An unlikely scenario

[degringolade]

 

Gonna be glad when this weekend comes.

This is my new favorite, has a snowballs chance in hell of actually happening but scratches the itch of my desire to see weird shit occur that has no direct effect on me, kinda political woolgathering that is usually linited to times where whiskey and THC> 25mg have been introduced into the conversation.

I think that the next four years may see something come to the USA that has been around over in Old Blighty for years.  Let’s consider for a moment the shadow cabinet.

The shadow cabinet or shadow ministry is a feature of the Westminster system of government. It consists of a senior group of opposition spokespeople who, under the leadership of the Leader of the Opposition, form an alternative cabinet to that of the government, and whose members shadow or mirror the positions of each individual member of the Cabinet.[1] Members of a shadow cabinet have no executive power. It is the shadow cabinet's responsibility to scrutinise the policies and actions of the government, as well as to offer alternative policies. The shadow cabinet makes up the majority of the Official Opposition frontbench.

It is my opinion that such has been running here in the US for years under the careful tutelage of that master politician Barack.  I have never been particularly fond of the guy, but I gotta give him credit for being smart and as smooth as butter.  He is everything that the bulk of Americans like in a President, slick, smooth, sneaky, and for sale to the highest bidder.

It is my feeling that he got to liking being “the guy” and wasn’t willing to let go.  So he set up the deal to foil everything that Fuckwad the First was going to try and put together and put someone in place that would whistle to his tune.  Biden fit the bill perfectly as being a couple of cards short of a deck and Kamala was a second rater, just like he was that could be elevated into a figurehead as soon as Old Joe’s Presidential Portrait was finished and they could dust off that bit of awkwardness called the 25th Amendment.

So that is the groundwork for good Old Barack coming back into the realm.  I think that this is my new favorite “what if”.  #25 says that a president cannot be elected once he has served two terms.  Seems simple enough.  But what if he isn’t elected?  What if he is appointed.  Old Joe gets the #25 heave-ho, Kamala “Appoints” Barack and then the Supreme Court gets to sort it out.  That would be fun.

All the while, Fuckwad, in his incessant need for attention puts together a media world and draws in folks to peck away at everything that the new president attempts and fucks with the new administration with the same vigor that the Democrats displayed these last four years and goddamn if that wouldn’t be just a recipe for a fucked up country.

The sad part is, it really isn’t all that different than what we have now.  The reason that I like Carter is that once he was elected he walked away. Went to pounding nails and doing good works and was a gracious loser.

Ain’t gonna see that for a while.