House after four years.

4.  Democratic Party thriving in 2028....no, I think the Green Party will eventually arrive and take 10-percent of the votes away....permanently.

5.  Transgender people.....I think within five years....over 100k 'quitters' will be noted existing in America, who did the trans thing and found discontent.  Then they found a revert-plan, and fell out of transgender working.

6.  IRS surviving as is.....no, within the next decade....some type of one-page tax form will be introduced and Democrats will fall all over themselves to favor this idea.

7.   Russia on GDP....by the end of 2022....will fall behind Iran (to number 25 in world numbers).

Yeah, About Those 12,960 Man-Hours

 A kid gets about 12,960 man-hours of education before he gets dumped out the front-door.  It would be more but I subtracted lunch-hours in this mess.

If you counted PE, bad-weather days, and the hundred-odd days wasted on various issues.....it's probably closer to about 9,900 hours of useful time.

My issue is that you really don't need intense discussions on gender stuff, pronouns, or a hundred other social things.  

Yeah, that 9,900 man-hours are of some value.  

If they aren't of true value.....maybe we should shorten the whole mess down to eight years of school and just dump you at that point.

The fact that you might get 720 of those man-hours with some science teacher who refuses to teach evolution?  Yeah, that might be a problem.

The fact that you might waste 600 of those man-hours with a math teacher who can't get twenty different math concepts across to you?

The fact that you might have some teacher trying to explain something of no use to you in the real world.....for thirty hours each school year?  

Maybe in the end....hours do matter.