LOL. I'll go with the market sentiment. We have a priced-in Biden win and at least a generous Q1 fiscal stimulus money printing package (some disappointment and volitivity still possible because it's way late). A extraordinarily poor executive branch will be replaced. Trump and his fake Christian side-kick will go down as shit-stains in the history books.
The idea of a foreign force invading the US was shocking on 9-11, but I always knew it could and probably would happen at some time (put enough monkeys in a room with typewriters, and eventually...), you know how that goes.
Most of the US became hysterical after 9-11, leading to the invasion of a country that had nothing to do with it. I remember Bush saying, "They wanted to take away our freedoms." I don't know if that was their agenda. It may have been part of a bigger agenda, but the US was clearly a target. We haven't heard much from those guys since that attack. There have been a few bumbled bombings that made big headlines, but were of little consequence to the nation as a whole. Now that specific threat is a greatly diminished. But the fall of democracy is much farther along today, and our biggest threat comes from within. Our leaders appear to be loving it. It's been the fodder of their campaigns as they wring their hands and point fingers at our own people, while doing little that would help anyone but the very rich.
We have become distracted. Instead of becoming "great again" if we ever were to begin with, we have become petty, mean and ugly. We would hurt our fellow countrymen, rather than help them. We have done a lot of stupid things in the past, but I can't remember a time in my life where Washington, DC has been this dysfunctional.
I'm not betting on a Biden win. We are operating under new rules for democracy, and if Biden does win, I don't expect much. He may or may not make things worse, but I don't expect him to make things better. Democrats will be happy, and Republicans will be sad, but no one is likely to be better off when it's all said and done.
Where's that candidate that wanted to give everyone $1000 a month? I'm ready for a buy out. I'll cash it in and go on one last bender before the sun sets. And Washington can go ahead and do whatever it wants.
