I wish I had something original and brilliant to write in this blog, but I don’t, so I will throw out a few little ideas. Maybe they will add up to something of substance.
Next week, the Iowa Caucuses will trigger the beginning of the 2024 election season.
How dreadful that it appears that the two candidates that much of the country hopes will not become President are considered to be huge frontrunners. The election process is broken, yet we seem helpless to change it.
My suggestion is that we have a third party called “The Neither Person Party.” If Neither Person gets more than Biden or Trump, then we have another election two weeks later without the two rejected candidates. Perhaps you have a more refined version of this idea?
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Why are smart people so dumb?
Last year virtually every “respected” economist in the major publications predicted a recession. Eleven jumps in interest rates by the Fed was certain to put the country into a downturn. It did not happen. Prices fell in commodities like oil and food, and houses finally dropped in price. Offices now show a 20% vacancy rate. Wages rose, especially at the lower end, but unemployment stayed steady.
The economists figured wrong.
Another “smart” person is Claudine Gay, who just resigned as Harvard’s President. When called to testify before a congressional committee and asked why she did not condemn the large number of students at the University who demonstrated their support for Hamas atrocities in Israel, she gave a vague and unclear reply about understanding the “context.”
Over the next week, $100 million in pledges to Harvard were pulled, and Harvard applications for early admission fell 17% from the previous year. Charges of a long history of plagiarism didn’t help her either.
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The last smart person who had a bad year was Mary Barra, the long-time head of GM. She committed $25 billion to making electric cars and still cannot seem to make one that sells. Bill Ford of Ford took 160,000 pre-orders for an electric F-150 truck. Ford sold barely more than 20,000 after the buyers figured out that it was no good in cold weather and its battery capability with a heavy load falls precipitously. Tough year in Detroit.
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I am on vacation for almost three weeks, staying with my daughter and family in Palo Alto, California. My wife and I went downtown to shop at the Patagonia store, looking for a fleece top. We parked next to the store and walked past a small tent on the sidewalk. I thought it was for an ad for the store. I looked for a price tag. My wife then nudged me and said, “Lloyd, somebody is living in there.”
It was sobering to think of that as I walked into the pricey store. We were also across the street from the Stanford University campus.
As we drove back, we passed vans and campers parked along the street. This is a cheap way to live in very expensive Palo Alto. Portable toilets were placed in the grassy areas, which make those areas prime spots for parking.
The city accommodates only a limited number of sidewalk tents and parking residents. It is a reminder in a wealthy city that poor people live among us. I doubt that the sidewalk residents are wearing Patagonia for warmth.
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Jim Harbaugh of Michigan joyfully accepted the trophy for winning the football championship game against Washington. Also on the platform was his brother, John, who coaches the Baltimore Ravens in the NFL. The Ravens had the best record in the league this year. Standing just behind them was their father, also a football coach who had coached Western Kentucky to a small college national championship. Jim Harbaugh was suspended twice this season, but his team still finished undefeated. The Harbaughs had a proud day.
Jim Harbaugh is under investigation by the NCAA, and there is a lot of speculation he may go back to the NFL where he won a Super Bowl coaching San Francisco. His players love him. Organizers are not quite as fond.
Donald Trump and Jim Harbaugh both play a brutal game by their own rules. Perhaps Harbaugh should be the candidate if Neither Person prevails in the Primaries. I would bet on him.
Question: Who would you vote for if Neither Person won the Presidential Primary?
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Jim and the 49er’s lost that Super Bowl to has brother John and the Ravens.
Thanks for the Blog.
Aaron
Lloyd,
I am not sure who I would vote for, but I think this election will be the best opportunity, since I have been alive, for a moderate independent to step in and when the election.
Bozo-the-Clown would fit right in with the DC crowd.
If frontrunners, Biden & Trump, are the best that this country can come up with, we are in a world of hurt.
