The Card Lady

 This afternoon, I read a update on the Harris-Trump debate stuff....Harris wants 'notes' to be allowed during the debate.

I sat and contemplated that idea.

I took a single course on debate with Louisiana Tech....considering it one of the most wasted college classes that I took over a 6-year period.  

The end of the course came up and you had two choices.....a prepared speech (2x pages), or a full-up debate (you had to discuss your topic for at least three minutes).  It was a no-brainer for me....prepare a 2-page speech.  In the debate....the instructor wasn't going to allow notes.

So I pondered over this.....does Trump need notes?  NO.  

Harris?  I would imagine she needs to reference key points....because she can't remain on the subject (same problem Biden had).

How many 5 x 8 inch notes on the table?  Unknown....I'm guessing she wants a minimum of 12 cards.  Once you get past 12 cards....it becomes a problem to reference facts and keep the cards in order.

More of a hindrance?  Well.....for me, I'd say absolutely a crappy way of remembering things.

Trump accepting the debate rule on cards?  I doubt it.

A bad sign that she can't remember things?  Well....it's just something you wonder about....if she can stand there for an hour and actually talk facts.  To be honest....she might need forty cards to reference....in a real 4-star debate.

Single Way That The Electoral College May Fail

 My scenario.

You get to the day after the election...realizing that five states have not completed their count, and indications are....they are seriously in some delay pattern. The states?  Penn, AZ, Michigan, Georgia, and Wisconsin.

A week later....strong indicators are that fake ballots are falling into play.

Then 15 states go and do the 'damnest' thing...they refuse to certify their election results.  The EC meets on schedule, but there's not enough votes to carry it it's purpose.

So we go to January, and the alternate method....a state by state vote for President and VP.

VP in the Senate is easy and Vance easily wins.

House vote on President.....various tricks are being used by at least twenty states....to stall the vote.  

Inauguration day comes....the House Speaker says he'll push on to have Vance take the oath, and he (the House Speaker) will take the VP oath.

Immediately after Vance is sworn in....the entire top level of the Justice Department and FBI are laid-off.  Vance then suspends federal funding to the states in the delay tactics.  

The opposing states now say a form of civil war has started up....but they also admit that they are financially in a bind....with fed funding dried-up.

A month passes, and the states wise up....Vance won't budge.  Trump arrives and is given the oath.  The crisis ends.

Note, the FBI in it's present form....never comes back after this incident.  Half of the manpower is permanently removed. 

Trust By The Numbers

 

Over the weekend, I noted this graphic....which was a study done between 1997 and 2020 (so it's not UP to 2024 timeframe, a key point).

The question is....depending on your political feelings....how much trust do you put into the mass media (news print, TV news, etc).

Even in 1997....it wasn't great.  

In the 2004-2010 timeframe, you can tell.....if you were a Republican or Independent.....it slipped badly.  Same timeframe, for a Democratic-likely voter....it went and improved.

So by the numbers....in 2020....just 10-perent of Republicans trust the media.  I would imagine from the 10-percent trusting...if you laid out the questions in careful order....most folks would admit that they aren't that trusting.

Independents....same trend.

73-percent of Democrats trusting?  That's the story in 2020.

So my question....a lot of crap has happened since 2020....a lot of negative crap.  Does the trend line continue?

If a overwhelming number of the public doesn't believe what they see in the media....where does reality divide up?  

If you were some local TV station in Tulsa, and your viewer numbers were on the decline, with advertising paying less to keep the station operating.....what's the strategy going ahead?  Could you get viewers to come back?  Would the income levels be such that you give up on the 10 PM local news, and just air some half-an-hour episode of Barney Miller instead?

It's hard to find any episode in American history, or even world history....where so  many people lack a trust in news.  

Seven Thoughts Over The Impending Election

 1.  I can think of five better candidates than Harris....that would have a better standing since 2020 in terms of achievements.....so selling the 'Kam-image' is a pretty rough situation.  If you ask hard-core Democrats what she did from 2017 to 2021....they'd say Senator....but would be unable to cite any achievement in the job.

