All the bad news for the Dems has lifted my heart. I haven’t let it go to my head. I know just how bad things are. But with a light-heart comes a playful mood. So, I’ll spin some words and try to imagine the best-case scenario we could hope for going forward. So, play along.
We’ll start out with November 8th. Based on everything going right for the Republicans the wildest fantasy, the one where only Vermont and New York elect a Democrat Senator, would give us 57 seats in the Senate. But since it’s not a filibuster proof 60 votes let’s just go along with this outrageous 57 number. Then let’s say the Republicans win some outlandish number of seats in the House, say 60 seats. Effectively this shuts down any more of Biden’s legislative agenda and curtails his ability to pick judges for the federal bench and means his cabinet replacements can be tortured and even denied if they’re at all egregious (which they will be). This also means Mitt Romney and whoever is left of the Senate NeverTrumpers will be forced to shut up for the next wo years. In fact, old Mitt is up for re-election two years and I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see him walking back all his anti-Trump talk and begin groveling on his belly asking for Trump’s endorsement for his re-election. Now that will be fun to watch.
And even with less than 57 senate votes I can see the House sending an impeachment of Biden and his lackies pretty soon after they’ve had a chance to do an investigation into the Hunter laptop. If it wasn’t such an expensive process, I would like to see a quarterly impeachment come through the Congress until 2024 is complete. But it could get boring. After all we don’t have anywhere near enough votes in the Senate to convict the old liar.
Now, with a Republican Congress Joe will try to play rope-a-dope by blaming Congress for tying his hands and refusing to fund all his pet projects. Basically, we’ll have the same stalemate where continuing resolution funding will be voted in every quarter instead of a yearly budget. Considering that the Stupid Party is the stupid party this will be a painful process and they will take some damage. But we’ll go through the next two years with the dance we’re used to seeing playing out.
Let’s assume Biden will try to wag the Ukrainian dog with some kind of false flag operation to try to blame the Russians for some casualties of NATO troops in Poland. He demands a blank check to go “mano a mano” with Ivan. Now since this is my happy-happy version let’s assume that somehow our congressional heroes manage to avoid turning themselves into villains in this little passion play. And assume that the Russians manage to get the Ukrainians to the bargaining table and suddenly the war is over and NATO looks really stupid.
By this point we’re about a year before the 2024 election and Dopey Joe is as toast as any incumbent has been since Jimmy Carter chased that rabbit away from his canoe back in 1980. Now with the whole country baying for Joe’s blood and the economy still mired in stagflation Donald Trump wins the Republican nomination easily and the election is a landslide in which both the House and the Senate are solidly pro-Trump, filibuster proof and primed to enact a MAGA agenda.
Their first order of business is to close down the southern border tighter than a drum. Then enforce strictly all the existing laws to prevent illegal aliens from working in the United States. Then re-organize the intelligence agencies and Justice Department with elimination of the Patriot Act and the FISA Courts as the centerpiece. And for good measure they can write legislation to forbid the government from locking us in our homes ever again. Afterwards comes reversing all the green agenda nonsense and establishing a workable energy policy that includes nuclear and fossil fuel components as the main technologies.
After all this good stuff is done, they can tackle the discriminatory practices that the tech companies have been perpetrating against conservatives. I don’t expect the death penalty to be handed out but confiscation of the platforms sems fitting. And hopefully in the meantime the Supreme Court will have outlawed affirmative action and declared homosexuality and all its associated activities unprotected by the Constitution.
And after accomplishing all that, Mitch McConnell will be so exhausted that he’ll have to be carted off to the old age home and younger and less crooked leadership can be appointed. Hopefully the same will be the case for the House leadership although we don’t have to send McCarthy to an old age home. The back benches will be good enough.
So, there’s my fantasy. It’s absurd because we’re stuck with the Stupid Party. They’re too stupid, dishonest and lazy to get anything as monumental as the reformation of the federal government done. But it’s been a good week and I felt like cheering myself up. I return you to the apocalypse already in progress.