Prognostication, predicting the future.\u00a0 Oh, what a foolish thing to do.\u00a0 But let\u2019s talk about after the mid-terms.\u00a0 But what happens afterward depends on how they end up to some extent.\u00a0 Let\u2019s look at the possibilities and then the follow-up for each case.<\/p>\n
Suppose the Democrats somehow get through the elections and maintain their majorities in both Houses.\u00a0\u00a0 Based on the current projections this is the most unlikely outcome but let\u2019s say for the sake of argument that SCOTUS overturns Roe and the Media manages to enflame the female half of America to go on the warpath and vote out every Republican they can.\u00a0 So, let\u2019s say the Democrats gain seats in the Senate and House.\u00a0 This would have the effect of emboldening Biden and would mean there would be even more radicalization of the actions being taken by the feds and that would also translate at the state and local levels in Democrat locales.\u00a0 That would make things increasingly worse for us and would also indicate that the Dems would hold the White House in 2024.<\/p>\n
But as I said this is an almost absurdly unlikely election outcome.\u00a0 Voter sentiment is lopsidedly negative on Biden\u2019s performance in office.\u00a0 And this has translated effectively against the Democrats in Congress and in state and local governments.\u00a0 So, let\u2019s look at a more likely outcome.<\/p>\n
Currently the polls indicate that the Republicans are likely to take back the House of Representatives with a shift of somewhere between thirty and sixty seats.\u00a0 The Senate is predicted to return to Republican control with a shift of two to five seats.\u00a0 What happens then?<\/p>\n
The Republicans capturing Congress will put an end to Biden appointing anymore Supreme Court justices or any other judges if the Senate is in that mood.\u00a0 It will also limit the kinds of cabinet changes that Biden will be able to make during his last two years in office. And finally, it will put an end to any laws he is hoping to pass.\u00a0 And those are all good things.\u00a0 In addition, the House and Senate can go about investigating and probably impeaching Biden for the multitude of shady deeds that have been leaking out of the Hunter Biden laptop scandal.\u00a0 There won\u2019t be enough votes to convict him in the Senate but plenty to get the impeachment going in the House.\u00a0 And the investigations will uncover enough dirt to make the 2024 election a mud-slinging extravaganza.<\/p>\n
But all these good things won\u2019t change the fact that Biden will still have two years to continue his destruction of the working and middle classes in this country.\u00a0 We will have to endure his open borders nightmare and the punishing inflation that his terrible policies have inflicted on us.<\/p>\n
Now let\u2019s look at the other unlikely possibility.\u00a0 Suppose by November that the country crashes spectacularly.\u00a0 A bad recession strikes but inflation goes on raging.\u00a0 If this were bad enough the country might get truly desperate and even Democrats might throw out their own senators and representatives.\u00a0 This would give the Republicans enough votes in the Senate to convict Biden and Harris.\u00a0 And that would force the Speaker of the House into the presidency.\u00a0 Now this would have the added benefits over the last options of ending all of Biden\u2019s awful programs.\u00a0 And it would give the incoming president a clear powerful majority in Congress and a clear mandate for change.<\/p>\n
But the chaos inherent in this kind of violent change would require extremely smart handling to prevent it from devolving into chaos.\u00a0 Think about it.\u00a0 Kevin McCarthy would be President of the United States.\u00a0 How exactly is that supposed to work?\u00a0 Sure, there might be ways of making someone else president but the mind boggles trying to figure out how it doesn\u2019t all go wrong.\u00a0 And as I said it\u2019s a very unlikely scenario.<\/p>\n
So, the short answer to this whole question is that after the mid-terms we will be looking at a weakened but not neutralized Joe Biden.\u00a0 It\u2019s possible that if he\u2019s serious about running 2024 he may try to triangulate to less unpopular actions and policies but that\u2019s unlikely.\u00a0 Other people are pulling his strings and they\u2019ll use his last two years to keep the damage coming.\u00a0 I think they know at this point that 2024 will most likely go to a Republican.<\/p>\n
So, that\u2019s my read.\u00a0 Don\u2019t assume that because Joe Biden has loused up the country that the mid-terms will fix everything.\u00a0 What it tells me is I need to figure out a way to survive the damage of the next two and a half years and hope and pray that we find someone who can break us out of the death trap we find ourselves in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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