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State of the Union & the Oscars

 Truthfully, I watched neither, mainly because this has little to do with me.  A 50-year-old ex-City worker who now owns a farm.  While I didn't watch Joe Biden's little show on Thursday, I did "see" the blowback of the entire event on Friday evening with my sons.  First, as an outsider, if you compare Biden's speech with that of Trump on the same evening, you have to ask yourself, who is losing his marble, Trump was incoherent, granted we don't speak "American" but still it was bad, he sounded like an old man who was lost in his own stories.  Biden on the other hand sounded like a zippy old guy with all the right comebacks.  You know it's bad for the GOP when Biden started making jokes about his own age in his political ads. 

Adam insisted that I watch the Republican's rebuttal to Biden's State of the Union.  That was an unusual speech, why was she sitting in her kitchen?  The entire thing was off, her body language was unexplainable.  Since then the Republicans distanced themselves as if they had nothing to do with that monstrosity...

There is a lot of talk about Biden losing to Trump, frankly, I don't buy it.  The US economy is doing very well: growth rate, unemployment, and inflation are all going in the right direction.  The Republicans have little to campaign on aside from their glaring incompetence.  I mean when your #1 witness is arrested twice, the first time for lying and working with Russian spies, and the second time for trying to flee the country with the help of your GOP-paid lawyer.  It doesn't get much worse.

What's worse is that the electorate is not nearly as radical as the GOP, 70% of Americans are pro-abortion, more than half think that socialized medicine is a good idea, and the vast majority are for extending help to Ukraine.  All positions that the GOP strongly opposes.  


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