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My family’s in the prune business, a business that my grandfather (Stanford, ’42) started and ran successfully through three generations. It exists today, and still has offices in Santa Clara Valley, though the operations are about three hours north.
A few decades ago, John Cleese was approached by representatives of the prune industry, thinking that he would be a terrific spokesperson in advertisements and so forth. Apparently, Cleese was really keen to do it (after all, it is the most humorous all fruits…), but his manager talked him out of it with some version of a “you’re-not-getting-any-younger-and-people-already-think-you’re-old-and-this-prune-thing-will-put-you-over-the-brink.” Too bad…
It’s amazing that with all the criticism of Trump being a pariah internationally, the U.S. was actually taken seriously with him at the helm. I don’t think anybody takes Biden seriously. Even his staff. It’s one of the strangest, weakest leadership profiles that I have ever seen outside of a family business. China may be thinking “now’s our chance.”
So that raises the realistic, non-partisan question: who was the last President that was broadly respected as an international player? Probably not Trum. Not Obama. Not Bush II. Clinton? Maybe. Bush I? Definitely.
The Virginia Governor’s race is generally considered to be a harbinger of the midterm elections. I know it’s two years away, but the All-Progressive-all-the-time philosophy just isn’t working. Catering to the Far Left is backfiring. Who knew?
Our Navy is still vastly superior. And when you throw in our allies — China’s only major ally is North Korea — we outdistance them quite spectacularly.
And Biden’s approval rating dips further:
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/biden-approval-rating/
He started at 57% approval, now at 42% approval…
https://news.gallup.com/interactives/185273/presidential-job-approval-center.aspx
Biden’s approval rating dumped. Again. Down to 38% from 49% six months ago, and down 1% from last month.
He’s very, very unpopular.
[quote quote=5380]A Gallup poll from a couple weeks ago confirms the KFF survey:
There are also other studies correlating counties that voted for Trump with having much lower rates of vaccination. Similarly, counties in California that voted to recall Newsom had much lower rates. Why are Republicans hesitant? I’m sure there’s some “my freedom” element and some correlation with not trusting the government. But as I said several months ago, there’s also a lot of anti-vax propaganda coming from right wing media — and not just the fringe, but mainstream conservative media like Fox. Long story short, I don’t really care what Biden or Psaki have to say about it at this point. I’m sure you can nitpick about things they could have done better, but if I suggest, ask, or beg you to do something — and you have ample time and opportunity to do it — and you still refuse, the fault is not mine.[/quote]The first two politicians that I saw that flat out stated that they wouldn’t get vaccinated were Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Biden during the “town hall.”
My father in law (Stanford, ’53 and ’57) is 85, and his aging has been painful to watch. He was an engineer at NASA (materials science, worked on Mercury and Gemini), worked on Galileo, a number of other large scale projects. Very funny guy, great with a crowd, superb public speaker, and in fact NASA ended up having him in that role.
Today, my wife goes over everything he writes, because it’s 60% mistakes. She has two sisters, one who is incapable of fending for herself, much less her parents and the other has two toddlers (kids at age 50, go figure) and sits on Fortune 500 boards. So it all falls on my wife, to take care of both of her parents. Really difficult to watch. They fight the lack of capacity, and don’t believe that their mental acuity has waned, even as the evidence is right in front of them, along with the expected physical changes.
And then there’s COVID. Sucks getting old.
Someone from the NFL took these e-mails and leaked them. Not sure if there’s a protective order (there should have been). I guess in this day and age, there aren’t going to be any repercussions from taking something produced pursuant to an internal investigation into sexual harassment / misconduct by the WFT and turned against someone who wasn’t working for them at the time (and hasn’t been accused of sexual harassment / misconduct). There are 650,000 e-mails, as the two commenters have said. I wonder who else’s e-mails will get leaked. Anyhow, Jon Gruden should be on the phone to a lawyer.
When I hear about these things, I think about Donald Stirling’s girlfriend, who recorded his comments and replayed them which are against California law (Stirling neither knew about nor consented to the recordings).
I don’t believe that his mistress, V. Stiviano (born María Vanessa Perez, a/k/a Monica Gallegos, a/k/a Vanessa Perez, a/k/a Maria Valdez) was ever charged or prosecuted with a crime, despite having recorded his private comments without his permission.
There have been 2x as many American COVID deaths on Biden’s watch as on Trump’s watch (dating from election results). 242,303 up to the 2020 election, 485,407 afterward (and counting). Waiting for a White House reporter to ask Jen Psaki to confirm that.
And just in case the Republicans remain obstreperous in their efforts to prevent the Democrats from spending the country into submission, the Dems are about to mint a (no kidding) $1 trillion coin. I think I’ll invite Janet Yellen over for dinner on the off chance the coin falls in between the sofa cushions…
No. Will it happen, probably. My ancestor was a POW, held by the Rebels. Will his heirs get reparations for his service and hardship?
Caucasians aren’t worthy, or so I’m told.
i thought the British official response to their 800 years of mistreating the Irish was illuminating. Essentially the same as this:
Lefties…or Progressives…should think of it this way (and some of them probably do). If it weren’t for COVID, Trump would be on his second term. If it weren’t for Biden Trump would be on his second term. No other Dem could have beaten Trump, only the old hair-sniffing, shuffling, senile, demented Joe Biden who selected the #16 finisher in the New Hampshire primary as his running mate.