2.  The election is about 90-percent into detail of economic woes.  

3.  There's probably 10-percent of society excited that RFK Jr might end up as the chief of the CIA....go figure that group.

4. There's some kind of weird 'aura' over Trump since the assassination attempt.  He's got that image of 'I-ought-to-be-dead'.

5.  The effect of RFK Jr?  Look....a quarter of Democratic voters aren't that happy over the economy, the look of some oddball Communist agenda, or the Kam 'landscape'.  From this quarter group....I would imagine half of them were giving RFK a long-look. What they do now....is the great unknown.

6.  The effect of a free Twitter?  This is the weirdest thing to imagine.....I can turn CNN off and get decent news off Twitter....without any loss.  Selling Twitter to Elon....it broke the system designed.

7.  One has to wonder.....what if Joe Biden had stayed in the race now.

The Thing About Change

 

Back in the 1970s....I was led by Newsweak and Time to believe in Global Cooling. 

Around a decade later.....there was an attempt to lead me back over to Global Warming....which I didn't really buy into.

This week....I saw this via social media, and I believe it's the most rational and intellectual way of handling this whole discussion.

Whatever is going today.....is CHANGE, and if things evolve tomorrow or next week.....that's also CHANGE.  Just deal with it...toss back shot or two of some decent whiskey as each change occurs. 

Five Humble Thoughts

 1.  From the Trump assassination attempt.....at this point, I'd say that Crooks was not the ONLY person in the attempt, and by the FBI staying silent....there's more to the story.

This Maxwell Yearick guy, the buddy of Crooks?  Has not been seen since that day.  I think his original 'job' was to ensure pipe-bombs were set in various places to go off as the shooting started.  Pipe-bombs never occurred....I suspect because Yearick by that mid-day point....was 'disappeared' (dead or scared).  

2.  This Harris price-control gimmick on grocery stores?  I think it scares the crap out of most all grocery store chains.  

3. Maybe it's just me....but the 2016 atmosphere with Hillary Clinton as a candidate....was more charged-up than the present Kam-candidate landscape.  It's odd to say what few minutes of CNN I've watched in the past month....I'd say half of it was fairly neutral chatter.

4.  California readily admits....$24-billion that was supposed to be spent on the homeless....simply disappeared, and no one can cite how it  was spent.

In most states, it'd be a crime that the AG of the state would jump into, and there'd be five-star money-laundering involved.  Yet, you see nothing being done.

5.  Line up a thousand folks who say they will vote for Kam....then ask the thousand....to explain what makes her great.  Almost all will respond with silence....which is just odd.  

On Trump's thousand folks?  Almost all will say they had it better economically....before Biden came along. 

It's just odd.

Parody Of How Joe/Jill Got 'Even'

 As July opened up.....Joe and Jill got a few calls....over the idea that numbers aren't great, and he needed to start thinking of stepping aside.

Jill wrote down a couple of demands and mentioned them over and over.

As August came....the calls intensified.

Eventually.....Nancy Pelosi and Barak Obama called 3 or 4 times in one week, and Obama finally said the 'coded-phrase'......that VP Harris was about to talk over his mental state.

Joe and Jill were peeved....no promises of what they wanted.

So Joe asked Jill...what the fu*k is going on, and Jill said.....'this is screwed-up'.

Joe then asks.....if I'm pushed out....how can I fu*k everyone over?  Jill responds....you need to arrange the election with the worst possible candidate.  

Joe then asks.....Kam Harris?  Yep...says Jill.

Joe asks....isn't she all medicated up half the time?  Yes...says Jill

Joe asks.....doesn't she converse like a 12-year-old kid?  Yes....says Jill.

Joe asks....isn't she constantly talking about communist BS?  Yes....says Jill.

Joe asks...is there anything she actually did for three years in office?  No, not really....says Jill.

Marvelous...says Joe.

An hour later....Joe calls Kam with the wonderful news....he's supporting her.

Then the word gets out, and 300 various Democrats in DC...are a bit peeved...because they had things arranged to go differently.  

Joe and Jill?   Pretty happy.  They feel pretty sure Kam can't win and this will be talked about for decades.