2018 Roundup

Well, 2018 has come to an end. And with the government shutdown, Democrats taking the House, and much more, I say this year has been . . . something.

The government shutdown has been going on for 10 days. Luckily, Donald's government shutdown is so unpopular, he has to blame everyone but himself. A recent poll found that only half of all Americans surveyed blamed the man who was given a spending bill that could have stopped the shutdown and didn't sign it. Or, only half of all Americans blamed the person who caused the shutdown.

Of course, the shutdown was over Donald Trump wanting taxpayers to fund his wall. I would give Trump credit for following through on his campaign promises if he didn't also promise us that Mexico would pay for the wall. What happened to that? Oh, and if the promise wasn't really stupid. 

Going into 2020, things are only getting worse for Democrats. Elizebeth Warren announced her run unofficially today. I think she would be a positive influence on the race, even if she's only one-half correct that's still better than who else I'm seeing.

CNN did a segment today on how Bernie can't win because he's an old white man. Despite the fact that our current president is an old white man (the spray tan makes it hard to tell, I know). They also tried to call him a pervert, although when he's running against the grouper in chief, I don't really think that matters all that much. 

Seriously though, let's just all take a minute and be happy Beto O'Rourke won't be president. All the polls seem to say it will either be Joe Biden or Bernie Sanders. I like Biden, I think he was a very good Vice President under Obama and a pretty decent Senator, even if he came in just at the time when Democrats couldn't figure out how they should feel about race. Rather either of them will run is still up in the air, but important news is where the polls line up.

Of course, CNN is trying to make Kamla Harris 2020 a thing. It's not going to be a thing, but CNN really doesn't seem to care. They've put her as there most likely to be the nomination for two months in a row, despite no poll done by anyone that isn't CNN saying this. 

Of course, the only candidate who has has a snowball's chance in hell is Richard Ojeda. He's a good center-left candidate, but he's not bad. He believes in healthcare for all, universal education, and increased taxes on the rich.

So what will happen in 2019? Let's find out together.

2020 Guesses (The Ephrom Josine Show Ep. 148)

If The Dems Want Us To Vote . . .

Going into 2020, one thing is very clear. The Democrats don't seem to want to win in 2020. I know it's only 2018 and the midterms haven't happened yet, but you should still be concerned.

Donald is already campaigning. Mind you, President protectionist makes his flags in China, but still.

This should be the easiest election to win in United States history. Yet, as the first round of presidential candidates shows up, it looks more and more like they're going to give the President a second term.

To be clear: I will endorse whoever the Democrats put up in 2020. Even Zeus The Guitar Lord, a one-off Spongebob charter, would be a better president than Donald Trump. However, that doesn't mean everyone will. Tons of people will be willing to reelect a failed president because the other person is bland. 

Let's see who they have:

Sanders is still more than likely going to run. Him being a Senator and releasing a new Anti-Trump book is already proof of that. This is also helped by the fact that he's the most popular politician in America.

However, he will still be 80 during his presidential inauguration. Over a full year of the average US lifespan. Even with a 70-something-year-old president, people will still be worried rather or not it's too old. Of course, many Bernie supporters would love to take years off their own lives to give Bernie more of his own, but we aren't even close to their yet. 

Biden is someone that this blog has already talked about. So I'll make it short. He's the old ranting man of the Democratic Party. He's also one of the blandest white men in all of US politics, and that's saying something.    

However, a new man has entered the race. Ladies and Gentlemen, I present you former Attorney General Eric Holder. The man who is "interested" in a presidential run.

Eric Holder is the man I named the term "Pulling a holder" after. Basically, it means that once a government official is out of office they will advocate for better ideas than the ones they pushed for in office. Specifically, due to how now advocating for the legalization of marijuana. Meanwhile, he allowed President Obama to keep it illegal on the federal level and pave the way for Jeff Sessions. 

Or how about how he let President Obama sit by and throw the book at Edward Snowden. Now he says Snowden "did a public service". But he refused to do anything when the entire Justice Department, that he ran, said otherwise. 

So, we're 3 candidates in and so far only 1 of them is any good. Although at least I can see Biden winning, Holder just seems too much like a standard establishment type to be like in a post-Trump world where you're supposed to at least pretend you're bucking the establishment. Biden at least has been around the block long enough to call his ties "experience". Holder has never held elected office and has only been appointed to positions. 

Basically, the number of times a would-be president would have already won looks like this so far:

Sanders: 20 (many of which he was a write-in for) even if he doesn't win reelection for his Senate seat in November.

Biden: 10

Holder: 0

This can only end so well. 

Old Man Biden Screams At Clouds

Well, it's official. Joe Biden is running for president in 2020. Okay, he may not have said it yet, but he has said he will announce rather he will or not in January. But in politics, that basically means he will. "Maybe" doesn't mean "maybe" in politics. 
So he's running, and he does have a lot going for him. He was a senator for over 30 years and became vice-president under Obama. He's also really good with fundraising meaning it's clear he does have a chance. 
Not only that, but he's also been unofficially campaigning for about a year now. Yet, despite being a Democratic Senator for so long, he seems to be running as something other than a Democrat. I don't know what he's running as, but it certainly isn't a Democrat. Let's use a three strike system to show you why this is clear.
Strike One: In January Biden was giving a speech where he addressed the issues at young voters heart. Being in his 70's, and entering politics in the 1970's, many would call him out of touch. He showed this was correct. Telling young people "give me a break" after making it clear he has "no empathy" is the most out of touch things a human could say. I ask Joe to go back to the 70's and remember what people thought they heard when another Democrat told them what to wear when they were cold. Then realized, that's basically what he actually said. He lost young voters with that statement, one of the Democrats biggest voting blocks throughout all of history. 
Strike Two: What Biden thinks of the time when "the political system worked". Back during the Roy Moore vs. Doug Jones election Biden talked about how old he was. Saying he worked with "old-fashion Democratic Segregationists" that he would go have dinner with. He was second in charge for the first black president by the way. I'm sure the black people who were treated unequally under the law would disagree with how big of a tent the Democrats want to have. So he also made black people and by extension most minorities, very unlikely to support him. 
Strike Three: Also in January, Biden was meeting with the Council of Foreign Relations. During this meeting, he bragged about trying to interfere with the political system in Ukraine. Meeting anti-war voters aren't going to like him, who have been loyal Democrats since the Nixon years. 
So no one is going to vote for him, yet he has the connects to be the nominee. He will need to be smart, but every 3rd thing he says is beyond idiotic.
In other news, Bernie Sanders has announced he's publishing a book after the midterms. This is something many politicians do just before they run for president, meaning it's likely he will also run in 2020.
Both him and Biden have the connections to be the person who can stop Donnie from having a second term. Choose wisely Democrats, we don't need almost a decade of the Donald.