Day 1258 – A Prediction

Monday June 29, 2020

125 Days until the election on November 3^rd

205 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021

It’s Sunday night and I decided to get a jump on things. I have a prediction, here goes:

DATELINE: The White House, Monday October 19, 2020.

Today Mike Pence with Donald J. Trump hovering behind him announced that “they” had discovered a vaccine for the Corona Virus. No longer will any of us have to live in fear. There is a vaccine! All will be saved!

Dr. Anthony Fauci was seen wearing a mask, with his head down shaking his head.

DATELINE: The White House, Tuesday November 17, 2020. Today the junior assistant copy room person to the deputy assistant to the now dismissed junior assistant to the deputy assistant in charge of paper shuffling and obfuscation announced that in fact the vaccine they had turned out to not be a vaccine. “We were surprised,” said Mr. Dildo. “We thought we had a vaccine.” It seems that the White House two weeks before the election received some viles marked “Covid Vaccine.” And based on that announced the existence of a vaccine. 

Several volunteers were brought in and injected with the “vaccine.” One reported a feeling of dizziness and euphoria. A young lady excused herself to the bathroom where she was found with her head in the toilet vomiting.

When asked by reporters why this wasn’t reported earlier Mr. Dildo responded that it was not his job and he believed it had been the responsibility of others. He noted he wasn’t sure as he had just been hired yesterday.

Lab results have been obtained from the vials, which were surreptitiously given to the New York Times and the Washington Post. Both newspapers report that the vaccine was 151 proof tequila and came from a one Antonio Rodriguez who is quoted as saying, “This shit will kill anything.”

Based on his “expert testimony and opinion” the White House announced the long awaited miracle cure.

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Don’t forget. You heard it here first! (Details may vary from this report.)

My right wing friends have been busy posting “Who will stand with the police?” memes.

For some reason they aren’t posting the videos of the cops grabbing the 14 year old boy and throwing him to the ground and hitting his head on the pavement.

Or the one of the guy with the giant sniper rifle on top of a building scanning a BLM rally.

Or the report that looked at 141 protests and found no Antifa or BLM protestors involved in the violence. What was identified were the Boogaloo white supremacists  causing violence and mayhem. I wonder why they didn’t show that with a “Who’s willing to repost this?”

Okay, moving on.

The latest news is that the president was not told that the Russians were paying money to have our soldiers killed. This according to the president.

Excuse me. Excuse me. I have a question, “How would he know?”

I have another question, “If he did know would he tell us?”

Okay let’s take the last question first – no.

What? You want more than a “no”? Why? Okay. Think about it. If he knew and did nothing that’s bad. Better to say he didn’t know. Besides, he lies. He lies when he doesn’t have to. He just lies. Did he lie in this case? Maybe. Probably? No.

This brings us to the first question and my last response to the second question, which was no. As in “No, he probably didn’t lie.” 

The reason I say that is because he probably didn’t know. The reason he didn’t know was not that he wasn’t told. This is where I believe the media has missed the mark with their headline inquires of “Why Wasn’t the president Told?” I think the better question and headline would be “Why Wasn’t the president Paying Attention When He Was Being Told?”

The answer to the last question is simple. Based on what we know about the man he doesn’t pay attention to anything that doesn’t bear directly on him. 

What happens now? Some poor bastard will have to say, “We told him” Trump will tweet, “No you didn’t,” and the guy will lose his job.

I contend that the president was probably told about this on multiple occasions and he never paid attention. Hence, he can rightful claim he didn’t know. He didn’t know, and this is where the media missed the point, he didn’t know because he wasn’t listening.

Simple.

Next.

This leads me to the ultimate question of today. Why?

Why does this seem to happen in so many places in our society? Why do we keep getting idiots running things? It doesn’t matter if it’s government or business, many of them seem to be run by people unfit for the job. (Remember Peter Lynch’s investing advice – Invest only in companies that any idiot can run because eventually an idiot will be running it.)

Once again I have the answer. (You are so lucky to have read this far.)

The answer is The Peter Principle. Everyone Rises to Their Level of Incompetence.

Peter suggested that people keep getting promoted and asked to take on more and more until they finally arrive at the place where they can’t do the job and they end up staying there.

While I used to think this to be true, it may be worse than what old Pete suggested. I say that because the solution would be to demote everyone back to their last level where they were competent and the world would be a better place. However, I think their are some real over achievers who have managed to fail upward multiple levels.

How does this happen?

Once again you are in luck, because I have the answer.

Imagine you are a manager promoted to a position that you have no idea what you are doing. What do you do? You depend on the people around you. But they, like you, have no business doing the jobs they are in. This is the blind leading the blind. Enter the snake oil salesman. He says he has the answer.

What do you know? You don’t know squat. So you, and all the rest of your band of fools, know no better. So you buy whatever he is selling and things go to hell. What to do? Point fingers, blame, cry, send out your resume and get a new job.

Either that or stay in your old one or retire to some consulting teaching gig.

Ladies and Gentlemen I give you the Republican candidates for 2016. Go over the list. Were any of them any good? They were all deeply flawed. They had gotten to where they were by BS. I remember some had talking points that were easily shown to be factually inaccurate, but that didn’t stop them from spouting them all the more.

Enter Donald Trump: “I’ll erase the deficit. I will fix health care. I will drain the swamp. I will end the war in …” It didn’t matter, he would take care of it. The only things he said that were not of that sort, that were kind of original, were bat-shit stupid. The Wall, The Immigrants, etc. It was racist and hate filled. But he promised more with no real – what would you call it? – Clue? As to how to do anything. 

This was built on a solid foundation of lies and bullying. He was aided and abetted by our own system of media, governance, and greed. Not to mention foreign interference.

So, how do we pull back from the abyss? Maybe, we don’t. Maybe, we end up taking a Thelma and Louise style ride off the cliff.

Unless and until we figure out how to stop idiots from running things we may be doomed to repeat this sort of nonsense.

Sorry, I had all the answers to this the last point. I have risen to my level. You?

125 Days until the election on November 3^rd

205 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021

PS A fort in Jordan. Commanding the sand.