Hillary 2028!
I’m heading off on a short vacation, and I thought to myself “how can I make sure everyone doesn’t forget about me?”
Then it hit me, “nightmares!”
So, strap yourself in and let’s start drilling for nightmare fuel.
It’s never too early to start worrying.
Hillary running for president again crossed my mind a few days before this article appeared.
I mean sure she’s 80? 90? A member of the undead living off the souls of any democratic intern that gets too close to Bill? Whatever. The point is, she’s still around regardless of what the underlying medical treatments and/or satanic deal may be that is keeping her alive. Why not run again? Anything can happen between now and the election.
Which reminds me.
Aside: It occurs to me that before I go too far, I should make it clear that I’m a relatively happy and mentally stable person who has no plans or reason to take my own life.
Ok, not that I’ve made the standard “Clinton Caveat” we can continue.
Where were we?
Oh ya, why shouldn’t Hillary run? She came pretty close in 2016, and she won’t have to face The Donald again.
Aside: No, Big Orange will not be running in 2028 despite what you hear. No, it’s not because he’s a firm believer in the law and respects the constitution too much – where have you been for the last decade? It’s because of selfishness and ego. No, not his, the selfishness and egos of all the other politicians. They all want their chance to become president and enrich themselves (further). And now that Trump has shown you don’t even have to hide corruption, the job of getting rich just got easier.
Sure, Hillary had some trouble with Bernie leading up to the 2016 election but that was a decade ago when Bernie could still remember ghost writing Das Kapital for Marx. His memory is not what it used to be. These days he can barely remember which of his mansions he left his wife in. I’m not sure that’s what communists have in mind when they talk about “the class struggle.” Of course, I could be wrong, so many communist leaders seem to have quite a lot of money.
So, Bernie is done but the road to 2028 still has hurdles. She will need to beat communist barbie, the Haircut (aka California Trudeau), as well as a host of other Democrats we may not have even heard of yet. Let’s call them “the ship of fools.”
There’s also the real possibility that Kamala may try to get the band back together. The slogan practically writes itself. “Harris/Walz 2028! You can’t keep a good woman down! I meant Kamala, not Tim.”
So that’s one half of the election. Sweet dreams.
How about the other?
This is where it really gets fun.
As I said, no more Trump, so who are we looking at?
Well, we could do the same thing with the Republican as we did with the Democrats but on this side of the aisle who will run is less fun than how the candidate will be picked.
Do you really think Trump’s just going to fade away?
I doubt it so here’s my prediction.
Trump will delivery one last political gift to us by turning the Republican primaries into something along the lines of “The Apprentice” with him as the judge.
Think of it. No more having to listen to politicians lie and squabble. Just 30 minutes of “Must Watch TV” spread over 8 to 10 episodes.
Netflix, Paramount, Disney, start your bids.
“Netflix presents ‘The Candidate’ sponsored by Verizon/NVDIA.”
Finally, something worth watching on TV.
Now if we could just give them all swords.
Sure, that’s dumb, but is it “extra-special dumb?”
In case you think I’m sitting up here in Vancouver all smug about how great things are going in Canada. I. Am. Not!
The NDP – that’s Canada’s progressive party – and until Trudeau came along the way we made sure the far left never got any real power – just elected a complete loon. It appears party members looked down at what was happening in the People’s Marxist Islamic Caliphate of New York (aka NY city) and said, “give me some of that please!”
I get it to some degree. High inflation has led to high grocery prices, housing remains unaffordable, and the latest war is causing gas prices to rise. People want solutions to the “livability crisis.”
The problem is that when the Left sees problems caused by the government it turns to the only solution it has, more government.
Avi Lewis, the new leader of the NDP, like Mayor Mamdani, wants more government involvement in the economy and the first item on the list is government run grocery stores.
Yes, this is a communist idea that has failed time and time again but as every good communist knows, “real communism has never been tried.” I’m quite confident it will all work this time.
Yes, we all agree this is a dumb idea. However, it gets an “extra-special dumb” label up in Canada because we have something called the supply management system. Put simply it is a quota system that ensures that prices for dairy, poultry, and eggs are kept artificially high
“But..” you say. Wait! I’m not done.
We also have interprovincial trade barriers. These are equivalent to an internal “tariff” of roughly 7–14.5% on goods.
That’s right, Canada whines about US tariffs while imposing them on ourselves.
As I said, “extra-special dumb.”
Let me spell it out in case it isn’t clear. If the NDP wishes to lower grocery prices in Canada it has a few options:
- Eliminate the supply management system that keeps prices artificially high.
- Work with the provinces to eliminate internal tariffs.
- Pay grocery stores to keep prices low.
One guess which they will choose.
Ding, ding, ding.
Correct! The plan, in case it’s so dumb you can’t wrap your mind around it, is to have the left hand of the government use taxes to keep prices high while the right hand uses taxes to try to lower them.
I was going to write a little about the current High-Speed Rail “debate” up here as well but I think I’ve hit my daily limit with respect to stupid ideas, ’ve hit “max stupid” so I I’ll save that for another time.