"Tonight, in the midst of all this mayhem, is the Veep debate. I may or may not watch it. Part of the reason is I don't think I can stomach watching another Walz debate. Don't trust the man. He is at variance with the truth. But tomorrow is another day. Could it get any more squirrely than today? Maybe. Stay tuned. This is not over as yet."
Okay - I will confess. I did my morning article a bit too early. I thought (as naive as I am) that there were only two Earth shaking stories this morning. I was wrong. We now have a trifecta. The Longshoreman's strike, the mega storm known as Helene, and now the war on Israel in the Middle East. Was the war thing on my bingo card today? No, but it should have been.
Ready for this? The 180 ballistic missiles which came raining down on Israel today, was a game changer. As the saying goes, the Rubicon had been crossed. There is now no going back. Even though the "lead from behind" brigade, was telling Israel to take a chill pill for weeks now, Israel was ready for this escalation. Now the Middle East landscape will never look the same. Israel has vowed, no more missiles from Hamas, no more missiles from Hezbollah, and now more ballistic missiles from Iran.
Poor old Uncle Joe. All he wants is for his Veep to win the election, and then he can get all tucked in Cozy Cares Care Center. But hold on. Joe's Veep is constantly on the campaign trail; the Longshoremen are on strike; and one of our "storms of the century" has caused all kinds of havoc and mayhem in our southland. All of a sudden, Joe needs to be President again. And he has to act sharp.
If this is the October surprise, it is a whopper. A three-part pile of goo. A mega-storm, a mega-strike, and now maybe the start to WW III. For a normal president, this would be a handful. But for drifty Joe? This is way beyond a bridge too far. What will this do to the election? Great question! We all know what Covid did to the last election. The ramifications of this trifecta might be a lot worse than Covid.
Will the US get pulled into this Israel-Iran conflict? We already have. CENTCOM has already used some of our assets in today's attack. As good as Israel's defenses are, help from a few of our SM-3 missiles being fired by our Burke class destroyers, helped stem the tide. But if the attacks get worse, more of our state-of-the-art assets could come into play.
Tonight, in the midst of all this mayhem, is the Veep debate. I may or may not watch it. Part of the reason is I don't think I can stomach watching another Walz debate. Don't trust the man. He is at variance with the truth. But tomorrow is another day. Could it get any more squirrely than today? Maybe. Stay tuned. This is not over as yet.
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