Let's start off with some random observations and thoughts regarding Joe Biden's speech on Wednesday night. We've been led to believe that Joe Biden is the most popular president in history having received around 80 million votes, more than any other presidential candidate in the history of this country. Yet, only 11 million people watched his address to the nation. You would think that's such a popular president would garner a lot more viewers. By comparison President Trump regularly exceeded 40 million for his presidential addresses to Congress and the least amount of viewers was 35 million last year.

The Hodge twins reviewed the likes and dislikes that videos of Joe Biden's address got on YouTube, primarily on the channels run by the liberals favorite news broadcasters like CNN, NBC, CBS, and so on. The dislikes regularly exceeded the likes by a factor of at least two to one. that just doesn't make sense does it? With such a popular occupant of the White House, you would expect it to be at least the exact opposite. It must be some vast right wing conspiracy to discredit Joe.

What happens after somebody is offended? I've been wondering this for a long time because we have such a strong reaction as SoC to remove the offensive behavior from the public realm. But what has happened to those people who were offended? Do they suffer an injury, either physically or mentally? Or did they move on with their life not suffering any significant consequences? Other than their self-inflicted victimization.

Nehru had a great quote: the hand you were dealt is determinism. The way you play it is free will. 

A meme making the rounds in support of Joe Biden's call to forgive student loan debt compares it to the debt incurred by those who seek treatment for illness or injury. The slack jawed mouth breathers really love it. But they are triggered when I pointed out that going to school and choosing to pay for that education by taking out student loans is a choice. There are several other options available to those people either to not attend college, to choose a different degree that has a better payoff, or to find a different method for paying for college education. I do not know one person who chose to get cancer or kidney disease or any other illness that required medical treatment.

It's interesting that the left gives Joe Biden a pass for all of his racist, segregationist behavior and statements that have helped to define his 40 years in politics. But when a black man goes on television to talk about American values, conservative values, he is considered a traitor to his race. He is called all of the names that the left likes to give to minorities who do not toe the line that the left has set for them.

A note to Chuck Schumer; all beer is plant based. Your pandering is showing.

A group of people who must self-identify as men is upset about the two standards of treatment between the male and female genders. Specifically, they do not like that a older woman is celebrated for dating a younger man while older men dating younger women is considered to be creepy. This group once not only had acceptance but want to have a cool nickname just like the women. They have proposed the term 'manther.' I don't think they are helping their cause.

To the first responder that was interviewed in the local fish wrap about the closure of a private road, I'm still waiting. I promise to keep you anonymous as well. To the overly confident individual that claimed to be able to cite a number of ordinances proving that there is no such thing as a private roadway in New Mexico, I'm also still waiting. It appears you are proving the axiom that ignorant people are supremely confident. But then again neither of them are probably reading this column or the Grant County Beat because you might get informed and you wouldn't want that, would you?

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