See https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/09/joe-biden-tells-bizarre-story-about-how-he-once-faced-down-a-gang-leader-named-corn-pop-video/

I have resolved to find the fun aspects in this sort of thing, and to get into the pageantry of the election season, instead of worrying about what I can’t control, or about what may or may not happen.

Besides, a lot can go on during these coming months, as in the news just yesterday from Saudi Arabia.

We listen to audio books on long drives. We are now in California to visit children and grandchildren. We have been listening to the book, “Bad Blood” about the Theranos case. What an example of the “Educated Class” gone wrong ! I highly recommend that book. The young woman, Elizabeth Holmes, sounds like a very bright young woman who was obsessed with getting rich as an entrepreneur but did not wait to build a skill set. Her father was a bureaucrat and descendent from wealth that was dissipated by his father and grandfather. Worked for Democrats and was unemployed after 2000. Interesting values. We have not finished the book yet. We got back to our hotel, last night and my wife was reluctant to turn it off.

https://freebeacon.com/politics/new-dccc-chief-wants-to-cancel-male-candidates/

I have no clue from whence comes the obsession with ‘Boomers’. Jesse Jackson, Richard Gephardt, Albert Gore Jr, Dan Quayle, Bilge Clinton, Roger Clinton, Paul Tsongas, Bob Kerrey, Tom Harkin, Steve Forbes, Pat Choate, Bill Bradley, Joseph Lieberman, George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, John Kerry, John Edwards, Howard Dean, Wesley Clark, Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, Hellary, Newt Gingrich, Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, and John Kasich were all born after 1938 and prior to 1958. I’m not seeing the significance of that, bar that they’re more likely to have had military service than someone born later and less likely than someone born earlier, more likely to have been divorced than someone born earlier (and more likely by a modest amount than someone born later).

And I’m not seeing why you’re so sanguine about next year.

Young women of 22 seldom produce impressive expository writing. Why would you fancy she’d be an exception. She did major in black studies, something few people do. I’ve got a shirt-tail who insisted on art school. She passed the bar exam, so she likely has some baseline of competence. AA will get you into a fancy private university when your best match might be one of the research campuses of the Illinois state system. It doesn’t confer unlimited advantages on applicants. What’s notable about Mooch has been that she had no real technae (she quit practicing law after three years) and that for a dozen years people were willing to pay her handsome salaries for no-one-knows-quite-what. (Do you hear Fred Rogers’ voice saying ‘Can you say that, ‘launderthebribes;?). It’s a reasonable wager that if she’d had her druthers, she’d have been a housewife with a side business in interior design or in retailing antiques. She couldn’t do that because relying on BO’s earnings meant more of a cut in her standard-of-living than she could tolerate. She’s not a dope. She’s a Material Girl.

Then again, one can say the same for Biden, Warren , Buttigieg, the unrepentant communist Sanders, the sleep your way to the top Harris, et. al.
What exactly have they accomplished in the positions they held??
Really, other then taking up space, nothing at all. (Ditto for Barack O) .

Sanders was a seminal figure in Burlington politics. There’s ‘before Sanders’ and ‘after Sanders’ there. Can’t take that away from him. What’s odd about Sanders is that he found his niche in municipal government when he failed at everything else. Booty-gig failed at salient tasks while Mayor of South Bend; it’s a reasonable wager that, like Michael Dukakis, he simply has no interest in street crime as a social problem.

Yang will emerge from 2020 with a lot of solid support for the future. The real change election will be 2022 with a new Democrat Party.

The single issue Pro-Life takeover of the GOP will be a major factor in 2022. GOP Primary voters will choose only unapologetic social conservatives and may lose both houses to a new Democrat Party typified by candidates like Dan McCready.

I see the GOP after the 2020 wipeout against Democrats going to similar extremes on Conservative issues that the Democrats are now doing on many Liberal issues. Not much will be enacted but they will lose the middle.

Trump will probably succeed in getting us out of and keeping us out of wars but a likely recession, automation, the debt including skyrocketing consumer debt, and the huge waves of old Boomers needing care will make for an uncertain and chaotic period.

The new Democrats will talk like Republicans used to but will support Choice and probably a basic income.

2024 will usher in an entire new world. The period starting in 2025 will be a repeat of the late 1940’s and 1950’s.

Thus, after trying to wrestle with crazy, cranky, manic Bolshevik Bernie’s assertion that the U.S. has the highest percentage of Children in poverty, I am just starting to process Biden’s claim that poor kids are exposed to four million less words than kids who aren’t poor, and that the solution is to crank up the ol’ family Victrola each night, (in China/Slow Joe’s case he probably does mean one of those old timey hand crank Victrolas with the great big trumpet shaped megaphone) so that these poor kids can try to make up their almost insurmountable word deficit.

Next, to somehow work through, I guess, is ol’ phony Hispanic Beto’s dropping of any carefully constructed “nuance” or ambiguity, any pretense about supposedly “moderate,” “sensible” intermediate steps like “background checks,””plugging loopholes,””Red Flag”laws, and his outright admission that, all along, behind all of these weasel words is the ultimate objective of outright come to your house and take ’em gun confiscation, and he’s gonna jump over all these purely for voter consumption, phony, intermediate steps, and to quote Chris Cuomo’s favorite phrase, “get right to it. “