Q-and-A

 1.  Why so many people leaving the Biden team?

Well....a combination of two factors.  First, they don't see Biden around at the end of 2024 (one term only).  Second, they probably figured out that he's unbalanced, and there's an insider crew of five or six people who are portraying the authority of the President.  When news journalists ask you to explain why things are so dysfunctional.....you really can't tell the story.  

2.  Is the Russia military peaked-out?

Various terms you can use, but there's no great depot of new/extra military equipment, and the number of conscripts probably already peaked six weeks ago.  So August is looking pretty crappy for Putin's team.

3.  Some NYT article saying experimentation with Fentanyl in Canada.....shows that gov't issue 'limited' Fentanyl works?

Well....it gets down to this....you would cut a massive amount of Fentanyl deaths....if you just bought the stuff, and issued it in some 'crazy' way.....to addicts.  

Now, telling this to the public, and getting them to buy your logic is a whole other story.

You'd end up breeding an entire generation of ten-million Americans permanently on some daze and unable to do much other than lay in some park, or sleeping in some tent in some urbanized community.

4.  Why is Pelosi so fired up to travel to Taiwan?

This is probably the biggest mystery of 2022 so far. 

Some lobbyist group has to have a ton of campaign funding tied to one 24-hour visit. 

Quote Story

 "I am Kamala Harris, my pronouns are she and her, and I am a woman sitting at the table wearing a blue suit."

-- Quote by VP Harris from Monday

The VP was at some conference meeting and introducing herself.....then everyone at the table did the same thing.....without much of a mention of their status or clothing description.

It's reaching a point where you'd rather hear a silent Harris....than a talkative Harris. 

On ranking Harris quotes?  It has to rank in the top one-hundred quotes.  I'm sure someone is working on a Harris quote book.

How Gavin Newsom's Resume Would Read

 1.  As a kid, he was classified with dyslexia....to the extent that his reading method, and the ability to handle numbers....are hampered even now.

2.  His family was always short on money....leading to him having several part-time jobs in his youth....while growing up in California.  

3.  He eventually attended Santa Clara University (partially on a baseball scholarship), getting a degree in political science in 1989.   

4.  He ended up after college in a start-up company.....'PlumpJack'....which was a winery.  

5.  In this stage of business.....he had his first dealings with bureaucracy with the town....in getting a sink-drain situation approved for the wine shop.  He felt no approval was necessary....the city said wine was food.  This led to a $27,000 expense for the start-up.  

6.  Over the next seven years....1993 to 2000.....it was a successful operation, and they had 700 employees and several 'fronts' going on.

7.  Newsom would eventually take his profits and throw it at five restaurants, and several men's fashion shops.  By 2003, he held a balance of $7-milllion in property and investments. 

8.  All of the business fronts were sold in 2004.....as he ran and was elected mayor of SF.

9.  2010, he ran for lt-governor and won.  He repeated in 2014.

10.  2018, he ran for governor and won.

11. Somewhere in the period of 2006/2007....he noted he had an alcohol misuse problem, and 'cleaned' up.  

12.  For a brief period of four years, he was married to SF prosecutor Kimberly Guilfoyle (you might remember her from Fox's The Five Show).  You might also remember her being within the Trump circle in the past three years).  

Politically?  If you wrote down the twenty-five most extreme positions on the Democrats chart presently.....he would be lined up on the far left side for fifteen of those positions.  

If you were asking me how hard it'll be for him to sell his brand in the south, or in Iowa caucus.....I'd say he's got troubles ahead.  The other negative?  He's a plain white guy in a $1,000-suit, who looks like a male model.  

Then I come back to this dyslexia problem.  I have doubts that he can read through a prompter for his speech, and it's mostly by memory that he delivers short dynamic speeches.  On a constant campaign effort for the primary, and in September/October....he's going to have problems when he delivers his 'talks'.  

Quote Topic

 Whatever you were doing.....just keep doing.  Then do it over and over each day.

OCD people do this routinely....so can you.

Personally?

I kinda change my routine each day, and nothing ever repeats.

I tried to make sense or logic out of her statement.....but there just isn't any.

President AOC?

 I noticed someone brought up the birthday and potential of AOC running for President in 2024.

In October of 2024, she will turn 35.  

Odds here?  Well....there's such limited offerings that I would say she's got a better-than-average chance of running/winning the election. 

Acceptance in Iowa?  That's really the problem.  She would have to appear next summer, and present herself in a competent manner.....selling her 'brand'.

In a debate between Governor Newsom and AOC?  I'd probably give the edge to AOC.....Newsom lacks a lot of the debate skills you'd expect. 

But can any of this really mean much....if you had either a decent Republican candidate?  I doubt it.

Also....on resume-filler....she's got a 7-line index card resume at present, and that would worry a quarter of the Democratic voters.  

Ten Things I've Come To Believe

 1.  With all this trans stuff going on....a 8-year old kid could come out and announce he's the second-coming of Jesus, or an alien from Mars....and his parents would take this as absolutely true.  This is how insane the general public has become in the last year or two.

2.  There are probably more people today in the world....that believe in demons....than in the past 2,000 years.

3.  Everyday now.....I come to view/question...the IQ of people, and if they might be dimwit. 

4.  Some White House slide came up and 'peson' came up (meaning the term person, I assume).  But with the new reality....peson might be a new term we need to get used to.  Like 'men' turning into 'me' and 'women' turning into 'woms'.

5.  With all this sexual chatter going on....has to be a ton of juvenile sex going on.

6.  I'm reaching a point where I assign lying-ratios to political figures....once you get past a '5' on my scale.....I hit the mute button.

7.  Shame in 1980, isn't the same level of shame today.

8.  If you aren't succeeding in life.....maybe you need to just change your definition of success.

9.  Just an awful lot of chatter on social media about castration being a 'good' thing.

10.  With the speed of wokism, and new realities going on....it makes me wonder about the speed of transition in Nazi-Germany in 1932.  Maybe people thinking they needed to fix problems, and just doubled-up on the complexity of problems instead.  

Are We In A Recession?

 Officially, a recession is marked by a PERIOD of decline.  The signals would revolve around an increase in unemployment, serious negativity over at Wall Street, and the housing market shutting down.

The period discussed usually....is one single quarter where all three elements occur.

Does a recession factor in salary, fuel escalation and increasing cost of grocery goods?  Not necessarily.  

So, lets talk about the negativity on stocks.  Most people will admit their portfolio is negative for 2022, and maybe even since mid-2021....it's been that way.   

Let's talk about the housing market.  Yes, it is absolutely in decline, with homes now lingering longer on the market.  Interest situations make this a risky time to buy a home.  

Then we come to this odd situation with unemployment.  There are various areas across the US where unemployment simply isn't a big deal.  Florida for example....June 2022....rates at 2.8-percent (great number).  Louisiana for example....June 2022....rates at 3.8-percent (excellent number).  California has dropped from 7.9 percent unemployment in the summer of 2021....to around 4.3-percent in the last quarter. 

So it's hard to say unemployment is that bad (presently). 

If you did some new definition and dumped in rising prices at the grocery, or for gas?  Then you'd have a legit reason to talk recession.  

I think this is more of a case that this is a highly unique period of time that we are living in....with normal rules/expectations...simply not working, or making sense. 

Yes, we need a new word for recession.....to make this all fit like you think.