Bad Ideas and Poor Choices

I’m not suggesting this is a good idea. To be clear, I think it’s a bad idea because next in line to the thone is Mr. JD Vance and he scares the bejesus out of me. I do wish Kevin McCarthy had managed to retain his post because he at least appeared sane but I suppose if you can’t retain your post, well, you might be a little wobbly.

We have a history of assassinating American presidents. Lincoln (1865); Garfield (1881); McKinley (1901); Kennedy (1993). A significant and nearly successful attempt was made on Reagan in 1981 but I can’t bring myself to count the attempt on Trump (was that this year or last?) and my search engine shows a total of four attempts, none of which are memorable. The way I see it is if you can’t do better than clip the guy’s ear, I can’t possibly take you seriously. Mr. T. Roosevelt was wounded in an attempt and this is worthy of the wiki quote:

“Schrank’s bullet lodged in Roosevelt’s chest after penetrating Roosevelt’s steel glasses case and passing through a 50-page-thick (single-folded) copy of his speech titled “Progressive Cause Greater Than Any Individual”, which he was carrying in his jacket pocket.”

Well. DAMN.

I’m not generally interested in conspiracy theories but the ear clipping feels somewhat suspect. Just a bit. How the hell do you get yourself in position with the correct weapon and effing miss?! One would hope you’d practiced with the damn thing.

Enough of that.

I am wondering why he hasn’t been assassignated. According to:

• YouGov/Economist
• Associated Press-NORC
• Fox News (this is dubious, I’m finding multiple conflicting Fox polls)
• Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos
• Polling aggregators (you can google too)
  • Decision Desk HQ
  • Real Clear Politics
  • Ballotpedia

Right, according to the data presented by the organizations listed above, his ratings are slipping low enough on the Red side to be worrisome to the GOP at large. I’m sure, if told, he’d smirk, say ‘fake news’ followed by several paragraphs of published words the FCC wouldn’t approve of even though, uh, never mind… and then fire someone.

His overall effect on the country has been extreme enough to catch notice. On the other hand, the stock market is still happy and until that changes we’re unlikely to have enough of a consolidated power base worthy of the Kennedy style theories.

That’s it. I’m just wondering. Not hoping, not wishing, just wondering. In the meantime, let us eat cake.

Later I’ll probably wonder what it’s going to take to crash the markets.