Consider if the worst happens, that Dumdum is carried out feet first (the only way he'll quit) on an outpouring of national sympathy for a leader felled by coronavirus, a bad diet, or stroking out during a temper tantrum. They'd run an affably bland technocrat like Weld and win.

BUT, and this is a big one, a crash is now inevitable. Decades of devaluing labor while overvaluing capital have run their course and we're in the end game. Everything they have done over the last 4 years, from tax cuts they targeted toward the 0.1% and corporate to the trillions in relief money they knew would be looted by the top (and did nothing to stop) has gone toward keeping the pieces on the Monopoly board for just one more round, it's not lights out, honest! Just print some more money to keep it going for a few more rolls of the dice.

Oh, I'd far rather have a Democrat in office when the board catches on fire and the big players get burned. Biden might have been beholden to the banksters for most of his career in politics, but he also saw what a profound effect even a timid, limited effort had when applied to the bottom of the economy, rather than the top, after the 2008 crash when the banksters were screaming the loudest.

However, the schadenfreude of seeing the Republicans stuck with their own disaster would be delicious. The price would be steep as even a bland technocrat would be as bound by his own faulty dogma as the last one, Herbert Hoover, was, so I'd rather see Dumdum try in vain to cling to power and be humiliated by a landslide defeat.

Just realize that Biden will be blamed by stupid people for what's coming if it is delayed until after the election.

I have no idea when it's coming. I just know that nothing this topheavy can stay standing for long.