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*Morning musings* Speculation always plays a role in science and a bigger role in art and politics. Here are some speculations from the shower and the morning’s first cup of coffee. 1. Trump and Pence die from COVID-19, Nancy Pelosi becomes president. Wow! 2. Trump and Pence survive, and Nancy Pelosi does not become president. 3. Obama goes all in to campaign for Biden. 4. Kamala Harris is nominated as Biden’s VP candidate. 5. The pandemic strike wave leads to teachers strikes for safety in the classroom in the Fall prior to the November elections. 6. Tesla reopens. Three weeks later, it becomes a COVID hot spot. Workers walk out over safety issues. Tesla unionization becomes a reality. 7. Rent strikes and mortgage defaults lead to a growing wave of evictions and foreclosures. The Texas and Florida renters and homeowners committees begin to protect people from eviction with armed picket lines, 8. The Democrats win the White House, the Senate and the House. 9. Ruth Bader Ginsberg resigns or dies after Biden is inaugurated. 10. Biden appoints Obama to the Supreme Court and the new Democratic Senate confirms him. 11. The pandemic and the recession/depression recede. 12. Criminal prosecution of ex-president Trump begins. 13. It almost immediately becomes a Supreme court issue. 14. The Supreme court becomes the main issue in the 2022 Congressional elections. 11a. The pandemic and the recession/depression continue. 12a. The new Biden/Obama/Harris administration opts for the FDR option including some variant of a Green New Deal with a big jobs program, some version of Medicare for all, mortgage debt relief, and reregulation of industry and banking. 13a. The Republican dominated Supreme Court declares the measures taken to be unconstitutional. 14a. The Supreme court becomes the central issue in the 2022 Congressional elections. Whatever actually happens, the new new left will emerge out of something that could be much wilder than these speculations. _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com