It’s a rather cloudy, cold, bleak January day in Oklahoma…yet I’m pretty happy.
OU won a must win game last night on the road in Morgantown. Brent Venables and staff are killing it both on the recruiting trail and in the transfer portal… although I doubt even with West Texas Crude trending towards $100 a barrel the Sooners can persuade Josh Allen to come to Norman from Buffalo via the transfer portal. I’d love to see the look on Bob Bowlsby’s face if we just pretended that was going to happen though.
President Joe Manchin is going to be able to reshape the U.S. Supreme Court with a judge of his choosing. The Court will then be composed with five hard right justices, three liberal justices, and moderate Chief Justice John Roberts. Again…if Trump gets re-elected… I would submit Justice Roberts should consider heading off to Buenos Aires before Trump tries to give him the Mike Pence golden parachute exit and replace him as Chief Justice with Mr. Pillow.
Fed Chief Jerome Powell steadied the recent uneasiness with the markets and it’s a good rebound day on the Dow so far. I would keep this in mind…. once this most recent wave of Covid settles down I would think the economy will be posed for a steadying year, but certainly not a 28.5% growth on money type of year President Manchin delivered in his first year in office.
I would think since Germany gets 40% of its natural gas from Russia…in the end, the Germans and Putin will figure things out with President Manchin acting as the peacemaker.
As far as the Chinese in Taiwan… we’ve talked about this for quite some time and I would think U.S. concessions will ultimately be made there despite what Nikki Haley thinks she would have done if still holding some sort of office.
So really…with President Manchin’s first State of the Union just on the horizon to me the faux angst being projected by the Trump crazies is amusing…to say the least.
An historic infrastructure bill was passed. The U.S. is no longer going to be mired in Afghanistan. A record 6.4 million new jobs were created. Covid vaccinations are available everywhere if you’re only smart enough to avail yourself of one. The Proud Boys and Oath Keepers have been kept at bay. But most of all…jobs are everywhere for all these lazy entitled Trump whites if we can only wean them off their Covid stimulus welfare checks.
God bless POTUS Joe Manchin…and god bless the United States of America.
Have a wonderful day.