
After a hard day of de-lousing a 600 ft tall squid-headed dragon you’d think I could relax and eat my supper in peace. Instead, I’m confronted with a thousand-point drop in the Dow. Back during the Black Monday crash in ‘87 a five-hundred-point drop was a catastrophe of mammoth proportions (about a 20% of the Dow). Now double that drop is just a few percent of the DJIA. But it certainly makes the talk of recession sound a lot more ominous. I have to assume that Kamala, Queen of the Cat Ladies, will throw a hissy fit and demand that Dopey Joe threaten to fire everyone at the Fed if they don’t lower interest rates. Well, sure. That will fix things up, won’t it? Well at least until November anyway.
Everybody is thinking that Iran will attack Israel and we’ll get dragged into it. Well, I hope not. I’m guessing that Iran will work through Hezbollah to harry the Israelis in the north, but not attack them directly. Netanyahu has quite a problem on his hands to neutralize Hamas. It’s almost as if his only option is to separate the women and young children from the adult make population and fight the men without inflicting casualties on the innocent. Well, if he figures that one out, he deserves a Nobel Prize for War.
The Ukrainians have installed their new F-16s in Odessa and I guess hope to use them to attack Crimea, Zaporizhzhia and maybe elsewhere. It remains to be seen if Ukraine can change the status quo of Russian dominance in air defense over Eastern Ukraine. The F-16s are supposed to be superior to the Russian fighters. But ground-based defenses are a serious threat to even an advanced aircraft like the F-16. We shall see.
I saw that Real Clear Politics has shifted the polling to a Kamala Harris lead of a point or so. Well, never underestimate the number of blue-haired cat ladies in the American population. Imagine Commander in Chief Kamala Harris reviewing the troops in Iran or Venezuela or Mexico by Zoom call and giving a rousing speech about the new battery driven aircraft carrier painted green and “manned” by a wholly trans crew. Or imagine Kamala giving a speech at the United Nations outlawing “whiteness” and pointing to the success of post-white cultures like Zimbabwe and South Africa. Or just imagine Kamala dedicating the addition of George Floyd to Mount Rushmore. Well, not exactly an addition. More like replacement. Those dead white guys would have to be erased to make room for Floyd’s head. Now that’s progress alright.
Looking around at what’s going on so far this week makes me nostalgic for my time at the de-lousing procedure at the boiling acid vat of Cthulhu. Sure, the sulfuric acid fumes are lethal and the parasites are the size and ferocity of wolverines but the mission is simple and words still have their real meaning. The same can’t be said for the “real world.” In what universe is Kamala Harris a world class leader? By what objective standards are the results of Bidenomics prosperity. By what double-speak was Kamala’s handling of the border crisis a success? Bring on the acid vat!