So, I have ben mulling this over for a while, and I would like peoples, especially
@Gehenna's. These are the scenarios I have been red teaming in my mind for how the Biden administration can try and keep the ship from slipping completely beneath the waves.
1. End the pandemic by simply declaring Covid endemic and telling everyone to just go about their lives and pivot to something else and drop things like mandates and have Fauci "retire to spend time with his family". While this would get some temporary screeching from the branch covidians it would be fairly easy and play pretty well and the MSM would likely carry this water for them as they are used to sudden and contradictory changes in direction from this administration, and have shown plenty of readiness to carry water for it. The downside here is that this would put more of a spotlight on other issues such as the economy and international relations that have also plagued the administration.
2. 25th Joe and slide Kamala in and otherwise stay the course. This one is fairly obvious, send Joe to shit himself in peace and and let heels up run the show. She is a non-entity and Jill Biden appears loathe to relinquish her grasp on what part of presidential power she wields. Things likely continue as the are now but with worse approval ratings and psycho laughter instead unintelligible gibberish. While the downsides are obvious, there are some small potential upsides, namely that Harris is her own person, and though an intellectual light weight she is in possession of her faculties and is her own person who is likely to replace many of Biden's advisors with her own, though whether that would be good or bad is a known unknown.
3. Soft cancel vaccine mandates. Do this by tying them to a vague date in the future dependent on some nebulous goal. My play would be that given the current economic situation that vaccine and other covid mandates are suspended until annualized GDP growth is at 3.5% per anum and inflation falls back to November 2019 levels. These are concrete goals true, but mays as well be unachievable while this administration is in office, and if it does happen by the time it does everyone will have forgotten about covid and the mandates can be killed in the interim while no one is looking. This is buys them little as it is in many ways the worst of all the options before them, but this ultimately what I think they will end up doing is something along this track.
4. Replace Everybody, aka the hotseat two step. This the least likely but would be the best for the country, so it has no real chance of happening. First find a way to send Kamala packing, the ideal method is for Fienstein to retire and have her take her Senate seat. Once that happens replace her with someone who can actually govern, and do so from a centrist position. I think the best candidate would be Louisiana Govenor John Bel Edwards, a blue governor of a red state. From there 25th Joe and rebuild the administration the model of a Government of National Unity, ie half red half blue with a focus on fixing the economy and quickly declaring an end to covid. This will not happen but let me dream.
Odds of each scenario:
1. 15:1
2. 25:1 (lol) Higher if Joe strokes out though.
3. 4:1
4. 1000000:1 LOL No