Wondering what folks think of Vivek Ramiswamy? I find him refreshing and bold, but he’s likely gunning for a cabinet post. I agree our system maybe needs tweaked, basically if you’re not independently wealthy you have zero chance. It feels like many people are hesitant to admit how good things were under President Trump up to covid, and the primary driver of waning support is the incessant attacks on his character; people just don’t care for all the baggage. Buckle up for a wild ride. Here’s hoping for a smooth election with all results tabulated before midnight. 🙂 Joe
AMERICAN NAVY ships are being attacked with rockets; our soldiers are being injured by drone attacks; terrorists are shooting missiles at ships in the Red Sea. Our enemy is funded, supplied, and supported by Iran. So, what does President Biden do? After giving billion$ to Iran to buy more weapons, he goes on another vacation, this time to St. Croix.
THE COLORADO SUPREME COURT beclowned itself with their ruling that President Trump has to be removed from the ballot, falsely claiming he is guilty of “insurrection.” We live in a constitutional republic where the candidates for president are chosen by the voters, not by four politically motivated, unethical, shyster lawyers in black robes.
Thankfully, President Trump and the Republican Party are being represented by the American Center For Law And Justice. Their attorney, Jay Sekulow, is one of the best lawyers in the U.S.
IN YOUR HOME STATE, MORON OF THE MONTH:
Chicago Mayor, Brandon Johnson, is whining to the White House over the cost of tens of thousands of illegal aliens arriving in his city. Johnson used to virtue signal to show his moral superiority, bragging that the Windy City was a “sanctuary city.” Anyone who was against this invasion he labeled a racist, accused of hating the poor and “people of color.” He invited the Third World to his city. Now the parasites and leeches he invited in are bankrupting Chicago, and the mayor is demanding that the Biden administration close the border and pay him back.
I AM SHOCKED!!!
It’s great to see a sanctimonious liberal wallow in the result of his own stupidity! It is a true schadenfreude moment, watching this left wing fraud agonize over his own self-destructive policies. The illegals are Johnson’s Tar Baby now! The dumbed-down voters of Chicago are also to blame. They voted for this extreme leftist, instead of a less idiotic Democrat. Will the city’s voters finally wise-up before the next election?
DOUBTFUL…
OBTW, I know you understand “schadenfreude” LOL, ROTFLMf@O
MAINE’S UN-ELECTED, non-attorney Secretary of State, Shenna Bellows, removed Donald Trump from the ballot because she said he is guilty of “insurrection”, and thus barred by the 14th Amendment from holding office.
Read the US Constitution lately?
Let me try to understand this nitwit’s thinking. She removed Trump from the ballot for an act for which he was never criminally charged, and never convicted. Trump was tried in the Senate and acquitted. His guilt resides only in the mind of this foolish partisan political hack. I hope the Supreme Court exposes her for the Democratic Party shill she is, and imposes sanctions, penalties, and payment of Trump’s legal fees for her absurd ruling.
Inflation is “coming down.” ???
The monthly rate may come down a bit, but current prices are still 20% higher than when Trump was in office. The inflation is caused by the Democrats’ madcap spending!
Have you purchased food or fuel lately?
THE DOJ and FBI put every word Trump ever said as President under a microscope, or just lie about it. Joe and Hunter Biden extorted the owner of the Burisma gas company in Ukraine for $10 million. Joe Biden is on video admitting the shakedown, on audio tapes, the victim is ready to testify, and the wire transfers of the bribe money to their dummy LLC are well-documented.
10% for the “BIG GUY”
But, our corrupt federal law enforcement will not prosecute them! A cop who took a $100 bribe would go to prison for ten years! FUHGGEDDABBOUDDITT!!!
WHEN YOU HEAR a libtard with Trump Derangement Syndrome comparing Trump to Hitler, it is proof that they have no facts to criticize his policies. When they resort to bringing up the name of Hitler, (again and again… How many MILLIONS did Trump slaughter?) you know they have no rational argument.
Libtards don’t think…they only “f e e l”.
MY FELLOW MANUFACTURERS, please wake up and see the slow-motion destruction the Democrats are doing to our country. The America we knew is vanishing right before our eyes! Just look at the videos of the illegal aliens streaming over our border, now over 12,000 per day!
ONE QUARTER MILLION A MONTH!!!! IT IS REPLACEMENT THEORY!
