Bedtime For Democracy

Richard Spencer is a latter day white Nazi afficianado.  He "wants to party like it's 1933, where Trump is concerned.  Spencer has said "Heil Trump" and says that America has always been of, by, and for White people, and America is the inheritence of white people, and white people have never needed minorities.  I haven't found yet where Richard Spencer was offered any position inside the Trump administration. We still don't know if Mitt Romney will be Secretary of State or whether it will be Nicky Haley of South Carolina or Rudolph Giuliani.  Giuliani is a shoot from the hip kind of guy and has gone very right wing political in the past several years.  Of course Donald Trump, who gets offended by the play "Hamilton" or who gets offended by various tweets- - his finger will be on a nuclear button.  We know Trump already has a record of extreme hostility to the press - particularly the New York Times- - and hasn't held a regular press conference in the past week but prefers to do a You Tube video.  His hundred day program includes the canceling of all of President Obama's orders on immigration, and he plans to give other executive orders wiping out pollution regulations.   But now Trump says he won't investigate Hillary Clinton.  Well as they say - the damage is done.  All of the charges and harrassment of Hillary have served their purpose in getting elected himself.  Meanwhile global warming has gone to hell in a hand basket.  Polar temperatures this year are 36 degrees above normal and the usual crop of winter ice has not yet formed.  In terms of lobbying, Trump says he wants to ban people from the executive branch from lobbying for five years.  This is a well designed specific slap at the Obama administration.  He didn't say one word about corporate lobbyists.  When he speaks of "ethics reform" I cringe because we all know what Trump's ethics are all about.

Then we have the election itself.  Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by 1.7 million votes and growing.  It seems Trump will carry Michigan not that it was ever in doubt.  He still won't have as many electoral votes as Obama received four years ago.  They say that a shift of a hundred thousand votes in a few well placed key states could have swung the election.  It's too bad Hillary wasn't more 'preventative" in her blue fire wall against Obama.  We hear of the voter purges from the polls in Wisconsin and North Carolina.  That might have swung the election.   On this blog I announced- - quoted Republican officials as saying they were going to insure a Trump win not by campaigning on the issues but an all our purge of black, elderly, and student voters.  The Melinials didn't turn out for Hillary.  Of course Shawn Hannity was feeding this doubt by sticking up for Bernie Sanders, which is all well and good as far as accurate reporting goes- - but it fed the doubt machine and the milenials got fed up with it and stayed home.  Right now I guess the Obama 2008 vote tally stands out as the high water mark in voting- - with the 2012 level coming in second.  But at least now with all the votes in it seems Trump will be beating out Romney's 2012 vote tally.

In personal news my mother has the C-diff virus, which is horrible with extended vomiting and diaria and has spent the past few days in the hospital.  She's a little delirius and confused- - because she doesn't have those key electrolites in her system.  Now I hear she doesn't even remember being taken to the hospital by ambulance.  Today she'll be coming home.  I was invited to come along but I have other things to sort out today domestically.  The bathroom sink is clogged up and I have to remind the same people a dozen times for anything to be done about it.  I need a thicker bedspread on my bed.  And they need to turn on the heat around here.  Meanwhile I could end up going about eighty dollars in the hole in my bank account is an unauthroized withdrawal takes place tomorrow.  It's a 56 dollar bill with a 35 dollar overdraft fee on top of that I'll be digging myself out of a financial hole for weeks.  With all these worries I wasn't up to going to the hospital to get Mom today.   I'm also worried about my ten pound weight loss since mid summer.  They are starving us around here with shrinking portions.  Weather wise Thanksgiving will be the warmest day of the week- in the seventies.  We're getting rain now but we have that five, going on six year drought to contend with.  It would seem that we have undergone a permanent change in climate in California and the west in general where trees are dying in the Rockies and have been for decades.

This is after dinner.  I listened to Norman Goldman during the three o clock hour.  Dinner ran late because they were slow or something.  We had spinach queesh and hashed browns and catsup and a green salad.  Nora forgot my hashed brown and went back to get it.  But I went back there for seconds twice and was turned down both times.  Jeff didn’t seem to have any luck either.  Bill borrowed my key even though I thought I’d left it unlocked.  Eye Witness news is on now.  There was a bad earthquake in Fukashima, the site of the 2011 power plant disaster.  I’m still hungry.  I have one whole cigarette and a couple of butts left.  My instant coffee level is really going down fast.  If I didn’t know better I’d say Nora had pilfered some, but I just think I’ve been using a lot.  Coffee is good for staying awake and filling your stomach.  I’m not going to post a blog tonight.  The past day’s number was at 22 for readership.  They start the new day about now.  It’s odd.  But in all frankness I should be getting numbers at least over 100.  Now the news is that Donald Trump knows full well that Global Warming is a fact and has been proven nine ways to Sunday because Trump’s own experts tell him the world won’t be inhabitable past 2095 and Trump doesn’t care!  Presumably it’s because his whole generation will be dead by then or else it’s some perverse “capture” of fundamentalism and the End Times scenario.