Return to the Real World

The family party we had yesterday was a nearly perfect day.  Everything and everybody cooperated.  Perfect weather, guests in a very receptive mood for the socializing, good food.  In short, other than eating a little too much it was one of those faultless occasions we rarely experience.  But, back to the real world.

After experiencing the horror of the Uvalde mass murder, we then find out that the Uvalde police are responsible for failing to save most of the victims.  To find out that they refused to storm the classroom for something like forty minutes while a classroom of little children was systematically murdered is maddening.  It’s as if we now live in a completely dysfunctional world.  Murderers stalk the streets but the police refuse to rescue even the most helpless and innocent victims, little children.  I don’t know how the officer in charge will live with himself.  I assume he’ll have to flee Uvalde.  To live in a town where everyone knows how much blood is on your hands would be intolerable for any normal man.

As far as the Left’s present attempt to bang away at the gun control thread, it seems like background noise that does little to distract Americans from the disintegration of the economy and normal life.  There’s a palpable sense that we’re living in the after times.  The real world where the politicians tried to protect their jobs by only slightly mismanaging the country is a thing of the past.  Biden & Co. have gone all in on the Green Economy and have thereby smashed the country on the rocks of energy reality.  You can’t run an electric grid on solar panels and windmills.  And you can’t run a transportation system on batteries especially if the electric grid isn’t built to handle the recharge load.

So, we’re all watching a gallon of gas head up toward double digit prices.  It’s interesting that Biden’s election may be a case of fake economics being given enough rope to hang itself.  Three and a half years of Biden-omics probably will be more than enough to convince even strident Democrat voters to push the voting booth lever for Donald Trump.  What’s not clear to me is if Dopey Joe might decide to change course after the mid-terms and swim like crazy back to the shore of sanity.  Joe has thrown in with the Obama progressives but Joe is a coward and if his polls slip anymore, he might be frightened into abandoning the green crusade.

With the advent of real summer (supposed to get up to 85 degrees today) I find myself distracted by the fun things that we can do at this time of year.  But I promise not to abandon my gloom and doom output.  I was reading today that Liz Cheney’s primary opponent has her beat by thirty points.  But I also saw that the primary isn’t until August.  That’s too long to keep my attention.  So, we need something that happens soon to keep us interested.  If I were to guess, the next big thing will be Ukraine’s collapse.  The Biden Administration is already starting to backpedal on the outcome.  The collapse of the Ukrainian resistance in the Donbas provinces is an ominous sign for the hopes Ukrainian victory.  The only question in my mind is whether Odessa will be the end of the 2022 military campaign or whether Putin has much larger designs.  Either way, it’s one more glorious failure for Dear Leader Biden.  Jen Psaki’s hasty retreat has me wondering how soon the rush to the exits will begin for the rest of the Biden Administration.  My pick for next to bail is Pete Buttigieg.  Getting left holding the bag on the transportation problems in this country is probably getting to our LGBTQ+ friend.  I expect he’ll announce he’s retiring to be a full-time stay at home mom for his young brood of rent-a-children.  And after Mayor Pete maybe General Milli Vanilli will follow him out the door.  Losing wars to the Russians is no fun either.

So, stay tuned.  The Silly Season is just getting started and fun and games are sure to continue for the foreseeable future.