We wont vote for this foolishness, so we must be replaced.
Illegals arriving in the Sanctuary city of New York are given ID’s, work permits and signed up to VOTE!
They are not coming to be productive Americans. Their goal is to become parasitic wards of the government for life, and live off of the backs of working American taxpayers. This means you, your children, and your grand-children, your Posterity. The leeches “free stuff”, i.e. welfare, food stamps, rent, utilities, medical, and other hand-outs, will be paid for by legal Americans. All the illegals have to do is keep voting Democrat. Their goal is to out-number us, then they will make the rules.
We Americans have a birth rate of less than two. They have a rate of more than five. We will be out bred in a generation.
Their first rule will be: “American suckers: You work, We play!”
Donald Trump is the only “America First” presidential candidate with the spine to conduct the much-needed “immigration enema” of America. Without him, the United States is doomed.
WHEN YOU SEE the videos of the illegals coming over our southern border, take a closer look at them. After supposedly walking 2,000 miles from South America, you would think the migrants would look gaunt, haggard, and emaciated. However, they appear to be well-fed, even overweight. Then I noticed they are wearing expensive sneakers and clean clothing. Many have debit cards. How is that? They must be funded by the United Nations, religion-based poverty programs in the U.S., and our own government. They are all trying to destroy America! For God’s sake, wake up or we won’t have a country!
The illegals who work will either take a job from an American, or work ‘off the books’ for cash. Those who work ‘off the books’ will receive all the benefits of America, such as education, fire and police protection, etc., but will NOT PAY the TAXES FOR IT!!!!
IF ENEMY SOLDIERS invaded our country, our military would defend America. But we are not being attacked by men with rifles, machine guns, or artillery. We are quietly being attacked and destroyed, not by armed soldiers, but by economic soldiers who will suck the wealth out of our country. Each one of these migrants, over their lifetimes, could cost American taxpayers million$. Right now, the conservative cost for one leech would be [at current rates] $66,000 per year, per person. Over 40 years, that amounts to $2,640,000. At 50 years the cost would be $3,300,000, all paid by you and your family.
WHY are our President and DHS Secretary Mayorkas willfully violating their sworn duty to protect America? Republicans tried to impeach Mayorkas, but were thwarted by nine cowardly RINOS. We have been betrayed by both parties!
BUMPER STICKER: VOTE DEMOCRAT! IT’S EASIER THAN GETTING A JOB
AFTER the repeated attempts by the Democrats and Deep State to illegally remove Trump from the ballot, it’s time the media and Democrats stop saying Trump is a “threat to democracy.” It is the Democrats who are the threat to democracy, committing election interference on a grand scale. Democrats are also behind election fraud, another attack on democracy. The fear-inducing, FBI SWAT-style raids on ordinary Americans are another attack on Democracy.
Or just have several million votes magically appear at 3AM,,,
THE MORALLY BANKRUPT Democrat Party will try to turn the 2024 election into an abortion loving festival, because they cannot run on their record. The Republican Party, if it had a brain [it doesn’t], should make it clear to voters that the Supreme Court ruled that the legality of abortion is a state issue, not a federal issue. If you are an abortion advocate, you should move to a state where the voters approve abortion, like sick New York. BABY KILLERS!!!
OUR GREEN STUPIDITY:
IN NEBRASKA, a multi-million dollar wind farm, with 14,000 solar panels, was destroyed by fist size hail stones. Within minutes, thousands of solar panels were reduced to a pile of toxic rubble. This is symbolic of the entire green energy program. Prepare for endless rolling blackouts!
THE TIME SPAN for a “right wing conspiracy theory” to be revealed as the truth is usually about eighteen months.
CONSIDER THIS: DR. FAUCI and the Democrat doctors in the NIH forced the closure of businesses based on their wrong advice. Now that businesses are allowed to open, the Biden administration claims it’s “creating jobs.”
Remember operation “WETBACK”?
NO??? Look it up!
As I have quoted in the past:
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – George Santayana
OBTW
Trumps VP will be Tucker Carlson.
Remember, You heard it here first….
Stay Safe, and hold on for one hell of s ride!!!