Elections and Concessions

 Joe Biden will be elected president today,  according to our updated Constitution as recently defined by our Supreme Court.  Many of us, including myself, are dismayed at the result.  Yet, it is what it is.  

Joe Biden did what he was supposed to do, according to the DNC.  He stayed home, kept his mouth shut, and didn't case any huge distraction so that the DNC could beat Orange Man Bad. His record as a moderate (according to DNC standards) appealed to folks who really didn't like Orange Man Bad because he was always tweeting nasty things about the media and the Democrats.  Orange Man Bad was irascible, combative, and arrogant.  These middle-of-the-road folks wanted something that approaches normality in the midst of urban unrest and a global pandemic.

Joe has served his purpose, but the end game is starting to play out now.  News of Biden family corruption is starting to trickle into the news.  His close ties to China are coming to light.  And, he's an old man.  Older than I by two decades.  He's gaffe-prone and creepy around women.

Then, we turn our gaze to Dianne Feinstein, and the news starting to coalesce about her cognitive decline.  If my guess is correct, she'll be shuffled off to retirement as a senior politico, and laud her service, but she is not the issue.  Joe is. The media and the DNC are preparing the battlespace, getting the unseeing used to the idea of a long-standing political insider being taken to the rhetorical nursing home.  This is crucial so that when the coup is applied to President Biden, it doesn't seem like such an outlier.  Joe is done, he's outlived his usefulness, but they won't shuffle him off until he has had a little while to enjoy the Oval Office, at least for a few months.  

I feel kind of sorry for Dianne, and Joe.  They should have known when to gracefully slip into retirement.  But, the continuing quest for power is a corrupting influence, so I won't lose much effort in worrying about them.

I doubt that within a year, either of them will be in public office.  Then the fun will really start.